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NL-KR Digest (Tue Jan 22 13:23:10 1991) Volume 8 No. 2 Today's Topics: Early Announcement of CSLI Seminar for Winter Quarter 1991 Case Grammar Articles Interface information Help: Machine Translation of Russian from/into Other Languages Schedule for Language and Thought Workshop LIFER: Info needed. Syntax Workshop on 29 January, 7:30 p.m. Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science Lexical Functional Grammar Interface for a Database VP-Expert Users Wanted To Share Info Introductory Reading material anyone? Call for Participation CILS Calendar 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, 4 Jan 91 14:12:12 PST >From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks) Subject: Early Announcement of CSLI Seminar for Winter Quarter 1991 CSLI SEMINAR Phenomenology for Cognitive Scientists Izchak Miller Visiting Associate Professor Department of Philosophy (miller@csli.stanford.edu) Thursdays (starting 17 January), 2:15 p.m. Cordura 100 The CSLI seminar this quarter will be designed with the busy cognitive scientist in mind, trying to introduce her/him to phenomenology. Impenetrable texts and unending issues of interpretation will be set aside, in order to focus on the ideas and insights that phenomenology has to offer. Izchak Miller is the author of many articles on issues relating to phenomenology and the book _Husserl, Perception and Temporal Awareness_ (Bradford, 1983). The opportunity to have Professor Miller visit the Department of Philosophy this winter developed rather suddenly, so the seminar will not begin until Thursday, 17 January. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 10:11:29 MST >From: mnu@inel.gov (Rick Morneau) Subject: Case Grammar Articles I'm looking for references to journal articles that deal with deep case relations and the use of case notation to represent the content of English sentences. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Also, if there is sufficient interest, I'll post a summary. Thank you! *=*=* A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. (T.J.) *=*=* = Rick Morneau Idaho National Engineering Laboratory = * mnu@nairobi.inel.gov Idaho Falls, Idaho 83415 * =*=*=*=*=*=* All kings is mostly rapscallions. (M.T.) =*=*=*=*=*=*= ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 10:46:20 EST >From: dennisp@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil Subject: Interface information A while back I requested information on natural language interfaces to expert systems and database management systems. I promised a listing of what I received. While I am still collecting information, I did come across "The Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence," Vol. 6, No. 12 (December 1990). This issue is titled "Using Natural Language for Database Queries." Individuals interested in NLIs might, therefore, be interested in reading this highly informative report. Dennis Perzanowski Code 5512 Navy Research Laboratory Washington, D.C. 20375-5000 phone: 202-767-9005 arpanet: dennisp@aic.nrl.navy.mil ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 14:08:28 CST >From: seo@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Help: Machine Translation of Russian from/into Other Languages Hi, I am looking for any papers, reports or comments about machine translation of Russian into/from other languages such as English, Japanese, or German, etc. Especially, information about special features (if any) of syntax and phonology of Russian for machine translation and pointers to Russian corpora and Lexicon (preferably in electronic form) would be greatly appreciated. I'll post summaries of replies if there are enough interest. Thank you very much. Jungyun Seo (seo@cs.utexas.edu) +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 Jungyun Seo UUCP: uunet!cs.utexas.edu!seo 1 1 (512) 471-9573 ARPA: seo@cs.utexas.edu 1 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Schedule for Language and Thought Workshop X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Wed, 09 Jan 91 16:01:39 -0600 >From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT Winter Schedule on topics of Poetry, Poetics, Prose Thursday, January 17: Wayne C. Booth: "Why we need an implied author: 4:00 p.m., Wb 408 A Reply to Gerard Genette" Wednesday, January 23: Paula C. Schiller: "Frontiers of Description" 4:00 p.m., Wb 408 5th Week TBA: Stuart Sherman: on song, syntax, and prose 7th Week TBA: Laura McKnight: discussion of readings in preparation for M. Fishbane's talk Wednesday, March 6: Michael Fishbane: on Biblical Poetics ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: sxl@edsdrd.eds.com (S.-G. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.databases Subject: LIFER: Info needed. Keywords: AI, Natural Language, User Interface Date: 10 Jan 91 18:38:33 GMT LIFER was developed by G. Hendrix at SRI International in the 70's as a tool for building natural language (NL) front-ends. Could someone tell me how and where I can get a copy of the system? Are there other systems like it (tool for building NL interface) that are commercially or publically available? Any information, pointers will be much appreciated. (Please e-mail!) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sang-goo Lee / EDS Research & Development / SXL@edsdrd.eds.com Auburn Hills, MI 48326 / - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 09:20:06 PST >From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks) Subject: Syntax Workshop on 29 January, 7:30 p.m. SYNTAX WORKSHOP On Syntactic Reconstruction in Ellipsis Mary Dalrymple Xerox PARC (dalrymple@parc.xerox.com) Tuesday, 29 January, 7:30 p.m. Cordura 100 Analyses of elliptical constructions fall into one of two general types. According to the first type of analysis, syntactic structure is present in the elided portion of a sentence containing ellipsis at some level or stage of derivation. For example, the analysis of Sag (1976) involves deletion of syntactic material in the ellipsis site; more recent analyses within the Government-Binding framework involve reconstruction of syntactic material within the ellipsis site. According to the second type of analysis, the interpretation for a sentence containing ellipsis is obtained by means of a semantic operation in which no syntactic reconstruction or deletion is involved. On the analysis of Dalrymple, Shieber, and Pereira (to appear), for example, the interpretation of elided material is provided by means of solving a semantic equality. Certain phenomena seem to indicate that the first approach is correct; these phenomena involve relations that are usually taken to be syntactic, such as anaphoric and filler-gap dependencies, but which hold even in sentences containing ellipsis. I will examine the evidence for syntactic reconstruction in ellipsis and show that an analysis based on syntactic reconstruction or deletion makes incorrect predictions in many cases. I will also discuss a possible alternative explanation for the data that seem to support a syntactic reconstruction analysis. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: yorick@NMSU.Edu Date: Sun, 13 Jan 91 08:49:46 MST Subject: Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science Recent Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science Ordering of technical reports listed below write to: Memoranda Series Computing Research Laboratory Box 30001 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003 USA [The list of titles and abstracts was too long for inclusions in the digest. Contact the yorick@nmsu.edu for a complete list. - CW ] ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 18 Jan 91 16:46 >From: Peter Hancox <HANCOXPJ@vax1.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk> Subject: Lexical Functional Grammar Interface for a Database Lexical-Functional Grammar Interface for Database Access The School of Computer Science is seeking a Research Associate or Research Fellow to work on a two-year project funded by the Speech Research Unit, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, under the supervision of Dr P J Hancox. The project will take an existing keyboard interface and (through a series of stages) change it into a speech interface. Applicants should have a background in computer science or an allied discipline such as artificial intelligence/cognitive science. Experience of pursuing individual research (eg taught-course project work or an MSc or PhD by research) in a related field (eg cognitive science/artificial intelligence, computational linguistics or logic programming) would be an asset. It may be possible to appoint at the post-doctoral level. Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr P J Hancox (021-414 3819; JANET: P.J.Hancox@uk.ac.bham). Salary on scale for Research Associate/Fellow #11,399 - #13,495/#11,399 - #18, 165. Ref S13079. Application forms (2 copies) returnable by 3rd February 1991 (late applications may be considered) and further particulars available from the Director of Staffing Services, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT. Telephone: 021-414 6483 (24 hours). The University is an equal opportunities employer. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.ai.shell.comp.ai.edu >From: looi@sutro.sfsu.edu (Wan W. Looi) Subject: VP-Expert Users Wanted To Share Info Followup-To: looi@sutro.sfsu.edu Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 01:30:19 GMT Hi, I'm developing an expert sysm application utilizing ES shell called VP-Expert by Paperback Software. I'd like to share or exhange info with anyone who is using this package. I'm sure we can all benefit from these information sharing. Thanks in advance. - - #include <disclaimer.h> % flame >& /dev/null ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 9:35:24 MST >From: "s16062111@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu"@Arizona.EDU Subject: Introductory Reading material anyone? I'm a very beginner in the subject. Can anyone out there suggest good books on this subject? I need to get information for a semi-intelligent user interface which would be able to translate formatted input in English, i.e. the answers to the questions are kept in a certain syntax and semantic format that is understandable by the interface. Rawn Shah =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= shah@caslon.cs.arizona.edu s16062111@ccit.arizona.edu wolfsbayne@128.196.128.35 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 15:39:59 EST >From: neal@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Jeannette Neal) Subject: Call for Participation 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. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: CILS Calendar X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Mon, 14 Jan 91 15:45:50 -0600 >From: colleen@tira.uchicago.edu _________________ T H E C I L S C A L E N D A R ________________ The Center for Information and Language Studies Joseph Regenstein Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 Subscription requests to: cils@tira.uchicago.edu ____________________________________________________________________ Vol. 1, No. 11 January 14, 1991 ~*~ Upcoming events: 1/14 16:00 Wb 130 Workshop Pragmatics 1/17 16:00 Wb 408 Workshop Wayne C. Booth, English 1/21 14:30 Ry 276 Lecture Abraham Bookstein, CILS 1/23 16:00 Wb 408 Workshop Paula C. Schiller 1/25 13:00 Psy G110 Workshop Ronald McClamrock, Philosophy - ------------------------------ MONDAY, JANUARY 14 4:00 p.m. Workshop Wb 130 The Pragmatics of Language Topic to be announced. Readings will be available in the Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics, and in the CILS office. For more information, please contact Jerrold Sadock, Dept. of Linguistics (2-8524) or Josef Stern, Dept. of Philosophy (2-8594). ____________________________________ THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 4:00 p.m. Workshop Wb 408 Language and Thought Wayne C. Booth, Dept. of English "Why We Need an Implied Author: A Reply to Gerard Genette" Readings are available in Cl 11. New participants are welcome. ____________________________________ MONDAY, JANUARY 21 2:30 pm. Lecture Ry 276 Abraham Bookstein, CILS (bkst@tira) "Modelling Bitmap Sets for Data Compression" Abstract Recent approaches to data compression emphasize the distinction between data modelling to determine probabilities of message occurrence, and the use of these probabilities to encode the data. Most such efforts involve a single stream of messages. However, bitmaps often occur in sets in which pairs of bitmaps are related to one another. In this talk I shall review the use of bitmaps in information retrieval and describe three models that exploit relations between bitmaps that might be useful for estimating probabilities of bit occurrence. I shall also indicate how such information can be used as part of a practical compression technique. ____________________________________ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 4:00 p.m. Workshop Wb 408 Language and Thought Paula C. Schiller "Frontiers of Description" ____________________________________ FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 1:00 p.m. Workshop Psy G110 Speech Science Ronald McClamrock, Dept. of Philosophy "Levels of Explanation" For further information, please contact Howard Nusbaum, Department of Psychology, Beecher 408, 702-6468, hcn1@midway. ____________________________________ POSITION AVAILABLE The CENTER FOR INFORMATION AND LANGUAGE STUDIES has a position available for a RESEARCH ASSOCIATE in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS. The Center is an interdisciplinary unit created to conduct research on the organization and analysis of textual and natural language information in a computerized environment. The current staff includes Research Associates in language-oriented information retrieval -- including retrieval software systems and architecture, database organization, and analytic retrieval techniques -- and others interested in natural language parsing, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence. The Center works with associated faculty in the Departments of Computer Science, Linguisitics, and Psychology, and sponsors Graduate Assistantships with these Departments. The Center has an opening at the postdoctoral level for a Research Associate in Computational Linguistics with an interest in natural language processing. This is a research oriented position, with some application development and teaching activities. Current Center interests include morphological and syntactic parsing of French, English and Japanese. The candidate will also work with the Natural Language Software Registry housed at the Center. The position of Research Associate is a one-year appointment with the possibility of reappointment for a second year. The Center has state of the art computing equipment, with research centered around a network of Sun workstations connected to the University ethernet. There is a high speed datalink to the supercomputer center in Urbana. The University is the depository of the ARTFL French language database of 2000 works and 750 megabytes of text; this, as well as a number of other large full-text databases, is available for research purposes through the University Network. Please send a curriculum vitae by e-mail or surface mail to Assistant Director Center for Information and Language Studies University of Chicago JRL S-107 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637 mark@gide.uchicago.edu ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************