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NL-KR Digest Sat Mar 2 13:37:10 PST 1996 Volume 15 No. 11
Today's Topics:
CFP: ESSLI96 Workshop on LP systems, Aug 96, Prague
CFP: ECAI-96 Language + Vision Wkshp, Aug 96, Budapest
Position: 2 jobs for Comp. Linguists, Sussex
Announcement: Books: 4 volumes: language + vision
Query: Seeking non-English search engines
Announcement: NLP Demo software
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To: acclaim@sics.se, aiia@di.unito.it, all@ncc.up.pt,
Subject: CFP: ESSLI96 Workshop on LP systems, Aug 96, Prague
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 18:26:12 -0200
From: Vitor Santos Costa <vitor@rio.cos.ufrj.br>
Call for Papers
Workshop on High Performance
Logic Programming Systems
European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information
Prague, Czech Republic
August, 1996
The 1996 section on Computation of the European Summer School on Logic
Language and Information will include a workshop on the implementation
of Logic Programming Systems. ESSLI'96 main focus will be the
interface between logic, linguistics, and computation, particularly
where it concerns the modelling of human linguistic and cognitive
abilities. As such, the programme includes courses, workshops and
symposia covering a variety of topics within six areas of interest:
Logic, Language, Computation, Logic and Computation, Computation and
Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops will provide an
opportunity for PhD students and other young researchers to present
their work and gain informed feedback and useful contacts.
The ESSLI'96 workshop on High Performance Logic Programming Systems
will be a broad forum on the current research on the sequential and parallel
implementation of the languages based on the logic programming paradigm. In
more detail, the areas of interest to the workshop will be:
o techniques for the fast execution of logic programs, including
native code execution
o support for extensions to traditional logic programming, such as
constraints, or concurrency.
o compilation technology, including global analysis of logic programs,
for instance, based on abstract interpretation.
o implementation of parallelism in logic programming, both implicit
and explicit.
o performance evaluation of logic programs, not only based on toy
applications, but also based on actual applications.
The workshop will particularly welcome practical evaluation of the new
advances in logic programming implementation, and especially applications
to the area of Computational Linguistics.
The workshop is part of the section on Computation that also includes
an introductory course by P. Cousot on Abstract Interpretation,
advanced courses by P. Van Roy on the "High Performance Implementation
of Logic Programming Systems", by Alan Mycroft on "Static Analysis and
Functional Languages", by Manuel Hermenegildo on "Static Analysis of
Constraint Systems", by Faron Moller on "Algorithms for Equivalence
and Model Checking", and a Symposium on "Concurrent Systems" organised
by Seif Haridi. ESSLI'96 will take place in Prague, Czech Republic,
from August 12 until August 23.
Authors willing to present their work are invited to submit an
extended abstract, or preferably a full paper, to the workshop
organizers by May 1, 1996. Authors will be notified of the acceptance
or rejection of their papers by June 1, 1996. Final versions of
accepted papers are due on July 1, 1995.
Electronic submission of the LaTeX document and related postscript
figures is strongly encouraged. The workshop organisation plans to make
the accepted papers and the workshop proceedings available on the
WWW. Authors using LaTeX are encouraged to use the llncs.sty style
file and any postscript figures that appear in the text should be
imported using the epsf.sty style file. Hopefully, this will enable
the organisation to produce a coherently formatted proceedings.
Relevant Info:
Submission deadline: 15th May.
Notification of authors: 15th June
Electronic submissions: vitor@cos.ufrj.br, vsc@ncc.up.pt
Address for mail submissions:
V\'{\i}tor Santos Costa
Visiting Researcher
COPPE/Sistemas
Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco H-319
Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro
Cidade Universit\'aria, Ilha do Fund\~ao
C.P.: 68511
Rio de Janeiro
Brasil
Tel. +55-21-5902552
Fax. +55-21-5902552
Web Page for the Workshop: http://www.cos.ufrj.br/vitor/
Web Page for ILSS: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
the Eighth European Summer School in
Logic, Language, and Information
ESSLLI'96
to be held in Prague, Czech Republic
from August 12 until August 23, 1996
Organized under auspices of FoLLI,
the European Association for Logic, Language and Information
URL: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
INTRODUCTION
After summerschools in Groningen (1989), Saarbruecken (1990), Leuven (1991),
Colchester (1992), Lisbon (1993), Copenhagen (1994), and Barcelona (1995),
the eighth European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information will be
held in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 12 until August 23, 1996.
Alike the other summerschools, the main focus will be the intersection of the
areas of between logic, linguistics, and computation, particularly where it
concerns the modelling of human linguistic and cognitive abilities. As such,
the programme includes courses, workshops and symposia covering a variety of
topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic &
Computation, Computation & Language, and Language & Logic.
Courses are cast at both introductory and advanced levels. Introductory
courses are designed to familiarize students with new fields and do not
presuppose any background knowledge, while advanced courses are designed to
allow participants to acquire more specialized expertise in areas they are
already familiar with. Workshops are chaired by an expert in the field and
will provide an opportunity for PhD students and other young researchers to
present their work and gain informed feedback and useful contacts. Symposia
will typically consist of a series of presentations on a timely topic by
people active in the relevant areas. Both workshops and symposia are intended
to encourage collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas by stimulating
in-depth discussion of issues which are in the forefront of current research
in the field.
Besides courses, workshops and symposia, there will also be evening
lecturers, in which highly actual topics in research in Logic, Language and
Information will be addressed.
A novelty at ESSLLI'96 is the student session. Students are encouraged to
submit short papers describing WORK IN PROGRESS on topics in the areas
covered by the summer school. See section 2 for more information on the
student session.
Below, more detailed information is given about:
1. The programme of ESSLLI'96, given for each of the six areas pointed out
above;
2. The ESSLLI'96 Student Session
3. Local information: ESSLLI'96 site, accommodation, social events;
4. "For More Information": The ESSLLI'96-WebSite, local organization
committee.
Also, more information can be found at the ESSLLI'96 Website,
http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
The Local Organization Committee hopes to welcome you at ESSLLI'96 in Prague,
in August this year!
1. The Programme of ESSLLI'96
The programme of ESSLLI'96 is presented here for each of the areas or
'sections', providing for each the courses, workshop(s) and symposium,
together with lecturers (courses) respectively organizers (workshops,
symposia).
Note that this information can also be obtained from the ESSLLI'96 Website
(http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz), together with more detailed information as
abstracts, a preliminary schedule, and addresses of teachers.
* SECTION LOGIC
- Introductory Course:
D. de Jongh (Amsterdam), A. Visser (Utrecht): Intuitionistic Logic
- Advanced Courses:
J. Krajicek (Prague): Classical Propositional Logic and Its Complexity
S. Gottwald (Leipzig): Many Valued and Fuzzy Logics
J. van den Does (Utrecht), D. Westerstahl (Stockholm): Quantification
Logic
V. de Paiva (Cambridge): Categorial Proof Theory and Linear Logic
- Workshop:
Philippe Smets (Bruxelles): Quantitative and Symbolic Approaches to
Uncertainty
- Symposium:
Matthias Baaz (Vienna): Proof Theory and Computational Aspects of
Many-Valued Logics
* SECTION Language
- Introductory Courses:
Eva HajicovA, Vladimor Petkevic, Petr Sgall (Prague):
Dependency Grammar: Linguistic Motivation and Formal Specification
- Advanced Courses:
Regine Eckhardt (Tuebingen):
What Do Events Look Like, and What Are They Good for?
Jean Lowenstamm (Paris): The Syntax of Phonological Expressions
Klaus Netter (Saarbruecken): Unification Grammars
Igor Mel'cuk (Montreal): Morphology and Meaning
- Workshop:
Anne Abeille (Paris) and Paola Monachesi (Tilburg):
Surface-Based Syntax and Romance Languages
- Symposium:
Ivan Sag (Stanford): Syntax and Semantics of Coordination
* SECTION Computation
- Introductory Courses:
Patrick Cousot (Paris): Abstract Interpretation
- Advanced Courses:
P. Van Roy (Saarbruecken):
High Performance Implementation of Logic Programming Systems
Alan Mycroft (Cambridge): Static Analysis and Functional Languages
Manuel Hermenegildo (Madrid): Static Analysis of Constraint Systems
Faron Moller (Sweden): Algorithms for Equivalence and Model Checking
- Workshop:
V. Santos Costa (Porto): High Performance Logic Programming Systems
- Symposium:
Seif Haridi (SICS Sweden): Concurrent Systems
* SECTION Logic & Computation
- Introductory Courses:
Antonia Huertas and Maria Manzano (Barcelona): Extensions of First
Order Logic
Rajeev GorO (Australian National University):
Tableau Methods for Modal and Temporal Logics
- Advanced Courses:
Thorsten Altenkirch (Edingburgh):Integrated Verification in Type Theory
Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam): Dynamic Logic and Information Flow
Wiebe van der Hoek and Cees Witteveen (Utrecht): Principles of
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
David Basin and Sean Matthews (Saarbruecken):
Logical Frameworks and Philosophical Logics
Peter Gardenfors (Lund): Conceptual Spaces and Cognitive Semantics
- Workshop:
Maarten de Rijke (Warwick): Observational Equivalence and Logical
Equivalence
- Symposium:
Hans van Ditmarsch (Groningen): Logic, Education and Computation
* SECTION Computation & Language
- Introductory Courses:
Gerald Gazdar (Sussex): Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Mats Rooth (Stuttgart): Statistical Techniques for NLP
- Advanced Courses:
Julie Carson-Berndsen and Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld): The Logic of
Speech Recognition
Ann Copestake (Stanford) and Alex Lascarides (Edinburgh):
Integrating the Lexicon and Pragmatics
Richard Crouch (Cambridge) and Massimo Poesio (Edinburgh):
Discourse Interpretation with Underspecified Representations
James Pustejovsky and Michael Johnston (Brandeis):
Generative Lexicon Theory and The Computational Lexicon
K. Vijay-Shanker (Delaware) and David Weir (Sussex):
Formal and Computational Aspects of Tree Adjoining Grammars and
Related Constrained Grammar Formalisms
- Workshops:
Walter Daelemans (with Ted Briscoe): Machine Learning of Natural
Language
John Carroll (with Ted Briscoe): Robust Parsing
- Symposium:
Antonion Sanfilippo (England): Current Issues in Lexicalist MT
* SECTION Language & Logic
- Introductory Courses:
Paul King (Tuebingen): From Unification to Constraint: An Evolving
Formalism for Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
Werner Saurer (Saarbruecken): Representation and Inference in DRT
- Advanced Courses:
Steven Abney and Fritz Hamm (Tuebingen):
Syntax and Semantics of Nominalization
Jaap van der Does and Michiel van Lambalgen (Amsterdam):
Substructural Quantification
Pavel Materna (Prague): Transparent Intensional Logic -- a Fine
Grained Analysis of Natural Language
Jerry Seligman (Bloomington): Information Systems
James Rogers (Pennsylvania): Topics in Model-Theoretic Syntax
- Workshops:
Uwe Moennich and Hans Peter Kolb (Tuebingen): The Mathematics of
Syntactic Structure
Barbara Partee (UMass) and Jaroslav Peregrin (Prague):
Discourse Kinematics, Topic-Focus Structure, and Logics
- Symposium:
Ruth Kempson (London) and Wilfried Meyer-Viol: Dependency in Logic
and Natural Language
2. A Novelty at ESSLLI'96: The Student Session
A novelty at ESSLLI'96 is the student session. The purpose of the student
session is to provide students with an opportunity to present their work in
progress and get valuable feedback by senior researchers and
"colleague-students".
To that end, students are encouraged to submit papers of 4-5 pages (including
references), describing work in progress (so as to benefit most from
feedback). The areas of interest are essentially the areas of the summer
school: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation,
and Language & Computation. Papers will be reviewed by a committee of
students with expertize in the respective areas.
The student session has been designated its own timeslot in the schedule of
ESSLLI'96. Such basically means that there will be a 90-minutes student
session EVERY DAY, in parallell with maximally five courses. Depending on the
number and quality of submitted papers, either only in the first week or in
both weeks. The session will not be a poster session! Students will be
presenting their work in a 20+10 minutes talk.
At the moment, we are in the process of putting together the Student Session
Program Committee. The deadline for submissions will be the end of April.
Electronic submissions are highly encouraged. Submission formats that will be
accepted are PostScript (A4-pages), standard Tex/Latex, RTF, and plain text,
or laser-quality hardcopies (3) sent to the secretariat. Please, inquire at
the ESSLLI'96 WebSite or at the ESSLLI'96 secretariat for more information.
Note that, in order to present a paper at the ESSLLI'96 Student Session,
you have to register as a participant to ESSLLI'96.
3. Local Information on ESSLLI'96:
ESSLLI'96 will be hosted by the Faculty of Electronical Engineering, Czech
Technical University, in Dejvice, Prague. The site is easily accessible by
all means of public transportation: Tram, metro, and bus are in 5-10 minutes
walking distance, and will take you to virtually any place in the city.
We arrange for accommodation in student dormitories conveniently located in
the faculty's surroundings. All the dormitories are located in side streets,
so the rooms are quiet. The neighbourhood is nice, without much local
traffic.
The dormitories provide double or single rooms and differ with respect to the
rooms having their own bathroom or there being shared showers and toilets on
each floor. More detailed descriptions can be found at the ESSLLI'96
WebSite.
Prague is a city of wonders, as you will -undoubtly- have heard of, and you
will have the possibility to explore our city during the summerschool. For
those who would appreciate some assistance on their voyage of discovery we
are organizing several guided tours in the evenings or during the weekend.
Furthermore, there will of course be the ESSLLI-party, as well as a
welcome-reception.
3. The ESSLLI'96 WebSite, Local organization
Detailed information about ESSLLI'96 is provided at the ESSLLI'96 Website.
The site contains information about the programme (courses, lecturers,
abstracts, schedule), registration, accommodation, the ESSLLI'96 site (local
maps, travel information, etc.), the social programme, and all further
information relevant to the summer school. Important information can be
downloaded in the form of postscript-files.
The Website allows for dynamically switching between the graphical and
text-version of a page, and is updated every week, week and a half so as to
provide always the most up-to-date information.
The ESSLLI'96 Local Organization Committee is composed from people from
- The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics,
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague.
- The Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics,
Department of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague.
- Department of Computers,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague;
- FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information.
The committee can be reached at the ESSLLI'96-secretariat:
- Normal Mail:
ESSLLI'96, UFAL MFF UK,
Malostranske nam. 25,
118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
- Telephone: ++42-2-245.10.286 (ask our operator for "linguistics")
- Fax: ++42-2-53.27.42
- EMail: esslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
- WWW: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/
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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 10:50:55 +0100 (MET)
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck@cpk.auc.dk>
To: list-nl-vision@aberystwyth.ac.uk, bulletin-PRC-IA@irisa.fr,
Subject: CFP: ECAI-96 Language + Vision Wkshp, Aug 96, Budapest
* ECAI-96 Workshop *
* on the *
* *
* REPRESENTATIONS AND PROCESSES BETWEEN *
* NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION *
* *
* ECAI-96 *
* Budapest, Hungary *
* *
* (August 12/13 1996) *
* *
* (http://zaphod.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass/ecai96-ws-v-nl.html) *
Workshop organisers:
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Wolfgang Maass Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
Universitaet des Saarlandes University of Sheffield, England
Germany and CPK, Aalborg University, Denmark
Workshop committee:
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Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England)
Prof. Paul Dalsgaard (CPK, Aalborg, Denmark)
Prof. Max Egenhofer (NCGIA, Maine, USA)
Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Christian Freksa (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Benjamin Kuipers (U T Austin, USA)
Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA)
Prof. Eoghan MacAogain (Irish Linguistics Institute, Ireland)
Prof. David Mark (NCGIA, Buffalo, USA)
Prof. Daniel Montello (UC Santa Barbara, NCGIA, USA)
Prof. Mike McTear (University of Ulster, n.Ireland)
Prof. Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany)
Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu, Japan)
Dr. Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin, Ireland and NRC, CANADA)
Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Ronan Reilly (University College, Dublin, Ireland)
Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Jeffrey Siskind (Toronto, Canada)
Prof. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy)
Prof. Jun-Ichi Tsujii (UMIST, England and Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a move towards considering how spatial information can
be obtained and used by Vision Processing (VP) and Natural Language
Processing systems (NLP) (generation and understanding). New research
directions, such as multimodal interfaces, Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), navigation tools, but also robotics, multi-agent models
and other 'core' AI areas depend much on the use of spatial knowledge.
Vision, spatial information processing, and natural language are used
in an integrated fashion by cognitive and computational systems in
many ways when interacting with environments. Environments pose
strong resource limitations on information-processing systems, both
human and artificial. How these systems locally and globally adapt to
resources does not only provide a direction for more efficient and
flexible models but also gives insights into the cognitive processes
and representations in general.
We can learn a lot about efficient and flexible processing of spatial
information by looking at the human being as a good example of an
adaptive system. Research efforts in different fields, such as
Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Neurobiology have
gained a lot of understanding in how humans adapt visual and natural
language capabilities to environments.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from various
disciplines who are interested in processes and representations
related to visual data, spatial knowledge and natural language
processing.
Some topics of this workshop will be:
- interdisciplinary dialogue to find a common ground and terminology
- discussion of current research initiatives into the use of
spatial knowledge from various perspectives
- acquisition and processing of spatial knowledge by VP and NLP
- verbalization of spatial knowledge
- conceptualization and representation of spatial knowledge
- grounding of representations
Contributions are encouraged which focus on areas such as: adaptive
acquisition, representation, and processing of spatial knowledge in
visual processing and natural language systems; integration of spatial
knowledge in language descriptions; imagery; cognitive mapping;
adaptive temporal reasoning; synthetic and physical navigation
systems; cognitive models of adaptive behavior in large and small
scale space.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
Our intention is to have panel sessions with presentations of survey
and technical contributions. Each session shall be introduced by a
survey contribution (20-30 min.) followed by several technical
presentations (15-20 min). After each presentation and each session
there will be time for discussions (10-15 min.) The speakers are
encouraged to present video or real demonstrations of their
computational models. On the second day we will have discussions in
smaller groups. Results will be discussed with all participants. There
may be a number of invited speakers.
Speakers are encouraged to make precise claims in their talks which
could be discussed in the general context. Accepted papers will be
made accessible via a WWW-page
(http://zaphod.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass/ecai96-ws-v-nl.html) or are send by
request to registered participants by snail mail.
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance of 20-30 people at the
workshop. Registered participants should drop us a short e-mail so
that we can inform them about accessibility of accepted papers, the
schedule, etc.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted in both Postscript
(larger papers should be compressed and uuencoded) and ASCII format by
electronic mail to maass@cs.uni-sb.de. Preferred format is two columns
with 3/4" margins all round. Postscript files must fit to 8 1/2" x
11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit
your paper by e-mail please submit by sending the Postscript and ASCII
file on a 3 1/2" floppy disk (PC or MAC) to Wolfgang MaaT.
Camera ready copies must be send by snail mail.
* ** Submission Deadline: February 19th 1996 * **
* ** Notification Date : April 1st 1996 * **
* ** Camera ready Copy : April 22nd 1996 * **
WORKSHOP CHAIRS CONTACT:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Wolfgang Maass
Department of Computer Science
FB 14 - Informatik
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Im Stadtwald 15
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Germany, EU.
E-mail: maass@cs.uni-sb.de
WWW: http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass
WWW: http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/ [Computer Science]
Ftp: ftp.cs.uni-sb.de [Computer Science]
Phone: +49-681-302-3393 (Office)
+49-681-302-2363 (Secretary)
Fax: +49-681-302-4421
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Paul Mc Kevitt
British EPSRC Advanced Fellow in Information Technology [1994-2000]
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England
and Visiting Professor
Center for PersonKommunikation,
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7A,
Institute of Electronic Systems
Aalborg University
DK- 9220 Aalborg
DENMARK.
E-mail: pmck@kom.auc.dk
WWW: http://www.kom.auc.dk/CPK/ [CPK]
WWW: http://www.kom.auc.dk/~pmck/ [PM]
WWW: http://www.-i8.auc.dk/ [Computer Science]
Phone:
(+45) 98 15 42 11 + tone + 4879 (Office)
(+45) 98 15 42 11 + tone + 4809 (Lab.)
(+45) 98 15 42 11 + tone + 4859 (CPK Secretary)
FaX: (+45) 98 15 15 83
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * **
*LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VI*
*LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VI*
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
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Subject: Position: 2 jobs for Comp. Linguists, Sussex
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, sigparse@cs.cmu.edu, empiricists@csli.stanford.edu,
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:32:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "David Weir" <davidw@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
SCHOOL OF COGNITIVE AND COMPUTING SCIENCES
Two Research Posts Available
We are looking for two full-time postdoctoral research assistants to
work on an EPSRC-funded 3-year project entitled `Analysis of
Naturally-occurring English Text with Stochastic Lexicalized Grammars'.
Our goal is to develop a robust wide-coverage parsing system capable of
accurate analysis of naturally-occurring English text to the
logical-form level. This work will exploit a combination of statistical
techniques involving online corpora, inheritance hierarchies for
imposing structure on NLP data, and lexicalised grammars.
Preference will be given to applicants with a PhD in Computational
Linguistics and good programming skills (preferably including
LISP or C). Experience of developing tools for language engineering
would also be an advantage.
Both appointments will be made on the RA 1A scale (#14317 - #21519)
with USS superannuation.
Further details about the project can be found at
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/dtg/details.html. Information about
the NLP group at the University of Sussex can be found at
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/index.html. Contact the grant-holders
(see below) for specific queries. Applications should be submitted via
email and should include a latex source/postscript CV and the names and
email addresses of three referees.
David Weir
david.weir@cogs.susx.ac.uk
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/weir/weir.html
John Carroll
john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/carroll.html
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QH
UK
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:11:33 +0100 (MET)
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck@cpk.auc.dk>
To: info@aaai.org, nick@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu, epsynet@uhupvm1.BITNET,
Subject: Announcement: Books: 4 volumes: language + vision
Language and Vision Integration (4 Volumes)
Edited by
Paul Mc Kevitt
(The BLUE book)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume I):
Computational Models and Systems
(The BLACK book)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume II):
Intelligent Multimedia
(The GREEN book)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume III):
Theory and Grounding Representations
(The RED book)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume IV):
Recent Advances
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 16:38:40 -0600
From: Lee Jackson <ljackson@mtn.org>
To: BILDIL@VM.CC.METU.EDU.TR, BosNet@math.lsa.umich.edu, brasil@cs.ucla.edu,
Subject: Query: Seeking non-English search engines
Hello:
I'm doing a project on document indexing, and I'm interested in
locating information on natural language indexing systems(i.e.,
similar to Lycos, Yahoo, etc.) in as many languages as possible.
I am particularly interested in non-English-specific search
directories.
I do not subscribe to this mailing list, and would greatly
appreciate any responses directly to my email address (and
to the list, if you feel it's a worthy topic of discussion).
Thank you very much.
Lee Jackson
ljackson@mtn.org
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From: Good Language Software <languagesoftware@access.ch>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 96 22:07:35 -800
To: NL-KR@cpsr.org
Subject: Announcement: NLP Demo software
To all those who might be interested,
You may copy the NLP DEMO software (parsing, grammar
spellchecking) for IBM/DOS or WINDOWS, from my homepage
http://www.access.ch/languagesoftware/welcome.html
for assessment. Criticism and suggestions are welcomed, if
addressed to me, personally.
Thanks,
Hristo Georgiev-Good
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