From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Sun Jun 9 00:59:37 1996 Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 18:19:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: GREEN EDITORS NOTE: Has that AISB newspaper article + picture in of Prof. NNoel Sharkey/John Neary/MURPHY ============================================================================== ******************************************************************************* LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION L ******************************************************************************* (1996) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume III): Computational Models and Systems (The GREEN book) (see also BLUE, BLACK, RED books, Vols. I, II, IV) Edited by Paul Mc Kevitt Aalborg University, Denmark and Sheffield University, England USA: Kluwer, 1996 CONTACT: E-mail: kluwer@wkap.com services@wkap.nl Phone: +1 617 871 6600 Fax: +1 617 871 6528 WWW: http:// www.wkap.nl/Online Catalogues/ Computer and Information Science/ Artificial Intelligence PRICE: Book costs ISBN III: US$: 98.00 ISBN-0-7923-3944-4 ______________________________________________________________________________ (1996) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume III): Theory and Grounding Representations (The GREEN book) ISBN-0-7923-3944-4 Price: $ US: 98.00 Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP) there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from Philosophical and Psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, England, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, USA) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The USA, China and the EU are well-reflected showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future. ______________________________________________________________________________ VOL 9 (4/5) 1995: INTEGRATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING: theory ABOUT THE AUTHORS: [all authors' biographies given here] PREFACE: Paul Mc Kevitt, Aalborg University, DENMARK and Sheffield University, ENGLAND SITE DESCRIPTIONS: Ongoing Research Projects at the Institute for the Learning Sciences Roger Schank and Andrew fano ILS, North Western, USA A logical approach to representing and reasoning about space Antony Cohn, John Gooday, B Bennett and N M Gotts School of Computing Studies, University of Leeds, ENGLAND PAPERS: Memory and Expectations in Learning, Language, and Visual Understanding Roger Schank and Andrew Fano ILS, North Western, USA Language, vision and metaphor Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield, ENGLAND Language and vision: a single perceptual mechanism? Derek Partridge University of Exeter, ENGLAND Some ideas and coloured days: some computational implications of embodyment Ronan Reilly, UCD, IRELAND and NIAS, THE NETHERLANDS A comparison of models for fusion of the auditory and visual sensors in speech perception Jordi Robert-Ribes, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Pierre Escudier Institut de la Communication Parlee (ICP), Grenoble, FRANCE Visible Speech Improves Human Language Understanding: Implications for Speech Processing Systems Laura Thompson and Bill Ogden NMSU, New Mexico, USA VOL 10 (1/2) 1996: INTEGRATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING: Grounding Representations SITE DESCRIPTIONS: Work on the integration of language and vision at the university of Torino Diego Marconi Universita' di Torino, ITALY PAPERS: On the referential competence of some machines Diego Marconi Universita' di Torino, ITALY Understanding language through vision Cristina Meini and Alfredo Paternoster V. Sant' Anselmo 20, 10125 Torino, ITALY >From Chinese Rooms to Irish Rooms: new words on visions for language Paul Mc Kevitt and Cheng-ming Guo Aalborg University, DENMARK and Sheffield University, ENGLAND and Tsinghua University, CHINA Grounding computational engines Stuart Jackson and Noel Sharkey Sheffield University, ENGLAND Successful naive representation grounding Nick Sales R. G. Evans and Igor Aleksander Dept. of electrical and electronic Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, ENGLAND L - The first five years of an automated language acquisition project 0 J.Feldman, G.Lakoff, D.Bailey, S.Narayanan, T.Regier, A.Stolcke ICSI, UC Berkeley, CA, USA Grounding symbols into perceptions Alain Grumbach French Telecom, Paris, FRANCE BOOK REVIEWS: Associative engines Clark, Andy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Reviewers: Mark Lee and Paul Mc Kevitt, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) Learning Robots Van De Velde, K., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (Reviewer: John Neary, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND) ====================================================================== Paul Mc Kevitt is 32 and from D/un Na nGall (Donegal), Ireland on the Northwest of the EU. He is a Visiting Professor of Intelligent Multimedia Computing at Aalborg University in Denmark, EU and a British EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Advanced Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, England, EU. The Fellowship, commenced in 1994, and releases him from his tenured Lecturership (Associate Professorship) for 5 years to conduct full-time research on the integration of natural language, speech and vision processing. He is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Education at the University of Sheffield. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, England in 1991. His Master's Degree in Computer Science was obtained from New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA in 1988 and his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, EU in 1985. His primary research interests are in Natural Language Processing including the processing of pragmatics, beliefs and intentions in dialogue. He is also interested in Philosophy, Multimedia and the general area of Artificial Intelligence. ====================================================================== ******************************************************************************* AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REVIEW JOURNAL AI REV ******************************************************************************* Artificial Intelligence Review Journal (Kluwer, The Netherlands) Special VOLUME on INTEGRATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Nicola Berridge (Humanities and Social Sciences Division) Bill George (Desk Editor, Editorial Department) Polly Margules (Kluwer Inhouse Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences) Evangelos Simoudis (USA Editor, AI Review) Melanie Willow (Journals Editorial Office) Masoud Yazdani (Founding Editor, AI Review) ******************************************************************************* LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION + LANGUAGE + VISION L ******************************************************************************* ===============================================================================