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NL-KR Digest (Wed Dec 5 15:18:35 1990) Volume 7 No. 28 Today's Topics: UM92 - Call for Participation Lexical and Knowledge Acquisition Talk Monday, Dec. 3 CILS Calendar Syntax Workshop, 27 November, 7:30 p.m. 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: "Winfried Graf" <graf@dfki.uni-sb.de> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 15:50:37 +0100 Subject: UM92 - Call for Participation CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / CALL FOR PAPERS UM 92 3rd International Workshop on User Modeling August 10-13, 1992 International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI) Dagstuhl Castle, Germany The third International User Modeling Workshop, UM92, will be held from August 10 to August 13, 1992 at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (IBFI) at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany. Local arrangements will be handled by Elisabeth Andre, Winfried Graf and Wolfgang Wahlster of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbruecken site. More information can be obtained from graf@dfki.uni-sb.de. ORGANIZATION The workshop will be organized to allow for: (i) Paper presentations, organized into sessions chaired by a commentator; at the end of each session, the commentator will direct general discussion (ii) Organized panel discussions (iii) Parallel discussion groups on specific sub-topics, with all participants from the parallel groups later joining together for sharing of new insights PARTICIPATION Because of the format combining paper presentations and discussion, the call for participation is open to researchers who either have a paper to present or some concrete ideas with respect to the open discussion portion of the workshop. People who submit papers that do not get accepted for presentation will still be considered as potential discussion participants. People who attend to present a paper will automatically be assigned to one of the organized parallel discussion groups, for participation. The best papers will be published in the international journal 'User Modeling and User- Adapted Information' after the workshop. Attendance at the workshop is limited to 60 persons. All papers submitted will be reviewed; accepted papers will be granted a small amount of time for revision. The program committee is chaired by Robin Cohen, Bob Kass and Cecile Paris, and will be composed of leading researchers in the field, to be announced at a later date. Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. Anyone who is interested in attending the workshop must fill in the call for participation form and submit it by February 22, 1991(!) to: UM92; c/o Robin Cohen; Department of Computer Science; University of Waterloo; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; N2L 3G1 Note that commentators will be given the papers for their session (about 3-4 papers per session) in advance of the workshop, in order to prepare directed discussion. Panels and panel topics, discussion group topics are quite open - innovative, concrete suggestions are solicited. The discussion portion of the workshop is intended to lead to a clarification of the aims and directions of the field. IMPORTANT DATES February 22, 1991(!) - call for participation forms due February 1, 1992 - submitted papers due April 1, 1992 - notification of acceptance May 15, 1992 - final papers due INFORMATION ON PAPER SUBMISSIONS Send five (5) copies of an extended abstract by February 1, 1992 to: Bob Kass; EDS Center for Machine Intelligence; 2001 Commonwealth Blvd; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA The abstract should be 2500 words maximum (about 8 pages double spaced). Clearly indicate the proposed advances to the field of user modeling, and include comparison with related work. Papers will be judged on originality, clarity of presentation and significance to the field. Full papers will be allowed up to 5000 words. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. PROGRAM COMMITTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES FOR REFERENCE Robin Cohen; Department of Computer Science; University of Waterloo; Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Bob Kass; EDS Center for Machine Intelligence; 2001 Commonwealth Blvd.; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, USA (kass@cmi.com) Cecile Paris; USC/Information Sciences Institute; 4674 Admiralty Way; Marina del Rey, California 90292-6695, USA (paris@vaxa.isi.edu) ****************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FORM Name: Address: Phone: E-mail: I plan to submit a paper: Yes_____ No_____ If yes: supply a max. 350 word preliminary abstract (on a separate page); indicate general sub-area of user modeling: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ I am interested in serving as a commentator: Yes___ No____ If yes: provide position, rank, institution, brief biography, indicating sub-area(s) of interest within user modeling. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ I am interested in participating in a panel or subgroup discussion: Yes____ No____ If yes: provide position, rank, institution, brief biography, indicating sub-area(s) of interest within user modeling. _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ For panels, present a brief description of proposed panel, including title, scope and any panelists you already have in mind: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ - Are you willing to chair a panel? Yes____ No____ - Which discussion group on the preliminary list interests you? _____________________________________________________________________ - Is there another discussion group topic you want to propose? If so, provide title, brief sketch: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ - Are you willing to chair a discussion group? Yes___ No____ User Modeling Sub-Areas: 1. Psychological foundations and cognitive modeling 2. Student modeling 3. Plan recognition 4. User modeling for natural language dialog 5. User modeling for natural language generation 6. Formal representations of user models (belief modeling) 7. Acquisition of user models 8. Explanation strategies with user modeling 9. Recognition and correction of misconceptions 10. Shell systems for user modeling 11. User modeling and the design of interfaces Preliminary Discussion Groups List: 1. What is user modeling? - towards a definition 2. When is user modeling not necessary? 3. The advantages and disadvantages of stereotypes? 4. Does student modeling have different issues from user modeling? 5. Does user modeling require psychological modeling? 6. Does interface design differ from user modeling? 7. The practicality of user models - ready for real systems or still far away? ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Lexical and Knowledge Acquisition Talk Monday, Dec. 3 X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 12:37:25 -0600 >From: colleen%tira@gargoyle.uchicago.edu MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 11:00 a.m. Ry 275 Lexical Acquisition and Knowledge Acquisition Brian M. Slator The Institute for the Learning Sciences Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60201 It is widely agreed that the "high-minded" tasks of AI require an extensive and elaborate collection of general, low-level, world-knowledge structures in place to begin with. Meanwhile, there has recently been an increased emphasis on questions of "scale" in AI and Computational Linguistics. The subject of this talk is in the intersection of these concerns: with developing procedures that will produce a knowledge base of lexical semantic structures from a machine-readable dictionary, with a view towards independently developing a knowledge-based (Preference Semantics) parsing system that operates over those structures. Much of this research deals, either implicitly or explicitly, with an issue often referred to as "bootstrapping": applying a core of knowledge to the act of acquiring more knowledge. Bootstrapping works incrementally, at the word level in the short term, through the analysis of machine-readable dictionary entries, and later at the sentence and text level. This talk describes a system for automatic lexical acquisition, and another system for parsing that uses these lexical structures. The parsing produces knowledge structures intended to have a dual purpose: first, to be suitable for other knowledge-based programs to operate over and, second, to augment the knowledge base of the original system. The hidden agenda is to attack the problem of automatic knowledge acquisition as a means of widening the "knowledge acquisition bottleneck." ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: CILS Calendar X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Mon, 03 Dec 90 08:31:19 -0600 >From: colleen%tira@gargoyle.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. 9 December 3, 1990 ~*~ Upcoming events: 12/3 11:00 Ry 275 Lecture Brian Slator, Northwestern 12/3 16:00 JRL S-126 Workshop Stephen Neale, Berkeley 12/7 14:00 Psy G110 Workshop Susan Goldin-Meadow and Howard C. Nusbaum, Psychology 12/7 15:00 Ry 276 Lecture Scott Deerwester, CILS - ------------------------------ MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 11:00 Guest Lecture Ry 275 Brian Slator, Institute for Learning Sciences Northwestern University "Lexical Acquisition and Knowledge Acquisition" Abstract It is widely agreed that the "high-minded" tasks of AI require an extensive and elaborate collection of general, low-level, world-knowledge structures in place to begin with. Meanwhile, there has recently been an increased emphasis on questions of "scale" in AI and Computational Linguistics. The subject of this talk is in the intersection of these concerns: with developing procedures that will produce a knowledge base of lexical semantic structures from a machine-readable dictionary, with a view towards independently developing a knowledge-based (Preference Semantics) parsing system that operates over those structures. Much of this research deals, either implicitly or explicitly, with an issue often referred to as "bootstrapping": applying a core of knowledge to the act of acquiring more knowledge. Bootstrapping works incrementally, at the word level in the short term, through the analysis of machine-readable dictionary entries, and later at the sentence and text level. This talk describes a system for automatic lexical acquisition, and another system for parsing that uses these lexical structures. The parsing produces knowledge structures intended to have a dual purpose: first, to be suitable for other knowledge-based programs to operate over and, second, to augment the knowledge base of the original system. The hidden agenda is to attack the problem of automatic knowledge acquisition as a means of widening the "knowledge acquisition bottleneck." ***** 4:00 p.m. Workshop JRL S-126 The Pragmatics of Language Stephen Neale, Dept. of Philosophy, Berkeley "'AND' and '&' and "BUT'" For more information, please contact Jerrold Sadock, Dept. of Linguistics (2-8524) or Josef Stern, Dept. of Philosophy (2-8594). - --------------------------------- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 2:00 p.m. Workshop Psy G110 Speech Science Susan Goldin-Meadow and Howard C. Nusbaum Department of Psychology "Cognitive Issues and Concept Acquisition" For further information, please contact Howard Nusbaum, Department of Psychology, Beecher 408, 702-6468, hcn1@midway. ***** 3:00 p.m. Lecture Ry 276 Scott Deerwester, CILS "The TIRA Textual Object Management System" Abstract Text, as represented in a computer, is a flat sequence of bytes. It is useful, however, to think of text as being composed of higher level objects than bytes, and to be able to write computer programs that operate on these objects, as well as on collections of objects. The purpose of the Textual Object Management System (TOMS) is to implement an abstraction of text as a structure populated by such objects. In this talk I discuss the abstraction presented by the TOMS, from the point of view of both a client and a textual database designer. - ------------------------------- End of CILS Calendar ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 09:26:26 PST >From: ingrid@russell.Stanford.EDU (Ingrid Deiwiks) Subject: Syntax Workshop, 27 November, 7:30 p.m. SYNTAX WORKSHOP The Quasi-serial Verb Construction GO GET in Modern English Geoffrey K. Pullum UC Santa Cruz/Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Tuesday, 27 November, 7:30 p.m. Cordura 100 The construction illustrated by "Go get your shoes" or "Come see my new bike" has been discussed in a number of works that are oddly isolated from each other and almost all incorrect in their claims about the facts. In this talk, I survey the properties of the construction, distinguish it from an array of distinct constructions that are sometimes confused with it (e.g., "Go and get your shoes" and "Try and find your shoes"), and draw some theoretical conclusions. The chief descriptive problem that the construction raises has to do with its curious anti-inflection constraint and the location of that constraint in the syntactic, morphological, or phonological domain. The data relevant to this topic, however, reveal a very surprising degree of inter-speaker variability that seems likely to thwart most current attempts to derive the anti-inflection constraint from theoretical principles. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************