miller@UR-ACORN.ARPA.UUCP (07/28/86)
As most of you know, Ken Laws has been getting swamped with AIList duties, and has asked for help. In this vein, I am starting a separate list to deal exclusively with the Natural Language and Knowledge Representation subfields of AI. Since the scope of this list will be much narrower than the AIList, I welcome postings from disciplines throughout cognitive science that are related to these areas. I feel that AI is more of a conglomeration of several diverse fields than it is a field unto itself, so this sort of diversity is necessary. More specifically, here are some details: You may submit material for the digest to nl-kr@rochester.arpa . Digests are sent to Arpanet readers and USENET readers as appropriate. (There are no current plans for forwarding to the UUCP news system.) Administrative requests (including asking to be included on the list) should be sent to nl-kr-request@rochester.arpa . Archival copies of all digests will be kept; feel free to ask nl-kr-request for recent back issues. NL-KR is open to discussion of any topic related to the natural language (both understanding and generation) and knowledge representation, both as subfields of AI. My own related interests are primarily in Knowledge Representation Natural Language Understanding Discourse Understanding Philosophy of Language Plan Recognition Computational Linguistics Contributions are also welcome on topics such as Cognitive Psychology (as related to NL/KR) Human Perception (same) Linguistics Machine Translation Computer and Information Science (as may be used to implement various NL systems) Logic Programming (same) Contributions may be anything from tutorials to speculation. In particular, the following are sought: Abstracts Reviews Lab Descriptions Research Overviews Work Planned or in Progress Half-Baked Ideas Conference Announcements Conference Reports Bibliographies History of NL/KR Puzzles and Unsolved Problems Anecdotes, Jokes, and Poems Queries and Requests Address Changes (Bindings) This list is in some sense a spin-off of the AIList, and as such, a certain amount of overlap is expected. The primary concentration of this list should be NL and KR, that is, natural language (be it understanding, generation, recognition, parsing, semantics, pragmatics, etc.) and how we should represent knowledge (aquisition, access, completeness, etc. are all valid issues). Topics I deem to be outside the general scope of this list will be forwarded to AIList (or other more appropriate list) or rejected. Bradford Miller University of Rochester Computer Science Department miller@rochester.arpa [Note: Grateful acknowledgement is given to Dr. Kenneth Laws of SRI for permission to use an edited version of his AIList welcoming message.]