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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 29
NL-KR Digest Wed May 10 20:12:23 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 29
Today's Topics:
Position: Post-doctoral, CMU, NLP/Soar
Announcement: New speech corpus from LDC, TRAINS Spoken Dialog
Position: Kurzweil AI Transcriptionist
Announcement: CSNLP - Syntax in NLP, Jul 95, Dublin City
Announcement: Research in CS, AI, NLP and Speech at Sheffield
CFP: ANZIIS 3rd C. on Intelligent Info., Nov 95, Perth
Announcement: New list INDUCTIVE Reasoning Models
Announcement: KDD-95 Know. Discov. and Data Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
Position: NCCH, computational linguistics, text processing.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: Jill Fain <jef+@SARCO.SOAR.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Position: Post-doctoral, CMU, NLP/Soar
Date: 27 Apr 1995 13:42:30 GMT
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Position: Post-doctoral fellow, effective May 1, 1995.
Contact: Dr. Jill Fain Lehman
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
by email: jill.lehman@cs.cmu.edu
Description: Two-year post-doctoral position working on natural language
processing within the Soar project. Our main focus will be to extend the
current models of comprehension and generation (NL-Soar) within the context
of military simulations. In particular, the current system is oriented
toward real-time dialog behavior between intelligent agents (e.g. pilot,
wing, air controller) participating in simulated engagements in the tactical
air domain. Although this work will continue under the current position, we
will also be responsible for providing a real-time, incremental language
capability between these agents and command level agents also built within
the Soar framework.
The natural language project consists of 1 faculty member, 3 graduate
students and a post-doc. In addition to the applications mentioned above,
current research using NL-Soar includes issues in language acquisition,
speech recognition, and simultaneous translation. The language project
exists within a larger Soar community (about 15 members at CMU, about 100
active researchers throughout the world). A post-doctoral fellow is expected
to make significant contributions to the design and implementation of the
system, as well as contribute to the intellectual life of the community.
Qualifications: Applicants should have a Ph.D. in computer science or
computational linguistics. THIS IS A SYSTEM-BUILDING POSTDOC, so a very
strong background in building systems is required. Experience in both
language generation and comprehension is preferred. Basic knowledge of
machine learning techniques helpful.
To apply: send a resume and names of three references to physical or
e-mail address above. Please have recommendations letters specifically
address the system building strengths and weaknesses of the applicant.
CMU is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer.
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From: ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 95 15:58:54 EDT
To: M5675@erurokom.ie, ln-fr@frmop11.bitnetDG-LIST@UGa.CC.UGA.EDU,
Subject: Announcement: New speech corpus from LDC, TRAINS Spoken Dialog
Announcing
A New Corpus from
the Linguistic Data Consortium
The TRAINS Spoken Dialog Corpus
This CD-ROM contains a corpus of task-oriented spoken
dialogs. These dialogs were collected as part of the TRAINS project,
a project to develop a conversationally proficient planning
assistant, which helps a user construct a plan to achieve some task
involving the manufacturing and shipment of goods in a railroad
freight system. The collection procedure was designed to make the
setting as close as to human-computer interaction as possible, but
was not a "wizard" scenario, where one person pretends to be a
computer. Thus these dialogs provide a snapshot into an ideal human-
computer interface that would be able to engage in fluent
conversations.
Altogether, this corpus includes 98 dialogs, collected using
20 different tasks and 34 different speakers. This amounts to six and
a half hours of speech, about 5900 speaker turns, and 55000
transcribed words.
Information on other LDC databases is available via anonymous ftp, including
a complete catalog, details on corpora, membership and other licensing forms,
and some samples of data. Connect to ftp.cis.upenn.edu, login as anonymous,
give your email address as password, and go to directory pub/ldc.
The LDC's WWW Home Page holds the LDC catalog and all "readme" files from
each of the corpora released. It can be accessed at URL
ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/ldc_www/hpage.html
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: Adele Fontana <adelef@kurz-ai.com>
Subject: Position: Kurzweil AI Transcriptionist
Date: 1 May 1995 15:36:51 GMT
KURZWEIL APPLIED INTELLIGENCE, INC
HIRING REQUISITION
Full-Time/Temporary/Summer Intern Position for June, July, August 1995
General Description:
Kurzweil AI is looking for a summer student to help create speech
recognition vocabularies for new, specialized applications.
The main activity is producing phonetic transcriptions of words not
already in our dictionary.
General Responsibilities:
To produce broad phonetic transcriptions of medical, legal,
office-automation application terms, and general English words for use
in Kurzweil AI's products. These transcriptions are in a system close to
the "ARPABET".
Other Responsibilities to Include:
Spellchecking wordlists utilizing electronic tools to ensure correctness and
consistency with prior vocabularies.
Interacting with Knowledge Engineering or outside parties as necessary to
determine correct pronunciation.
Checking automatically-generated transcriptions for correctness.
Updating online dictionaries.
Maintaining a vocabulary database.
Possible linguistic analysis of medical terms
(ie. Greek and Latin terminology) and
subsequent programming in C, to enhance the automatic
transcription generation process for our medical vocabularies.
Qualifications:
Have written phonetic transcriptions in some context. Knowledge of
UNIX tools essential, ability to program in C and knowledge of
PC tools helpful.
Salary:
$14 per hour.
E-Mail resume to:
adelef@spock.kurz-ai.com
Send resume to:
Adele Fontana
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence Inc.
411 Waverley Oaks Road
Waltham, MA 02154
(617-893-5151x327)
FAX resume to:
617-893-6525
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Beth F. Cohen
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Date: Tue, 2 May 95 17:54:55 BST
From: Alex.Monaghan@compapp.dcu.ie
To: nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: Announcement: CSNLP - Syntax in NLP, Jul 95, Dublin City
Call for Participation in the
Fourth International Conference on
The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995
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 feature strongly in the
programme.
Invited Speakers:
The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks:
Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania
Alison Henry, University of Ulster
Other areas addressed will include:
Machine Translation
Connectionism
Semantic inferencing
Spoken dialogue
Prosody
Hybrid approaches
Assessment tools and methods
This is a small conference, limited to about 40 delegates. We aim to keep
things relatively informal, and to promote discussion and debate. With two
dozen contributed papers and two invited talks, all outstanding, there should
be plenty of material to interest a wide range of researchers.
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.
CSNLP
Alex Monaghan
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
Dublin 9
Ireland
Email registrations are preferred, please mail alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet)
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Deadlines:
26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc.
A provisional programme will be sent out in due course.
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)
Subject: Announcement: Research in CS, AI, NLP and Speech at Sheffield
Date: 2 May 1995 12:27:35 -0500
University of Sheffield, UK
Department of Computer Science
RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
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This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students
to commence studies in October 1995. Successful applicants will be registered
for an M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has four research groups, with interests as
follows:
Formal Methods and Software Engineering
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Telematics, Formal Specification, Verification and Testing, Object-Oriented
Languages and Design, Proof Theory.
Parallel Processing
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Parallel Database Machines, Parallel CASE Tools, Safety-Critical systems.
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
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Natural Language Processing (including corpus and lexically based methods,
information extraction and pragmatics), Neural Networks, Computer Graphics,
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation.
Speech and Hearing
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Auditory Scene Analysis, Models of Auditory Perception, Automatic Speech
Recognition.
It is expected that a number of (British Government) EPSRC awards will be available
to UK residents, in addition to the University's own studentship and bursary
schemes, some of which are open to all. Candidates for these awards should have a
good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or
should attain such a degree by October 1995. Part-time registration is also possible.
We especially welcome applications from (non-British) EU citizens elegible for support
under the EU's Research Training Grants schemes (with application deadlines in May
and September).
Application forms and further particulars are available from The Departmental Secretary,
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court,
211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP.
More details can also be obtained from world-wide-web address
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to
Dr. Phil. Green, phone 0114-282-5578, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
Prof Yorick Wilks, phone 0114-282-5563, email yorick@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@munnari.oz.au
From: dorota@ee.uwa.edu.au (Dorota Kieronska)
Subject: CFP: ANZIIS 3rd C. on Intelligent Info., Nov 95, Perth
Date: 3 May 1995 04:50:38 GMT
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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ANZIIS-95
3rd Australia New Zealand
conference on
Intelligent Information Systems
1995
27 November 1995
Perth, Western Australia
ANZIIS-95, the third Australian and New Zealand conference
on Intelligent Information Systems will be held in Perth,
Western Australia on the 27th of November 1995 with the
tutorials on the 26th of November.
ANZIIS-95 will be held in conjunction with major IEEE
conferences on: Neural Networks (ICNN'95 27 November -
1 December 1995) and Evolutionary Computing (ICEC'95
29 November - 1 December 1995). Consequently, the
following list of suggested topics excludes these two areas,
but includes:
Adaptive Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science
Fuzzy Systems
Intelligent Databases
Knowledge Engineering
Machine Vision
Pattern Recognition
Learning Algorithms
Memory
Robotics
Sensor Technology
Speech Processing
Virtual Reality
Visual Information Processing
The conference will include sessions on theory,
implementation and applications. There will be both oral
paper presentations and poster sessions.
ANZIIS-95 will be held in conjunction with the major IEEE
conferences:
Neural Networks (ICNN)
27 November - 1 December 1995
Evolutionary Computing (ICEC)
29 November - 1 December 1995
CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors should submit four copies of a full paper up to 6
pages long, by 5 May 1995. Papers will be reviewed
internationally and authors will be advised by 7 July. Final
camera-ready copies will be required by 25 August for
publication. All presenting authors must register as a
delegate.
Submissions may be sent by mail or by email (email
submissions only accepted in postscript, tex or latex) to:
Ms V. Di Giacomo
Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Nedlands 6009 Australia
International telephone + 61 9 380 3897
International fax + 61 9 380 1101
e-mail: anziis95@ee.uwa.edu.au
SCHEDULE
Submission of papers 5 May 1995
Notification of acceptance 7 July 1995
Submission of camera-ready papers 25 August 1995
ICNN'95 - ICEC'95
For more information about ICNN'95 and ICEC'95 please
contact Ms. V. DiGiacomo at the above address or email to:
icnn95@ee.uwa.edu.au
icec95@ee.uwa.edu.au
Discounts are offered for registrations at both ANZIIS-95 and
ICNN'95/ICEC'95.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
General Chairman: Prof. Y. Attikiouzel
The University of W.A.
Technical Programme Chair: Mr. M. Gigante
RMIT
New Zealand Liaison Chair: Dr. N. Kasabov
University of Otago
Local Committee Chair: Dr. D. Kieronska
Curtin University of Tech.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Prof. T. Caelli, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Prof. J. Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Prof. T. Dillon, La Trobe University, Australia
Dr. P. Eklund, University of Adelaide, Australia
Prof. N. Foo, University of Sydney, Australia
Prof. T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan
Mr. M. Gigante, RMIT, Australia
Prof. R. Jarvis, Monash University, Australia
Prof. T. Nguyen, University of Tasmania, Australia
Dr. A. Rao, Australian AI Institute, Australia
Prof. R. Stanton, Australian National University, Australia
Dr. C. P. Tsang, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr. K. P. Wong, The University of Western Australia, Australia
SPONSORED BY
IEEE Australia Council
IEEE Western Australian Section
CIIPS, The University of Western Australia
IN COOPERATION WITH
ACS - The Australian Computer Society
CONFERENCE FEE
Registrants for ANZIIS'95 only
before 15 Sept. after 15 Sept.
Member of IEEE / ACS A$175 A$200
Other A$200 A$250
Student of IEEE / ACS A$80 A$100
Other Student A$100 A$125
Registrants for ANZIIS'95 intending to register for
ICNN'95/ICEC'95
before 15 Sept. after 15 Sept.
Member of IEEE / ACS A$125 A$150
Other A$175 A$200
Student of IEEE / ACS A$60 A$80
Other Student A$80 A$100
TOURS AND ACTIVITIES
Western Australia is a wonderful place to holiday before or
after the conference. Come and visit the wild dolphins of
Monkey Mia, swim the clear waters of the Indian Ocean,
climb the gorges at Kalbarri, tour the vineyards in the South-
West or enjoy a casual game of golf in Perth. These are some
of the many possible tours and activities that can be
organised.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of Perth
Convention Bureau.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 22:54:28 -0300 (ADT)
From: Kamat <u095@unb.ca>
To: ml@ics.uci.edu, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, psycgrad@acadvm1.uottowa.ca,
Subject: Announcement: New list INDUCTIVE Reasoning Models
* * * * * ***ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * * * **
Announcing a new electronic mailing list called INDUCTIVE
(Inductive Learning Group)
* * * * * ***ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * * * **
This mailing list is initiated to provide a separate forum for discussing
various scientific issues related to INDUCTIVE (LEARNING) PROCESSES. We
strongly feel that these processes are of central importance to cognitive
science in general and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, and
that so far they have not been given the attention and effort they deserve.
Moreover, we feel that the success of the entire enterprise (of cognitive
science) depends on the success of the effort to model the inductive learning
processes understood sufficiently broadly.
We also believe that the current (and the previous) subdivisions of cognitive
psychology and AI impedes (and has impeded) the progress of both
enterprises, since there are serious reasons to believe that all cognitive
processes are built on top of the inductive learning processes.
We cordially invite various researchers from the above two disciplines
(including those working in Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks) to join
this supervised mailing list.
As a first question we propose to discuss the very definition of the inductive
learning process:
Inductive learning is a process by means of which, given a finite
positive training set C+ from a possibly infinite class (or
category) C and a finite set C- from the complement of C, an
agent is able to reach a state (of inductive generalization)
which allows it to form an idea about, and REPRESENTATION of, the
class C. This state, in turn, enables the agent to recognize a new
object as belonging to class C or not.
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The subscription to this list is free. This list will be moderated and we
reserve the right to terminate the membership of those members who abuse
the list. You may subscribe to the list by simply sending the following text
to the address INDUCTIVE-SERVER@UNB.CA
SUBSCRIBE INDUCTIVE FIRSTNAME LASTNAME
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***
Lev Goldfarb Tel: 506-453-4566
Faculty of Computer Science Fax: 506-453-3566
University of New Brunswick E-mail: goldfarb@unb.ca
Fredericton, N.B., E3B 5A3
Canada
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Date: Tue, 9 May 95 09:27:19 PDT
From: kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (KDD-95 Account)
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: Announcement: KDD-95 Know. Discov. and Data Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
AND DATA MINING (KDD-95)
Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
Cosponsored by AT&T Global Information Solutions and GTE,
and In Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc; collocated with IJCAI-95.
August 20-21, 1995: Montreal, Canada.
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Visit the KDD-95 WWW page at
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95
for registration, list of accepted papers, local arrangements, etc.
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Please join us for the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining (KDD-95). With the advances in data acquisition and storage
technologies, the problem of how to turn raw data into useful information
becomes a significant one. Having reached sizes that defy even partial
examination by humans, modern databases and collections of data sets are
literally swamping users. This data firehose phenomenon appears in many
fields including science data analysis, medical and healthcare, corporate
and marketing, and financial markets. Knowledge Discovery in Databases
(KDD) and Data Mining are areas of common interest to researchers in
machine learning, machine discovery, statistics, intelligent databases,
knowledge acquisition, data visualization, high performance computing,
and expert systems. Due to strong demand for participation and the growing
demand for formal proceedings, it has become necessary to change the format of
the previous KDD workshops to a conference with open attendance. This
conference will continue in the tradition of the 1989, 1991, 1993, and
1994 KDD workshops by bringing together researchers and application
developers from different areas, and focusing on unifying themes such
as the use of domain knowledge, managing uncertainty, interactive
(human-oriented) presentation, and applications. The KDD conference
also includes invited talks, demo and poster sessions, and panel discussions.
We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!
Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KDD-95 Program Cochair
Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Research, KDD-95 Program Cochair
General Conference Questions: send email to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov
Knowledge Discovery Mine: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/.index.html
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Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 22:00:19 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Knut Hofland <Knut.Hofland@hd.uib.no>
To: nl-kr@sunnyside.com
Subject: Position: NCCH, computational linguistics, text processing.
Researcher (project leader)
in computational linguistics/linguistic computing
(Temporary position)
At Humanistisk datasenter (The Norwegian Computing Centre
for the Humanities), University of Bergen, a two-year
position as researcher (project leader) is vacant.
The area of responsibility for the position is
computational text processing, which is one of three fields
of special effort at the Centre. Within this field the work
of the Centre will concentrate on the development of
textual corpora, especially bilingual parallel corpora as a
basis for the study of human and automated translation, and
on the development of a lexical database for Norwegian.
Groups of computational linguists at the universities of
Bergen, Oslo, and Trondheim are the most important partners
of cooperation.
The successful applicant should have a solid competence in
computational linguistics, specialising either in the
linguistic or in the computational component of the
subject. Relevant types of special competence are machine
translation, parsing and generation of natural language,
and structuring of linguistic information in lexicons.
The position is divided into two equal parts, one concerned
with duties within the Centre and one reserved for the
position holder's own research. Within the first-mentioned
part the researcher will have the day-to-day
responsibility for the Centre's projects within the area of
computational text and language processing, for maintaining
contact with relevant research groups nationally and abroad
and for instruction, supervision and external information
in connection with the projects. In addition the researcher
may to a limited extent be used as a consultant in
connection with project applications, with evaluation tasks
at the Centre, and with the Centre's information and
publishing activities. See also the Centre Manual, section
1.3, about internal organisation.
Applicants must have a general competence on the level of a
Norwegian doctoral degree. In addition they must be able to
document completed or ongoing research of significant scope
and clear centrality within the field of the position.
Weight will be accorded to experience in research
administration and to the relevance of the research that
the applicants intend to pursue in the research part of the
position. A project sketch should be included.
Salary according to ltr. 43 (code 1109) in the State
Regulations (NOK 265.900 April 1995).
Women are especially encouraged to apply. If the evaluation
committee finds several applicants to have approximately
equal qualifications, the rules of positive gender
discrimination of the Personnel Regulations for Academic
Positions will be applied.
Further information can be obtained from professor Helge
Dyvik, by phone: +47 55 21 22 61 or by email:
helge.dyvik@foli.uib.no
Applicants should name those pieces of work (maximum 10) to
be taken with particular consideration in the selection
process.
The person employed must abide by the regulations that
apply to the position. The application, including a
complete specification of education and earlier practice,
copies of testimonials and references, and publications
(everything in three copies), should be sent to The
University of Bergen, Humanistisk datasenter, Harald
Haarfagresgt. 31, N-5007 Bergen, before May 29 1995.
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