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NL-KR Digest (Fri Mar 29 18:30:42 1991) Volume 8 No. 14 Today's Topics: CORRECTION: IJCAI NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING WORKSHOP IJCAI CFP: workshop on language generation reference on KB in medical images ACT Vol 1.1 Call for Participation PDK'91 CSLI events on Thursday, 28 March Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 1 Apr 91 11:19:06 EST >From: reeker@ida.org (Larry Reeker) Subject: CORRECTION: IJCAI NATURAL LANGUAGE LEARNING WORKSHOP The Fax number given in the workshop notice (Vol. 8, No. 13) for LARRY REEKER is an old one. The correct fax number is (+1)(703) 845-6848. Larry Reeker reeker@ida.org ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: IJCAI CFP: workshop on language generation Phone: 213-822-1511 x 731 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 15:29:01 PST >From: Eduard Hovy <hovy@isi.edu> ************************ * Call For Papers * ************************ IJCAI 1991 Workshop August 24 - 25, 1991 Decision Making throughout the Generation Process While there is general agreement that Natural Language Generation (NLG) is a largely deterministic decision making process, there is little agreement between researchers on the parameters of this process. Different researchers have focused on different parts of the generation process, such as content planning, text organization and linguistic realization, and taken into account different kinds of knowledge, such as discourse structure, user models and taxonomic domain knowledge. Hence, their decision spaces, while plainly overlapping in function, are incomparable in their details. This workshop will attempt to address these differences concretely by bringing together researchers in NLG and related fields, and encouraging them to present their work specifically in terms of the decision making processes undertaken by their systems. In order to be able to describe the generation process, we need to arrive at some consensus as to the space of decisions in the process overall. This, in turn, will allow us to better understand and take advantage of each other's work, since researchers will be able to identify clearly which portion of the decision space their work is intended to cover. In this context, an important question that must be answered is whether the different decision types have any commonalities that can be exploited; for example, could the reasoning processes that determine text planning choices also be useful for lexical selections? In addition, as indicated above, at present there is little agreement with respect to the answers to the following questions: What are the decisions made by a text generation system? How should alternatives be represented? What control structure determines the order in which the decisions should be made? and What is the effect of a decision on subsequent decisions? The identification of the decisions encountered during the text generation process is an essential step towards the eventual formal specification of this process and the development of evaluation metrics for it. In addition, it allows practitioners in the field to better understand and take advantage of each other's work, as it enables them to determine which portion of the decision space a particular system or procedure is intended to cover. Submissions We encourage papers in areas of NLG including (but not limited to): content selection, text organization, utterance composition, reactive explanation, cooperative responses, lexical choice, stylistics and linguistic realization. Papers should address the above questions, argue for a particular approach, or describe a particular system from the point of view of decision making. Interested participants should submit 6 copies of a 5 page abstract and a brief description of their research activities by May 1, 1991. The following information should be included: name, mailing address, phone number and electronic mail address. Submissions may be made (in order of preference) via Real-mail, FAX, or electronic mail (LaTeX article style or directly printable form) to either co-chair: Dr. Marie Meteer (co-chair), BBN, 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA 02138, mmeteer@bbn.com, FAX: (617) 873-3776 Dr. Ingrid Zukerman (co-chair), Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, VICTORIA 3168, AUSTRALIA, ingrid@bruce.cs.monash.oz.au, FAX: (your international operator code) (613) 565-5146 Schedule May 1, 1991 Submissions due June 1, 1991 Notification of acceptance July 1, 1991 Camera-ready copies due July 15 Workshop registration fee ($US65) due to IJCAI Aug 24-25 Workshop Organizing and Program Committee Dr. Marie Meteer (co-chair), BBN Dr. Ingrid Zukerman (co-chair), Computer Science Dept., Monash University Dr. Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI Dr. David McDonald, Content Technologies Dr. Cecile Paris, USC/ISI ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: buck@gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Thomas Buck) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 10:32:35 +0100 Subject: reference on KB in medical images Dear folk: I found one of these days a very, very interesting article about a knowledge-based medical image processing and analysis system. Since the article mentioned the use of the Frame knowledge representation scheme, fuzzy pattern matching of the detected and identified organs and classical image processing algorithms, I found it interesting to post it for you. I wish you enjoy it. The article reference is in the BibTeX format below: @ARTICLE{ Dhawan-90, AUTHOR={Atam P. Dhawan and Sridhar Juvvadi}, TITLE={Knowledge-based analysis and understanding of medical images}, JOURNAL={Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine}, YEAR={1990}, VOLUME={33}, NUMBER={??}, PAGES={221 - 239}, ABSTRACT={Knowledge-based image analysis and interpretation of radiological images is of significant interest for several reasons including a means to identify and label each part of the image for further automated diagnostic analysis. Also, there is a need to develop a knowledge-based biomedical image analysis system which can analyze and interpret the anatomical images (such as those obtained from X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning) in order to help analysis of functional images (such as those obtained from positron emission tomography (PET) scanning) of the organ of the same patient. This paper deals with the design and implementation of a knowledge-based system to analyze and interpret CT anatomical images of the human chest. In the approach presented here, the emphasis has been on the development of a strong low-level analysis system with the capability of analyzing in both bottom-up and top-down modes; and on the use of hierarchical relational, spatial and structural knowledge of the human anatomy in the process of high-level analysis and recognition.}, CLASSIFIER={??}, KEYWORDS={knowledge, imaging, medicine, fuzzy} } That's all. Thomas. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: ACT Vol 1.1 Date: 28 Mar 91 13:13:27 GMT Reply-To: Tony McEnery <mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk> The Journal Of Applied Computer Translation : Contents : Vol 1 Issue 1 CALL - a sample survey of available commercial software. J.Butler (University of Liverpool,UK) D. Pollard (University of Bristol,UK) The Adequacy of Corpora in Machine Translation. M. Sebba (University of Lancaster,UK) Efficacy of Pragmalinguistics - CALL-ware in Language For Special Purposes (LSP) University Courses. M. Dodigovic (University of Osijek,Yugoslavia) Some Thoughts on Evaluation. J. Higgins (University of Bristol,UK) Subscriptions : Submissions : ACT Subscriptions, Tony McEnery, Sigma Press, Editor ACT, 1 South Oak Lane, UCREL Unit, Wilmslow, Computing Department, Cheshire, Lancaster University, SK9 6AR, Bailrigg, U.K. Lancaster, LA1 4YR, U.K. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: workshop organizers <pdk@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Call for Participation PDK'91 Date: 25 Mar 91 09:30:19 GMT Reply-To: workshop organizers <pdk@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> PDK '91 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Workshop on PROCESSING DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE -- Representation and Implementation Methods -- July 1-3, 1991 Kaiserslautern, Germany The high description level of declarative representation formalisms facilitates readability, maintenance, and parallelization of knowledge bases; their orientation toward logic enables clear semantics. However, the processing of large declarative knowledge bases is becoming efficient only with the use of modern implementation techniques. For instance, the increased gap to von Neumann machines may be bridged by (global) static analysis and (multi-stage) transformation/compilation of the representation formalisms. The workshop addresses researchers and developers with interests ranging from logic programming to expert-system shells. Critics of declarative-knowledge processing (e.g. having procedural, object- oriented, or connectionist points of view) are also welcome. The technical program will consist of: - Contributed papers selected by the international program committee - Invited talks by leading experts in the field: Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, Providence Andrew Taylor, University of Sidney Carlo Zaniolo, MCC Austin - A panel discussion: "Declarative and procedural paradigms - do they really compete?" - Demonstrations of implemented systems Registration fee: Early registration (before May 15): 290.- DM (or $210) (students: 90.- DM or $65) Late registration (received after May 15): 340.- DM (or $245) (students: 140.- DM or $100) Registration fee will cover the technical program of the conference, a banquet, coffee/tea etc., and a copy of the preprints of the proceedings and the book proceedings per registrant. A limited number of scholarships is available, especially to researchers from Eastern Europe (please send an informal application showing your involvement in the field). For further information, registration and hotel reservation forms, please contact the conference office: PDK DFKI GmbH P. O. Box 2080 6750 Kaiserslautern F. R. Germany Phone: +49-631-205-3470, FAX: +49-631-205-3210 email: pdk@informatik.uni-kl.de Program Committee: Hassan Ait-Kaci, DEC Paris Hans-Juergen Appelrath, University of Oldenburg Woody Bledsoe, University of Texas at Austin Egon Boerger, University of Pisa Harold Boley, DFKI Kaiserslautern Maurice Bruynooghe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Tim Finin, Unisys Paoli Hervi Gallaire, Bull Paris Jan Grabowski, Humboldt University Berlin Alexander Herold, ECRC Munich Robert Kowalski, Imperial College London Hans Langmaack, University of Kiel Jean-Louis Lassez, IBM Yorktown Heights Michael M. Richter, DFKI Kaiserslautern (Chair) Erik Sandewall, University of Linkvping John Taylor, Hewlett Packard Bristol Andrei Voronkov, Int. Lab. of Intelligent Systems Novosibirsk Associated Societies: The workshop is organized by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in cooperation with the Association for Logic Programming (ALP) and the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V. (GI). System Presentations: Applications for system presentations consisting of a system mini- description of 1-3 pages as well as a specification of the hardware/software required should arrive by 3 June 1991. Our computing environment includes SUNs 4/390 with Ivory Boards, a KCM, and Macintoshs IIfx. 3 June 1991 is also the deadline to apply for the exhibition of books and products related to the scope of PDK'91. Location: The workshop will take place at the University of Kaiserslautern, Building 57. Kaiserslautern is located in the southwest of Germany with good car and train connections to the airports of Frankfurt (150 km), Stuttgart (150 km), Saarbruecken (70 km), and Paris (450 km). Miscellanea: You are invited to arrive on Sunday 30 June 1991: there will be a workshop reception in the evening. Lunch is available in the university cafeteria or off the campus. There will be a banquet on Tuesday, 2 July 1991, which is included in the registration fee. Tickets for accompanying persons are available at the registration desk during the workshop. A hike through the adjacent Palatinate Forest will be offered, giving space for informal conversations. ***************************************************************************** PDK'91 Registration form +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Please mark the item that applies to your registration: Early registration Late registration (before 15 May 1991): (received after 15 May 1991): [ ] 290.- DM (or $210) [ ] 340.- DM (or $245) [ ] 90.- DM (or $65) for students* [ ] 140.- DM (or $100) for students* * Please enclose a copy of your valid student-ID Registration will include a copy of the preprints of the proceedings, the book proceedings, a banquet, and coffee/tea during the workshop. If written notifications of withdrawal arrive before 1 June 1991, 90 % of the registration fee will be refunded. Refunds cannot be made if participation is cancelled after 1 June 1991. 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Your should (air) mail your order early, so that we can find a free room in the category specified. If this is not possible, a reservation is arranged in the next lower or higher category. The Verkehrsamt acts only as a mediator. Reservations arriving in time will be confirmed by letter or telefax. Otherwise the hotel address can be asked for at the Verkehrsamt, phone +49-631-852-2317 or fax +49-631-852-2553. ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 08:48:36 PST >From: ingrid@russell.stanford.edu (Ingrid Deiwiks) Subject: CSLI events on Thursday, 28 March TINLUNCH A Theory of States of Affairs Without Parameters Mark Crimmins Sage School of Philosophy Cornell University (mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu) Thursday, 28 March, 12:00 noon Cordura 100 I develop a theory of states of affairs (soas) more consonant with situation-theoretic realism than others I know about. The aspects of many accounts of soas that grate upon realist sensibilities include (i) the assumption that the arguments of relations are ordered, and especially (ii) the use of mysterious "parameters" as constituents of states of affairs in order to explain abstraction, quantification, and so on. My account focuses on the concept of a "role" in structured entities like sequences, sentence, thoughts, and soas. A structured thing of any of these kinds can have multiply occurring constituents - - entities that fill more than one role in the thing's constituent makeup. I hold that there can be _partial_ soas -- ones in which roles go unfilled (an example is <<Red; __>>, in which no entity at all is assigned to the single argument of Red). Taking roles and partial entities seriously gives us the tools to do what needs to be done: to explain abstraction without parameters and without assuming that the arguments of relations are ordered. The resulting system of soas and abstracted relations is grounded in a distinctively _structural_ conception of the composition of these entities. I take this proposal to legitimate much of the use of parameters in situation theory and situation semantics generally, since it shows how they can be explained away. ____________ PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP Cyclic Syllabification in Slovak Jerzy Rubach University of Warsaw and University of Washington Thursday, 28 March, 7:30 p.m. Ventura 17 An analysis of the imperative demonstrates that syllable structure must be assigned cyclically by an algorithm that applies continuously. This conclusion is corroborated by syllabic consonants. It is shown further that cyclic Liquid Syllabification leads to an ordering paradox that, however, can be solved by assuming the phonological cycle. Lexical Phonology illuminates an analysis of word-final extrasyllabic liquids in that it explains why in some instances their extrasyllabicity is resolved by syllabifiying the consonant while in some other instances it is resolved by inserting a vowel. ____________ ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************