From rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Wed Jan 19 09:25:39 EST 2000 Article: 1 of sunyab.cse.675 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.675 Subject: Statistical Learning in Linguistic and Non-linguistic Domains Date: 18 Jan 2000 15:34:46 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 111 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <86216m$9gm$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.675:1 Center for Cognitive Science Universiy at Buffalo RICHARD ASLIN aslin@cvs.rochester.edu Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center for Visual Science University of Rochester "Statistical Learning in Linguistic and Non-linguistic Domains" January 19, 2000 2-3:30 p.m. 280 Park Hall North/Amherst Campus Statistical approaches to language learning have generally been understudied because distributional information was thought to be inconsistent in the child's input and because learners were thought to be incapable of extracting many key consistencies that are present. A series of studies of statistical learning in the domain of word- segmentation from fluent speech will be reviewed. These studies demonstrate that adults, children, and 8-month-old infants are exceptionally adept at extracting some forms of distributional information. The statistical learning mechanisms that enable some forms of on-line distributional analysis are domain-general, as evidenced by similar learning of tone-sequences, and species-general, as evidenced by similar performance in Tamarin monkeys. The constraints on statistical learning have implications for the evolution of natural languages. Refreshments will be served All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are invited to attend http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html Calendar of Events Center for Cognitive Science -------------------------------------------------------------------- January 10, 2000 University at Buffalo Spring 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ All Cognitive Science presentations will be on Wednesday, from 2-3:30 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, unless otherwise noted. January 19 RICHARD ASTIN (aslin@cvs.rochester.edu) Center for Visual Science University of Rochester "Statistical Learning in Linguistic and Non-linguistic Domains" 26 JENNIFER STOLZ (jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca) Department of Psychology University at Waterloo February 2 CHARLES DUFFY (cjd@cvs.rochester.edu) Center for Visual Science University of Rochester "Neuronal and Perceptual Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation" February 9 To be announced 16 RANDELL DIPERT (rdipert@acsu.buffalo.edu) Department of Philosophy/UB Dept. of English & Philosophy/West Point Academy 23 TBA March 1 UB STUDENT POSTER SESSION 8 No Colloquium, Spring Break 15 TBA 22 TBA 29 MARK TURNER (markt@umd5.umd.edu) Department of English, University of Maryland Co-sponsored by Department of English, UB April 4 STEVEN PALMER Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER-MAIN PUBLIC TALK 3:30-5:00, Knox 20 (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) 5 STEVEN PALMER (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) 12 TBA 19 PETER W. JUSCZYK (jusczyk@jhu.edu) Department of Psychology Johns Hopkins University 26 TBA May 3 TBA Colloquia abstracts will be listed on: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ ~ From rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Fri Jan 21 12:01:35 EST 2000 Article: 2 of sunyab.cse.675 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.675 Subject: OFFICE HOURS Date: 21 Jan 2000 16:06:36 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 48 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <86a06c$799$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.675:2 ========================================================================= OFFICE HOURS ========================================================================= I must choose some office hours. Since this is my only course this semester, it wouldn't make sense for me to choose office hours that none of you could attend. So, please mark with an X the slots in the schedule below that are times when you *CANNOT* come see me during an office hour. I have already X'ed out the times when I cannot have office hours. | | | M | T | W | R | F | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 9:00 | X | | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | X | | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 10:00 | X | | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | X | | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 11:00 | | | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 12:00 | X | X | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | X | X | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 1:00 | | X | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | X | | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 2:00 | | | X | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | | X | X | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 3:00 | | | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | X | X | X | X | | --------------------------------------------------------- | 4:00 | | X | X | | | | --------------------------------------------------------- | | | X | X | | | | --------------------------------------------------------- From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:12:30 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06472; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:12:28 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05399; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:12:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:12:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241612.LAA05399@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: acampbel@hamilton.edu, baltus@geordi.calspan.com, bcharris@cse.Buffalo.EDU, burhans@cse.Buffalo.EDU, bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cdc@cse.Buffalo.EDU, cunnindw@snybufva.bitnet, jamali@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jensen@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jja@cse.Buffalo.EDU, kaufmann@cse.Buffalo.EDU, mikev%deuro@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu, mliao@cse.Buffalo.EDU, musone@cse.Buffalo.EDU, nakamura@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wliu@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: email list Status: R Content-Length: 1906 Given that there are only 3 of you, it's probably easier to use email than news to communicate with you. However, I cannot establish a listserv or system-wide mail alias (because a newsgroup already exists), so I suggest that you create your own, using the email addresses in this message, if you want to send something to all of us. So: 1. Please reply to this message to let me know that you've received it and that I'm using the right email address for you. 2. Bruce suggested that I put a copy of the book on reserve. That requires an awful lot of printing and/or Xeroxing on my part. Given that there are only 3 of you, I think what I'd like to do instead is put the book online. Then you can print out portions of it as you need them. Right now, I only have a postscript version. I don't know if I can make a PDF version. Please let me know if this is a good idea. For now, the postscript version will be in: /projects/rapaport/675/jm.ps You can access the /projects directory from any CSE Unix machine, e.g., hadar, pollux, etc. -Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Rapaport Associate Professor of Computer Science & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Member, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (SNeRG) 226 Bell Hall (office: 214 Bell) | work: 716-645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: 716-645-3464 SUNY Buffalo | home: 716-636-8625 Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ homepage: /~rapaport/ SNeRG: /sneps/ Center for Cognitive Science: /pub/WWW/cogsci/ Buffalo Restaurant Guide: /pub/WWw/restaurant.guide/ From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:13:38 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06517; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:13:37 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05407; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:13:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:13:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241613.LAA05407@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: acampbel@hamilton.edu, baltus@geordi.calspan.com, bcharris@cse.Buffalo.EDU, burhans@cse.Buffalo.EDU, bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cdc@cse.Buffalo.EDU, cunnindw@snybufva.bitnet, jamali@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jensen@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jja@cse.Buffalo.EDU, kaufmann@cse.Buffalo.EDU, mikev%deuro@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu, mliao@cse.Buffalo.EDU, musone@cse.Buffalo.EDU, nakamura@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wliu@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: clarification Status: R Content-Length: 64 I will continue to put copies of the chapters at Makin' Copies. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:15:24 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06564; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:15:22 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05433; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:15:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:15:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241615.LAA05433@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: acampbel@hamilton.edu, baltus@geordi.calspan.com, bcharris@cse.Buffalo.EDU, burhans@cse.Buffalo.EDU, bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cdc@cse.Buffalo.EDU, cunnindw@snybufva.bitnet, jamali@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jensen@cse.Buffalo.EDU, jja@cse.Buffalo.EDU, kaufmann@cse.Buffalo.EDU, mikev%deuro@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu, mliao@cse.Buffalo.EDU, musone@cse.Buffalo.EDU, nakamura@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wliu@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: email list Status: R Content-Length: 175 OOPS! Too many of you were on that list! I must have an old alias lying around somewhere; I'll fix it. Apologies to all of you who are NOT taking CSE 675 this semester :-) From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:16:38 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06604; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:16:37 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05439; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:16:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:16:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241616.LAA05439@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: new list of names Status: R Content-Length: 215 This should only be going to: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu wh6@cse.buffalo.edu petre@cse.buffalo.edu bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu If anyone else gets it, let me know. If any of the addresses above are incorrect, let me know. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:29:30 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06876; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:29:27 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05539; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:29:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:29:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241629.LAA05539@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: from Weihan Status: RO Content-Length: 538 | From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Mon Jan 24 11:21:50 2000 | | Yes, I prefer the ps file version. Then I don't have to buy it. :) | | Weihan Well, you won't have to buy the copies at Makin' Copies, but you should buy the text when it finally comes out because, hopefully, it won't have the errors and typos that the .ps version has. PLEASE DO *NOT* ATTEMPT TO PRINT THE ENTIRE TEXT, AT LEAST NOT IN ONE SITTING! IT IS ALMOST 1000 PAGES LONG. YOU WILL HOG ANY PRINTER THAT YOU TRY THIS ON. JUST PRINT OUT THE CHAPTERS AS YOU NEED THEM. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:31:12 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06907; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:11 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05557; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241631.LAA05557@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: another 675-relevant CogSci speaker this week! Status: RO Content-Length: 4158 Center for Cognitive Science State University of New York at Buffalo JENNIFER STOLZ Department of Psychology University of Waterloo jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca January 26, 2000 280 Park Hall North/Amherst Campus 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. On the Joint Effects of Attention and Word Recognition: The Relations between Resources and Meaning The study of attention and that of visual word recognition have both resulted in large literatures. Interestingly, despite the fact that common sense dictates that attention is involved in word recognition, there is very little work at the intersection of these two literatures. The present work addresses this intersection by examining the joint effects of attention, viewed as a resource, and a key variable important in word recognition, semantics. Two central questions are pursued. First, is attention necessary for semantics to be activated? This question is asked by examining the semantic priming effect under dual task conditions. Second, does previewing a word's meaning result in fewer resources being required for the word's subsequent recognition? This question is addressed by investigating the effects of priming a word presented in the context of an attention-demanding tone discrimination task. The results reveal a rich pattern in which resource attention affects, and is affected by, the activation and maintenance of meaning during word recognition. Refreshments will be served All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students are invited to attend http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html Calendar of Events Center for Cognitive Science -------------------------------------------------------------------- January 24, 2000 University at Buffalo Spring 2000 ____________________________________________________________________ All Cognitive Science presentations will be on Wednesday, from 2-3:30 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, unless otherwise noted. January 26 JENNIFER STOLZ (jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca) Department of Psychology University at Waterloo "On the Joint Effects of Attention and Word Recognition: The Relations between Resources and Meaning" 27 Philosophy Seminar, Arnold Berlean, Department of Philosophy, Long Island University, "Is there life in virtual space?", 4 p.m., 141 Park Hall February 2 CHARLES DUFFY (cjd@cvs.rochester.edu) Center for Visual Science University of Rochester "Neuronal and Perceptual Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation" February 9 To be announced 16 DONALD POLLOCK (dpollock@acsu.buffalo.edu) Department of Anthroplogy/UB 23 TBA March 1 UB STUDENT POSTER SESSION 8 No Colloquium, Spring Break 15 TBA 22 TBA 29 MARK TURNER (markt@umd5.umd.edu) Department of English, University of Maryland Co-sponsored by Department of English, UB April 4 STEVEN PALMER Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER-MAIN PUBLIC TALK 3:30-5:00, Knox 20 (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) 5 STEVEN PALMER (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) 12 TBA 19 PETER W. JUSCZYK (jusczyk@jhu.edu) Department of Psychology Johns Hopkins University 26 TBA May 3 TBA Colloquia abstracts will be listed on: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ ~ From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Mon Jan 24 11:31:34 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06922 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA21208 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:32 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 2515 invoked by uid 44889); 24 Jan 2000 16:31:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:31:31 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: from Weihan In-Reply-To: <200001241629.LAA05539@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 695 Okay, I will copy only the parts I need. Thanks for your reminding. Weihan On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, William J. Rapaport wrote: > | From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Mon Jan 24 11:21:50 2000 > | > | Yes, I prefer the ps file version. Then I don't have to buy it. :) > | > | Weihan > > Well, you won't have to buy the copies at Makin' Copies, but you should > buy the text when it finally comes out because, hopefully, it won't have > the errors and typos that the .ps version has. > > > PLEASE DO *NOT* ATTEMPT TO PRINT THE ENTIRE TEXT, AT LEAST NOT IN ONE > SITTING! IT IS ALMOST 1000 PAGES LONG. YOU WILL HOG ANY PRINTER THAT > YOU TRY THIS ON. JUST PRINT OUT THE CHAPTERS AS YOU NEED THEM. > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 11:40:06 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07099; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:40:05 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05579; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:40:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:40:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241640.LAA05579@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: updated syllabus Status: RO Content-Length: 55 The syllabus has been updated to add info about Stolz. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 12:51:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA08683; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:51:44 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA05704; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:51:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:51:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241751.MAA05704@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rohini@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling: Integrating Information from Different Channels Status: R Content-Length: 3363 | Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:55:17 +0100 | From: root | Subject: Comp Ling: Integrating Information from Different Channels | | This is the Final Call for Papers for the | | WORKSHOP | ======== | | "Integrating Information from Different Channels | =============================================== | in Multi-Media-Contexts" | ======================= | | to be held as part of ESSLLI 2000 at Birmingham (UK), August 6-18, 2000 | | URL: http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic | | - --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Description: | | In everyday situations agents must combine information from different | sources: Reference and predication can be based both on gestural and | spoken information. Inferences demand extracting information from | diagrams and the text built around them. Focus of attention is often | indicated by visual, gestural or acoustic means. | | The growing number of researchers interested in multimodal information | reflects its practical relevance, not least in the construction of | man-machine interfaces. In order to model complex multimodal | information, a notion of composite signal is called for in which | the different "threads of information" are integrated. Understanding | composite signals may be necessary for all fields of science dealing | with information, whether empirically or formally oriented. Research | in this area is bound up with logical, linguistic, computational and | philosophical problems like | | - assessing the semantic contribution of information from | different sources, | - compositionality in the construction of information | - extending the notions of reference, truth and entailment in | order to capture the content of "mixed information states" and | - experimentally measuring the activity on different channels or | - investigating timing problems concerning "interleaving | threads" of information. | | Despite their foundational flavour, emerging theories in this area | have applications in domains as diverse as discourse analysis | (monitoring and back-channelling behaviour), styles of reasoning, | robotics (reference resolution by pointing) and Virtual Reality | (integration of gesture and speech). | | Consequently, the workshop is addressed to scholars from different | fields: We welcome experimental researchers investigating | e.g. gesture, eye movement or other means of focussing in relation to | speech. At the same time workshop contributions of linguists, | logicians or computer scientists are invited who work on the | description and the formal modelling of complex signals. Finally, work | concerning the simulation of production or understanding of complex | signals, Virtual Reality type, neural net like or other, is also | encouraged. | | - --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | For further and occassionally updated information, please visit | http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic | | Kenneth Holmqvist (LUCS), Hannes Rieser (SFB360) and | Peter Kuehnlein (SFB360) | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-147 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 13:19:37 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09362; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:19:35 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA05811; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:19:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:19:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001241819.NAA05811@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: from Tony Petre Status: R Content-Length: 203 | From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 24 13:09:10 2000 | | I lack permissions for the /projects/rapaport/675/ directory. (and I | imagine others do too) | Try it again; I just opened everything up. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Jan 25 08:50:43 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20294; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:50:42 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA06558; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:50:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:50:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001251350.IAA06558@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in NLP Systems Status: R Content-Length: 7704 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Mon Jan 24 17:51:10 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Mime-Version: 1.0 | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit | Approved-By: LINGUIST Network | Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:49:10 -0500 | From: LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.152, Calls: Natural Language Processing | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-152. Mon Jan 24 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.152, Calls: Natural Language Processing | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U. | Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Martin Jacobsen | Ljuba Veselinova | Scott Fults | Jody Huellmantel | Karen Milligan | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova | Naomi Ogasawara | James Yuells | | Software development: John H. Remmers | Sudheendra Adiga | Qian Liao | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | | Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan | =========================================================================== | | As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations | or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in | the text. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:24:12 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop Call for Papers | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:24:12 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop Call for Papers | | | Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in Natural Language Processing Systems | | Workshop to be held in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000 | | Date: Sunday, April 30 2000 | | Seattle, Washington. | | | WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION | The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the development | of robust natural language processing systems. A common methodology used in | building these systems has been to analyze a sample of the data available | (either manually, or automatically for training statistical systems), build | statistical/heuristical schemas based upon the analysis, and test the system | on a blind sample of the data. Due to this commonly used paradigm, an | important area of research that has not been given the attention it deserves is | the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity faced by these systems in | the tasks they perform. | | At the AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Question Answering Systems, the problem of | semantic complexity, a topic of a 90 minutes panel, motivated a lot of interest | and discussion. To continue the investigation of this important issue, in this | workshop, we will address the question of complexity as it pertains to the | syntax and semantics of natural language. In particular, the workshop will | seek to address the following areas: | | 1) How can we model syntactic and semantic complexity for formal models of | natural language? | 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual | information? | 3) How does syntactic and semantic complexity impact document classification in | information and text retrieval tasks? | 4) How do statistical clustering approaches compare to knowledge-based | approaches at partitioning and quantifying the semantic space in a document | set? | 5) Concerning NLP systems that are deployed in the field, how can we quantify | the information extraction task and QA task in ways similar to what is | currently done with IR tasks and algorithms? | 6) How does the estimation of syntactic and semantic complexity impact the | evaluation of such systems? | 7) Can syntactic and semantic complexity coupled with a history of the past | performance of a system be used to predict future performance of the system | on a different data set? | | The workshop invites short papers, full-length papers, proposals for panel | discussions, and position statements that deal with any aspect of syntactic | and/or semantic complexity of NLP systems. In particular, the workshop is | interested in addressing the following topics: | - estimation of the syntactic and semantic complexity of specific NLP tasks | - semantic complexity and world knowledge | - role of syntactic and semantic complexity in system design and testing | - syntactic and semantic complexity and its role in the evaluation of NLP | systems | - use of syntactic and semantic complexity as a performance predictor | - relationship between syntactic and semantic complexity | | FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION | | Paper submissions should consist of either a short paper (2000 words or less, | including references), a position statement (2000 words or less, including | references), or a full paper (5000 words or less, including references). Each | submission should include a separate title page providing the following | information: the title, the type of paper (short/position/full), the word | count, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full | address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, | fax, and email. Proposals for panels should consist of a short (upto 500 | words) description of the proposed panel along with the names of the proposed | panelists. | | Papers and proposals for panel discussions may be submitted by submitting three | hard copies or one soft copy (ASCII, or PS) to: | | Amit Bagga | General Electric CRD | Room K1-5C38B | 1 Research Circle | Niskayuna, NY 12309. USA | phone: 1-518-387-7077 | email: bagga@crd.ge.com | | | IMPORTANT DATES | | Paper submission deadline: February 14 | Notification of acceptance of panels : February 21 | Notification of acceptance of papers : February 28 | Camera ready papers due: March 13 | | | ORGANIZING COMMITTEE | Co-Chairs: | Amit Bagga | General Electric Corporate Research and Development | P.O. Box 8 | Schenectady, NY 12301 | bagga@crd.ge.com | 518-387-7077 (voice) | 518-387-6845 (fax) | | James Pustejovsky | Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems | Brandeis University | Waltham, MA 02254-9110 | jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu | 781-736-2709 (voice) | 781-736-2741 (fax) | | Wlodek Zadrozny | IBM T.J. Watson Research Center | 30 Saw Mill River Road | Hawthorne, NY 10532 | wlodz@us.ibm.com | 914-784-7835 (voice) | 914-784-7455 (fax) | | | PROGRAM COMMITTEE: | Amit Bagga - GE CRD | Branimir Boguraev - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center | J-P Chanod - Xerox, Grenoble | Shalom Lappin - Kings College, London | Aravind Joshi - University of Pennsylvania | Larry Moss - Indiana | Rohit Parikh - CUNY | Adam Pease - Teknowledge | James Pustejovsky - Brandeis University | Wlodek Zadrozny - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-152 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Jan 25 09:31:12 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA20802; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:31:11 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA06807; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:31:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 09:31:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001251431.JAA06807@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: text may be in soon! Status: R Content-Length: 157 The University Bookstore has informed me that the text is due to be shipped by the publisher today, so it should be in the Bookstore by the end of the week! From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Jan 25 13:00:22 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25218; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:00:20 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA07108; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:00:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:00:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001251800.NAA07108@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Workshop on Automatic Summarization Cc: cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU Status: R Content-Length: 5441 | From rasmusse@athos.rutgers.edu Tue Jan 25 11:33:05 2000 | Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:25:11 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | To: rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop 2nd Call for Papers | | | Second Call for Papers | | Workshop on Automatic Summarization | | (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000) | website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000 | | sponsored by | ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) | MITRE Corporation | | Sunday, April 30, 2000 | Seattle, Washington, USA | | I. OVERVIEW | The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges | in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and | tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI, | IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.  | Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have | been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL | in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely | successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is | advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal | occasion to host another workshop on this problem. | | The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers | addressing (but not limited to): | | Summarization Methods: | use of linguistic representations, | statistical models, | NL generation for summarization, | production of abstracts and extracts, | multi-document summarization, | narrative techniques in summarization, | multilingual summarization, | text compaction, | multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio), | use of information extraction, | studies and modeling of human summarizers, | improving summary coherence, | concept fusion, | use of thesauri and ontologies, | trainable summarizers, | applications of machine learning, | knowledge-rich methods. | | Summarization Resources: | development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers, | annotation standards, | shared summarization tools, | document segmentation, | topic detection, and | clustering related to summarization | | Evaluation Methods: | intrinsic and extrinsic measures, | on-line and off-line evaluations, | standards for evaluation, | task-based evaluation | scenarios, user studies, inter-judge agreement | | Workshop Themes: | | 1. Multilingual Text Summarization | 2. Generation for Summarization | 3. Topic Identification for Summarization | 4. Multidocument Summarization | 5. Evaluation and Test/Training Corpora | 6. Integration with web and IR access | | II. IMPORTANT DATES | Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2000 | Notification of acceptance for papers: March 1, 2000 | Camera ready papers due: March 13, 2000 | Workshop date: April 30, 2000 | | III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION | Submissions must use the ACL latex style | (http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000/latex/index.html) or Microsoft Word | style | WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop | web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or | less, including references). Please send submission questions to cyl@isi.edu | | Submission Procedure: | | Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word | form of your submission to: cyl@isi.edu. The Subject line should be | "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no | author information is included as part of the paper. An identification page | must be sent in a separate email with the subject line: | "ANLP-NAACL2000 WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, all authors, | theme area, keywords, word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. | Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be | e-mailed | to the first author shortly after receipt. | | IV. Organizing Committee: | Udo Hahn University of Freiburg | hahn@coling.uni-freiburg.de | Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl@isi.edu | Inderjeet Mani MITRE imani@mitre.org | Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor radev@umich.edu | | V. Program Committee: | Elisabeth Andre DFKI GmbH | Branimir Boguraev IBM Research | Chris Buckley SabIR Research | Michael Elhadad Ben Gurion University | Takahiro Fukushima Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan | Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute | Hongyan Jing Columbia University | Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University | Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute | Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology | Mark Maybury MITRE | Vibhu Mittal Just Research | Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam University | Akitoshi Okumura NEC | Chris Paice Lancaster University | Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge | Tomek Strzalkowski GE CRD | Simone Teufel University of Edinburgh | Benjamin Tsou City University of Hong Kong | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Jan 25 16:18:22 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28497; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:18:21 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA07305; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:18:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:18:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001252118.QAA07305@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Stolz lecture cancelled Status: R Content-Length: 943 | From talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Jan 25 14:17:16 2000 | Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:17:04 -0500 (EST) | From: Leonard Talmy | To: cogsci-members@cs.buffalo.edu | cc: Leonard Talmy , | Dawn Phillips | Subject: Stolz ill; anyone like to talk tomorrow? | MIME-Version: 1.0 | | Hi. I've just received a message from Jennifer Stolz that she and her | infant son have been struck down with a high-fever flu and so, of | course, she can't come speak at tomorrow's colloquium. I'll try to | reschedule her for later this semester. | | Does anyone have a talk ready to go -- or a topic that they would like | to lead a discussion on -- who would like to speak tomorrow, Wednesday, | at the CogSci colloquium, 2-3:30? | | I would appreciate hearing from you if you do. | | We'll send out a notice tomorrow with an update on the colloquium. | | Thanks, | --Len | | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Jan 25 16:28:31 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28738; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:28:28 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA07334; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:28:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:28:28 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001252128.QAA07334@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Subject: Re: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in NLP Systems Cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Status: R Content-Length: 1145 | Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:53:02 -0500 (EST) | From: Weihan Huang | To: "William J. Rapaport" | cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: Re: Syntactic and Semantic Complexity in NLP Systems | | | I am interested in the topic : | | 2) How does complexity impact acquisition of semantic and conceptual | information? | | And I am wondering if anyone can suggest a book about this. | Such as a general survey of current computational models | of language acquisition? Thanks. | | Weihan | A good place to start is the book that discusses the Buffalo sentence: Barton, G. Edward, Jr.; Berwick, Robert C.; & Ristad, Eric Sven (1987), _Computational Complexity and Natural Language_ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). See also: Perrault, C. Raymond (1985), "On the Mathematical Properties of Linguistic Theories", _Computational Linguistics_ 10: 165-176; reprinted in GJW. I'm sure there are more recent discussions, but I don't know of any offhand. You might post your query to the LINGUIST list, or check their archives: http://linguistlist.org/ From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Jan 26 09:00:33 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06812; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA07747; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:00:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:00:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001261400.JAA07747@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: CogSci talk today: Talmy on Language & Consciousness Status: R Content-Length: 2374 | From talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Jan 26 00:06:59 2000 | Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:06:51 -0500 (EST) | From: Leonard Talmy | To: cogsci-local@cse.buffalo.edu | cc: Leonard Talmy | Subject: Len Talmy replaces Jennifer Stolz as today's CogSci speaker | MIME-Version: 1.0 | | Jennifer Stolz has had to cancel her talk scheduled for today because | of a bad case of the flu. She is rescheduled for Feb. 23. | | To find a replacement speaker, I sent out a call to the CogSci faculty | for anyone with a talk ready to go, but there were no volunteers. So I | volunteered myself, since I have a recently completed talk. It was | given last November at the conference on consciousness sponsored by the | UB Philosophy Department and cosponsored by CogSci. | | Center for Cognitive Science Colloquium | Wednesday, january 26, 2-3:30, 280 park Hall | | Leonard Talmy | Center for Cognitive Science Department of Linguistics | State University of New York at Buffalo | | Language Structure and Consciousness | | It can be observed that different aspects or components of language | have different degrees of availability in consciousness. For example, | we are generally more conscious of the meaning of a lexical form than | of a grammatical form, of the use of a word than of the conditions of | its use, of the meaning of a word or discourse than of the form, and of | asserted content than of implied content. The general principle seems | to be that consciousness is more associated with that portion or | granularity of linguistic phenomena that is more relevant to current | goals and concerns. The same pattern of differential consciousness | seems to hold for other cognitive systems, such as visual perception | and motor control. | | Time permitting, the issue of consciousness in language will be placed | within a general framework of views on the nature of consciousness. | Such views can largely be ranged along a scale that accords different | degrees of importance to consciousness. While this range of views is | largely comprehended within the philosophical tradition, the analysis | here is in terms of motivations for the views, seen from a cognitive | perspective. | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Jan 26 11:06:25 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09126; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:06:24 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08038; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:06:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:06:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001261606.LAA08038@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Leonard Talmy TODAY Status: R Content-Length: 4904 | From dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Jan 26 10:01:16 2000 | From: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | Date: 26 Jan 2000 15:01:01 -0000 | To: cogsci-local@cse.buffalo.edu | Subject: Leonard Talmy TODAY | | ============================================================================= | TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY | ............................................................................. | | Center for Cognitive Science Colloquium | State University of New York at Buffalo | | LEONARD TALMYY | talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu | Center for Cognitive Science | Department of Linguistics | | "Language Structure and Consciousness" | | Wednesday, January 26, 2000 | 2:00-3:30 p.m. | 280 Park Hall | North Campus | | It can be observed that different aspects or components of language | have different degrees of availability in consciousness. For example, | we are generally more conscious of the meaning of a lexical form than | of a grammatical form, of the use of a word than of the conditions of | its use, of the meaning of a word or discourse than of the form, and | of asserted content than of implied content. The general principle | seems to be that consciousness is more associated with that portion | or granularity of linguistic phenomena that is more relevant to | current goals and concerns. The same pattern of differential | consciousness seems to hold for other cognitive systems, such as | visual perception and motor control. | | Time permitting, the issue of consciousness in language will be placed | within a general framework of views on the nature of consciousness. | Such views can largely be ranged along a scale that accords different | degrees of importance to consciousness. While this range of views is | largely comprehended within the philosophical tradition, the analysis | here is in terms of motivations for the views, seen from a cognitive | perspective. | | PLEASE NOTE: | | Jennifer Stolz has had to cancel her talk scheduled for today because | of a bad case of the flu. She is rescheduled for Feb. 23. | Calendar of Events | Center for Cognitive Science | | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | January 26, 2000 University at Buffalo Spring 2000 | ____________________________________________________________________ | | All Cognitive Science presentations will be on Wednesday, | from 2-3:30 p.m. in 280 Park Hall, unless otherwise noted. | | January | | 26 LEONARD TALMY (talmy@acsu.buffalo.edu) | Center for Cognitive Science, Department of Linguistics (UB) | "Language Structure and Consciousness" | | 27 Philosophy Seminar, Arnold Berlean, Department of Philosophy, | Long Island University, "Is there life in virtual space?", | 4 p.m., 141 Park Hall | | February 2 CHARLES DUFFY (cjd@cvs.rochester.edu) | Center for Visual Science | University of Rochester | "Neuronal and Perceptual Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation" | | 9 Cognitive Science Business Meeting | | 16 DONALD POLLOCK (dpollock@acsu.buffalo.edu) | Department of Anthroplogy/UB | | 23 JENNIFER STOLZ (jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca) | Department of Psychology | University at Waterloo | "On the Joint Effects of Attention and Word Recognition: | The Relations between Resources and Meaning" | | March | 1 UB STUDENT POSTER SESSION | | 8 No Colloquium, Spring Break | | 15 TBA | | 22 TBA | | 29 MARK TURNER (markt@umd5.umd.edu) | Department of English, University of Maryland | Co-sponsored by Department of English, UB | April | 4 STEVEN PALMER | Department of Psychology | University of California, Berkeley | DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER-MAIN PUBLIC TALK | 3:30-5:00, Knox 20 | (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) | | 5 STEVEN PALMER | (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) | | 12 TBA | | 19 PETER W. JUSCZYK (jusczyk@jhu.edu) | Department of Psychology | Johns Hopkins University | | 26 TBA | | May | 3 TBA | | Colloquia abstracts will be listed on: | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ | ~ | | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Jan 26 11:24:07 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09529; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:24:06 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA08160; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:24:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:24:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001261624.LAA08160@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: more on Eliza Status: R Content-Length: 334 Take a look at: 1.Conversational Language Comprehension Using Integrated Pattern-Matching and Parsing. Roger C. Parkinson, Kenneth Mark Colby, and William S. Faught. Artificial Intelligence 9, 1977, pp. 111-134. North-Holland Publishing Company. online at: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=rw-lib01 From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Jan 26 16:14:26 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17826; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:14:25 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA08485; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:14:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:14:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001262114.QAA08485@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: office hours Status: R Content-Length: 108 My office hours will be Mondays, 2-3, or by appointment. I will update the online syllabus to reflect this. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Jan 28 08:37:17 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22724; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:37:16 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA09814; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:37:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:37:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001281337.IAA09814@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: jobs for computational linguists (!) Status: R Content-Length: 16442 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Fri Jan 28 00:25:06 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Mime-Version: 1.0 | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:23:58 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.177, Jobs: Comp Ling/Speech Scientist, Computer Linguist | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-177. Fri Jan 28 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.177, Jobs: Comp Ling/Speech Scientist, Computer Linguist | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U. | Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Martin Jacobsen | Ljuba Veselinova | Scott Fults | Jody Huellmantel | Karen Milligan | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova | Naomi Ogasawara | James Yuells | | Software development: John H. Remmers | Sudheendra Adiga | Qian Liao | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | | Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara | =========================================================================== | The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use | non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge | that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, | nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we | have no means of enforcing these standards. | | Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding | employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international | employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. | | This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment | standards of various countries. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:43:21 -0800 | From: Deb Grier | Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Scientist at Conversa, Washington | | 2) | Date: 27 Jan 2000 18:58:30 -0000 | From: Todd Cusolle | Subject: Computer Linguist: Senior at InvestorTrack.com, BC Canada | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:43:21 -0800 | From: Deb Grier | Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Scientist at Conversa, Washington | | Conversa - Conversationalizing the Internet. Delivering solutions for | interacting with computers, the Internet and communication devices by voice. | Conversa brings the natural and universal interface of voice to PCs, PDAs, | cellular phones and other electronic devices. By adding the human element | to computing - and de-emphasizing typing, mouse clicking and touchtone | dialing - we're making it easier for people to adopt conversational | computing into their everyday lives. | | Our goal is to become the global standard for end-to-end solutions for | internet/web based Conversational Computing(R). | | Visit our website at www.conversa.com! We're a pre-IPO start up in | Redmond, Washington. We have an entrepreneurial, casual work environment | where successes both great and small are celebrated, excellent benefits | (including stock options), lots of parties, concierge service, fully paid | health insurance for the entire family and we encourage innovation through | outstanding reward programs. If this is your kind of company, we should | talk. | | Please submit your resumes to: | speechcareers@conversa.com! | | Speech Scientist | The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical | resources and algorithms in the areas of speech recognition and | text-to-speech (TTS). The candidate will help to develop and apply | objective techniques to measure technology improvements under conditions | that reflect Conversa's products and markets. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Work with existing text-to-speech or speech recognition algorithms | to extend and improve them | * Develop new algorithms for text-to-speech or speech recognition | * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages | * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology | * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications | * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * DSP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design | * Knowledge of signal analysis tools | * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix | * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or | related field | * At least 2 years experience with speech technology | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information: | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and | marketers | * Adaptable and Creative | * Self-motivated | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | | Software Engineer-Prosody | The successful candidate will assist in the creation of prosodic models for | multiple languages used by Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech engine. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Create prosodic models for multiple languages to be used by the | text-to-speech system | * Extend prosody unit as necessary for specific languages | * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | * Thorough understanding of prosody and phonology | * Additional knowledge of linguistics or natural language processing a | strong plus | * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Linguistics | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information: | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Strong problem-solving skills | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | | Software Engineer-Text Normalization | The successful candidate will extend the text normalization component of | Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition system, | including adapting the text normalization unit to process new languages. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Extend the text normalization unit to more flexibly process written | text | * Specify text normalization rules for processing new languages | * Create other text processing components as necessary for specific | languages | * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Familiarity with basics of compiler design | * Knowledge of basics of phonology | * Strong C programming skills on Windows platforms | * Knowledge of multiple languages and their writing conventions a | strong plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field | * Previous experience with natural language processing a strong plus | * Previous experience with speech applications a plus | Additional Information: | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Strong problem-solving skills | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Time Domain | The successful candidate will create tools to analyze and manage recorded | speech data. The candidate will create automated scripts for extracting | data from large speech corpora and use digital signal processing techniques | to adjust speech data. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Create tools for editing and managing large amounts of recorded | speech data | * Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | * Strong understanding of DSP and signal analysis tools | * Knowledge of acoustic phonetics or phonology a strong plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the | company | Additional Information: | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Strong problem-solving skills | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Speech Engineer-Lexicon | The successful candidate will edit and enhance the lexical data files used | by Conversa's proprietary speech engine for multiple languages. The | candidate will also be responsible for part-of-speech training for different | languages, and may assist with the training of other language components. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Verify and correct data in lexical data files for multiple languages | * Write scripts for automating dictionary updates | * Edit part-of-speech corpora to ensure the successful training of the | part-of-speech tagger | * Oversee part-of-speech training | * Perform any other linguistic duties which may be assigned or | necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Fluency in at least one major European or East Asian language. | Fluency in two languages preferred. | * Thorough knowledge of phonetics, phonology, or morphology. | * Familiarity with at least one text editor, including use of macros. | * Willingness to learn script programming. Previous experience with | script writing a strong plus. | * Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Linguistics or a specific language. | * Previous experience with computer lexical work a strong plus. | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus. | Additional Information: | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously | * Meticulous and detail-oriented | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | | Speech Engineer-Training | The successful candidate will train Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech | and speech recognition system from recorded speech corpora to accommodate | new languages. Training will include the selection of an appropriate phoneme | set, training of text-to-speech and speech recognition data files, and | training of spelling-to-pronunciation rule set. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Establish an appropriate phone set for each new language | * Design and conduct experiments to improve engine performance | * Use in-house tools to train text-to-speech and speech recognition | data files from recorded speech corpora | * Use in-house tools to train spelling-to-pronunciation data files | * Perform training of other data files as necessary | * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Thorough knowledge of acoustic phonetics and phonology | * Knowledge of multiple languages a strong plus | * Familiarity with running programs in a Windows 98/NT environment | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications | * M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology, or | Morphology | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Strong problem-solving skills | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Morphology | The successful candidate will create a morphology engine for use in | Conversa's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition engine. The | candidate will also create data files for a variety of languages ranging | from European to East Asian. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Create and test a language-independent morphology engine for | predicting pronunciations and parts-of-speech of inflected words. | * Train the morphology engine to accommodate multiple languages. | * Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * Solid understanding of morphology | * Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | * Familiarity with basics of linguistics | * Experience with natural language processing a strong plus | * Knowledge of multiple languages a plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | * M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science | * Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Self-motivated | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Natural Language Processing Scientist | The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical | resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the | development of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create | advances in language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and | knowledge representation to improve and extend Conversa's products. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | * Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them | * Create next generation interfaces for conversation creation | * Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling | * Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages | * Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology | * Consult with marketing to access potential new applications | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | * NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design | * Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems | * Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired | * C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix | * Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications | * Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related | field | * At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing | * Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus | * Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the | company | Additional Information | * Able to work with limited supervision | * Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and | marketers | * Adaptable and Creative | * Self-motivated | * Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | | -------------------------------- Message 2 ------------------------------- | | Date: 27 Jan 2000 18:58:30 -0000 | From: Todd Cusolle | Subject: Computer Linguist: Senior at InvestorTrack.com, BC Canada | | | Rank of Job: Senior | Areas Required: Computer Linguist | Other Desired Areas: | University or Organization: InvestorTrack.com | Department: Natural Language Processing | State or Province: BC | Country: Canada | Final Date of Application: March 15, 2000 | Contact: Todd Cusolle hr@investortrack.com | | Address for Applications: | email hr@investortrack.com | Vancouver | BC V6Z 2K5 | Canada | | Computational Linguist | We are looking for a computational linguist who ideally has a wide range | of knowledge in the field of natural language processing. Proficiency in | English is assumed. Experience in designing or implementing NLP | components is highly desirable, and familiarity with software | development (C/C++, VB, Java, ASP, SQL Server, NT) would be an asset. | The successful candidate will be expected to assist in developing a NLP | tool that will further our proprietary technology. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-177 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Jan 28 08:54:06 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22936; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:54:05 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA09900; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:54:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:54:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001281354.IAA09900@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: data sentence update Status: R Content-Length: 101 As uttered by Raj Acharya in a faculty meeting, 1-27-00: "I saw one of my neighbor's children" :-) From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Fri Jan 28 11:17:59 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25541 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA16727 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 20129 invoked by uid 44889); 28 Jan 2000 16:17:54 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:17:53 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: grep In-Reply-To: <200001281354.IAA09900@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 487 To to grep [Ww]oodchuck re.test We forgot to use the quotation mark. It will work if we use grep "[Ww]oodchuck" re.test > grep "[wW]oodchuck" re.test interesting links to woodchucks and lemurs Woodchuck woodchuck /woodchucks? => does not find: woodchuck or woodchucks The same for finding "grep [wW]oodchuck re.tes" pollux {/675} > grep "grep \[wW\]oodchuck re.test" re.test > grep [wW]oodchuck re.test => grep: No match. pollux {/675} > Weihan From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Fri Jan 28 11:27:40 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25775 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA16942 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 21614 invoked by uid 44889); 28 Jan 2000 16:27:38 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:38 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: grep v.s. egrep In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 609 Just look up the mannual. grep supports part of regular expression whil egrep support more(all?) It differs in especially the functions of disjuction | and the question mark ?. the example of | pollux {~/675} > egrep "woodchucks|Woodchucks" re.test interesting links to woodchucks and lemurs /woodchucks? => does not find: woodchuck or woodchucks pollux {~/675} > the example of ? pollux {/675} > egrep "woodchucks?" re.test interesting links to woodchucks and lemurs woodchuck /woodchucks? => does not find: woodchuck or woodchucks pollux {/675} > Weihan From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Fri Jan 28 11:30:10 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25826 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:30:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA17012 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:30:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 22047 invoked by uid 44889); 28 Jan 2000 16:30:06 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:30:06 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: vi ?| In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 74 Just look up the mannual, vi editor does not support | and ? Weihan From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 31 11:18:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02941; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:18:45 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA11220; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:18:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:18:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001311618.LAA11220@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: HW #3 Status: R Content-Length: 180 HW #3 is now on the Web, as is the rest of the syntax & semantics for our implementation of transition networks. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/675w/directory.html From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Jan 31 14:22:26 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06074; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:22:25 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11686; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:22:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:22:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001311922.OAA11686@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: text should be in Status: R Content-Length: 135 I got my desk copy of the text today, so it should be in the bookstore now or very very soon. The .ps files are no longer accessible. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Feb 2 10:53:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10103; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:53:45 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA13524; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:53:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:53:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002021553.KAA13524@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: clarifications of HW #3 Status: R Content-Length: 383 Just a reminder, the TN files for the demo I did in class today are in: /projects/rapaport/675/TN which is accessible from any CSE machine (hadar, pollux, etc.) You should run the SNePS GATN only from pollux. If you cannot turn in all of HW #3 by Monday, then please turn in at least problems 1, 2, 3a and 3c, leaving 3b (the actual run) for, let's say, Wednesday at the latest. From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 3 10:49:16 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10349 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:49:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05471; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02478; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:49:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:49:13 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre Reply-To: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: On converting the diagram to a TN Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 561 This is mostly for Bruce, but if I have something wrong I won't mind being corrected if necessary :) Just a few points that might help. First, the GATN always starts in state s (unless there is some other parameter to (parse) which would change it) so you'll need to add a state s with a jump arc to the first state. Second, even for this simple example it still needs a lexicon, but it works just fine if you put each letter in its own category, i.e. "a" in (ctgy . a). I'll still be around tomorrow afternoon if you're still not able to get it to work. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 3 11:54:13 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11557; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14694; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:54:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 11:54:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002031654.LAA14694@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: On converting the diagram to a TN Status: R Content-Length: 120 You can use "wrd" arcs instead of "cat" arcs; see the manual online at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~jsantore/snepsman/ From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Thu Feb 3 12:03:51 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11719 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:03:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA07685 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:03:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 6975 invoked by uid 44889); 3 Feb 2000 17:03:48 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:03:48 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: Anthony S Petre cc: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Re: On converting the diagram to a TN In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1012 On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Anthony S Petre wrote: > This is mostly for Bruce, but if I have something wrong I won't mind > being corrected if necessary :) Just a few points that might help. > First, the GATN always starts in state s (unless there is some other > parameter to (parse) which would change it) so you'll need to add a state > s with a jump arc to the first state. Second, even for this simple > example it still needs a lexicon, but it works just fine if you put each > letter in its own category, i.e. "a" in (ctgy . a). I'll still be around > tomorrow afternoon if you're still not able to get it to work. > Thanks for your information. It will save me a lot of work. However, I have a report due tomorrow so that I can't start to work on it until the weekend. Sorry that I can not join your discussion this turn. I bought the textbook yesterday, I think is an excellent one. It contains very recent research topic like wordnet, machine translation, and information retrieval. I like it! Weihan From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Thu Feb 3 12:06:13 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11839 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:06:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from lucia.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@LuciaDiLammermoor.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.32]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA07805 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:06:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 7377 invoked by uid 44889); 3 Feb 2000 17:06:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:06:11 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: Anthony S Petre cc: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Re: On converting the diagram to a TN In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1272 Forgot to tell you that my English name is now Vincent(given by my girlfriend.^_^). If you remember it, please call me Vincent. And I hope I remeber it too. :) Vincent On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Weihan Huang wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Anthony S Petre wrote: > > This is mostly for Bruce, but if I have something wrong I won't mind > > being corrected if necessary :) Just a few points that might help. > > First, the GATN always starts in state s (unless there is some other > > parameter to (parse) which would change it) so you'll need to add a state > > s with a jump arc to the first state. Second, even for this simple > > example it still needs a lexicon, but it works just fine if you put each > > letter in its own category, i.e. "a" in (ctgy . a). I'll still be around > > tomorrow afternoon if you're still not able to get it to work. > > > > Thanks for your information. It will save me a lot of work. > However, I have a report due tomorrow so that I can't start to > work on it until the weekend. Sorry that I can not join your > discussion this turn. > > I bought the textbook yesterday, I think is an excellent one. > It contains very recent research topic like wordnet, machine > translation, and information retrieval. I like it! > > Weihan > > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 3 15:24:48 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15576; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:24:47 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA14903; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:24:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:24:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002032024.PAA14903@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: running programs in class Status: R Content-Length: 192 When you write a program (or a grammar, or whatever), please save a copy in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS which you should have write-permission in. Then we can easily run them in class. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 4 08:52:38 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26999; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:52:37 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA15142; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:52:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:52:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002041352.IAA15142@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: computational linguistics/speech processing job Status: R Content-Length: 11904 | Date: 2 Feb 2000 14:11:22 -0000 | From: Donn Dore | Subject: Comp Ling/NLP: Projects - Software Staffing Solutions/ Washington USA | | | Rank of Job: mid level to senior | Areas Required: NLP | Other Desired Areas: see description | University or Organization: Software Staffing Solutions | Department: | State or Province: Washington | Country: USA | Final Date of Application: asap | Contact: Donn Dore dd@sssolutions.com | | Address for Applications: | 12835 SE 306th Place | Auburn | WA 98092 | USA | | I am a recruiter and I am working with a company in the Seattle area | that is seeking speech scientists to join their staff. The positions | that we are trying to fill all in one way or another relate to computers | and software as well since the company is involved in sophisticated | natural language processing. I am including below several snapshots of | the kinds of people that we need. If you could review them and share | them with any of your associates that may have an interest in such | positions I would appreciate it. Please email resumes. | Here is a sampling of the need: | | Speech Scientist | The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical | resources and algorithms in the areas of speech recognition and | text-to-speech (TTS). The candidate will help to develop and apply | objective techniques to measure technology improvements under conditions | that reflect the company's products and markets. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Work with existing text-to-speech or speech recognition algorithms to | extend and improve them | Develop new algorithms for text-to-speech or speech recognition | Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages | Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology | Consult with marketing to access potential new applications | Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | DSP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design | Knowledge of signal analysis tools | C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix | Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or | related field | At least 2 years experience with speech technology | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information: | Able to work with limited supervision | Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and | marketers | Adaptable and Creative | Self-motivated | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Prosody | The successful candidate will assist in the creation of prosodic models | for multiple languages used by the company's proprietary | text-to-speech engine. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Create prosodic models for multiple languages to be used by the | text-to-speech system | Extend prosody unit as necessary for specific languages | Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | Thorough understanding of prosody and phonology | Additional knowledge of linguistics or natural language processing a | strong plus | Knowledge of multiple languages a plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science or Linguistics | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information: | Able to work with limited supervision | Strong problem-solving skills | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Text Normalization | The successful candidate will extend the text normalization component of | the company's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition | system, including adapting the text normalization unit to process new | languages. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Extend the text normalization unit to more flexibly process written | text | Specify text normalization rules for processing new languages | Create other text processing components as necessary for specific | languages | Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Familiarity with basics of compiler design | Knowledge of basics of phonology | Strong C programming skills on Windows platforms | Knowledge of multiple languages and their writing conventions a strong | plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field | Previous experience with natural language processing a strong plus | Previous experience with speech applications a plus | Additional Information: | Able to work with limited supervision | Strong problem-solving skills | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Time Domain | The successful candidate will create tools to analyze and manage | recorded speech data. The candidate will create automated scripts for | extracting data from large speech corpora and use digital signal | processing techniques to adjust speech data. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Create tools for editing and managing large amounts of recorded speech | data | Perform and any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | Strong understanding of DSP and signal analysis tools | Knowledge of acoustic phonetics or phonology a strong plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | B.S., M.S., or equivalent in Computer Science or related field | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the | company | Additional Information: | Able to work with limited supervision | Strong problem-solving skills | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Speech Engineer-Lexicon | The successful candidate will edit and enhance the lexical data files | used by the company's proprietary speech engine for multiple | languages. The candidate will also be responsible for part-of-speech | training for different languages, and may assist with the training of | other language components. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Verify and correct data in lexical data files for multiple languages | Write scripts for automating dictionary updates | Edit part-of-speech corpora to ensure the successful training of the | part-of-speech tagger | Oversee part-of-speech training | Perform any other linguistic duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Fluency in at least one major European or East Asian language. Fluency | in two languages preferred. | Thorough knowledge of phonetics, phonology, or morphology. | Familiarity with at least one text editor, including use of macros. | Willingness to learn script programming. Previous experience with | script writing a strong plus. | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Linguistics or a specific language. | Previous experience with computer lexical work a strong plus. | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus. | Additional Information: | Able to work with limited supervision | Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously | Meticulous and detail-oriented | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Speech Engineer-Training | The successful candidate will train the company's proprietary | text-to-speech and speech recognition system from recorded speech | corpora to accommodate new languages. Training will include the | selection of an appropriate phoneme set, training of text-to-speech and | speech recognition data files, and training of spelling-to-pronunciation | rule set. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Establish an appropriate phone set for each new language | Design and conduct experiments to improve engine performance | Use in-house tools to train text-to-speech and speech recognition data | files from recorded speech corpora | Use in-house tools to train spelling-to-pronunciation data files | Perform training of other data files as necessary | Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Thorough knowledge of acoustic phonetics and phonology | Knowledge of multiple languages a strong plus | Familiarity with running programs in a Windows 98/NT environment | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications | M.A., Ph.D., or equivalent in Acoustic Phonetics, Phonology, or | Morphology | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information | · Able to work with limited supervision | · Strong problem-solving skills | · Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Software Engineer-Morphology | The successful candidate will create a morphology engine for use in the | company's proprietary text-to-speech and speech recognition | engine. The candidate will also create data files for a variety of | languages ranging from European to East Asian. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Create and test a language-independent morphology engine for predicting | pronunciations and parts-of-speech of inflected words. | Train the morphology engine to accommodate multiple languages. | Perform any other duties which may be assigned or necessary. | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | Solid understanding of morphology | Strong C programming skills on Windows 98/NT platform | Familiarity with basics of linguistics | Experience with natural language processing a strong plus | Knowledge of multiple languages a plus | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications: | M.S. or equivalent in Computer Science | Previous experience with speech applications a strong plus | Additional Information | Able to work with limited supervision | Self-motivated | Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | | Natural Language Processing Scientist | The successful candidate will help improve and create core technical | resources and algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed. The | candidate will help create advances in language modeling, semantic | processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge representation to improve and | extend the company's products. | Principal Duties and Responsibilities: | Work with existing algorithms to extend and improve them | Create next generation interfaces | Develop new algorithms for semantic processing and dialog modeling | Extend algorithms and supporting resources for new languages | Consult with developers on optimal application of the technology | Consult with marketing to access potential new applications | Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: | NLP, Statistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Search, algorithm design | Experience with automatic learning and syntactic tagging systems | Knowledge of existing NLP tools desired | C/C++, DSP programming, Windows, Unix | Knowledge of multiple languages beneficial | Education, Certification, Training and/or Minimum Qualifications | Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Linguistics, or related field | At least 2 years experience in Natural Language Processing | Previous experience with speech processing and applications a plus | Ability to measure, publicize and promote improvements within the | company | Additional Information | · Able to work with limited supervision | · Able to communicate effectively with scientists, developers, and | marketers | · Adaptable and Creative | · Self-motivated | · Willing to relocate to Redmond, Washington | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-227 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:03:59 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14330; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:03:57 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17317; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:03:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:03:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071603.LAA17317@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: nlint files Status: R Content-Length: 64 See if you can read the files in /projects/rapaport/675/Nlint From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:05:49 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14394; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:05:48 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17343; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:05:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:05:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071605.LAA17343@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: PROJECTS Status: R Content-Length: 127 Try again to deposit your TNs in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS I just did some incantations that are supposed to open it up. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:28:43 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14985; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:42 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17486; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071628.LAA17486@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Recognition: Postdoc Research/ U of Colorado, USA Status: R Content-Length: 2084 | Date: 2 Feb 2000 18:11:49 -0000 | From: Terry Durham | Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Recognition: Postdoc Research/ U of Colorado, USA | | Rank of Job: Postdoctoral Researcher | Areas Required: Speech Recognition Pronunciation Modeling | Other Desired Areas: | University or Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder | Department: Center for Spoken Language Understanding | State or Province: Colorado | Country: USA | Final Date of Application: May 31, 2000 | Contact: Terry Durham durham@cslu.colorado.edu | | Address for Applications: | 3215 Marine Street | Boulder | Colorado 80303 | USA | | The Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the University of | Colorado, Boulder, in coordination with the Departments of Computer | Science and Linguistics, is seeking applications for a postdoctoral | researcher in the area of pronunciation modeling in automatic speech | recognition. Our National Science Foundation-funded research project, | led by Dan Jurafsky and Wayne Ward, is focused on improving the | robustness of automatic speech recognition systems to variation in | pronunciation. Research will include building sophisticated predictive | models of pronunciation variation and adapting state-of-the-art speech | recognition systems to a dynamic lexicon. This postdoctoral position | lasts through August 2002. The University of Colorado at Boulder | and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding have active programs | of research in speech recognition and understanding as well as | computational linguistics and cognitive science. CSLU is located | in Boulder, a beautiful town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. | | Required skills: | - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Linguistics | - specialization in automatic speech recognition | - fluent in C or C++, Perl, and UNIX | - ability to work as part of a team | | Desired skills: | - familiarity with pronunciation modeling | | To apply, please send expressions of interest and CV to Terry Durham | at durham@cslu.colorado.edu. | | | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:28:52 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14989; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.14]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17022; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14985; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:42 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17486; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:28:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071628.LAA17486@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Recognition: Postdoc Research/ U of Colorado, USA Status: R Content-Length: 2084 | Date: 2 Feb 2000 18:11:49 -0000 | From: Terry Durham | Subject: Comp Ling/Speech Recognition: Postdoc Research/ U of Colorado, USA | | Rank of Job: Postdoctoral Researcher | Areas Required: Speech Recognition Pronunciation Modeling | Other Desired Areas: | University or Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder | Department: Center for Spoken Language Understanding | State or Province: Colorado | Country: USA | Final Date of Application: May 31, 2000 | Contact: Terry Durham durham@cslu.colorado.edu | | Address for Applications: | 3215 Marine Street | Boulder | Colorado 80303 | USA | | The Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the University of | Colorado, Boulder, in coordination with the Departments of Computer | Science and Linguistics, is seeking applications for a postdoctoral | researcher in the area of pronunciation modeling in automatic speech | recognition. Our National Science Foundation-funded research project, | led by Dan Jurafsky and Wayne Ward, is focused on improving the | robustness of automatic speech recognition systems to variation in | pronunciation. Research will include building sophisticated predictive | models of pronunciation variation and adapting state-of-the-art speech | recognition systems to a dynamic lexicon. This postdoctoral position | lasts through August 2002. The University of Colorado at Boulder | and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding have active programs | of research in speech recognition and understanding as well as | computational linguistics and cognitive science. CSLU is located | in Boulder, a beautiful town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. | | Required skills: | - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Linguistics | - specialization in automatic speech recognition | - fluent in C or C++, Perl, and UNIX | - ability to work as part of a team | | Desired skills: | - familiarity with pronunciation modeling | | To apply, please send expressions of interest and CV to Terry Durham | at durham@cslu.colorado.edu. | | | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:30:33 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15029; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:30:32 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17536; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:30:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:30:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071630.LAA17536@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: CL jobs (FYI) Status: R Content-Length: 6322 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Sun Feb 6 11:50:50 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Mime-Version: 1.0 | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 16:49:58 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.252, Jobs: Natural Language Processing, Computational Ling | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-252. Sun Feb 6 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.252, Jobs: Natural Language Processing, Computational Ling | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U. | Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Martin Jacobsen | Ljuba Veselinova | Scott Fults | Jody Huellmantel | Karen Milligan | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova | Naomi Ogasawara | James Yuells | | Software development: John H. Remmers | Sudheendra Adiga | Qian Liao | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | | Editor for this issue: James Yuells | =========================================================================== | The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use | non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge | that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, | nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we | have no means of enforcing these standards. | | Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding | employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international | employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. | | This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment | standards of various countries. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: 3 Feb 2000 00:44:00 -0000 | From: Jonathan Stebner | Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US | | 2) | Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:09:29 -0800 | From: "Laila Lalami" | Subject: Comp Ling: at Oingo, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca, USA | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: 3 Feb 2000 00:44:00 -0000 | From: Jonathan Stebner | Subject: NLP: Multiple positions at Orion.com, WA US | | | Rank of Job: | Areas Required: Speech and Natural Voice Recognition Software | Other Desired Areas: | University or Organization: Orion.com | Department: Technical Recruiting | State or Province: WA | Country: US | Final Date of Application: Open | Contact: Jonathan Stebner jstebner@orion.com | | Address for Applications: | 10900 NE 4th 23rd Floor | Bellevue | WA 98056 | US | | Natural Language Processing Scientists (5 positions) The successful | candidate will help improve and create core technical resources and | algorithms in Natural Language Processing as needed in the development | of Conversational Computing. The candidate will help create advances in | language modeling, semantic processing, dialog modeling, and knowledge | representation to improve and extend products. 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We are pioneering the field of meaning-based search and are | currently looking for smart, talented individuals to help develop | state-of-the-art algorithms and tools for web-based search, | document/information retrieval and natural language processing. | | Computational Linguist | Qualifications: | M.S. or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics. Strong analytical and | problem-solving skills. Experience with natural language processing. | Programming and database experience preferred (preferably C/C++ and SQL). | | Oingo offers flexible schedules, a relaxed intellectual working environment, | and stock options. Paid internships are also available. Oingo is an equal | opportunity employer. Email resume and cover letter to jobs@oingo.com or fax | to (419) 844-6215. No phone calls please. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-252 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 7 11:48:31 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15709; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:48:29 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA17664; Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:48:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:48:29 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002071648.LAA17664@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: possible term project Status: R Content-Length: 1569 It's not too soon to start thinking about possible term projects. As I have inspirations, I will share them with you. Here's the first: Implement the Earley parser from Ch. 10, Sect. 10.4. You may use your favorite programming language, but Lisp is preferable. As indicated in the syllabus, your code should be documented, and accompanied by annotated sample runs. Also, read: Earley, Jay (1970), "An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 94-102; reprinted in Grosz, Barbara J.; Sparck Jones, Karen; & Webber, Bonnie Lynn (1986) (eds.), Readings in Natural Language Processing (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 25-33, which is on reserve at UGL/SEL. and: Kay, Martin (1980), "Algorithm Schemata and Data Structures in Syntactic Processing", Technical Report CSL-80-12 (Palo Alto, CA: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center); reprinted in Grosz, Barbara J.; Sparck Jones, Karen; & Webber, Bonnie Lynn (1986) (eds.), Readings in Natural Language Processing (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 35-70, which is on reserve at UGL/SEL. and read about modern chart parsing techniques, as in either: Winograd, Terry (1983), Language as a Cognitive Process (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley), which is on reserve at UGL/SEL. or: Allen, James (1995), Natural Language Understanding, second edition (Redwood City, CA: Benjamin/Cummings), in Lockwood at QA76.7 .A44 1995 (or the 1st edition, in Lockwood at QA76.7 .A44 1987 (or elsewhere), and discuss the differences among these 3 versions of chart parsing. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Feb 8 14:54:03 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07754; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:54:02 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA19352; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:54:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:54:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002081954.OAA19352@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Eliza code Status: R Content-Length: 161 I haven't checked this page out, but it sounds like it might be interesting: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/classics/eliza/0 .html From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Feb 9 13:30:52 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25318; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:30:51 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA20208; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:30:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:30:49 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002091830.NAA20208@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, shapiro@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Classic AI Programs Status: R Content-Length: 128 For source code for some classic AI programs, see: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas/classics/0.html From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Feb 9 14:06:52 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26193 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:06:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.123]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08134 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:06:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 9320 invoked by uid 44889); 9 Feb 2000 19:06:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:06:49 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: possible term project In-Reply-To: <200002071648.LAA17664@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 647 Hi, all, I have an idea of a term project, and I am wondering if it is okay as a term project. Today Dr. Rapaport mentioned HPSG, GPSG and LKB, so I would like to write a brief report of them(maybe one of them), and implement an English Grammar Parser in HPSG or GPSG unsing Lisp or Prolog. If this project proposal is allowed, I would like to work with or discuss with anyone who is also interested in this. And no matter this project proposal is permitted or not, I would like to read some introductory material or reference about HPSG, GPSG, and LKB. So I am wondering if Dr. Rapaport can give me some of them. Thanks. Weihan From bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Feb 9 14:28:08 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA26747 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:28:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from xena.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.121]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA08751 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:28:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 18100 invoked by uid 19884); 9 Feb 2000 19:28:05 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:28:05 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Wisenburn To: Weihan Huang cc: "William J. Rapaport" , petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: possible term project In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1896 Hi, everyone, I also have an idea for a project. Of course, it needs to be approved. Do you guys think that we can combine all of our ideas into one project? Anyway, here's my idea: I study augmentative communication. This involves assisting those with various injuries or diseases (such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, or traumatic brain injury) to be able to communicate using a computer system. (A famous example is the astronomer, Stephen Hawking.) Anyway, these systems are notably slow, as users often have motoric, sensory, and cognitive deficits that prevent them from quickly typing utterances. I wanted to apply a parser that could conceivably recognize common questions or statements from a conversation partner, e.g.: "Would would you like for lunch?" "What do you want for lunch?" "How are you feeling?" "What do you want to watch [on TV]?" etc. After parsing these productions, the system would then print out a short list of common responses for the device user to choose from. Therefore, a knowledge base must be generated for the system (with the help of the user and family/friends). Take care, Bruce On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Weihan Huang wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have an idea of a term project, and I am wondering > if it is okay as a term project. > > Today Dr. Rapaport mentioned HPSG, GPSG and LKB, so > I would like to write a brief report of them(maybe one of them), > and implement an English Grammar Parser in HPSG or GPSG > unsing Lisp or Prolog. > > If this project proposal is allowed, I would like to > work with or discuss with anyone who is also interested > in this. > > And no matter this project proposal is permitted or not, > I would like to read some introductory material or reference > about HPSG, GPSG, and LKB. So I am wondering if Dr. Rapaport > can give me some of them. > > Thanks. > > Weihan > > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Feb 9 16:10:17 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28789; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA20312; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002092110.QAA20312@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Subject: Re: possible term project Cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Status: R Content-Length: 664 Vincent's idea for a term project is not bad, but needs to be specified a bit more precisely. In any case, here are some references: Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, & Sag 1985 on GPSG (see J&M, p. 866 for details) Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag, _Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar_, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994 Sag & Wasow 1999 on HPSG (see J&M, p. 892 for details) Also check out these websites: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar http://hpsg.stanford.edu/ Linguistic Grammars Online Project http://lingo.stanford.edu/ The Natural Language Software Registry http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/index.html The Linguist List http://linguistlist.org/ From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Wed Feb 9 16:34:55 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29323 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:34:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from xena.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.121]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA12602 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:34:53 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 14382 invoked by uid 44889); 9 Feb 2000 21:34:52 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:34:52 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: possible term project In-Reply-To: <200002092110.QAA20312@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1291 Yes, actually I don't know LKB, GPSG and HPSG before today's class. I am mainly interested in the context-sensitive ability of them. I will try to know what they really are and then decide what to do. Bruce's idea can be possibly connected to my project, maybe I can write a parser for you. But for now, actually I don't know what they really are. So let's talk about it after I browse some of them. (I have never dealt with any grammar about questions before.) Thanks for Dr. Rapaport's recommendations. Vincent ^_^ On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, William J. Rapaport wrote: > Vincent's idea for a term project is not bad, but needs to be specified a bit > more precisely. > > In any case, here are some references: > > Gazdar, Klein, Pullum, & Sag 1985 on GPSG (see J&M, p. 866 for details) > > Carl Pollard and Ivan A. Sag, _Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar_, > Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994 > > Sag & Wasow 1999 on HPSG (see J&M, p. 892 for details) > > > Also check out these websites: > > Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar > http://hpsg.stanford.edu/ > > Linguistic Grammars Online Project > http://lingo.stanford.edu/ > > The Natural Language Software Registry > http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/index.html > > The Linguist List > http://linguistlist.org/ > > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 10 16:11:33 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17971; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:11:32 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA21354; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:11:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:11:31 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002102111.QAA21354@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Computational Linguists sue "Ask Jeeves" Status: R Content-Length: 137 See the Director of Documents for a link to an article about 2 computational linguists suing a search engine for patent infringement :-) From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 10 16:39:01 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18254; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:39:00 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA21425; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:38:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:38:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002102138.QAA21425@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: another Eliza program Status: R Content-Length: 276 Take a look at http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~wcswcs/323/ass1.html which is for PSY 323 this semester. It tells how to access an Eliza program. I have done this and put it in /projects/rapaport/675/Eliza Go there and type "chat" at the Unix prompt. Type "exit" to quit. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 10 16:40:19 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18272; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:40:18 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA21438; Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:40:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:40:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002102140.QAA21438@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: ooops Status: R Content-Length: 54 Wrong file: Go to /projects/rapaport/675/Eliza/ass1 From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 11 09:09:23 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00216; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:09:22 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA21715; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:09:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:09:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002111409.JAA21715@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Proof, courtesy of Vincent, that x_x is not regular Status: R Content-Length: 1935 | From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Thu Feb 10 21:50:21 2000 | Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:50:19 -0500 (EST) | From: Weihan Huang | To: "William J. Rapaport" | Subject: Prove w_w is not regular | MIME-Version: 1.0 | | | Pumping Lemma : | | Let L be a regular set. Then there is a constant n such that if | z is any word in L, and |z|>=n, we may write z=uvw in such a way | that |uv|<=n, |v|>=1, and for all i>=0, u(v^i)w is in L. Furthermore, | n is no greater than the number of states of the smallest FA | accepting L. | | | Proposition : x_x is not regular | | Proof : | | Assume it is regular, let n be the constant n in pumping lemma | for this regular set. Let a_a be a word longer than n. Then | by pumping lemma we know we may write | | a_a = uvw, |uv|<=n, |v|>=1, for all i>=0, u(v^i)w is in x_x | | We know that v can not contain the character _, because if it | does, then u(v^i)w will not be in x_x, a contradiction. | | Therefore _ must be either in u or in w. Without loss of generality, | assume u contains _. But in this situation, u(v^i)w is not in x_x | because the word to the left of _ is shorter than the word to the | right of _. But we know that u(v^i)w has to be in x_x, a contradiction. | | Hence we know that when we assume x_x is regular, we will have | contradictory results. Thus x_x is not regular. | | Q.E.D. | | | | Intuition : The pumping lemma states there must be a loop happening | in the automata when the input is a long string. | And this loop can be used to accept longer strings. | | x_x can not be regular, because if we take a very long | sample a_a, then it will causes a loop in the pumping lemma. | This loop will cause automata to accept strings not in the | form x_x. | | | Vincent | From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 11 09:51:14 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01029 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:51:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18734; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:51:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA16368; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:51:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:51:12 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: perl matching double word Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 327 A working version of a matching script to look for the same word repeated twice is now in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/sctest.pl and tests the file test.txt to run it just cd to the directory and type perl sctest.pl I had to use a definition of [A-Za-z]+ for an unbroken word since I couldn't get \B to work quite right. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 11 12:48:18 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04480; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:48:17 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA22292; Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:48:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:48:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002111748.MAA22292@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: files in PROJECTS Status: R Content-Length: 478 1. Bruce and Tony have some files in the PROJECTS subdirectory whose permissions need to be reset I guess what we need to do when putting files here is then typing chmod a+r at the Unix prompt, to allow us *a*ll to *r*ead the files. 2. I tried "perl sctest.pl" on Tony's file, but all I got was this: > perl sctest.pl Match found is: in a row like "the the" will be found if you had had the time to check. Tony--can you explain? -Bill From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sat Feb 12 02:25:05 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA15120 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:25:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA18556; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:25:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA09500; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:25:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:25:03 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre Reply-To: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 785 I had similar permission trouble running the Eliza in /projects/rapaport/675/Eliza/ass1/ because +x permission was not set for the group, so I moved the relevant files to /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/ and I was able to run chat from there My knoweldge of Perl is limited, and I don't know how to do user input or command line parameters yet, so the file I wrote just reads in the file test.txt and outputs lines which have the same word repeated twice in a row. I've modified the matching patern so now I'm satisfied it matches EXACTLY what I feel a human would take the directions to mean. The new pattern is: /^((\B.)*\b(.(\B.)*)\b.)*(\B.)*\3(\b.*)?$/ I will expand it with indentation and try to explain the justifications: /^( (\B.)* \b. (\B.)* \b. )* From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sat Feb 12 02:41:47 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA15207 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:41:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA18623; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:41:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA09614; Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:41:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 02:41:46 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: oops, didn't finish that one Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1195 I hit send too quick, the rest of the explanation was: /^((\B.)*\b(.(\B.)*)\b.)*(\B.)*\3(\b.*)?$/ /^ Beginning of the line ( (\B.)* Any number of characters which don't start a word \b The beginning of a word (.(\B.)*) (3)The first character of the word, and the rest of it \b. The non-word character at the end )+ Must have found at least one word to match (\B.)* No words between the two that match \3 Must match the last thing bound at (3) (\b.*)? If anything else is after the second word, must word break $/ End of line. A little more about perl memory I found necessary for this is: 1. \n means it matches whatever is inside the parenthetical set begun by the nth '(' in the pattern. 2. If there is a count (*,+,{n}) outside a parenthetical set, only the most recent string that matched the patern is stored in the memory location for that set. Thus even though in the first line of my test file the word "this" is repeated twice, by the time the second occurence is encountered \3 holds only the previous word, which is different than "this" Feel free to test other files by either replacing test.txt with it, or by changing the filename in sctest.pl From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Feb 15 09:09:10 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17962; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:09:09 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA04312; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:09:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:09:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002151409.JAA04312@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: morphological analyzers Status: R Content-Length: 1078 | Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 04:45:30 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.307, Sum: Morphology Analyzers | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-307. Mon Feb 14 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.307, Sum: Morphology Analyzers | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | | Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:51:47 EST | From: "Carmen Cross" | Subject: English Derivational/Inflectional Morphology Analyzer | | re: LINGUIST 11.132.2 | | Dear all list members: | | Thanks to all who answered my request for English morphological analyzers. | Below is a summary posting of replies: | | Hi Carmen,have a look at the following web pages: | http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/ | | http://www.lingsoft.fi/ | | where you can find demos of lexical tools for different languages. | | http://web.syr.edu/~mdtaffet/nlp_sites.html | | Thanks again, | Carmen | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-307 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Feb 17 11:45:11 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24893; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:45:11 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA06257; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:45:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:45:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002171645.LAA06257@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling jobs Status: R Content-Length: 1489 | Date: 16 Feb 2000 16:27:41 -0000 | From: Wei Li | Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc., Williamsville, New York,USA | | | Rank of Job: Rsearch Scientist | Areas Required: Computational Linguist | Other Desired Areas: Natural Language Processing | University or Organization: Cymfony Inc. | Department: | State or Province: New York State | Country: USA | Final Date of Application: July 2000 | Contact: Wei Li wei@cymfony.com | | Address for Applications: | 5500 Main Street | Williamsville | NY 14221 | USA | | Computational Linguists Needed | | Cymfony, located in suburban Buffalo, New York State, USA, is a leader | in technology pertaining to intelligent search and retrieval, including | question answering systems. This fast-growing company has IMMEDIATE | OPENINGS for research scientists in natural language processing. SEVERAL | POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE. | | The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Computer Science or | related field with experience in natural language processing, | computational linguistics, or information retrieval. Proficiency in C++ | programming is required. | | Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Cymfony also | offers an attractive benefits package. All positions are full-time. | Please forward CV with references to: | | Cymfony, Inc. | Attn: Wei Li | 5500 Main Street, Suite 206 | Williamsville, NY 14221, USA | Email: wei@cymfony.com | Fax: (716)-565-0308 From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 21 08:52:02 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01787; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:52:00 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA01072; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:52:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:52:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002211352.IAA01072@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: On the Joint Effects of Attention and Word Recognition Status: R Content-Length: 2322 | From dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu Fri Feb 18 19:44:52 2000 | From: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | Date: 19 Feb 2000 00:44:02 -0000 | To: cogsci-all@cse.buffalo.edu | Subject: Jennifer Stoltz | Cc: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | | Center for Cognitive Science | State University of New York at Buffalo | | JENNIFER STOLZ | Department of Psychology | University of Waterloo | jstolz@watarts.uwaterloo.ca | | February 23, 2000 | 280 Park Hall | North/Amherst Campus | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. | | On the Joint Effects of Attention and Word Recognition: | The Relations between Resources and Meaning | | The study of attention and that of visual word recognition have both | resulted in large literatures. Interestingly, despite the fact that | common sense dictates that attention is involved in word recognition, | there is very little work at the intersection of these two literatures. | The present work addresses this intersection by examining the joint | effects of attention, viewed as a resource, and a key variable | important in word recognition, semantics. Two central questions are | pursued. First, is attention necessary for semantics to be activated? | This question is asked by examining the semantic priming effect under | dual task conditions. Second, does previewing a word's meaning result | in fewer resources being required for the word's subsequent | recognition? This question is addressed by investigating the effects | of priming a word presented in the context of an attention-demanding | tone discrimination task. The results reveal a rich pattern in which | resource attention affects, and is affected by, the activation and | maintenance of meaning during word recognition. | | | Refreshments will be served | | All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students | are invited to attend | | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Feb 23 11:29:16 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA11191; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:29:15 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA03124; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:29:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:29:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002231629.LAA03124@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: anaphora reference Status: R Content-Length: 280 Here's the anaphora reference I mentioned: Hirst, Graeme (1981), Anaphora in Natural Language Understanding: A Survey, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 119 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag), isbn 3-540-10858-0, 0-387-10858-0 Hirst's homepage is: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gh/ From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Feb 23 15:52:13 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA16049; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:52:12 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA03754; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:52:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:52:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002232052.PAA03754@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop Status: R Content-Length: 5752 | From rasmusse@athos.rutgers.edu Wed Feb 23 15:41:19 2000 | Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 15:26:25 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | To: rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop | | | CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ANLP-NAACL 2000 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP | | This year, student members will be presenting their exciting work in | progress at the newly designed Student Research Workshop. If you've ever | wanted to provide encouragement and scientific guidance to upcoming | researchers, this is your opportunity. 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Diekema, Syracuse University, | School of Information Studies | | | REVIEW COMMITTEE | | Student committee members | David Ahn University of Rochester | Timothy Baldwin Tokyo Institute of Technology | Melanie Baljko University of Toronto | Sabine Buchholz Tilburg University | Patrick Caudal Université Paris 7 | Freddy Choi University of Manchester | Paul Davis Ohio State University | Jonathan DeCristofaro University of Delaware | Mona Diab University of Maryland College / UMIACS | Woody Haynes Illinois Institute of Technology | Barbora Hladka Charles University | Vlado Keselj University of Waterloo | Anna Korhonen University of Cambridge | Irene Langkilde University of Southern California / ISI | Christophe Luc Université Paul Sabatier | Diana Maynard Manchester Metropolitan University | Lisa Michaud University of Delaware | Derek Walker University of Geneva | Teresa Zollo University of Rochester | | Non-student committee members | Yllias Chali University of Lethbridge | Hsin-Hsi Chen National Taiwan University | Sherri Condon University of Louisiana | Deborah Dahl Unisys | Mark Dras University of Pennsylvania | Richard Evans University of Wolverhampton | Martha Evens Illinois Institute of Technology | Eileen Fitzpatrick Montclair State University | Mary Harper Purdue University | Kristiina Jokinen Flanders Language Valley | Rodger Kibble University of Brighton / ITRI | Adam Kilgariff University of Brighton / ITRI | From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 25 00:28:21 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA09357 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:28:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15326; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:28:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA20047; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:28:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:28:15 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: def of DETP-INCP on pg. 389 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 580 The book defines DETP-INCP as: --> { { { Det|Pro-Poss} "only" |"a" |"an" |Det-incomp |Pro-Poss-incomp } ("other") |(DET-CP) "other" } (I tried to space it out as clearly as I could) which seems to permit constructions like "a other" and "an other" where I would have thought the two literals "a" and "an" should be pulled out one more level so that they cannot be followed by the optional "other" Any ideas/comments? I'm pulling them out to shorten my TN a few states. From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 25 00:49:17 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA11225 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:49:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA15743; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:49:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA20197; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:49:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:49:15 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: (another?) typo? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 488 The definition for AdjP should probably have a ")" after the ({Q-er|Q-est} pair, since these modifiers should be the optional part. Also, without going into augmentation, I'm not sure how to do (or even really make sense of) the doman restriction they are trying to do in the line: N[sing,!Time-NP] I think it should parse as "any singular noun that is not a time phrase" (though I could imagine a "midnight-waiting" task) so I'll just replace it with a new category NounSg for now. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 25 09:17:47 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13854; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:17:46 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05395; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:17:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:17:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002251417.JAA05395@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: def of DETP-INCP on pg. 389 Status: R Content-Length: 104 Solve such problems the best you can, documenting your alternative solution and/or the problem you see. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Feb 25 09:18:15 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13873; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:18:14 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05401; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:18:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:18:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002251418.JAA05401@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: (another?) typo? Status: R Content-Length: 48 Yes, I have no idea what !Time-NP means either! From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sat Feb 26 00:42:00 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA28672 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:41:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA26659; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:41:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA10301; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:41:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:41:58 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: First construction Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 594 I have built a grammer and lexicon for noun-groups in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/TonyNG The lexicon only contains POS which are in the grammer, and consists of the combination of words in a previous example lexicon, and all the example words given in the descriptions. I made my best guess to some of the category choices. It seems to work for simple cases (just base cases I think), so I'll need to do traces to see why it fails on the longer ones. It could be problems only arise in cases that follow a push (pretty common) so I may have to revisit how pushes and pops are handled. From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Sun Feb 27 23:44:25 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14652 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:44:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from xena.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@xena.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.121]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA26036 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:44:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 8641 invoked by uid 44889); 28 Feb 2000 04:44:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:44:22 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: Anthony S Petre cc: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Re: First construction In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 735 I put my files in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/wh6 Vincent On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Anthony S Petre wrote: > > I have built a grammer and lexicon for noun-groups in > /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/TonyNG > > The lexicon only contains POS which are in the grammer, and consists of > the combination of words in a previous example lexicon, and all the > example words given in the descriptions. I made my best guess to some of > the category choices. > > It seems to work for simple cases (just base cases I think), so I'll need > to do traces to see why it fails on the longer ones. It could be problems > only arise in cases that follow a push (pretty common) so I may have to > revisit how pushes and pops are handled. > > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 28 11:17:42 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20255; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:17:42 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00794; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:17:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:17:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002281617.LAA00794@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: RTNs Status: R Content-Length: 350 As we discussed in class, it's not good style, not to mention that it seems to confuse the parser, to have separate Lisp-states for RTNs that are really a single state. So, e.g., (s (cat pronoun t (to qf))) (s (cat timenp t (to qf))) (s (jump HdNns t)) should be: (s (cat pronoun t (to qf)) (cat timenp t (to qf)) (jump HdNns t)) From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 28 11:21:53 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20336; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:21:52 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00829; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:21:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:21:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002281621.LAA00829@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: englex Status: R Content-Length: 729 I was browsing an old directory and found this, which you might be interested in: For englex, try these: morph analysis: user(): :pa englex englex(): (lookup "man") (lookup "dog") (lookup "dogs"); works even though 'dogs' not in lexicon (lookup "like") (lookup "likes"); ditto (lookup "liking") ;ditto morph synthesis: : (wordize 'sing "man") : (wordize 'plur "man") : (wordize 'plur "dog"); not in lexicon, but constructs plural : (wordize 'plur "leaf") : (verbize 'past "believe") : (verbize 'pres 'prog "sleep"); yields "is" "sleeping" : (verbize 'pres 'prog "believe"); stative; yields "believes" : (verbize 'past 'perf "sleep") : (verbize 'past 'perf 'pass "sleep") From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 28 13:05:28 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21942 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:05:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00859; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:05:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA02857; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:05:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:05:25 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Files open Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 270 I changed permissions on the folder so it should be readable to everyone now. I also fixed one bug in my top pushes so many more combinations work now. Still some problems with others though "the only five" and "this" now work though when they didn't before. -Tony From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Feb 28 17:21:41 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA26129 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10250; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA17064; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:37 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: NG revisions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1801 Found out what my problem was in my parser, it followed the book ;) It now successfully parses the examples in the descriptions that it should, and none that it shouldn't. The the test examples which failed in my sameple run "sample.txt" are now covered correctly in "sample2.txt". Note that as a necessity to the underlying parser you have to seperate "-" and "," with spaces. I added one additional form of ("the" Adjs) to handle cases where the actual noun is omitted because all the important information about it is already covered by the adjective. For example, "The dead" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". I'm no linguist, so this might be something else, but I still felt like adding it. That modification aside (which may or may not be valid), I found some other problems with the book's descriptions on page 389: 1. The description for DETP-INCP breaks from standard and includes the {} at the top level, when it it normally omitted. Given the already complex bracket nesting in that section it seems almost cruel to add more. 2. There are unbalanced parens in the description for AdjP, which likely should have as it's second line: |({Q-er | Q-est }) {Adj | Vparticiple}+ 3. The description for HdNn does not allow for a single noun to be a Head Noun. I fixed this in my version by including parens in the second line: |({PreNs | PropN PreNs}) N[!Time-NP] 4. The descriptions for preN and preN2 should be capitalized. 5. The distinction between "PreN" and "PreN2" seems unwarented, especially since it does not allow for the given example of "presidential retreat". Basicly the distinction is that Ordinals ("final") and Noun-like adjective (presidential) can only appear after the word "and", which seems wrong. In my version I merged the two into simply "PreN" From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Feb 29 01:19:51 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA04750 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:19:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.123]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA18417 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:19:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 12426 invoked by uid 44889); 29 Feb 2000 06:19:49 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:19:49 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: Anthony S Petre cc: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Inductive Logic Programming In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 296 Hi, I will present an introduction to inductive logic programming at 2:00pm in CEDAR's conference room in Data Mining seminar course. I will be glad to receive your comments if you are free at that time. (actually it might start at about 2:40 after a lecture of Dr. Srihari) :) Weihan From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Feb 29 10:08:40 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA08684 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16633; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:38 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14447; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:08:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200002291508.KAA14447@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Noun group grammars Status: R Content-Length: 295 Take a look at your Noun Group grammars in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS: Huang: wh6/ directory Petre: TonyNG/ directory Wisenburn: BWhw6.lex, BWhw6.tn (no sample run yet) One thing that I don't think any of you did was to try the noun groups from the text (rather than making up your own)! From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Feb 29 18:42:39 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16858 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:42:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.122]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA05181 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:42:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 5938 invoked by uid 44889); 29 Feb 2000 23:42:37 -0000 Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: "William J. Rapaport" cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: Noun group grammars In-Reply-To: <200002291508.KAA14447@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1110 I saw Tony's grammar, it is not bad. His grammar size is twice than mine and Bruce's. Mine is much simplified version than the textbook because I think the grammar listed is very complicated and there are some un-balanced brackets in the grammar. And also my tn has a strange bug that I don't know how to get rid of. And in general I think to implement a transition network is a very complicated task, actually I don't think I can recognize the TN I write after two years. It is hard to read and maintain. So I think maybe there is some compiler or translator that given a context free grammar, it can generate the TN or RTN automatically for you. Because to maintain and implement the context free grammar is much easier and clearer. Weihan On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, William J. Rapaport wrote: > Take a look at your Noun Group grammars in /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS: > > Huang: wh6/ directory > Petre: TonyNG/ directory > Wisenburn: BWhw6.lex, BWhw6.tn (no sample run yet) > > One thing that I don't think any of you did was to try the noun groups > from the text (rather than making up your own)! > From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 1 09:23:06 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA27463; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:04 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA03182; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003011423.JAA03182@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Subject: Re: Noun group grammars Cc: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Status: R Content-Length: 95 OK--here's a project: write a compiler that transduces RTNs into CFGs (and/or vice versa) :-) From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 1 09:23:52 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA27477; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:51 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA03191; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:23:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003011423.JAA03191@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: TN for NG Status: R Content-Length: 132 It might be fun for each of you to try each others' sample sentences with your own grammars, to see if they have the same coverage. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 1 11:23:02 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01866; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:23:01 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA03431; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:23:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:23:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003011623.LAA03431@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: term project ideas Status: R Content-Length: 2967 Some possible term projects (in no particular order): (note that I can supply references for most of these, so if a topic appeals to you but you have no references to cite in your proposal due on Mar. 13, that's OK, 'cause I can supply them) ========================================================================= a review of the literature on some topic ------------------------------------------------------------------------- discussion of some topic not covered fully in class (e.g., connectionist approaches to computational linguistics, or one of the omitted chapters from the text, or a discussion of another topic of your choice ------------------------------------------------------------------------- an implementation of one or more appropriate algorithms from the text ------------------------------------------------------------------------- team project (such as an implementation of a "full" natural-language-understanding system, with each team member being responsible for a module), or a computational implementation of your choice ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Implement the Earley parser from Ch. 10, Sect. 10.4. You may use your favorite programming language, but Lisp is preferable. (see http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/675w/news.txt for more info) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- discussion of GPSG, HPSG, etc. (see http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/675w/news.txt for more info) see also Shieber 1986 as referenced in the text, which I have a copy of. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- discussion of grammars for handling ill-formed input ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATN for the HPSG test suite ------------------------------------------------------------------------- implement a CFG or an ATN for the ATIS corpus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- implement an ATN for the full specification of one in Winograd's text ------------------------------------------------------------------------- implement Weizenbaum's orginal version of Eliza ------------------------------------------------------------------------- translate an Eliza program into, say, French or Chinese, or... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- make an Eliza program more "intelligent" by giving it some grammatical capabilities ------------------------------------------------------------------------- explore englex and try to improve it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- discuss approaches to handling ambiguity (e.g., Hirst, et al.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- use a FASTUS-like approach to handling hospital discharge summaries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 13 12:45:05 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00238; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:45:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA07197; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:45:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:45:03 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003131745.MAA07197@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: interesting CL job Status: R Content-Length: 4632 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Sat Mar 11 19:03:35 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:02:32 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.533, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist at ETS, New Jersey | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-533. Sat Mar 11 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.533, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist at ETS, New Jersey | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. 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Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003131746.MAA07208@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: another job Status: R Content-Length: 4002 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Sat Mar 11 19:09:36 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:08:51 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.534, Jobs: Comp Ling Knowledge Engineer at Teknowledge | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-534. Sat Mar 11 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.534, Jobs: Comp Ling Knowledge Engineer at Teknowledge | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. Michigan U. | Jody Huellmantel, Wayne State U. | Karen Milligan, Wayne State U. | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova, E. Michigan U. | Naomi Ogasawara, E. Michigan U. | James Yuells, Wayne State U. | | Software development: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. | Sudheendra Adiga, Wayne State U. | Qian Liao, E. Michigan U. | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | The LINGUIST List is funded jointly by Eastern Michigan University, | Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. | | Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara | =========================================================================== | The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use | non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge | that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, | nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we | have no means of enforcing these standards. | | Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding | employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international | employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. | | This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment | standards of various countries. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:34:56 -0800 | From: "Adam Pease" | Subject: Comp Ling: Knowledge Engineer at Teknowledge, California USA | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:34:56 -0800 | From: "Adam Pease" | Subject: Comp Ling: Knowledge Engineer at Teknowledge, California USA | | Teknowledge | http://www.teknowledge.com | | Knowledge Engineer | This position is for a senior member of the research staff. The | successful candidate will have a PhD in Philosophy, Semantics, or | AI/Knowledge-Based Systems. Requires experience creating | formally-specified theories of significant size. Some familiarity with | implementation of formal theories in practical computational systems | required. Knowledge of natural language semantics, inference engine | development, and object-oriented design and programming is a plus. A | candidate with proven experience writing government research proposals | would be eligible for a management position. Position is located in Palo | Alto, CA. | | Refer to | http://projects.teknowledge.com/HPKB | for a project similar to what will be performed under this current position. | | contact - Adam Pease - apease@teknowledge.com | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-534 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 13 12:54:53 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00425; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:54:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA07340; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:54:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:54:47 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003131754.MAA07340@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Intellectual Debates in Cognitive Science Status: R Content-Length: 1172 | From dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu Mon Mar 13 11:44:09 2000 | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:42:54 -0500 (EST) | From: Dawn C Phillips | To: cogsci-all@cse.Buffalo.EDU | cc: Dawn C Phillips | Subject: CogSci Symposium 3/15 | | Center for Cognitive Science | Symposium | | Wednesday, March 15, 2000 | 2:00-3:30 p.m. | 280 Park Hall | North Campus | | Symposium Title: | "Major Intellectual Debates Now Ongoing in Cognitive Science Fields" | | Presenters: | | Stuart C. Shapiro for Computer Science, | Susan Udin for Neuroscience, | Robert Van Valin, Jr. for Linguistics | | Refreshments will be served | | All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students | are invited to attend | | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Mar 14 08:56:09 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16695; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA08185; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:07 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003141356.IAA08185@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California Status: R Content-Length: 4804 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Mon Mar 13 22:41:26 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:40:51 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.559, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist U of S. California | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-559. Mon Mar 13 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.559, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist U of S. California | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. Michigan U. | Jody Huellmantel, Wayne State U. | Karen Milligan, Wayne State U. | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova, E. Michigan U. | Naomi Ogasawara, E. Michigan U. | James Yuells, Wayne State U. | | Software development: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. | Sudheendra Adiga, Wayne State U. | Qian Liao, E. Michigan U. | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | The LINGUIST List is funded jointly by Eastern Michigan University, | Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. | | Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara | =========================================================================== | The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use | non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge | that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, | nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we | have no means of enforcing these standards. | | Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding | employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international | employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. | | This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment | standards of various countries. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:41:48 -0800 | From: Eduard Hovy | Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:41:48 -0800 | From: Eduard Hovy | Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California | | | We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in | | | SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING | | | to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute | for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in | Marina del Rey, CA. | | | The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue, | agent-based reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive multimedia | displays in a large-scale new project that has links to research at several USC | centers including the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the | Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). | | | The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or | Natural Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities | in the both areas. The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer | Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate | students in addition to performing the research. | | | Please contact both | | William Swartout Eduard Hovy | | USC/ICT USC/ISI | | 13274 Fiji Way 4676 Admiralty Way | | Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695 | | tel: 310-574-5705 tel: 310-448-8731 | | email: swartout@ict.usc.edu email: hovy@isi.edu | | - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Eduard Hovy | | email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute | | tel: 310-448-8731 4676 Admiralty Way | | fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 | | project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-559 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Mar 14 08:56:14 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16700; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.14]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA10679; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA16695; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA08185; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:07 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003141356.IAA08185@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California Status: R Content-Length: 4804 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Mon Mar 13 22:41:26 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:40:51 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.559, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist U of S. California | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-559. Mon Mar 13 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.559, Jobs: Comp Ling Research Scientist U of S. California | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. Michigan U. | Jody Huellmantel, Wayne State U. | Karen Milligan, Wayne State U. | | Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova, E. Michigan U. | Naomi Ogasawara, E. Michigan U. | James Yuells, Wayne State U. | | Software development: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. | Sudheendra Adiga, Wayne State U. | Qian Liao, E. Michigan U. | | Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ | | The LINGUIST List is funded jointly by Eastern Michigan University, | Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. | | Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara | =========================================================================== | The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use | non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge | that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, | nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we | have no means of enforcing these standards. | | Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding | employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international | employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. | | This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment | standards of various countries. | | =================================Directory================================= | | 1) | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:41:48 -0800 | From: Eduard Hovy | Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California | | -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- | | Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:41:48 -0800 | From: Eduard Hovy | Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at U of Southern California | | | We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in | | | SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING | | | to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute | for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in | Marina del Rey, CA. | | | The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue, | agent-based reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive multimedia | displays in a large-scale new project that has links to research at several USC | centers including the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the | Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). | | | The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or | Natural Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities | in the both areas. The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer | Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate | students in addition to performing the research. | | | Please contact both | | William Swartout Eduard Hovy | | USC/ICT USC/ISI | | 13274 Fiji Way 4676 Admiralty Way | | Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695 | | tel: 310-574-5705 tel: 310-448-8731 | | email: swartout@ict.usc.edu email: hovy@isi.edu | | - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Eduard Hovy | | email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute | | tel: 310-448-8731 4676 Admiralty Way | | fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 | | project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-559 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Mar 14 09:02:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16776; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:02:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA08211; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:02:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:02:44 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003141402.JAA08211@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: term projects Status: R Content-Length: 894 I would like to make an appointment with each of you to discuss your term-project proposal. Please send me email with a few suggested time slots and we'll see what we can work out. FYI, here are times I am available over the course of the next week: Tue (today) 9-11 am, 3-5 pm Thu 9-noon, 2-5pm Fri 11-noon, 1-3pm Mon (3/20) 11-noon, 1-5pm Tue (3/21) 11-noon, 1:30-4pm -Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Rapaport Associate Professor of Computer Science Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Member, Center for Cognitive Science 226 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 Box 602000 | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu SUNY Buffalo | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Wed Mar 15 00:28:05 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08381 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:28:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from listserv.linguistlist.org (listserv.linguistlist.org [164.76.102.107]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA28559 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:28:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 23883 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2000 05:27:18 -0000 Received: from listserv.linguistlist.org (HELO listserv) (164.76.102.107) by listserv.linguistlist.org with SMTP; 15 Mar 2000 05:27:18 -0000 Received: from LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG by LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 132458 for LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:27:15 -0500 Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org Received: (qmail 23730 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2000 05:27:15 -0000 Received: from linguistlist.org (164.76.102.59) by listserv.linguistlist.org with SMTP; 15 Mar 2000 05:27:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 16098 invoked by uid 101); 15 Mar 2000 05:27:36 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG Message-ID: <20000315052736.16539.qmail@linguistlist.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:27:36 -0000 Reply-To: linguist@linguistlist.org Sender: The LINGUIST Discussion List From: The LINGUIST Network Subject: 11.571, Jobs: Comp Ling at Delphes Technologies International To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Status: R Content-Length: 3370 LINGUIST List: Vol-11-571. Wed Mar 15 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 11.571, Jobs: Comp Ling at Delphes Technologies International Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. Scott Fults, E. Michigan U. Jody Huellmantel, Wayne State U. Karen Milligan, Wayne State U. Assistant Editors: Lydia Grebenyova, E. Michigan U. Naomi Ogasawara, E. Michigan U. James Yuells, Wayne State U. Software development: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. Sudheendra Adiga, Wayne State U. Qian Liao, E. Michigan U. Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded jointly by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: James Yuells =========================================================================== The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to use non-discriminatory standards in hiring policy. In particular we urge that employers do not discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page http://linguistlist.org/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: 14 Mar 2000 14:35:43 -0000 From: Annie Demers Subject: Comp Ling at Delphes Technologies International, Quebec Canada -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: 14 Mar 2000 14:35:43 -0000 From: Annie Demers Subject: Comp Ling at Delphes Technologies International, Quebec Canada Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguistic Other Desired Areas: Information retrieval University or Organization: Delphes Technologies International Department: Linguistic State or Province: Quebec Country: Canada Final Date of Application: 03-30-00 Contact: Annie Demers ademers@delphesintl.com Address for Applications: 408 McGill Montreal Quebec H2Y 2G1 Canada Will be in charge of a team developping parsers and part of speech taggers that will be integrated to a computational system of text analysis in a cross-lingua environment. Academic requirement (minimum): M.Sc. in Computational Linguistic. Experience in the field of search and extraction of information. Experience in algorythms pertaining to part of speech tagging and syntaxic analysis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-11-571 From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 15 14:14:52 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA18899 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13997; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA06887; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:51 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Moved my files finally Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 98 For HW7, in the /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS directory under TonyGram7.rtn and TonyLex7.lex From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Mar 16 08:52:27 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02797; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:52:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA09816; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:52:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:52:24 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003161352.IAA09816@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Grad Conference: March 22 Status: R Content-Length: 949 | From pvg@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 15 16:23:29 2000 | Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:19:17 -0500 | From: Paul Gestwicki | To: cse-faculty-meeting@cse.Buffalo.EDU | CC: csegsa@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: Grad Conference: March 22 | | | | | Greetings | | I would like to remind all the faculty that Wednesday, March 22nd, is | the annual CSEGSA Graduate Conference. Remember that all faculty are | asked to present on their current research, and all lectures and | recitations are supposed to be cancelled for the day. Please remind | your 3rd-and-higher year students that they should present a poster | during the conference, and of course undergraduates are encouraged to | come see what's happening at the research level. | | Please direct any questions to csegsa@cse.buffalo.edu, and the | conference committee will provide answers. | | Thanks for your cooperation, | | Paul Gestwicki | CSEGSA President | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Mar 16 09:01:20 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02865; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:01:19 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09938; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:01:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:01:15 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003161401.JAA09938@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cse-grads@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Volunteer and Travel Programs Status: R Content-Length: 1515 | From rasmusse@athos.rutgers.edu Wed Mar 15 17:27:20 2000 | Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:11:09 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | To: rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Volunteer and Travel Programs | | | Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Volunteer and Travel Programs | | Call For Student Volunteers | ANLP-NAACL conference in Seattle April 29 - May 4 | | We are looking for student volunteers to help with registration and other | tasks. Volunteers will have their conference registration fee waived and | be expected to work about 8-10 hours (one day) during the conference. | | If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Greg Silber | (silber@mail.eecis.udel.edu). There are a limited number of positions, so | please respond early. If you are giving a paper or attending a workshop at | a particular time, please include that information so we can work out | scheduling. | | | Travel and Accomodation Grants | | There will be a limited number of grants for travel and accomodation | expenses for students available. IBM is providing six $500 grants and | others are pending. Criteria will include whether the student is | presenting a paper, had submitted a paper, is volunteering to assist at | ACL, or has particular financial needs. Please send mail to Greg Silber | (silber@mail.eecis.udel.edu) outlining how you meet the above criteria | and/or have particular financial needs, such as not having funding from | your university. | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Mar 16 09:03:45 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02887; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.14]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22758; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02883; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09964; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:27 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003161403.JAA09964@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, cogsci-outside-info@cse.Buffalo.EDU, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers Status: R Content-Length: 12037 | From rasmusse@athos.rutgers.edu Wed Mar 15 18:02:46 2000 | Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:43:02 EST | From: Priscilla Rasmussen | To: rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu | Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers | | | | ACL 2000 Call For Papers | | 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for | Computational Linguistics | 3--6 October, 2000 | Hong Kong | | The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of | papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL | conference, the technical sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. | There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic | Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational | linguistics community. | | For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, | and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, | including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, | syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; | interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, | mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented | information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based | language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and | translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; | approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in | multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; | tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. | | Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at | specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows: | | T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text | T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue | T3: Text Summarization | T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language | Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages | | Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each | can be obtained from the ACL-2000 conference website | (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). | | Requirements | | Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting | a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate | Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on | requirements for the Student Workshop submissions. Papers | should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work | rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state | of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete | evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for | presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been | presented at any other meeting with publicly available published | proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences | must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) | | Reviewing | | The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and | the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted | to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference | Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have | the assistance of a team of reviewers. The Area Chairs are: | | Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of | Science and Technology, Korea | Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Belgium | Dan Jurafsky University of Colorado, USA | Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, | Japan | Johanna Moore University of Edinburgh, UK | Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, PA | Ellen Riloff University of Utah, USA | Giorgio Satta Universita` di Padova, Italy | | Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the | chairs of the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers. | Final decisions on the technical program (both General Sessions and | Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Conference Program Committee. | Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. | | Submission Procedure | | The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are | submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. | Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). | Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without | review. | | We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style | files tailored for this year's conference. These are available from the | ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style | files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count | and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. | A description of the format is also available in case you are | unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access | this webpage, please send email to acl2k@cis.udel.edu. | | The reviewing of papers submitted to the General Session or the Thematic | Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include | the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that | reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") | should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously | showed (Smith, 1991) ...". | | You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out | an electronic form that is accessible from the conference webpage | (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). The form requires | a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a | preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will | return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. | Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the | program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the | electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k@cis.udel.edu with | all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and | affiliations. | | As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page | will be required. The title page should include the following information: | | Title: | Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) | Topic Area: one or two general topic areas | Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area | Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) | Word Count, excluding title page and references: | Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): | Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) | | T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds | to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session. | | The identification page should contain all of the information in the title | page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and | email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as follows: | | Title: | Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) | Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses | Topic Area: one or two general topic areas | Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area | Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) | Word Count, excluding title page and references: | Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): | Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) | | | Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions | (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be rejected without review. | The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other | mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page | if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following | address: | | ACL-2000 Submission | c/o K. Vijay-Shanker | 103 Smith Hall | Department of Computer and Information Sciences | University of Delaware | Newark, DE 19716 | USA | | Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In | addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of | papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic | version of the paper (without the identification page) to | acl-routing@cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject | line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and | plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The | electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000. | Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist | the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this | supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy | submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, | please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k@cis.udel.edu. | | Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon | after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) | around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of | the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance | notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright | release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. | | The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic | sessions. | | Paper registration deadline: March 31, 2000 | Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000 | Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 | ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000 | | | Submission Questions | | Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should | contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the | submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. | All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions | of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k@cis.udel.edu; this forwards to | both PC co-chairs. | | | | Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. 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Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003201412.JAA13743@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: CL jobs Status: R Content-Length: 7214 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Sat Mar 18 15:20:12 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:19:19 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.613, Jobs: Computational Linguistics | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-613. Sat Mar 18 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.613, Jobs: Computational Linguistics | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. 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You can also visit us on the Web at | www.conversa.com | | We are an equal opportunity employer. | | KEYWORDS: Phonetician, phonologist, linguist, nlp, natural language | processing, speech recognition, tts, text to speech, bilingual, | multilingual, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, acoustic phonetics, | phonology. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-613 | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 20 12:53:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07015; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:53:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA14165; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:53:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003201753.MAA14165@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Language Perception Status: R Content-Length: 5179 | From dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu Mon Mar 20 11:54:01 2000 | From: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | Date: 20 Mar 2000 16:53:22 -0000 | To: cogsci-all@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: Paul Luce, 3/22 and upcoming | Cc: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | | Center for Cognitive Science | State University of New York at Buffalo | | PAUL A. LUCE | (paul@deuro.fss.buffalo.edu) | Language Perception Laboratory | Department of Psychology | and | Center for Cognitive Science | University at Buffalo | | Wednesday, March 22, 2000 | 280 Park Hall | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. | North Campus | | "Probabilistic Phonotactics, Neighborhood Activation, and | Spoken Word Recognition: An Adaptive Resonance Perspective" | | Recent work investigating the role of probabilistic phonotactics in | spoken word recognition suggests the operation of two levels of | representation, each having distinctly different consequences for | processing. The lexical level is marked by competitive effects | associated with similarity neighborhood activation, whereas increased | probabilities of segments and sequences of segments facilitate | processing at the sublexical level. I will discuss a series of studies | that provide support for the hypothesis that the processing of spoken | stimuli is a function of both facilitative effects associated with | increased phonotactic probabilities and competitive effects associated | with the activation of similarity neighborhoods. I will also describe | recent extensions of this work aimed at evaluating two hypotheses | regarding the segmentation of words from fluent speech, one | phonotactic (the trough hypothesis) and one lexical (the lexical burst | hypothesis). Finally, I will describe our attempts to account for | effects of neighborhood activation and probabilistic phonotactics from | the perspective of Grossberg's adaptive resonance theory (Grossberg, | Boardman, and Cohen, 1997). | | Refreshments will be served | | All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students | are invited to attend | | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html | | *********************************************** | CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE | State University of New York at Buffalo | | Colloquium Schedule | | SPRING 2000 | | Regular colloquia are Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 280 Park Hall, North | (Amherst) Campus, and are open to the public. | | | MONTH | DATE | SPEAKER/TITLE | March | 22 PAUL LUCE (luce@acsu.buffalo.edu) | Department of Psychology | University at Buffalo | "Probabilistic Phonotactics, Neighborhood Activation, and | Spoken Word Recognition: An Adaptive Resonance Perspective" | | 23 Buffalo Logic Colloquium, Seventh Meeting | John Corcoran et al., Philosophy, UB | Buffalo Logic Dictionary Project--independence | 4:00-5:30 p.m., 141 Park Hall | | 29 MARK TURNER (markt@umd5.umd.edu) | Department of English, University of Maryland | Co-sponsored by Department of English, UB | "title " | | 30 Buffalo Logic Colloquium, Eighth Meeting | George Boger, Philosophy, Canisius College | Aristotle's method of invalidation | 4:00-5:30 p.m., 141 Park Hall | April | 4 STEPHEN E. PALMER | Department of Psychology | University of California, Berkeley | DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER-MAIN PUBLIC TALK 3:30-5:00, Knox 20 | (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) | "Reversing the Rainbow: Reflections on Color and Consciousness" | | 5 STEPHEN E. PALMER | (palmer@cogsci.berkeley.edu) | "title" | | 12 NICHOLAS CERCONE | (ncercone@math.uwaterloo.ca) | Department of Computer Science | University of Waterloo | "title" | | 19 PETER W. JUSCZYK (jusczyk@jhu.edu) | Department of Psychology | Johns Hopkins University | "title" | | 26 DAVID EDDINS (deddins@acsu.buffalo.edu) | Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences | University at Buffalo | "title " | | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/cogsci/activities/clqs00/ccs_clqs00.html | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 20 12:55:46 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA07072; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:55:45 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA14190; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:55:43 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003201755.MAA14190@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Schedule for the Grad Conference - Wednesday, March 22 Status: R Content-Length: 1429 | From npsmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 20 04:16:51 2000 | Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 04:16:49 -0500 (EST) | From: Nathan P Smith | To: Nathan P Smith | Subject: Schedule for the Grad Conference - Wednesday, March 22 | | | This message is going out to all faculty members who will be presenting | at the Grad Conference on Wednesday. Each presentation should be around | 10 minutes long plus 5 minutes for questions and comments, and we'll have | to be somewhat strict about that in order to make sure things run | smoothly. We didn't have a problem with that last year. I did my best to | place people together in some rational fashion, but the availability | information you all sent me took precedence. Below is the schedule, so | please let me know if I've somehow made a mistake with your time. Thanks | for your help. | | Morning Session I | 9:00am - 10:15am presentations by: | - S. Srihari | - Jayaraman | - Rapaport | - Rapaport (SNePS) | | 10:15am - 11:00am Poster Session with Coffee Break | | Morning Session II (11:00am - 12:30pm) | 11:00am - 12:30pm presentations by: | - He | - Garg | - Upadhyaya | - Zhang | - Acharya | | 12:30pm - 2:00pm Poster Session with Lunch Break | | Afternoon Session | 2:00pm - 3:15pm presentations by: | - Walters | - Scott | - Selman | - Cai | | 3:15pm - 4:00pm Final Poster Session | | -np | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 20 13:53:11 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA08641; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:53:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA14290; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:53:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:53:09 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003201853.NAA14290@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: grad conf Status: R Content-Length: 631 | From npsmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 20 13:17:42 2000 | Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:17:41 -0500 (EST) | From: Nathan P Smith | To: "William J. Rapaport" | Subject: Re: Schedule for the Grad Conference - Wednesday, March 22 | | | > One thing your schedule neglected to say: Where is the conference? | | It will be in 145 Student Union, and in my defence, that info was | included in my mailing about presentation equipment. I made the mistake | last year of not telling people where the room was, so this year I made | sure to include it in my mailings (: | | -np | | From bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Mar 21 14:34:05 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16838 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:34:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.120]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA21511 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:34:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17998 invoked by uid 19884); 21 Mar 2000 19:34:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:34:03 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Wisenburn To: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: CL homework question In-Reply-To: <200003201753.MAA14165@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 1168 Hello, Bill, I have been working on translating Allen's Grammar 4.13 (p. 101) into code. I will have a subjreg (subject register), objreg (object register) and vtyper (verb type register). The verb type register will be either toinf (To-infinitive) or objtoinf (object-to-infinitive). I'll set vtyper in the VP subroutine, so it is not shown here. My basic questions are: Can I set the subjreg to the result of the NP subroutine, as in line 2? On line 6, I have attempted to perform a jump if the vtyper (verb type register) is set to 'toinf. Is my syntax correct? On line 9, I have attempted to (perform a jump and to set the objreg to the already existing subjreg) if the vtyper is set to 'objtoinf. Is my syntax correct? (s(jump s1 t)) ;;;1 (s1(push NP t (setr subjreg *)(to s2)));;;2 (s2(push VP t (to s3));;;3 (s3(push NP t (to s4));;;4 (jump s4 t);;;5 (jump s6 t(and (eq (getr vtyper) 'toinf))));;;6 (s4(push NP t (to s5));;;7 (jump s5 t);;;8 (jump s6 t)(setr objreg subjreg)(and (eq (getr vtyper) 'objtoinf)));;;9 (s5(push PP t (to s5));;;10 (pop 'success t));;;11 (s6(pop 'success t));;;12 Thank you for your help! Bruce From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Mar 21 14:47:14 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17260 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:47:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA15741; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:47:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:47:13 -0500 (EST) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200003211947.OAA15741@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: CL homework question Status: R Content-Length: 2629 | From bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Mar 21 14:34:05 2000 | Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 14:34:03 -0500 (EST) | From: Bruce Wisenburn | To: "William J. Rapaport" | Subject: CL homework question | | | Hello, Bill, | | I have been working on translating Allen's Grammar 4.13 (p. 101) into | code. I will have a subjreg (subject register), objreg (object register) | and vtyper (verb type register). Why not just call them "subj", "obj", and "vtype" as in the sample grammars we've looked at? But the name is not important. | The verb type register will be either | toinf (To-infinitive) or objtoinf (object-to-infinitive). I'll set vtyper | in the VP subroutine, so it is not shown here. | | My basic questions are: | | Can I set the subjreg to the result of the NP subroutine, as in line 2? Sure; what this will contain is whatever is popped from state NP. | On line 6, I have attempted to perform a jump if the vtyper (verb type | register) is set to 'toinf. Is my syntax correct? | On line 9, I have attempted to (perform a jump and to set the objreg to | the already existing subjreg) if the vtyper is set to 'objtoinf. Is my | syntax correct? Nope: You don't want the "t" since you're giving it a specific test, not the default "true" test. And you have an "and" with only one conjunct. Here's what I think you want: (jump s6 (eq (getr vtyper) 'toinf)) | | (s(jump s1 t)) ;;;1 | (s1(push NP t (setr subjreg *)(to s2)));;;2 | (s2(push VP t (to s3));;;3 | (s3(push NP t (to s4));;;4 | (jump s4 t);;;5 | (jump s6 t(and (eq (getr vtyper) 'toinf))));;;6 | (s4(push NP t (to s5));;;7 | (jump s5 t);;;8 | (jump s6 t)(setr objreg subjreg)(and (eq (getr vtyper) 'objtoinf)));;;9 Line 9 is ungrammatical. I'm not sure what you want to do here, but as it stands, it says this: unconditionally jump to s6. The stuff beginning with "(setr objreg..." will be ignored. If you only want to jump to s6 under certain circumstances, describe those circumstances in place of the "t" test. If you want to perform an action before jumping, put that after the test. Here's the syntax again: (jump *) * := current word; IF THEN BEGIN do *; goto next state END | (s5(push PP t (to s5));;;10 | (pop 'success t));;;11 | (s6(pop 'success t));;;12 | | Thank you for your help! | Bruce | -Bill From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Mar 27 17:59:40 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20317 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:59:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06045; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:59:40 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA21159; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:59:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:59:40 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre Reply-To: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: ATN grammar Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 1606 I am encountering a number of problems in building the ATN which seem mostly programming related (i.e. not dealing with underlying ATN's in general, but this particular implementation). I have put my current version into the /projects/rapaport/675/PROJECTS/TonyHW8/ directory as g.atn and modified version of an existing lexicon as lexicon.atn I have commented out the problems to force it to parse on the sentence "an ant is an animal" The first problem appears in my function for checking aux agreement. I pass the verb to be checked in v and the previously seen verbs in aux-list. In some versions I was getting a "symbol v undefined" error whenever I tried to use is in the function (ditto the aux-list variable). Right now it runs (AuxAgree "be" nil) for my test sentence. Printing out the variables I confirmed v="be", (stringp v)=t, and (getf TENSE "be")=PRES but for some reason (getf TENSE v) returns NIL. Also interesting with this problem is when I tried to use an additional check of (string= v "be") I get a "symbol = undefined" error, which seems silly since there's no reason for it to break up the symbol "string=" and find fault with the =. This problem occurs with trying to use string= anywhere in the file. Is this a problem with the parser that reads the file itself? Also as a warning, I forgot to set *parse-trees* to t at the start, and all my poped structures got flattened. I will likely work out most of the bugs by Wed. but I have put in a lot of hours this weekend at it. More time to finish it after a chance to ask questions in class might be a good idea. -Tony From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Mar 28 16:29:55 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07242 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:29:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA17006; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:29:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA15382; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:29:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: some parses Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 1648 I finally managed to get it to parse sentences like "an ant is an animal" and even "ants are animals" while it blocks on *"an ant are an animal" and *"ants is animals" Since I can't figgure out how to get atn functions like "overlap" to work in a regular lisp body function, and because the atn-description parser seems to seperate characters like '=' even though they are part of a symbol in a lisp body (preventing the use of string=) I just used the whole cond block for each instance of AuxAgree. I am still having problems (many because my lexicon is generally wrong except for the few words I've used in examples): In one test of "Lucy saw a book" I was getting "SING" back as the num feature of "saw" even though I only used {1p 2p 3p 1s 2s 3s} for the num feature. The string "SING" doesn't appear anywhere in either my atn or lexicon. This may have something to do with the fact that "saw" has a noun and verb meaning. I think part of the probelm also stems from the fact that the grammar checks NP-V agreement before even pushing to VERBS, and I'm not sure the atn-description parser was built with that timing in mind. I decided to stop digging through for errors and work on just finishing some examples when I got this during a run: (POP (BUILDQ (S (SUBJ +) (MOOD +) (AUXS +) (MAIN-V +) (NUM +) (OBJ +)) SUBJ MOOD AUXS MAIN-V NUM OBJ) T) Blocked at arc: (POP (BUILDQ (S (SUBJ +) (MOOD +) (AUXS +) (MAIN-V +) (NUM +) (OBJ +)) SUBJ MOOD AUXS MAIN-V NUM OBJ) T) Any idea how a POP arc with a test of t could possibly block? -Tony From wh6@acsu.buffalo.edu Tue Mar 28 17:47:29 2000 Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA08013 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:47:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu (qmailr@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.120]) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA29827 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:47:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 24713 invoked by uid 44889); 28 Mar 2000 22:47:27 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:47:27 -0500 (EST) From: Weihan Huang To: Anthony S Petre cc: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Re: ATN grammar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 118 Hi, I have done hw8, and I put my files in the wh6 directory. But I don't implement the Verbs grammar. Vincent. From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sun Apr 2 20:53:35 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06831 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:53:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13802; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA19734; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:53:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:53:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang Subject: Looked up whom Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 234 And I was incorrect, "whom" is the proper form wherever it appears as an object (I had thought it was only a prepositional object). It is also the dative case, as in "You gave whom the book?" Information courtesy of infoplease.com From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Apr 3 09:43:06 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15096; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:43:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA25426; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:43:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 09:43:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004031343.JAA25426@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: book ref Status: R Content-Length: 617 | From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sun Apr 2 20:37:33 2000 | Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:37:32 -0400 (EDT) | From: Anthony S Petre | To: "William J. Rapaport" | Subject: Looking for a reference | | | Do you have that reference to the Clark & Marshal paper outlining | situations requireing convoluted belief chains (he believes that she | believes that he believes...etc)? | Clark, Herbert H., & Marshall, C.R. (1981), Definite reference and mutual knowledge, in Joshi, Webber & Sag (eds.), Elements of Discourse Understanding, Cambridge Univ. Press Lockwood P301.E4 From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Apr 5 16:58:37 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03381; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:58:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27790; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:58:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004052058.QAA27790@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: syntax, semantics, pragmatics Status: R Content-Length: 64 See: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/675w/synsemprag.html From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Apr 7 09:16:01 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23984; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA28835; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:15:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004071315.JAA28835@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Natural Language Access to Relevant Information on the Internet Status: R Content-Length: 3799 | From dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu Thu Apr 6 16:31:41 2000 | From: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | Date: 6 Apr 2000 20:30:49 -0000 | To: cogsci-all@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: Nicholas Cercone, CS, U. of Waterloo, 4/12/00 | Cc: dcp@acsu.buffalo.edu | | Center for Cognitive Science | | NICK J. CERCONE | Computer Science Department | University of Waterloo | ncercone@math.uwaterloo.ca | http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~ncercone/ | | Wednesday, April 12, 2000 | 280 Park Hall | 2:00-3:30 p.m. | North Campus | | "Natural Language Access to Relevant Information on the Internet" | | Information available on the World Wide Web (WWW) has grown enormously, | thus rendering difficult the retrieval of relevant information. To be | an unqualified success on the internet, data mining, electronic | commerce, etc. will depend, in part, on the successful retrieval of | relevant information from the Internet. Several tools have been | developed for browsing and searching these collections of highly | unstructured and heterogeneous data. These tools organize web pages | into listings and allow users to search these listings to find required | information. Each of these tools has its own listing or catalogue for | searching. Based on how the new Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are | added to the catalogue, they can be classified as a directory or as a | spider or robot. We generally refer to both types as search engines. We | propose to use natural language (English) to access information on the | WWW and illustrate this process with two interesting prototype systems. | NLAISE is our initial prototype implementation of natural language | access to internet search engines. EMATISE is our second prototype | implementation, English Meta Access to Internet Search Engines. Both | systems employ Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) | implementations for reasons explained in the talk. Initial experiments | with these prototypes will be presented and discussed. | | Refreshments will be served | | All interested faculty, graduate and undergraduate students | are invited to attend | | http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu | | Calendar of Events | Center for Cognitive Science | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | April 6, 2000 University at Buffalo Spring 2000 | ____________________________________________________________________ | Regular colloquia are Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 p.m., 280 Park Hall, North | (Amherst) Campus, and are open to the public. | | | MONTH DATE SPEAKER/TITLE | | April | | 12 NICHOLAS CERCONE | (ncercone@math.uwaterloo.ca) | Department of Computer Science | University of Waterloo | "Natural Language Access to Relevant Information | on the Internet" | | 19 PETER W. JUSCZYK (jusczyk@jhu.edu) | Department of Psychology | Johns Hopkins University | "Infants' use of multiple cues to segment | words from fluent speech" | | 26 DAVID EDDINS (deddins@acsu.buffalo.edu) | Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences | University at Buffalo | "A linear systems approach to the study of | sensory processing"title " | | http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Fri Apr 7 16:32:00 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05347; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:31:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA29335; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:31:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:31:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004072031.QAA29335@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: procedural semantics Status: R Content-Length: 1903 SOME REFERENCES ON THE PROCEDURAL-DECLARATIVE CONTROVERSY \item Winograd, Terry (1975), ``Frame Representations and the Declarative/Procedural Controversy,'' in Daniel~G.\ Bobrow \& Alan~M.\ Collins (eds.), {\it Representation and Understanding: Studies in Cognitive Science\/} (New York: Academic Press):~185--210; reprinted in Ronald~J.\ Brachman \& Hector~J.\ Levesque (eds.), {\it Readings in Knowledge Representation\/} (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1985):~358--370. Agre, P. E. "Control Structures," in _The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence_, ed. by S. C. Shapiro. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 1992. 293-301. Dreyfus, Hubert L. and Dreyfus, Stuart E. _Mind Over Machine_. New York: Free Press. 1986. Gardner, Howard (1985), _The Mind's New Science_ (New York: Basic). Johnson-Laird, Phillip (1977) "Procedural Semantics," _Cognition_ 5(3), 189-214. Fodor, J. A. (1978), "Tom Swift and His Procedural Grandmother," _Cognition_ 6(3), 229-247. Johnson-Laird, P. (1978), "What's Wrong With Grandma's Guide to Procedural Semantics," _Cognition_ 6(3), 249-261. Fodor, J. A. (1979), "In Reply to Philip Johnson-Laird," _Cognition_ 7(1), 93-95. Johnson-Laird, Philip (1982), "Propositional Representations, Procedural Semantics, and Mental Models," in J. Mehler et. al. _Perspectives on Mental Representation_ (Lawrence Erlbaum): 111-131. Kramer, Bryan and Mylopoulos, John. "Knowledge Representation," in _The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence_, ed. by S. C. Shapiro. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 1992. 743-759. Russell, Stuart J. and Norvig, Peter. _Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach_. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1995. Ryle, Gilbert (1971), "Knowing How and Knowing That," in _Collected Papers of Gilbert Ryle_, vol. I. (New York: Barnes nd Noble): 212-225. Stillings, Neil et. al. (1995), _Cognitive Science_ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). From petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sun Apr 16 23:12:14 2000 Received: from hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (root@hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01801 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (petre@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hadar.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA21215; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from petre@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA29809; Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:12:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:12:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Anthony S Petre To: CSE 675 , "William J. Rapaport" , Wei-Han Huang cc: petre@buffalo.edu Subject: Headlines Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R Content-Length: 2552 Found these on a joke site. Language itself is already a form of image compression, giving rise to many of its subtleties and ambiguities. Headlines are even more compressed, thus leading to increased ambiguity (and in this case, humor). Actual Newspaper Headlines ---------------------------------------------------------- Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents Farmer Bill Dies in House Iraqi Head Seeks Arms Is There a Ring of Debris around Uranus? Stud Tires Out Prostitutes Appeal to Pope Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over Soviet Virgin Lands Short of Goal Again British Left Waffles on Falkland Islands Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms Eye Drops off Shelf Teacher Strikes Idle Kids Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66 Enraged Cow Injures Farmer with Ax Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told Miners Refuse to Work after Death Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant Stolen Painting Found by Tree Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies Two Sisters Reunited after 18 Years in Checkout Counter Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One Drunken Drivers Paid $1000 in `84 War Dims Hope for Peace If Strike isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last a While Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures Enfields Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge Deer Kill 17,000 Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply Ban On Soliciting Dead in Trotwood Lansing Residents Can Drop Off Trees Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half New Vaccine May Contain Rabies Man Minus Ear Waives Hearing Deaf College Opens Doors to Hearing Air Head Fired Steals Clock, Faces Time Prosecutor Releases Probe into Undersheriff Old School Pillars are Replaced by Alumni Bank Drive-in Window Blocked by Board Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors Some Pieces of Rock Hudson Sold at Auction Sex Education Delayed, Teachers Request Training Include your Children when Baking Cookies From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Apr 17 09:03:56 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06176; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:03:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05018; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:03:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004171303.JAA05018@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: May Monthlies Weekend... Status: R Content-Length: 1316 If the following will be a problem, please let me know immediately. | From kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU Sun Apr 16 16:59:53 2000 | Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:59:45 -0400 (EDT) | From: Ken Smith | To: cse-faculty-meeting@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: May Monthlies Weekend... | Cc: cse-consult@cse.Buffalo.EDU | | | [ Quick Summary : Will me taking all the machines down for their normal | Monthlies on May 6th cause any problems for your project due dates? ] | | Monday May 1st is the last day of the semester. I'm told we're not | supposed to schedule project due dates past the last day of the semester | but I know due dates tend to slip, etc. The following weekend is when | I would "normally" do the Monthlies but I can put it off until the | following weekend if anyone thinks having the machines down the weekend | of May 6th would be a problem. As long as there are no projects due | in that timeframe it might be good for the students to have the machines | down that weekend - fewer distractions from studying for exams... :-) | | Let me know if for any reason having the machines go down 5/6 about 11pm | and come back up 5/7 about 8am would be a problem for your classes. The | alternative is them going down 5/13 about 11pm and coming back up 5/14 | about 8am. | | ken | From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Apr 17 09:07:34 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06256; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:07:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05056; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:07:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004171307.JAA05056@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: Headlines Cc: petre@buffalo.edu Status: R Content-Length: 112 There are at least 2 famous collections (with attributions) of odd headlines. I'll look up the titles for you. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Mon Apr 17 11:01:42 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08824; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:01:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05133; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:01:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:01:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004171501.LAA05133@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: CogSci: Segmenting Words from Speech (Jusczyk) Status: R Content-Length: 2213 Center for Cognitive Science University at Buffalo PETER W. JUSCZYK Department of Psychology Johns Hopkins University Jusczyk@jhu.edu www.psy.jhu.edu/~jusczyk Wesdnesday, April 19, 2000 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. 280 Park Hall North Campus "Infants' Use of Multiple Cues to Segment Words from Fluent Speech" Several years ago, Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) reported that infants first display some abilities to segment words from fluent speech at around 7 months of age. Many subsequent studies have focused on the nature of the information that infants rely on to find words in fluent speech. The kinds of cues investigated include prosodic, phonotactic, allophonic, and statistical cues to word boundaries. English-learners appear to develop sensitivity to some of these types of cues earlier than they do for others. I will review some of these findings, along with some more recent attempts to investigate the relative weighting that infants give to the different types of cues. Although much remains to be learned about how infants come to integrate these different types of cues, it is clear that word segmentation abilities evolve considerably in the second half of the first year. Free and open to the public Refreshments will be available http://web/cogsci/activities http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ________{ Dawn C. Phillips ... Center for Cognitive Science }________ \ { Administrative Assistant.. University at Buffalo } / \ { 652 Baldy Hall ..... Buffalo NY 14260-1010 } / \ { (716) 645-3794 x752 fax (716) 645-3825 } / / {-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=} \ /___________) (__________\ From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Tue Apr 18 09:00:43 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA11800; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA06012; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:00:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:00:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004181300.JAA06012@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: headline books Status: R Content-Length: 808 The headlines that Tony sent around are funny, but, without attribution, their provenance is suspect. There are, however, at least 3 collections of such headlines, complete with citations to the original sources: WARNING: DO NOT READ ANY OF THESE BOOKS WHILE EATING; DANGER OF CHOKING! Cooper, Gloria (compiler) (1980), _Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim and Other Flubs from the Nation's Press, Edited by the Columbia Journalism Review_ (New York: Doubleday); ISBN 0-385-15828-9. Cooper, Gloria (ed.) (1987), _Red Tape Holds up New Bridge and More Flubs from the Nation's Press, Collected by the Columbia Journalism Review_ (New York: Putnam); ISBN 0-399-51406-6. Leno, Jay (compiler) (1989), _Headlines: Real but Ridiculous Samplings from America's Newspapers_ (New York: Warner); ISBN 0-446-39136-0. From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Apr 26 09:23:58 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08148; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:23:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA17907; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:23:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:23:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004261323.JAA17907@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: term paper suggestions Status: R Content-Length: 204 For some suggestions on how to write/type your term paper, see: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html#writing http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/typing.info.pdf especially the latter!! From rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Apr 26 15:27:20 2000 Received: from adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.34.3]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15375; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:27:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA18433; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:27:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:27:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "William J. Rapaport" Message-Id: <200004261927.PAA18433@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: local comp ling job Status: R Content-Length: 4363 | From owner-linguist@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG Wed Apr 26 14:39:49 2000 | Delivered-To: LINGUIST@listserv.linguistlist.org | Approved-By: linguist@LINGUISTLIST.ORG | Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:35:58 -0000 | From: The LINGUIST Network | Subject: 11.958, Jobs: Comp Grammarian/Lexicographer at Cymfony Inc. | To: LINGUIST@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG | | LINGUIST List: Vol-11-958. Wed Apr 26 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875. | | Subject: 11.958, Jobs: Comp Grammarian/Lexicographer at Cymfony Inc. | | Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar, Wayne State U. | Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. | Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona | | Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona | | Associate Editors: Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. | Scott Fults, E. 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Rapaport" Message-Id: <200005011903.PAA21330@adara.cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: bw4@acsu.buffalo.edu, petre@cse.Buffalo.EDU, rapaport@cse.Buffalo.EDU, wh6@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: intension vs. intention Status: R Content-Length: 285 We discussed the difference between "intension" and "intention". I've finally got my webpage on that finished (well, almost; I'm missing one reference to Quine, which I'll get tonight), so I thought you might like the URL: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/675w/intensional.html