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From: geddis@CS.Stanford.EDU (Don Geddis)
Subject: Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing (long)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:13:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.191050.29540@ads.com>, marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers) writes:
> 	I continue to believe that good reviewing is a learned skill, and
> 	that reviewers ought to be accountable and punishable for their
> 	mistakes, as opposed to a scheme of things in which reviewers are
> 	untrained and untouchable.

And how exactly do you propose to judge reviewers?  Who will determine that
some decision is a "mistake", and what kind of punishment might you be able
to give?

The fact that they're all volunteers pretty much enforces the "untouchable"
bit.  Beggars can't be choosers and all that... I suppose you might have the
option of keeping a list of the "bad" ones (however you manage to determine
that), and not asking them to review in the future.  I didn't have the
impression that there is an overabundance of reviewers as it is...

	-- Don
-- 
Don Geddis (Geddis@CS.Stanford.Edu)
Going the speed of light is bad for your age.
From: renoir@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Khemdut Purang)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Non monotonic reasoning
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:57:06 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


	hi

	i wonder if anyone knows about any work done on some
	form of practical( or nearly so) non monotonic reasoning 
	system and if there has been any comparison of the
	various forms of non monotonic reasoning - default logic,
	modal logic, or circumscription.

	all i can find in the literature are very small toy
	problems.
	
	also, i would like to know if anyone has had any experience
	with ginsberg's mvl system, and if it can easily do
	circumscription and other forms of non monotonic logic as
	claimed.

	thanks a lot.
	

	kpurang
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.cog-eng,comp.ai.genetic
From: huan@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Huan Liu)
Subject: CFP - AI93 Workshop Proposals
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:26:21 GMT

The Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'93)

               Preliminary CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

                       Melbourne, Australia
                        17-19 November 1993


The AI'93 Workshop Coordinator invites proposals for workshops to be 
held on 16 November 1993, the day before the conference. The workshops 
will provide a venue in which researchers, developers and users with 
common interests may exchange ideas in an informal setting. Each 
workshop will focus on a particular topic chosen by the workshop 
organisers. The Workshop Coordinator is willing to consider workshop 
proposals on any topic related to AI.

Workshop organisers are encouraged to include a mixture of formal 
presentations and open discussion in their workshop program. A 
workshop may last for either a half-day or full-day, depending on 
the number of participants. In order to facilitate discussion, 
attendance at each workshop will be restricted to active participants 
only and numbers should be kept low, i.e., less than thirty. 

It is expected that three or four people will be required to organise 
a workshop, including one person who is nominated as the workshop chair.
The responsibilities of the workshop organisers will be as follows:

- to distribute a "Call for Participation" for the workshop;
- to select and invite the participants of the workshop, usually on
  the basis of an extended abstract describing their current work;
- to set the program for the workshop;
- to inform the Workshop Coordinator by a date to be specified of 
  the participants and the schedule for the workshop.


REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPOSALS

All proposals will be considered by the AI'93 Workshop Coordinator, 
and the workshop chair will be notified by 1 June 1993 as to whether 
or not the proposal has been accepted.

A proposal should be approximately two pages in length. 
It should specify:

- the topic of the workshop and the issues to be discussed;
- one or two paragraphs describing the appeal of this workshop 
  to the AI community;
- the names of the workshop organisers, including the workshop chair, 
  together with a postal address, email address and phone number 
  for each organiser;
- an outline of the proposed format and duration of the workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for workshop proposals:    30 April 1993.
Workshop organisers informed of 
the outcome of their proposal:       1 June 1993.
Date of workshop:                   16 November 1993.



Please direct all proposals and questions to:

Mr. Chris Leckie
AI'93 Workshop Coordinator
Telecom Research Laboratories
P.O. Box 249
Clayton, Victoria 3168
Australia

Email: c.leckie@trl.oz.au
Phone: (03) 253 6243
Fax:   (03) 253 6173
From: BPHEINTZ@UCSVAX.UCS.UMASS.EDU (BRADLEY P HEINTZ)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Natural-language parsing and voice recog...
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:40:13 GMT
Organization: B. P. Heintz & Associates
NNTP-Posting-Host: phobos.ucs.umass.edu
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Anyone know of any people, user groups, or ftp sites that might have C/C++
programs or libraries dealing with natural-language parsing or voice
recognition?  (Preferably public domain or shareware.)

Thanks, 
- Brad

*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
I'm not into money.  I'm into freedom.

(413)546-5152
bpheintz@phobos.ucs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (R Chandrasekar)
Subject: Re: Frawley or P-Shapiro
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, India
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:47:04 GMT

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro is available at

	gps0@bunny.gte.com

  -- Chandrasekar
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: oscar@meibm4.cen.uiuc.edu (Oscar Ruiz)
Subject: BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:28:17 GMT


Hello:
I am looking for the electronic addresses of two people who work in Spain:

	Carme Torras	Polytecnic University of Catalonia
			Institute of Cybernetics , Barcelona

	Federico Thomas	Institute of Cybernetics , Barcelona

These people have made research I am interested in, but I have no way to 
communicate with them. Their address or address of somebody in those 
institutions would help a lot. Please answer to:

		Oscar E. Ruiz S.
		oscar@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu
		oruiz@lebesgue.me.uiuc.edu
		Mechanical Eng. Department.
		University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

thanks a lot.
From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
Originator: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:42:47 GMT
Organization: Dobonia


In article <1k3scjINN57j@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk>, js@montaigne.lif.icnet.uk (Jack Shirazi <js@biu.icnet.uk>) writes:
|In article <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen) writes:
|>>I saw the following in the Books column (by Olin Chism) of the Dallas
|>Morning News Sunday January 24, 1993. Copied without permission. It
|>concerns a computer program that allegedly wrote a book in the style
|>of Jacqueline Susann.
|>
|>I think this is a stunt. I don't really believe a computer program
|>wrote this book. However, if anyone has any information about this
|>book or the author that would give this some credibility I would like
|>to hear about it. Comment on the general idea would be interesting as
|>well. I don't think the idea itself is impossible, it just seems like
|>this case is a little far fetched.
|
|Markov chaining using a mixture of sentences and words, or possibly
|just with words, using a parser to get rid of any unlikely combinations.
|Probably added in the use of a style checker.

It occurs to me to wonder why any publisher would do this.  Certainly
there's an incentive for researchers in linguistics, artificial
intelligence, literary criticism, and any number of other academic
disciplines to try to create a program that could write worthwhile prose
in the style of a given author--but why would a publisher do it?

There are scads of humans out there who can write a respectable story in
the style of any given commercially successful author, and whose
manuscripts can be had cheaply.  It is not the cost of acquiring
manuscripts that drives up the price of books, it's all the other stuff
that you'd have to do whether the book was written by a human or a
machine.


-- 
--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC  |  sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
        Hellenic poet of the same name.  |
From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing (long)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:27:17 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
NNTP-Posting-Host: cujo.cs.umbc.edu
Summary: Let a machine do it.
Keywords: shoemaker, IRS, human frailties, machine perfection

Perhaps we are like the shoemaker who does not provide good footwear for his
children?  We clearly need to develop on automated, impartial refereeing
agent to use in future IJCAI conferences.  Authors who would like to submit
papers to IJCAI would send a version in an agreed upon format (e.g., ASCII,
Postscript or SGML) to the IJCAI Review Server (e.g.IRS-95@AI.MIT.EDU ).
This system will render an immediate and unbiased decision without relying
on the necessarily prejudiced judgement of humans.

Recent work in statistical techniques for natural language processing and
information retrieval look relevant to building such mechanical reviewing
agents.  If we can collect a large training set of past papers, both those
accepted to and rejected from a conference, we can build a classification
system to use on future instances of that conference.  Figures, especially
those containing images, may pose a more significant research challenge, but
there is no principled reason why these could not be handled as well.

There would be many benefits which would result from such a rapid and
impartial reviewing process.  For example, a researcher could "fine tune" a
paper with respect to a particular conference through a process of
submission, and modification and resubmission until the server accepted the
paper.  Alternatively, an author could submit a paper to the IJCAI server
and, if he receives an immediate and negative reply, could subsequently
submit the paper to the servers for AAAI, CAIA, AISB, CSCSI, etc. until a
server is found which accepts the paper.

Tim
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au (bob jansen)
Subject: Re: Journee d'etude sur les explications
Reply-To: jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au (bob jansen)
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:07:50 GMT

<1993Jan25.051551.4563@jussieu.fr> Journee d'etude sur les explications, raises 
an interesting issue regarding the use of the world-wide internet. Obviously, 
this message is intended for French speaking/reading community only but we 
all get a glimpse at it and most of us can't make head nor tail of it. Even 
though I may not be able to respond to this article I might still be 
interested in understanding it if only to find out what Patrick is up to. If 
we all decide to submit articles in our native tongue then surely the 
usefulness of the internet breaks down, we lose a great facility for 
communicating with the international community. If there is a requirement for 
native language submissions, then why not do so in a 'native language' only 
newsgroup? I understand that not everybody likes English as the 
'international' language, personally I would prefer it were Strine. However, 
we have to have one, and English is the incumbent.

bobj

PS for those non-Australians, Strine is one of the 'languages' of Australia, 
an abortion of English where all words are reduced to their least number of 
phonetic characters able to convet meaning and all words are run in together. 
For example 'avagoodweekend'.




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address until September 1993
INRIA, Domain de Voleceau - Rocquencourt,
BP105 78153 le Chesnay Cedex, France
email: jansen@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU  phone (+33 1) 39635720   fax (+33 1) 39635330

normal address
Program Manager - Knowledge Based Systems
CSIRO, Division of Information Technology
PO Box 1599, NORTH RYDE, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA
email: jansen@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU 	phone: +61 2 8879489 fax: +61 2 8887787
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From: huan@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Huan Liu)
Subject: CFP - AI'93 (Australia) Tutorial Proposals
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:34:02 GMT

The Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'93)

		PRELIMINARY CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

			Melbourne, Australia
			   17-19 Nov. 1993


Tutorial proposals are invited for The Sixth Australian Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence to be held in Melbourne, Australia, 17-19
Nov. 1993. Two half day tutorials will be held on 16 Nov., 1993. The
topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Innovative/Business/Industrial AI applications,

2. Knowledge acquisition,

3. Machine learning,

4. Neural networks and applications,

5. Knowledge based systems/Expert systems.

6. Planning and Scheduling,

7. Uncertainty in AI,

8. Fuzzy Logic and Systems.


The proposals should contain the following information:

1. The goal of the tutorial,

2. A brief description about the tutorial,

3. Detailed plan including an initial version of the course materials
   to be used in the tutorial and the main references.

4. The names, addresses (both mailing and Email), Phone numbers, and
   Fax numbers of the presenters.

5. The background information of the presenters in the tutorial topic,
   including publication lists, teaching experience, qualifications,
   etc.

6. The prerequisite knowledge for the tutorial should be also included.

The important points for the submission are summarised as follows:

DEADLINE for the submission is

	March 31, 1993.

ACCEPTANCE NOTICES will be sent out by

	April 15, 1993.

The complete course materials for the accepted tutorials should reach
the tutorial coordinator, if accepted, by

	July 31, 1993

Proposals and inquiries should be sent to

	Dr. Wilson X. Wen
	AI'93 Tutorial Coordinator

	AI Systems
	Telecom Research Labs.
	P.O. Box 247
	Clayton, Vic. 3168
	Australia

	Email: w.wen@trl.oz.au
	Phone: (613/03) 253-6273
	Fax:   (613/03) 253-6173



Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: spiff@math.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh)
Subject: And/or graphs notation
Organization: Wayne State University Math Department, Detroit
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:21:12 GMT




Hi, this is a pretty simple question:

I realize that the popular notation for AND/OR graphs is by drawing
an arc under the branches of the AND node and nothing under the OR node.
But I chanced upon a graph with a different notation and I was wondering
if anyone has seen it before:

Instead of the arcs, OR and AND nodes are represented as squares and circles.
Does anyone know which is an AND and which is an OR node?  Also it seems
this notation has also been used for minimax trees, in which case once
again, which is a min node and which is a max node?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jason Leigh
replies to: spiff@bert.eecs.uic.edu
From: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg)
Subject: Re: discussion with Penrose
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:44:34 GMT

In article <NAKASHIM.93Jan23150803@uranus.etl.go.jp> nakashim@etl.go.jp (Hideyuki Nakashima) writes:

[Stuff about my discussion with Penrose, and how we agreed to disagree.]
>
>... there exists a Tuting test which will
>distinguish the belief states described in (1).  Applying the test to
>Matt and Penrose, it can be found which of you are correct.

Of course.  If you can build a computer that passes the Turing test, I
will have been correct.  If you can't, Roger will have been.  If you're
saying something more subtle here, I can't see what it is.

>
>But since both of you agreed on
>
>   that neither of us had any hope of
>   changing the other's views on (1),
>
>it can be concluded that (1) is wrong (by assuming (2) and (3)) :-)

Actually, we just realized that building the above computer wasn't something
we could accomplish over dinner.  Pity, that.

						Matt Ginsberg

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: jakobs@utrurt.uni-trier.de (Oliver Jakobs)
Subject: References to "language of music"
Organization: University of Trier
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:23:51 GMT


As my first attempt to post some references did not show up, I'll
try again. Here are same books and articles concerned with the 
segmental units of music. I got them from a local expert who is
doing some doctoral-thesis-work on a related topic.

Oliver

----8<--- cut here -----------------------------------------------

Riemann, Hugo (1907)
	System der Rhythmik und Metrik
	Leipzig

Sloboda, John A. (1985)
	The Musical Mind
	New York

Dowling, W. Jay and Harwood, Diane L. (1986)
	Music Cognition
	Academic Press

Welker, R.L. (1982)
	Abstraction of Themes from Melodic Variation
	IN: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
	Performance, 8, pp.435-447

and the already mentioned

Lerdahl, Fred and Jackendoff, Ray (1985)
	A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
	MIT Press, Cambridge Mass.




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Oliver Jakobs                    |  Ever wish the human race didn't exist,
Computerlinguistik Uni Trier     |  and then realize, you're one too?
jakobs@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de        |                             Flipper
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: dleblanc@kub.nl (David Leblanc)
Subject: Question on connectionism
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 13:12:12 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

A yesr or two ago I heard about an article defending the position that
connectionist networks were more than simple statistical correlators.
Could anyone out there provide a reference for this article - or, even
better, a short summary of the argument(s).

Thanks
David LeBlanc

-- 


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From: skumar+@pitt.edu (Suresh Kumar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.edu,sci.edu,misc.education
Subject: Proceedings of East-West Conference, Moscow: Availability
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:55:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.ai
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: skumar@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu


                           Proceedings of 
East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education,

                April 6-9, 1992, Moscow, Russia.

The conference covered the following areas:

* Artificial Intelligence and Education

* Educational Multi-media and Hyper-media

* Learning Environments, Microworlds and Simulation

* Networks in Education

* New Technologies for Language Learning

* New Technologies for Learning Programming

The proceedings and abstracts of the conference are available.  For more
information, please contact, (preferably by E-mail):

East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education,
International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI),
Kuusinen Str. 21 b, Moscow 125252, Russia.
Email: eastwest@plb.icsti.su  or  eastwest%plb.icsti.su@ussr.eu.net
Telex: 411925 MCNTI
Fax  : +7 095 943 0089

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V Suresh Kumar                         Exchange Visitor - United Nations
520, Learning Research and Development Centre, 3939 O'Hara Street
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania, 15260, USA.
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au (bob jansen)
Subject: Re: knowledge acquisition tools wanted
Reply-To: jansen@syd.dit.csiro.au (bob jansen)
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:56:39 GMT

Brian Gaines at Calgary has KSS0/KSSn available which is Rep Grids plus mre 
for the macintosh. Brian can be contacted at gaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Brian Gaines) 

bobj

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address until September 1993
INRIA, Domain de Voleceau - Rocquencourt,
BP105 78153 le Chesnay Cedex, France
email: jansen@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU  phone (+33 1) 39635720   fax (+33 1) 39635330

normal address
Program Manager - Knowledge Based Systems
CSIRO, Division of Information Technology
PO Box 1599, NORTH RYDE, NSW 2113, AUSTRALIA
email: jansen@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU 	phone: +61 2 8879489 fax: +61 2 8887787
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From: chen@kuri.ces.kyutech.ac.jp (Chen Ke)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Wanted: vision group?
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:09:14 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, JAPAN.

I would appreciate it if anyone can me the name of a news group about
computer vision. By the way, I wish to know the Email address of 
Prof. Martin A. Fischler, AI center at SRI International.

Ke CHEN
Masumi Ishikawa Research Group
Dept. of Control Engineering and Science
Kyushu Institute of Technology
Iizuka, Fukuoka 820, Japan

Office +81-948-29-7738
   Fax +81-948-29-7709
 Email chen@kuri.ces.kyutech.ac.jp




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From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells
Subject: CAIA-93 Program & Info. (9th IEEE Conf. on AI for Applications)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:21:39 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: retriever.cs.umbc.edu
Summary: Deadlines 2/1 (hotel) & 2/5 (early reg), CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU for details
Keywords: AI, Applications, CAIA, Applied AI, Artificial Intelligence

The advance program and registration information for CAIA-93 (the 9th IEEE
Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications) is now available.
The conference will be held March 1-5, 1993 at the Disney Yacht Club & Beach
Club Resort Hotel in Orlando, Florida, USA.

To get the advance program and registration information by email, send a
message to CAIA@CS.UMBC.EDU.  For additional information, contact: CAIA'93
Registration, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Mass. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC
20036-1992 Voice:202-371-1013; Fax:202-728-0884, email:M.KABZA@COMPMAIL.COM.

 ** DEADLINES: 2/1 for hotel conference rates & 2/5 for early registration **
From: bru@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Regine Bruegelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: literature on map recognition
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:53:43 GMT
Organization: IPF, University of Karlsruhe
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ipfo.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de

Hi all!
I'm looking for literature (papers, articles, books ...) on automatic
or semi-automatic map recognition (feature extraction from raster
scanned maps). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please send your
hints to my email address:
        bru@ipfo.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de
If others are interested too, I will send a summary to the comp.ai-list.
Thanks in advance,
                    Regine

Regine Bruegelmann, IPF-University of Karlsruhe, 
bru@ipfo.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de