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NL-KR Digest Fri Mar 24 22:39:12 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 16
Today's Topics:
Announcement: Release AGFL Home Page, University of Nijmegen
CFP: ESSLLI96 Workshops Proposals, Prague, Aug 96
Query: Speech Act Verbs--request for lexicon
CFP: ESSLLI95 Eur. Summer School Formal Grammar, Barcelona, Aug 95
Program: PACT'95 Constraint Technology (revised), Apr 95, Paris
Position: Comp. Ling. Postdoc. Assoc. at the MIT AI Laboratory
CFP: 4th Intl. Cog. Sci. of NL Process., Jul 95, Dublin
Position: language engineering, HCI, at Swedish Institute of C. S.
Query: Natural Language Visualization techniques
CFP: ILPS'95 Wkshp Proposals, Intl Logic Symp., Dec 95, Portland
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From: Erik Oltmans <eriko@cs.kun.nl>
Subject: Announcement: Release AGFL Home Page, University of Nijmegen
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:09:37 GMT
This message announces the release of the World Wide Web Home Page
of AGFL (Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice).
1. AGFL
The AGFL formalism, developed at the University of Nijmegen,
The Netherlands, is a formalism in which context free grammars
can be described compactly. AGFLs are two level grammars: a first,
context free level is augmented with features for expressing
agreement between parts of speech. Features are treated as types,
and their values may range over the subsets of a given finite set,
which explains the acronym Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice.
AGFL grammars are transformed into a parser by the parser generator
OPT. The generated parser is a Recursive Backup parser which computes
the values of the affixes on the fly. In this way, fast and efficient
parsers can be generated. The formalism is quite simple and limited,
and therefore easy to read and write.
AGFL comes with a Grammar WorkBench GWB, supporting the development
of grammars and the checking of their consistency.
The AGFL formalism does not require any special hardware. The parser
generator OPT runs on regular SPARC-systems and MS-DOS machines (386
or higher) and is relatively small. For instance, the MS-DOS version
requires less than 1 Mb harddisk space.
2. AGFL on the Web
AGFL has now been made available to the (computational) linguistic
community. We think it can be used by (computational) linguists who
are in need of a simple grammar formalism with a fast parser generator,
suitable for experimental purposes.
Therefore, we have made AGFL available via FTP and, recently, via WWW.
The AGFL Home Page contains information about the AGFL formalism like
the AGFL manual, documentation and papers, sample grammars and the
latest developments. There is also the possibility to download the
software and to register yourself as an AGFL user.
You are invited to take a look at the Home Page and to read the
information or to download the software. Please feel free to make
use of AGFL and its Home Page; we look forward to hear about your
experiences.
We are currently planning an AGFL workshop in June. The latest news
about this workshop can also be found on the AGFL Home Page.
The URL of the AGFL Home Page is: http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl/
The address of the FTP-site is: ftp://hades.cs.kun.nl/pub/agfl/
The organisation of the WWW page should be self-explanatory. The
structure of the FTP-site is as follows:
- readme
- DOC : this directory contains a number of relevant papers
- PC386 : this directory contains software for MS-DOS machines and
an installation guide.
- SUN4 : this directory contains software for SPARC-stations and
an installation guide.
Any questions or remarks with respect to AGFL or the AGFL Home Page can
be sent to: www-agfl@cs.kun.nl.
On behalf of the AGFL team,
Erik Oltmans
Department of Computer Science
University of Nijmegen
The Netherlands
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 1995 10:22:21 +0100 (NFT)
From: ESSLLI 96 <esslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>
To: announce list <acl@cs.columbia.edu>, aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk,
Subject: CFP: ESSLLI96 Workshops Proposals, Prague, Aug 96
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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CALL FOR COURSE, WORKSHOP AND SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
FOR ESSLLI96
- PRAGUE, August 12-23, 1996 -
The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is an annual
event offering around 50 courses, workshops, and symposia on a wide variety
of topics in the following fields:
Language Language & Logic
Logic Logic & Computation
Computation Computational Linguistics.
The previous Summer Schools were highly successful, typically attracting
around 500 students from Europe and further afield. Moreover, they have
developed into an important meeting place, and forum of discussion, for
researchers and students interested in the interdisciplinary study of
Logic, Language and Information.
The 8th Summer School will be held in Prague on August 12-23, 1996. The
program committee consists of:
Language & Logic: Patrick Blackburn, Chair (Saarbruecken)
patrick@coli.uni-sb.de
Language: Anne Abeille (Paris)
Anne.Abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr
Language & Computation: Ted Briscoe (Cambridge)
ejb@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Computation: Luis Damas (Porto)
luis@ncc.up.pt
Logic & Computation: Dov Gabbay (London)
dg@doc.ic.ac.uk
Logic: Petr Hajek (Prague)
hajek@uivt.cas.cz
To help it select a balanced program of courses, workshops, and symposia,
the program committee is issuing this call for proposals. If you are
interested in lecturing, or organising a workshop or symposium at the
summer school, please read the following information carefully, and send
(by email) a copy of your proposal to both the program chair, and the
committee member in charge of the relevant section, before April 21st, 1995.
COURSES
Two types of courses are offered at the ESSLLI schools: introductory and
advanced.
Introductory courses for the three basic fields should provide
introductions to the field for non-specialists (an introductory course on
logic, for instance, should address linguists and computer scientists, not
logicians). The introductory courses in the interactive fields, on the
other hand, can build on knowledge of the respective sub-fields (for
example, an introductory course in computational linguistics should address
an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and
computation).
Advanced courses should assume a higher level of background knowledge.
Indeed, especially in the three core fields, they may well be of a highly
specialised nature. Roughly speaking, prospective lecturers should assume
that advanced courses address PhD students actively working towards gaining
mastery of the field in question.
Courses are taught by 1 or (maximally) 2 lecturers. They consist of five
sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course), where a
session lasts either 45 or 90 minutes. The most common formats are ten
45-minute sessions or five 90-minute sessions; the two other combinations
are less usual, but not impossible.
WORKSHOPS
The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for PhD students to present
and discuss their work, both with colleagues and with senior researchers.
A workshop has a theme and an organiser; the organiser should be a
specialist in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in
the first session; (s)he is also responsible for the programme of the
workshop (that is, for finding speakers).
A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten sessions
(a two-week workshop) where each session lasts 45 or 90 minutes.
SYMPOSIA
The aim of the symposia is to provide a forum for in-depth discussion to
specialists in a given field; a symposium has one organiser, who should be
a senior researcher in the field, and who is responsible for the programme.
In order to reduce costs the organisers of symposia are kindly requested to
recruit the speakers as much as possible from the teaching staff or provide
a supplementary budget from other sources than ESSLLI. This means that
symposium organisers will have to work closely with both the program
committee and the organising committee.
Symposia have a maximum of 5 sessions (no two-week symposia!) and each
session lasts 45 or 90 minutes.
FINANCIAL ASPECTS
Prospective lecturers and workshop/symposium organisers should be aware
that all teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a
voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation. (However please note that the
organisers appreciate it if whenever possible lecturers/organisers find
alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)
Workshop organisers get a maximum amount of money to be used for the
expenses of the speakers in their workshops (typically about 500 ECU).
Workshop speakers do not get free registration. The organiser of a
workshop provides the Summer School organiser with a budget (before the
Summer School) and with a statement of accounts afterwards.
Symposia should as far as possible be self-financing (for instance through
sponsorship by projects or research groups). The organiser is responsible
for coming up with a budget, in collaboration with the Organising
Committee.
Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world
are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford the travel costs for a
small number of lecturers/organisers from outside Europe.
FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Prospective lecturers unfamiliar with the ESSLLI schools should consider
consulting the program of the 7th Summer School, which is being held in
Barcelona from August 14th to 25th, 1995. Information about the
Barcelona school can be obtained from:
ESSLLI95
GILCUB
Avda. Vallvidrera 25
08017 Barcelona
Spain
Fax: +43 3 2054656
Phone: +43 3 2033597
E-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es
PROPOSALS
Please submit your proposal in the following format:
Name: --- Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser. ---
Address: --- Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser.
Where possible, please include phone and fax numbers. ---
Title: --- Title of proposed course/workshop/symposium. ---
Type: --- State whether this is a workshop, a symposium,
and introductory course, or an advanced course. ---
Section: --- Which of the six sections (Language, Logic, Computation,
Logic and Computation, Computational Linguistics, or Language
and Logic) does it belong to? While it may be difficult
in some cases to decide which section is the most
appropriate, please just name one. ---
Description: --- A description of the proposed contents.
Not more than 150 words. ---
Please email copies of your proposal to both the Program Chair and the
relevant member of the Program Committee (that is, the committee member in
charge of the section named in your proposal) before April 21st, 1995.
When you email your proposal, please use the following subject line:
ESSLLI96 PROPOSAL.
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 95 15:47:31 GMT
From: Yorick Wilks <yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
To: comp-ai-nat-lang@cs.utexas.edu, comp.nat-lang@ucbvax.berkeley.ed,
Subject: Query: Speech Act Verbs--request for lexicon
Does anyone know of any available lexicon or list of English verbs by
their speech act properties--not a philosophical list, something like
a lexicon of appropriate verbs with something like a "speech act
valency" in terms of some fairly standard taxonomy of speech
act types, and expressed in some plausible predicate-argument
type notation?
Yorick Wilks
yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 17:19:24 UTC+0100
From: Glyn Morrill <morrill@lsi.upc.es>
To: <fj-ai@etl.go.jp>, <ir-l%uccmvsa.BITNET@earn-relay.ac.uk>,
Subject: CFP: ESSLLI95 Eur. Summer School Formal Grammar, Barcelona, Aug 95
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
FORMAL GRAMMAR
Barcelona
August 12-13, 1995
in conjunction with the
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona.
As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a
forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal
linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms.
This year the programme includes a conference on formal
grammar open to all participants to present contemporary
research in this domain. Themes of interest include
formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and
pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational,
methodological and architectural issues in grammar.
Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800
words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address
below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please
provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and
institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of
one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the
abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20
minutes or 40 minutes for presentation.
Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final
versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for
inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of
the Summer School.
Address for correspondence:
Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar
c/o Glyn Morrill
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics
Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Pau Gargallo, 5
08028 BARCELONA
e-mail: morrill@lsi.upc.es
Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn
Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard
Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen.
For information about the European Summer School in
Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact:
ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax
+43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:27:38 +0000
To: pact@pap.com
From: Al Roth <alroth@alroth.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Program: PACT'95 Constraint Technology (revised), Apr 95, Paris
My apologies if you receive multiple copies - THERE WERE SOME SERIOUS
OMMISSIONS FROM THE FIRST POSTING -
Particularly I am please to announce that PROLOGIA has sponsored and will
be hosting the PACT lunch. This is to mark the occasion and announce the
formal launch of the new product, PROLOG IV. We are very grateful to
PROLOGIA for the additional help and strong local support they have given
the PACT event.
Here is the revised message announcing the PACT'95 conference....
The First International Conference on
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The Practical Application of Constraint Technology - PACT'95
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Friday 7th April 1995
The Hotel Sofitel Paris St Jacques, Paris, France
The PACT'95 conference and exhibition will focus on the industrial
exploitation of Constraint Programming and Constraint Logic
Programming, and explore the realisable benefits for business, and the
future trends of these important technologies.
An exhibition will accompany the main conference, providing delegates
and visitors with an opportunity to see live demonstrations of
constraint-based applications.
Conference Sponsors:
Compulog Net
Prolog Management Group
COSYTEC
ILOG
PrologIA
SNI
Conference Committee:
Akira Aiba ICOT
Alan Borning University of Washington
Barry Crabtree British Telecom
Jean-Marc David Renault
Mehmet Dincbas COSYTEC
Alexander Herold ECRC
Joxan Jaffar IBM
James Little Brunel University
Gautam Mitra Brunel University and Unicom
Guy Alain Narboni PrologIA
Jean-Francois Puget ILOG
Al Roth Prolog Management Group
Vijay Saraswat Xerox
Gert Smolka DFKI
Peter Stuckey University of Melbourne
Erik Tiden Siemens
Pascal Van Hentenryck Brown University
Mark Wallace ICL (Chair)
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
Programme of Talks.
Henri Beringer, ILOG :
'Global Constraints for Real-Life Problems'
Marc Clemens, Banque Bruxelles Lambert
'Manpower planning with constraint programming at BBL'
Andre' Chamard, Dassault Aviation :
'Lessons learned on the Methodology for Developing CLP Solutions'
Barry Crabtree, British Telecom :
'Resource Scheduling: comparing simulated annealing with
constraint programming'
Jean-Marc David and Tat-Leung Chew, Renault :
'Experiences in Applying CLP for Planning and Scheduling at Renault'
Markus Fromherz, Xerox :
'Model-Based Computing: Constructing Constraint-Based Software
for Electro-Mechanical Systems'
Alex Herold, ECRC :
'Experiences in Constraint Programming from the CHIC User Group'
Helmut Simonis, COSYTEC :
'A complex transportation problem solved with CHIP'
Yves Caseau, Bouygues
TBA
IMPORTANT NOTE: Lunch has been sponsored by PrologIA and will include talks
from Anne-Francoise Douix, and Touraivane to celebrate the LAUNCH OF PROLOG
IV!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * **
Conference Fee: FF950
- with 10% discount discount for members of ALP, Compulog Net, PMG.
(FF850)
To register contact:
pact@pap.com
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 21:22:02 -0500
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
From: JCMA@ai.mit.edu (John C. Mallery)
Subject: Position: Comp. Ling. Postdoc. Assoc. at the MIT AI Laboratory
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
invites applications for a
PostDoctoral Associate, Position #95-0148C
A Postdoctoral Associate in computational linguistics is needed to
work with a team developing a natural language understanding system
targeted at unrestricted domains. The research will be part of a
fundamental research project seeking to embed intelligence into the
information infrastructure; several prototypes have been developed
that have been tested and used by the U.S. White House.
The individual will develop a bidirectional parser-generator for
English as a component of a larger system. The parser-generator will
be closely coupled to a semantic representation built on research in
lexicalist and constructivist semantics and directed towards bottom-up
acquisition of knowledge from text. The system will be applied to
unrestricted English and must fail gracefully when its coverage is
exceeded.
Qualifications: PhD in computational linguistics or related
field. Individual must demonstrate an exceptional ability to design
and implement complex systems in Common Lisp; Lisp Machine experience
is a plus. Excellent communications and computational skills are
important because this individual will be working with a team and
building on a substantial software base.
NOTE: At present we anticipate that funding for this position will
continue through 7/31/96, with potential follow-on funding.
Qualified applicants, please respond mentioning position # to:
Mr. James McCarthy
MIT Personnel Office
Building E19-238
400 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
MIT is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
This is a non-smoking environment.
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From: alex@compapp.dcu.ie
Subject: CFP: 4th Intl. Cog. Sci. of NL Process., Jul 95, Dublin
Call for Papers for the
Fourth International Conference on
The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995
Subject Areas:
This is a non-exclusive list of subjects which fall within the scope of
CSNLP. It is intended as a guide only.
* Corpus-based NLP
* Connectionist NLP
* Statistical and knowledge-based MT
* Linguistic knowledge representation
* Cognitive linguistics
* Declarative approaches to NLP
* NLG and NLU
* Dialogue and discourse
* Human language processing
* Text linguistics
* Evaluation of NLP
* Hybrid approaches to NLP
Submissions may deal with theoretical issues, applications, databases or other
aspects of CSNLP, but the importance of cognitive aspects should be borne in
mind. Papers should report original substantive research.
Theme: The Role of Syntax
There is currently considerable debate regarding the place and importance of
syntax in NLP. Papers dealing with this matter will be given preference.
Invited Speakers:
The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks:
Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania
Alison Henry, University of Ulster
Registration and Accommodation:
The registration fee will be IR#60, and will include proceedings, lunches and
one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU.
A single room is IR#16 per night, with full Irish breakfast an additional IR#4.
Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for
campus rooms in the summer.
There are also several hotels and B&B establishments nearby: addresses will
be provided on request.
To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in
advance is possible but not obligatory. Please state gender (for accommodation
purposes) and any unusual dietary requirements.
Submission of Abstracts:
Those wishing to present a paper at CSNLP should submit a 400-word abstract to
arrive not later than 10/4/95. Abstracts should give the author's full name and
address, with Email address if possible, and should be sent to:
CSNLP
Alex Monaghan
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Ireland
Email submissions are preferred, plain ASCII text please to:
---------
alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet)
Completed papers should be around 8 pages long, although longer papers will
be considered if requested. Camera-ready copy must be submitted to arrive
in Dublin by 19/6/94. No particular conference style will be imposed, but
papers should be legible (12pt laser printed) and well-structured.
Deadlines:
10th April --- Submission of 400-word abstract
1st May --- Notification of acceptance
19th June --- Deadline for receipt of camera-ready paper (c.8 pages)
26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: ivan@sics.se (Ivan Bretan)
Subject: Position: language engineering, HCI, at Swedish Institute of C. S.
Date: 17 Mar 1995 12:54:45 GMT
The Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) invites applications
for positions on its research staff for an initial period of 1--2 years
(with possibilities for extension) in the group for language
engineering and human-computer interaction. The successful candidates
will be expected to participate in existing research projects, perform
independent research and contribute to research contracts with
industrial and governmental sponsors.
The ideal candidates will have a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science,
Cognitive Science, Linguistics or a related discipline and will have
demonstrated strong potential for excellence in research. They will
have a solid background in language engineering and/or human-computer
interaction as well as experience in the development and implementation
of large systems (preferably using Prolog). People who like to work in
projects, and who like to take on responsibility for proposing and
driving their own research projects in areas relevant to the group, are
all encouraged to apply.
The research of the group focuses on user-adaptive interfaces,
multimodal communication, large-scale natural-language-processing
systems, application of statistical and machine-learning techniques to
natural-language processing, and text and document processing. Current
projects deal with user-adaptive help systems, speech-to-speech
translation, integration of natural-language and speech technology,
spoken-language interfaces to virtual realities, dialogue models for
voice-controlled telecom services, support systems for human
translation, and information filtering.
SICS is located just north of Stockholm and consists of over 50
professionals plus students and visitors. It is a non-profit research
foundation sponsored by the Swedish National Board for Technical and
Industrial Development and several major Swedish companies. In addition
to language engineering and human-computer interaction, SICS has a
strong position in distributed and parallel computer systems, logic
programming, high-speed networks, formal design methods, software
methodology, knowledge-based systems, neural networks and virtual
realities. SICS has close contacts with university- and institute-based
research both inside Sweden and in Europe, North America and Japan. More
information about SICS can be found at WWW site http://www.sics.se/.
Applications with CV and if possible addresses of two referees should
be sent (by mail, fax or e-mail) to the address below. SICS is firmly
committed to equal employment opportunity.
Information:
Annika Waern or Mats Wiren
Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Box 1263
S-164 28 Kista, Sweden
E-mail: annika@sics.se, wiren@sics.se
Phone: +46 8 752 15 00
Fax: +46 8 751 72 30
--
Ivan Bretan ivan@sics.se
Swedish Institute of Computer Science Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
Box 1263, 164 28 Kista phone +46 8 752 15 00 fax +46 8 751 72 30
Stockholm, Sweden http://www.sics.se
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: Panos Xinos <pxinos@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>
Subject: Query: Natural Language Visualization techniques
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 21:51:27 +0200
Dear all,
I apologize, if you receive this message more than once.
I've been working on my PhD thesis, and I'm currently examining
the possibility of incorporating in it the aspect of
Natural Language Visualization.
The results, from the bibliographic research I did, was
not very succesfull up to now, so I dicided to ask you about
possible pointers to relative bibliography, resourses on the net
and your opinions on the subject.
Please send the answers directly to me and I will post a sumary
of them.
Thank you,
Panos Xinos
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business
pxinos@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: saletore@chert.CS.ORST.EDU (Vikram Saletore)
Subject: CFP: ILPS'95 Wkshp Proposals, Intl Logic Symp., Dec 95, Portland
Date: 17 Mar 1995 20:48:48 GMT
Call For Workshop Proposals - ILPS'95
INTERNATIONAL LOGIC PROGRAMMING SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming
Post-Conference Workshops
Portland, Oregon, USA
7-9 December 1995
The 1995 International Logic Programming Symposium will be held
4-7 December 1995, in Portland, Oregon, USA. Approximately 5-6
post-conference workshops are planned for 7-9 December. Researchers
and practioners are invited to submit proposals in all areas of
logic programming, and on cross-disciplinary topics involving
logic programming (for example, agent architectures or threads-based
language implementations).
To encourage active participation and exchange of ideas, the workshops will
be kept small, preferably under 40 participants. The format of each workshop
will be determined by it organizers, but it is expected that they contain
ample time for general discussion. Workshops can vary in length,
but the expected duration will be half a day or a full day. Having two or
three co-organizers for a workshop is strongly advised. Workshops are
particularly appropriate for specialized subcommunities of researchers for
which a stand-alone workshop or conference is not yet justified.
Proposals for workshops should be about two pages in length, and
should contain:
o A description of the workshop, identifying specific technical
issues that will be addressed.
o A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop.
o The name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, and email
address of the workshop organizer(s) and identification of the
principal contact person.
o A proposed schedule for organizing the workshop and the
preferred length of the workshop (one day or one-half day).
Proposals should be submitted no later than 2 June 1995. Organizers will
be notified approximately 30 June 1995.
Workshop organizers will be responsible for:
o Producing a "Call for Participation" in the workshop and posting it
via various electronic lists and/or other means.
o Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference
program.
o Reviewing requests to participate in the workshop and selecting
participants.
o Scheduling workshop activities in connection with the local
arrangements committee
Please submit proposals and inquiries (hardcopy or e-mail) to:
David Maier
Data-Intensive Systems Center
Oregon Graduate Institute
Postal Address:
PO Box 91000
Portland, OR 97291-1000
USA
Shipping Address:
20000 NW Walker Road
Beaverton, OR 97006
USA
Phone: (503) 690-1154
FAX: (503) 690-1553
Email: maier@cse.ogi.edu
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