IRList Digest Sunday, 9 Mar 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: Announcement - Reorganization at NSF - CALL FOR PAPERS: Computational Linguistics on the Lexicon - 1987 LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE @ STANFORD UNIVERSITY CSLI Calendar - Graphical User-Interface Design, New Reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 5 Mar 86 07:49:07-CST From: seismo!R20.UTEXAS.EDU!ICS.DEKEN . . . The Information Science advisory panel met yesterday, and I think a good number of important issues were substantially discussed. If possible, I will try to make their final report available. You may post the following on IRlist if you care to. Thanks, Joe [Note: I think Internet address is: ics.deken@r20.utexas.edu and that NSF now can be reached with lastname@nsf-cs via CSNET or with lastname@nsfvax via BITNET - Ed] ======================== A substantial reorganization in the management of computer science, information science, computer engineering, supercomputer, and networking research management is now underway at NSF. All of these activities, previously spread throughout the Foundation, are being gathered together in a new Directorate (the Foundation's highest organizational level). Gordon Bell has been named to direct this reorganization. Bell is nationally known in a variety of contexts, including his early work with Allen Newell, his role in designing the DEC PDP and System 10 series computers, and the founding of the Computer Museum in Boston. The consolidation will result in a new Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at NSF. Bell will become the responsible Assistant Director of the Foundation. The Division of Information Science and Technology, of course, will be one of the key elements in the new Directorate. Charles Brownstein, the current Division Director in the Information Science and Technology Division, has been named as Gordon Bell's chief staff officer. ------------------------------ From: "Don Walker at mouton.ARPA" Date: Sun, 2 Mar 86 13:08:13 est Subject: Announcement; please post CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue of Computational Linguistics on the Lexicon Antonio Zampolli, Nicoletta Calzolari, and Don Walker have been appointed guest editors for a special issue of Computational Linguistics on the lexicon. There is general agreement that the lexicon has been a neglected area, and that current research is addressing problems of importance for all aspects of natural language processing. The issue is intended to make the community at large aware of these developments. All papers submitted will be reviewed in the usual manner. The only difference in procedure is that three (instead of five) copies should be sent to James Allen (CL Editor), Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA [acl@rochester.arpa]; one copy should be sent to Antonio Zampolli (CL Lexicon), Laboratorio di Linguistica Computazionale CNR, Via della Faggiola 32, I-56100 Pisa, ITALY [glottolo%icnucevm.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa]; and one copy to Don Walker (CL Lexicon), Bell Communications Research, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA [walker@mouton.arpa; walker%mouton @csnet-relay; ucbvax!bellcore!walker]. Manuscripts should be received by 31 August. ------------------------------ From: "Don Walker at mouton.ARPA" Date: Sat, 8 Mar 86 15:29:19 est Subject: 1987 Linguistics Institute notice 1987 LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE STANFORD UNIVERSITY The 1987 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America will be hosted by the Linguistics Department of Stanford University, from June 29 to August 7, 1987. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics. The theme of the Institute is "Contextual and Computational Dimensions of Language", and is meant to reflect the ever-growing interest in integrating theories of linguistic structure with theories of language processing and models of how language conveys information in context. The aim is to provide a forum in which it is possible to integrate a variety of linguistic traditions, particularly linguistic theory, computational linguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and artificial intelligence. Several different kinds of courses and activities will be offered during the six-week period of the Institute: (i) A series of overview classes in the main subareas of linguistics (six weeks, 3 units) (ii) A series of one-week intensive classes intended to provide background for the four-week courses and seminars below (June 29-July 3, 1 unit) (iii) Four-week classes on topics related directly to the theme of the Institute (July 13-August 7, 2 units) (iv) Several seminars associated with research workshops will run throughout the last four weeks. These can be taken for credit, as part of the Stanford "directed research" program (subject to prior approval of the workshop leader) (up to three units) (v) A series of Wednesday lectures (e.g.,on the Synthesis of Approaches to Discourse), involving Institute participants and invited visitors (vi) The Association for Computational Linguistics will hold its annual meeting during the second week of the Institute (July 6-10). 1987 marks the first time in recent years that two consecutive Institutes have been held with the same theme. This complementarity of the 1986 Institute held at the City University of New York and the 1987 Institute reflects remarkable changes taking place today in the field of linguistics. Taken together, the Institutes provide the depth and diversity necessary to cover the newly emerging subfields and to teach the range of interdisciplinary tools and knowledge so fundamental to new theoretical approaches. The 1987 Institute at Stanford differs from the 1986 Institute primarily in specific course offerings and faculty and in its focus on providing a rich interdisciplinary research as well as teaching environment. Many of the instructors will also be participating in research groups; in general they will teach only one course. The Executive planning committee is: Ivan Sag (Director), Ellen Prince (Associate Director), Marlys Macken, Peter Sells, and Elizabeth Traugott. David Perlmutter will be the Sapir Professor, and Joseph Greenberg the Collitz Professor of the 1987 Institute. For more information, write 1987 LSA Institute, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Preliminary List of Institute Faculty: Judith Aissen Elaine Anderson Stephen Anderson Philip Baldi Jon Barwise Joan Bresnan Gennaro Chierchia Kenneth Church Eve Clark Herbert Clark Nick Clements Charles Clifton Philip Cohen Robin Cooper William Croft Penelope Eckert Elisabet Engdahl Charles Ferguson Charles Fillmore Joshua Fishman Lyn Frazier Victoria Fromkin J. Mark Gawron Gerald Gazdar Joseph Greenberg Barbara Grosz Jorge Hankamer Jerry Hobbs Paul Hopper Larry Horn Philip Johnson-Laird Ron Kaplan Lauri Karttunen Martin Kay Paul Kay Paul Kiparsky William Ladusaw William Leben Steve Levinson Mark Liberman Marlys Macken William Marslen-Wilson John McCarthy Nils Nilsson Barbara Partee Fernando Pereira David Perlmutter Ray Perrault Stanley Peters Carl Pollard William Poser Ellen Prince Geoffrey Pullum John Rickford Luigi Rizzi Ivan Sag Deborah Schiffrin Peter Sells Stuart Shieber Candace Sidner Brian Smith Donca Steriade Susan Stucky Michael Tanenhaus Elizabeth Traugott Peter Trudgill Lorraine Tyler Thomas Wasow Terry Winograd Annie Zaenen Arnold Zwicky ------------------------------ From: Emma Pease Date: Wed 19 Feb 86 17:20:04-PST Subject: Calendar February 20, No. 4 [Extract - Ed] C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S February 20, 1986 Stanford Vol. 1, No. 4 PIXELS AND PREDICATES Principles of Graphical User-Interface Design Bill Verplank, Xerox 1:00 pm, Wednesday, February 26, CSLI trailers User-interfaces are becoming increasingly graphical with windows, icons, pup-up menus, what-you-see-is-what-you-get, etc. I believe that one key to success with these new user interfaces is good graphic design. It's a new kind of graphics: ``graphics with handles''. From my experience with the Xerox Star user interface, these seems to be the critical graphical challenges: ---to create the illusion of manipulable objects ---to reveal hidden structure ---to establish a consistent graphic vocabulary ---to match the medium ---to provide visual order and user focus NEW CSLI REPORTS Report No. CSLI-85-34, ``Applicability of Indexed Grammars to Natural Languages'' by Gerald Gazdar, Report No. CSLI-85-39, ``The Structures of Discourse Structure'' by Barbara Grosz and Candace L. Sidner, and Report No. CSLI-85-44, ``Language, Mind, and Information'' by John Perry, have just been published. These reports may be obtained by writing to Trudy Vizmanos, CSLI, Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305 or Trudy@SU-CSLI. ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************