LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA (04/23/85)
From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws <AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI>
AIList Digest Tuesday, 23 Apr 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 51
Today's Topics:
Conferences - Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding &
Expert Systems In Engineering Applications &
Toronto Day at Wesleyan & SCCGL Linguistics &
Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge &
Animal Cognition & Approximate Reasoning & Joint AI Conference at GWU
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Date: 9 Apr 85 15:30 EST
From: Dave.Touretzky@CMU-CS-A.ARPA
Subject: Workshop - Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding
Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding
A workshop sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of
Intelligence (CSCSI) / Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'intelligence par
ordinateur (SCEIO), in conjunction with Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
To be held: 28-30 May, 1985, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Abstract: Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding is
intended to bring together active researchers in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science to
dsicuss/hear invited talks, papers, and positions relating to some of the
``hot'' issues regarding the current state of natural language
understanding. Three topics will form the focus for discussion; the topics
include aspects of GRAMMARS, aspects of SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS, and KNOWLEDGE
REPRESENTATION. Each of these topics will consider current methodologies:
for grammars - theoretical devlopments, especially generalized phrase
structure grammars and logic-based meta-grammars; for semantics - situation
semantics and Montague semantics; for knowledge representation - logical
systems (temporal logics, etc.) and special purpose inference systems.
Invited speakers: Harvey Abrahamson (UBC), Robin Cooper (U.Wisc), Dan
Flickinger (HP), Pat Hayes (U.Rochester), Don Hindle (Bell Labs), Lynette
Hirshman (SDC), Ron Kaplan (Xerox PARC), Mitch Marcus (Bell Labs), Bill
Mark (Savoir), Eric Mays (IBM), Fernando Pereira (SRI), Stan Peters (CSLI),
Stan Rosenschein (SRI), Paul Sabatier (Rue des Mariniers, Paris), Patrick
Saint Dizier (IRISA), Candy Sidner (BBN), Norm Sondheimer (UCS-ISI), David
Scott Warren (SUNY Stony Brook), Dave Touretzky (CMU), and William Woods
(Applied Expert Systems).
General Chairperson: Richard Rosenberg, Dalhousie University
Program Chairperson: Nick Cercone, Simon Fraser University
Local Arrangements: Jan Mulder, Dalhousie University
Schedule:
Grammar Day: Tuesday, 28 May; organized by Len Schubert and Veronica Dahl
Semantics Day: Wednesday, 29 May; organized by Graeme Hirst and David Israel
Knowledge Representation Day: Thursday, 30 May; organized by Ralph
Weischedel and James Allen
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Date: 10 Apr 85 15:30:09 EST
From: Mary.Lou.Maher@CMU-RI-CIVE
Subject: Conference - Expert Systems In Engineering Applications
We are actively seeking quality papers for the Expert Systems in
Government Conference in Washington DC this fall. I am head
of the session on engineering applications and having a difficult time
finding many applications. If you are doing work in this area and would
like to meet others doing similar work, submit a paper to:
Dr. Kamal Karna, Mitre Corporation
1820 Dolley Madison Boulevard
McLean VA 22102
The deadline is May 1 - if you need any further information you can
contact me at maher@cmu-ri-cive
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 85 16:38:23 EST
From: Neil Immerman <Immerman@YALE.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - Toronto Day at Wesleyan
announcing . . . . . TORONTO DAY AT WESLEYAN
Saturday May 4
Talks and discussions led by a contingent of computer scientists
from the University of Toronto.
9:30 am Steve Cook
A Taxonomy of Problems with Fast Parallel Algorihms
11:00am Mike Luby
A Simple Parallel Algorithm for the Maximal Independent Set Problem
2:00 pm Allan Borodin
Parallel Algebraic Complexity
3:30 pm Charles Rackoff
Some Definitions and Issues in the Theory of Cryptography
On Friday, May 3, Steve Cook will give a talk at 4 P.M. in
150 Science Center intended for a general audience: Can Computers
Routinely Discover Mathematical Proofs? [...]
Toronto Day is hosted by Alan Cobham, Dan Dougherty, Sorin Istrail,
Susan Landau, and Carol Wood, and is funded in part by The Sloan
Foundation, Proctor and Gamble Co., and the Wesleyan University Department
of Mathematics.
For further information contact the Wesleyan Mathematics
Department at (203)347-9411 Ext.2398 or Carol Wood at Ext.2648
(Bitnet address WOODatWESLYN).
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Date: 13 April 1985 1527-PST (Saturday)
From: li51x%sdcc3@SDCSVAX.ARPA
Subject: Conference - SCCGL Linguistics
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE ON GENERAL LINGUISTICS (SCCGL)
University of California, San Diego
SCHEDULE
We have scheduled all papers to be presented in
the Third College Lecture Halls, Room 104 (TLH 104).
Saturday, 20 April, morning:
9:30 Nora Gonzalez, UCSD, "Starter 2s and Object to Subject Raising in
Spanish"
10:00 Ik-Hwan Lee, Yonsei U/Harvard U, "Multiple WH questions in GPSG"
10:30 Geraldine Legendre, UCSD, "Multiattachment Constraints on OSR in French"
11:00 Robert Chametzky and John Richardson, UChicago, "Taking Strings
Seriously: Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Lasnik &
Kupin (1977)"
11:30 Yoshihisa Kitagawa, UMass, "Small But Clausal"
Saturday, 20 April, afternoon:
1:30 J. Albert Bickford, UCSD and SIL, "Another Look at Tone in Pen~oles
Mixtec"
2:00 Monica Macaulay, UCBerkeley, "Cliticization and the Morphosyntax of
Mixtec"
2:30 Robert Vago, Queens College & the Graduate Center, CUNY, "Finnish Word
Games: Implications for the Autosegmental Treatment of Vowel Harmony."
3:00 William Davies, Cornell, "Nominative Nonsubjects in Choctaw"
4:00 Gerald P. Delahunty, SDSU, "On an Apparent Violation of the Discourse
Conditions for Using English It-Clefts"
4:30 Gary Gilligan and Chris Hall, USC, "Processing Constraints on
Morphological Structure"
5:00 David Corina, Salk Institute, "Linguistic Mapping Strategies of Deaf
Signers"
5:30 German Westphal, UMaryland, Baltimore County, "On Some Consequences
of the Verb-Initial Hypothesis in Spanish"
Saturday evening-BUFFET SUPPER AND PARTY!
Fifth floor patio in the Psychology and Linguistics Building (P&L).
Sunday, 21 April, morning:
9:30 Robert Chametzky, UChicago, "Anaphoric Dependencies and Coordinate
Structures"
10:00 Sungshim Hong, UConn, "A Constraint on Pronominal Binding in
Null-Subject Languages"
10:30 Donna Gerdts, SUNY-Buffalo, "Korean Passive Causatives and Their
Implications"
11:00 Peter Sells, CSLI, Stanford, "The Interpretation of Non Restrictive
Relative Clauses"
11:30 David Dowty, CASBS, Stanford, and William Ladusaw, UCSC, "Toward a
Formal Semantic Account of Thematic Roles"
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Further information: (619) 452-2523 or SCCGL UCSD Linguistics
or sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix212 C-008
La Jolla, CA 92093
Registration is $5 for students and $7 for non-students.
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 85 19:24:07 PST
From: Joe Halpern <halpern%ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Conference - Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge
CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE:
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
A conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge
will be held Mar. 19-22, 1986, at the Asilomar Conference Center in
Monterey. While traditionally research in this area was mainly done by
philosophers, recently it has been shown to be of great
relevance to computer science, especially in such areas as artificial
intelligence, distributed systems, database systems,
and cryptography. There has also been interest in the area among
linguists and economists. The aim
of this conference is to bring together
researchers from these various disciplines
with the intent of furthering our theoretical understanding of
reasoning about knowledge.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Semantic models for knowledge and belief
* Resource-bounded knowledge (appropriate for modelling reasoners with
limited reasoning power and reasoning about cryptographic protocols)
* Using knowledge to specify and reason about distributed systems
* Semantic models of knowledge acquisition and learning
* Nonmonotonic reasoning
Please send 8 copies of a detailed abstract
not exceeding 10 double-spaced typewritten pages in length
(not a full paper),
by September 15, 1985, to the program chair:
Dr. J. Halpern
IBM Research, K51/281
5600 Cottle Rd.
San Jose, CA 95193
The abstract should include a clear description of the problem being
addressed, comparisons with extant work, and a section on major
original contributions of this work. The abstract must provide
sufficient detail for the program committee to make a decision.
Papers will be chosen on the basis of scientific merit, originality,
and appropriateness for this conference.
Authors will be notified of acceptance by Nov. 1, 1985. Accepted
papers typed on special pages will be due at the above address
by Dec. 15, 1985.
The program committee members are:
M. Fischer, Yale
J. Halpern, IBM San Jose
H. Levesque, University of Toronto
R. Moore, SRI
R. Parikh, CUNY/Brooklyn College
R. Stalnaker, Cornell
R. Thomason, Pittsburg
M. Vardi, Stanford/CSLI
We hope to allow enough time between the talks during the conference
for private discussions and small group meetings. In order to
ensure that the conference remains relatively small, attendance will
be limited to invited participants and
authors of accepted papers.
Support for the conference has been received from IBM and AAAI;
an application for further support is pending at ONR.
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Date: 11 Apr 85 07:32:48 EST
From: Michael Sims <MSIMS@RUTGERS.ARPA>
Subject: Symposium - Animal Cognition [and AI?]
Symposium
The Question of Animal Cognition
May 1-2, 1985
Wednesday, May 1:
9:00 am Dr. Donald Griffin "Animal Consciousness"
Rochefeller University
10:30 am Dr. Robert Epstein "Animal Cognition as the
Harvard University Praxis Views it"
1:30 pm Dr. E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh "Language Acquisition and
Emory University Cognition in the Chimpanzee"
3:30 pm Dr. Louis Herman "Episodic Memory for Semantic
University of Hawaii Information by Dolphins"
Thursday, May 2:
9:00 am Dr. Gordon Gallup "Do Minds Exists in Species
SUNY at Albany Other Than our Own?"
10:30 am Dr. Herbert Terrace "Towards an Evolutionary
Columbia University Perspective on Thinking"
1:30 pm Round Table Discussion Chaired
by Dr. Michael D'Amato
For further information and registration contact Ms. Mary Wilk,
Dept. of Psychology, Psychology Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers Univ.
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 (201) 932-2553.
[The three speakers that I'm familiar with, Griffin, Savage-Rumbaugh,
and Terrace, are outstanding researchers in their field and represent
a diversity of opinions on animal cognition. Let me briefly say why I
think this work is important for AI. In AI we are trying to model the
processes of 'thinking', and it seems foolish to ignore the examples
of thinking which are available to us. Although AI has gotten a good
bit of feedback from investigations into human cognition (Cognitive
Science), we have been little influenced by the animal cognition
research of ethologists or animal behaviorist. Our Species-ism would
tell us that human cognition is too complicated or mystical to be
useful to AI (Dreyfus et al), and that animal cognition is too
primitive to be useful. But is that true? -MHS]
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Date: 12 Apr 85 14:39:05 EST
From: Ruth.Davis@CMU-RI-ISL1
Subject: Conference - Approximate Reasoning
1985 North American Fuzzy Information processing Society
WORKSHOP ON APPROXIMATE REASONING THEORY & APPLICATIONS
Atlanta, Georgia
October 24 - 25
Workshop Coordinators: THOMAS WHALEN & BRIAN SCHOTT
Papers are invited in all areas of fuzzy expert systems & decision support
including but not limited to:
- Fuzzy knowledge acquisition, representation & refining
- Applied fuzzy logic & Fuzzy inference processes
- Approximate & common sense reasoning
- Linguistic processing & the human-system interface
- Management of imprecision & uncertainty
- Implementation issues & case studies
Send abstract or session proposal by AUGUST 1 '85 to:
Thomas Whalen/Brian Schott, NAFIPS '85
Decision Sciences Department
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia 30303 - 3083
(404) 658-4000
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 85 15:37:44 EST
From: Bill Dean <dean@seismo.ARPA>
Subject: Conference - Joint AI Conference at GWU
Call for Papers
MAJOR CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
An INTERSOCIETY CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
APPLICATIONS will be held at the George Washington
University on October 21-23, 1985. The conference is
jointly sponsored by:
* IEEE's Engineering Management Society (EMS)
* IEEE's Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC)
* GWU's Institute for Artificial Intelligence
* TIMS' College on Artificial Intelligence
* ORSA's Military Applications Section (MAS)
* The Washington Area Working Group on Artificial
Intelligence.
Sessions at the symposium will cover: AI in research and
development; AI in design and development; AI in test and
evaluation; AI in project management; AI in production
management; AI in military systems; and AI in technology
insertion. Plenary addresses will present views of the
status and significance of AI research from industrial and
government perspectives.
Special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering
Management and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics are planned as products of the symposium.
To submit a paper for presentation at the symposium, send a
500 word abstract, by June 30, 1985 to:
Dr. Barry G. Silverman
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Gelman Library - Room 636A
George Washington University
Washington, D. C. 20052
phone: 202-676-6443
Complete papers will be due by September 15, 1985.
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