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NL-KR Digest (3/06/89 21:01:13) Volume 6 Number 6 Today's Topics: Administrivia: More excuses SUNY Buffalo Particularism Conference Niagara Linguistics Society CSLI Calendar ALLC-ICCH89 Conference Summary BBN AI Seminar -- Michael Jordan Submissions: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu OR nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu Requests, policy: nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu OR nl-kr-request@turing.cs.rpi.edu Back Issues: Anon FTP to archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.1.10], nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V06/N01 for V6#1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 22:00:34 EST >From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty) To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu Subject: More excuses Well, well. For some odd reason V6#1 went out and there wasn't a single error, but the past weeks I have been spending endless hours sorting out the inevitable nonsense that various mailers spew out. There are still about 50 or so people who didn't get the last two issues (#4 and #5) because the messages are STILL queued and trying to make connections. In an effort to combat this, I have taken many devious actions, one of which will be to make digests a little smaller....Even though the messages are getting ever larger. Anyway for all the reasons, this digest is late, I seem to be running about a week behind schedule, please keep this in mind when you post a conference or other annoucement... Also, this issue will probably also suffer from the same `>From ' problem the previous ones did, I have yet to figure out how to get my mailer not to do that... ===== Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs | "Porsche: Fahren in weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc | seiner schoentsen Form" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 12:04:44 EST >From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) To: james@cs.rochester.edu, joel@cs.rochester.edu, nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu Subject: SUNY Buffalo Particularism Conference PARTICULARISM CONFERENCE March 2-5, 1989 280 Park Hall SUNY Buffalo The purpose of this conference is to bring together a group of scholars in various disciplines who practice an approach which may be defined as particularist, in order to consider is implications for contemporary thought. "Particularism" characterizes a rapidly developing area of research strategies in which emphasis falls on observations and experiences rather than on systems and generalizations. In literary sutdies, this has taken form as an expressly anti-theoretical movement; concern has shifted towards the immediate experience of a work and the uniqueness or _quidditas_ of the aesthetic event. Particularist emphasis can also be seen in the biological and medical sciences. Reading Oliver Sacks, one realizes that some physicians regard the individual case as being in some degree inaccessible to any general diagnosis. In zoology, Stephen Jay Gould has argued for the importance of variety and exception in the survival of species. Mathematics is concerned with discontinutities and singularities. In social science, the "Annales" shcool, the Princeton school, and the New Historicists have establishede a powerful tradition in micro- history. Clifford Geertz has done the same for anthropology. In ethics, a borad plea for the priority of the particular case over the general principle has been entered by thinkers as various as Lyotard and Bernard Williams. Speakers: Naomi Schor (Romance Languages, Brown) David Hull (Philosophy of Science, Northwestern) Lawrence B. McCullough (Baylor College of Medicine) Paul Fry (English, Yale) Roland Kany (Tuebingen) Martha Nussbaum (Philosophy, Brown) Lawrence Blum (Philosophy, UMass/Boston) Rene Thom (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques) For further information, contact Irving Massey, Dept. of English, SUNY Buffalo, 716-636-2575, 882-7652 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:52:49 EST >From: rapaport@cs.Buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) To: ai-cgs@cs.Buffalo.EDU, nl-kr@turing.cs.rpi.edu Subject: Niagara Linguistics Society NIAGARA LINGUISTICS SOCIETY Working Papers Colloquium BEYOND THE SENTENCE Friday, 14 April 1989 3:00 - 6:00 pm 684 Baldy, SUNY Buffalo Amherst Campus Featured Speaker: ALLAN KORN Buffalo State University College "Listening" Other Speakers: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION Mahamane Abdoulaye SUNY Buffalo "Being a Horseracing Fan" Caroline Flury-Kashmanian SUNY Buffalo "Being a Bookie" Renee Klotz SUNY Buffalo "Working in a Large Bookstore" Monica Madera SUNY Buffalo "Meditating" Lynette Spencer SUNY Buffalo "Being a Hard Scientist" CALL FOR PAPERS If you are interested in submitting a paper for this colloquium, contact Zan Robinson, 716-854-6293, by 1 April 1989. Refreshments will be served. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 13:43:21 PST >From: emma@csli.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease) To: friends@csli.Stanford.EDU Subject: CSLI Calendar 2 March, 4:18 C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S _____________________________________________________________________________ 2 March 1989 Stanford Vol. 4, No. 18 _____________________________________________________________________________ A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 ____________ SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM A Computational Psychology Approach to Commonsense Perception Jeffry Shrager Friday, 3 March, 3:15 Room 60:61N Commonsense Perception is a generalized version of what Dretske has called "epistemic seeing"---that is, knowledge-based interpretation of (perceptual) experience. In this talk I will outline a psychological approach to the study of commonsense perception in incremental concept learning. My goal is a computational framework and model whose basic processing cycle is knowledge revision by commonsense perception, and which subsumes rule-based inference, perceptual reasoning, and most inductive and instructed learning tasks. ____________ LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM Language Acquisition: "A Creolist's View" Lawrence Carrington University of the West Indies and Stanford Friday, 3 March, 3:15 Cordura Conference Room ____________ CSLI SEMINAR Indexicality and Quantified Modal Logic Harry Deutsch Illinois State University Tuesday, 7 March, 4:00 Cordura Conference Room Relations between recent philosophy of language and the semantics of modality (possible worlds semantics) have not been good. I attempt to mediate the dispute by formulating quantified modal logic (QML) so as to incorporate some insights of the "new theory of reference" (NTR). This sheds some new light on both QML and the NTR. ____________ SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM Ontology and Computers Ruben Kleiman Apple Intelligent Agents Group Friday, 10 March, 3:15 Room 60:61N This talk will be about artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, focusing on how to encode knowledge into a computer. On one hand, Winograd, Flores, and Putnam have advocated a phenomenological view that abandons the standard mentalist position. On the other hand, there are also many people (Hayes, McCarthy, Dennett, and most AI workers) who keep the mentalist position. Dr. Kleiman will attempt to reconcile these two philosophical positions. ____________ LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM A Union Analysis of Noun Incorporation Donna Gerdts, SUNY at Buffalo Friday, 10 March, 3:15 Cordura Conference Room ____________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 22:49:15 EST >From: Ian Lancashire <IAN%vm.epas.utoronto.ca@CORNELLC.ccs.cornell.edu> Subject: ALLC-ICCH89 Conference Summary To: nl-kr@rochester.arpa The Dynamic Text: ALLC/ICCH Toronto Conference Tools for Humanists, 1989: a fair of notable software and hardware June 6--10, 1989 Toronto-Oxford Summer School in Humanities Computing May 29--June 16, 1989 _________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Search for >1, >2, etc. >1 Sponsors >2 The Conference >3 The Fair >4 The Toronto-Oxford Summer School >5 Registration >6 Accommodation >7 Centre for Computing in the Humanities >8 Advance Conference Schedule >9 Summer School Course Schedule >10 Summer School Faculty >11 ACH & ALLC Application Forms _________________________________________________________________ [The 99K text of Ian's Summary is too large for Digest distribution, so I sold the movie rights to MGM. It is also available from archive.cs.rpi.edu in the file nl-kr/other/allc-icch89, or you may mail to nl-kr-request. Since most people don't know what ACH & ALLC are, I did include a short summary --- CW] >11 ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES What is ACH? Founded in 1977, the Association for Computers and the Humanities is an international organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of computing techniques in humanities research and education. ACH fosters computer-assisted research in literature and language, history, philosophy, anthropology, art, music, dance, computational linguistics, and cognitive science. What the ACH Offers ACH membership includes a subscription to its quarterly newsletter as well as the scholarly journal Computers and the Humanities. ACH sponsors the bi-annual International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH) and a bi-annual conference on Teaching Computers and the Humanities, as well as sessions at the annual meetings of the Modern Language Association and the National Educational Computing Conference. ACH MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Name: __________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Network and Address: ___________________________________ Area(s) of interest: ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ACH MEMBERSHIP _ |_| $55.00 per year individual Includes subscription to ACH Newsletter (4 issues per year) and to Computers and the Humanities (6 issues per year). All issues of both publications for the current year will be sent. 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What the ALLC Offers The ALLC offers conferences, courses, representatives for subject and geographical areas and a major journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press, which all members receive. ALLC Members are also entitled to reduced rates at ALLC-sponsored gatherings. Representatives The ALLC has representatives in over thirty countries throughout the world. Recognised experts advise on over twenty-five subject areas including Machine Translation, Computer-Assisted Learning, Software, Lexicography, Structured Databases, Literary Statistics, Textual Editing besides language-oriented groups for texts in many different languages. Conferences Recent ALLC conferences have been held at Pisa (1982), San Francisco (1983), Louvain-la-Neuve (1984), Nice (1985), Norwich (1986), Gothenburg (1987) and Jerusalem (1988). Officers President: Professor Antonio Zampolli Chairman: Mrs Susan Hockey Honorary Secretary: Dr Tom Corns Honorary Treasurer: Mr John Roper Literary and Linguistic Computing In 1986 the ALLC's own publications, the ALLC Bulletin (1973-1985) and the ALLC Journal (1980-1985) were merged to form a major new journal published by Oxford University Press. Literary and Linguistic Computing is published four times per year and appeals to all who have an interest in computer usage and the humanities. The Editor-in-Chief is Mr Gordon Dixon, Institute of Advanced Studies, Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, UK. MEMBERSHIP OF THE ALLC IS BY PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION TO LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING 1989 Rates: Individual 14 pounds UK, US $27 N. America, 16 pounds elsewhere Subscription form Please print _ |_| Please enter my subscription to Literary and Linguistic Computing 1989 _ |_| Please send a sample copy _ |_| I enclose the correct remittance (payable to Oxford University Press) Name: __________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Country: _______________________________________________ Please debit my Visa/Access/American Express/Diners Account* Card number: ___________________________________________ Expiry date: ___________________ Signature: ____________ If address registered with card company differs from above please give details (* delete as applicable) RETURN TO Journals Subscriptions or Journals Subscriptions Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Walton Street 200 Madison Avenue Oxford OX2 6DP New York NY 10016 UK USA ------------------------------ Date: Wed 1 Mar 89 17:26:13-EST >From: Marc Vilain <MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM> Subject: BBN AI Seminar -- Michael Jordan To: ai-folks@G.BBN.COM BBN Science Development Program AI Seminar Series Lecture TOWARD A MODEL OF SPEECH ACQUISITION: SUPERVISED LEARNING AND SYSTEMS WITH EXCESS DEGREES OF FREEDOM Michael Jordan MIT Center for Cognitive Science (jordan@psyche.mit.edu) BBN Labs 10 Moulton Street 2nd floor large conference room 10:30 am, Monday March 6 The acquisition of speech production is an interesting domain for the development of connectionist learning methods. In this talk, I focus on a particular component of the speech learning problem, namely, that of finding an inverse of the function that relates articulatory events to perceptual events. A problem for the learning of such an inverse is that the forward function is many-to-one and nonlinear. That is, there are many possible target vectors corresponding to each perceptual input, but the average target is not in general a solution. I argue that this problem is best resolved if targets are specified implicitly with sets of constraints, rather than as particular vectors (as in direct inverse system identification). Two classes of constraints are distinguished---paradigmatic constraints, which implicitly specify inverse images in articulatory space, and syntagmatic constraints, which define relationships between outputs produced at different points in time. (The latter include smoothness constraints on articulatory representations, and distinctiveness constraints on perceptual representations). I discuss how the interactions between these classes of constraints may account for two kinds of variability in speech: coarticulation and historical change. ------------------------------ End of NL-KR Digest *******************