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NL-KR Digest Wed May 10 20:12:37 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 30
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CFP: Language, Logic and Computation, Oct 95, Tbilisi
Program: IJCAI95 wkshp: learning for lang. proc., Aug 95, Montreal
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From: tbilisi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
To: nlpeople <nlpeople@aisb.ed.ac.uk>, nlpeople <nlpeople@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Date: Fri, 05 May 95 16:13:21 +0100
Subject: CFP: Language, Logic and Computation, Oct 95, Tbilisi
Second Call For Papers
The Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
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Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
October 19-22, 1995
Host institution: Tbilisi State University
Dedicated to Solomon Dodashvili
In order to foster communication between researchers in the Republic of
Georgia and the international research community, the Georgian Centre for
Language and Speech, based at the Tbilisi State University, will host an
international symposium on language, logic and computation in 19-22, October
1995. The Tbilisi Symposium is anticipated to be the first of a regular
series.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The Tbilisi Symposium will welcome papers on current research in all aspects
of language, logic and computation, including but not limited to:
* natural language semantics/pragmatics
* dynamic and modal logic
* quantified extensions of modal systems and intermediate logics:
semantical and computational aspects
* information oriented logical frameworks: domain
theory, linear logic, situation theory
* natural language parsing and generation
* machine translation and translation aids
* statistics and language processing
* automated deduction and logic programming
* lambda and combinatory calculi
* process algebra
* category theory in computer science
INVITED SPEAKERS:
R. Cooper (Edinburgh)
P. Gardenfors (Lund)
A. Joshi (Philadelphia)
H. Ono (Ishikawa)
A. Preller (Montpelier)
H. Uszkoreit (Saarbruecken)
R. Wojcicki (Warszawa)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
J. van Benthem (Amsterdam)
J. Bergstra (Amsterdam)
P.L. Curien (Paris)
G. Erbach (Saarbruecken)
L. Esakia (Tbilisi)
T. Fernando (Stuttgart)
H. Ganzinger (Saarbruecken)
J. Ginzburg (Edinburgh)
D. de Jongh (Amsterdam)
E. Klein (Edinburgh)
Z. Khasidashvili (Norwich) (Co-chair)
E. Khmaladze (Tbilisi)
J.-J. Levy (Rocquencourt) (Co-chair)
A. Mikheev (Edinburgh)
S. Peters (Stanford)
K. Segerberg (Uppsala)
E. Vallduvi (Edinburgh)
PROCEEDINGS:
The papers will be refereed and a selection will appear as a book published by
the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Papers not exceeding 10-pages should be submitted electronically or, if
electronic submission is problematic, in hard copy. Electronic submissions
should be in plain text, latex, or ready-to-print postscript. Papers
submitted by postal mail should be accompanied by 3 additional copies. No fax
submissions.
Papers should be accompanied by a two-page abstract. The abstract should also
include the full postal and e-mail address and fax/phone of the author (or a
designated contact author in case of joint papers), as well as a specification
of the topic area. These abstracts will be collated together and will be made
available to all symposium participants.
Papers should be submitted to:
The Tbilisi Symposium E-mail: tbilisi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Human Communication Research Centre Phone: +44 131 650 4667
University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 131 650 4587
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK
SCHEDULE:
Authors must submit their 10-page papers by 31 May 1995. Notification of
receipt will be mailed to the (contact) author. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by 15 July 1995. The deadline for submission of final versions of
the presented papers will be 31 October 1995. Papers will undergo review and
a selection will be published in the proceedings. We expect the proceedings to
appear in the first half of 1996. Final submission details will be sent along
with the symposium materials.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
J. Ginzburg (Co-Chair) E. Vallduvi (Co-Chair)
Human Communication Research Centre Centre for Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place 2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland Scotland
ginzburg@cogsci.ed.ac.uk enric@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Phone: +44-131-650-4627 Phone: +44-131-650-4451
Fax: +44-131-650-4587 Fax: +44-131-650-4587
Z. Khasidashvili (Programme Co-Chair) J.-J. Levy (Programme Co-chair)
School of Information Systems INRIA Rocquencourt,
University of East Anglia Domaine de Voluceau,
Norwich NR4 7TJ B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesney Cedex
England France
zurab@sys.uea.ac.uk Jean-Jacques.Levy@inria.fr
Phone: +44-1603-592607 Phone: +33 1 39 63 56 44
Fax: +44-1603-593344 Fax: +33 1 39 63 55 11.
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Chair: T. Khurodze (Vice-rector, TSU)
Vicechair: N. Chanishvili (Dept. of Modern Georgian, TSU);
Secretaries: R. Asatiani (Inst. of Oriental Studies, GAS);
T. Sukhiashvili (Inst. of Cybern., GAS).
Georgian Academy of Sciences:
M. Abashidze, R. Grigolia (Inst. of Cybern.);
G. Tagviashvili (Inst. of Computational Math.);
G. Chikoidze (Inst. of Control Systems);
N. Amiridze (Inst. of Oriental Studies);
T. Uturgaidze (Inst. of Linguistics);
M. Bejanishvili (Inst. of Philosophy);
Tbilisi State University:
J. Antidze, T. Kutsia (Inst. of Applied Math.);
L. Mchedlishvili, N. Ivanidze (Dept. of Logics);
L. Chkhaidze (Inst. Comp. Science and Telecommunication);
VENUE:
The Symposium will be held at the Conference Centre in Tabakhmela, 25 km.\
from Tbilisi. Accommodation has been arranged for all symposium participants
in the Conference Centre hotel at a special price of US\$60 per day for room
and full board. Transportation from the airport to Tabakhmela will also be
arranged.
The Republic of Georgia offers many singular attractions. Tbilisi is a
beautiful urban centre of Georgia, which is rich in architectural, historical,
and natural attractions. Tbilisi is easily accessible by plane from many major
European cities (e.g. several flights per week from Frankfurt, Istanbul,
Koeln, Paris, Prague, Thessaloniki, Vienna). There are also direct flights to
Tbilisi from Tel Aviv and Cairo.
SOLOMON DODASHVILI:
Solomon Dodashvili was a Professor at St. Petersburg University. He is the
author of a well-known tutorial book of logic, published by St. Petersburg
University in 1827. In 1995 Georgia will celebrate the 190th anniversary of his
birth. An excursion will be organised to the Kakheti region, where Dodashvili
was born.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
This announcement (ascii, dvi and postcript formats) is available via
anonymous FTP from ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk in directory pub/tbilisi. Information
about flight schedules to Tbilisi is also available. For further information
contact the Edinburgh address above. Registration fees will be announced in
the final Call for Papers, as soon as details of sponsorship and local
organisation are finalised.
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Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 12:29:31 --100
From: wermter@nats5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Stefan Wermter)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, cogpsy@phil.ruu.nl,
Subject: Program: IJCAI95 wkshp: learning for lang. proc., Aug 95, Montreal
Reply-To: wermter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
IJCAI-95 Workshop on
New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95)
Palais de Congres, Montreal, Canada
August 21, 1995
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Germany (workshop contact person)
Gabriele Scheler, Technical University Munich, Germany
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah, USA
INVITED SPEAKERS
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Eugene Charniak, Brown University, USA
Noel Sharkey, Sheffield University, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joachim Diederich, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Georg Dorffner, University of Vienna, Austria
Jerry Feldman, ICSI, Berkeley, USA
Walther von Hahn, University of Hamburg, Germany
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah, USA
Gabriele Scheler, Technical University Munich, Germany
Stefan Wermter, University of Hamburg, Germany
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
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In the last few years, there has been a great deal of interest and activity
in developing new approaches to learning for natural language processing
Various learning methods have been used, including
- connectionist methods/neural networks
- machine learning algorithms
- hybrid symbolic and subsymbolic methods
- statistical techniques
- corpus-based approaches.
In general, learning methods are designed to support automated knowledge
acquisition, fault tolerance, plausible induction, and rule inferences. Using
learning methods for natural language processing is especially important
because language learning is an enabling technology for many other language
processing problems, including noisy speech/language integration, machine
translation, and information retrieval. Different methods support language
learning to various degrees but, in general, learning is important for
building more flexible, scalable, adaptable, and portable natural language
systems.
This workshop is of interest particularly at this time because systems built
by learning methods have reached a level where they can be applied to
real-world problems in natural language processing and where they can be
compared with more traditional encoding methods. The workshop will provide a
forum for discussing various learning approaches for supporting natural
language processsing. In particular the workshop will focus on questions like:
- How can we apply suitable existing learning methods for language processing?
- What new learning methods are needed for language processing and why?
- What language knowledge should be learned and why?
- What are similarities and differences between different approaches for
language learning? (e.g., machine learning algorithms vs neural networks)
- What are strengths and limitations of learning rather than manual encoding?
- How can learning and encoding be combined in symbolic/connectionist systems?
- Which aspects of system architectures and knowledge engineering have to
be considered? (e.g., modular, integrated, hybrid systems)
- What are successful applications of learning methods in various fields?
(speech/language integration, machine translation, information retrieval)
- How can we evaluate learning methods using real-world language?
(text, speech, dialogs, etc.)
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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8:00 am Start of Workshop
8:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Stefan Wermter
8:10am - 9:50am
Session: Neural network approachs, Hybrid approaches, Genetic approaches
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8:10am - 8:30am
On the applicability of neural network and machine learning methodologies to
natural language processing
Steve Lawrence, Sandiway Fong, C. Lee Giles
8:30am - 8:50am
Knowledge acquisition in concept and document spaces by using self-organizing
neural networks
Werner Winiwarter, Erich Schweighofer, Dieter Merkl
8:50am - 9:10am
A genetic algorithm for the induction of natural language grammars
Tony C. Smith, Ian H. Witten
9:10am - 9:30am
SKOPE: A connectionist/symbolic architecture of spoken Korean processing
Geunbae Lee, J. H. Lee
9:30am - 9:50am
Integrating different learning approaches into a multilingual spoken
translation system
P. Geutner, B. Suhm, T. Kemmp, A. Lavie, L. Mayfield, A. E. McNair,
I. Rogina, T. Schultz, T. Sloboda, W. Ward, M. Woszczyna, A. Waibel
9:50am - 10:20am
Invited Talk
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Connectionist Natural Language Processing: Representation and Learning
Noel Sharkey, Sheffield University, UK
10:20am - 10:40am
Break
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10:40am - 12:20am
Session: Statistical approaches, Corpus-based approaches
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10:40am - 11:00am
Selective sampling in natural language learning
Ido Dagan, Sean P. Engelson
11:00am - 11:20am
Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars
Eva Fong, Dekai Wu
11:20am - 11:40am
A statistical approach to learning prepositional phrase attachment
disambiguation
Alexander Franz
11:40am - 12:00am
Training stochastical grammars on semantic categories
W.R. Hogenhout, Yuji Matsumoto
12:00am - 12:20pm
Automatic classification of speech acts with semantic classification trees and
polygrams
Marion Mast, Elmar Noeth, Heinrich Niemann, Ernst Guenter Schukat Talamazzini
12:20pm - 12:50pm
Invited Talk
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Learning syntactic disambiguation through word statistics and why you should
care about it
Eugene Charniak, Brown University, USA
12:50pm - 2:00pm
Lunch Break
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2:00pm - 3:40pm
Session: Machine learning appoaches, Symbolic approaches
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2:00pm - 2:20pm
A comparison of two methods employing inductive logic programming for
corpus-based parser construction
John M. Zelle, Raymond J. Mooney
2:20pm - 2:40pm
Using inductive logic programming to learn the past tense of English verbs
Mary Elaine Califf, Raymond J. Mooney
2:40pm - 3:00pm
A revision learner to acquire verb selection rules from human-made rules and
examples
Shigeo Kaneda, Hussein Almuallim, Yasuhiro Akiba, Megumi Ishii, Tsukasa
Kawaoka
3:00pm - 3:20pm
Using parsed corpora for circumventing parsing
Aravind K. Joshi, B. Srinivas
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Acquiring and updating hierarchical knowledge for machine translation based on
a clustering technique
Takefumi Yamazaki, Michael J. Pazzani, Christopher Merz
3:40pm - 4:00pm
Break
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4:00pm - 5:40pm
Session: Knowledge acquisition approaches, Information extraction approaches
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4:00pm - 4:20pm
Embedded machine learning systems for natural language processing: a general
framework
Claire Cardie
4:20pm - 4:40pm
Learning information extraction patterns from examples
Scott B. Huffman
4:40pm - 5:00pm
A symbolic and surgical acquisition of terms through variation
Christian Jacquemin
5:00pm - 5:20pm
Concept learning from texts - a terminological meta-reasoning perspective
Udo Hahn, Manfred Klenner, Klemens Schnattinger
5:20pm - 5:40pm
Applying machine learning to anaphora resolution
Chinatsu Aone, Scott William Bennett
5:40pm - 6:00pm
Discussion and open end
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Further accepted papers
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Advances in analogy-based learning: false friends and exceptional items in
pronunciation by paradigm-driven analogy
Stefano Federici, Vito Pirrelli, Francais Yvon
A minimum description length approach to grammar inference
Peter Gruenwald
Implications of an automatic lexical acquisition system
Peter M. Hastings
Confronting an existing machine learning algorithm to the text categorization
task
Isabelle Moulinier, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
Issues in inductive learning of domain-specific text extraction rules
Stephen Soderland, David Fisher, Jonathan Aseltine, Wendy Lehnert
Can punctuation help learning?
Miles Osborne
Ross Hayward, Emanuel Pop, Joachim Diederich
Cascade 2 networks for grammar recognition
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* Dr Stefan Wermter University of Hamburg *
* Dept. of Computer Science *
* Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30 *
* email: wermter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de D-22527 Hamburg *
* phone: +49 40 54715-531 Germany *
* fax: +49 40 54715-515 *
* http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Arbeitsbereiche/NATS/staff/wermter.html *
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