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Aucbvax.6030 fa.arpa-bboard utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!WALKER@SRI-AI Tue Feb 2 00:22:57 1982 ACL 1982 CALL FOR PAPERS From: Don Walker <WALKER AT SRI-AI> ****************************PLEASE POST**************************************

CALL FOR PAPERS -- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

The 20th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held 16-18 June 1982, at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Papers for the meeting are solicited on linguistically and computationally significant topics, including but not limited to the following:

o Syntax, parsing, and language generation.

o Computational semantics, including logic, reference, anaphora, and metaphor.

o Discourse analysis and speech acts.

o Representation of knowledge, deduction, and planning as related to language understanding or production.

o Speech analysis and synthesis.

o Machine translation, machine-aided translation, and automated dictionaries.

o Mathematical and theoretical foundations of computational linguistics.

o Linguistic theories and their computational applications.

o Software tools for computational linguistics.

An author wishing to present a paper should submit six copies of a five to eight page summary, double spaced, by 1 February 1982 to: Madeleine Bates, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02238, USA [phone: (617)497-3634; ARPANET: bates@bbnd].

It is important that the summary identify the new ideas and clearly indicate to what extent the work is complete and to what extent it has been implemented. It should contain sufficient information to allow the program committee to determine the scope of the work and its relation to relevant literature.

All submissions will be read by the program committee: Madeleine Bates, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Chair; Jonathan Allen, MIT; Robert Berwick, MIT; Barbara Grosz, SRI International; Chris Riesbeck, Yale; Stuart Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo.

Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their papers by 8 March 1982. Full length versions of accepted papers received by 19 April 1982 will be included in the Proceedings of the Conference.

Local arrangements are being handled by Ray Perrault, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7 [phone: (416)284-3194; ARPANET: rperrault@bbna].

For other information regarding the ACL and the annual meeting, contact Don Walker, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA [phone: (415)859-3071; ARPANET: walker@sri-ai].

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Date: 16 Dec 1981 at 0211-CST From: awd at UTEXAS-11 Subject: Molecular modeling on micros or minis To: arpanet-bboards at ai cc: awd

I am looking for infomation on work other groups hve done on molecular modeling on small systems. My application involves brain receptors for morphine and enkephalins. We want to show three space models on a graphic display of some sort (preferably in color) of the molecules involved. I am interested in any software that may be available commercially that is directly applicable, or software that may be in the public domain. Databases of molecules for use by such systems are also, of course, of great interest to me.

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Date: 14 Dec 1981 0935-PST From: COHEN at USC-ECL Subject: Positions available at JPL To: arpanet-bboards at MIT-AI

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Automated Problem Solving Group

JPL has an AI group actively engaged in building rule-based systems. Work is under way in the following research and application areas:

A planner for automatic action-sequence generation that explicitly models time.

A plausible inference system for automatic diagnosis of spacecraft malfunctions.

We are also initiating research in modelling command and control systems and war-gaming.

A general purpose planner/scheduler, called DEVISER, has been implemented which extends the work of Sacerdoti and Tate by providing each action with a computable duration and a start time "window". The plans are tailored around scheduled external events which are beyond the control of the actor. Goals may be grouped into "packets". Each packet may have a window and a duration, specifying when and for how long the goal conditions must hold. The primary application is a "Spaceworld", in which an autonomous unmanned spacecraft photographs objects in deep space and transmits the data to Earth. The output of the program is a partially ordered network of activities, which may include not only actions but also scheduled events, events triggered by circumstances,and inferences.

Research in plausible inference at JPL has resulted in a generalization of previous theories of evidence, and includes the Dempster/Shafer theory. A formal computer representation of a predicate logic system is being designed now. The goal is the implemention of an automatic diagnostic system that will more closely model human diagnostic reasoning than previous AI systems. It will do so in several ways; first, by using degrees of certainty and doubt to guide search in the malfunction space; second, by both forward and backward chaining; third, by dynamic system resetting, on the basis of evidence, of "relevance" factors that link antecedent to consequent in implications. The method of operation will be "hypothesize and test"; i.e., form hypotheses on possible causes of observed symptoms, and test against observation for the consequences of those hypotheses.

We are seeking Ph. D. level computer scientists to work in all of these areas. Demonstrated experience in building problem solving systems is desirable. This work is being done in InterLisp on a PDP-10, but we hope to move to a Lisp-machine environment in the coming year.

If you would like more information on this effort, please contact

Leonard Friedman JPL, Bldg. 278 4800 Oak Grove Dr. Pasadena CA, 91109. ARPAnet: FRIEDMAN@USC-ECL

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Date: 7 Dec 1981 06:45:02-PST From: Cory.cc-treas at Berkeley To: C70:ARPANET-BBOARDS@MIT-AI Subject: Computer Literacy in Education

The University of California at Berkeley is preparing its next five year plan for Computing on the Campus. I am a representative to the Committee which is in charge of doing it. As part of then new plan, we are considering the issue of Computer Literacy (i.e. What is it? How should one implement such a course and/or requirement, if at all? etc.) and I would like to hear from other educational institutions concerning how you have done it or avoided doing it. Thank you to all respondents in advance.

Erik E. Fair Cory:cc-treas@Berkeley Representative to the Academic Senate Committee On Computing

Date: 4 December 1981 14:03-EST From: Giuseppe Attardi <BEPPE AT MIT-AI> Subject: Call for Papers To: ARPANET-BBOARDS at MIT-AI

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- European Conference on Interactive Computing Systems - ECICS 82 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When: September 1-3, 1982 Where: Stresa, Italy Sponsors: ACM Italian Chapter, AICA, AFCET, INRIA, SSI, AISB, BCS, GI Program Chairman: Erik Sandewall, Sweden

Papers are invited on all aspects of the design, methods, techniques and applications of interactive computing systems.

Deadline for submission: April 1st, 1982 Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 1982

For the full Call for Papers, see the file "BEPPE; ECICS CALL" on MIT-AI or send mail to BEPPE@MIT-AI.

Date: 28 Nov 1981 2036-EST From: SUBRAMANIAN at CMU-20C Subject: [SUBRAMANIAN at CMU-20C: Info. on Debuggers] To: arpanet-bboards at MIT-AI cc: Subramanian at CMU-20C

I am looking for papers/reports on Debuggers for Multiprocessor systems, in particular, the ones for the MultiMicroprocessor systems that have been built. If you have any pointers to the relevant documents, please send me mail. If you have written application programs to run on Multiprocessor systems and have used debuggers provided by those systems, I would like to hear your comments on their useful/necessary features ( or the lack of them ) which are distinct from Uniprocessor debuggers. Of particular interest is the details on additional hardware (if any) that was incorporated into the system to provide those features. I need the above information quite urgently. Please reply at your earliest convenience. Thank you, Indira Subramanian (Elec. Engg. Grad) -------

Date: 20 Nov 1981 1149-PST From: Digicomp Research Corporation <DGCOM USC-ISIC AT> Subject: York Modula Compiler To: arpanet-bboards at MIT-AI

We have need of finding and using the York Modula compiler. From our understanding, it only runs on a particular kind of PDP-11. Is there anyone out there who can provide information on the compiler, where it might be found, if it can be had, and where it can be run? Thanks.

DGCOM@ISIC -------

Date: 19 Nov 1981 1604-PST From: Aaai-Office at SUMEX-AIM Subject: Call for Papers To: ARPANET-BBoards at MIT-AI

CALL FOR PAPERS for AAAI-82 The National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence August 18 - 20, 1982 at

The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (With a two-day Tutorial Program, August 16 and 17, 1982.)

TOPICS

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS COGNITIVE MODELING VISION KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION ROBOTICS PROBLEM SOLVING AND SEARCH THEOREM PROVING PROGRAM SYNTHESIS AND UNDERSTANDING NATURAL LANGUAGE A.I. LANGUAGES AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS SYSTEMS SPECIALIZED ARCHITECTURES FOR A.I. GAME PLAYING

To submit a paper: 1. By April 15, 1982 send four copies of a SHORT PAPER (1,000 to 2,000 words) to:

David Waltz AAAI Program Chairman Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois 1101 West Springfield Urbana, Illinois 61801 Papers received after April 15, 1982 will be returned unopened.

2. Carefully choose and clearly indicate at the bottom of the first page of your paper one and only one of the conference topics above. Your paper will be reviewed by referees in that topic area.

3. In an effort to broaden participation, no more than one paper may be submitted by any author (including multiple-authored papers).

4. Authors will be notified by May 15, 1982 of acceptance or rejection.

5. To allow authors to publish their full papers elsewhere, if desired, the proceedings will contain revised SHORT PAPERS not to exceed four(4) model pages in length. Alternatively, authors of accepted papers may submit full length papers for publication in the proceedings at a page charge of $100.00 for each page over four(4). In either case, camera-ready copy must be received by June 15, 1982.

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