From errors@Sunnyside.COM Mon Apr 8 10:55:38 1996 Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 19:39:24 -0700 From: Al Whaley Subject: NL-KR Digest, Volume 15 No. 20 NL-KR Digest Sun Apr 7 19:04:39 PDT 1996 Volume 15 No. 20 Today's Topics: Position: Three openings in NL Proc., ISI, U. Southern California CFP: ESSLLI VIII Formal Grammar Conf., Aug 96, Prague CFP: KR'96 Knowledge Representation, Nov 96, Cambridge * * * Subcriptions: listserv-style administrative requests to nl-kr-request@ai.sunnyside.com. Submissions, policy, questions: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com To speed up processing of your submission write to listserv@ai.sunnyside.com with the message: GET nl-kr style Back issues: FTP: ai.sunnyside.com:/pub/nl-kr/Vxx/Nyyy /pub/nl-kr/Vxx/INDEX Gopher: ai.sunnyside.com, Port 70, in directory /pub/nl-kr Email: write to LISTSERV@AI.SUNNYSIDE.COM, omit subject, mail command: GET nl-kr nl-kr_file_list Web: http://ai.sunnyside.com/pub/nl-kr Editors: Al Whaley (al@ai.sunnyside.com) and Chris Welty (weltyc@sigart.acm.org). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 17:15:13 -0500 To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu From: hovy@ISI.EDU (Eduard Hovy) Subject: Position: Three openings in NL Proc., ISI, U. Southern California NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING POSITIONS OPEN The Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California (USC) is seeking to fill three new positions within the Natural Language Processing project. The project is currently conducting research in Machine Translation (the Japangloss system), language generation (the Penman sentence generator and text planner), medical informatics (the MEDTRANS system), and large-scale ontology construction (the Pangloss Ontology and SENSUS). Current researchers include Dr. Eduard Hovy (project leader, ISI research scientist, and USC faculty), Dr. Kevin Knight (ISI research scientist and USC faculty), Mr. Richard Whitney (systems programmer), and several visiting scientists and graduate students. Applicants for all three positions should send a resume and names of references to: Dr. Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute of USC 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 fax: 310-823-6714 Resumes may also be sent electronically to hovy@isi.edu. The Natural Language Processing project is part of the Intelligent Systems Division at USC/ISI, which also contains the LOOM Knowledge Representation project, Prof. Paul Rosenbloom's portion of the SOAR project investigating architectures for intelligent reasoning, the SIMS project to plan access to multiple databases, the EXPECT explainable expert systems project, the Mastermind multimedia interface construction project, the VET and ANDES multimedia and Virtual Reality projects for education, and other projects in data mining, ontology construction and access, and learning. The division is directed by Dr. William Swartout. Successful applicants will work in a stimulating intellectual atmosphere with excellent computational and administrative support, in a prime, virtually smogless location overlooking the Pacific Ocean. USC/ISI is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer Position: Programmer Focus: Machine Translation systems Description: Natural Language techniques, with an emphasis on Machine Translation of Arabic, Japanese, and English. This involves both symbolic/linguistic and statistical techniques to pre-process text, to parse and perform semantic analysis, and to construct large knowledge base resources such as lexicons and ontologies. The candidate will collaborate closely with Japanese- and Arabic-speaking grammarians and with the remainder of the system builders. Qualifications: The applicant should hold a degree in Computer Science and should have experience in natural language processing using both symbolic and statistical techniques. Strong skills in both Lisp and C or C++, as well as UNIX, interface building, and modular systems design. Useful experience: AI and/or NLP software, manipulation of large bodies of text, CLIM, Prolog. Position: Minimum Three-year Position Focus: Japanese Linguistic Specialist Description: Design, construction, and extension of Japanese linguistic resources to support syntactic and semantic analysis of Japanese texts. These resources include a grammar, semantic mapping rules, and large lexicons (part of which will be derived from online sources such as dictionaries and text corpora). The candidate will work together with a parsing specialist to create a critical subsystem of an automatic Japanese-to-English translator. Qualifications: A degree in linguistics or computer science. Both computational and linguistic skills needed. Knowledge of Japanese essential; previous work in Japanese syntax a plus. The candidate should be comfortable with the linguistic and engineering aspects of designing large lexicons and grammars. Position: Minimum Three-year Position Focus: Arabic Linguistic Specialist Description: Design, construction, and extension of Arabic linguistic resources to support syntactic and semantic analysis of Arabic texts. These resources include a grammar, semantic mapping rules, and large lexicons (part of which will be derived from online sources such as dictionaries and text corpora). The candidate will work together with a parsing specialist to create a critical subsystem of an automatic Arabic-to-English translator. Qualifications: A degree in linguistics or computer science. Both computational and linguistic skills needed. Knowledge of Arabic essential; previous work in Arabic syntax a plus. The candidate should be comfortable with the linguistic and engineering aspects of designing large lexicons and grammars. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Eduard Hovy email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 12:05:39 -0700 From: "Richard T. Oehrle" To: fj-ai@etl.go.jp, ir-l%uccmvsa.BITNET@earn-relay.ac.uk, Subject: CFP: ESSLLI VIII Formal Grammar Conf., Aug 96, Prague FORMAL GRAMMAR Prague August 10-11, 1996 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1996 the Eighth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI VIII) is to be held in Prague, August 12-23. The ESSLLI Summer Schools have become a forum for work on formal grammar, encompassing the overlapping interests of work in formal linguistics, computational linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. As at ESSLLI VII last year in Barcelona, the programme this year includes a conference on Formal Grammar to be held the weekend before the Summer School, which will provide a forum for contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. We invite e-mail submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions and comments) addressing these themes. Abstracts should be sent to fgesslli@ufal.mff.cuni.cz An abstract should contain the author's name, affiliation, e-mail address and postal address in the initial lines; the body of the abstract should consist of an ASCII or Postscript file of a document of not more than 800 words. To facilitate anonymous review, the initial lines containing information concerning the author should be easily removable. The deadline for submissions is April 30, 1996. Notification of acceptance will be by the end of May. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: . Programme Committee: Bob Carpenter (CMU) John Coleman (Oxford) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC) Daniele Godard (Paris) Jack Hoeksema (Groningen) Mark Johnson (Brown & Rank Xerox) Bob Kasper (Ohio State) Andreas Kathol (Groningen) Manfred Krifka (Texas) Geert-Jan Kruijff (Prague) Shalom Lappin (London) Glyn Morrill (Barcelona) Dick Oehrle (Arizona) Carl Pollard (Ohio State) Susan Steele (Arizona) Gert Webelhuth (North Carolina) Annie Zaenen (Rank Xerox) For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information contact: . And visit the ESSLLI'96 Website: . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 13:32:02 PST From: Rick Skalsky To: bboards@aaai.org Subject: CFP: KR'96 Knowledge Representation, Nov 96, Cambridge KR'96 - CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. November 5-8, 1996 World Wide Web: http://kr.org/kr/ Information Autoresponder: kr96-info@kr.org Contact information below INVITATION Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence, from natural language dialogue systems to expert systems. We intend KR'96 to be a place for the exchange of news, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R) systems. We encourage papers that present substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems while clearly showing the applicability of those results to implemented or implementable AI systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. The following topics are meant to be suggestive of the scope of the conference. Representational Formalisms Representing Belief, Intention, Time, Space, Action, Events Nonmonotonic Logics Description Logics Reasoning Techniques Deduction Induction Abduction Reasoning under Uncertainty Parallel and Distributed Implementations Efficiency Measures and Complexity Implemented KR&R Systems Reports Updates Comparisons Evaluations Significant Applications of KR&R Systems and Techniques Planning Robotics Diagnosis Natural Language Multi-Agent Environments Knowledge Bases Implications for/of Other Areas of AI and CS Machine Learning Decision Theory Databases Software Engineering SCHEDULE KR'96 will be held in Cambridge immediately preceding the AAAI Fall Symposia Series, and immediately after several independent workshops. More information on these adjoining meetings appears at the end of this announcement. May 6, 1996 Extended abstracts due June 14, 1996 Results to authors July 17, 1996 Final papers due November 2-4, 1996 Workshops (DL'96, Relevance) November 5-8, 1996 KR'96 November 9-11, 1996 AAAI Fall Symposia SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than complete papers. Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt). Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2 by 11 inch or A4 paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters per inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email, when possible) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). KR'96 is arranging with AAAI to handle the collection and acknowledgment of submissions. To be considered, five (5) paper copies of each extended abstract must be received no later than May 20, 1996 at the following address: KR'96 c/o AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged, ordinarily by email. Remaining questions concerning receipt of submission may be addressed to AAAI at Tel: 415-328-3123 Fax: 415-321-4457 Email: kr@aaai.org MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different from papers currently under review. NOTIFICATION Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by July 1, 1996. Notification will be made by electronic mail whenever possible. FINAL PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers will be due July 31, 1996. Final papers will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the publisher). REGISTRATION Registration, lodging, and travel information will be distributed later; check the web page or autoresponder listed above for current information. KR'96 is arranging with AAAI to handle registration, including payment by credit card. CONFERENCE CHAIR Jon Doyle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Voice: +1 (617) 253-3512 Fax: +1 (617) 258-8682 EMAIL: doyle@mit.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Luigia Carlucci Aiello Stuart C. Shapiro, Universit di Roma La Sapienza State University of New York at Buffalo Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Department of Computer Science via Salaria 113 226 Bell Hall 00198 Roma Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 ITALY USA Voice: +39 6 8841947 Voice: +1 716 645 3180 ext. 125 Fax: +39 6 85300849 Fax: +1 716 645 3464 EMAIL: aiello@dis.uniroma1.it EMAIL: shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu EMAIL: kr96-pc-chairs@kr.org INTER-CONFERENCE COOPERATION CHAIR Ronald P. Loui Washington University, USA EMAIL: loui@cs.wustl.edu PUBLICITY CHAIR Werner Horn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Austria EMAIL: werner@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Preliminary) Syed Ali (SW. MO St. U., USA) John A. Barnden (NM St. U., USA) Ron Brachman (ST&T, USA) Ernest Davis (NYU, USA) Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA) Fausto Giunchiglia (U. Trento, Italy) Patrick Hayes (U. IL, USA) Jim Hendler (U. Md, USA) Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI, USA) Kurt Konolige (SRI, USA) David Israel (SRI, USA) Lucja Iwanska (Wayne St. U., USA) Benjamin Kuipers (U. TX, USA) Deepak Kumar (Bryn Mawr Coll., USA) Fritz Lehmann (Cycorp and GRANDAI, USA) Doug Lenat (Cycorp, USA) Hector Levesque (U. Toronto, Canada) Vladimir Lifschitz (U. TX, USA) Robert MacGregor (USC/ISI, USA) Hwee Tou Ng (DSO, Singapore) Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA) Anand Rao (AAII, Australia) Len Schubert (U. Rochester, USA) Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA) John Sowa (U. Binghamton, USA) Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) ADJOINING CONFERENCES KR'96 will be immediately preceded by several workshops and immediately followed by the AAAI Fall Symposia Series. Tentative information for these meetings is as follows, with all located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The AAAI Fall Symposia Series will be held November 9-11, 1996. For more information, see http://www.aaai.org/. Description Logic '96 will be held November 2-4, 1996. For more information contact the organizing committee at dl96@dl.kr.org. The organizing committee consists of Lin Padgham (chair), Deborah McGuinness, Peter Patel-Schneider, Enrico Franconi, and Manfred Gehrke. Relevance in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (RRR-96) will be held (tentatively) November 2-4, 1996. For more information, contact the organizers, Alon Levy and Russ Greiner, at levy@research.att.com and greiner@scr.siemens.com. Julia Bowen bowen@uranus.aaai.org AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park,CA 94025 (415)328-3123 fax (415)321-4457 Richard Skalsky AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice (415) 328-3123 Fax (415) 321-4457 skalsky@aaai.org ----- End Forwarded Message ----- End of NL-KR Digest *******************