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Subject: 6.632, Confs: TMI95 revised program, Inst of El Engineers colloq
 
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:57:26 +0200
From: Bruno Tersago (Bruno.Tersago at ccl.kuleuven.ac.be)
Subject: TMI95 - corrected Preliminary Programme
 
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 11:45:39 BST
From: Paul Mc Kevitt (P.McKevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Subject: IEE COLLOQ. LONDON MAY 15TH: GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS (MURPHY)
 
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:57:26 +0200
From: Bruno Tersago (Bruno.Tersago at ccl.kuleuven.ac.be)
Subject: TMI95 - corrected Preliminary Programme
 
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The previous posting of the TMI95-programme was incomplete. Here
is the new version of the programme. We apologise for any inconvenience.
 
     THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL
                 ISSUES IN MACHINE TRANSLATION (TMI95)
                            July 5-7 1995
                          University of Leuven
                  Centre for Computational Linguistics
                           Leuven, Belgium
 
The Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and
Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI95) will be held
from July 5 to 7 1995 at the University of Leuven, Belgium.  It
will precede the Fifth edition of the MT Summit, hosted by the EC
in Luxembourg from July 10 to 14.
 
TMI95 will focus on three major topics: computational semantics
for MT, MT of spoken language, and the use of
sublanguage/controlled language for MT.
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                REVISED PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Topical papers will have a 40 minute presentation ( + 5 minutes
for discussion); short papers will be presented in two parallel
15 minute sessions (+ 5 minutes for discussion).
 
                        Wednesday July 5, 1995
 8.30 -  9.45 : Registration
 9.45 - 10.00 : Opening
10.00 - 11.00 : Invited Speaker: Robin COOPER (University of
                         Edinburgh) on computational semantics for MT
11.00 - 11.30 : Coffee
11.30 - 12.15 : Translation using Minimal Recursion Semantics:
       Ann COPESTAKE, Dan FLICKINGER, Rob MALOUF, Susanne
       RIEHEMANN, Ivan SAG
12.15 - 13.00 : A Sign-Based Approach to the Translation of Temporal
                Expressions:
        Frank VAN EYNDE
13.00 - 14.15 : Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 : Paraphrasing through Derivation:
       Oliver STREITER, Antje SCHMIDT-WIGGER
15.00 - 15.45 : Lexicalist Translation and Qualia Theory:
       Arturo TRUJILLO
15.45 - 16.05 : - Apologiae Ontologiae:
       Sergei NIRENBURG, Victor RASKIN, Boyan ONYSHKEVYCH
                - Machine Translation:an Integration Approach:
       Kuang-hua CHEN, Hsin-Hsi CHEN
16.05 - 16.30 : Coffee
16.30 - 17.15 : Noun Phrases in Japanese to English Machine Translation:
       Francis BOND, Kentaro OGURA, Tsukasa KAWAOKA
17.15 - 17.45 :  - Domain Modeling for Machine Translation:
       J. Joachim QUANTZ, Uwe KUESSNER, Manfred GEHRKE
                 - Automatic Learning of Knowledge for Example-Based
                Disambiguation of Attachment:
       Naohiko URAMOTO
19.00 : Reception in the Town Hall of Leuven
 
                        Thursday July 6, 1995
 9.00 -  9.45 : Controlled English for Knowledge-Based MT:
                Experience with the KANT System:
       Teruko MITAMURA, Eric H. NYBERG, 3rd
 9.45 - 10.30 : Natural Language Modeling in a Machine Translation Prototype
                for Healthcare Applications: a Sublanguage Approach:
       Guy DEVILLE, Emmanuel HERBIGNAUX
10.30 - 10.50 : - A Method for Automatically Adapting an MT System to
                Different Domains:
       Setsuo YAMADA, Hiromi NAKAIWA, Kentaro OGURA, Satoru
       IKEHARA
                - Anaphora Resolution in Machine Translation:
       Ruslan MITKOV, Sung-Kwon CHOI, Rabndall SHARP
10.50 - 11.20 : Coffee
11.20 - 12.20 : Invited Speaker: Edward JOHNSON (Wolfson College,
                         University Cambridge) on the use of
                         sublanguage/controlled language for MT
12.20 - 13.05 : Correcting is translating: simplified English checking and
                machine translation:
       Geert ADRIAENS
13.05 - 14.15 : Lunch
14.15 - 15.00 : Applying Statistical English Language Modelling to Symbolic
                Machine Translation:
       Ralf BROWN, Robert FREDERKING
15.00 - 15.45 : Coerced Markov Models for Cross-Lingual Lexical-Tag Relations:
       Pascale FUNG, Dekai WU
15.45 - 16.05 : - Spoken-Language Machine Translation in Limited Domains:
                Can it be Achieved by Finite-State Models?
       J.M. VILAR, A. CASTELLANOS, J.M. JIMENEZ, J.A. SANCHEZ,
       E.VIDAL, J. ONCINA, H. RULOT
                - Shake-and-Bake MT and Morphology:
       David TURCATO
16.05 - 16.30 : Coffee
16.30 - 17.15 : Learning English Verb Selection Rules from Hand-made Rules
                and Translation Examples:
       Yasuhiro AKIBA, MEGUMI ISHII, Hussein ALMUALLIM, Shigeo
       KANEDA
17.15 - 17.35 : - Concept-Based Parsing For Speech Translation:
       L.J. MAYFIELD, M. GAVALDA, Y-H. SEO, B. SUHM, W. WARD,
       A. WAIBEL
                - Intrasentential Resolution of Japanese Zero Pronouns in a
                Machine Translation System using Semantic and Pragmatic
                Constraints:
       Hiromi NAKAIWA, Satoru IKEHARA
17.35 - 17.55 : - Chart-based Incremental Transfer in Machine Translation:
       Jan W. AMTRUP
                - Constituent Shifts in the Logos English-German System:
       Claudia GDANIEC, Patricia SCHMID
20.00 : Conference Banquet
 
                        Friday July 7, 1995
 9.00 -  9.45 : A Corpus-based Two-Way Design for Parameterized MT Systems:
                Rationale, Architecture and Training Issues:
       Keh-Yih SU, Jing-Shin CHANG, Yu-Ling UNA HSU
 9.45 - 10.30 : Heterogeneous Computing for Example-Based
                Translation of Spoken Language:
       Eiichiro SUMITA, Hitoshi IIDA
10.30 - 11.00 : Coffee
11.00 - 12.00 : Invited Speaker: Manny RAYNER (SRI Cambridge)
                         on MT of spoken language
12.00 - 12.45 : Using Context in Machine Translation of Spoken Language:
       Lori LEVIN, Oren GLICKMAN, Yan QU, Donna GATES, Alon LAVIE,
       Alex WAIBEL, Carol VAN ESS-DYKEMA
12.45 - 14.00 : Lunch
14.00 - 14.45 : Speech-Event Types in Automatic Dialogue Interpreting:
       Birte SCHMITZ, J. Joachim QUANTZ
14.45 - 15.30 : Grammarless Extraction of Phrasal Translation Examples From
                Parallel Texts:       Dekai WU
15.30 - ??.?? : Closing & Farewell Cocktail
 
PROCEEDINGS
   The proceedings will be distributed at the beginning of the
   conference after registration.
 
FURTHER ENQUIRIES
   TMI95 secretariat
   Centre for Computational Linguistics
   Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
   Maria-Theresiastraat 21
   B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
   Phone: +32-16-32.50.88
   Fax: +32-16-32.50.98
   e-mail: tmi95 at ccl.kuleuven.ac.be
   URL: http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 95 11:45:39 BST
From: Paul Mc Kevitt (P.McKevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Subject: IEE COLLOQ. LONDON MAY 15TH: GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS (MURPHY)
 
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 GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS
 
NOTE: Please note that there  has been a  programme  change below and  a new
speaker (Elisabeth Andr/e: DFKI, Germany and Sheffield, England) added in.
 
                      PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
                          GROUNDING REPRESENTATIONS:
      Integration of sensory information in Natural Language Processing,
                 Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
 
                                 IEE COLLOQUIUM
                       IEE Computing and Control Division
             [Professional group: C4 (Artificial Intelligence)]
                              in association with:
      British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems and
             The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
                      and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
 
                           MONDAY, MAY 15th, 1995
           at the   IEE Colloquium   Savoy Place    London, ENGLAND
 
                                   Chairs
                      NOEL SHARKEY and PAUL MC KEVITT
                       Department of Computer Science
                      University of Sheffield, England
 
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Perhaps  the    most  famous  criticism   of   traditional  Artificial
Intelligence  is  that   computer programs    use   symbols that   are
arbitrarily interpretable  (see Searle, 1980 for  the Chinese Room and
Harnad, 1990 for the symbol grounding problem). We could, for example,
use   the word "apple"  to  mean anything  from a  "common fruit" to a
"pig's nose". All the computer  knows is the relationship between this
symbol the others that  we have given it.  The  question is, how is it
possible to  move  from this notion  of  meaning, as the  relationship
between  arbitrary symbols, to   a notion of  "intrinsic" meaning.  In
other words,  how do we provide  meaning by grounding computer symbols
or representations in the physical world?
 
The  aim of this colloquium  is to  take a broad   look at many of the
important issues in relating machine intelligence  to the world and to
make accessible  some of  the   most recent  research  in  integrating
information   from  different modalities.    For   example, why is  it
important to have symbol or  representation grounding and what is  the
role of the emerging neural network technology?
 
One  approach  has  been  to  link intelligence  to  the sensory world
through visual systems  or robotic  devices  such as MURPHY.   Another
approach is work on systems that  integrate information from different
modalities such as vision and language.  Yet another approach has been
to examine  how  the human  brain  relates  sensory, motor   and other
information.  It looks like we may be at long last getting a handle on
the age  old CHINESE ROOM  and SYMBOL GROUNDING  problems.  Hence this
colloquium has as its focus, "grounding representations.
 
The colloquium will occur over one day and will focus on three themes:
(1) Biology and  development; (2) Computational  models and (3) Symbol
grounding.
 
The  target audience  of this colloquium  will   include Engineers and
Scientists  in    Neural  Networks  and     Artificial   Intelligence,
Developmental Psychologists,   Cognitive  Scientists, Philosophers  of
mind, Biologists and  all  of those  interested in the  application of
Artificial Intelligence to real world problems.
 
                             Monday, May 15th, 1995
                            ************************
INTRODUCTION:
 9.00   REGISTRATION + SUSTENANCE
10.00  `An introduction'  NOEL SHARKEY
         (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND)
COMPUTATIONAL MODELS:
10.30  `From visual data to multimedia presentations' ELISABETH ANDR/E
         (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
          Saarbr"ucken, GERMANY) &
         (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND)
11.00  `Natural language and exploration of an information space'OLIVIERO STOCK
       (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Technologica, IRST)Trento, ITALY)
11.30  `How visual salience influences natural language descriptions'
       WOLFGANG MAASS  (Cognitive Science Programme)
       (U des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, GERMANY)
12.00   DISCUSSION
12.30   LUNCH
GROUNDING SYMBOLS:
 2.00  `Grounding symbols in sensorimotor categories with neural networks'
        STEVAN HARNAD(Department of Psychology, U of Southampton, ENGLAND)
 2.30  `Some observations on symbol-grounding from a combined
         symbolic/connectionist viewpoint'  JOHN BARNDEN
          (Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico, USA) &
          (Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, ENGLAND)
 3.00  Sustenance Break
 3.30  `On grounding language with neural networks' GEORG DORFFNER
         (Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, AUSTRIA)
PANEL DISCUSSION AND QUESTIONS:
 4.00  `Grounding representations'  Chairs + Invited speakers
S/IN S/IN:
 4.30  `De brief/comments' PAUL MC KEVITT
         (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, ENGLAND)
 5.00  O/ICHE MHA/ITH
                           *****************************
PUBLICATION:
We intend to publish a book on this Colloquium Proceedings.
 
IEE CONTACT:
Sarah Leong, Groups Officer
The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
Savoy Place
GB- WC2R OBL, London
England, UK, EU.
 
E-mail:    SLeong at iee.org.uk    (Sarah Leong)
E-mail:    mbarrett at iee.org.uk  (Martin Barrett)
E-mail:    dpenrose at iee.org.uk  (David Penrose)
WWW:       http://www.iee.org.uk
Ftp:       ftp.iee.org.uk
FaX:       +44 (0) 171-497-3633
Phone:     +44 (0) 171-240-1871  (general)
Phone:     +44 (0) 171-344-8423  (direct)
 
LOCATION:
The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
Savoy Place
GB- WC2R OBL, London
England, UK, EU.
 
ACADEMIC CONTACT:
Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
University of Sheffield
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
 
E-mail:    p.mckevitt at dcs.shef.ac.uk
WWW:       http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/
WWW:       http://www.shef.ac.uk/
Ftp:       ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk
FaX:       +44 (0) 114-278-0972
Phone:     +44 (0) 114-282-5572 (Office)
                       282-5596 (Lab.)
                       282-5590 (Secretary)
 
REGISTRATION:
Registration forms are available from SARAH LEONG at the above address
and should be  sent to the following  address: (It is NOT possible  to
register by E-mail.)
 
Colloquium Bookings
Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
PO Box 96
Stevenage
GB- SG1 2SD Herts
England, UK, EU.
 
Fax:                    +44 (0) 143 874 2792
Receipt Enquiries:      +44 (0) 143 876 7243
Registration enquiries: +44 (0) 171 240 1871 x.2206
 
PRE-REGISTRATION IS ADVISED ALTHOUGH YOU CAN REGISTER ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT.
 
                    R E G I S T R A T I O N  COSTS
(ALL FIGURES INCLUDE VAT)
IEE MEMBERS                        44.00
NON-IEE MEMBERS                    74.00
IEE MEMBERS
(Retired, Unemployed, Students)     FREE
NON-IEE MEMBERS
(Retired, Unemployed, Students)    22.00
LUNCH TICKET                        4.70
 
MEMBERS:
Members of the IEEIE, The British Computer Society and the Society for
the Study of  Artificial Intelligence and  Simulation of Behaviour and
Eurel Member Associations will be admitted at Members' rates.
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