Information Retrieval List Digest 218 (June 20) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-218 IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965 June 20, 1994 Volume XI, Number 25 Issue 218 ********************************************************** II. JOBS 1. Research Assistant, U. Manchester 2. Chief, Information Systems, United Arab Emirates III. NOTICES A. Publications 1. FYI Newsletter B. Meetings 1. AAAI '94 Workshop 2. Post-COLING '94 Workshop C. Miscellaneous 1. International Summer School, Bulgaria ********************************************************** II. JOBS II.1. Fr: Effie Ananiadou Re: Research Assistant, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester University of Mancester Institute of Science and Technology Centre for Computational Linguistics Post of Research Assistant --- Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and Generation. We are seeking a suitable candidate to fill a research post on a project funded by Matsushita Electric Industry Company Ltd. (Panasonic). The post is initially for two years with a possible extension of one year beginning as soon as possible. The project deals with the construction of tools for knowledge acquisition from textual corpora and for text generation. We are dealing with technical texts/sublanguages. The applicant should have a good first degree and preferably postgraduate qualifications in artificial intelligence/computing. Applicants should have a good knowledge of C, in a UNIX environment. Knowledge of computational linguistics, especially generation, is important. An interest in or familiarity with hypertext would be an advantage. The applicant will join a team collaborating with the Japan-based Matsushita Research Centre. Salary will be between 12828 and 18855 per annum, depending on age and experience. Please quote reference MA/RA. Applications, including full curriculum vitae and the names of two referees, should be sent to: Dr. S. Ananiadou (re: Matsushita RA) Centre for Computational Linguistics University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 88 Manchester, UK M60 1QD to arrive as soon as possible. Further information may be obtained from the above address or by phoning 061-200 3100. An equal opportunity employer. Sofia Ananiadou effie@ccl.umist.ac.uk Centre for Computational effie@cclsun.uucp Linguistics UMIST PO Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester, UK tel: +44.61.200.3082 (direct) M60 1QD fax: +44.61.200.3099 ********** II.2. From: tariq@ecssr.edu Re: Chief, Information Systems Concepts, and Design, United Arab Emirates A prestigious new research institution in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is seeking Chief, Information Systems Concepts and Design to lead and supervise the Computer Department that manages and maintains the Center's computer network and information systems including the Internet connection. Equally important, the incumbent is the Center's principal resource person on the design and implementation of research methodologies utilized by the research staff. We are seeking an experienced individual who holds a Ph.D. degree in a social science discipline with extensive background in quantitative methods and computers. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in all aspects of sample surveys including sample designs (single stage, multi stage, cluster and stratified random sampling), writing of questionnaires, implementation of surveys by phone, mail and in-person, analysis of data and report preparations using graphic packages. Also, experience in computer modeling and computer-based interactive research methodology is required. An added plus would be administrative experience in a comparable position. The Center, a non-profit and independent institution, is engaged in research and policy analysis of international, political, economic and social issues affecting the UAE and the Gulf region. It is equipped with modern, state-of-the-art data processing and telecommunications facilities, and employs an international and highly trained staff. The position offers a competitive compensation package that includes a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, housing and complete medical benefits. Detailed curriculum vitae and samples of the candidate's writings should be forwarded before August 1, 1994 to: Recruitment Committee P.O. Box 4567 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Fax number : 9712 - 767799 ********************************************************** III. NOTICES III.A.1. From: FYIHART@aol.com Re: FYI Newsletter FYI NEWSLETTER REPORTS ON INFORMATION MEDIA; PREMIERES ON INTERNET June 18, 1994 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: John Hart, 303-987-3246; fyi@marketplace.com (Lakewood, CO) -- Which photocopier company is being blamed for producing a machine that could easily violate copyright laws? Is it true the feds are planning a National ID Card? Do you know which bulletin board is specializing in serving small businesses? You can stay informed about these stories and many other information-related issues by reading "FYI Newsletter," published electronically every other Saturday. "FYI Newsletter" focuses on information media, and technology-related news. The abridged edition is downloadable free of charge, and the expanded edition is available for an introductory subscription offer (contact John Hart) for 26 issues, e-mailed directly to electronic addresses. Here are some of the stories that have appeared in "FYI" to date: 1. Ethics in the Computer Equation 2. AIA Announces Online Network for Architects 3. Federal Data Soon Online With GILS 4. Shaman Exchange Announces Denver Area Super Highway 5. Cruising the Information Superhighway with Satellite Technology 6. Internet Computer Index Centralizes Information About Computers 7. New Consumer CD-ROM Electronic Phone Directory Introduced 8. Free Employment Advertising and Instant Access to Thousands of Jobs Over The Telephone, 9. Baseball Stats Online The abridged edition of "FYI Newsletter" is in text-only format, and easy to download and print. It takes about 2:30 minutes of download time. "FYI Newsletter" can now be downloaded from one of these systems: CompuServe Work At Home Forum, Library 4; CompuServe PR and Marketing SIG, Library 9; The Internet: gopher marketplace.com. "FYI Newsletter" is edited and published by John Hart, a professional researcher and information specialist. ********** III.B.1. Fr: chengming Re: Post-COLING 94 Lexical Workshop in Beijing: Last Call for Papers xxxxxxxxx POST-COLING 94 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT xxxxxxx INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DIREACTIONS OF LEXICAL RESEARCH 15-17th of August, 1994 in Beijing 1. INTENTIONS: The scholarly and scientific tradition in lexical research was given an engineering edge by three outbursts of massive lexical work that began in the last decade, the CYC project in the United States, the EDR project in Japan, and the Grosseto Workshop whose principle of reusability generated a series of EC projects including Acquilex, ET-7, Multilex, and Genelex. These projects led to, and were equalled by, world wide interest in statistics on very large corpora. The close inter-relationships between Lexicon development and Corpus analysis are increasingly accentuated. This international drive on the lexicon over a period of a decade has done the field an immense service. However, recent reflections on the lexical research over the last ten years are not always as favourable as one might expect. Wilks (1993) made a criticism of IBM's approach to Machine Translation. The main point was that there is a natural ceiling of success to PURE statistical methods. Ide and Veronis (1993) went Aso far as to ask if we have wasted our time over the last decade on extracting knowledge from machine-readable dictionaries. Another area of concern nowadays is the development of common lexical specifications, or lexical standards. Up to which level of lexical description can standards be proposed, to ensure data reusability? Furthermore, one important development in AI and Cognitive Science in recent years warrants the attention of lexical researchers. It involves the trend for the integration of NLP with various subareas of AI, e.g. computer vision (see Dennett, 1991; Mc Kevitt, 1994). The need for unified representation scheme incorporating both perceptual information and common sense knowledge poses new challenges. The proposed workshop attempts to clarify issues in current lexical research in terms of further research directions as an answer to recent challenges. Suggested topics are as follows: a) notes comparing between well-known lexical projects, particulary the EDR project, the CYC project, and the EC projects --what have we learned ? b) lexical needs for unified representations of common sense knowledge and perceptual knowledge, visual or audio --brainstorming on the design and construction of the lexicons for such integrated systems; c) lexical needs of very large knowledge bases for nuclear lexicons as the core for knowledge acquisition -- speculations and practice concerning the design and construction of such nuclei. 2. FORMAT: This workshop is intended as an opportunity provided for the exchange of views on issues of common concern to the area of lexical research. Panel sessions and discussions are stressed rather than formal speeches. All activities at the workshop are intended as reactions to recent challenges. The workshop will take place on the beautiful Tsinghua University campus on the outskirt of Beijing. DAY 1: the state-of-the-art discussion -- achievements, issues and concerns [A DAY 2: lexical needs for integrated systems DAY 3: lexical needs for knowledge acquisition for very large knowledge systems Each attendee of the workshop pays $100 to cover registration, preprints, local transportation from and to Beijing Airport, and hotel + food expenses for the 3-day workshop duration. Each additional night of stay costs $50. Air fare to and from Beijing rests with all attendees themselves. All correspondence concerning workshop registration should be directed to Chengming Guo by fax, e-mail, or postal mail at the Computer Science Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. Total attendances are limited to 55. 3. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers or extended abstracts of no more than 6 pages should be submitted by e-mail to the co-chairs of the workshop at "glottolo@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it" for Nicoletta Calzolari, and at "chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu" for Chengming Guo. Postal mail of three hard copies of the paper or extended abstract to Chengming Guo is also acceptable. Submissions must be printed to 8 1/2 to 11" size. Workshop preprints will be made available to all attendees. Paper or extended abstract submission by the 31st of May, 1994 Notification of acceptance by the 20th June, 1994 Camera-ready copy by the 15th of July, 1994 FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Chengming Guo International Lexical Workshop Tsinghua University Computer Science Department Beijing 100084 China Tel: + 86-1-2594895 (office) +86-1-2551731 ext 503 (home) Fax: + 86-1-2562768 E-mail: chengming%bepc2@serv02.slac.stanford.edu or: chengming%bepc2@slacmh.slac.stanford.edu ********** III.B.2. Fr: Paul Mc Kevitt Re: AAAI '94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA Tuesday/Wednesday, August 2nd/3rd, 1994 Paul Mc Kevitt, Chair Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating these two areas. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, nonlinear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, from those who have worked on VP? We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we have advertised a call for papers for a special volume of the Journal of AI Review to focus on their integration and we have had a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing on theory and applications of NLP and VP and intelligent multimedia systems. The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and VP has advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work. WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on these themes: * Multimedia retrieval * Multimedia document processing * Speech, gesture and gaze * Theory * Multimedia presentation * Spatial relations * Multimedia interfaces * Reference PROGRAMME: Tuesday, August 2nd, 1994 ************************* INTRODUCTION: `Introduction,' Paul Mc Kevitt. MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL: (Chair: Neil C. Rowe) `Domain-independent rules relating captions and pictures,' Neil C Rowe * `An image retrieval system that accepts natural language,' Hiromasa Nakatani and Yukihiro Itoh. MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT PROCESSING: (Chair: Rohini Srihari) `Integrating text and graphical input to a knowledge base,' Raman Rajagopalan * `Photo understanding using visual constraints generated,' from accompanying text Rohini Srihari. SPEECH, GESTURE AND GAZE: (Chair: Jordi Robert-Ribes) `Audiovisual recognition of speech units: a tentative functional model compatible with psychological data,' Jordi Robert-Ribes, Michel Piquemal, Jean-Luc Schwartz, & Pierre Escudier. SITE DESCRIPTION (VIDEO): (Chair: Arnold G. Smith) `The spoken image system: on the visual interpretation of verbal scene descriptions,' Sean O Nuallain, Benoit Farley & Arnold G. Smith. THEORY: `Behavioural descriptions from image sequences,' Hilary Buxton and Richard Howarth * `Visions of language,' Paul Mc Kevitt * `Language animation,' A. Narayanan, L. Ford, D. Manuel, D. Tallis, and M. Yazdani. MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION: (Chair: Arnold G. Smith) `Assembly plan generation by integrating pictorial and textual information in an assembly illustration,' Shoujie He, Norihiro Abe and Tadahiro Kitahashi * `Multimedia presentation of interpreted visual data,' Elisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog & Thomas Rist. Wednesday, August 3rd, 1994 *************************** INTRODUCTION: `Introduction,' Paul Mc Kevitt. SPATIAL RELATIONS I: (Chair: Jeffrey Mark Siskind) `Propositional semantics in the WIP system,' Patrick Olivier & Jun-ichi Tsujii * `Spatial layout identification and incremental descriptions,' Klaus-Peter Gapp & Wolfgang Maass * `Axiomatic support for event perception,' Jeffrey Mark Siskind. SPATIAL RELATIONS II: (Chair: Stephan Kerpedjiev) `A cognitive approach to an interlingua representation of spatial descriptions,' Irina Reyero-Sans & Jun-ichi Tsujii * `Describing spatial relations in weather reports through prepositions,' Stephan Kerpedjiev. MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES: (Chair: Yuri A. TIJERINO) `Talking pictures: an empirical study into the usefulness of natural language output in a graphical interface,' Carla Huls, Edwin Bos & Alice Dijkstra * `From verbal and gestural input to 3-D visual feedback,' Yuri A. Tijerino, Tsutomu Miyasato & Fumio Kishino * `An integration of natural language and vision processing towards an agent-based future TV system,' Yeun-Bae Kim, Masahiro Shibata & Masaki Hayashi. REFERENCE: (Chair: Lawrence D. Roberts) `An AI module for reference based on perception,' John Moulton and Lawrence D Roberts * `Instruction use by a vision-based mobile robot,' Tomohiro Shibata, M. Inaba, & H. Inoue. PUBLICATION:: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION, CONTACT: WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EU. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) ********** III.C.1. Fr: Nicolas Nicolov Re: CompLing Summer School International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" 1 - 6 Sept 1994 Tuzlata, Black Sea Coast, BULGARIA UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF: European Association for Machine Translation and ECCAI-European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence DATES: 1 - 6 Sept 1994, (arrival 31 Aug, departure 7 Sep) LOCATION: Bulgaria, Black Sea Coast, Tuzlata, SBA Motel (60km to the north of Varna, 10km to the north of Balchik). The motel is 30m from the beach and has been chosen to allow for a creative environment. It has a lecture hall, two restaurants, one bar, two swimming pools. PROGRAMME: TUTORIALS: Margaret King (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems Sergei Nirenburg (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Latest Developments in Machine Translation Pieter Seuren (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands) Introduction to Semantic Syntax Michael Zock (LIMSI - CNRS, Paris, France) The meanings in the language, in the world, in our minds Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Multilingual Natural Language Interfaces Harold Somers (CCL, UMIST, Manchester, UK) Introduction to Machine Translation Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice, Italy) Discourse Structure and Reference resolution Zaharin Yusoff (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia) Machine-Aided Translation SHORT COURSES: Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg, Germany) Models for Time, Tense and Aspect in Natural Languages Carlos Martin-Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain) Mathematical Linguistics: Its relevance for Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science Benjamin T'sou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Automatic Abstraction Ruslan Mitkov (IAI, Saarbruecken, Germany) Anaphora resolution in Machine Translation Dan Cristea (University "Al. I. Cuza" of Iasi, Romania) How to synthesize words: the problem of multilingual word-form generation COSTS: REGISTRATION FEE: USD 460 industrial participants USD 350 academic participants USD 280 students The registration fee covers attendance at the lectures, materials, accommodation, meals, reception, and coffee breaks. TRAVELING: The nearest airport to the location of the summer school is Varna. Varna can be reached from the capital (Sofia) by plane, train or bus. Another close international airport is Bourgas (south coast). Foreign nationals might need a valid entry permit (visa). ORGANISERS: R.Mitkov Institute of Mathematics BULGARIA M.Zock LIMSI, Orsay FRANCE M.Kudlek University of Hamburg GERMANY N.Nikolov Incoma-TD Co, Ltd, Shumen BULGARIA FURTHER INFORMATION: People wishing to participate should contact one of the people mentioned below. 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