IRList Digest Friday, 27 March 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 5 Today's Topics: Query - Soundex coding Addresses - Bob Korfhage - M.J.Ouborg & R.J.Topp Report - News from the Microsoft CDROM Conference Announcement - ACL Europe Copenhagen Conference, 1-3 April 1987 News addresses are ARPANET: fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26-FEB-1987 11:07:42 From: To: FOX@VTCS1.BITNET Subject: Question to IRList on Soundex coding ... The Russell soundex code was developed at the end of the last centuary as an aid to the US census. The idea was re-visited in the early 1960's with the application being airline passenger lists (CACM 1963). Since then it has become popular in searching large files of names (medical records, banking, etc), as an aid to spelling error correction, and I believe it has been used as an aid to Information Retrieval. I can't find any published material on the latter however. Can anybody help please ? I will summarise for IRList if I get anything worthwhile. Many Thanks, Alan Smeaton [Note: There has been discussion in earlier IRList issues, but I will let others comment and update that information. - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 16:41:53 est From: vtcs1::in% To: fox@vpi.csnet@pitt Subject: move Ed: I've been out of circulation for a long time, since I moved to Pitt in September. Please bring me back up on the IRList Digest at the address below, and if possible pop me the issues back through about the middle of October. Thanks! Bob Korfhage korfhage%idis.uucp@pitt.csnet ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 87 23:18 N From: Subject: INFORMATION To: FOXEA@VTVAX3 Hello, Please send us some information about your Bulletin Board. If possible add us to your mailing list. We are interested in the following subjects: Cognitive Psychology Expert Systems for IR Statistical Techniques Information Display Pattern Recognition Communication Networks Thank you very much. M.J.Ouborg & R.J.Topp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Mar 87 22:31:19 est From: fox@vtcs1 Subject: News from the Microsoft CDROM Conference 1) I saw the new Mac Products. The color on the Mac II was great! 2) Microsoft now has a CDROM (compact disk with digital data) that is integrated with a number of word processors. The hardware, software, and data will be sold by Sears soon for under $1100 list (excluding the computer to be used, like a Mac or IBM PC), and includes a dictionary, thesaurus, zip code book, collection of business form letters, spelling corrector, usage corrector, Chicago Style Manual, etc. All of these are instantly accessible from the word processor with only a few key strokes. 3) RCA (owned by GE) has been working on special graphics/video chips. Until recently, compact disks could store in digital form 1 hour of music, or 30 seconds of full motion video. RCA uses supercomputers to compress 1 hour of video, store it on a compact disc in digital form to be mixed with sound, graphics, data, text. They play it back in real time with the help of 2 new chips which can wrap video onto wireframe forms. One chip is a special video processor running at 12.5 MIPW forms. One chip is a special video processor running at 12.5 MIPS. It looks like this will revolutionize computer instruction, games, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Mar 87 00:36:20 est From: vtcs1::in% Subject: Information on the ACL Europe Copenhagen Conference, 1-3 April 1987 ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: EUROPEAN CHAPTER Third Conference and General Meeting April 1-3 1987, University of Copenhagen Due to communication problems, the first registration circular announcing the Conference did not get sent to most ACL members. The attached information contains the programme, which was just released, together with information on registration (which because of the short time must now be down at the meeting) and hotels. For further information, contact: Bente Maegaard (ACL) IAML Njalsgade 96 DK-2300 Kobenhavn S, DENMARK 45-1-542 211, x2478 Bente_Maegaard_eurotra-dk%eurokom@mit-multics.arpa PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Wednesday April 1 9.30 Opening 10.00 Invited paper: Laurence Danlos, Paris Coffee 11.15 Invited paper: Martin Kay, Palo Alto Lunch (can be bought in the University cafeteria) In the following there will be 2 parallel sessions A and B. Session 1: 13.30-15.30 A: Ritchie, Black, Pulman, Russell: Formalisms for Morphographemic Description Russo: A Rule Based System for the Morphologic and Morphosyntactic Analysis of the Italian Language Lau, Perschke: Morphology in the Eurotra Base Level Concept Ralli, Galiotou: A Morphological Processor for Modern Greek B: Atwell: How to detect Grammatical Errors in a Text without Parsing It Menzel: Automated Reasoning about Natural Language Correctness Casajuana, Rodriguez, Sopena, Villar: Towards an Integrated Environment for Spanish Document Verification and Composition Atwell, Drakos: Pattern Recognition Applied to the Acquisition of a Grammatical Classification System from Unrestricted English Text Session 2: 16.00-17.30 A: Boguraev, Carter, Briscoe: A Multi-Purpose Interface to an On-line Dictionary Daelemans: A Tool for the Automatic Creation, Extention and Updating of Lexical Knowledge Bases Costantini, Fent, Fum, Guida, Montanari, Tasso: Parsing with Multiple Knowledge Sources: An Experiment in Distributed Cooperative Text Understanding B: D'Orta, Ferreti, Martelli, Scarci: An Automatic Speech Recognition System for Italian Language Ehrlich: Multilevel Semantic Analysis in an Automatic Speech Understanding and Dialogue System Martelli: Stochastic Modelling of Language via Sentence-Space Partitioning Reception offered by the Faculty of Humanities Thursday April 2 Session 3: 9.00-10.00 A: Wood, Horsfall, Holden, Chandler, Carroll, Pollard: Dictionary Organisation for Machine Translation: the Experiments and Implications of the UMIST Japanese Project Schmidt: The Syntactic Component of the German EUROTRA System B: Ahrenberg: Parsing into Discourse Object Descriptions Hess: Descriptional Anaphora in a Discourse Representation Theory Session 4: 10.00-11.00 A: Sgall, Panevova: Machine Translation, Linguistics and Interlingua Hajicova, Kirchner: Fail-Soft ("Emergency") Measures in a Production-Oriented MT System B: Kilbury: A Proposal for Modifications in the Formalism of GPSG Zaharin: String-Tree Correspondence Grammar: A Declarative Grammar Formalism for Tree Manipulation and for Defining String-Tree Correspondence Session 5: 11.30-12.30 A: Kjarsgaard: REFTEX - a Context-Based Translation Aid Hajic: RUSLAN - a System of MT between Closely Related Languages B: Rue: Danish Field Grammar Implemented in Typed Prolog Corluy, Baschung, Bes, Guillotin: Auxiliaries and Clitics in French UCG Grammar Session 6: 14.00-15.30 A: Landsbergen: Controlled M-Grammars in the Rosetta System Apello, Fellinger: Subgrammars and Rule Classes in the Rosetta Translation System Petitpierre, Krauwer, Arnold, Varile: A Model for Preference B: Schmauks: Natural and Simulated Pointing, An Interdisciplinary Survey Decitre, Grossi, Jullien, Solvay: Planning for Problem Formulation in Advice-Giving Dialogue Bienkowski: Modeling Extemporeaneous Elaboration Demonstrations from 16.00 Friday April 3 Session 7: 9.00-10.30 A: Ferrari, Marino, Spiezio, Prodanof: An Efficient Context-Free Parser for Augmented Phrase Structure Grammars Bunt: Discontinuous Constituents in Trees, Rules and Parsing Briscoe: Deterministic Parsing and Unbounded Dependencies B: Black: Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions Velardi, Pazienza: A Structured Representation of Word-Senses for Semantic Analysis Colban, Fenstad: Situations and Prepositional Phrases Session 8: 11.00-12.30 A: Valkonen, Jappinen, Lehtola: Blackboard Approach for Dependency Parsing - a Step towards Declarative Modelling Wiren: Evaluating the Efficiency of Different Rule Innovation Strategies in Chart Parsing Stock: Coping with Dynamic Syntactic Strategies: An Experimental Environment for an Experimental Parser B: Nakhimovsky: Temporal Reasoning in Natural Language Understanding Van Eynde: A Model-Theoretic Analysis of Iterativity and Habituality Expressions in Natural Languages Danieli, Ferrara, Gemello, Rullent: Integrating Semantics and Flexible Syntax by Exploiting Isomorphism between Grammatical and Semantical Relations Session 9: 14.00-15.30 A: Binot: Fragmentation and Part of Speech Disambiguation Gibbon: Finite State Processing of Tone Systems Kalman: Representation of Feature Systems in a Non-Connectionist Molecular Machine B: Kunze: Some Remarks on Case Relations Pulman: Passives and Prepositional Phrases Reimann: Dealing with the Notion "Obligatory" in Syntactic Analysis ACL European Chapter Meeting Closing Session The conference will be held at the University of Copenhagen (Amager), Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, DENMARK, which is about 10 minutes by bus from the center of the city. REGISTRATION will take place on March 31 from 17 p.m. to 21 p.m., at the Institute of Applied and Mathematical Linguistics (Institut for Anvendt og Matematisk Lingvistik=IAML), University of Copenhagen/Amager, room 6.3.65 (stairway 6, third floor, room 65). The registration room will be easily found if you enter the university by the main entrance (Njalsgade 80) and follow the signs. It will also be possible to register on April 1st from 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. or, if necessary, during the conference. HOTELS: A wide range of hotels are available; reservations can be made through travel agents, directly to hotels or on application to Hotelbooking Kobenhavn, Hovedbanegarden, DK-1570 Kobenhavn V; telephone (45-1) 122880, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. (prices in Danish Kroners; * includes breakfast): Number single double of beds room room total with with bath bath Hotel Astoria 153 595-795* 740-890* Banegardspladsen 4 DK-1570 Kobenhavn V 45-1 14 14 19 Copenhagen Admiral 815 465-605 675-775 Toldbodgade 42-28 DK-1253 Kobenhavn K 45-1 11 82 82 Hotel Danmark 80 420* 650 Vester Voldgade 89 DK-1552 Kobenhavn V 45-1 11 48 06 Missionshotellet 216 330-500* 750-850* Hebron Helgolandsgade 4 DK-1653 Kobenhavn V 45-1 31 69 06 71 Nyhavn Hotel 110 770-1070* 1000-1350* Nyhavn 71 DK-1051 Kobenhavn K 45-1 11 85 85 SAS Royal Hotel 453 1225* 1500* Hammerichsgade 1 DK-1611 Kobenhavn V 45-1 14 14 12 SAS Scandinavia 875 1125-1550 1325-1750 Amager Boulevard 70 DK-2300 Kobenhavn S 45-1 11 23 24 (within walking distance from the University) Hotel Amager 26 300-350 400-450 Amagerbrogade 19 DK-2300 Kobenhavn S 45-1 54 40 08 (within walking distance from the University) Savoy Hotel 142 400 600-800 Vesterbrogade 34 DK-1620 Kobenhavn V 45-1 31 40 73 Hotel Sonne 65 190-210 290-340 Egilsgade 33 without without DK-2300 Kobenhavn S bath bath 45-1 54 44 44 ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************