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Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 9 No. 65
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:57:44 GMT

NL-KR Digest      (Fri Dec 18 10:25:28 1992)      Volume 9 No. 65

Today's Topics:

	 Query: machine-readable german dictionaries
	 CFP: ICLP'93 Poster Session
	 CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on "Reasoning About Function"
	 CFP: Workshop on Schemas and Neural Networks
	 CFP: ACM TIS Special Issue on Text Categorization
	 CFP: Fourth European Symposium on Natural Language Generation

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:37:45 EST
From: maxwell@starbase.MITRE.ORG (Debra Maxwell)
Subject: Query: machine-readable german dictionaries

I am looking for references on machine-readable German dictionaries.
Are there any which are public domain?  If not, can you please point
me to a contact in order to get information on acquiring the
dictionary.

Please send all replies to me at maxwell@starbase.mitre.org and I will
summarize the results to the list.

Thanks in advance
Debra Ellis Maxwell.

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 08:59:45 PST
From: ICLP Publicity <iclp-publicity@quintus.com>
Subject: CFP: ICLP'93 Poster Session

                    CALL FOR POSTERS - ICLP'93

	 TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING

			  Budapest, Hungary
			   June 24-25, 1993
				   
	  Sponsored by the Association of Logic Programming

Descriptions of successful applications of Logic Programming or 
progress reports of substantial projects are of special interest to 
a wide audience, especially those from industry. However the content of 
such descriptions or progress reports is not always suitable for 
presentation as a full technical paper. In order to provide an 
informal outlet for the demonstration of practical applications, a 
poster exhibition will be included at the  10th International Logic 
Programming Conference. There will be a room at the conference site where 
posters will be displayed and a time designated where conference 
attendees can ask questions of poster presenters.

Hungary, as well as other East European Countries, has a strong
tradition in Logic and Logic Programming. To disseminate contributions
to Logic Programming resulting from this tradition is another aim of
the Poster exhibition. Submissions from East European Countries are
especially encouraged.

Submissions for the poster session will be handled separately from
regular conference papers. The submission should be an abstract of the
work written in English, taking no more than two pages (approximately
1000 words). Submissions can be made electronically or 6 copies of the
paper can be sent by regular mail to either of the poster session
chairs. Each submission will be reviewed separately by the poster
review committee. Selection will be based on relevance and potential
interest. Subject to agreement of the author, one-page abstracts of
accepted presentations will be included in the conference proceedings.
Poster presentation of applications which are described in a full
paper submitted to the conference are explicitly encouraged.

Submission Deadline:       January 23, 1992
Submission Content:        2-page extended abstract (1000 Words)
Author Notification:       March 1, 1993

Submit to:                    
Lutz Pluemer                        or 		Pascal Van Hentenryck
Universitaet Bonn			        Brown University 
Inst. fuer Informatik III  	            	Box 1910                    
Roemerstr. 164		                        Providence                  
D 5300 Bonn 1                                   RI 02912                    
FR Germany			                USA                         
Fax: +49 228 550 382		                Fax: +1 401 863 7657
Email: lutz@uran.informatik.uni-bonn.de         Email: pvh@cs.brown.edu     

Poster Review Committee
Ken Bowen, ALS; USA
Lutz Pluemer, University of Bonn, Germany
Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 21:31:10 EST
From: amruth@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Amruth Kumar)
Subject: CFP: AAAI-93 Workshop on "Reasoning About Function"

                    Call for Participation
                    ----------------------
                     AAAI-93 Workshop on
                   Reasoning About Function
                   ========================
                   Washington D.C., July '93

Description of Workshop: 
- ----------------------

The explicit representation and use of the function (purpose) of an object,
either as intended by its designer or as interpreted by its user, is
emerging as a focal point of problem solving in fields as diverse as
Device Invention, Redesign, Diagnosis, Explanation Generation and
Automatic Debugging.  Explicit treatment of function has proven to be
very useful because of its potential to organize and provide access to
causal knowledge of the object (eg., focuses on missing causality
during redesign), because of the improved resolution it brings
to the reasoning process (eg., discriminates among suspects
during diagnosis) and because of its utility in addressing the scaling
problem. To date, function-based knowledge has been successfully
applied in several domains, including Software Engineering, Human
Physiology, and various fields of engineering such as Electrical,
Aerospace and Chemical Engineering.
 
The objectives of this workshop are: 1) to examine current techniques
used to represent and reason about function; 2) to present a forum to
develop a shared framework for reasoning about function, and 3) to
identify the trends and future directions for this emerging field.

Topics
- -----

The workshop will focus on the following issues:

1) Terminology: theoretical analyses yielding an appropriate
vocabulary for function; disambiguating function from other terms such
as behavior and teleology: what are the interactions and dependencies
between them? How do form, use, experience, etc. relate to function?

2) Representation: What are the issues in acquisition of function
knowledge? What are the ontological bases of an adequate function
representation: processes, states, flows, parameters? How can
representational primitives be chosen in a given ontology? What impact
does the intended use of a function model have on its construction?
How is knowledge of function related to behavioral, structural and
heuristic knowledge?

3) Reasoning: What are the sorts of tasks/domains for which Functional
Reasoning is particularly well suited?  What are the AI processes
involved in exploiting function knowledge during reasoning? How can
reasoning about function, behavior, teleology, etc. be integrated into
a coherent system?

4) Applications: An examination of implemented systems, i.e.,
representation and reasoning techniques used, evaluation of the system
and lessons learned from the experience.

Format of Workshop:
- ---------------------

The workshop will address the work of participants in the form of
moderated presentations and discussions. Where appropriate,
participants will be invited to display posters describing their work.
Separate sessions will be devoted to terminology, representation
issues, reasoning and application issues. The workshop will conclude
with a summarizing panel discussion.

Attendance: 
- ----------

Participation is by invitation only, and will be limited to
approximately 35 people. See Submission Requirements below for the
criteria to be invited.

Submissions Requirements: 
- ------------------------

Those who wish to attend the workshop should submit four copies of a
1-2 page research summary including a list of relevant publications,
regular and email address (where possible) and phone and FAX number.
Those who wish to present their work at the workshop should submit
four copies of a short paper (6-8 pages) in addition to the research
summary. If the work has been published or submitted for consideration
elsewhere, please specify the journal or conference.  Note that,
unpublished work is preferred for presentation. Electronic submissions
will not be accepted. All submissions will be reviewed by the Workshop
Committee.

In order to facilitate interaction among participants, you are
requested to specify the following with regard to your work: topic
(terminology/representation/reasoning/application), field
(redesign/diagnosis/explanation generation etc.) and domain
(electrical/chemical/physiology etc.). In submitted papers, you are
urged to either define or relate to existing literature, all
terminology used.  Also, please include a two-line description of the
main contribution of your paper.

Submission Deadline: March 12, 1993
- -------------------

Notification Date: April 2, 1993
- -----------------

Final date for camera-ready copies to organizers: April 30,1993
- ------------------------------------------------

Submit to:
- ---------
Amruth N. Kumar
(Reasoning About Function Workshop)
 
226 Bell Hall
Department of Computer Science
SUNY Buffalo, NY 14260
Ph: (716) 645 2193 Fax: (716) 645 3464
(amruth@cs.buffalo.edu)

Workshop Committee:
- ------------------
Dean Allemang 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
(allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch)

David Franke 
Trilogy Development Group
(franke@trilogy.com)

Jack Hodges
San Francisco State University
(hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu)

Amruth N. Kumar (Coordinator)
SUNY Buffalo
(amruth@cs.buffalo.edu)

James K. McDowell
Michigan State University
(mcdowelj@pleiades.cps.msu.edu)

Jon Sticklen
Michigan State University
(sticklen@cps.msu.edu)

Shambhu J. Upadhyaya
SUNY Buffalo
(shambhu@cs.buffalo.edu)

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:24:08 -0600
From: rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Schemas and Neural Networks

		         CALL FOR PAPERS

   SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS: INTEGRATING SYMBOLIC AND SUBSYMBOLIC
		APPROACHES TO COOPERATIVE COMPUTATION

		    A Workshop sponsored by the

		   Center for Neural Engineering 
		University of  Southern  California
		     Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520

                     April 13th and 14th, 1993

Program  Committee:  

Michael  Arbib  (Organizer),  
John  Barnden,
George  Bekey,  
Francisco  Cervantes-Perez,  
Damian  Lyons,  
Paul Rosenbloom, 
Ron Sun, 
Akinori Yonezawa.

  To design complex technological systems and  to  analyze  complex
  biological and cognitive systems, we need a multilevel methodolo-
  gy which combines a coarse-grain analysis of  cooperative or dis-
  tributed  computation  (we shall refer to the computing agents at
  this level as "schemas") with a  fine-grain  model  of  flexible,
  adaptive  computation (for which neural networks provide a power-
  ful general paradigm).  Schemas provide  a language  for  distri-
  buted  artificial  intelligence,  perceptual  robotics, cognitive
  modeling, and brain theory which is "in the style of the  brain",
  but  at a relatively high level of abstraction relative to neural
  networks. The proposed workshop will provide a 2-hour introducto-
  ry  tutorial and problem statement by Michael Arbib, and sessions
  in which an invited paper will be followed by several contributed
  papers,   selected  from those submitted in response to this call
  for papers.  Preference will be given  to  papers  which  present
  practical  examples  of,  theory  of,  and/or methodology for the
  design and analysis of  complex  systems  in  which  the  overall
  specification  or  analysis is conducted in terms of schemas, and
  where some but not necessarily all of the schemas are implemented
  in neural networks.

A list of sample topics for contributions is as follows, where  a
hybrid  approach  means one in which the abstract schema level is
integrated with neural or other lower level models:

	Schema Theory as a description language for neural networks.
	Modular neural networks.
	Linking DAI to Neural Networks to Hybrid Architecture.
	Formal Theories of Schemas.
	Hybrid approaches to integrating planning & reaction.
	Hybrid approaches to learning. 
	Hybrid approaches to commonsense reasoning by integrating 
		neural networks and rule-based reasoning (using 
		schema for the integration).
	Programming Languages for Schemas and Neural Networks.
	Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming for Distributed AI 
		and Neural Networks.
	Schema Theory Applied in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, 
		Robotics, AI and Neuroscience.

Prospective contributors should send a hard copy of  a  five-page
extended  abstract,   including figures with informative captions
and full references (either by regular mail or fax)  by  February
15,  1993   to: 

	          Michael Arbib
	  Center for Neural Engineering 
	University of Southern California
	 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA 

	      Tel: (213) 740-9220, 
	      Fax: (213) 746-2863, 
	      email: arbib@pollux.usc.edu.  
 
Please include your full address, including fax and email, 
on the paper.  

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email  no
later  than March 1, 1993.  There are currently no plans to issue
a formal proceedings of full papers, but revised versions of  ac-
cepted abstracts received prior to April 1, 1993 will be collect-
ed with the full text of the Tutorial in a CNE  Technical  Report
which  will  be made available to registrants at the start of the
meeting.   [A useful way to structure  such  an  abstract  is  in
short  numbered sections, where each section presents (in a small
type face!) the material corresponding to one  transparency/slide
in  a  verbal presentation.  This will make it  easy for an audi-
ence to take notes if they have a copy of the  abstract  at  your
presentation.]

Hotel Information:  Attendees may register at the hotel of  their
choice,  but  the  closest hotel to USC is the University Hilton,
3540 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007, Phone:   (213)
748-  4141,  Reservation:  (800) 872-1104, Fax:  (213) 748- 0043.
A  single  room  costs  $70/night  while  a  double  room   costs
$75/night.   Workshop  participants  must  specify  that they are
"Schemas and Neural Networks Workshop" attendees to avail of  the
above rates.

The registration fee of $150 includes a copy  of  the  abstracts,
coffee  breaks,  and  a dinner to be held on the evening of April
13th.

Those wishing to register should send a check payable  to  Center
for  Neural Engineering, USC for $150 together with the following
information to: 

	Paulina  Tagle
 Center  for  Neural  Engineering
University  of Southern California
	University Park 
    Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
              USA

- --------------------------------------------------------------------

		SCHEMAS AND NEURAL NETWORKS 
	  Center for  Neural  Engineering,  USC
                    April 13 - 14, 1992

NAME:        ____________________________________________
ADDRESS:     ____________________________________________   
	     ____________________________________________   
PHONE NO.:   _______________      FAX:___________________      
EMAIL:       ____________________________________________

        I intend to submit a paper: YES  [   ]      NO   [   ]

- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 16:48 EST
From: lewis@research.att.com (David Lewis)
Subject: CFP: ACM TIS Special Issue on Text Categorization

                         Call For Papers
              Special Issue on Text Categorization 
             ACM Transactions on Information Systems

                  Submissions due: June 1, 1993

   Text categorization is the classification of units of natural
language text with respect to a set of pre-existing categories.
Reducing an infinite set of possible natural language inputs to a
small set of categories is a central strategy in computational systems
that process natural language.  Some uses of text categorization have
been:

       --To assign subject categories to documents in support of text
retrieval and library organization, or to aid the human assignment of
such categories.
       --To route messages, news stories, or other continuous streams
of texts to interested recipients.
       --As a component in natural language processing systems, to
filter out nonrelevant texts and parts of texts, to route texts to
category-specific processing mechanisms, or to extract limited forms
of information.
       --As an aid in lexical analysis tasks, such as word sense
disambiguation.
       --To categorize nontextual entities by textual annotations, for
instance to assign people to occupational categories based on free
text responses to survey questions.

   ACM Transactions on Information Systems is the leading forum for
presenting research on text processing systems.  For this special
issue we encourage the submission of high quality technical
descriptions of algorithms and methods for text categorization.
Experiments comparing alternative methods are especially welcome, as
are results on deploying systems into regular use.

   Five copies of each manuscript should be submitted to either of the
special issue editors at the addresses below:

David D. Lewis                             Philip J. Hayes
AT&T Bell Laboratories                     Carnegie Group, Inc.
600 Mountain Ave.                          Five PPG Place
Room 2C409                                 Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Murray Hill, NJ 07974                      USA
USA                                        hayes@cgi.com   
lewis@research.att.com

Submission	June 1, 1993
Notification 	October 1, 1993
Revision	February 1, 1994
Publication	mid-1994

The July 1990 issue of TIS contains a description of the style requirements. 

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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:41:38 -0200
From: zock@m7.limsi.fr
Subject: CFP: Fourth European Symposium on Natural Language Generation

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth European Symposium on Natural Language Generation 

Pisa - Italy

April 28-30, 1993

This workshop is the fourth in a series of biennial workshops on Natural
Language 
Generation. While the first three were held respectively in France (Abbey
of 
Royaumont), in Scotland (Edinburgh) and in Austria (Judenstein), this one
will take 
place in Italy (Pisa). Following the tradition, we would like to invite
people who 
address the issue of Natural Language Generation from such different
perspectives as 
linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and engineering. 

Papers are invited on original, substantial and unpublished research on all
aspects of 
Natural Language Generation: architectures, knowledge representation and
control, user 
models, text planning, surface generation (lexical choice, determination of
syntactic 
structure), linguistically or psychologically motivated grammar formalisms,
etc. 

Contributions to the workshop will be selected on the basis of a full paper
which must 
be received by the organizers not later than January 30, 1993. Papers will
be reviewed 
by an international programme comittee. Approximately 20 papers will be
accepted for 
presentation at the workshop. Authors will be notified of acceptance by the
end of 
February 1993. 

Contributors are requested to submit three copies of the paper which should
be between 
3000 to 4000 words (exclusive of references and figures). The first page
should include 
the title, the name(s) of the author(s), a short summary and the complete
addresses 
(including fax and e-mail, if possible). Papers not meeting these
requirements will be 
rejected without refereeing. The revised version has to be received by the
organizers by 
April 10, 1993. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings,
available as 
preprints at the workshop. 

Attendance at the workshop can be guaranteed 60 people.If there are more
participants, 
we may allow them to attend the sessions though we cannot provide board and
lodging 
The participation fee will be 150.000 Italian Lira for speakers and 200.000
Italian Lira 
for the rest of the participants This covers the expenses for the opening
cocktail, 
lunches, dinners, coffee breaks and the workshop material. Bookings must be
in by 
March 20, 1993. The organizers need to know by then who will attend the
conference 
in order to make the reservations. Double rooms cost approximately 120.000
Lira, 
single rooms are about 75.000 Italian Lira (breakfast and taxes included).
For further 
information contact the workshop organizers. 

PROGRAM CHAIRS :

Giovanni Adorni				
Dipartimento Ingegneria dell'Informazione	
University of Parma					
Viale delle Scienze					
43100 Parma, Italy					
Tel.: (+39) 521 90 57 25				
Fax: (+39) 521-90 57 23				 
E-mail:bambi@aida.eng.unipr.it	

Michael Zock
LIMSI - CNRS
BP 133
91403 Orsay Cedex, France
Tel.: (+33) 1-69 85 80 05
Fax:(+33)1-69 85 80 88
E-mail:zock@limsi.fr

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Giacomo Ferrari
Dipartimento di Linguistica
Via S.Maria 36
	56100 Pisa, Italy
Tel:(+39)50-247 73
Fax:(+39)50-441 00
E-mail: ferrari@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

K. deSmedt, University of Leiden, Holland 
G. Ferrari, University of Pisa, Italy
H. Horacek, University of Bielefeld, Germany
E. Hovy, ISI, University of California at San Diego, USA
D. McDonald, Content Technologies, USA  
J. Moore, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
E. Reiter, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
D.Scott, ITRI, Brighton Polytechnic, England
O. Stock, IRST, Italy

The workshop is supported by the Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AI*IA)

Michael Zock
"Langage & Cognition"
LIMSI - CNRS, B.P. 133
91403 Orsay Cedex / France

Tel.: (331) 69 85 80 05
Fax:  (331) 69 85 80 88

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