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NL-KR Digest (Mon Feb 18 17:07:53 1991) Volume 8 No. 7 Today's Topics: KR '91 conference registration Sixth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs 2nd ASIS CR Workshop Call for Participation IJCAII 1991 Awards announcement CAll for Papers - OED '91 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: Fri, 8 Feb 91 17:42:59 -0500 >From: james@cs.rochester.edu To: welty@turing.cs.rpi.edu Subject: KR '91 conference registration [ The conference brochure has been delayed, anyone desiring to attend can use the form at the end of this msg. - CW ] KR '91: SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge Cambridge, Massachusetts April 22-25, 1991 The following is registration information for the KR '91 schedule. If you are a AAAI member or received a KR mailing previously, you will be receiving a conference registration packet in the mail within the next two weeks. If you are not on these lists, please contact me at james@cs.rochester.edu and we'll add you to the mailing list. You may use printed versions of the following registration pages for sending in your registration if you wish to get an early start. GENERAL INFORMATION Fee Schedule (all fees are in U.S. dollars): Early: postmarked before midnight March 21, 1991 Regular $275 Student $150 Banquet $35 Late: postmarked after midnight March 21, 1991 Regular $325 Student $175 Banquet $35 Banquet The banquet is optional and should be included at the time of your registration. This event will include round-trip transportation to historic Faneuil Hall, a rousing welcome from a colonial militia in authentic dress, reception and dinner in the "Great Hall" of Faneuil Hall, and entertainment. Airline Discount Fares Special discount fares have been arranged for you for the KR '91 Conference on USAir. For US domestic service you can save 45% off the regular coach fare OR 5% off the lowest available excursion fare on USAir. (Please note that severe restrictions and penalties may apply.) Call Young's Travel/American Express at 1-800-682-0141 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. Monday through Friday and identify yourself as a KR '91 Conference attendee. For Canadian attendees a discount of 35% off full coach fare is available through USAir. A two-night minimum stay is required. For non-US and -Canadian attendees, call the number listed below for rate information on other air service to Boston's Logan Airport. Other special fares are available in the event USAir does not service your area. To make reservations call Young's Travel/American Express at 1-800-682-0141 or 1-508-795-0600 any time between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. Monday through Friday and identify yourself as attending the KR '91 Conference, and the agent will make the arrangements. Hotel Reservations Reservations should be made directly with the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. (The hotel is located three miles from Logan International Airport.) For reservations, call or fax the Royal Sonesta Hotel at 1-617-491-3600 (phone) or 1-617-661-5956 (fax). Identify yourself as a registrant to the KR '91 Conference. They will process your hotel reservation and send confirmation if reservations are made before March 20, 1991. Hotel space as well as conference space are on a first-come first-served basis. Special room rates have been negotiated. Room rates for conference attendees are (in U.S. dollars): Single, $125, and Double, $135, plus Massachusetts and local rooms tax (9.7%). Rooms can be guaranteed by the hotel for the conference attendees only until March 20, 1991 through a major credit card or first night's deposit. A limited amount of funds have been set aside to subsidize hotel room fees for students. (See the application form on pages 21-22.) Applications for room rate subsidy should be sent before March 20, 1991. Early application is advised. Those chosen will be notified. How to Register 1. Fill in the registration form. 2. Payment: In the U.S., you may send a money order, bank check, or personal check. In Canada, you may send an international money order or a bank check in U.S. dollars payable to "Knowledge Representation '91". No Canadian currency will be accepted. Outside the U.S. and Canada, payment will be accepted by international money order only, in U.S. dollars. Make your checks payable to payable to "Knowledge Representation '91". 3. Return the registration form and payment to: KR '91 Box 1205 Westboro, MA 01581 USA 4. Registrations postmarked prior to midnight, March 21, 1991 will receive the early registration discount rate. Confirmations will be mailed only for registrations received before March 28, 1991. 5. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis to the maximum number the facility can accommodate. On-site registration will be available only as long as space remains. Participants are strongly advised to register as soon as possible. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Registration Form Fill in and return this form and full payment in U.S. dollars to: KR '91 P.O. Box 1205 Westboro, MA 01581 USA Name: Organization: Mailing Address: Country Zip/Postal Code: Telephone (work): (home): Amount Enclosed: Early Reg'n. Late Reg'n. Conference fee $____________ $____________ Student fee $____________ $____________ Banquet fee $____________ $____________ Total $____________ $____________ Payment enclosed in the form of (check one): International Money Order: Money Order (US/Can. attendees only): Bank Check (US/Can. attendees only): Personal Check (US attendees only): In the amount of (US dollars): Note: Registrations postmarked prior to midnight March 21, 1991 will receive the early registration discount rate. Confirmations will be mailed for registrations received prior to March 28, 1991. Proceedings are included in the registration fee. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION FORM FOR STUDENT SUBSIDY A limited amount of funds have been set aside to subsidize hotel room fees for students. This will only apply to doubles (two students per room). The subsidy will be from 25% to 50% of your half of the double room rate. For example, if you are awarded a subsidy of 50%, the cost of staying at the hotel will be $33.72 per night, plus applicable taxes. To apply, fill in the form below and register for the conference by the EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE. You will be notified either by surface or electronic mail. If we can contact you by email, please supply your Internet mailing address Name: Department: College/Univ.: Student ID No. at Your School: Mailing Address: Country Zip/Postal Code: email Address: Are other funds available to you if you do not get this subsidy? (A yes answer does not disqualify you.) Yes No Are you an author on a paper that has been accepted to this conference? Yes No What is your research area?: What type of degree are you currently working toward? Bachelor's Master's Doctorate Advisor's name if you currently have one (and location, if not at your institution): Name of the person with whom you would like to share a room (if no-one is specified we will assign someone for you): If we are to assign a roommate, indicate your gender: Male Female - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 03:44:04 EST >From: SOWA@ibm.com Subject: Sixth Annual Workshop on Conceptual Graphs *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** The Sixth Annual Workshop on CONCEPTUAL GRAPHS SUNY at Binghamton July 11th, 12th and 13th, 1991 The purpose of this workshop is to provide an active forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas about the theory and application of conceptual graphs. Participants are expected to be familiar with the basics of conceptual graph theory, as presented in the book Conceptual Structures by John Sowa. The talks will cover current work and results, problems, applications, and implementations of conceptual graphs. Subjects may include but are not limited to: Fundamentals * Knowledge representation using conceptual graphs * Operations on conceptual graphs * Logic systems using conceptual graphs Natural Language * Representation of semantics * Representation of background knowledge Automated Reasoning * Modality and truth maintenance * Reasoning in modal contexts * Unified reasoning processes Systems and Implementations * How conceptual graphs are represented in programs * Graph manipulation algorithms * Abstract models or machines for conceptual graphs Knowledge Engineering * Methodologies for knowledge acquisition * Learning conceptual graphs from examples * Database design and interfaces Applications of all Kinds Extended abstracts are due by March 8, 1991 at the address below. They should include name, address, phone number, e-mail address if any, and whether the preson is interested in presenting or just attending. Please let us know if you are interested in attending since we may have to place an upper limit on the workshop size. For those interested in presenting, the extended abstracts should be 3 to 4 pages in length, describing their proposed (20 - 30) minute talk. Speakers will be notified of acceptance around the middle of May, 1991. One copy of a 10 to 15 page paper is due from each speaker by June 20th, 1991. Proceedings of the workshop will be available and some of the papers will be part of a future book on the best of the 1991 and 1992 conceptual graph workshops. In addition, a half dozen of these papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems in October of 1991. Conceputal Graph Workshop Committee c/o Eileen Way PACSS Program, Hinman 128 State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Phone: (607) 777-2569 Bitnet: WAY@BINGVMA We have a block of rooms reserved at the Holiday Inn across from campus at a special rate of $55/night. Registration cards will be included with the acceptance notices. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep >From: humphrey@suesun.nlm.nih.gov (Susanne M Humphrey) Subject: 2nd ASIS CR Workshop Call for Participation Date: Wed, 6 Feb 91 15:20:05 GMT 2nd ASIS '91 Workshop on Classification Research Organized by the ASIS Special Interest Group on Classification Research (SIG/CR) Call for Participation The American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group on Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR) invites submissions for the 2nd ASIS '91 Classification Research (CR) Workshop, to be held at the 54th Annual Meeting of ASIS in Washington, DC. The Workshop will take place Sunday, October 27th, 1991, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ASIS '91 continues through Thursday, October 31. The CR Workshop is designed to be an exchange of ideas among those engaged in active research or practice in the creation, development, management, representation, display, comparison, compatibility, theory, and application of classification schemes. Emphasis will be on semantic classification, in contrast to statistically-based schemes. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Warrant for concepts in classification schemes. - Concept acquisition. - Basis for semantic classes. - Automated techniques to assist in creating classification schemes. - Statistical techniques used for developing explicit, nonstatistically-based semantic classes. - Relations and their properties. - Inheritance and subsumption. - Knowledge representation schemes. - Classification algorithms. - Procedural knowledge in classification schemes. - Reasoning with classification schemes. - Software for managing classification schemes. - Data structures and programming languages for classification schemes. - Comparison and compatibility between classification schemes. - Previously-named topics, highlighting specific applications such as subject analysis, database navigation, information retrieval, natural language understanding, expert systems, and image processing. The CR Workshop welcomes submissions from various disciplines. Attendance will be by invitation only. Those interested in participating are invited to submit a short (1-2 page single-spaced) position paper, summarizing their substantive work in the above areas or other areas related to semantic classification schemes, and a statement briefly outlining the reason for wanting to participate in the workshop. Submissions may include background papers as attachments. Those selected as presenters will be invited to submit expanded versions of their position papers and to speak to those papers in brief presentations during the workshop. All position papers (both expanded and short papers) will be published in proceedings to be distributed prior to the workshop. The workshop registration fee is $30.00 per person, and includes a copy of the proceedings and lunch and refreshments. Submissions should be sent by email, or diskette accompanied by paper copy, or paper copy only (fax or postal), to arrive by May 1, 1991, to Barbara Kwasnik: Barbara Kwasnik, Co-Chair Raya Fidel, Co-Chair School of Information Studies Graduate School of Library and 4-206 Center for Science and Technology Information Science Syracuse University University of Washington, FM-30 Syracuse, NY 13244 Seattle, WA 98195 Internet: bkwasnik@suvm.acs.syr.edu Internet: fidelr@vax1.u.washington.edu Phone: (315) 443-2911 Phone: (206) 543-1888 Fax: (315) 443-5806 ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 17:27:40 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: IJCAII 1991 Awards announcement IJCAI AWARDS: IJCAI-91, Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991 IJCAI-91, the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, will be held in Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991. The Board of Trustees of IJCAI, Inc. is pleased to announce the recipients of the IJCAI awards for Research Excellence, Computers and Thought, and Distinguished Service. THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given, at an International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985) and Allen Newell (1989). The Research Excellence Award for IJCAI-91 will be given to Marvin Minsky, MIT. THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence by an outstanding young scientist in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The Lecture is presented one evening during the Conference, and the public is invited to attend. The Lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987) and Henry Kautz (1989). Two Computers and Thought Awards will be given at IJCAI-91: to Rodney Brooks, MIT and Martha Pollack, SRI International. IJCAI DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAII Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have been Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), and Donald Walker (1989). At IJCAI-91, the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award will be given to Woodrow Bledsoe, University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:19:23 EST >From: "Linda M. Jones" <lmjones@watsol.waterloo.edu> Subject: CAll for Papers - OED '91 Call for Papers USING CORPORA 7th Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research September 29 - October 1, 1991 St. Catherine's College Oxford, England The Seventh Annual Conference of the University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED and Text Research, jointly sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Oxford University Press, and Oxford University Computing Services, will be held at Statherine's College, Oxford, England, on September 29 - October 1, 1991. This year's conference will focus on applications of computer-based corpora. For example, text databases can be used to expand the information potential of existing text, create and maintain new information resources, and generate new print information. Conference participants will again include researchers from computer science and the humanities, as well as representatives from publishing houses and other industries. Papers presenting original research on theoretical and applied aspects of the theme are being soughtypical but not exclusive areas of interest include computational lexicology, computational linguistics, syntactic and semantic analysis, computational lexicography, lexical databases, and online reference works. Submissions will be refereed by the program committee listed belowuthors should send seven copies of a detailed abstract (5 to 10 double-spaced pages) by April 22, 1991, to the Program Chair, Prof. Frank Tompa, at: UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research Davis Centre University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 or newoed@uwaterloo.ca Late submissions risk rejection without consideration. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 14, 1991. A working draft of the paper, not exceeding 15 pages, will be due by July 19, 1991, for inclusion in proceedings which will be made available at the conference. Program Committee Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press) Stig Johansson (University of Oslo) Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto) Michael Lesk (Bellcore) Nancy Ide (Vassar College) Frank Tompa, Chair (University of Waterloo) ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************