nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu (NL-KR Moderator Chris Welty) (02/22/89)
NL-KR Digest (2/21/89 15:24:15) Volume 6 Number 2
Today's Topics:
Apologies
New Welcome message
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>From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 89 13:12:34 EST
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: Apologies
This issue, and the subsequent couple, are quite late, as I
originally had expected to get my own automatic digestifying software
working by now. I haven't, and it has been over a month already, so
I will start doing them by hand regularly now, until the software is
ready.
I would like to hear from people as to what they think about
the usenet news groups sci.lang and comp.ai. There are conversations
going on there that are relevant to the topics covered by this digest,
but that means a significant amt of extra editing on my part to get the
non-relevant stuff out.
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Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs
weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc
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>From: weltyc@cs.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 89 13:12:34 EST
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: New Welcome Message
What follows is the modified welcome reflecting the changes in moderator
and my hopes and goals for the future of the digest. I welcome comments.
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Welcome to the NL-KR mailing list, a digest form mailing list
for discussion and announcements relating to the fields of Natural
Language and Knowledge Representation.
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relevant articles besides direct submissions. This will diminish as
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NL-KR is open to discussion of any topic related to natural
language (both understanding and generation) and knowledge representation,
both as subfields of AI. My own related interests are primarily in
Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Engineering (which I would define
as programming using the theories of KR), Planning, and especially
education.
Contributions are also welcome on topics such as
Cognitive Psychology (as related to NL/KR)
Human Perception (same)
Linguistics
Machine Translation
Computer and Information Science (as may be used to implement
various NL systems)
Logic Programming (same)
Contributions may be anything from tutorials to speculation. In particular,
the following are sought:
Abstracts Reviews
Lab Descriptions Research Overviews
Work Planned or in Progress Half-Baked Ideas
Conference Announcements Conference Reports
Bibliographies History of NL/KR
Puzzles and Unsolved Problems Anecdotes, Jokes, and Poems
Queries and Requests Other NL/KR announcements
This list is in some sense a spin-off of the AIList, and as such, a
certain amount of overlap is expected. The primary concentration of this
list should be NL and KR, that is, natural language (be it understanding,
generation, recognition, parsing, semantics, pragmatics, etc.) and how we
should represent knowledge (aquisition, access, completeness, etc. are all
valid issues). Topics I deem to be outside the general scope of this list
will be forwarded to AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (or other more appropriate list,
such as IRlist, addressed at fox%vtopus.cs.vt.edu which is on information
retrieval) or rejected. I will certainly reject no article without
informing the poster.
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in news magazines or publicly available scientific journals is probably
safe. Scientific information "without engineering or military significance"
is always permissible, but technical details of specific military or
government-controlled systems should not be discussed in this forum.
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(possibly WEISCHEDEL@G.BBN.COM depending on the type of submission, see the
front cover of any recent issue of Computational Linguistics) or to the AI
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the source of mailer problems takes a fair amount of effort.
Please contribute freely. I would rather deal with too much
material than with too little. Replies to public requests for information
should be sent, at least in "carbon" form, to this list unless the request
states otherwise.
Brad (our ex-moderator) has identified the following as
`things the readers want to see:'
o more frequent issues (I'm only posting every 2-3 weeks recently)
o informative subject lines (so they can skip and not download topics they
aren't interested in) <I've not done this because it requires
changes to my cobbled together digester and I haven't had time>
o undigested posting to comp.ai.nlang-know-rep <which I haven't done since
you can't add cross references to already posted news, which would
be the big win. If news sees any posted headers it discards the
message, so I couldn't just retransmit messages I'd gotten from
sci.lang or comp.ai because they wouldn't show up. Posting the
digests was easier than cobbling new software to edit the headers of
these messages.>
I hope to have my own automation of the digest working in a little
while, and thus fix the current problem with the frequency of
postings. The second wil hopefuly be part of my digestiying software,
and the third I'll deal with later. The issues in going from mail to
news and vice-versa are too complex to consider now. I also hope to
begin separating the pure linguistic and NL stuff from the pure KR
stuff and putting them in separate digests. If you can give
informative subject lines, this would help the process immensely.
I welcome suggestions, complaints, and praise. The more of the latter
the better my response to the two former...
Also, despite my signature, I prefer to be called `Chris'. Thanks.
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Christopher Welty --- Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs
weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!njin!nyser!weltyc
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