neal@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Jeannette Neal) (01/10/91)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems 18 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, CA There has been increased concern with the evaluation of natural language processing (NLP) systems over the past few years. The evaluation of NLP systems is essential in order to measure the capabilities of individual systems, to measure technical progress and growth in the field, and to provide a basis for selecting NLP systems to best fit the communication requirements of application domain systems. This 1991 Workshop is a follow on to the workshop on evaluation held in December of 1988 at the Wayne Hotel in Wayne, PA. Technical report RADC-TR-89-302 on the previous workshop is available from Rome Laboratory. Important issues for any evaluation effort and relevant to this workshop include identification of the items or capabilities to be evaluated, choosing between "black box" and "glass box" approaches, definition of evaluation criteria, development of methods or procedures for evaluation, determination of evaluation metrics, and determination of the type of output to be produced by the evaluation procedures. The areas of NLP relevant for this workshop include syntactic analysis, semantic analyisis, pragmatic analysis, lexical processing, morphology, sharable knowledge bases and ontologies, speech understanding, and trainable systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for computational linguists to report on and discuss current efforts and activities, research progress, new approaches, problems and issues; to promote scientific interchange on important evaluation issues; and to generate recommendations and directions for future investigations in the evaluation area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation, limited to 45 people. The workshop will be held June 18th at the University of California, Berkeley Campus, in association with the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SUBMISSIONS: Interested participants should submit a 3-5 page abstract of their presentation and a brief description of their research activities. Persons desiring to attend the workshop, but not make a presentation, should send only a brief description of their research activities. All persons should include name, mailing address, phone number, and electronic mail address. Submission may be transmitted via electronic mail, U.S. Postal Service, or FAX. If hardcopy is submitted, please include six copies (including the original). Send submissions to: Jeannette G. Neal, Ph.D. Calspan Corporation P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225 (716) 631-6844 FAX: (716) 631-6722 neal@cs.buffalo.edu SCHEDULE: March 1, 1991 Submissions due April 1, 1991 Notification of acceptance/invitation ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jeannette G. Neal, Calspan Corporation (Committee Chair) Tim Finin, Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology Ralph Grishman, New York University Christine Montgomery, Language Systems, Inc. Sharon Walter, Rome Laboratory SUPPORT for this workshop is provided by Rome Laboratory.
bacha@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Hamid Bacha) (02/13/91)
INVITATION TO ATTEND... ICON '91 The Annual Conference of the Association for Intelligent Systems Technology -------------- Welcome to ICON '91, the Annual Conference of the Association for Intelli- gent Systems Technology, Inc. (AIST). The Conference provides a unique forum for the exchange of information pertaining to Issues in Developing Knowledge Based Systems. We will share lessons learned, communicate bene- fits produced, and promote transferable technologies in the pursuit of economic and scientific advancement. The technical sessions include presenters with interests in energy, manufacturing, finance, large scale expert systems, government applica- tions, and novel concepts. We have added a special poster session on energy applications where close interaction with the presenters can facili- tate the exchange of information and better understanding. The program is highlighted by three prominent speakers: Dr. Karl Stahlkopf Dr. Larry Harris Dr. Robert Hoffman Electric Power Research Institute AICorp Adelphi University A number of leading companies and consultants will demonstrate some of the latest concepts with exhibits covering a range of AI applications. - Charles Saylor 1991 Conference Chair -------------------- SCHEDULE OF EVENTS... TUTORIALS I & II Monday, March 11, 8:30 - 11:30 Chair: Dr. Richard Fenzl Lunch - 11:30 Tutorial registrants will be provided with lunch immediately following the last session at 11:30 am. (cost of lunch included in the Tutorial fee). The Tutorials for ICON '91 address topics very relevant to current interest in the practical applications of AI. The targeted audience in both ses- sions includes managers and technical professionals with responsibilities for the evaluation or deployment of intelligent systems technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial I: "Neural Networks: An Introduction" Dr. Paul DuBose Vice President for Advanced Technology Neuralware, Inc. Neural networks are introduced, with consideration for conceptual basis as well as means of implementation. Comparisons are made with other technolo- gies such as expert systems and statistics. Emphasis is placed on identi- fying where neural networks can be successfully applied. Examples in technical and financial areas will be discussed. The tutorial will con- clude with an assessment of future directions for neural network technology and its applications. --------------------------------- Tutorial II: "The Management Process for Large Scale Intelligent System Development" Mr. Fred Miller Ms. Rose Paradis Mr. J. Kevin Whalen Advisory Programmer/Analyst Staff Programmer Knowledge Engineer Intelligent Systems Support Group Intelligent Systems Support Group IBM Information Systems IBM Corporation E. Fishkill, NY Endicott, NY Problems unique to the development of large expert systems can include one or more of the following: the involvement of more than one domain expert; requirements for integration with databases and other conventional systems; feasibility analysis involving a new technology, and the need to evaluate and organize an overwhelming quantity of information. This tutorial will outline a management process developed by the IBM Intel- ligent Systems Support Group that takes into account issues encountered in many large system undertakings plus those introduced by expert system technology. Key points associated with past successes and failures during project development will be identified. ----------------------------------- PLENARY SESSION MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1:15 - 4:30 Chair: Dr. Mohan Tanniru 12:30 REGISTRATION 1:15 - 2:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dr. Karl Stahlkopf Director of Safety & Reliability Electric Power Research Institute 2:00 - 4:30 PANEL DISCUSSION "Verification and Validation of Expert Systems" Chair: Mr. Mark Fausett PANELISTS Dr. Kirstie Bellman Aerospace Corporation Mr. Chris Culbert NASA, Johnson Space Center Dr. Lance Miller SAIC, McLean Virginia Dr. Ted Linden NASA, Johnson Space Center EXHIBITS The AIST exhibition will be held in conjunction with the AIST Conference. The exhibition provides a forum for the dissemination and exchange of technical information about AI technology and research. Conference atten- dees have the opportunity to observe the vendor's displays and demonstra- tions providing exposure to state-of-the-art technology. Exhibitors include AI software and hardware vendors, research educators, consultants, firms from the energy industry, and defense contractors. The exhibit area will be open to conference registrants, non-registrants, and guests. --------------------- POSTER SESSION MONDAY, MARCH 11, 4:30 - 6:30 Chair: Ray DeLuke In conjunction with the regular conference program, a special poster ses- sion will be held that focuses on energy industry applications. Selected participants will discuss and/or demonstrate systems employing expert sys- tems techniques applied to the energy domain. Interest by natural resource managers, utilities, and energy consumers in the use of Artificial Intelligence as a means to help solve problems has continued to increase in recent years. This interest has spurred further research and systems development in expert systems and AI. The intent of this program is to provide a forum to showcase a sample of these results. The Poster Session is designed to provide an informal yet structured presentation which can stimulate discussion and encourage prospective use of expert systems. Each participant will run through a use-scenario of his expert system using a computer or other audio-visual presentation aides so that the audience may understand how a working expert system operates. A one-page "poster" description of each product or application will be displayed in each participant's poster session area. Copies of these "posters" will be made available to conference attendees. This format allows the attendee to see, as well as hear, actual uses of the technology in the energy field. The poster session will not be chaperoned, allowing the audience to spend as much time as desired at the poster session exhibits of most interest to them. Outlines of the featured Poster Session presentations will also be made available to attendees. MONDAY EVENING DINNER ADDRESS March 11 Dr. Robert Hoffman, Adelphi University TUESDAY LUNCHEON ADDRESS March 12 Dr. Larry Harris, Founder, AICORP TUESDAY MORNING SESSIONS, March 12, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. SESSION #1 ENERGY APPLICATIONS Chair: Timothy Fink, Consolidated Edison INDUCTIVE INFERENCE FOR EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM HISTORIC DATABASES James Cook Roy Senn Larry Jones Sid Lipton DeWayne Dill IITRI Enerlog Systems Inc. Cornell U. Niagara Mohawk Univ. of Illinois NMFLEET - AN INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION DATABASE ASSISTANT Xiaolin Zhang & Dick Wood Jack Kaplan & Rich Viehdorfer Syracuse University Niagara Mohawk USE OF DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC SIMULATOR FOR ENERGY APPLICATIONS Chet Hosmer IITRI EMERGING AI APPLICATIONS FOR THE POWER UTILITY INDUSTRY Alvin Shoop Expert Systems Consulting Group ------------------ SESSION #2 GOVERNMENT APPLICATIONS Chair: Kerry Gates, PAR Government Systems Corporation A BLACKBOARD ARCHITECTURE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF COMMAND & CONTROL NODES Stephen Barth, Scott Barrett and Kerry Gates PAR Government Systems Corporation IMPLEMENTING AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE RADAR CONTROL Carol C. Shilepsky Vincent Vannicola Cornell University RADC CONTROLLING REQUIREMENTS CREEPIN A RAPID PROTOTYPING/EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITION ENVIRONMENT John Beyerle CTA Incorporated EXPERT SERVICES FOR MOBILE DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS Mike Baldwin GENISYS --------------- TUESDAY MORNING SESSIONS, March 12, 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (con't) SESSION #3 BANKING AND FINANCE SECTOR APPLICATIONS Chair: Christine Togni, Mutual of New York EXPERT SYSTEMS: MAXIMIZING THE CHANCE FOR SUCCESS Paul Howman Mutual of New York KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM APPLICATION INITIATIVE AT UNUM John Roberts UNUM A SURVEY OF EXPERT SYSTEMS IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY Joseph DeSalvo Coopers & Lybrand A PROTOTYPE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR LOAN EVALUATION Susan Brown & Kathy Murphy Syracuse University ------------------------- SESSION #4 MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS Chair: Charles Higgins, Carrier Corporation - UTC ISSUES IN EXPERT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN A MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION Scott Cameron Carrier Corporation - United Technologies NEURAL NETWORKS IN SALES FORECASTING & USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR READING HARDCOPY CHEMICAL STRUCTURES Hamid Bacha International Computer Services Mohan Tanniru Syracuse University KBS APPLICATIONS IN IBM POUGHKEEPSIE MANUFACTURING FACILITY David Starke IBM ---------------------- TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS, March 12, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. SESSION #5 ENERGY APPLICATIONS Chair: Dr. Walter Meyer, Energy Institute, Syracuse University SOCCS - A REAL TIME ALARM ANALYZER Steven Silverman Consolidated Edison EXTRACTING INTELLIGENCE FROM ENGINEERING DRAWINGS Mark Costello Kaman Sciences Corporation KBTAC - OUTREACH TO THE UTILITY INDUSTRY Dr. Walter Meyer Energy Institute, Syracuse University INTELLIGENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING IN EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES Dr. Paral Pangaro Pangaro Associates -------------------------- SESSION #6 NOVEL CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS Chair: Dr. John Lemmer, Knowledge Systems Concepts A MIXED MODEL APPROACH TO ROTATION IN VARIANT PATTERN CLASSIFICATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Hamid Bacha International Computer Services KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION FOR IS DESIGN - A COMPARISON OF THREE FRAME - BASED APPROACHES Mike Nilan Syracuse University A C++ BLACKBOARD SYSTEM BUILDING TOOL Scott Barrett & Stephen Barth PAR Government Systems Corporation CONNECTIONIST EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FAULT DETECTION Y.B. Reddy Grambling University Russel Deich General Dynamics ------------------ TUESDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS, March 12, 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (con't) SESSION #7 LARGE SCALE EXPERT SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT Chair: Mr. James Brule', Coherent Research A MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR LARGE SCALE INTELLIGENT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT Rose Paradis & Kevin Whalen IBM A MODULE-BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS Rajeev Kaula, Leslie Lander & Ojelanke Ngwenyama SUNY - Binghamton, NY A COMPARISON OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND TRADITIONAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT Wendy Faulkner & Mark Bailey Mutual of New York EFFICIENT REASONING IN IMPERATIVE LANGUAGES Leslie Lander & Kym Horsell SUNY - Binghamton, NY ---------------------- SESSION #8 EXPERT SYSTEM APPLICATIONS Chair: Philip Craul, SUNY - Environmental Science & Forestry (ESF) INTEGRATING AN EXPERT SYSTEM AND A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM Lee Herrington, Don Koten, Craig Davis & Robert Chambers SUNY - ESF FIRE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR FIELD ARTILLERY John Phillips Captain, US Army AVIATION RISK ASSESSMENT SURVEY Kenneth L. Quaglio Captain, US Army KB SUPPORT FOR DESIGNING CONTROLS IN A PURCHASING SYSTEM Ramu Kannan Syracuse University --------------------- Registration Information... Conference Site In keeping with its fine tradition of excellence & serviceability, the Syracuse/Carrier Circle Holiday Inn Atrium & Conference Center has taken a giant leap to ensure guest satisfaction, featuring over 200 tastefully decorated guest rooms, 90 seat lounge, 100 seat dining area, indoor pool, sauna & whirlpool, exercise room, excellent banquet/meeting facilities, a lounge for dancing or relaxing, and much more. Located at Exit 35 of the New York State Thruway (I- 90) across from Carrier Corporation, the facil- ity offers easy access to the City of Syracuse and Interstates I-690/I-81. The Syracuse Airport is 5 miles from the Hotel and the Carrier Dome is just 6 miles away. Hotel Accommodations AIST does not arrange hotel reservations. However, the Syracuse/Carrier Circle Holiday Inn will hold a limited number of rooms for registrants. To take advantage of this service, act promptly to be sure of accommoda- tions. Contact the hotel directly at (315) 437-2761 or 1-800-465-4329 for reservations, mentioning AIST to assure preferred treatment and special rates. Syracuse: The Heart of New York Syracuse and Central New York offer a wide variety of activities in a beau- tiful spring setting. It is a short drive to the scenic Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence River, the Adirondack Mountains, the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Finger Lakes Wine Country and Syracuse University, home of the Carrier Dome. Getting To Syracuse Located in the geographic center of New York State, Syracuse is readily accessible by road, air or rail. Two major interstate highways, the New York State Thruway (I-90) and I-81, cross at Syracuse. Eleven airlines offer more than 120 daily flights to and from Hancock International Air- port, located 5 miles from the Holiday Inn Conference Center. A hotel/airport shuttle service is available. Amtrak also offers convenient service to Syracuse. Travel Arrangements AIST has selected AAA Travel/Syracuse as the Official Conference Travel Agency. For special conference discount air fares from your city, contact Kim Fleming at 1-315-452-2666. ----------------------------------------------------------- Choose Your Areas of Interest & Register Now for ICON '91 Name:_________________________ Title/Dept:_____________________ Organization:___________________ Address:_______________________ City/State/Zip:_________________ Phone No.: (_____)______________ Registration Fees: Full Conference Tutorial Including Conference I or II Tutorial I or II Only Only AIST Member $345 $295 $75 Non-Member 395 345 75 F/T Student 75 25 25 -"Full Conference Including Tutorial" includes lunches Monday and Tuesday plus Monday dinner. -"Conference Only" includes Monday dinner and Tuesday lunch. -Student Registration includes Tuesday lunch only. Return this form & check payable to: AIST Conference & Exhibition 6310 Fly Road East Syracuse, NY 13057 Amount Enclosed $ Confirmation and other details sent upon receipt of registration fees. 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neal@CS.BUFFALO.EDU (Jeannette Neal) (02/19/91)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Evaluation of Natural Language Processing Systems 18 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, CA There has been increased concern with the evaluation of natural language processing (NLP) systems over the past few years. The evaluation of NLP systems is essential in order to measure the capabilities of individual systems, to measure technical progress and growth in the field, and to provide a basis for selecting NLP systems to best fit the communication requirements of application domain systems. This 1991 Workshop is a follow on to the workshop on evaluation held in December of 1988 at the Wayne Hotel in Wayne, PA. Technical report RADC-TR-89-302 on the previous workshop is available from Rome Laboratory. Important issues for any evaluation effort and relevant to this workshop include identification of the items or capabilities to be evaluated, choosing between "black box" and "glass box" approaches, definition of evaluation criteria, development of methods or procedures for evaluation, determination of evaluation metrics, and determination of the type of output to be produced by the evaluation procedures. The areas of NLP relevant for this workshop include syntactic analysis, semantic analyisis, pragmatic analysis, lexical processing, morphology, sharable knowledge bases and ontologies, speech understanding, and trainable systems. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for computational linguists to report on and discuss current efforts and activities, research progress, new approaches, problems and issues; to promote scientific interchange on important evaluation issues; and to generate recommendations and directions for future investigations in the evaluation area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation, limited to 45 people. The workshop will be held June 18th at the University of California, Berkeley Campus, in association with the 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SUBMISSIONS: Interested participants should submit a 3-5 page abstract of their presentation and a brief description of their research activities. Persons desiring to attend the workshop, but not make a presentation, should send only a brief description of their research activities. All persons should include name, mailing address, phone number, and electronic mail address. Submission may be transmitted via electronic mail, U.S. Postal Service, or FAX. If hardcopy is submitted, please include six copies (including the original). Send submissions to: Jeannette G. Neal, Ph.D. Calspan Corporation P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225 (716) 631-6844 FAX: (716) 631-6722 neal@cs.buffalo.edu SCHEDULE: March 1, 1991 Submissions due (changed from February 1) April 1, 1991 Notification of acceptance/invitation ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jeannette G. Neal, Calspan Corporation (Committee Chair) Tim Finin, Unisys Center for Advanced Information Technology Ralph Grishman, New York University Christine Montgomery, Language Systems, Inc. Sharon Walter, Rome Laboratory SUPPORT for this workshop is provided by Rome Laboratory. For Technical Report RADC-TR-89-302, contact: Sharon Walter Rome Laboratory Griffiss AFB, New York 13441-5700 USA E-mail: walter@aivax.radc.af.mil