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.]