From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Natural Language newsgroup
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:45:04 GMT
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In article <1k3ec3INNkms@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
>
>In article <1k1co6INN3d3@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
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>   Here's the current state of the charter.
>
>***
>Charter for Natural Language Newsgroup
>
>     Name: comp.ai.nlp (vs. comp.ai.natural-lang) ==> undecided, at the moment
>     Moderated?:  Unmoderated
>     Purpose:   To discuss issues related to natural language, especially
>                but not solely the kind of issues that researchers in
>                AI would consider important to natural language.   This
>                would include issues such as:
>
>                    * Natural Language Understanding
>                    * Natural Language Generation
>                    * Machine Translation
                     * Dialogue and Discourse Systems
>                    * Natural Language Interfaces
>                    * Parsing
>                    * Computational Linguistics.
>                    * Computer Aided Language Learning   (newly added)
>
>                Issues related to specific research being done in the
>                field may also be considered.   (new) This newsgroup
>                will leave out areas, such as speech synthesis, which
>                are already covered by other newsgroups unless it pertains
>                directly to issues above or related issues.
>
>***

   A few more names:

       (31) Lila Ghermi (lila@mcc.com)
       (32) Ronnie Smith (rws@cs.duke.edu)
       (33) Ion ??? (ion@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk)
       (34) Miles Osborne (miles@minister.york.ac.uk)
       (35) Ruvan Weerasinghe (ruvan@clu.cardiff.ac.uk)
       (36) Ron Brachman (rjb@research.att.com)
       (37) Stefan Momma (steff%phoenix@adler.ims.uni-stuttgart.de)
       (38) Mark Adler (adler@aiag.enet.dec.com)
       (39) Colin Goldberg (cgoldber@trirex.com)
       (40) Paul Zhu (paulzhu@ruby.ils.unc.edu)

   I should note that not everyone (though most everyone) on this list
supports the formation of the newsgroup.   This is just a tally of those
who have sent me mail.

   In another day or so, I will post the charter as it stands to the
newsgroup, news.announce.newgroups.   This will mean that there will
be thirty days for discussion about the formation of this group.
In this time, we can further debate the charter, or the need for
this group.   Any postings that will go to more than one group should
be crossposted (by adding the name in the Newsgroup header) not reposted
several times (I assume this is for efficiency of space).   Discussion 
should probably take place on news.groups.   About once a week, I will
send a RFD (request for discussion) on relevant newsgroups.   At the
end of one month, if the opposition does not appear great, then there
will be a CFV (call for votes) which will last a period of thirty days
(or so).   Further instructions will be given at a furthe point.

    I will make an announcement to this newsgroup in a day or two that
I have set up an RFD, and there will be a neutrally worded post, plus
a sample charter at that point.  

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
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