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NL-KR Digest (Wed Dec 5 11:26:22 1990) Volume 7 No. 27 Today's Topics: Formal models of NL Aquisition Kucera & Frances AI Seminar Announcement Faculty position in natural language, University of Toronto GENELEX Project Announcement LIKE Workshop LN list in computational linguistics Avignon NLP'91 Conference 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 [128.213.5.17] 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: NEZA@alf.let.uva.nl Date: Tue, 27 Nov 90 16:13 MET Subject: Formal models of NL Aquisition I have recently started research in the field of natural language acquisition. The purpose of the research is a data-driven formal model. I am mainly inter- ested in conceptual learning and semantics (I tend to think that syntax follows when these issues are taken care of). I am looking for related research in this field (anything that is formal but still based on some cognitive psychological ideas). If you could offer me some hints, help or any other useful communication, please contact me at the follow- ing address: NEZA@ALF.LET.UVA.NL. Much obliged, Neza van der Leeuw. Computational Linguistics. Faculty of Arts. University of Amsterdam. Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: cronk@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Brian C Cronk) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Kucera & Frances Date: 3 Dec 90 20:12:54 GMT Originator: cronk@convex.csd.uwm.edu Does anyone out there know where to get an electronic copy of the Kucera and Frances word frequency data? (preferably a free copy) - Brian Cronk Psychology cronk@convex.csd.uwm.edu ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: Marie Meteer <mmeteer@BBN.COM> Subject: AI Seminar Announcement Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 16:43:41 EST Mail-System-Version: <MacEMail_1.2.3@BBN.COM> BBN Science Development Program AI Seminar Series Lecture COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR RUSSIAN NATALIA PERCOVA University of Moscow Russian Language Institute of the USSR Academy of Science BBN, 2nd floor large conference room 10 Moulton St, Cambridge MA, 02138 Friday, December 7th, 1990, 2:00 PM An expert system for scientific and technical research documents is being developed at Moscow University and the All-Union Scientific and Technical Information Center. The linguistic processor of Russian for this system consists of several components: inflectional, derivational, syntactic, and semantic. An overview of the linguistic processor will be given. Special attention will be paid to the derivational and semantic components. The problem of English-Russian and Russian-English translation for a restricted domain (spatial relations) will be touched upon. ******************************************************* Suggestions for AI Seminar speakers are always welcome. Please e-mail suggestions to Marie Meteer (mmeteer@bbn.com) or Dan Cerys (cerys@bbn.com). ******************************************************* ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Fri, 30 Nov 90 11:08:59 -0500 >From: gh@cs.rochester.edu Subject: Faculty position in natural language, University of Toronto UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Department of Computer Science The department invites applications for a tenured, tenure-track, or contractually limited position in any area of Computer Science. We are particularly seeking applications in the areas of Natural Language Understanding / Computational Linguistics, Computer Graphics, and Database Systems. Salary and rank will be determined according to the successful applicant's experience and qualifications. Appointments are to commence July 1st, 1991. Duties will consist of research, graduate student supervision, and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Apply in writing with curriculum vitae and the names of at least three referees to: Professor Kenneth C. Sevcik, Chairman Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Canada Deadline for applications is January 15, 1991. For more information on natural language research at Toronto, contact Graeme Hirst, gh@cs.toronto.edu. The University of Toronto encourages both women and men to apply for positions. In accordance with Canadian immigration regulations, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 22:48 EDT >From: "NANCY M. IDE (914) 437 5988" <IDE@vaxsar.vassar.edu> Subject: GENELEX Project X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@CS.RPI.EDU Humanist Discussion Group (HUMANIST@BROWNVM.BITNET), Vol. 4, No. 0802. Monday, 3 Dec 1990. GENELEX PROJECT : EUREKA FOR LINGUISTIC ENGINEERING Bernard Normier Marc Nossin GSI-ERLI 1, place des Marseillais 94227 Charenton-le-Pont Cedex, FRANCE [the original version of this text contained charts. If you want to receive them, send your FAX number to Marc Nossin <mn@gsierli.uucp>] Since many years, computational linguistics activity is no longer only academic but an industrial activity. During the meeting of the european ministers held in the month of June in Rome, the importance and the maturity of this discipline was acknowledged, thus by accrediting one of the biggest EUREKA project of this year, the project GENELEX. This project will last with a budget of 250 million francs for a period of four years and will reunite France : Bull, Gsi-ERLI, Hachette, IBM, LADL (Paris VII) and Sema- Group; Italy : Lexicon, Research consortium of Pise, Servedi (joint company of two italian editors, Utet and Paravia); Spain : Salvat (editor), Tecsidel, University of Barcelone. Computational linguistics : The era of implementation _____________________________________________________ The language being the main vector to information, the applications needing a complexe processing of this information under the typed form are legion. Many of the following have been realized in ERLI: - Automatic Indexing. A program analyses a document, then the program associates the pertinent concepts which will then be exploited by the research phase in the base which reassembles all the documents. With these tools, we can also analyse, automatically, a question in natural language and via the concepts which indexed the document, find the reply to the question (information retrieval). - Telematic Interfaces : Particularly in France, the development of Telematics generates the needs of natural dialogues (i.e. which do not use a computational language) directly between the general public and the different services available on french network Minitel. - Automatic Translation or Computer Assisted Translation (CAT). A program analyses a sentence in a given language, and builds a more or less abstract representation of this sentence, and then generates the target sentence from this representation. We can also name the interrogation of relational databases in natural language, the automatic generation of correspondance, etc. This type of implementation can be needed as far as there are together two main factors of the modern society, so as to say the computers and language. Natural Language Processing : the tools. ________________________________________ Compared with Expert Systems, this field has remained on the margin of the real advanced media. It was due to the fact that it was possible to conceive generic commercial tools (expert systems generators) all in regularising the real problems (creation of the rules) started up by the user. In the same time, Natural Language yet at its stammering stage, prefered to deal with application development for identified clients, rather than to take the risk of investing in the development of products. To resume, the market of expert systems was guided by the supply and that of Natural Language by the demand. In Gsi-Erli, 90 % of the work done until now has consisted in development of customized application rather than in product development. Experience gained by the implementation of various Natural Language applications has lead to the possibility of developping tools which are of general value rather than specific for each application. It is the matter of developping generic tools so as to reduce substantially the cost of Natural Language applications, to introduce products on the market. Let us put in detail the genericity problems of each component which forms the heart of a Natural Language application. [...] -------------------- [A complete version of this announcement is now available through the fileserver, s.v. GENELEX PROJECT. You may obtain a copy by issuing the command -- GET GENELEX PROJECT HUMANIST -- either interactively or as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system, you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and tried all appropriate alternatives.] ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: weigand@kub.nl X-Delivery-Notice: SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender. Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 12:51:06 +0100 Subject: Announcement LIKE Workshop X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu LINGUISTIC INSTRUMENTS IN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING International Workshop organized by the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ITK) 17-18 January, 1991 at Tilburg, The Netherlands Invited speakers Ted Briscoe (UK) Jan Dietz (NL) Simon Dik (NL) John-Jules Meijer (NL) Willem Meijs (NL) Sjir Nijssen (NL) John Sowa (USA) Ronald Stamper (NL/UK) Rudi Studer (FRG) Hans Weigand (NL) General chair Prof. Robert Meersman, Tilburg University SCOPE Both Information System theory and Linguistics are concerned with human communication. In the LIKE Workshop, the connection between these two disciplines will be considered in more detail: * How do we model the communication and coordination the Information System is supposed to support? Could speech act theory be of use? * How does a designer or knowledge engineer arrive at a conceptual model (structure and behaviour)? What role does Natural Language play in this process? What could be the role of a general Lexicon or an NL parser? * What primitives do we need in knowledge representation to achieve maximal expressiveness in a logical format compatible with human conceptualization? What is the link between such a formalism and linguistic structure? * What is needed before we can have portable Natural Language interfaces and/or interfaces based on general dialogue principles? The LIKE Workshop brings together computer scientists working on information systems or knowledge representation, logicians and linguists. Its aim is to give a broad overview of the linguistics vs. knowledge engineering interface, and to stimutate mutually benificial cooperation. The invited speakers are international experts in linguistics, lexicology, logic, knowledge representation, and/or information systems. The number of participants is kept limited. REGISTRATION Registration fees are DFL 150, (graduate) students DFL 75. Please reply by email (lubeck@kub.nl) or fax (+31) 13-663110 as soon as possible to ITK, attn. Nicole Lubeck, P.O.Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg. Transfer money or send cheque no later than December, 24, 1990 to KUB (Tilburg University), giro 1077496 or AMRO bank 45.50.46.042 stating "951.47 LIKE Workshop". Practical details as well as the final programme will be sent to you as soon as possible after payment. The fee for the Workshop includes proceedings (extended abstracts), lunch and refreshments. Information about hotel accomodation can be gained from the address above. We would appreciate it if you enclose a one page position paper explaining your interest in the Workshop. ORGANIZATION Dr. Hans Weigand, ITK, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands tel. (+31) 13-662688, fax: (+31) 13-663110, email: weigand@kub.nl. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 09:55 EDT >From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vaxsar.vassar.edu> Subject: LN list in computational linguistics X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Bulletin Electronique LN LN Electronic List Le bulletin electronique LN a pour LN is an international electronic but de favoriser la circulation distribution list for computa- d'informations a travers la commu- tional linguists. Its goal is to naute "Informatique Linguistique": disseminate calls for papers, con- appels a communication, annonces ference and seminar announcements, de conferences ou seminaires, requests for software, corpora, requetes specifiques concernant and various data, project descrip- logiciels, corpus et donnees tions, discussions on technical diverses, descriptions d'activites topics, etc. The list is primarily et de projets, discussions sur des French-speaking, but many items sujets techniques, etc. Le bulle- are circulated in English. It pro- tin est principalement franco- vides a forum for scholars working phone, mais de nombreuses informa- on French, but it is by no means tions sont retransmises sous leur restricted to this field. forme originale en anglais. 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SUBSCRIBE LN your name Vous pouvez vous abonner au Send messages to be transmitted on bulletin en envoyant un message the list to LN@FRMOP11.BITNET. compose de la seule ligne suivante a LISTSERV@FRMOP11.BITNET: In case of problems, send a mes- sage to one of the editors: SUBSCRIBE LN Prenom Nom Jean Veronis Vous pouvez transmettre des VERONIS@VASSAR.BITNET informations pour diffusion dans le bulletin en envoyant un message Pierre Zweigenbaum a LN@FRMOP11.BITNET. ZWEIG@FRSIM51.BITNET En cas de probleme, adressez-vous directement aux editeurs: Jean Veronis VERONIS@VASSAR.BITNET Pierre Zweigenbaum ZWEIG@FRSIM51.BITNET ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 10:22 EDT >From: Jean Veronis <VERONIS@vaxsar.vassar.edu> Subject: Avignon NLP'91 Conference X-Envelope-To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu AVIGNON '91 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING & ITS APPLICATIONS Avignon - France, May 27 - 31, 1991. CALL FOR PAPERS With over 3,000 attendees and visitors from some 30 countries, the 1990 10th Avignon International Workshop on Expert Systems and their Applications was the leading European event of the year in Artificial Intelligence. Avignon '91 will follow the tradition of the previous conferences by including a general conference on Expert Systems, as well as a series of specialized conferences dealing with specific fields of application. A specialized conference on "Natural Language Processing & its Applications" was held at Avignon '90, where it enjoyed enormous success, especially because it provided a platform for discussion among users, industrial companies, and researchers. The Natural Language conference will again be a part of Avignon'91, and will include papers, invited lectures, and panel sessions, tutorials, demonstrations, and an industrial forum on natural language. Topics ______ Papers may cover either applications or techniques. For the first category (computer assisted translation, interfaces with databases, automatic indexing, etc.), authors should specify whether the nature of the application is specialized or general, as well as the degree to which the implementation has been realized. For technical or scientific papers, linguistic models (dialog, lexical representations, etc.) should be clearly distinguished from the computing techniques employed (automatic systems and problem-solving strategies for analysis or generation). Submission __________ Authors should submit 7 copies of their papers before January 7, 1991 to the AVIGNON '91 general chairman: Jean-Claude Rault EC2 269-287, rue de la Garenne ; 92000 Nanterre ; France tel: 33 - 1 - 47.80.70.00 ; fax: 33 - 1 - 47.80.66.29 Paper should be 2000 to 5000 words (about 10 pages single-spaced). Each submission should contain the following information: title of paper; full name of all authors; complete address of first author (including telephone, fax number and e-mail address if available); abstract of 100-200 words; list of key-words. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three referees. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be mailed after March 1, 1991. Program Committee _________________ Co-Chairs: Margaret King (ISSCO, Geneve) <king@divsun.unige.ch> Marc Nossin (GSI-ERLI, Paris) <mn@gsierli.uucp> ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: CILS Calendar X-Mailer: MH 6.6 #5[UCI] Date: Mon, 26 Nov 90 14:47:34 -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. 8 November 26, 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 Title and abstract to be anounced. ***** 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 ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************