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. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & | RESPONSIBILITES · 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 (travel requirements, physical requirements, etc) | · 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: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:09:29 -0800 | From: "Laila Lalami" | Subject: Comp Ling: at Oingo, Inc., Los Angeles, Ca, USA | | Oingo Inc. is a fast-growing, pre-IPO start up company with offices in | Century City. 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.