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NL-KR Digest (Thu Nov 15 16:32:23 1990) Volume 7 No. 23 Today's Topics: Call for Papers - AI and Law Conference Menu-Based Natural Language Understanding MT Summit III announcement applications of inheritnace networks (non-monotonic) Knowledge Induction Algorithms derivational affixing Research position at CNET (France) Pointers to English grammars, lexicons, corpora? FINAL CALL - AAAI Language Learning Symposium GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE:INFO NEEDED 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 hafner@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU Fri Oct 26 17:11:35 1990 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 90 17:12:27 -0400 >From: hafner@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU (carole hafner) Subject: Call for Papers - AI and Law Conference Call for Papers Third International Conference on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and LAW 25-28 June 1991 St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK Sponsored by: The Society for Computers and Law, UK In Cooperation with ACM SIGART The field of AI and Law seeks both to develop useful applications of computers to law and to investigate fundamental mechanisms of legal reasoning. In addition, many researchers see the law as an ideal problem domain in which to address some of the basic theoretical issues in AI. The purpose of ICAIL-91 is to provide a forum for the latest research results and to stimulate further interdisciplinary collaboration, to demonstrate accomplishments in practical applications, and to provide a continuing focus for the growing AI and Law community. Previous meetings of the International Conference took place in Boston (1987) and Vancouver (1989). In response to the rapid increase in activity and interest in the field, it is planned to establish an International Society for AI and Law during the Conference. Authors are invited to submit papers on topics including but not restricted to: --Legal Expert Systems --Conceptual Information Retrieval --Case-based Reasoning --Representation of Legal and Common Sense Knowledge --Computational Models of Legal Reasonoing --Applications of AI to Law Papers on theoretical issues in AI and in jurisprudence/legal philosophy are invited provided that the relevance to AI and Law is clearly demonstrated. Papers on applications should include a description of the nature and purpose of the application, the techniques employed, and the current state of implementation. Submissions are due by 15 January, 1991. Papers should not exceed 5000 words. Short papers not exceeding 2500 words are also invited, particularly in the area of "applications experience". Papers will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Please send five (5) copies of submitted papers to the Programme Chair: Marek Sergot, Department of Computing Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, England FAX: (071) 581 8024 Internet: mjs@doc.ic.ac.uk Notification of acceptance:15 March 1991. Camera-ready copies due:15 April 1991 Conference Chair: Secretary-Treasurer: Richard Susskind Carole Hafner Masons, Solicitors College of Computer Science 30 Aylesbury Street Northeastern University London EC1R OER ENGLAND Boston, MA 02115 USA Tel: (071) 490-4000 FAX: 490-2545 Tel: (617) 437-5116 FAX: 437-5121 hafner@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu Programme Committee T Bench-Capon, Univ. Liverpool, UK L T McCarty, Rutgers Univ., USA D Berman, Northeastern Univ., USA E Mackaay, Univ. of Montreal, Canada A vdL Gardner, Atherton, CA, USA A Oskamp, Free Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands T Gordon, GMD, Bonn, W. Germany E Pattaro, Univ. of Bologna, Italy A Jones, Univ. of Oslo, Norway E Rissland, Univ. of Mass., USA M Sergot, Imperial College, UK ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: fass@cs.sfu.ca Date: 26 Oct 90 14:12 -0700 Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep, comp.ai, comp.ai.shells, comp.cog-eng Subject: Menu-Based Natural Language Understanding Summary: Request for Information I am looking for post-1987 information about the menu-based approach to natural language understanding (NLU) developed by Harry Tennant (Tennant, 1987; Tennant et al, 1983). Does anyone have the references for recent papers about the approach? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the approach? Has anyone had experience with the NLMenu System developed by Texas Instruments? Does anyone have Harry's e-mail address? Please send mail to me and I will post a summary of responses to the net (if there are any). ** -- Brief Description of the Menu-Based Approach to NLU -- ** The menu-based approach to NLU combines the expressive power of natural language with the ease of use of menus. In the pure version of the approach, sentences are built through menu selection: ``The user is presented with a set of menus on the upper half of a high resolution bit map display. He can choose the words and phrases that make up his query with a mouse. As the user chooses items, they are inserted into a window on the lower half of the screen so that he can see the sentence he is constructing. As a sentence is constructed, the active menus and items in them change to reflect only the legal choices, given the portion of the sentence that has already been input. At any point in the construction of a natural language sentence, only those words or phrases that could legally come next will be displayed for the user to select'' (Tennant et al, 1983, p. 152). The approach offers some attractive features as a natural language interface (NLI): o easy to use; o cuts down on spelling and typographical errors; o minimizes typewriter key/mouse operations, o helps overcome user difficulties in starting a query; o keeps users within the linguistic and conceptual coverage of the NLI; o reveals to users the full coverage of the NLI through the menus. Tennant et al (1983, p. 157) mention that the NLMenu System is implemented in Lisp and that a second implementation will be available as a software package that ``will interface either locally to RSI's Oracle relational DBMS which uses SQL 3.0 as the query language or to remote computers running DBMS's that use SQL 3.0 as their query language.'' ** -- References -- ** Tennant, H. R., K. M. Ross, R. M. Saenz, C. W. Thompson, & J. R. Miller. Menu-Based Natural Language Understanding. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, pp. 151-158, 1983. Tennant, H. R. Menu-Based Natural Language. In: S. C. Shapiro (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 594-597, 1987. ______________ Dan Fass fass@cs.sfu.ca ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: MT Summit III announcement Date: Mon, 29 Oct 90 09:27:08 EST >From: Sergei.Nirenburg@NL.CS.CMU.EDU _______________________________________________________________________ MT SUMMIT III _______________________________________________________________________ In order to be prepared for the fast evolving global markets of the twenty first century where language will be a major barrier for trade, considerable attention is being focused on Machine Translation (MT) technology. The objective of MT Summits is to bring together governmental policy makers, scientists and engineers developing MT technology, and potential users of the MT systems. The first two MT Summits, held in Hakone, JAPAN, in 1987 and in Munich, West Germany in 1989 were very successful. MT Summit III is the third in this series of international conferences. It will bring together representatives from academia, industry and government interested in promoting research, development and deployment of machine translation and machine-aided translation technology. The conference will feature policy debates, scholarly presentations and demonstrations of machine translation-related software. The conference will be preceded by a full day of EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS and TUTORIALS on various aspects of machine translation research, development and policy. MT Summit III will be held on July 2 - 4, 1991 at The Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. The organizing committee: Jaime Carbonell, General Chair Sergei Nirenburg, Program Chair Masaru Tomita, Demonstrations Chair Muriel Vasconcellos, Local Arrangements Chair, D. Radha Rao, Business Affairs CALL FOR PAPERS Contributions are solicited on all aspects of machine tranlsation theory, methodology, technology and implemented systems. The contributions must be original and report primarily on results, not work in progress or projects contemplated. Relative preference will be given to those contributions which will include a live or videotaped demonstration of a system or a component described in the presentation. Submissions can be up to 2,000 words in length, excluding references. The title page must include the title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses (if possible, including electronic mail addresses) and a short abstract. Please send FIVE copies of your submission to Sergei Nirenburg Center for Machine Translation Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 U.S.A. DEMONSTRATIONS Please indicate whether you intend to show a live or videotaped demonstration (see the attached Preliminary Registration Form), including its length and any special equipment requirement. If you plan to organize a software demonstration, please contact Masaru Tomita Center for Machine Translation Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 U.S.A. Important Dates: Submissions must be received on or before January 14, 1991. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by April 6, 1991. Final versions of the papers will be due on May 13, 1991. General inquiries about MT Summit III please address to MT Summit III Organizing Committee Center for Machine Translation Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 U.S.A. Electronic mail: mtsummit@cs.cmu.edu (arpanet) Telefax: (412) 268 6298 Telephone (412) 268 6591 =================================================================== Preliminary Registration Form NOTE: Please return this form if you wish to receive further information on MT SUMMIT III Name: __________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________ Fax: ________________________ Electronic Mail: _________________________________________________ < > I plan to attend MT Summit III < > I plan to attend tutorials and/or Executive Briefings < > I would like to be an exhibitor < > I would like to receive further information on the MT Summit III ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: dalal@yoko.rutgers.edu (Mukesh Dalal) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: applications of inheritnace networks (non-monotonic) Keywords: applications, inheritance, networks, non-monotonic Date: 30 Oct 90 22:01:16 GMT Followup-To: comp.ai Hi. I'm looking for pointers to "real-world" applications of reasoning with non-monotonic inheritance networks (for instance, in medical domain, or for software-specification). I appreciate any help in this search. Thanks, Mukesh. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: d2c@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Dawn M. Cabral) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.ai.digest Subject: Knowledge Induction Algorithms Keywords: knowledge acquisition, inductive inference, ID3 Date: 1 Nov 90 15:02:05 GMT I am looking for any information regarding the use of knowledge induction algorithms similar to Quinlan's ID3 program. I have heard of a number of variations to ID3: ACLS - Analog Concept Learning System (Paterson and Niblett, 1982), C4 which is an extension of ID3 (Quinlan, 1979). Although I have a number of reference books on the topic, the only reference which provides any actual "code" is in Hunt's (1966) book on Concept Learning System (CLS). However the algorithms are written in pseudo-code and ALGOL which are difficult to interpret. If any one can provide me with some references which clearly describe the algorithms behind these Concept Learning Systems, I would be extremely grateful. Thanks.. Dawn References: Quinlan, J. R. (1979). Discovering Rules by Induction from Large Collections of Examples. In D. Michie (Ed.), Expert Systems in the micro electronic age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Paterson, A. and T. Niblett (1982). ACLS User's Manual, ITL-KnowledgeLink, Glasgow. Hunt, E. B., J. Marin, and P.T. Stone (1966). Experiments in Induction. Academic Press, New York. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep >From: light@cs.rochester.edu (Marc Light) Subject: derivational affixing Reply-To: light@cs.rochester.edu (Marc Light) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 90 16:59:16 GMT I am a graduate student in the CS department of the University of Rochester. I am working on compositional semantics for derivational affixing. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of other work being done in this area? I am also interested in lexicon implementations that deal with linguistic constraints (e.g., level ordering, c-selection, etc.) on derivational rules and the bracketing paradoxes that are produced. Thank you. Marc ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: gilloux@lannion.cnet.fr (Michel Gilloux) Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: Research position at CNET (France) Date: 7 Nov 90 10:38:40 GMT Reply-To: gilloux@lannion.cnet.fr (Michel Gilloux) Organization: C.N.E.T. Lannion 22301 LANNION FRANCE The Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET) is the R&D research center of the French telecommunications operator FRANCE TELECOM. CNET employs more than 3000 researchers and engineers in its several laboratories situated in various locations of France. CNET is offering a position of member of the technical staff in the area of COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS This job will be based in the Natural Language Processing group of the AI department at the LANNION center. The AI dept. participates in a variety of R&D projects including the application of NLP technologies to the French Teletel network services. The AI dept. also has a firmly established working relationship with leading universities thoughout the country. Current research topics include: o tools and data for comprehensive lexicons of the French language o parsing techniques and grammars o information retrieval Interested candidates will have an advance degree in Artificial Intelligence and/or Computational Linguistics. Please send your resume and salary history to: Michel Gilloux CNET LAA/SLC/AIA Route de Tregastel, B.P. 40 F-22301 LANNION Cedex FRANCE Tel: (33).96.05.21.77 Fax: (33).96.05.32.86 e-mail: gilloux@lannion.cnet.fr ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 12:07:14 +0100 >From: olsen!bllklly (William Kelly) Subject: Pointers to English grammars, lexicons, corpora? I'm looking for pointers to English grammars and lexicons that are freely distributable, and to English corpora. More specifically: Grammars: any reasonably complete English grammar in the literature or in machine readable form. I have lots of grammar books with informal discussion of English grammar, but I want something that can actually parse a reasonable large subset of English. I already have Winograd's 1983 `Language as a Cognitive Process', which includes a grammar in ATN form. Lexicons: I need something with at least part-of-speech information. I know of the Longman, Oxford, etc. on-line dictionaries, but those are not public domain. Spelling dictionaries aren't much help (and I already have one). Corpora: I would like a varied body of English writing, preferrably tagged with part of speech information. I have seen references to the Brown and LOB (Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen) corpora. Does anyone know how to obtain these or others? As a final point, if anyone is interested in discussing grammar checking programs or reviewing a proposal to write one (or eventually code for one), I would be appreciate the chance for some feedback. Bill Kelly Olsen and Associates, Seefeldstrasse 233, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland ...!olsen!bllklly or bllklly@olsen.uu.ch or bllklly@olsen.uucp ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu >From: David Powers <powers@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences,comp.ai,comp.ai.nlang-know-rep,comp.cog-eng,sci.lang,sci.psychology,comp.ai.philosophy Subject: FINAL CALL - AAAI Language Learning Symposium Keywords: Machine Learning Natural Language Ontology Stanford March 26-28 Date: 8 Nov 90 13:19:17 GMT AAAI Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology Spring Symposium Series - Stanford - March 26-28 1991 Reminder The deadline for submissions to attend or present at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology is November 16th. (This is the correct submission date. On the last reminder you may have seen an incorrect date.) Update When submitting (by Email), do remember to include your full address (physical as well as electronic, fax and phone) as AAAI will post you registration forms upon acceptance. AAAI has now determined the fees for its spring symposia in Stanford next March: regular: $190; student: $75. Further information: The call and/or the background paper can be obtained from me. The aim is to have a fairly broad spectrum of involvement and to promote interaction amongst those with research relevant to Language Learning, whatever their background or goals. Of course, of special interest are those language learning programs which have already been implemented, as well as extant projects with such an aim. David - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Powers +49-631/205-3449 (Uni); +49-631/205-3200 (Fax) FB Informatik powers@informatik.uni-kl.de; +49-631/13786 (Prv) Univ Kaiserslautern * COMPULOG - Language and Logic 6750 KAISERSLAUTERN * MARPIA - Parallel Logic Programming WEST GERMANY * STANLIE - Natural Language Learning Riddle: What is the difference between the university and me. Disclaimer: My opinion. ------------------------------ To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Date: Thursday, 15 Nov 1990 09:15:39 EST >From: <U60@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Subject: GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE:INFO NEEDED DO ANYONE KNOW OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS SPECIFICALLY OFFERING MASTER AND DOCTORAL DEGREE PROGRAMS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE? THANKS AL VALBUENA ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************