CSE 663 Newsgroup Archive Spring 2002 ========================================================================= From: William J Rapaport Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: WELCOME! Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:04:42 -0500 Organization: SUNY Buffalo Computer Science & Engineering Welcome to the CSE 663 Newsgroup, Spring 2002. This newsgroup will be archived at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/news.txt Please feel free to post news, questions, responses, etc., that you fell may be of interest to all of us. I will do the same. >From time to time, some of you may send me email whose topic or my reply to which I feel would be of general interest. In such cases, I will feel free to post the email and my reply ANONYMOUSLY. If you do not want me to do this, please say so in your email. -Bill Rapaport ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Rapaport Associate Professor of Computer Science & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Member, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (SNeRG) 201 Bell Hall (office: 214 Bell) | work: 716-645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: 716-645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | home: 716-636-8625 Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ homepage: /~rapaport/ SNeRG: /sneps/ Buffalo Restaurant Guide: /restaurant.guide/ Center for Cognitive Science: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/ From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: CCS Colloq: D. Pierce, Natural-Language Processing Date: 22 Jan 2002 17:46:17 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE University at Buffalo, State University of New York Wednesday, January 23, 2002 280 Park Hall North Campus 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm David Pierce, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science and Engineering University at Buffalo Machine Learning Strategies for Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing Corpus-based natural language processing refers to the use of techniques from machine learning for training systems to understand natural language. These techniques generally require annotated training data as input. For example, building a parser requires pre-parsed sentences as input. This talk will consider strategies at a "meta-learning" level for using training data more efficiently and effectively. One such strategy, called active learning, tries to select training instances based on their predicted utility. Additionally, I will describe experiments demonstrating the effectiveness of strategies such as active learning for a simple natural language learning task, namely base noun phrase identification. Everyone is welcome to attend! Refreshments will be available. For more information please contact the Cognitive Science office at 645-3794 or check http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/html/2002spring.htm Heike Jones Administrative Assistant University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 P: (716) 645-3794 F: (716) 645-3825 Email: hhjones@buffalo.edu URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci ========================================================================= From - Wed Jan 23 09:02:12 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: UPDATED SYLLABUS Date: 22 Jan 2002 17:55:11 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 7 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: UPDATED SYLLABUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The syllabus has been updated to correct the erroneous dates. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/syl.html From - Wed Jan 30 09:15:01 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROF. RAPAPORT'S OFFICE HOURS Date: 29 Jan 2002 14:22:49 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 26 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.572:428 sunyab.cse.472:221 sunyab.cse.663:4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROF. RAPAPORT'S OFFICE HOURS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Spring 2002, Prof. Rapaport's office hours will be: Tue & Wed, 11-11:50, or by appointment, beginning the week of Feb. 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Rapaport Associate Professor of Computer Science & Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Member, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Director, SNePS Research Group (SNeRG) 201 Bell Hall (office: 214 Bell) | work: 716-645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: 716-645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | home: 716-636-8625 Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/ homepage: /~rapaport/ SNeRG: /sneps/ Buffalo Restaurant Guide: /restaurant.guide/ Center for Cognitive Science: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/ From - Thu Jan 31 11:22:21 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.grads,sunyab.cse.undergrads,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SNePS Research Group meetings, Spring 2002 Date: 30 Jan 2002 18:45:58 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 38 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.grads:2610 sunyab.cse.undergrads:2426 sunyab.cse.472:226 sunyab.cse.572:433 sunyab.cse.663:5 UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO - STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK The Department of Computer Science & Engineering SNeRG Meeting/Presentation Schedule -- Spring, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The SNePS Research Group meets in 224 Bell Hall, Mondays, from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm. Each meeting includes a general discussion of current issues. Some meetings feature a member of the group presenting his or her current work. Visitors are welcome (and should feel free to arrive late or leave early, if necessary.) The currently scheduled speakers are shown below. Updates to this list will be posted to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/SNePS/Schedules/spring02.html February 4 William J. Rapaport (1) Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (2) Medical Natural-Language Processing February 11 John F. Santore Identifying Indistinguishable Objects February 18 Frances L. Johnson Belief Revision in a Deductively Open Belief Space February 25 David Pierce Corpus-Based Natural-Language Processing March 4 Marc Broklawski Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition March 11 Jean-Pierre A. Koenig TO BE ANNOUNCED March 18 Jan Chomicki Termination of Datalog_nS programs April 1 John F. Santore Identifying Indistinguishable Objects April 8 David Pierce Corpus-Based Natural-Language Processing April 15 Tentatively reserved Practice of Non-Monotonic Reasoning Conference presentations April 22 Marc Broklawski Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition April 29 Stuart C. Shapiro TO BE ANNOUNCED For further information, contact either Prof. Shapiro (shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu) or Prof. Rapaport (rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu). From - Thu Jan 31 11:22:32 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Computational Linguistics Talk in LIN Date: 30 Jan 2002 20:48:02 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 49 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.572:434 sunyab.cse.472:227 sunyab.cse.663:6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following talk is from a Dept. of Linguistics job candidate in the field of computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. She is currently doing a postdoc in computational linguistics at Rochester with James Allen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS University at Buffalo Friday, February 1, 2002 3:00 pm 280 Park Hal "Eye Movements in Spoken Dialogue Systems" Mary Swift, Ph.D. Candidate for Computational Linguistics Position Interactive spoken dialogue systems are becoming increasingly widespread, but they have important limitations that inhibit the ease and naturalness of the conversational interaction, such as their inability to process speech incrementally. Information from eye movements can play an important role in facilitating the development of spoken dialogue systems that interact with users more naturally. I present experimental evidence from studies in which we monitored the eye movements of participants as they responded to pre-recorded instructions generated by two different speech synthesizers and a human speaker. Incremental understanding is observed for the synthesized text-to-speech instructions as well as for the natural speech instructions. These results, including some suggestive differences in repsonses to the two synthesizers, establish the potential for using eye tracking as a new method for fine-grained evaluation of spoken dialogue systems and, as dialogue systems become more sophisticated, for using them as a theoretical tool for psycholinguistic experimentation. For more information please call 645-2177 Heike Jones Administrative Assistant University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 P: (716) 645-3794 F: (716) 645-3825 Email: hhjones@buffalo.edu URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci From - Wed Feb 6 11:11:25 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROBLEMS RUNNING SNePS TUTORIAL Date: 5 Feb 2002 16:00:12 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 52 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROBLEMS RUNNING SNePS TUTORIAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 22:15:51 -0500 | From: Matthew Sweeney | To: William Rapaport | Subject: problems running sneps | | Bill, | I've just been trying to run sneps through either acl from a unix | command prompt or through xemacs and neither of the instructions for | getting sneps to run works. The option of typing "M-x run-acl" does not | exist (there is no 'run-acl' option) and I get the following error when | attempting to load sneps from acl: | Error: fasl version is incompatible with the current lisp: | #p"/projects/snwiz/bin/sneps.fasl" | [condition type: file-error] | | I think this error might have something to do with the recent upgrade to | acl 6 but I'm not sure. I wanted to let you know before everyone tried | to use it for doing the sneps tutorial, or so that you could tell me I'm | doing everything wrong and how to get things working correctly :-). Thanks! | | | Matt | Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:20:45 -0500 From: "Stuart C. Shapiro" Organization: Dept. of CSE, University at Buffalo To: "William J. Rapaport" CC: cse-consult@cse.Buffalo.EDU, sweeney4@acsu.buffalo.edu, snwiz@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Re: problems running sneps 1. I think, to get the "M-x run-acl" command, you have to add (load "cselisp.el") to your .emacs file 2. To run SNePS 2.5, first run "M-x run-old-acl" inside (X)Emacs, or "old-acl" from the Unix command line. stu -- Stuart C. Shapiro, Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 201 Bell Hall, Box 602000, Buffalo, NY 14260-2000, U.S.A. PHONE: 716-645-3180x125 FAX: 716-645-3464 shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/ From - Mon Feb 11 11:34:47 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: ADVICE ON CHOOSING A PROJECT Date: 8 Feb 2002 19:54:13 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 59 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: ADVICE ON CHOOSING A PROJECT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In order to help you choose your project, here are some suggestions: CVA Project: ============ Task A: ------- There are 7 words that we need to have SNePS representations of; moreover, those representations should probably be done with an eye towards having the current algorithm be able to work on them, with only minimal change. The 7 words are: Nouns Verb Adjective ------------------------------------------------------------------------- estuary proximity taciturn oam proximity sedative For each word and passage that the word occurs in, we need to do the following: 1. represent the information in the passage, for the current algorithm 2. determine and represent relevant background knowledge 3. find and represent more passages with the word, together with appropriate background knowledge. I am inclined to focus on 3 of these words: estuary, proximity, and taciturn, and allow for the possibility of having more than one of you work together on some of these. Task B: ------- Karen Ehrlich's original algorithm needs to be made more efficient; it also needs to be made more robust, so that it can handle more features than it currently does. Marc Broklawski will be leading this effort, but other students can work with him. Medical NLP Project: ==================== Choose one or more HDSs, and represent them in SNePS. Find and represent appropriate background medical knowledge for one or more HDSs, perhaps concentrating on a particular "disease" (e.g., asthma). (This task might be made more focussed if you try to translate one of the HDSs into plain English on your own, and seeing what background information you need.) From - Thu Feb 14 09:02:59 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: COG SCI SPEAKER: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Date: 14 Feb 2002 13:32:23 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 68 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.572:460 sunyab.cse.472:252 sunyab.cse.663:9 CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE University at Buffalo, State University of New York Wednesday, February 20, 2002 280 Park Hall North Campus 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm "Learning Semantic Classes of Verbs from Syntactic Frequencies" Suzanne Stevenson, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, Canada Many current models of human sentence understanding postulate on-line use of very rich and articulated lexical entries for verbs. Especially important is the role of argument structure -- the participant roles assigned by a verb, and their mapping to syntactic position. In this work, we investigate factors that may contribute to the acquisition of verb argument structure. Specifically, we use computational experiments to explore the extent to which syntactic frequencies alone can discriminate verbs that differ in argument structure. Following Pinker and Levin, we assume that there is a regular correspondence between semantic verb classes and their syntactic behavior. We analyze the differing argument structures of some example verb classes, and devise simple syntactic features whose statistical patterns are predicted to reflect those differences in argument structure. We extract these statistical syntactic features from a corpus, and use them to train a machine learning algorithm to discriminate the verb classes. We demonstrate that a few simple statistical features are sufficient to achieve classification accuracy of around 70% -- on a task whose baseline is 33%. We conclude that simple syntactic frequencies can contribute to the acquisition of semantic verb classes, through their connection to argument structure properties. This is work in collaboration with Paola Merlo, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva. Everyone is welcome to attend! Refreshments will be available. For more information please contact the Cognitive Science office at 645-3794 or check http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/html/2002spring.htm Heike Jones Administrative Assistant University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 P: (716) 645-3794 F: (716) 645-3825 Email: hhjones@buffalo.edu URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci From - Wed Feb 20 09:20:45 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!not-for-mail From: William J Rapaport Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: GRAD CONFERENCE: CLASS MEETS IN STUDENT UNION, NOT BELL :-) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:26:12 -0500 Organization: SUNY Buffalo Computer Science & Engineering Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <3C716364.AD592B45@cse.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:11 Reminder: CSE 663 meets at the Grad Conference on Tue, Feb 19. For a conference schedule, see: http://www-local.cse.buffalo.edu/csegsa There are 2 SNePS-related talks: Fran Johnson, on belief revision John Santore, on identifying indistinguishables. From - Wed Feb 20 09:20:55 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: QUERY ON H.W. FROM MARTINS TEXT Date: 18 Feb 2002 20:36:52 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 10 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: QUERY ON H.W. FROM MARTINS TEXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student writes: > The problem that you assigned from the Martins text (#10) says that the > solution should be a diagram -- is this sufficient or would you like us to > write the SNePSUL code as well? A diagram is fine. From - Wed Feb 20 09:21:08 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!mkb3 From: Marc K Broklawski Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Running SNePS and CVA (noun) algorithm instructions Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 16:04:46 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mkb3 Originator: mkb3@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:13 To all, I've posted instructions on how to run both SNePS and the CVA (noun) algorithm at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~mkb3. These instructions will tell you how to setup everything and where to find the files needed. Any problems let me know! Thanks, Marc From - Wed Feb 20 09:21:38 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: QUERY ON SNePS TUTORIAL H.W. Date: 20 Feb 2002 13:41:05 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 16 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: QUERY ON SNePS TUTORIAL H.W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student writes: > If we're working through the SNePS tutorial, what, > exactly, should we hand in? I was inclined to think that we would just > print off a typescript of whatever project we were working on, but > Project 2 speaks of handing in reports. I don't remember doing anything > of great length when we did the first project in CSE472, though. You should hand in just your implementation of the Project (either 1 or 2). But you should annotate it if there are any assumptions you made or comments you have. I don't need a full conference-style report such as was required in 472. From - Wed Feb 20 09:21:44 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: MORE C.V.A. PASSAGES Date: 20 Feb 2002 13:56:41 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 15 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: MORE C.V.A. PASSAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karen Wieland (Michael Kibby's RA) has found some passages containing some of our CVA words: proliferate (and "proliferation") proximity estuary sedative I have put them in /projects/rapaport/CVA; They are all .doc files From - Thu Feb 21 11:36:18 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: DRESS REHEARSAL OF RAPAPORT'S TORONTO TALK Date: 21 Feb 2002 14:23:59 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 71 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: DRESS REHEARSAL OF RAPAPORT'S TORONTO TALK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:16:39 -0800 From: Michael Kibby Subject: Presentation, Thursday, 4:00 Feb. 21 Room 17 Baldy [Reading Center] Hello LAI and Reading Ph.D. Students, [and SNeRG members, and CSE 663 students] On Thursday, Feb. 21 at 4:00 pm, William Rapaport will be making a presentation in the Reading Center, 17 Baldy Hall. Bill Rapaport is a professor of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science and Engineering He and I are collaborating on a National Science Foundation project to study the contextual acquisition of meaning vocabulary. You are each cordially invited to attend this presentation, after which there will be time for discussion and questions. Wine and cheese will be served. The title and abstract of the talk follow. Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: A Computational Theory and Educational Curriculum Abstract: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- No doubt you have on occasion read some text containing an unfamiliar word, but you were unable or unwilling to find out from a dictionary or another person what the word meant. Nevertheless, you might, consciously or not, have figured out a meaning for it. Suppose you didn't, or suppose your hypothesized meaning was wrong. If you never see the word again, it may not matter. However, if the text you were reading were from science, mathematics, engineering, or technology, not understanding the unfamiliar term might seriously hinder your subsequent understanding of the text. If you do see the word again, you will have an opportunity to revise your hypothesis about its meaning. The more times you see the word, the better your definition will become. And if your hypothesis development were deliberate, rather than "incidental", your command of the new word would be stronger. This talk discusses a research project that is developing and applying algorithms for computational contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA): learning the meaning of unknown words from context. We are trying to unify a disparate literature on the topic of CVA from psychology, first- and second-language acquisition, and reading science, in order to help develop these algorithms. We are using the knowledge gained from the computational CVA system to build an educational curriculum for enhancing students' abilities to use CVA strategies in their reading of science texts at the middle-school and college undergraduate levels. The knowledge gained from case studies of students using our CVA techniques will feed back into further development of our computational theory. Professor Rapaport will be making this same presentation Feb. 28, 2000 to the Computational Linguistics Seminar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I hope you will be able to attend. -- Michael W. Kibby mwkibby@acsu.buffalo.edu 716 / 645-2455 ext1129 Fax 716 / 645-3161 588 Christopher Baldy Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-1000 From - Thu Feb 21 11:36:27 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: OBJECT-REL-POSSESSOR CASE FRAME Date: 21 Feb 2002 15:56:36 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 21 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: OBJECT-REL-POSSESSOR CASE FRAME ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A paper describing the motivation, syntax, and semantics of the object-rel-possessor case frame, which is used to represent sentences of the form: z is x's y is: S. A. Chun. SNePS implementation of possessive phrases. SNeRG Technical Note 19, Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, 1987. online at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/chun.possessives.pdf From - Thu Feb 21 11:36:53 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROJECT "TO-DO" LISTS Date: 21 Feb 2002 16:25:06 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 16 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROJECT "TO-DO" LISTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you either know, or soon will (as soon as you have your meetings with me), I have been sending you an email containing the outline of what you will be doing for your project. However, I have managed to forget to save my copy of these lists! So, if you have received such a list, please send me a copy of it. Thanks. -Bill From - Mon Feb 25 11:39:46 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: H.W. DUE TUES.; SYLLABUS UPDATED Date: 22 Feb 2002 14:34:37 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: H.W. DUE TUES.; SYLLABUS UPDATED ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget that the SNePS HW is due on Tuesday; for details, see the updated syllabus at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/syl.html#dates I will post the student-presentation schedule on Monday. Marc will be the first speaker, on Tuesday. From - Mon Feb 25 11:39:55 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SPEAKING SCHEDULE Date: 25 Feb 2002 14:40:28 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 20 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SPEAKING SCHEDULE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE 663 Speaking Schedule 25 Feb 02 ========================================================================= Tue Feb 26 Marc Thu Feb 28 no class (I'll be in Toronto) Tue Mar 5 Justin, Chris (& Scott should be prepared!) Thu Mar 7 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Tue Mar 12 Rajeev, Matt (& James) Thu Mar 14 James, Marc (& Justin) From - Tue Feb 26 14:56:22 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SPEAKING SCHEDULE Date: 25 Feb 2002 14:40:28 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 20 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SPEAKING SCHEDULE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE 663 Speaking Schedule 25 Feb 02 ========================================================================= Tue Feb 26 Marc Thu Feb 28 no class (I'll be in Toronto) Tue Mar 5 Justin, Chris (& Scott should be prepared!) Thu Mar 7 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Tue Mar 12 Rajeev, Matt (& James) Thu Mar 14 James, Marc (& Justin) From - Tue Feb 26 14:56:32 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: THE DIRECTORY OF DOCUMENTS NOW EXISTS! Date: 26 Feb 2002 16:28:48 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: THE DIRECTORY OF DOCUMENTS NOW EXISTS! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have put some of the references I mentioned in lecture today on the new Directory of Documents, at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/directory.html From - Tue Feb 26 14:56:53 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!not-for-mail From: William J Rapaport Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:55:43 -0500 Organization: SUNY Buffalo Computer Science & Engineering Lines: 21 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <3C7BE83F.776BF003@cse.buffalo.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:22 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CSE 663 Speaking Schedule > 26 Feb 02 > ========================================================================= > > Thu Feb 28 no class (I'll be in Toronto) > > Tue Mar 5 Marc, Justin > (& Chris should be prepared!) > > Thu Mar 7 Chris, Scott (& Mike) > > Tue Mar 12 Mike, Rajeev (& Matt) > > Thu Mar 14 Matt, James (& Marc) From - Mon Mar 4 09:11:46 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: WHAT TO PRESENT DURING YOUR PRESENTATIONS Date: 1 Mar 2002 21:52:13 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 24 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: WHAT TO PRESENT DURING YOUR PRESENTATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rumor has it that some of you are unsure what to present for your upcoming presentations. For those of you working on one of the CVA words, your initial presentation should include (and, if you haven't yet done any additional work, it will consist entirely of) a presentation of the work that was done by the student from last semester who worked on that word. So, you should show the passage, show the syntax and semantics of the case frames that were used, show the representation of the passage, show the background knowledge (if any) and its representation, and discuss anything else that was in the term paper. In short, present that other student's term paper as if it were a published paper that you are presenting. For those of you working on other topics, use the above suggestions as a guideline for what you should do. If you want more detailed personal advice, please see me, or send me email, and I can help you outline your presentation. From - Wed Mar 6 08:52:45 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: COG SCI SPEAKER ON CONTEXT Date: 5 Mar 2002 14:10:11 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 55 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: COG SCI SPEAKER ON CONTEXT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CENTER FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE University at Buffalo, State University of New York Wednesday, March 6, 2002 280 Park Hall North Campus 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Ernest Lepore, Ph.D Center for Cognitive Science Rutgers University "An Abuse of Context in Semantics" What is the role of context in semantics and pragmatics, what is context sensitivity, what counts as evidence for semantic context sensitivity, and how are we to distinguish it from pragmatic context sensitivity? Clear cases abound of both sorts of sensitivity. This paper will discuss and take a stand on the controversies surrounding the unclear cases. Everyone is welcome to attend! Refreshments will be available. For more information please contact the Cognitive Science office at 645-3794 or check http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci/html/2002spring.htm Heike Jones Administrative Assistant University at Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science 652 Baldy Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 P: (716) 645-3794 F: (716) 645-3825 Email: hhjones@buffalo.edu URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/cogsci From - Wed Mar 6 08:52:57 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 5 Mar 02 Date: 5 Mar 2002 15:59:30 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 13 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 5 Mar 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris (& Scott) Tue Mar 12 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Thu Mar 14 Rajeev, Matt (& James) - progress reports due! Tue Mar 19 James, Marc (& Justin) From - Mon Mar 11 09:21:34 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROLIFERATE Date: 8 Mar 2002 13:39:01 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 10 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROLIFERATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the CVA webpage at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html to include a link to Justin's presentation on "proliferate". From - Mon Mar 11 09:21:52 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: "BUT" AND MAIDA/SHAPIRO PAPERS ONLINE Date: 8 Mar 2002 14:25:13 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 8 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: "BUT" AND MAIDA/SHAPIRO PAPERS ONLINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The article on "but" and the paper by Maida & Shapiro on intensional KR in SNePS are now on online reserve. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/directory.html From - Wed Mar 13 17:07:08 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: UPDATED SCHEDULE Date: 12 Mar 2002 16:03:49 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 37 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 12 Mar 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike, (& Rajeev) - progress reports due! Tue Mar 19 Rajeev, Matt (& James) Thu Mar 21 James, Marc (& Justin) Tue Apr 2 Justin, Chris (& Scott), etc. From - Wed Mar 13 17:07:17 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: GAME-THEORETIC SEMANTICS Date: 12 Mar 2002 16:05:58 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 8 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GAME-THEORETIC SEMANTICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Jaakko Hintikka's game-theoretic semantics, see: http://www.math.usf.edu/~mccolm/RGGTS.html From - Wed Mar 13 17:07:25 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: GRICE'S MAXIMS Date: 12 Mar 2002 16:08:06 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 8 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: GRICE'S MAXIMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On H. Paul Grice's "maxims", see: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/ling361/ling361_ir2.html From - Wed Mar 13 17:07:32 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!mkb3 From: Marc K Broklawski Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Noun -- Case Frame Dictionary Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:25:28 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 10 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mkb3 Originator: mkb3@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:33 The noun case frame dictionary can be found at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~mkb3/case.frame.dictionary/case.frame.index.html (Note: I haven't put a link from my main homepage to this yet, but it will shorltly follow) Marc From - Wed Mar 13 17:07:49 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!mkb3 From: Marc K Broklawski Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Demos Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:29:42 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mkb3 Originator: mkb3@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:34 I've made three different demos available: cat, stender, and brachet. For instructions on how to run them, take a look at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~mkb3. Everyone should have access to the main CVA directory at /projects/mkb3/CVA. If there are any permission problems, please let me know! Marc From - Mon Mar 18 09:33:16 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROXIMITY Date: 15 Mar 2002 14:38:33 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROXIMITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the CVA webpage at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html to include a link to Scott's presentation on "proximity". From - Tue Mar 19 09:04:10 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: HOSPITAL DISCHARGE SUMMARIES Date: 18 Mar 2002 16:16:27 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 11 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: HOSPITAL DISCHARGE SUMMARIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the CVA webpage at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/mednlp.html to include a link to Mike's presentation on the hospital discharge summaries. From - Wed Mar 20 08:51:57 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: UPDATED SCHEDULE Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:30:22 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 38 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 19 Mar 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James (& Marc) Tue Apr 2 Marc, Justin (& Chris) Thu Apr 4 Chris, Scott (& Mike) Tue Apr 9 Mike, Rajeev (& Matt) From - Wed Mar 20 08:52:12 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REPRESENTING TIME AND REFLEXIVE RELATIONS Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:26:52 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REPRESENTING TIME AND REFLEXIVE RELATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The papers by Almeida, on representing time in SNePS, and Shapiro, on the unique variable binding rule, are now cited in the Directory of Documents. The former is online, the latter soon will be. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/directory.html From - Wed Mar 20 08:52:17 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: UPDATES TO C.V.A. WEBPAGE Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:38:40 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 8 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: UPDATES TO C.V.A. WEBPAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've added some new links to the CVA webpage. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html From - Wed Mar 20 08:52:22 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: VERB ALGORITHM Date: 19 Mar 2002 19:35:11 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: VERB ALGORITHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have posted, to the CVA webpage, a link to Rajeev's website on the verb algorithm: go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html From - Fri Mar 22 09:00:11 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 21 Mar 02 Date: 21 Mar 2002 15:54:07 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 39 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 21 Mar 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin (& Chris) Thu Apr 4 Chris, Scott (& Mike) Tue Apr 9 Mike, Rajeev (& Matt) Thu Apr 11 Matt, James (& Marc) From - Fri Mar 22 09:00:20 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!mkb3 From: Marc K Broklawski Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: FAST CODE Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:45:09 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 8 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mkb3 Originator: mkb3@pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:44 I've made the fast code available (let's hope it lives up to it's name!) right now at /projects/mkb3/CVA/src/fast.code. I'd appreciate if anyone who currently has running demos can switch to this new and improved algorithm and report any problems they may have to me. Marc From - Fri Mar 22 09:00:30 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!not-for-mail From: Matthew S Sweeney Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Estuary web page Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:53:08 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 5 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <3C9A4834.1070608@acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: resnet146-121.resnet.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:45 My web page that has my SNePSUL estuary representation, demo output, and representation and background knowledge images can be found at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~sweeney4/cva_project.html From - Mon Apr 1 09:18:39 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SHAPIRO PAPER ON UNIQUE VARIABLE BINDING NOW ONLINE Date: 22 Mar 2002 17:42:01 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 18 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SHAPIRO PAPER ON UNIQUE VARIABLE BINDING NOW ONLINE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following paper: Shapiro, Stuart C. 1986, "Symmetric Relations, Intensional Individuals, and Variable Binding", Proceedings of the IEEE 74(10): 1354-1363. is now online at either: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/reserve.cgi?B027583198.PDF or at: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/shapiro.ieee.pdf From - Thu Apr 4 11:10:38 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 2 Apr 02 Date: 2 Apr 2002 16:31:10 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 40 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:47 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 2 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris (& Scott) Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Thu Apr 11 Rajeev, Matt (& James) Tue Apr 16 James, Marc (& Justin) From - Thu Apr 4 11:10:44 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 4 Apr 02 Date: 4 Apr 2002 15:54:34 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 41 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:49 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 4 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Thu Apr 11 Rajeev, Matt (& James) Tue Apr 16 James, Marc (& Justin) Thu Apr 18 Justin, Chris (& Scott) From - Fri Apr 5 09:13:01 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: PROLIFERATE Date: 2 Apr 2002 20:00:13 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 11 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: PROLIFERATE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the CVA webpage to reflect Justin's latest work on "proliferate". Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html From - Fri Apr 5 09:13:10 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: MORE EFFICIENT VERSION OF EHRLICH ALGORITHM Date: 4 Apr 2002 18:07:08 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 15 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: MORE EFFICIENT VERSION OF EHRLICH ALGORITHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The revised CVA page now has a pointer to Marc's more efficient (albeit buggy?) version of the Ehrlich algorithm. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html or more directly to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~mkb3/knowledge.representation/fast-code.htm From - Mon Apr 8 09:21:23 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!mkb3 From: Marc K Broklawski Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: MORE EFFICENT ALGORITHM WORKS!! Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:37:39 -0500 Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: mkb3 Originator: mkb3@pollux.cse.buffalo.edu Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:51 I have now gotten the bugs out of the new and improved algorithm! It was only a paren problem! In addition, Scott has found the problem involving the algorithm sometimes printing out (a noun is something a nil can nil). I have incorporated his suggested changes into this new version as well! For now on when running your demos, please use the fast.code instead of code. If anyone has any problems please email me and I will take a look. Also, if anyone has found other errors in the algorithm and have come up with a solution let me know and I'll fix it! -Marc From - Tue Apr 9 09:02:49 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: ROOM CHANGE FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 9 Date: 8 Apr 2002 16:23:18 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 5 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: ROOM CHANGE FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9, we will meet in Bell 242. From - Tue Apr 9 14:42:42 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: TACITURN Date: 9 Apr 2002 13:18:33 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 13 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:53 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: TACITURN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have updated the CVA webpage to include a link to Chris Garver's work on "taciturn". Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html' or directly to: http://www.geocities.com/cjgarver/CVA/CVA.html From - Tue Apr 9 14:42:49 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 9 Apr 02 Date: 9 Apr 2002 15:00:57 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 42 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 9 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev (& Matt) Tue Apr 16 Matt, James (& Marc) Thu Apr 18 Marc, Justin (& Chris) Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott (& Mike) From - Tue Apr 9 14:42:55 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: UPDATED C.V.A. AND MEDNLP WEBSITES Date: 9 Apr 2002 18:30:54 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:55 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: UPDATED C.V.A. AND MEDNLP WEBSITES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CVA and MedNLP websites have been updated with today's reports. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/mednlp.html From - Tue Apr 9 14:42:59 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: RAship in CVA Date: 9 Apr 2002 18:39:57 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 35 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:56 I will be able to hire at least one Research Assistant on my NSF grant in Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition as of June 1, 2002. I can hire one full-time person (40 hours per week) (or else possibly 2 part-time people; this is an exclusive "or else" :-) for 2 summer months, beginning no earlier than June 1. The salary would be approximately $5000. And I will be able to hire one *very* part-time person for the Fall 2002 semester. Preference for this position, if it opens up, would be given to whoever is hired for the summer. (To be a bit more precise: I have about $9800 left in salary money that must be spent by Dec. 2002. I can split this up any way I want. Here are some possibilities: a) one full-time RA for the summer @ $5000 one part-time RA for Fall 2002 @ $4800 b) one part-time RA for summer + fall @ $9800 c) two part-time RAs for summer @ $2500 each one part-time RA for Fall @ 4800 d) three part-time RAs for summer and/or fall @ $3266.67 each ) Preference will be given to students who are working on a master's or doctoral degree in CSE, who know SNePS and Lisp (or are willing to learn them quickly), and who are familiar with the CVA project (and, depending on the task you would be working on, whose English is native or near- native fluency). Clearly, those of you in my seminar are prime candidates. If you are interested, please let me know. From - Tue Apr 9 14:45:03 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SUPERVISED RESEARCH IN C.V.A. OR MEDNLP Date: 9 Apr 2002 18:41:46 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 10 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:57 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SUPERVISED RESEARCH IN C.V.A. OR MEDNLP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Independently of whom I may hire as an RA, anyone who is interested in continuing their work on either the CVA or MedNLP projects can do so by registering for either and independent study or supervised research with me, for either Summer 2002 or Fall 2002 (or both). Please let me know if you wish to do this. From - Wed Apr 10 09:36:13 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.572,sunyab.cse.472,sunyab.cse.663 Subject: RAPAPORT: NO OFFICE HOURS, WED., APR. 10 Date: 9 Apr 2002 19:49:34 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 7 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.572:555 sunyab.cse.472:348 sunyab.cse.663:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RAPAPORT: NO OFFICE HOURS, WED., APR. 10, 11 a.m. - noon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The subject says it all. If you need to see me, please email me or call to make an appointment for another time. From - Wed Apr 10 09:36:21 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!not-for-mail From: William J Rapaport Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Re: RAship in CVA Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:44:41 -0400 Organization: SUNY Buffalo Computer Science & Engineering Lines: 5 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <3CB33699.80D93133@cse.buffalo.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:58 I might actually have a bit more money than I indicated for Fall 2002: It will depend on whom my co-PI hires in his department (and how much money he pays that person). From - Fri Apr 12 08:46:37 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 11 Apr 02 Date: 11 Apr 2002 15:03:54 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 43 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 11 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Tue Apr 16 Matt, James (?) (& Marc) Thu Apr 18 Marc, Justin (& Chris) Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott (& Mike) Thu Apr 25 Mike, Rajeev (& Matt) From - Mon Apr 15 09:36:07 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: NEWLY UPDATED SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW, 4/16 !!! Date: 15 Apr 2002 13:35:44 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 47 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:61 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 15 Apr 02 NOTE CHANGES FOR TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Tue Apr 16 Matt, Marc (& Justin) Thu Apr 18 Justin, Chris (& Scott) Tue Apr 23 Scott, Mike (& Rajeev) Thu Apr 25 Rajeev, Matt (& Marc) From - Wed Apr 17 09:10:27 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 16 Apr 02 Date: 16 Apr 2002 15:11:29 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 44 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:62 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 16 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev Tue Apr 16 Matt, Marc ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Apr 18 Marc (continued), Justin (& Chris) Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott (& Mike) Thu Apr 25 Mike, Rajeev (& Matt) Tue Apr 30 Matt, Marc (& Justin) From - Wed Apr 17 15:42:05 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE Date: 17 Apr 2002 15:48:44 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 68 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I mentioned in class, I had brought up the issue of forward inference in SNeRG. Here's some email from Shapiro about it. Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:20:49 -0400 From: "Stuart C. Shapiro" To: snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Bidirectional inference example The bidirectional inference example mentioned at the SNeRG meeting on Monday is publicly available. Here is a run showing it: Welcome to SNePSLOG (A logic interface to SNePS) Copyright (C) 1984--1999 by Research Foundation of State University of New York. SNePS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! Type `copyright' for detailed copyright information. Type `demo' for a list of example applications. : demo "/projects/shapiro/Sneps/bidir.snepslog" File /projects/shapiro/Sneps/bidir.snepslog is now the source of input. : ;;; Demonstration of Bidirectional Inference clearkb Knowledge Base Cleared : all(x)({man(x),woman(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}). all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}) CPU time : 0.01 : all(x)({man(x),woman(x)} v=> {person(x)}). all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {person(x)}) CPU time : 0.01 : mortal(?x)? I wonder if mortal(?x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct I wonder if woman(x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct I wonder if man(x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct CPU time : 0.01 : ;;; Doing forward inference on man(turing) should conclude ;;; mortal(turing), but not person(turing). man(turing)! Since all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}) and man(turing) I infer mortal(turing) mortal(turing) man(turing) CPU time : 0.03 From - Thu Apr 18 09:07:11 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE Date: 17 Apr 2002 15:48:44 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 68 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I mentioned in class, I had brought up the issue of forward inference in SNeRG. Here's some email from Shapiro about it. Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:20:49 -0400 From: "Stuart C. Shapiro" To: snerg@cse.Buffalo.EDU Subject: Bidirectional inference example The bidirectional inference example mentioned at the SNeRG meeting on Monday is publicly available. Here is a run showing it: Welcome to SNePSLOG (A logic interface to SNePS) Copyright (C) 1984--1999 by Research Foundation of State University of New York. SNePS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! Type `copyright' for detailed copyright information. Type `demo' for a list of example applications. : demo "/projects/shapiro/Sneps/bidir.snepslog" File /projects/shapiro/Sneps/bidir.snepslog is now the source of input. : ;;; Demonstration of Bidirectional Inference clearkb Knowledge Base Cleared : all(x)({man(x),woman(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}). all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}) CPU time : 0.01 : all(x)({man(x),woman(x)} v=> {person(x)}). all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {person(x)}) CPU time : 0.01 : mortal(?x)? I wonder if mortal(?x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct I wonder if woman(x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct I wonder if man(x) holds within the BS defined by context default-defaultct CPU time : 0.01 : ;;; Doing forward inference on man(turing) should conclude ;;; mortal(turing), but not person(turing). man(turing)! Since all(x)({woman(x),man(x)} v=> {mortal(x)}) and man(turing) I infer mortal(turing) mortal(turing) man(turing) CPU time : 0.03 From - Thu Apr 18 09:07:20 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Re: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE Date: 17 Apr 2002 19:44:17 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 239 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:64 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: BIDIRECTIONAL INFERENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just found this in my archives. Thought it might be of interest. Note the date: Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:10:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stuart C. Shapiro" To: snerg Subject: Turning off context limited bi-directional inference Here is a demo showing that by redefining snip::broadcast-one-report to always return NIL, the context-limitation feature of bi-directional can be turned off. The demo is in SNePSLOG: =========================================================================== SNIP(36): (user::snepslog) Welcome to SNePSLOG (A logic interface to SNePS) Copyright (C) 1984, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Research Foundation of State University of New York. SNePS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! Type `copyright' for detailed copyright information. Type `demo' for a list of example applications. : clearkb Knowledge Base Cleared : all(x)({P(x), Q(x)} &={R(x)}) all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) CPU time : 0.03 : all(x)({PP(x), Q(x)} &={S(x)}) all(X)({PP(X),Q(X)} &={S(X)}) CPU time : 0.03 : P(a) P(A) CPU time : 0.01 : P(b) P(B) CPU time : 0.01 : PP(b) PP(B) CPU time : 0.00 : Q(a) Q(A) CPU time : 0.01 : R(?x)? I wonder if R(?X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I wonder if P(X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I wonder if Q(X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I know P(B) I know P(A) I know Q(A) Since all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) and P(A) and Q(A) I infer R(A) R(A) CPU time : 0.17 : Q(b)! Since all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) and P(B) and Q(B) I infer R(B) Q(B) R(B) CPU time : 0.07 : S(b)? I wonder if S(B) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I wonder if PP(B) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I know PP(B) Since all(X)({PP(X),Q(X)} &={S(X)}) and PP(B) and Q(B) I infer S(B) S(B) CPU time : 0.08 : lisp Bye NIL SNIP(37): (defun broadcast-one-report (rep) (let (anysent) (do.chset (ch *OUTGOING-CHANNELS* anysent) (when (isopen.ch ch) (setq anysent (or (try-to-send-report rep ch) anysent))))) nil) BROADCAST-ONE-REPORT SNIP(38): (user::snepslog) Welcome to SNePSLOG (A logic interface to SNePS) Copyright (C) 1984, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995 by Research Foundation of State University of New York. SNePS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! Type `copyright' for detailed copyright information. Type `demo' for a list of example applications. : clearkb Knowledge Base Cleared : all(x)({P(x), Q(x)} &={R(x)}) all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) CPU time : 0.03 : all(x)({PP(x), Q(x)} &={S(x)}) all(X)({PP(X),Q(X)} &={S(X)}) CPU time : 0.03 : P(a) P(A) CPU time : 0.01 : P(b) P(B) CPU time : 0.01 : PP(b) PP(B) CPU time : 0.01 : Q(a) Q(A) CPU time : 0.01 : R(?x)? I wonder if R(?X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I wonder if P(X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I wonder if Q(X) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I know P(B) I know P(A) I know Q(A) Since all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) and P(A) and Q(A) I infer R(A) R(A) CPU time : 0.15 : Q(b)! Since all(X)({P(X),Q(X)} &={R(X)}) and P(B) and Q(B) I infer R(B) I wonder if PP(B) holds within the BS defined by context DEFAULT-DEFAULTCT I know PP(B) Since all(X)({PP(X),Q(X)} &={S(X)}) and PP(B) and Q(B) I infer S(B) S(B) PP(B) Q(B) R(B) CPU time : 0.13 ========================================================================= Stu Shapiro replies (17 Apr 02) as follows: That still works. Note it is not redefining some variable, but redefining a function in SNIP. Warning: If you do this in the SNePS 2.6, which is SNePS 2.5 in ACL version 6, change *OUTGOING-CHANNELS* to *outgoing-channels* in the defun. From - Tue Apr 23 11:31:42 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 23 Apr 02 Date: 23 Apr 2002 15:24:51 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 52 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 23 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev Tue Apr 16 Matt, Marc Thu Apr 18 Marc (continued), Justin Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott, Mike ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu Apr 25 Mike (continued), Rajeev (& Matt) Tue Apr 30 Matt, Marc (& Justin) Thu May 2 This is our last class. I think the most useful thing to do would be for each of you to present (informally, not necessarily with slides or whatever) a brief summary of what you have accomplished, what the immediate next step in your part of the project is, and what longer-term future steps need to be taken. Figure about a 10-minute presentation. From - Tue Apr 23 11:31:54 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: OBJECT-REL-POSSESSOR CASE FRAME Date: 18 Apr 2002 15:47:14 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 9 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:66 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: OBJECT-REL-POSSESSOR CASE FRAME ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The link to the paper about this is on the Directory of Documents (and was in fact previously announced in this newsgroup :-) http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/directory.html From - Thu Apr 25 09:03:43 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: CVA WEBPAGE UPDATED Date: 23 Apr 2002 17:35:26 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:71 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CVA WEBPAGE UPDATED ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The CVA webpage has been updated to include Scott's latest presentation. Go to: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/663/S02/cva.html or directly to: http://www.cse.Buffalo.EDU/~stn2/663/Presentation4-23-2002/ From - Thu Apr 25 14:06:41 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 25 Apr 02 Date: 25 Apr 2002 15:05:25 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 62 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:72 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: REVISED SPEAKING SCHEDULE -- 25 Apr 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev Tue Apr 16 Matt, Marc Thu Apr 18 Marc (continued), Justin Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott, Mike Thu Apr 25 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Tue Apr 30 Matt (continued?), Marc, Justin, (Chris?) Thu May 2 This is our last class. I think the most useful thing to do would be for each of you to present (informally, not necessarily with slides or whatever) a brief summary of what you have accomplished, what the immediate next step in your part of the project is, and what longer-term future steps need to be taken. Figure about a 10-minute presentation. Mon May 6 Term-project reports due in my office (Bell 214) or mailbox (Bell 211), no later than 5:00 p.m. I can be a bit flexible with this deadline if you give me a good reason for needing a bit more time. But keep in mind that I need to read your reports before giving you a grade, and my grades need to be in by, I think, May 15 (and I have other grading to do). From - Tue Apr 30 09:11:27 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: QUESTION ABOUT FINAL REPORTS Date: 29 Apr 2002 15:41:33 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 25 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:73 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: QUESTION ABOUT FINAL REPORTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student writes: > In the "Project Policies" section of the syllabus you state: > > "Your report should include ... annotated sample runs of a working SNePS > program (including documented code)." > > Does this mean that I should include the noun definition algorithm in my > report (since I have made changes to it)? Given the large size of the > code, would it be acceptable to provide a URL where it can be found > instead of including it directly in the report? I think you should include those parts of the algorithm that you changed, with the changes clearly indicated, and the reasons for the change discussed in the report. If the file is big, you can use various tricks to print it, like mpage -2 In addition, you should give the location of the online version, which should (eventually) be in a public place for future use. From - Tue Apr 30 09:11:40 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: SKOLEM CASE FRAMES Date: 29 Apr 2002 15:44:16 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 12 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:74 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SKOLEM CASE FRAMES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A student writes: | I have been looking for an example of how to use the skolem case frame and | have not been having much luck. Can you direct me to any? Take a look at the SNePS User Manual: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~jsantore/snepsman/node43.html From - Wed May 1 09:20:35 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!not-for-mail From: William J Rapaport Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT FINAL REPORTS Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:14:55 -0400 Organization: SUNY Buffalo Computer Science & Engineering Lines: 19 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: <3CCE98CF.F9D46DB3@cse.buffalo.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:75 "William J. Rapaport" wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subject: QUESTION ABOUT FINAL REPORTS > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A student writes: > > > In the "Project Policies" section of the syllabus you state: > > > > "Your report should include ... annotated sample runs of a working SNePS > > program (including documented code)." Upon re-reading the syllabus, I see that what I meant by this was probably primarily the encoding of text + background knowledge, and secondarily the running of the Ehrlich algorithm on it. Tertiarily (now *there's* a good word for you :-), it would include any modifications to that algorithm. From - Wed May 1 09:20:43 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: FINAL CLASS: MAY 2 Date: 30 Apr 2002 15:30:00 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 70 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:76 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: FINAL CLASS: MAY 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: Marc: noun algorithm, etc. Justin: "proliferate" Chris: "taciturn" Scott: "proximity" Mike: hospital discharge summaries Rajeev: verb algorithm Matt: "estuary" James: "oam" ========================================================================= Past: Tue Mar 5 Marc Thu Mar 7 Justin, Chris Tue Mar 12 Chris (continued) Thu Mar 14 Scott, Mike Tue Mar 19 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Thu Mar 21 Matt (continued), James, Marc Tue Apr 2 Marc (continued), Justin Thu Apr 4 Justin (continued), Chris Tue Apr 9 Scott, Mike Thu Apr 11 Mike (continued), Rajeev Tue Apr 16 Matt, Marc Thu Apr 18 Marc (continued), Justin Tue Apr 23 Chris, Scott, Mike Thu Apr 25 Mike (continued), Rajeev, Matt Tue Apr 30 Matt (continued), Marc, Justin ========================================================================= Future: (name in parentheses means "be prepared, but only expect to present if someone is absent (quite possible) or has a short presentation (unlikely :-)") Thu May 2 This is our last class. I think the most useful thing to do would be for each of you to present, informally, *not* with slides), a brief summary, including at least the following information: - the role of your task in the overall project - what you have accomplished so far - what the immediate next steps in your part of the project are - what longer-term future steps need to be taken. Figure about a 10-minute presentation. (Remember: This is the *sort* of thing you might find yourself doing, extemporaneously, in a job interview or in an informal discussion at a conference/convention, or even in a "real" job when your boss sees you in the hall or even in the mall :-) Mon May 6 Term-project reports due in my office (Bell 214) or mailbox (Bell 211), no later than 5:00 p.m. I can be a bit flexible with this deadline if you give me a good reason for needing a bit more time. But keep in mind that I need to read your reports before giving you a grade, and my grades need to be in by, I think, May 15 (and I have other grading to do). From - Fri May 3 08:56:09 2002 Path: acsu.buffalo.edu!rapaport From: rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport) Newsgroups: sunyab.cse.663 Subject: QUERY ABOUT FINAL REPORT Date: 3 May 2002 12:51:55 GMT Organization: University at Buffalo CSE Department Lines: 27 Distribution: sunyab Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: adara.cse.buffalo.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rapaport Xref: acsu.buffalo.edu sunyab.cse.663:77 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: QUERY ABOUT FINAL REPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Several of you have queried me about the following matter: > I am in the process of adding appendices to my paper that include the > SNEPSUL code and output. However my code is quite long (it has plenty of > comments) and so are the outputs. Rather than add them directly to my > paper I was wondering if I could create a Web site that contains the files > and reference the site in my appendix. It will conserve a great deal of > paper (I'm estimating that if I were to print out all my code and examples > they would top forty pages). > > This site will also serve as a repository for all my documents and > presentations and I can easily package it up and make it available to > you. Believe it or not, I'd rather you do both. Long code can be printed via mpage -4, but be sure to "fold" the original file first: fold yourfile | mpage -4 | lpr so as not to truncate long lines. And, yes, I would like an archival website, too. Thanks.