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NL-KR Digest Mon Feb 20 15:40:01 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 10
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CFP: Wkshp on Computational Logic for NL, Apr 95, Edinburgh
Program: EuroCOLT'95 Preregistration, Mar 95, Barcelona
Correction: Access instructions for Release CT of SCHOLAR
Position: AI Basic Research at Murray Hill
CFP: KDD-95 - Knowledge Discovery and Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
Position: Linguist for English Analyzer, Carnegie Group
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From: clnlp95@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (CLNLP Workshop)
Subject: CFP: Wkshp on Computational Logic for NL, Apr 95, Edinburgh
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 07:59:38 GMT
REMINDER FOR SUBMISSIONS AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
COMPUTATIONAL LOGIC FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
A Joint COMPULOGNET/ELSNET/EAGLES Workshop
April 3-5, 1995
Edinburgh
Applications to Natural Language Processing have always been one of
the major driving forces for the development of computational
logics. Conversely, techniques devised for computational logics (and
Logic Programming in particular) have often given rise to elegant
solutions for representing and reasoning with linguistic knowledge.
However, there is a danger that questions of common interest to the
two areas are pursued independently and possibilities for cross-
fertilization are ignored.
In Europe, the Esprit Networks ELSNET and COMPULOGNET connect
researchers within the two areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
and Computational Logic (CL). The LRE Initiative EAGLES has one
Working Group especially concerned with linguistic formalisms. The
joint workshop of the two networks and EAGLES is intended as a forum
where NLP researchers point out open problems that are likely to
benefit from CL techniques and CL researchers present achievements
that have potential impact on NLP.
The following questions are examples where we think such a
cross-fertilization is possible:
- Can one model phenomena like presupposition and negation in natural
language in a computationally satisfactory way?
- Can non-monotonic systems of logic be adapted for applications of NLP
in areas such as belief modelling, rhetorical relations and
ellipsis?
- What kind of constraint languages are suitable for NL processing?
- Can attributive description logics developed in knowledge representation
be used to enhance the expressivity of grammars?
The workshop will consist of invited talks and presentations of
selected papers on logical processing of NLP and on CL research having
potential NL applications.
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-5 pages) no later
than February 1, 1995.
Workshop Organisers
-------------------
Suresh Manandhar (Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh)
Werner Nutt (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Ewan Klein (Cognitive Science and Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh)
Joerg Siekmann (DFKI and University of Saarbruecken)
Programme Committee
-------------------
Hassan Ait-Kaci (Simon Fraser University)
Patrick Blackburn (University of Saarbruecken)
Jochen Doerre (University of Stuttgart)
Ewan Klein (University of Edinburgh)
Erik-Jan van der Linden (University of Amsterdam)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa))
Suresh Manandhar (University of Edinburgh)
Werner Nutt (DFKI)
Luis Moniz Pereira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Joerg Siekmann (DFKI and University of Saarbruecken)
Invited Speakers
----------------
John Lamping (Xerox PARC, USA)
Glyn Morrill (Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Remo Pareschi (Rank Xerox Research Centre, France)
Gert Smolka (DFKI, Germany)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI & University of Saarbruecken, Germany)
Venue
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The workshop will be held at the Forth Bridges Moat House Hotel located
at South Queensferry in the outskirts of Edinburgh. The Hotel overlooks
the scenic Forth Bridge and is a short drive from Edinburgh airport. The
hotel has good facilities and full board accommodation at special rates
for workshop participants has been arranged.
Submission requirements
-----------------------
Authors are invited to submit by email an extended abstract (4-5 pages)
to reach us no later than 1 February 1994. The title page of the abstract
should contain a 5-7 line summary as well as a list of keywords.
Electronic submissions in plain ascii, self contained LaTeX or postscript
format should be mailed to the following electronic address:
clnlp95@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
The beginning of the mail should contain the following information on
separate lines:
Title of the paper
Name(s) of the author(s)
Summary
Keywords
Hardcopy submissions would be acceptable although less preferred.
5 copies should be sent to:
Suresh Manandhar
CLNLP95
HCRC
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9LW
Scotland
UK
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: February 1, 1995
Notification of acceptance or rejection: February 15, 1995
Final paper due: March 15, 1995
Workshop dates: April 3-5, 1995
Working Notes
-------------
Working notes will be available in technical report form at the workshop.
Other versions of the call
--------------------------
By FTP:
A LaTeX, postscript or plain ascii version of this call is available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk in :
directory: pub/clnlp95
files: call.tex, call.ps, call.ascii
WWW:
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/elsnet/CLNLP95.html
REGISTRATION FORM
The cost of accommodation and full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
will be:
GBP 95.00/day, Sunday - Thursday (single room)
GBP 79.50/day, Sunday - Thursday (double/twin room)
Accommodation on Saturday night before start of the workshop and
Friday night after it ends, will be GBP 70, which includes bed
and breakfast on Sunday and Saturday mornings.
The registration fee for the workshop is GBP 50.00.
FORM OF PAYMENT:
1. Cheques and money orders in British currency to be made payable to
the ``University of Edinburgh.''
2. Payment by bank transfer may be made to:
Account name: University of Edinburgh
Bank name: Bank of Scotland
Bank address: 32A Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JB
Account number: 00919680
Ref: 265 GG00009
PLEASE NOTE:
1. It is very important to quote reference 265 GG00009,
otherwise the payment will not be deposited correctly.
2. Bank charges should be paid by the participant.
3. VISA/MasterCard
This is the least preferred method of payment, from our point of
view, because of the difficulty of handling these payments. An
additional GBP 8 handling charge will be added to all VISA/MC
payments.
Please complete the following details for Registration at CLNLP-95:
-------------------------- Please cut here -----------------------
Name:______________________________________________________________
Address:___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Post/Zip code:__________________________
Telephone:______________________________
FAX:____________________________________
Email:__________________________________
I will need accommodation for the nights of:
Please, specify single or double room
Saturday, 1/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 70) (bed & breakfast only)
Sunday, 2/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 95/79.59)
Monday, 3/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 95/79.59)
Tuesday, 4/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 95/79.59)
Wednesday, 5/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 95/79.59)
Thursday, 6/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 95/79.59)
Friday, 7/4: _______ (yes/no) (GBP 70) (bed & breakfast only)
I am willing to share the room with another male/female.
Please find enclosed __________ to cover the cost of registration and
accommodation at CLNLP-95. (Invited speakers are not required to pay
for registration and accommodation).
I have instructed my bank to transfer __________ to cover the cost of
registration and accommodation at CLNLP-95.
Please charge my VISA/MC card no. ___________________________________
Name on card: _______________________________ Exp. date ____________
I am an invited speaker. ________ (yes/no)
Signature: ________________________________________
Please send completed form and Registration Fee to:
CLNLP 95
CCS/HCRC
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK.
Email: clnlp95@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Fax: +44 131 650 4587
All Email registrations must be confirmed by post.
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Suresh Manandhar *
Language Technology Group *
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 16:31:37 +0100
From: Paul.Vitanyi@cwi.nl
To: ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca, alife@cognet.ucla.edu,
Subject: Program: EuroCOLT'95 Preregistration, Mar 95, Barcelona
2nd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING THEORY
EUROCOLT'95
MARCH 13-15, 1995, BARCELONA, SPAIN
PROGRAM
RECEPTION/REGISTRATION:
Sunday, March 12, from 18:00 to 22:00
at the C atedra Gaud
SESSION 1: Monday, March 13, Morning
Chair: Paul Vit anyi
9:00--9:50
The discovery of algorithmic probability: A guide
for the programming of true creativity (Invited Lecture),
R.J. Solomonoff (Oxbridge Research, USA)
9:50--10:15
A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an
application to boosting ,
Y. Freund, R.E. Schapire (AT T Bell Labs)
10:15--10:40
Online learning versus offline learning ,
S. Ben-David (Technion), E. Kushilevitz (Technion),
Y. Mansour (Tel Aviv Univ.)
10:40--11:15
Break
SESSION 2: Monday, March 13, Morning
Chair: Nicola Cesa-Bianchi
11:15--11:40
Learning distributions by their density levels - a paradigm
for learning without a teacher ,
S. Ben-David, M. Lindenbaum (Technion)
11:40--12:05
Tight worst-case loss bounds for predicting with expert advice ,
D. Haussler, J. Kivinen, M.K. Warmuth (UCSC)
12:05--12:30
On-line maximum likelihood prediction with respect to
general loss functions
K. Yamanishi (NEC Research, Princeton)
LUNCH: Starting at 13:00
SESSION 3: Monday, March 13, Afternoon
Chair: Rusins Freivalds
14:30--14:55
Power of procrastination in inductive inference: How it depends
on used ordinal notations ,
A. Ambainis (Univ. Latvia)
14:55--15:20
Learnability of Kolmogorov-easy circuit expressions via queries ,
J.L. Balcazar (UPC, Barcelona), H. Buhrman (UPC Barcelona/CWI),
M. Hermo (Univ. Pa s Vasco)
15:20--15:45
Trading monotonicity demands versus mind changes ,
S. Lange (HTWK Leipzig), T. Zeugmann (Kyushu Univ.)
15:45--16:20
Break
SESSION 4: Monday, March 13, Afternoon
Chair: Ricard Gavald a
16:20--16:45
Learning recursive functions from approximations ,
J. Case (Univ. Delaware), S. Kaufmann (Univ. Karlsruhe),
E. Kinber (Univ. Delaware),
M. Kummer (Univ. Karlsruhe),
16:45--17:10
On the intrinsic complexity of learning ,
R. Freivalds (Univ. Latvia), E. Kinber (Univ. Delaware),
C.H. Smith (Univ. Maryland)
17:10--17:35
The structure of intrinsic complexity of learning ,
S. Jain (Nat. Univ. Singapore), A. Sharma (Univ. New S-Wales, Australia)
17:35--18:00
Kolmogorov numberings and minimal identification ,
R. Freivalds (Univ. Latvia), S. Jain (Nat. Univ. Singapore)
RUMP SESSION: From 18:00 to 19:00
BUSINESS MEETING: From 20:00 to 21:30
SESSION 5: Tuesday, March 14, Morning
Chair: Ming Li
9:00--9:50
Stochastic complexity in learning (Invited Lecture),
J. Rissanen (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
9:50--10:15
Function learning from interpolation ,
M. Anthony (LSE, London), P. Bartlett (ANU, Canberra, Australia)
10:15--10:40
Approximation and learning of convex superpositions ,
L. Gurvits (Siemens Res, Princeton), P. Koiran (DIMACS, Rutgers Univ.)
10:40--11:15
Break
SESSION 6: Tuesday, March 14, Morning
Chair: Jorma Rissanen
11:15--11:40
Minimum description length estimators under the optimal coding scheme ,
V.G. Vovk (Research Council Cybernetics, Moscow)
11:40--12:05
MDL learning of unions of simple pattern
languages from positive examples ,
P. Kilpel ainen, H. Mannila, E. Ukkonen (Univ. Helsinki)
12:05--12:30
A note on the use of probabilities by mechanical learners ,
E. Martin, D. Osherson (IDIAP, Switzerland)
LUNCH: Starting at 13:00
SESSION 7: Tuesday, March 14, Afternoon
Chair: Hans-Ulrich Simon
14:30--14:55
Characterizing rational versus exponential learning curves ,
D. Schuurmans (Univ. Toronto)
14:55--15:20
Is Pocket algorithm optimal? ,
M. Muselli (CNR, Italy)
15:20--15:45
Some theorems concerning the free energy of (un)constrained stochastic
hopfield neural networks ,
J. van den Berg, J.C. Bioch (Erasmus Univ.)
15:45--16:20
Break
SESSION 8: Tuesday, March 14, Afternoon
Chair: Wolfgang Maass
16:20--16:45
A space-bounded learning algorithm for axis-parallel rectangles ,
F. Ameur (H.Nixdorf Inst/Univ. Paderborn)
16:45--17:10
Learning decision lists and trees with equivalence queries ,
H.-U. Simon (Univ. Dortmund)
SIGHTSEEING: From 17:10 to 21:00
BANQUET: Starting at 21:00
SESSION 9: Wednesday, March 15, Morning
Chair: Kenji Yamanishi
9:00--9:50
Bounding VC dimension of Neural Networks: Progress and Prospects
(Invited Lecture) ,
Marek Karpinski (Bonn Univ., Germany), Angus Mcintyre (Oxford University, UK)
9:50--10:15
Average case analysis of a learning algorithm for -DNF expressions ,
M. Golea (Univ. Ottawa)
10:15--10:40
Learning by extended statistical queries and its relation to PAC learning ,
E. Shamir, C. Shwartzman (Hebrew Univ.)
10:40--11:15
Break
SESSION 10: Wednesday, March 15, Morning
Chair: Martin Anthony
11:15--11:40
Typed pattern languages and their learnability ,
T. Koshiba (Fujitsu Labs, Kyoto)
11:40--12:05
Learning behaviors of automata from shortest counterexamples ,
F. Bergadano, S. Varricchio (Univ. Catania)
12:05--12:30
Learning of regular expressions by pattern matching ,
A. Brazma (Univ. Latvia)
12:30--12:55
The query complexity of learning some subclasses of context-free grammars ,
C. Domingo, V. Lavin (UPC, Barcelona)
LUNCH: Starting at 13:00
END OF CONFERENCE
Conference Information
Location:
Barcelona is a city of about 3 million people located on Spain's
Mediterranean shore. Founded by the Romans, Barcelona has been for
long a center of culture and arts.
Fine Romanesque art and architecture, from
the middle ages, can be found in Barcelona and surrounding Catalonia.
At the turn of the century, Barcelona was a great center of art
nouveau. Among its many contributors, the names of Gaudi ,
Picasso, Dali , Miro or Tapies have gained universal
respect, and their works can be admired in the streets and local
museums.
Today, Barcelona is a vibrant, pulsating city offering a varied
cultural life, many shopping areas, and a great variety of
restaurants. On the occasion of hosting of 1992 Olympic Games, the city
went through large urbanistic changes, and the remodelled
seafront areas are now major attractions.
Conference Site:
The conference will be held at the North Campus
of the Universitat Polit ecnica de Catalunya (UPC).
To reach it coming from downtown, take the subway line 3 (green),
direction Zona Universit aria,
to the second last stop (Palau Reial), then follow the signs;
total travel time is about 30 minutes.
Formal sessions will take place at the Aula Master of the North Campus.
Rump sessions will be scheduled at the conference and may take
place in a different room.
Invited Lectures: There will be invited lectures
by Ray Solomonoff (Oxbridge Research), Jorma Rissanen (IBM Almaden),
and Angus McIntyre (Oxford Univ.)
Social Program: Sunday Night: Reception and
registration at the Catedra Gaudi , Avda. Pedralbes 7,
18:00---22:00. This is near the conference site.
Coming from downtown, take the subway line 3 (green) to
Maria Cristina stop, then follow the signs.
Monday Night:
Business meeting at the conference site, 20:00--21:30.
Tuesday Night:
Banquet at El Gran Cafe , starting at 21:00.
The Cafe is located in Aviny o 9, a few minute walk
from the conference hotels.
Weather:
Weather in March is usually sunny but be prepared for rain.
Day time temperature should be between C and C.
Getting there:
There are trains running every 30 minutes from the airport to
Pla c a Catalunya, the central square of Barcelona
close to the conference hotels. Travel time is about 25 minutes.
There is also an Airport Bus linking the airport terminals
to Pla c a Catalunya.
A taxi from the airport to the hotels should cost 2500--3000 Pta,
on normal traffic conditions.
Accommodation
Reservations have been made in the following three hotels:
Hotel Catalunya (**): Santa Anna, 24.
Phone +34-3-301-9120. Fax +34-3-302-7870.
Hotel Montecarlo (***): La Rambla, 124.
Phone +34-3-412-0404. Fax +34-3-318-7323.
Hotel Rivoli Ramblas (****): La Rambla, 128.
Phone +34-3-412-0988. Fax +34-3-318-9133.
The three of them are quite close to each other in Barcelona's Old
Quarter, the liveliest part of the city.
The following are the conference prices in Spanish Pesetas (Pta),
including VAT. For Catalunya and Rivoli, these prices also include
breakfast.
Price Catalunya Montecarlo Rivoli
Single 3250 6740 n/a
Double 4500 9630 13900
Double, 4050 7560 10700
one occup.
For reservations, use the
procedure described under Registration and hotel reservation ,
or send a fax directly to the hotel.
The hotels are offering special conference prices
(conditioned on a minimum occupancy), so
make sure you mention EuroCOLT'95 if you contact them directly.
Early reservation is recommended.
The conference organization does not handle hotel payments. Please
pay to the hotels directly when departing.
They will accept major credit cards.
Registration Hotel Reservation
In order of preference:
WWW: Fill in the registration form at
http://goliat.upc.es/ eurocolt/reg-form.html
E-mail: Get the source of this brochure by anonymous ftp,
as described below. Fill in the registration form and e-mail it to
eurocolt@lsi.upc.es
Or else: Fill in the registration form below
and send it by fax or air mail to the organizers.
Your registration will be confirmed upon receipt of your payment.
Payment
The conference fee includes proceedings, lunches for three days,
and all social events.
lcc
Before After
Price (in Pta) Feb. 10 Feb. 10
Normal Conference Fee 30000 34000
Student Fee 15000 17000
Extra Banquet Ticket 3000 3500
Extra proceedings will be available on site and cost about 7000 Pta each.
Transfer the amount of your registration ( not hotel) to:
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Account Name: EuroCOLT'95
Bank: Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona
Account : 2100--0797--91--0200096977
Combining NeuroCOLT meeting with EuroColt'95:
The 1st yearly meeting of the EU ESPRIT NeuroCOLT Working Group
is planned back-to-back with EuroColt'95 in Barcelona,
March 9--11. Participants can arrange the
same hotels and joint travel at their convenience.
For more information
WWW: Connect to
http://goliat.upc.es/ eurocolt/info.html
ftp: login as anynomous to bloom.upc.es ,
go to directory pub/eurocolt
E-mail: eurocolt@lsi.upc.es
Or else: contact the organizers at
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Ricard Gavalda -- EuroCOLT'95
Dept. of Software (LSI)
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Pau Gargallo 5
08028 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: +34-3-401-7008
Fax: +34-3-401-7014
E-mail: gavalda@lsi.upc.es
Acknowledgments
History and Sponsors:
The previous and inaugural European Conference on Computational Learning Theory
was held 20--22 December 1993 at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The EuroCOLT'95 conference is sponsored by the EATCS,
by the European Union through NeuroCOLT ESPRIT Working Group Nr. 8556,
by IFIP through SSGFCS WG 14.2., and by Universitat Polit ecnica de Catalunya.
Local Arrangements Chairs:
Ricard Gavald a (UPC, Barcelona),
Felipe Cucker (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Program Committee:
M. Anthony (LSE, Univ. London, UK), E. Baum (NEC Research Inst., Princeton),
N. Cesa-Bianchi (Univ. Milano, Italy), J. Koza (Stanford Univ, Palo Alto, USA),
M. Li (Univ. Waterloo, Canada), S. Muggleton (Oxford University, UK),
W. Maass (TU Graz, Austria), J. Rissanen (IBM Almaden, USA),
H.-U. Simon (Univ. Dortmund, Germany), K. Yamanishi (NEC, Princeton, USA),
L. Valiant (Harvard Univ, Cambridge, USA),
P. Vitanyi (Chair, CWI/Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands),
R. Freivalds (Univ. Riga, Latvia)
Steering Committee:
M. Anthony (LSE, Univ. London, UK),
R. Gavald a (UPC, Barcelona),
W. Maass (TU Graz, Austria),
J. Shawe-Taylor (RHBNC, Univ. London, UK),
H.-U. Simon (Univ. Dortmund, Germany)
P. Vit anyi (CWI Univ. Amsterdam).
REGISTRATION FORM
Last name
First name
Affiliation
Mailing address
EMail address
Vegetarian [ ] [5pt]
Registration fee 1.5cm Pta
Extra Banquet Ticket(s) 0.2cm Pta
Total 3.5cm Pta
Your registration will be confirmed upon receipt
of payment.
[5pt]
I want a
[ ] Single room [ ] Double room [5pt]
[ ] Double room, one occupant
in Hotel
[ ] Catalunya [ ] Montecarlo [5pt]
[ ] Rivoli
arriving on March
and leaving on March
If sharing a double room, name of roommate (or 'anyone'):
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 15:45:44 EST
Reply-To: Joseph Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
From: Joseph Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Correction: Access instructions for Release CT of SCHOLAR
To: Multiple recipients of list SCHOLAR <SCHOLAR@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Because of a proofreading error, improper instructions were included in
Release CT.
The proper form for the requesting SCHOLAR files is, for example,
Get cts07 00 SCHOLAR .
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Joseph Raben
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 14:22 EST
From: kautz@research.att.com (Henry Kautz)
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: Position: AI Basic Research at Murray Hill
Artificial Intelligence Research Positions
in AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey
The Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at AT&T
Bell Laboratories is looking for candidates who have done innovative
research in core AI, such as knowledge representation, efficient
reasoning, reasoning with uncertain information, planning, and AI and
databases. Candidates must already have a Ph.D. or anticipate
receiving their Ph.D. by the summer of 1995.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, including a list of
publications and names of references, to
Henry Kautz
Head, AI Principles Research Department
600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2C-407
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 08:27:03 PST
From: kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov (KDD-95 Account)
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: KDD-95 - Knowledge Discovery and Mining, Aug 95, Montreal
A brief reminder that the deadline for KDD-95 submissions is FRIDAY MARCH 3RD:
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FOR
The First International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95)
Montreal, Canada, August 20-21, 1995
Sponsored by AAAI and in Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc.
Co-located with IJCAI-95.
URL: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/kdd95.html
PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION:
Please submit 5 *hardcopies* of a short paper (a maximum of 9 single-spaced
pages not including cover page but including bibliography, 1 inch margins,
and 12pt font) by March 3, 1995. A cover page must include author(s) full
address, E-MAIL, a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. This cover page
must accompany the paper. IN ADDITION, an ascii text version of the cover
page MUST BE SENT BY E-MAIL to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov by March 3, 1995.
Please mail the papers to : KDD-95
AAAI
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496
U.S.A.
send e-mail queries regarding submissions logistics to: kdd@aaai.org
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 13:03:00 est
From: Carpenter <carp@lcl.cmu.edu>
To: colibri@let.ruu.nl, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, sigparse-list@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Position: Linguist for English Analyzer, Carnegie Group
We have a job opening at CGI for a Linguist whose main job
will be to do QA on CMT's Caterpillar Technical English Analyzer, to
see that it's handling the right set of sentences, etc. I'm attaching
the job description below. I wonder if you know of anyone who would
be suitable? Could you post it somewhere where comp ling students
would see it, please? We hope to fill the job very quickly, so people
who won't be available till Spring aren't really suitable (unless we
just can't find anyone before that).
Thanks,
Peggy Andersen
andersen@cgi.com
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POSITION: Sr. Engineer I (QA Engineer/Linguist)
HIRING MGR: ANDERSEN
LOCATION: PITTSBURGH
CUSTOMER: CATERPILLAR
EDUCATION: BA or MA (preferred) in linguistics or computational linguistics, or
degree in computer science or information science with significant coursework
in linguistics.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1. At least 3 years experience as part of a team to deliver and support
production software systems.
2. Software QA experience for ongoing support of production software.
3. Basic C programming.
4. Reading knowledge of Lisp desirable.
5. Experience working in customer contact situations highly desirable.
SPECIFIC SKILLS REQUIRED:
1. Detail-orientatation and highly organized approach to work.
2. Linguistic analysis, including sentence-level syntax, and syntactic
and semantic characteristics of lexical items.
3. Basic C programming required, and reading knowledge of Lisp
desirable, for running existing code and writing simple programs
4. Experience working in customer contact situations highly desirable.
5. Software requirements analysis desirable.
6. Familiarity with SGML desirable.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
1. Perform QA to support bimonthly deliveries for controlled English
authoring system which serves as front end to automated machine
translation system. This includes:
a. running test cases on all modules and on the full system, and
interpreting test results to determine whether changes made by
developers are to spec, and that the system has not regressed
b. maintaining and enhancing the set of automated and interactive
tests for delivery testing
c. designing and implementing improvements in the quality
assurance process
d. maintaining change request database, including assigning new
change requests to the appropriate developer, tracking status
of change requests, testing changes, and reporting QA results
to customer
e. working with customer to understand requirements for requested
changes, and to gather additional data to support requests
f. working with developers at CGI and subcontractor to ensure
that all reported bugs are fully fixed and tested before
delivery
g. producing release notes for bimonthly deliveries of production
system
2. Perform lexical update for controlled English authoring system.
This includes checking the validity and consistency of lexical work
performed by subcontractor, writing definitions and usage examples
for authoring, automatically generating machine-readable forms of
lexical data, and testing changes.
3. Maintain data file which specifies how SGML tags are used in
sentence segmenting.
4. Contribute linguistic and user-oriented expertise to the design of
authoring system enhancements.
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