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NL-KR Digest (Thu Dec 20 11:57:39 1990) Volume 7 No. 30 Today's Topics: CFP: APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS CogSci/Education Position CFP: ACL-91 Workshop on Lexical Semantics and KR CFP for 1991 ILPS Multimodal dialogue workshop (2nd Announcement) Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.5.17] 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: Thu, 13 Dec 90 12:03:31 CST >From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX> Subject: CFP: APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS IN INFORMATICS: Software Engineering, Data Base Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Environments, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems. C A L L F O R P A P E R S Preliminary Version. The Fourth International Sysmposium on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Cancun Mexico on November 13-15, 1991. The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc., the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, the Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico. Papers from all countries are sought that: (1) Present applications of artificial intelligence technology to the solution of problems in Software Engineering, Data Base Systems, Computer Networks, Programming Environments, Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems and other Informatics technologies; and (2) Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications, (3) Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology in different socio-economic contexts and environments. Areas of application include but are no limited to: Software development, software design, software testing and validation, computer-aided software engineering, programming environments, structured techniques, intelligent databases, operating systems, intelligent compilers, local networks, computer network design, satellite and telecommunications, MIS and data processing applications, intelligent decision support systems. AI techniques include but are not limited to: Expert systems, knowledge acquisition and representation, natural language processing, computer vision, neural networks and genetic algorithms, automated learning, automated reasoning, search and problem solving, knowledge engineering tools and methodologies. Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written in English to: Hugo Terashima, Program Chair Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM. Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Col.Tecnologico C.P. 64849 Monterrey, N.L. Mexico Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 Ext.5134 Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial Ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask Ext.5143 Net address: ISAI@tecmtyvm.bitnet or ISAI@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx The paper should identify the area and technique to which it belongs. Extended abstract is not required. Use a serif type font, size 10, sigle-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted by electronic means. Important dates: Papers must be received by April 30,1991. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 15,1991. A final copy of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium proceedings, will be due by July 15,1991. ======================================================================= ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 16:23:49 -0600 >From: Ellen Brewer <ebrewer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: CogSci/Education Position Faculty Position in COGNITIVE SCIENCE and EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN. Tenure track faculty position in Cognitive Science in Department of Educational Psychology. Open rank, preference for advanced assistant or beginning associate professor, available August 1991. Requires earned doctorate specializing in some aspect of cognitive science, plus a demonstrated record of scholarly productivity in an area of cognitive science important to educational issues, or in applying cognitive science perspectives to education. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill traditional professorial roles; also, to provide leadership in graduate instruction in cognitive science and education, and in developing programs of research that take cognitive science approaches to address issues of importance to education. With appropriate qualifications, affiliation with the Center for the Study of Reading or the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology is possible. Salary is competitive. To ensure full consideration, apply by January 31, 1991, (letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of reference, sample publications, and other supporting materials) to George McConkie, Department of Educational Psychology, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820. (217) 333-7634. The University of Illinois is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Please address all email concerning this position to george@huey.vp.uiuc.edu - - Ellen Brewer (ebrewer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) "Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco." ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 19 Dec 90 17:52 EDT >From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> Subject: CFP: ACL-91 Workshop on Lexical Semantics and KR X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation 17 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, California, USA A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX) of the Association for Computational Linguistics TOPICS OF INTEREST: The recent resurgence of interest in lexical semantics (LS) has brought many linguistic formalisms closer to the knowledge representation (KR) languages utilized in AI. In fact, some formalisms from computational linguistics are emerging which may be more expressive and formally better understood than many KR languages. Furthermore, the interests of computational linguists now extend to include areas previously thought beyond the scope of grammar and linguistics, such as commonsense knowledge, inheritance, default reasoning, collocational relations, and even domain knowledge. With such an extension of the purview of "linguistic" knowledge, the question emerges as to whether there is any logical justification for distinguishing between lexical semantics and world knowledge. The purpose of this workshop is to explore this question in detail, with papers addressing the following points: a. Possible methods for determining what is lexical knowledge and what is outside the scope of such knowledge. b. Potential demonstrations that the inferences necessary for language understanding are no different from supposed non-linguistic inferences. c. Arguments from language acquisition and general concept development. d. Cross-linguistic evidence for the specificity of lexical semantic representations. e. Philosophical arguments for the (impossibility of the) autonomy of lexical knowledge. f. Theoretical approaches and implemented systems that combine lexical and non-lexical knowledge. FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of a position paper describing the work they have done in this area and specifying why they would like to participate in the workshop. Papers should be a minimum of four pages and a maximum of ten single-spaced pages (exclusive of references). The title page should include the title, full names of all authors and their complete addresses including electronic addresses where applicable, and a short (5 line) summary. Submissions that do not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to: James Pustejovsky Computer Science Department Ford Hall Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 USA (+1-617) 736-2709 jamesp@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: Attendance will be limited to 35-40 participants. The workshop is held in connection with the 29th Meeting of the ACL (18-21 June). Local arrangements are being handled by Peter Norvig (Division of Computer Science, University of California, 573 Evans Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, (+1-415) 642-9533, norvig@teak.berkeley.edu). TENTATIVE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Branimir Boguraev Ulrich Heid Peter Norvig James Pustejovsky Robert Wilensky ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: saraswat@parc.xerox.com Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 23:39:24 PST Subject: CFP for 1991 ILPS ILPS91 --- Call For Papers 1991 INTERNATIONAL LOGIC PROGRAMMING SYMPOSIUM * (* Formerly called ``North American Conference on Logic Programming'' (NACLP)) San Diego, California, U.S.A., October 28--31, 1991 Sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming. In cooperation with ACM (SIGACT, SIGPLAN, SIGART, SIGMOD), IEEE Computer Society, AAAI and ESPRIT (pending). Arising from logic programming, exciting new areas of intellectual inquiry are emerging in the interaction of concurrency, logic, constraints, algorithms, and parallel processing. To foster the development of such areas, a major goal of this conference is to promote technical interaction between logic programming and neighboring fields including artificial intelligence, logic, databases and theoretical computer science. Papers are invited on all aspects of logic programming and its connections with neighboring fields. Both theoretical and practical papers are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Foundations --- Semantics / Proof theory / Concurrency / Constraints and partial information / Knowledge representation and reasoning / Non-monotonic reasoning / Computational interpretation of various logics / Constructive logics (proofs-as-program principle) / Higher-order logics / Situation semantics - Languages and Programming --- [Concurrent] [Constraint] Logic programming languages / Extensions to logic programming / Language design and constructs / Constraint-satisfaction techniques and algorithms / Programming environments / Meta-programming and reflection - Implementation --- Compilation techniques / Architectures / Parallelism / Performance evaluation - Reasoning About Programs --- Program analysis and abstract interpretation / Program synthesis / Program transformation / Verification / Reasoning about safety and liveness properties - Applications --- Natural languages / Design, Diagnosis and Testing / Planning / Software engineering - Logic Databases --- Disjunctive databases / Finite model theory / Logical updates / Logics of objects / Datalog optimization Papers must be written in English and must not exceed 5000 words in length, including a 200 word abstract and excluding references. (This translates to approximately ten pages in 10 point on 16 point spacing.) Papers that exceed this limit are likely to be returned without being refereed. Submit six copies by MARCH 15, 1991 to: Vijay Saraswat, Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: ilps91@parc.xerox.com Phone: +1.415.494.4747 Fax: +1.415.494.4334 Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by JUNE 15, 1991. Final versions of accepted papers must be received by the MIT Press in camera-ready form by July 19, 1991. The conference will have one poster session on applications and will be followed by several post-conference workshops, which will be announced separately. INVITED SPEAKERS Robert Constable, Cornell U., USA Koichi Furukawa, ICOT, Japan Vladimir Lifschitz, Stanford U., USA Johan van Benthem, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hassan Ait-Kaci, DEC PRL, France Catriel Beeri, Hebrew U., Israel Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden Johan de Kleer, Xerox PARC, USA Atsuhiro Goto, NTT, Japan Ken Kahn, Xerox PARC, USA Deepak Kapur, SUNY (Albany), USA Michael Kifer, SUNY (Stony Brook), USA Alan Mackworth, U. British Columbia, Canada Michael Maher, IBM Hawthorne, USA Ugo Montanari, U. Pisa, Italy Gopalan Nadathur, Duke U., USA Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore, USA Stanley Peters, CSLI, USA David Plaisted, U. North Carolina, USA Gordon Plotkin, U. Edinburgh, UK Teodor Pryzmusinski, U. Texas (El Paso), USA Harald Sondergaard, U. Melbourne, Australia Evan Tick, U. Oregon, USA Allen van Gelder, U. California (Santa Cruz), USA Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown U., USA David H.D. Warren, U. Bristol, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Vijay Saraswat, Xerox PARC, USA Kazunori Ueda, ICOT, Japan CONFERENCE CHAIR Ken Kahn, Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA E-mail: ilps91@parc.xerox.com Phone: +1.415.494.4390 Fax: +1.415.494.4334 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Steve Taylor, CalTech, USA E-Mail: steve@vlsi.caltech.edu WORKSHOP COORDINATOR Kim Marriott, IBM Hawthorne, USA E-mail: kimbal@ibm.com POSTER SESSION CHAIR Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve U., USA E-mail: leon@alpha.ces.cwru.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: mmt@client2.DRETOR (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.groupware,comp.infosystems,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology Subject: Multimodal dialogue workshop (2nd Announcement) Keywords: HCI communication dialogue workshop Date: 21 Dec 90 14:41:49 GMT WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT THE STRUCTURE OF MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE Second Invitational VENACO WORKSHOP and ESCA TUTORIAL and RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ETRW) on Italy or Southern France, Sept 16-20, 1991 Organized by The Venaco Workshops committee, and The European Speech Communication Association Nature of the workshop This is the second announcement and call for nominees to an international interdisciplinary research workshop and ETRW on the Structure of Multimodal Dialogues, to be held in Italy or Southern France, September 16-20, 1991. The workshop is a five-year follow-up of one held in Venaco, Corsica, in September 1986, the results of which were published in the book "The Structure of Multimodal Dialogue" (Eds., Taylor, Neel, and Bouwhuis, Elsevier North-Holland, 1989). About 40 nominees will be invited to participate, of whom 20-25 will be asked to present "provocation papers". They, and perhaps others, will be requested to provide chapters for the book that will be derived from the workshop. The primary objective of the workshop will be to advance our understanding of human-computer (and human-human) interaction that uses multiple modalities of communication. The first part of the workshop will form a European Speech Communication Association Tutorial and Research Worskshop (ETRW). The workshop should be of interest to psychologists studying human interaction as well as to those concerned with human-computer interaction. Structure of the Workshop The Second Venaco Workshop and ETRW on the Structure of Multimodal Dialogue will be held immediately before the 2nd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech'91) which will take place in Genova, Italy 24-26 September 1991. A book will be derived from the workshop presentations and discussions. This will not be a "Proceedings" volume in the ordinary sense, in that authors will be encouraged to revise and coordinate their presentations for publication in light of events at the workshop. It is intended that an editorial panel will work the presentations, together with chapters based on the discussions, into a unified book, as was done for the first Venaco Workshop. The workshop will be structured around four Themes (yet to be decided). Suggestions for appropriate Themes are hereby solicited. Each Theme will feature a set of five or six papers intended to provoke discussion rather than to present research. These provocation papers will be presented on four afternoons, with the discussion on the following morning. The discussions will be taped so that they may provide the basis for chapters in the resulting book. The format of the workshop is thus: Monday morning: Tutorial on Dialogue structure afternoon: Paper presentations on Theme 1 (Speech-related) Tuesday morning: discussion on Theme 1 afternoon: Paper presentations on Theme 2 (Speech-Related) Wednesday morning: discussion on Theme 2 (End of segment on primarily speech-related dialogue) afternoon: Paper presentations on Theme 3 (General multimodal) Thursday morning: discussion on Theme 3 afternoon: Paper presentations on Theme 4 (General multimodal) Friday morning: discussion on Theme 4 afternoon: General Discussion on the Structure of Multimodal Dialogue Themes 1 and 2 will be based around Speech Communication (human-human and human-machine communication, whether speech is the only communication mode or is used in combination with other modes). The agenda will focus on those themes during the first three days, thus allowing attendees interested only in speech to attend only part of the total workshop. The other two Themes (3 and 4) will mainly concern other modes of communication and multimodal dialogues that may or may not have vocal components. Attendance at the workshop Participation in the full workshop will be limited to about 40 invited persons. For the ETRW (the speech-related first half), a few other attendees will be accepted as observers who may contribute by presenting their research in poster sessions. If any participants wish to demonstrate interaction techniques that illustrate some aspect of the problem of multimodal dialogue, such demonstrations might be incorporated as Theme provocation papers, or included with poster sessions, or presented during the evening appropriate to the Theme they illustrate. Demonstrations intended simply to present work accomplished, rather than to illustrate a Theme, are not encouraged. Participants wishing to present demonstrations must arrange for their own supporting hardware and software. The registration fee will be small (about Ecus 160 (US$220 (according to the rate of mid-November 1990), ESCA members will have a 40 Ecus reduction), whether attendance is for the full workshop or for only the speech-related first half, and will be the same for invited participants as for observers. Some financial assistance may be available to invited participants who would otherwise be unable to attend. Nominations to the Workshop This announcement solicits nomination of potential attendees and observers. At the first Venaco workshop, many different disciplines from social psychology to hard AI were represented, and many of the attendees were hardly aware that some of the disciplines of other attendees existed. We hope that an even wider range of disciplines will be represented in 1991, and that as much cross-fertilization across disciplines will occur. Nominations are solicited especially from those concerned with the development of dialogue skills, whether in children or in novice users of computers. It is unreasonable to suppose that the organizers are aware of more than a small fraction of people who might be valuable contributors and who would find attendance valuable. Accordingly, we solicit responses not only from people who might wish an invitation, but also from people who might know someone who might like to be invited. In nominating yourself or someone else, please provide a BRIEF introduction to the nominee's interest and competence in the area of multimodal interaction, and if appropriate, suggest a Theme for which the nominee would be particularly suited. Responses may be sent, preferably by e-mail, before the 31th of January 1991, to: Dr. M. M. Taylor DCIEM Box 2000, North York Ontario, Canada M3M 3B9 (phone) +1 416 635-2048(fax) +1 416, 635-2104 (e-mail) mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca, or Mme F. Neel (that's an acute accent on the first e) LIMSI-CNRS BP-133 91403 ORSAY Cedex France (phone) +33 1 69 85 80 64 (fax) +33 1 69 85 80 88 (e-mail) neel@frlim51.bitnet (EARN), neel@limsi.fr (FNET) or Dr. D. G. Bouwhuis IPO PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands (phone) +31 40 41 57 40 (fax) +31 40 75 88 85 (e-mail) bouwhuis@HEIIPO5.bitnet I am sending you also a copy by fax Francoise - - Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048 There is no legal canon prohibiting the application of common sense (Judge James Fontana, July 1990, on staying the prosecution of a case) ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************