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NL-KR Digest (Wed Dec 19 16:12:35 1990) Volume 7 No. 29 Today's Topics: TOMITA in Prolog Categorial grammars new list for linguists MT Evaluation Workshop: Call for Participation Reversible Grammar Call: Correction on Submission Date - 1 March 1991 EJournal announcement, December 1990 CfP: AAAI-91 Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces Workshop 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 >From: siegeert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Geert Adriaens) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: TOMITA in Prolog Keywords: determ parsing, Prolog Date: 7 Dec 90 17:24:48 GMT Does anyone know of a public domain Prolog implementation of Tomita's LR-parsing system (Tomita 1985)? Thanks. - - Geert Adriaens (SIEMENS-METAL Project & University of Leuven) Maria Theresiastraat 21 siegeert@kulcs.uucp or B-3000 Leuven siegeert@blekul60.bitnet or tel: ..32 16 285091 285098(fax) siegeert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: "Antoni Diller <ard@cs.bham.ac.uk>" <ard@cs.bham.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Categorial grammars Date: 17 Dec 90 12:57:49 GMT Source-Info: From (or Sender) name not authenticated. I'm looking for implementations of categorial grammars, or any applications that make use of categorial grammars. I've only studied such grammars theoretically, so any information about programs will be very much appreciated. email please, and I'll summarise the replies I get. Thanks. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 17 Dec 90 11:51 EDT >From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> Subject: new list for linguists X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu ANNOUNCING A NEW LIST LINGUIST@UNIWA.UWA.OZ.AU A new list has been formed, which will serve as a place of discussion for those issues which concern the academic discipline of linguistics and related fields. The list is international in orientation, and hopes to provide a forum for the community of linguists as they exist in different countries. Though the list is moderated, and all submissions are subject to editorial discretion, it has no areal, ideological or theoretical bent, and discussion of any linguistic subfield are welcomed. Membership of the list is open to all. To subscribe to this list, please send a message to LINGUIST-REQUEST@UNIWA.UWA.OZ.AU containing as its first and only line the following: SUBSCRIBE LINGUIST Any other questions may be directed to: LINGUIST-EDITORS@UNIWA.UWA.OZ.AU ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: 17 Dec 90 18:37 +0100 >From: falkedal kirsten <kirsten@divsun.unige.ch> Subject: MT Evaluation Workshop: Call for Participation Evaluators' Forum: Call for Participation. The International Working Group on Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems is organising a four day meeting from April 21st to 24th, 1991, for the discussion of evaluation techniques. The primary purpose of the meeting is to provide evaluators with a forum for the exchange of experience and of views on effective techniques. The meeting will therefore be structured around critical presentations of particular techniques. In order to facilitate fruitful discussion, the number of participants will be limited. Participation is invited from those with past or present experience of evaluation, and from those who expect to be involved in the evaluation of machine (assisted) translation systems. The meeting will be held in the Grand Hotel des Rasses, Ste. Croix, Vaud, Switzerland. The hotel is situated on the balcony of the Jura mountains, looking down on the lake of Neuchatel and across to the Alps. Access to Yverdon, the nearest substantial town, is easy, with direct rail links from Geneva and Zurich airports. From there a regular train service will take participants to Ste. Croix in a little over half an hour. The hotel will provide transport for the remaining short road journey. The workshop fee is 750 Sfrs., which includes registration and documentation, accommodation and all meals from dinner on the evening of Saturday April 20th to lunch on Wednesday, April 24th., transport between the hotel and Ste. Croix and access to all hotel facilities (swimming pool, tennis courts, mini-golf etc.). Intending participants should send a brief (2 page maximum) description of their potential contribution by January 31st, 1991 to Kirsten Falkedal ISSCO 54 rte des Acacias CH-1227 Carouge Switzerland e-mail: kirsten@divsun.unige.ch voice: (+41) (22) 705 7114 fax: (+41) (22) 300 1086 from whom further information may also be obtained. Margaret King Gudrun Magnusdottir ISSCO Dept. of Computational Linguistics University of Gothenburg Sweden ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 13:53:30 -0500 >From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker) Subject: Reversible Grammar Call: Correction on Submission Date - 1 March 1991 CALL FOR PAPERS Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing 17 June 1991 University of California Berkeley, California, USA A workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Groups on Generation (SIGGEN) and Parsing (SIGPARSE) of the Association for Computational Linguistics and supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency TOPICS OF INTEREST: The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers whose work concerns problems of reversible grammar systems that are designed for, or may find applications in, Natural Language Processing. Papers are invited on significant, original and unpublished research on all aspects of reversible grammars, including, but not limited to: (1) Reversible computation (multi-directional and non-directional computation; algorithms for program inversion and transformation; efficiency issues); (2) Reversible natural language systems (parsers and generators for reversible grammars; reversibility of unification-based grammars; new architectures for reversible natural language processing; knowledge representation issues; reversible machine translation; lexicons for bidirectional systems; reversibility in discourse processing); (3) Reversible grammars in linguistic theory (formal characterization; reversibility within various grammatical frameworks, eg., GB, LFG, GPSG, HPSG, TAG, categorial grammars; reversibility in rule-based and principle-based approaches; reversibility and semantic compositionality). FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of their papers in hard copy form. 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: Tomek Strzalkowski Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway, Room 704 New York, NY 10003, USA tomek@cs.nyu.edu (+1-212) 998-3496 SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by 1 March 1991 (NOT 31 March, as in a previous release). Authors will be notified of acceptance by 5 April 1991. A camera-ready copy of the final paper prepared in the two-column format must be received by 10 May 1991. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by the ACL. WORKSHOP INFORMATION: 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). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Marc Dymetman, Gertjan van Noord, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Tomek Strzalkowski. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 13:55 EST >From: EJOURNAL@ALBNYVMS.BITNET Subject: EJournal announcement, December 1990 X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@RPIECS.BITNET _EJournal_ is an all-electronic, Bitnet/Internet distributed, peer-reviewed, academic periodical. We are particularly interested in theory and praxis surrounding the creation, transmission, storage, interpretation, alteration and replication of electronic text. We are also interested in the broader social, psychological, literary, economic and pedagogical implications of computer-mediated networks. Texts that address virtually any subject across this broad spectrum will be given thoughtful consideration. Members of the electronic-network community and others interested in it make up a large portion of our audience. Therefore we would be interested (for example) in essays about whether or not anyone should own a communication that has been shared electronically, about the pragmatics of cataloguing and indexing electronic publications, about net-based collaborative learning, about artful uses of hypertext, about the challenges that distance learning may offer to residential campuses, about the role of The Matrix in cultural history and Utopian polemic, about digitally recorded aleatoric fiction, about the significance of resemblances between the electronic matrix and neural systems, . . . and so forth. The journal's essays will be available free to Bitnet/Internet addresses. Recipients may make paper copies; _EJournal_ will provide authenticated paper copy from our read-only archive for use by academic deans or other supervisors. Individual essays, reviews, stories-- texts - -sent to us will be disseminated to subscribers as soon as they have been through the editorial process, which will also be "paperless." We expect to offer access through libraries to our electronic Contents, Abstracts, and Keywords, and to be indexed and abstracted in appropriate places. _EJournal_ is now soliciting essays for possible publication. We will be happy to consider reviews, letters, and (eventually) annotations that ought to accompany texts we have already published. We would be happy to add interested specialists and generalists to our panel of consulting editors. 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Scanlon Rochester Institute of Technology r0731@csuohio Nelson Pole Cleveland State ryle@urvax Martin Ryle Richmond twbatson@gallua Trent Batson Gallaudet usercoop@ualtamts Wes Cooper Alberta userlcbk@umichum Bill Condon Michigan - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Addresses once more: ejournal@albnyvms.bitnet ejournal@rachel.albany.edu **** END of _EJournal_ announcement ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: "Alfred Kobsa" <ak@cs.uni-sb.de> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 08:55:04 +0100 Subject: CfP: AAAI-91 Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS AAAI-91 INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES WORKSHOP 14 or 15 July, 1991 (to be determined) Anaheim, CA GOAL Over the past few years there has been increased interest in and investigation into the utilization of multiple modes of communication (e.g., textual, graphical, auditory) in intelligent interfaces. Research in this area is in the formative stages and is just now beginning to address difficult fundamental problems. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to report on current advances in multimedia interface systems and their underlying theories, to foster scientific interchange among these individuals, and as a group to evaluate current efforts and make recommendations for future investigations into multimedia interface technology. A report on the workshop will be submitted to AI Magazine. ISSUES Submissions are invited on original research in all aspects of multimedia interfaces, including, but not limited to: * Coordination of multiple modalities, both in terms of input and output * Planning and realization of multimedia explanations * Media-dependent and media-independent meaning representation languages * Architectures for multimedia interfaces * Discourse and user models for multiple modalities * Qualitative/quantitative measures and black box/glass box methods for evaluation of multimedia interfaces * Philosophical and psycholinguistic models of multimodal interaction SUBMISSIONS Interested participants should forward FIVE copies of a 4-5 page (double spaced) position paper addressing a specific intelligent multimedia interface issue along with a brief description of their research activities to Mark Maybury, MS-A047, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 Tel: (617) 271-7230. Submissions must be *received* by March 8, 1991. Please include name, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail address. Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mark Maybury (chair) The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA 01730 (maybury@linus.mitre.org) Steve Feiner, Dept of CS, Columbia University, 500 W. 120 Street, NY (feiner@cs.columbia.edu) New York, NY 10027-7031 Alfred Kobsa, Dept of CS, Univ. of Saarbruecken (kobsa@cs.uni-sb.de) D-6600 Saarbruecken 11 GERMANY Bonnie Webber, Dept of Computer & Information Science, U of Pennsylvania, (bonnie@cis.upenn.edu) Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 SCHEDULE March 8, 1991 -- Submissions due April 15, 1991 -- Notification of acceptance May 15, 1991 -- Camera-ready workshop paper due June 14, 1991 -- AAAI-91 late registration deadline July 15, 1991 -- Workshop ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************