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AIList Digest            Tuesday, 23 Apr 1985      Volume 3 : Issue 51

Today's Topics:
  Conferences - Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding &
    Expert Systems In Engineering Applications &
    Toronto Day at Wesleyan & SCCGL Linguistics &
    Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge &
    Animal Cognition & Approximate Reasoning & Joint AI Conference at GWU

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Date: 9 Apr 85 15:30 EST
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Workshop - Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding

     Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding

A workshop sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of
Intelligence (CSCSI) / Societe canadienne pour l'etude de l'intelligence par
ordinateur (SCEIO), in conjunction with Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

To be held:  28-30 May, 1985, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Abstract:  Theoretical Approaches to Natural Language Understanding is
intended to bring together active researchers in Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science to
dsicuss/hear invited talks, papers, and positions relating to some of the
``hot'' issues regarding the current state of natural language
understanding.  Three topics will form the focus for discussion; the topics
include aspects of GRAMMARS, aspects of SEMANTICS/PRAGMATICS, and KNOWLEDGE
REPRESENTATION.  Each of these topics will consider current methodologies:
for grammars - theoretical devlopments, especially generalized phrase
structure grammars and logic-based meta-grammars; for semantics - situation
semantics and Montague semantics; for knowledge representation - logical
systems (temporal logics, etc.)  and special purpose inference systems.

Invited speakers:  Harvey Abrahamson (UBC), Robin Cooper (U.Wisc), Dan
Flickinger (HP), Pat Hayes (U.Rochester), Don Hindle (Bell Labs), Lynette
Hirshman (SDC), Ron Kaplan (Xerox PARC), Mitch Marcus (Bell Labs), Bill
Mark (Savoir), Eric Mays (IBM), Fernando Pereira (SRI), Stan Peters (CSLI),
Stan Rosenschein (SRI), Paul Sabatier (Rue des Mariniers, Paris), Patrick
Saint Dizier (IRISA), Candy Sidner (BBN), Norm Sondheimer (UCS-ISI), David
Scott Warren (SUNY Stony Brook), Dave Touretzky (CMU), and William Woods
(Applied Expert Systems).

General Chairperson:    Richard Rosenberg, Dalhousie University
Program Chairperson:    Nick Cercone, Simon Fraser University
Local Arrangements:     Jan Mulder, Dalhousie University

Schedule:
  Grammar Day: Tuesday, 28 May; organized by Len Schubert and Veronica Dahl
  Semantics Day:  Wednesday, 29 May; organized by Graeme Hirst and David Israel
  Knowledge Representation Day:  Thursday, 30 May; organized by Ralph
        Weischedel and James Allen

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Date: 10 Apr 85 15:30:09 EST
From: Mary.Lou.Maher@CMU-RI-CIVE
Subject: Conference - Expert Systems In Engineering Applications

We are actively seeking quality papers for the Expert Systems in
Government Conference in Washington DC this fall. I am head
of the session on engineering applications and having a difficult time
finding many applications. If you are doing work in this area and would
like to meet others doing similar work, submit a paper to:
Dr. Kamal Karna,  Mitre Corporation
1820 Dolley Madison Boulevard
McLean VA 22102
The deadline is May 1 - if you need any further information you can
contact me at maher@cmu-ri-cive

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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 85 16:38:23 EST
From: Neil Immerman <[email-masked]>
Subject: Conference - Toronto Day at Wesleyan

 announcing . . . . . TORONTO DAY AT WESLEYAN

                          Saturday May 4

      Talks and discussions led by a contingent of computer scientists
                     from the University of Toronto.

9:30 am                   Steve Cook
    A Taxonomy of Problems with Fast Parallel Algorihms
11:00am                    Mike Luby
   A Simple Parallel Algorithm for the Maximal Independent Set Problem
2:00 pm                  Allan Borodin
                 Parallel Algebraic Complexity
3:30 pm                  Charles Rackoff
     Some Definitions and Issues in the Theory of Cryptography

      On Friday, May 3, Steve Cook will give a talk at 4 P.M. in
150 Science Center intended for a general audience: Can Computers
Routinely Discover Mathematical Proofs?  [...]

     Toronto Day is hosted by Alan Cobham, Dan Dougherty, Sorin Istrail,
Susan Landau, and Carol Wood, and is funded in part by The Sloan
Foundation, Proctor and Gamble Co., and the Wesleyan University Department
of Mathematics.

     For further information contact the Wesleyan Mathematics
Department at (203)347-9411 Ext.2398 or Carol Wood at Ext.2648
(Bitnet address WOODatWESLYN).

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Date: 13 April 1985 1527-PST (Saturday)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Conference - SCCGL Linguistics

   SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE ON GENERAL LINGUISTICS (SCCGL)

University of California, San Diego

SCHEDULE

We have scheduled all papers to be presented in
the Third College Lecture Halls, Room 104 (TLH 104).

Saturday, 20 April, morning:

9:30    Nora Gonzalez, UCSD, "Starter 2s and Object to Subject Raising in
        Spanish"
10:00   Ik-Hwan Lee, Yonsei U/Harvard U, "Multiple WH questions in GPSG"
10:30   Geraldine Legendre, UCSD, "Multiattachment Constraints on OSR in French"
11:00   Robert Chametzky and John Richardson, UChicago, "Taking Strings
        Seriously: Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Lasnik &
        Kupin (1977)"
11:30   Yoshihisa Kitagawa, UMass, "Small But Clausal"

Saturday, 20 April, afternoon:

1:30    J. Albert Bickford, UCSD and SIL, "Another Look at Tone in Pen~oles
        Mixtec"
2:00    Monica Macaulay, UCBerkeley, "Cliticization and the Morphosyntax of
        Mixtec"
2:30    Robert Vago, Queens College & the Graduate Center, CUNY, "Finnish Word
        Games: Implications for the Autosegmental Treatment of Vowel Harmony."
3:00    William Davies, Cornell, "Nominative Nonsubjects in Choctaw"

4:00    Gerald P. Delahunty, SDSU, "On an Apparent Violation of the Discourse
        Conditions for Using English It-Clefts"
4:30    Gary Gilligan and Chris Hall, USC, "Processing Constraints on
        Morphological Structure"
5:00    David Corina, Salk Institute, "Linguistic Mapping Strategies of Deaf
        Signers"
5:30    German Westphal, UMaryland, Baltimore County, "On Some Consequences
        of the Verb-Initial Hypothesis in Spanish"

Saturday evening-BUFFET SUPPER AND PARTY!
        Fifth floor patio in the Psychology and Linguistics Building (P&L).

Sunday, 21 April, morning:

9:30    Robert Chametzky, UChicago, "Anaphoric Dependencies and Coordinate
        Structures"
10:00   Sungshim Hong, UConn, "A Constraint on Pronominal Binding in
        Null-Subject Languages"
10:30   Donna Gerdts, SUNY-Buffalo, "Korean Passive Causatives and Their
        Implications"
11:00   Peter Sells, CSLI, Stanford, "The Interpretation of Non Restrictive
        Relative Clauses"
11:30   David Dowty, CASBS, Stanford, and William Ladusaw, UCSC, "Toward a
        Formal Semantic Account of Thematic Roles"

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Further information: (619) 452-2523  or  SCCGL UCSD Linguistics
        or sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix212           C-008
                                         La Jolla, CA 92093

Registration is $5 for students and $7 for non-students.

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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 85 19:24:07 PST
From: Joe Halpern <[email-masked]>
Subject: Conference - Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge

CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF REASONING ABOUT KNOWLEDGE:
               FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

A conference on Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge
will be held Mar. 19-22, 1986, at the Asilomar Conference Center in
Monterey.  While traditionally research in this area was mainly done by
philosophers, recently it has been shown to be of great
relevance to computer science, especially in such areas as artificial
intelligence, distributed systems, database systems,
and cryptography.  There has also been interest in the area among
linguists and economists.  The aim
of this conference is to bring together
researchers from these various disciplines
with the intent of furthering our theoretical understanding of
reasoning about knowledge.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Semantic models for knowledge and belief
* Resource-bounded knowledge (appropriate for modelling reasoners with
  limited reasoning power and reasoning about cryptographic protocols)
* Using knowledge to specify and reason about distributed systems
* Semantic models of knowledge acquisition and learning
* Nonmonotonic reasoning

Please send 8 copies of a detailed abstract
not exceeding 10 double-spaced typewritten pages in length
(not a full paper),
by September 15, 1985, to the program chair:

Dr. J. Halpern
IBM Research, K51/281
5600 Cottle Rd.
San Jose, CA 95193

The abstract should include a clear description of the problem being
addressed, comparisons with extant work, and a section on major
original contributions of this work.  The abstract must provide
sufficient detail for the program committee to make a decision.
Papers will be chosen on the basis of scientific merit, originality,
and appropriateness for this conference.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by Nov. 1, 1985.  Accepted
papers typed on special pages will be due at the above address
by Dec. 15, 1985.

The program committee members are:
M. Fischer, Yale
J. Halpern, IBM San Jose
H. Levesque, University of Toronto
R. Moore, SRI
R. Parikh, CUNY/Brooklyn College
R. Stalnaker, Cornell
R. Thomason, Pittsburg
M. Vardi, Stanford/CSLI

We hope to allow enough time between the talks during the conference
for private discussions and small group meetings.  In order to
ensure that the conference remains relatively small, attendance will
be limited to invited participants and
authors of accepted papers.
Support for the conference has been received from IBM and AAAI;
an application for further support is pending at ONR.

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Date: 11 Apr 85 07:32:48 EST
From: Michael Sims  <[email-masked]>
Subject: Symposium - Animal Cognition [and AI?]

                        Symposium
            The Question of Animal Cognition

                      May 1-2, 1985

Wednesday, May 1:

 9:00 am        Dr. Donald Griffin              "Animal Consciousness"
                Rochefeller University

10:30 am        Dr. Robert Epstein              "Animal Cognition as the
                Harvard University               Praxis Views it"

 1:30 pm        Dr. E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh      "Language Acquisition and
                Emory University                 Cognition in the Chimpanzee"

 3:30 pm        Dr. Louis Herman                "Episodic Memory for Semantic
                University of Hawaii             Information by Dolphins"

Thursday, May 2:

 9:00 am        Dr. Gordon Gallup               "Do Minds Exists in Species
                SUNY at Albany                   Other Than our Own?"

10:30 am        Dr. Herbert Terrace             "Towards an Evolutionary
                Columbia University              Perspective on Thinking"

 1:30 pm        Round Table Discussion Chaired
                by Dr. Michael D'Amato

For further information and registration contact Ms. Mary Wilk,
Dept. of Psychology, Psychology Building, Busch Campus, Rutgers Univ.
New Brunswick, NJ 08903  (201) 932-2553.

[The three speakers that I'm familiar with, Griffin, Savage-Rumbaugh,
and Terrace, are outstanding researchers in their field and represent
a diversity of opinions on animal cognition.  Let me briefly say why I
think this work is important for AI.  In AI we are trying to model the
processes of 'thinking', and it seems foolish to ignore the examples
of thinking which are available to us.  Although AI has gotten a good
bit of feedback from investigations into human cognition (Cognitive
Science), we have been little influenced by the animal cognition
research of ethologists or animal behaviorist.  Our Species-ism would
tell us that human cognition is too complicated or mystical to be
useful to AI (Dreyfus et al), and that animal cognition is too
primitive to be useful.  But is that true?  -MHS]

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Date: 12 Apr 85 14:39:05 EST
From: Ruth.Davis@CMU-RI-ISL1
Subject: Conference - Approximate Reasoning

1985 North American Fuzzy Information processing Society
WORKSHOP ON APPROXIMATE REASONING THEORY & APPLICATIONS

                Atlanta, Georgia

                        October 24 - 25

        Workshop Coordinators:  THOMAS WHALEN & BRIAN SCHOTT

Papers are invited in all areas of fuzzy expert systems & decision support
                including but not limited to:

        - Fuzzy knowledge acquisition, representation & refining
        - Applied fuzzy logic & Fuzzy inference processes
        - Approximate & common sense reasoning
        - Linguistic processing & the human-system interface
        - Management of imprecision & uncertainty
        - Implementation issues & case studies

        Send abstract or session proposal by AUGUST 1 '85 to:

                Thomas Whalen/Brian Schott, NAFIPS '85
                Decision Sciences Department
                Georgia State University
                Atlanta, Georgia 30303 - 3083
                (404) 658-4000

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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 85 15:37:44 EST
From: Bill Dean <[email-masked]>
Subject: Conference - Joint AI Conference at GWU

Call for Papers

MAJOR CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

An INTERSOCIETY CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
APPLICATIONS will be held at the George Washington
University on October 21-23, 1985.  The conference is
jointly sponsored by:

*  IEEE's Engineering Management Society (EMS)
*  IEEE's Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (SMC)
*  GWU's Institute for Artificial Intelligence
*  TIMS' College on Artificial Intelligence
*  ORSA's Military Applications Section (MAS)
*  The Washington Area Working Group on Artificial
   Intelligence.

Sessions at the symposium will cover:  AI in research and
development; AI in design and development; AI in test and
evaluation; AI in project management; AI in production
management; AI in military systems; and AI in technology
insertion.  Plenary addresses will present views of the
status and significance of AI research from industrial and
government perspectives.

Special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering
Management and the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics are planned as products of the symposium.

To submit a paper for presentation at the symposium, send a
500 word abstract, by June 30, 1985 to:

        Dr. Barry G. Silverman
        Institute for Artificial Intelligence
        Gelman Library - Room 636A
        George Washington University
        Washington, D. C.  20052
        phone: 202-676-6443

Complete papers will be due by September 15, 1985.

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