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PRAGMATICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90)
Science Hall and Music Center Auditorium
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, June 28-30, 1990
PRAGMATICS PROBLEM:
The problem of pragmatics in AI is one of developing theories, models,
and implementations of systems that make effective use of contextual
information to solve problems in changing environments.
CONFERENCE GOAL:
This conference will provide a forum for researchers from all
subfields of AI to discuss the problem of pragmatics in AI.
The implications that each area has for the others in tackling
this problem are of particular interest.
COOPERATION:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
IEEE Computer Society
SPONSORSHIP:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), NMSU
Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society
for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI)
INVITED SPEAKERS:
The following researchers are invited to present papers
at the conference:
*Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos USA
*Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland EC
*Jerry Feldman, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley USA
& International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley USA
*Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, Cambridge USA
*James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder USA
*Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, United Kingdom EC
*Roger Schank, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
*Philip Stenton, Hewlett Packard, United Kingdom EC
*Robert Wilensky, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley USA
SUBMITTED PAPERS:
In addition over 40 papers on pragmatics in AI have been accepted
for the conference.
THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT:
Las Cruces, lies in THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (New Mexico),
USA and is situated in the Rio Grande Corridor with the scenic
Organ Mountains overlooking the city. The city is
close to Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands National Monument.
There are a number of Indian Reservations and Pueblos in the Land Of
Enchantment and the cultural and scenic cities of Taos and Santa Fe
lie to the north. New Mexico has an interesting mixture of Indian, Mexican
and Spanish culture. There is quite a variation of Mexican and New
Mexican food to be found here too.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a major
regional forum in the USA for scientific exchange and presentation
of AI research.
The conference emphasizes discussion and informal interaction
as well as presentations.
The conference encourages the presentation of completed research,
ongoing research, and preliminary investigations.
Researchers from both within and outside the region
are invited to participate.
DEADLINES:
Pre-registration: June 1st, 1990
Pre-Registration: Professionals: $50.00; Students $30.00
Final papers due: June 1st, 1990
TRANSPORT:
Las Cruces, New Mexico is located one hour from El Paso, Texas on I-10
West. Participants can fly into El-Paso International Airport and
transport will be provided from and to the airport.
SOCIALS:
The conference will include a registration reception buffet,
Japanese Buffet in Garden Center (Budagher's),
Banquet (Double Eagle) (+ $25.00), and numerous refreshments.
HOTELS:
The Las Cruces Hilton has rooms for $47.00 per night.
(Call 1-800-284-0616, cutoff date is June 13th)
Accommodation is also available in other Hotels and Motels.
REGISTRATION:
Pre-Registration: Professionals: $50.00; Students $30.00
(Pre-Registration cutoff date is June 1st 1990)
Registration: Professionals: $70.00; Students $50.00
(After June 1st or at the conference)
(Copied proof of student status is required).
Registration form (IN BLOCK CAPITALS).
Enclose payment made out to New Mexico State University.
(ONLY checks in US dollars will be accepted).
Send to the following address (MARKED REGISTRATION):
Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90
Computing Research Laboratory
Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, NMSU
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA.
Name:_______________________________ E-mail_____________________________ Phone__________________________
Affiliation: ____________________________________________________
Fax: ____________________________________________________
Address: ____________________________________________________
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COUNTRY__________________________________________
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90.
(same postal address as above).
INQUIRIES:
Inquiries regarding conference brochure and registration form
should be addressed to the Local Arrangements Chairperson.
Inquiries regarding the conference program should be addressed
to the Program Chairperson.
Local Arrangements Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: rmcai@nmsu.edu
Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5466
Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218.
Program Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: paul@sparta.nmsu.edu
Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5109
Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218.
Paul Mc Kevitt,
Program Chairperson, RMCAI-90,
Computing Research Laboratory (CRL),
Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001,
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
You are invited to submit a research paper addressing Pragmatics
in AI, with any of the following orientations:
Philosophy, Foundations and Methodology
Knowledge Representation
Neural Networks and Connectionism
Genetic Algorithms, Emergent Computation, Nonlinear Systems
Natural Language and Speech Understanding
Problem Solving, Planning, Reasoning
Machine Learning
Vision and Robotics
Applications
TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
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WEDNESDAY 27th June 1990:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Registration and Reception, Double Eagle, Old Mesilla
THURSDAY 28th June 1990:
\fB8:50 am: Yorick Wilks and Paul Mc Kevitt: Welcome\fR
\fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Jerry Feldman, UC Berkeley \fR
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Miniature Language Acquisition: A Paradigm problem and some approaches
10:00 am: Coffee
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers.
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PRACMA: Processing Arguments between Controversially-Minded Agents
Jurgen Allgayer : Alfred Kobsa : Carola Reddig : Norbert Reithinger
Relevant Beliefs
Afzal Ballim : Yorick Wilks
Speech Acts and Mental States
Robbert-Jan Beun
Extensions of Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity
Elizabeth A. Hinkelman
\fBTRACK B:\fR
Dynamic Route Planning
E. Cortes-Rello : F. Golshani
Strategic Planning System (SPS)
Mitchell Smith : Peter Briggs : Edward Freeman
Re-planning a Route - A Pragmatic Approach
Wai-Kiang Yeap
Evaluation of Pragmatics Processing in a Direction Finding Domain
Deborah A. Dahl
\fBTRACK C:\fR
Computing with Fast Modulation: Experiments with Biologically
Realistic Model Neurons
Mark DeYong : Randall Findley : Chris Fields
Competition and Selection in Neural Networks with Distributed
Representations
Kankanahalli Srinivas : John Barnden
Using Genetic Algorithms as a Post-Processor for Improving Vehicle
Routing Solutions
Nagesh Kadaba : Kendall E. Nygard
An Application of Neural Networks is Robotics
Dr. Behzad Ghavimi
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch
\fB2:00 pm: Invited talk: Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley, USA\fP
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee
\fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Invited talk: Phil Stenton, HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK\fP
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Putting NL to work: A dialogue modeling approach
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted talks
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Using relational knowledge structures to handle null value situations
in natural language interfaces
Nick Cercone : Dan Fass : Chris Groeneboer : Gary Hall : Mimi Kao :
Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowich
A Classification of User-System Interactions in Natural Language
with Special Reference to :
Dan Fass : Nick Cercone : Gary Hall : Chris Groeneboer :
Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowick
\fBTRACK B:\fR
Problem Solving Experience and Problem Solving Knowledge
Stephen W. Smoliar
An Abstraction-Partitioned Model for Reactive Planning
Lee Spector : James A. Hendler
\fBTRACK C:\fR
A Graph Theoretic Basis for Problem Solving
Daniel P. Eshner : Heather D. Pfeiffer
Meta-Structures: Intelligent Structures for Inference Control
Daniel J. Goter : David E. Monarchi
FRIDAY 29th June 1990:
\fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Barbara Grosz, Harvard University\fP
Collaborative Planning for Discourse
10:00 am: Coffee
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers
\fBTRACK A:\fR
Why Does Language Matter to Artificial Intelligence
Marcelo Dascal
Pragmatics of Postdeterminers Non-restrictive Modifications & Wh-phrases
Frens J.H. Dols
Pragmatics and Natural Language Processing
Eduard H. Hovy
On the Semantics of the Conjunction "but"
Wlodek Zadrozny : Karen Jensen
\fBTRACK B:\fR
How to Become Immune to Facts
M.J. Coombs : R.T. Hartley : W.B. Kilgore : H.D. Pfeiffer
Constrained Rational Agency
Bruce D'Ambrosio : Tony Fountain : Lothar Kaul
Abductive Inference in AI: Potential Unifications
Venugopala Rao Dasigi
A Prolog Implementation of the Stable Model TMS
Stephen Pimentel : John L. Cuadrado
\fBTRACK C:\fR
Multiple Level Island Search
Peter C. Nelson : John F. Dillenburg
Efficient Learning with Representative Presentations
Xiaofeng (Charles) Ling
User Modelling in a Knowledge-Based Environment for European Learning
Michael F. McTear : Norman Creaney : Weiru Liu
Training a Neural Network to be a Context Sensitive Grammer
Robert F. Simmons : Yeong-Ho Yu
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch
\fB2:00 pm: Invited talk: Roger Schank, Northwestern University\fP
Six AI teaching architectures
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee
\fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Invited talk: Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland\fP
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers
\fBTRACK A:\fR
Towards Empirically Derived Semantic Classes
Brian M. Slator : Shahrzad Amirsoleymani : Sandra Andersen : Kent Braaten
John Davis : Rhonda Ficek : Hossein Hakimzadeh : Lester McCann :
Joseph Rajkumar : Sam Thangiah : Daniel Thureen
Using Words
Louise Guthrie : Paul Mc Kevitt : Yorick Wilks
\fBTRACK B:\fR
An Expert Tool for Digital Circuit Design
F.N. Sibai : K. L. Watson
Explaining Control Strategy in Second Generation Expert Systems
Xuejun Tong
\fBTRACK C:\fR
A New Approach to Analyzing Aerial Photographics
Dwayne Phillips
Acquiring Categorical Aspects: A Connectionist Account of Figurative
Noun Semantics
Susan Hollbach Weber
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Japanese Buffet in Garden Center (Budagher's)
SATURDAY 30th June 1990:
\fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, UK\fP
The syntax of pragmatics
10:00 am: Coffee
10:30 am - 11:30: Two tracks of submitted papers
\fBTRACK A\fR
An Experiment on Technical Text Reproduction
Wanying Jin
Explanation Dialogues: Interpreting Real Life Questions & Explanations
Efstratios Sarantinos : Peter Johnson
Modeling of mind and its application to image sequence understanding
Naoyuki Okada
\fBTRACK B:\fR
Communication and Belief Changes in a Society of Agents
Graca Gaspar
An Interval Calculus Based Finite Domain Constraint Solver and
its Implementation in Prolog
Jin-Kao Hao : Jean-Jacques Chabrier
Dynamic Context Diagrams:
the pragmatics of social interaction in KBS development
Simon P.H. Morgan
11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Lunch
\fB1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Invited talk: James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder\fP
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A Unified Approach To Conventional Non-Literal Language
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Coffee
\fB3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Invited talk: Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratories\fP
Pragmatic Artificial Neural Nets for the Nonlinear Prediction of Time Series
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Banquet (Double Eagle)
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
*John Barnden, New Mexico State University
(Connectionism, Beliefs, Metaphor processing)
*Hans Brunner, U S WEST Advanced Technologies
(Natural language interfaces, Dialogue interfaces)
*Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(Dynamical systems, Artificial neural networks, Applications)
*Mike Coombs, New Mexico State University
(Problem solving, Adaptive systems, Planning)
*Dan Eshner, University of Maryland
(Planning, Search, Knowledge Representation)
*Thomas Eskridge, Lockheed Missile and Space Co.
(Analogy, Problem solving)
*Chris Fields, New Mexico State University
(Neural networks, Nonlinear systems, Applications)
*Roger Hartley, New Mexico State University
(Knowledge Representation, Planning, Problem Solving)
*Victor Johnson, New Mexico State University
(Genetic Algorithms)
*Paul Mc Kevitt, New Mexico State University
(Natural language interfaces, Dialogue modeling)
*Joe Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University
(Computer Vision, Parallel architectures)
*Keith Phillips, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
(Computer vision, Mathematical modelling)
*Roger Schvaneveldt, New Mexico State University
(Knowledge representation, Knowledge elicitation, cognitive modeling)
*Brian Slator, North Dakota State University
(Natural language processing, Knowledge acquisition)
*Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University
(Natural language processing, Knowledge representation)
*Scott Wolff, U S WEST Advanced Technologies
(Intelligent tutoring, User interface design, Cognitive modeling)
Organizing Committee RMCAI-90:
Paul Mc Kevitt Yorick Wilks
Research Scientist Director, CRL
CRL and Professor, NMSU Computer Science
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Paul Mc Kevitt,
Computing Research Laboratory,
Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001,
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA.
E-mail: INTERNET: paul@sparta.nmsu.edu
Fax: (+1 505)-646-6218
Phone: (+1 505)-646-5109/5466
Nil an la an gaothaithe la na scolb!!
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