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NL-KR Digest Volume 15 No. 09
NL-KR Digest Sat Mar 2 13:36:30 PST 1996 Volume 15 No. 9
Today's Topics:
Announcement: Rule Based Web/News Filter
CFP: UAI 96: Uncertainty in AI, Aug 96, Portland
CFP: LOPSTR'96 - Logic Program Synthesis, Aug 96, Stockholm
Query: Seeking Italian to English Translation freeware/shareware
Announcement: AMTA-96 Machine Translation, Oct 96, Montreal
Announcement: NL Eng. Assistantship, MABLe, U. of Sunderland
Position: Language/Knowledge/Software Eng., MARI
Query: Component Rules for English Grammar
Query: Seeking Grammar Checkers' Origins
Announcement: ROL Deductive OO database System, U. Regina
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: yilsoft@aimnet.aimnet.com (YilSoft)
Subject: Announcement: Rule Based Web/News Filter
Date: 30 Jan 1996 05:15:29 GMT
Rule Based Web/News filter agent tool for Mac and Unix
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AGENT_CLIPS 2.0 (beta) test version is released.
If you already have rule based NL system in CLIPS,
you might find this tool very useful.
Following is quick description. Check following site, for
more information and to download it ,
http://users.aimnet.com/~yilsoft/yilsoft.html
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New functions have been added to CLIPS to connect NNTP
newsgroup servers and HTTP Web servers. As a result, you can
write rule based agents in CLIPS that can scan Newsgroups and
Web pages.
In Macintosh version, each agent can also exchange rules,
facts, command among them at run time.
Unix version does NOT have multi-agent capability.
AGENT_CLIPS Architecture on Macintosh
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| |
| | ........> CLIPS commands (rules, facts, etc)
\ /
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| Agent | | Agent |
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^ ^
| |
| | ........> HTTP, NNTP
| |
---------- ----------
| Internet | | Internet |
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AGENT_CLIPS Architecture on Unix
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| Agent |
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^
| .............> HTTP, NNTP
|
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| Internet |
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Yilmaz Cengeloglu
73313.775@compuserve.com
yilsoft@aimnet.com
http://users.aimnet.com/~yilsoft/yilsoft.html
PO Box 381
Mountain View, CA 94042-0381, USA
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From: Eric Horvitz <horvitz@microsoft.com>
To: NL-KR <nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu>
Subject: CFP: UAI 96: Uncertainty in AI, Aug 96, Portland
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:18:03 -0800
S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S
** U A I 96 **
THE TWELFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON
UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
August 1-3, 1996
Reed College
Portland, Oregon, USA
See the UAI-96 WWW page at http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/
CALL FOR PAPERS
The effective handling of uncertainty is critical in designing,
understanding, and evaluating computational systems tasked with making
intelligent decisions. For over a decade, the Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) has served as the central
meeting on advances in methods for reasoning under uncertainty in
computer-based systems. The conference is the annual international
forum for exchanging results on the use of principled
uncertain-reasoning methods to solve difficult challenges in
AI. Theoretical and empirical contributions first presented at UAI
have continued to have significant influence on the direction and
focus of the larger community of AI researchers.
The scope of UAI covers a broad spectrum of approaches to automated
reasoning and decision making under uncertainty. Contributions to the
proceedings address topics that advance theoretical principles or
provide insights through empirical study of applications. Interests
include quantitative and qualitative approaches, and traditional as
well as alternative paradigms of uncertain reasoning. Innovative
applications of automated uncertain reasoning have spanned a broad
spectrum of tasks and domains, including systems that make autonomous
decisions and those designed to support human decision making through
interactive use.
We encourage submissions of papers for UAI-96 that report on advances
in the core areas of representation, inference, learning, and
knowledge acquisition, as well as on insights derived from building or
using applications of uncertain reasoning.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
>> Foundations
* Theoretical foundations of uncertain belief and decision
* Uncertainty and models of causality
* Representation of uncertainty and preference
* Generalization of semantics of belief
* Conceptual relationships among alternative calculi
* Models of confidence in model structure and belief
>> Principles and Methods
* Planning under uncertainty
* Temporal reasoning
* Markov processes and decisions under uncertainty
* Qualitative methods and models
* Automated construction of decision models
* Abstraction in representation and inference
* Representing intervention and persistence
* Uncertainty and methods for learning and datamining
* Computation and action under limited resources
* Control of computational processes under uncertainty
* Time-dependent utility and time-critical decisions
* Uncertainty and economic models of problem solving
* Integration of logical and probabilistic inference
* Statistical methods for automated uncertain reasoning
* Synthesis of Bayesian and neural net techniques
* Algorithms for uncertain reasoning
* Advances in diagnosis, troubleshooting, and test selection
>> Empirical Study and Applications
* Empirical validation of methods for planning, learning, and diagnosis
* Enhancing the human--computer interface with uncertain reasoning
* Uncertain reasoning in embedded, situated systems (e.g., softbots)
* Automated explanation of results of uncertain reasoning
* Nature and performance of architectures for real-time reasoning
* Experimental studies of inference strategies
* Experience with knowledge-acquisition methods
* Comparison of repres. and inferential adequacy of different calculi
* Uncertain reasoning and information retrieval
For papers focused on applications in specific domains, we suggest
that the following issues be addressed in the submission:
- Why was it necessary to represent uncertainty in your domain?
- What are the distinguishing properties of the domain and problem?
- What kind of uncertainties does your application address?
- Why did you decide to use your particular uncertainty formalism?
- What theoretical problems, if any, did you encounter?
- What practical problems did you encounter?
- Did users/clients of your system find the results useful?
- Did your system lead to improvements in decision making?
- What approaches were effective (ineffective) in your domain?
- What methods were used to validate the effectiveness of the systems?
================================
SUBMISSION AND REVIEW OF PAPERS
================================
Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously
unpublished work (details on policy on submission uniqueness are
available at the UAI 96 www homepage). Submitted papers will be
evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical
soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers may be accepted for
presentation in plenary or poster sessions. All accepted papers will
be included in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, published by Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers. Outstanding student papers will be selected for special
distinction.
Submitted papers must be at most 20 pages of 12pt Latex article style
or equivalent (about 4500 words). See the UAI-96 homepage for
additional details about UAI submission policies.
We strongly encourage the electronic submission of papers. To submit
a paper electronically, send an email message to
uai@microsoft.com
that includes the following information (in this order):
* Paper title (plain text)
* Author names, including student status (plain text)
* Surface mail and email address for a contact author (plain text)
* A short abstract including keywords or topic indicators (plain text)
An electronic version of the paper (Postscript format) should be
submitted simultaneously via ftp to: cuai-96.microsoft.com/incoming.
Files should be named $.ps, where $ is an identifier created from the
first five letters of the last name of the first author, followed by
the first initial of the author's first name. Multiple submissions by
the same first author should be indicated by adding a number (e.g.,
pearlj2.ps) to the end of the identifier. Authors will receive
electronic confirmation of the successful receipt of their articles.
Authors unable to access ftp should electronically mail the first four items
and the Postscript file of their paper to uai@microsoft.com. Authors
unable to submit Postscript versions of their paper should send the
first four items in email and 5 copies of the complete paper to one of
the Program Chairs at the addresses listed below.
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Important Dates (Note revisions)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Submissions must be received by 5PM local time: March 1, 1996
>> Notification of acceptance on or before: April 19, 1996
>> Camera-ready copy due: May 15, 1996
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Program Cochairs:
================
Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research, 9S
Redmond, WA 98052
Phone: (206) 936 2127
Fax: (206) 936 0502
Email: horvitz@microsoft.com
WWW: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/dtg/horvitz/
Finn Jensen
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Aalborg University
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7,E
DK-9220 Aalborg OE
Denmark
Phone: +45 98 15 85 22 (ext. 5024)
Fax: +45 98 15 81 29
Email: fvj@iesd.auc.dk
WWW: http://www.iesd.auc.dk/cgi-bin/photofinger?fvj
General Conference Chair (General conference inquiries):
=======================
Steve Hanks
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, FR-35
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: (206) 543 4784
Fax: (206) 543 2969
Email: hanks@cs.washington.edu
Program Committee
==================
Fahiem Bacchus (U Waterloo) * Salem Benferhat (U Paul Sabatier) * Mark
Boddy (Honeywell) * Piero Bonissone (GE) * Craig Boutilier (U Brit
Columbia) * Jack Breese (Microsoft) * Wray Buntine (Thinkbank) * Luis
M. de Campos * (U Granada) * Enrique Castillo (U Cantabria) * Eugene
Charniak (Brown) * Greg Cooper (U Pittsburgh) * Bruce D'Ambrosio
(Oregon State) * Paul Dagum (Stanford) * Adnan Darwiche (Rockwell) *
Tom Dean (Brown) * Denise Draper (Rockwell) * Marek Druzdzel (U
Pittsburgh) * Didier Dubois (Paul Sabatier) * Ward Edwards (USC) *
Kazuo Ezawa (ATT Labs) * Robert Fung (Prevision) * Linda van der Gaag
(Utrecht U) * Hector Geffner (Simon Bolivar) * Dan Geiger (Technion) *
Lluis Godo (Barcelona) * Robert Goldman (Honeywell) * Moises
Goldszmidt (Rockwell) * Adam Grove (NEC) * Peter Haddawy
(U Wisc-Milwaukee) * Petr Hajek (Czech Acad Sci) * Joseph Halpern (IBM)
* Steve Hanks (U Wash) * Othar Hansson (Berkeley) * Peter Hart (Ricoh)
* David Heckerman (Microsoft) * Max Henrion (Lumina) * Frank Jensen
(Hugin) * Michael Jordan (MIT) * Leslie Pack Kaelbling (Brown) * Keiji
Kanazawa (Microsoft) * Uffe Kjaerulff (U Aalborg) * Daphne Koller
(Stanford) * Paul Krause (Imp. Cancer Rsch Fund) * Rudolf Kruse (U
Braunschweig) * Henry Kyburg (U Rochester) * Jerome Lang (U Paul
Sabatier) * Kathryn Laskey (George Mason) * Paul Lehner (George Mason)
* John Lemmer (Rome Lab) * Tod Levitt (IET) * Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
(Spanish Sci. Rsch Council) * David Madigan (U Wash) * Eric Neufeld (U
Saskatchewan) * Ann Nicholson (Monash U) * Nir Friedman (Stanford) *
Judea Pearl (UCLA) * Mark Peot (Stanford) * Kim Leng Poh, (Natl U
Singapore) * David Poole (U Brit Columbia) * Henri Prade (U Paul
Sabatier) * Greg Provan (Inst. Learning Sys) * Enrique Ruspini (SRI) *
Romano Scozzafava (Dip. Mo. Met., Rome) * Ross Shachter (Stanford) *
Prakash Shenoy (U Kansas) * Philippe Smets (U Bruxelles) * David
Spiegelhalter (Cambridge U) * Peter Spirtes (CMU) * Milan Studeny
(Czech Acad Sci) * Sampath Srinivas (Microsoft) * Jaap Suermondt (HP
Labs) * Marco Valtorta (U S.Carolina) * Michael Wellman (U Michigan) *
Nic Wilson (Oxford Brookes U) * Y. Xiang (U Regina) * Hong Xu (U
Bruxelles) * John Yen (Texas A&M) * Lian Wen Zhang, (Hong Kong U) *
---------------
UAI-96 will occur right before KDD-96, AAAI-96, and the AAAI workshops,
and will be in close proximity to these meetings.
* * *
UAI 96 will include a full-day tutorial program on uncertain reasoning
on the day before the main UAI 96 conference (Wednesday, July 31) at
Reed College. Details on the tutorials are available on the UAI 96
www homepage.
* * *
Refer to the UAI-96 WWW home page for late-breaking information:
http://cuai-96.microsoft.com/
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From: john@cs.bris.ac.uk
To: acclaim@sics.se, aiia@di.unito.it,
Subject: CFP: LOPSTR'96 - Logic Program Synthesis, Aug 96, Stockholm
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 96 17:54:26 +0000
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth International Workshop on
Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR'96)
Stockholm, Sweden, 28--30 August 1996
Sponsored by the Network in Computational Logic
(WWW Version of this call at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~john/lopstr96.html)
LOPSTR'96 is the sixth in a series of annual workshops. It will be run
in parallel with ILP'96, the Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming.
LOPSTR'96 and ILP'96 will share invited lectures and sessions of common
interest. The two meetings will be organized by the Computer Science
Department of Stockholm University and LOPSTR'96 is sponsored by the
Network in Computational Logic.
The aim of the workshop is to present recent work (including work in
progress) and discuss new ideas and trends in the following fields:
o program synthesis
o program transformation
o program specialization
o systematic program development
in the context of declarative programming, and logic programming in
particular. Papers developing the relationships of these topics with
other areas of automated program development, such as implementation
techniques, inductive logic programming, meta-languages, program
analysis, program specification, semantics, query optimization in
deductive databases, software engineering, synthesis and transformation
in the context of other programming languages, are welcomed. Papers
describing automated systems for program development and overviews of
recent work on the topics of interest are also solicited.
Extended abstracts (5--8 pages excluding references and appendices) are
invited (see deadlines below). Submissions should include a return
postal address and an e-mail address, if available. Submission of
abstracts by e-mail is also accepted (Postscript). The accepted
abstracts will be collected into preliminary proceedings which will be
available at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted
abstract is expected to attend the workshop.
Extended abstracts can be completed into full papers and submitted
after the workshop by invitation of the programme committee.
Submitted papers will be reviewed for publication in the final
proceedings which will be published.
The following aspects will be relevant for the evaluation of the
submission: originality, clarity, significance, and correctness. In
particular, the abstract should clearly point out the relationships
with published work or submissions by the same authors and it should be
understandable by a broad audience. Proofs may be added in appendix, if
needed.
The workshop will take place on board a ship which will sail
from Stockholm to Helsinki and back during the workshop.
The workshop is in the week immediately before
the Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming
(JICSLP'96) in Bonn, Germany.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
W. Bibel Germany
A. Bossi Italy
N. Fuchs Switzerland
J. Gallagher UK
T. Gegg-Harrison USA
A. Hamfelt Sweden
P. Hill UK
B. Martens Belgium
U. Nilsson Sweden
A. Pettorossi Italy
L. Sterling Australia
PROGRAMME CHAIR
John Gallagher
University of Bristol, UK
Phone: +44 (0)117 9287959
Fax: +44 (0)117 9288128
E-mail: john@cs.bris.ac.uk
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Carl Gustaf Jansson
University of Stockholm
E-mail: calle@dsv.su.se
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
May 17, 1996
ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
(5 copies)
John Gallagher
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
Queen's Building, University Walk
Bristol BS8 1TR
U.K.
SUBMISSION BY E-MAIL
(postscript files) john@cs.bris.ac.uk
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
June 28, 1996
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS
October 15, 1996
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF FULL PAPERS
November 15, 1996
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To: nl-kr@snyside.sunnyside.com
From: johnk@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (John A. Kaliski)
Subject: Query: Seeking Italian to English Translation freeware/shareware
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:05:55 GMT
Hello Everyone,
Can anyone suggest a freeware/shareware system which will do Italian
to English translations?
Thank you in advance.
John A. Kaliski
johnk@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:13:09 -0500
To: applied-l@cornell.edu, linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu, scholar@cunyvm.cuny.edu,
From: hovy@ISI.EDU (Eduard Hovy)
Subject: Announcement: AMTA-96 Machine Translation, Oct 96, Montreal
*** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ***
Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
AMTA-96 Conference, Montreal, October 2-5, 1996
Accelerating Machine Translation Development:
Research, Business, and Personal Use
Following the very successful AMTA conference near Washington, DC in
October 1994, the second conference of the Association for Machine
Translation in the Americas will be held in Montreal, Canada, at the
Radisson Hotel, on October 2-5, 1996.
Once again there will be something for everyone! Retaining the pattern
established by its predecessor, AMTA-96 will offer a blend of invited
talks, panel discussions, research papers, system demonstrations and
descriptions, tutorials, workshops, book exhibits, and social events.
The three days of the conference will also facilitate gatherings of
the Special Interest Groups on topics ranging from interlinguas and
ontologies, lexicons, standards and data exchange, MT on PCs, and MT
evaluation.
The overall intent of the conference is to bring together MT developers,
researchers, and users, to share the latest information on MT and to
forge partnerships for addressing the challenge of language barriers
that impede communication on the Information Highway. Participation
by members of AMTA's sister organizations in Europe and Asia is
strongly encouraged.
Invited talks and panel discussions will highlight topical and contro-
versial questions, encouraging lively interactions, as they did at
AMTA-94. In the theory sessions, technical papers will address a
wide range of topics, while in practical sessions, the problems of
developing and bringing MT systems to market will be discussed, with
online demonstrations. In addition, booths can be rented to display
systems and products.
AMTA will also hold its General Members' Meeting during the conference.
AMTA-96: PAPER AND SYSTEM DESCRIPTION/DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSIONS.
Authors/system developers are invited to submit two kinds of presentations:
1. Theoretical papers: Unpublished papers are requested about original
work on all aspects of Machine Translation. Papers should be in
English, not longer than 10 pages, with minimum character font size
of 11 pt.
2. System descriptions with optional system demonstrations: Approx. 30
minutes will be allocated per system description/demo. Submissions
should be in English, not longer than 4 pages. If a system demon-
stration is included, please provide the following information:
- hardware platform,
- operating system,
- name and contact information of system operations specialist.
First page: Both types of submission should include an additional first
page with the following information:
- paper title,
- author(s)' name(s), address(es), telephone and fax numbers, email
address(es),
- one-paragraph abstract,
- for theoretical papers: subject area keyword(s)
for system descriptions/demos: the words "System description/demo".
Submissions are due at either addresses below on April 15, 1996.
Softcopy submissions (papers that do not print will be returned to the
author):
email address: hovy@isi.edu
subject line: AMTA-96 submission
paper encoding:
- ASCII plain text
- Microsoft Word (RTF format)
- PostScript
Hardcopy submissions (please send four (4) copies):
AMTA-96: Eduard Hovy
USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
USA
Organization and further details.
Local arrangements chair:
Elliott Macklovitch, CITI, Montreal (email: macklovi@citi.doc.ca)
Program chair:
Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, Marina del Rey (email: hovy@isi.edu)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Eduard Hovy
email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute
tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way
fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html
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From: eric@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 09:55:24 GMT
To: aaai@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, acl@cs.columbia.edu, aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk,
Subject: Announcement: NL Eng. Assistantship, MABLe, U. of Sunderland
The University of Sunderland is appointing a Research
Assistant to work on the EU Framework IV Project MABLe for
approximately 2 years initially, with an expectation that
the project and hence the post will be extended for a
third year.
The research assistant will be expect to make a substantial
linguistic and technical contribution to the MABLe project, which is
providing a Computerised Assistant to help non-native speakers of
English produce good quality English Business Correspondence.
Information about Mable may be found on the World Wide Web via URL:
http://www.mari.co.uk/~mable/
The Natural Language Engineering Group at the University of Sunderland
has 5 active members at present. Bran Boguraev of Apple is a visiting
professor with the group, and Eric Atwell (currently of Leeds
University) will be joining the group as Reseach Professor
on 1 September 1996.
In particular the appointed person will be expected to:
develop a formal structural description of business letters and a
database of commercial English phrases;
develop Greek/English and Spanish/Greek transfer lexica in
collaboration with our Spanish and
Greek partners (from existing linguistic resources);
contribute to software development on the Heidelburg PLAIN parser/generator
(with the University of Heidelburg).
contribute to the development of a hyper-text or wizzard like user interface
for the MABLE system;
contribute to miscellaneous documentation, system testing and
reporting activities.
Applicants will be expected to have a degree in Computer Science or
Linguistics or related disciplines, and ideally a masters degree in
Computational Linguistics or a related area.
Suitably qualified applicants will be given the opportunity to
register for a Ph.D.
Salary: upto 13 100 U.K. pounds
depending on age, qulaifications and experience.
(There may be an opportunity to appoint on the post-doctoral scale at
a higher salary for candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent experience).
Clsoing date for applications 20 February 1996.
Further information from:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Dr. John I. Tait
University of Sunderland
School of Computing and Information Systems
Priestman Building
Green Terrace
Sunderland
SR1 3SD
U.K.
Tel: +44-191-515 2712 Fax: +44-191-515-2781
Email: john.tait@sunderland.ac.uk
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From: jeremy@mari.co.uk (Jeremy.Ellman)
Subject: Position: Language/Knowledge/Software Eng., MARI
To: Jeremy@mari.co.uk
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:31:58 +0000 (GMT)
JOB Opening for a Language/Knowledge/Software ENGINEER
MARI Computer Systems are currently recruiting a software engineer to
work on the work on the EU funded, Language Engineering, Project
TREE. This aims to develop a multi-lingual Internet based employment
advertising service. Information extraction techniques will be used to
transfer source adverts to a common template format. Multi-lingual
generation will then allow reading or browsing of the adverts in a
variety of languages.
Further information about Tree may be found on the World Wide Web via URL:
http://www.mari.co.uk/~tree/
In particular the appointed person will be expected to:
develop an extended template classification of employment adverts,
including personality and career descriptions of applicants, descriptions
of companies aspirations and locations etc.
Collaborate with consortium partners involved in Information
Extraction and Generation activities.
contribute to the web site user interface development.
contribute to miscellaneous documentation, system testing and
reporting activities.
Salary: Initially on the scale 14277-17000 U.K. pounds depending on
qualifications and experience.
The ideal candidate will have (or expect to have shortly) a higher
degree with a substantial Language Engineering content. He or she will
be capable of working in a team with different theoretical
orientations, as well as carrying out more traditional software
engineering tasks.
The position will be based at the new Wansbeck Business Centre at
Ashington in Northumberland and within easy commuting distance of
bustling city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Consortium partners include UMIST Computational Linguistics
Laboratory, Manpower, and the University of Gothenberg
For further information please contact Jeremy Ellman, preferably
before 20/2/96.
MARI Computer Systems
Wansbeck Business Park
Ashington
Northumberland NE63 8QZ
UK
Phone: 091 402 1265
Fax: 091 402 1112
E-mail: Jeremy.Ellman@mari.co.uk,
(Apologies to multiple recipients)
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: brasser@acsu.buffalo.edu (Radix)
Subject: Query: Component Rules for English Grammar
Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:18:04 GMT
Hi,
I'm working on a project dubbed C.L.A.I.R.E. <Computer Linguistic
Algorythm In Responce Emulation> and I need some input. What are the
smallest componant rules that could govern english word formation. i.e.
can a letter start a word, end a word, be a word alone, come before a,b,c,
... etc.
Any insight into these questions would be of great help. Thanx.
Russ
--
brasser@acsu.buffalo.edu "Nothing is Impossible!"
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From: S006BKS@desire.wright.edu
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 08:18:27 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Query: Seeking Grammar Checkers' Origins
To: nl-kr@snyside.sunnyside.com
I am currently writing a thesis on computer grammar checkers for word
processing, but I am having difficulty locating information on its
origin. If anyone has information of resources or leads on how I might
find grammar checker's origin, I would be grateful.
Brian Sanner
s006bks@desire.wright.edu
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Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:18:08 -0600
From: mliu@cs.uregina.ca (Mengchi Liu)
To: F.Giannotti@cnuce.cnr.it, alp-list@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de,
Subject: Announcement: ROL Deductive OO database System, U. Regina
Dear colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the first public release of the ROL system for
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.uregina.ca/pub/rol.
ROL (Rule-based Object Language) is a deductive object-oriented database
system developed at the University of Regina in Canada with support from
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
The ROL language effectively integrates important features in deductive
databases and object-oriented databases into a uniform framework.
It is an extension to Datalog and LDL (without grouping) and subsumes them
as special cases.
It naturally and directly supports object-oriented features such as object
identity, complex objects, classes, class hierarchy, multiple inheritance
with overriding, and schema.
It provides powerful mechanisms for representing both partial and
complete information on sets.
It is a pure declarative query language without any imperative parts.
Furthermore, it has a logical semantics that cleanly accounts for
all of its object-oriented features.
This version of ROL is our first implementation, which has the
following main features.
1. effectively combining the bottom-up with top-down evaluation strategies
together to answer user queries, and return all query results to
the user at reasonable speed;
2. supporting higher-order features so that the user can write
more general rules and issue more general queries;
3. providing basic update facilities so that the user can update facts
and rules at run-time.
Enjoy,
Mengchi Liu
Prof. Mengchi Liu, Ph.D Email: mliu@cs.uregina.ca
Dept of Computer Science Tel: (306) 585-4700 (O)
University of Regina (306) 789-9823 (H)
Regina, Saskatchewan Fax: (306) 585-4745
Canada S4S 0A2 web: http://cs.uregina.ca/~mliu
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