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NL-KR Digest Thu Sep 28 15:39:15 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 61
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Position: Tenure track position in linguistics, U. Delaware, Newark
Program: Fifth Int. Conf. on User Modeling, Jan 96, Kailua-Kona
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: Sandra Carberry <carberry@cis.udel.edu>
Subject: Position: Tenure track position in linguistics, U. Delaware, Newark
Date: 28 Sep 1995 17:32:59 GMT
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Delaware is
seeking an Assistant Professor, tenure track, with a specialization
in formal syntax and a serious secondary specialization in some area
of Cognitive Science. The individual will be expected to help bridge
Linguistics and Cognitive Science and collaborate with other faculty
and students in those fields. Cognitive Science at the University of
Delaware includes individuals from Psychology, Computer Science,
Philosophy, Neuroscience, Educational Studies, and the Applied
Science and Engineering Laboratory. Potential areas of interaction
include, but are not restricted to, language acquisition and
processing, communicative disorders, vision, computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind/language, and
cognitive neuropsychology. The individual will teach graduate-level
courses in syntax and cognitive science, an undergraduate
introductory-level linguistics course, and an undergraduate course
in cognitive science. Position will begin 9/1/96. Ph.D. by time of
appointment. Interested candidates should send a letter of
application detailing how they meet the position description, CV,
three letters of recommendation, and samples of
research/publications. Send applications by December 15, 1995.
Candidates should indicate whether they plan to attend any of the
following conferences: the North East Linguistic Society, the Boston
University Conference on Language Acquisition, and the Linguistic
Society of America. Send materials to Search Committee --
Syntax/Cognitive Science, Department of Linguistics, University of
Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2551. The University of Delaware is
an Equal Opportunity Employer Which Encourages Applications From
Minority Groups and Women.
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From: 96 Jill um <um96@cis.udel.edu>
Subject: Program: Fifth Int. Conf. on User Modeling, Jan 96, Kailua-Kona
Date: 28 Sep 1995 17:07:58 GMT
IMPORTANT: Many airlines are having a airfare sale until SEPTEMBER 28.
According to a newspaper article, American Airlines has a sale until
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"matched by serveral carriers" including United, Continental, and
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according to the newspaper article. For a midweek travel with a
Saturday night stay, round trip fares to Honolulu are $608 from New
York, $584 to Dallas or Chicago and $374 from Los Angeles. Blackout
dates for these fares on United are Dec 15-26 mainland->Hawaii and Dec
27 - Jan 7 Hawaii->mainland.
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO
UM-96: The Fifth International Conference on User Modeling
Kailua-Kona on the Island of Hawaii
January 2--5, 1996
Research in the field of user modeling and user-adapted
interaction provides crucial foundations for improving the
usability of interactive software systems and technical devices
in many application areas. UM-96, the Fifth International
Conference on User Modeling, will offer a forum for presenting
the results of academic and industrial research in this field to
an international audience. The conference will gather
international researchers in User Modeling from a broad spectrum
of interdisciplinary fields. UM-96 follows the very successful
Fourth International Conference on User Modeling (UM-94) that
was held in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1994. UM-96 will include
tutorials, invited presentations by well-known researchers,
technical presentations, mini-workshops, and system demonstrations
in a setting that encourages close interaction among the participants.
Kluwer is sponsoring a $500 Best Paper Award.
Enclosed in this package are a Tentative Program Schedule and
Registration and Accommodations forms, along with information about
activities happening in Hawaii. Information is also available on
the WWW at http://www.ics.hawaii.edu/um-96
We believe that attendees will find the conference facilities superb,
and the atmosphere of Hawaii in the winter time outstanding.
CONFERENCE SITE:
Kona Surf Resort and Country Club
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
GENERAL CHAIR LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
David Chin Martha Crosby
University of Hawaii University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
PROGRAM CHAIRPERSONS
Sandra Carberry Ingrid Zukerman
University of Delaware Monash University
Newark, Delaware, USA Clayton, Victoria, Australia
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mathias Bauer, DFKI, Germany
Alan Biermann, Duke Univ., USA
Mark Elsom-Cook, EBC, Great Britain
Gerhard Fischer, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Brad Goodman, MITRE, USA
Hitoshi Iida, ATR Labs, Japan
Anthony Jameson, Univ. of Saarbruecken, Germany
Judy Kay, Sydney Univ., Australia
Alfred Kobsa, GMD, Germany
Kurt Konolige, SRI, USA
Diane Litman, AT&T Bell Labs, USA
Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Gordon McCalla, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
Kathy McCoy, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Cecile Paris, Univ. of Brighton, Great Britain
John Self, Lancaster Univ., Great Britain
Peter van Beek, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Julita Vassileva, Univ. der Bundeswehr, Germany
Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany
Marilyn Walker, Mitsubishi Electric, USA
Bonnie Webber, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Bev Woolf, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
UM-96 Tentative Program Schedule
January 2--5, 1996
TUTORIALS
Title: Multimedia and User Modeling
Presenter: Mark Maybury, MITRE, USA
Title: Bayesian Networks, Dempster-Shafer Theory, and Fuzzy Logic in
User and Student Modeling
Presenter: Anthony Jameson, University of Saarbruecken
Title: Student Modelling and Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Presenter: James Greer, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
NOTE: Tutorials will be free to registered participants of the
conference and will be offered at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 2. If
you are interested in one of these tutorials (they will be held in
parallel), please email chin@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu and indicate which
one you are interested in.
INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Moving Up the Information Food Chain:
The Internet Softbot and the MetaCrawler
Oren Etzioni
University of Washington
Multimodal Interactive Maps: Designing for Human Performance
Sharon Oviatt
Oregon Graduate Institute
PAPER SESSIONS
Using Agents to Improve the Usability and Usefulness of the World-Wide Web
Christoph G. Thomas* and Gerhard Fischer+
* GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
+ University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Acquisition of User Preferences for Plan Recognition
Mathias Bauer
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Reasoning About Incomplete Agents
Hans Chalupsky and Stuart C. Shapiro
State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
POLA: A Student Modeling Framework for Probabilistic On-Line Assessment
of Problem Solving Performance
Cristina Conati and Kurt VanLehn
LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, USA
User Models and Perceptual Salience: Formal Abduction for Model
Recognition and Presentation Design
Andrew Csinger and David Poole
University of British Columbia, USA
An Approach to User Modeling in Decision Support Systems
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Methods of Modeling and Assisting Causal Understanding in Physical Systems
Ken'ichi Asami, Akira Takeuchi, and Setsuko Otsuki
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
The LEAP Student Model
Frank Linton*, Brigham Bell+, and Charles Bloom-
* The MITRE Corporation, USA
+ US West, USA
- NYNEX Science and Technology, USA
Self Confidence as an Issue for User-Modeling
Pamela Briggs, Bryan Burford, and Chris Dracup
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
Analogical User Modelling: A Case Study in Individualized Information
Filtering
G. McCalla, F. Searwar, J. Thomson, J. Collins, Y. Sun, and B. Zhou
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
An Adaptive Multi-level Information Filtering System
S. Mukhopadhyay*, J. Mostafa+, M. Palakal*, W. Lam*, L. Xue*, and A. Hudli*
* Purdue University School of Science at Indianapolis, USA
+ Indiana University, USA
A Curriculum-Based Student Model for Intelligent Tutoring System
Roger Nkambou*, Bernard Lefebvre+, and Gilles Gauthier+
* Universite de Montreal, Canada
+ Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Reading Strategies for Graphic Models from an Experiment in Data Model
Perception
J. C. Nordbotten* and M. E. Crosby+
* University of Bergen, Norway
+ University of Hawaii, USA
Coupling User Models and System Models: A Modeling Framework for Fault
Diagnosis in Complex Systems
James T. Sawyer, Brian Minsk, and Ann M. Bisantz
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Learning a User's Linguistic Style: Using an Adaptive Parser to
Automatically Customize a Unification-Based Natural Language Grammar
Clement S. Allen and Barrett R. Bryant
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
An Investigation of Probabilistic Interpretations of Heuristics
in Plan Recognition
Peter van Beek
University of Alberta, Canada
Reasoning about the User's Decoding of Presentations in an Intelligent
Multimedia Presentation System
Susanne van Mulken
University of Saarbruecken, Germany
A Case-Based Toolbox for Guided Hypermedia Navigation
Alessandro Micarelli and Filippo Sciarrone
Terza Universita di Roma, Italy
Collaboration and Student Modeling in Instructional Explanation
Akihiro Kashihara, Kazuo Nomura, Tsukasa Hirashima, and Jun'ichi Toyoda
I.S.I.R., Osaka University, Japan
English Error Correction: A Syntactic User Model Based on Principled
``Mal-Rule'' Scoring
Kathleen McCoy*, Christopher Pennington*, and Linda Suri+
* University of Delaware, USA
+ Central Institute for the Deaf, USA
Interlanguage Errors Becoming the Target Language through Student
Modeling
Ethel Schuster and Jennifer Burckett-Picker
Simmons College, USA
A Feature-Based User Model for Movie Selection
N. Karunanithi and Joshua Alspector
Bellcore, USA
Consulting a User Model while Generating Arguments
Richard McConachy, Ingrid Zukerman and Kevin Korb
Monash University, Australia
Predictive Role Taking in Dialog: Global Anticipation Feedback
Based on Transmutability
Alassane Ndiaye and Anthony Jameson
University of Saarbruecken, Germany
NOTE: The Technical Program will begin at 8:30am on Wednesday,
January 3 and will end around 5pm on Friday, January 5.
POSTER SESSION
Recognition of Problem-solving Plans in Dialogue Interpretation
Liliana Ardissono, Guido Boella, and Leonardo Lesmo
Universita di Torino, Italy
Multiple-View User Modeling in Software Reuse
Yufeng F. Chen and Nazir A. Warsi
Clark Atlanta University, USA
Exploiting Stereotypes to Eliminate Strategic Bias
Matthew N. Dailey*, Gregory S. Miller+, and James C. Lester*
* North Carolina State University, USA
+ Glaxo Wellcome, Inc., USA
Arguing on Communicative Goals in Explanations
Fiorella de Rosis and Floriana Grasso
Universita di Bari, Italy
HyperTutor: Adapting Hypermedia Systems to the User
Julian Gutierrez, Tomas A. Perez, Imanol Usandizaga, and Philippe Lopisteguy
Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
Roles of Student Models for Assisting Group Learning
Manabu Nakamura, Akira Takeuchi, and Setsuko Otsuki
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Modeling User Interests in a Holistic Profile
Kevin R. Parker
Saint Louis University, USA
Acquiring Customer Preferences for Information Filtering:
A Heuristic-Statistical Approach
Bhavani Raskutti and Anthony Beitz
Telstra Research Laboratories, Australia
Use of Meta-Plan Rules to Enhance Adaptability in Plan-Based Dialog
Modeling
Dong-Guk Shin and Jungjin Lee
University of Connecticut, USA
Automated generation of efficient domain-specific belief models
Jasper Taylor \
Human Communication Research Centre, UK
Knowledge Requirements for Information Management: A Rotorcraft
Pilot's Associate Example
Christopher A. Miller
Honeywell Technology Center, USA
Student Modeling and Tutoring Strategies in an Intelligent
Linear Programming Tutor
Alten du Plessis and H. C. de Kock
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
Contact: Linda Strachan* and Peter van Beek+
* University of Manitoba, Canada
+ University of Alberta, Canada
email: strachan@cs.umanitoba.ca
MINI-WORKSHOPS AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS
MINI-WORKSHOP
The Commercial Potential of User Modeling
Call for Papers
Until recently, the emphasis in user modeling research has been on
developing theoretically-sound systems, although more recently there has
been some shift in emphasis to issues such as practicality and commercial
potential. In order to support the introduction of user modeling into
mainstream computing, we need to turn our attention not only to issues such
as the acquisition, representation and maintenance of user models, but also
to the development of formal guidelines which set out the criteria to
support the developer in determining which user modeling techniques to
incorporate in a particular software system. The aim of this mini-workshop
is to address this issue. Short position papers (about 10 minutes) are
invited which should address questions such as: techniques involving
adaptivity which can be considered to be a part of user modeling research;
whether theoretically motivated research on user modeling is consistent with
commercial viability; if we should be adopting a more rigorous approach to
software development and requirements analysis based on techniques from
Software Engineering; the role of empirical research on user modeling
applications as opposed to the use of a set of formal criteria for software
development; what user modeling techniques are particularly suitable for
graphical and multimedia user interfaces and applications.
Deadlines: Submission of contributions: Dec. 1, 1995
Notification of acceptance: Dec. 10, 1995
Workshop date: Jan. 2, 1996 (morning)
Contact: Professor Michael McTear
School of Information and Software Engineering
University of Ulster
Shore Road
Newtownabbey BT37 0QB
Northern Ireland
Tel: +44 1232 368166
FAX: +44 1232 366068
Email: mf.mctear@ulst.ac.uk
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MINI-WORKSHOP
Standardization of User Modeling Shell Systems
Call for Papers
User modeling shell systems (UM shells) can be expected to play an
increasingly important role for the development of adaptable and adaptive
systems. It therefore seems advisable to identify aspects of UM shells
whose standardization is likely to foster the usage of UM shells without
hampering further technical developments. At the UM94 SIG meeting on the
standardization of UM shells, a consensus was reached that the current
prime candidate for standardization should be the interface between
applications and UM shells. In addition, some consensus was reached that
closer attention should be paid to the KIF and KQML proposals by Tim Finin
and others. These, however, will have to be adapted to the specific needs
of UM shell systems.
The UM96 workshop will further pursue the standardization of the interface
between applications and UM shells in cooperation between shell developers
and application-oriented researchers. In addition, it will also aim at
fixing a list of priorities, a first consensus, and time-table for future
work. Participants should give short presentations that include position
statements, work reports, or proposals regarding the topic of the workshop.
Written summaries of not more than 2-4 pages in plain text format should be
sent by to the organizer: Alfred.Kobsa@gmd.de. The accepted papers will be
distributed among the participants prior to the workshop and possibly made
public thereafter.
Deadlines: Submission of contributions: Dec. 1, 1995
Notification of acceptance: Dec. 10, 1995
Workshop date: Jan. 2, 1996 (morning)
Contact: Alfred Kobsa
GMD -- German National Research Center for Information Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven
53754 St. Augustin, Germany
FAX +49 2241 14 2167
E-mail: Alfred.Kobsa@gmd.de
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MINI-WORKSHOP
User Modelling for Information Filtering on the World Wide Web
Call for Papers
The dramatic growth of the World Wide Web has created a particularly
exciting and important area for user modelling researchers. The
major goal of this workshop is to bring together a range of diverse
researchers who are working on the many facets of applying user
modelling to filtering on the World Wide Web.
The workshop will run for a half day before the main UM96 conference.
A selection of participants will make presentations. In addition,
there will be collective discussion of focus questions. To facilitate
interaction and focussed discussion, there will be a limited number of
places available at the workshop. Attendance at the workshop will be
by invitation only. To be eligible for an invitation, potential
participants should submit a brief position paper addressing some aspect
of user modelling for filtering information on the World Wide Web.
Submissions are particularly sought in user model driven approaches to
information retrieval, filtering and agent based systems, including web
searchers, but submissions on other aspects of information filtering
on the World Wide Web will be welcome.
Submissions should be sent as email to the Workshop Chairs with the URL
for the position paper. The position paper should be concise and short
(maximum length 2,000 words) although, of course, it can include links
to additional material.
Deadlines: Submission of contributions: Oct. 27, 1995
Notification of acceptance: Nov. 6, 1995
Workshop date: Jan. 2, 1996 (morning)
Contact: Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld
University of Sydney, Australia.
judy@staff.cs.su.oz.au
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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETING
Developing Adaptive Applications (with the BGP-MS User Modeling Shell)
Call for Papers
In the last years, several user modeling shell systems have been
developed that can be employed as software tools in setting up
adaptive applications. BGP-MS is such a tool, which has already been
used in adaptive hypertexts and a tutorial help system.
This SIG meeting will be a forum for people planning to develop an
adaptive application and to employ user modeling techniques for this
purpose. Those aspects of BGP-MS that are most relevant to application
developers will be discussed, according to the participants' demands.
It will be examined, to which extent BGP-MS satisfies the needs of
potential applications, and in which cases other user modeling tools
might be more appropriate.
Participants should briefly present the user modeling tasks they want
to accomplish and their ideas of how BGP-MS or other user modeling
tools could be used for that. Familiarity with BGP-MS from the
literature (UMUAI journal 4(2), pp. 59-106) is presupposed. Summaries
of the presentations of not more than 2-4 pages in plain text format
shall be submitted electronically to Wolfgang.Pohl@gmd.de. Accepted
papers will be distributed among the participants beforehand.
For those participants that would like to gain practical experience
with BGP-MS, the system will be available for supervised hands-on
experiments during the conference.
Deadlines: Submission of contributions: Dec. 1, 1995
Notification of acceptance: Dec. 10, 1995
SIG meeting date: Jan. 3, 1996 (afternoon)
Contact: Wolfgang Pohl
University of Essen, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science
guest at GMD - German National Research Center for Inf. Technology
Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 St. Augustin, Germany
Phone: +49 2241 14 2144
FAX: +49 2241 14 2065
email:Wolfgang.Pohl@gmd.de
NOTE:
All miniworkshops and SIG meetings
will be held either in the morning of Tuesday, January 2
or on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 3. For further details,
please contact the mini-workshop organizers listed above.
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