Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!cmcl2!lanl!opus!paul From: paul@nmsu.edu (Paul McKevitt) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: PRAGMATICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (PROGRAM) Message-ID: Date: 30 May 90 18:28:50 GMT Sender: news@nmsu.edu Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 494 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT IN YOUR DEPARTMENT/LABORATORY: Cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRAGMATICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90) Science Hall and Music Center Auditorium New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, June 28-30, 1990 PRAGMATICS PROBLEM: The problem of pragmatics in AI is one of developing theories, models, and implementations of systems that make effective use of contextual information to solve problems in changing environments. CONFERENCE GOAL: This conference will provide a forum for researchers from all subfields of AI to discuss the problem of pragmatics in AI. The implications that each area has for the others in tackling this problem are of particular interest. COOPERATION: American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) IEEE Computer Society SPONSORSHIP: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), NMSU Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI) INVITED SPEAKERS: The following researchers are invited to present papers at the conference: *Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos USA *Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland EC *Jerry Feldman, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley USA & International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley USA *Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, Cambridge USA *James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder USA *Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, United Kingdom EC *Roger Schank, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA *Philip Stenton, Hewlett Packard, United Kingdom EC *Robert Wilensky, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley USA SUBMITTED PAPERS: In addition over 40 papers on pragmatics in AI have been accepted for the conference. THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: Las Cruces, lies in THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (New Mexico), USA and is situated in the Rio Grande Corridor with the scenic Organ Mountains overlooking the city. The city is close to Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands National Monument. There are a number of Indian Reservations and Pueblos in the Land Of Enchantment and the cultural and scenic cities of Taos and Santa Fe lie to the north. New Mexico has an interesting mixture of Indian, Mexican and Spanish culture. There is quite a variation of Mexican and New Mexican food to be found here too. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a major regional forum in the USA for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The conference emphasizes discussion and informal interaction as well as presentations. The conference encourages the presentation of completed research, ongoing research, and preliminary investigations. Researchers from both within and outside the region are invited to participate. DEADLINES: Pre-registration: June 1st, 1990 Pre-Registration: Professionals: $50.00; Students $30.00 Final papers due: June 1st, 1990 TRANSPORT: Las Cruces, New Mexico is located one hour from El Paso, Texas on I-10 West. Participants can fly into El-Paso International Airport and transport will be provided from and to the airport. SOCIALS: The conference will include a registration reception buffet, Japanese Buffet in Garden Center (Budagher's), Banquet (Double Eagle) (+ $25.00), and numerous refreshments. HOTELS: The Las Cruces Hilton has rooms for $47.00 per night. (Call 1-800-284-0616, cutoff date is June 13th) Accommodation is also available in other Hotels and Motels. REGISTRATION: Pre-Registration: Professionals: $50.00; Students $30.00 (Pre-Registration cutoff date is June 1st 1990) Registration: Professionals: $70.00; Students $50.00 (After June 1st or at the conference) (Copied proof of student status is required). Registration form (IN BLOCK CAPITALS). Enclose payment made out to New Mexico State University. (ONLY checks in US dollars will be accepted). Send to the following address (MARKED REGISTRATION): Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90 Computing Research Laboratory Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, NMSU Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. Name:_______________________________ E-mail_____________________________ Phone__________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________ Fax: ____________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ COUNTRY__________________________________________ LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90. (same postal address as above). INQUIRIES: Inquiries regarding conference brochure and registration form should be addressed to the Local Arrangements Chairperson. Inquiries regarding the conference program should be addressed to the Program Chairperson. Local Arrangements Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: rmcai@nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5466 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. Program Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: paul@sparta.nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5109 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. Paul Mc Kevitt, Program Chairperson, RMCAI-90, Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. TOPICS OF INTEREST: You are invited to submit a research paper addressing Pragmatics in AI, with any of the following orientations: Philosophy, Foundations and Methodology Knowledge Representation Neural Networks and Connectionism Genetic Algorithms, Emergent Computation, Nonlinear Systems Natural Language and Speech Understanding Problem Solving, Planning, Reasoning Machine Learning Vision and Robotics Applications TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: .ce \fBRMCAI-90 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE\fR WEDNESDAY 27th June 1990: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Registration and Reception, Double Eagle, Old Mesilla THURSDAY 28th June 1990: \fB8:50 am: Yorick Wilks and Paul Mc Kevitt: Welcome\fR \fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Jerry Feldman, UC Berkeley \fR .nf .ta .6i Miniature Language Acquisition: A Paradigm problem and some approaches 10:00 am: Coffee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers. .nf \fBTRACK A:\fR PRACMA: Processing Arguments between Controversially-Minded Agents Jurgen Allgayer : Alfred Kobsa : Carola Reddig : Norbert Reithinger Relevant Beliefs Afzal Ballim : Yorick Wilks Speech Acts and Mental States Robbert-Jan Beun Extensions of Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity Elizabeth A. Hinkelman \fBTRACK B:\fR Dynamic Route Planning E. Cortes-Rello : F. Golshani Strategic Planning System (SPS) Mitchell Smith : Peter Briggs : Edward Freeman Re-planning a Route - A Pragmatic Approach Wai-Kiang Yeap Evaluation of Pragmatics Processing in a Direction Finding Domain Deborah A. Dahl \fBTRACK C:\fR Computing with Fast Modulation: Experiments with Biologically Realistic Model Neurons Mark DeYong : Randall Findley : Chris Fields Competition and Selection in Neural Networks with Distributed Representations Kankanahalli Srinivas : John Barnden Using Genetic Algorithms as a Post-Processor for Improving Vehicle Routing Solutions Nagesh Kadaba : Kendall E. Nygard An Application of Neural Networks is Robotics Dr. Behzad Ghavimi 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch \fB2:00 pm: Invited talk: Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley, USA\fP 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee \fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Invited talk: Phil Stenton, HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK\fP .nf .ta 1.2i Putting NL to work: A dialogue modeling approach .sp .fi 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted talks \fBTRACK A:\fR .sp .nf .ta .6i Using relational knowledge structures to handle null value situations in natural language interfaces Nick Cercone : Dan Fass : Chris Groeneboer : Gary Hall : Mimi Kao : Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowich A Classification of User-System Interactions in Natural Language with Special Reference to : Dan Fass : Nick Cercone : Gary Hall : Chris Groeneboer : Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowick \fBTRACK B:\fR Problem Solving Experience and Problem Solving Knowledge Stephen W. Smoliar An Abstraction-Partitioned Model for Reactive Planning Lee Spector : James A. Hendler \fBTRACK C:\fR A Graph Theoretic Basis for Problem Solving Daniel P. Eshner : Heather D. Pfeiffer Meta-Structures: Intelligent Structures for Inference Control Daniel J. Goter : David E. Monarchi FRIDAY 29th June 1990: \fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Barbara Grosz, Harvard University\fP Collaborative Planning for Discourse 10:00 am: Coffee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers \fBTRACK A:\fR Why Does Language Matter to Artificial Intelligence Marcelo Dascal Pragmatics of Postdeterminers Non-restrictive Modifications & Wh-phrases Frens J.H. Dols Pragmatics and Natural Language Processing Eduard H. Hovy On the Semantics of the Conjunction "but" Wlodek Zadrozny : Karen Jensen \fBTRACK B:\fR How to Become Immune to Facts M.J. Coombs : R.T. Hartley : W.B. Kilgore : H.D. Pfeiffer Constrained Rational Agency Bruce D'Ambrosio : Tony Fountain : Lothar Kaul Abductive Inference in AI: Potential Unifications Venugopala Rao Dasigi A Prolog Implementation of the Stable Model TMS Stephen Pimentel : John L. Cuadrado \fBTRACK C:\fR Multiple Level Island Search Peter C. Nelson : John F. Dillenburg Efficient Learning with Representative Presentations Xiaofeng (Charles) Ling User Modelling in a Knowledge-Based Environment for European Learning Michael F. McTear : Norman Creaney : Weiru Liu Training a Neural Network to be a Context Sensitive Grammer Robert F. Simmons : Yeong-Ho Yu 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch \fB2:00 pm: Invited talk: Roger Schank, Northwestern University\fP Six AI teaching architectures 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Coffee \fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Invited talk: Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland\fP 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Three tracks of submitted papers \fBTRACK A:\fR Towards Empirically Derived Semantic Classes Brian M. Slator : Shahrzad Amirsoleymani : Sandra Andersen : Kent Braaten John Davis : Rhonda Ficek : Hossein Hakimzadeh : Lester McCann : Joseph Rajkumar : Sam Thangiah : Daniel Thureen Using Words Louise Guthrie : Paul Mc Kevitt : Yorick Wilks \fBTRACK B:\fR An Expert Tool for Digital Circuit Design F.N. Sibai : K. L. Watson Explaining Control Strategy in Second Generation Expert Systems Xuejun Tong \fBTRACK C:\fR A New Approach to Analyzing Aerial Photographics Dwayne Phillips Acquiring Categorical Aspects: A Connectionist Account of Figurative Noun Semantics Susan Hollbach Weber 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Japanese Buffet in Garden Center (Budagher's) SATURDAY 30th June 1990: \fB9:00 am: Invited talk: Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, UK\fP The syntax of pragmatics 10:00 am: Coffee 10:30 am - 11:30: Two tracks of submitted papers \fBTRACK A\fR An Experiment on Technical Text Reproduction Wanying Jin Explanation Dialogues: Interpreting Real Life Questions & Explanations Efstratios Sarantinos : Peter Johnson Modeling of mind and its application to image sequence understanding Naoyuki Okada \fBTRACK B:\fR Communication and Belief Changes in a Society of Agents Graca Gaspar An Interval Calculus Based Finite Domain Constraint Solver and its Implementation in Prolog Jin-Kao Hao : Jean-Jacques Chabrier Dynamic Context Diagrams: the pragmatics of social interaction in KBS development Simon P.H. Morgan 11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Lunch \fB1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Invited talk: James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder\fP .nf .ta 1.2i A Unified Approach To Conventional Non-Literal Language 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Coffee \fB3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Invited talk: Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratories\fP Pragmatic Artificial Neural Nets for the Nonlinear Prediction of Time Series 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Banquet (Double Eagle) .ce ***************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE: *John Barnden, New Mexico State University (Connectionism, Beliefs, Metaphor processing) *Hans Brunner, U S WEST Advanced Technologies (Natural language interfaces, Dialogue interfaces) *Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Dynamical systems, Artificial neural networks, Applications) *Mike Coombs, New Mexico State University (Problem solving, Adaptive systems, Planning) *Dan Eshner, University of Maryland (Planning, Search, Knowledge Representation) *Thomas Eskridge, Lockheed Missile and Space Co. (Analogy, Problem solving) *Chris Fields, New Mexico State University (Neural networks, Nonlinear systems, Applications) *Roger Hartley, New Mexico State University (Knowledge Representation, Planning, Problem Solving) *Victor Johnson, New Mexico State University (Genetic Algorithms) *Paul Mc Kevitt, New Mexico State University (Natural language interfaces, Dialogue modeling) *Joe Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University (Computer Vision, Parallel architectures) *Keith Phillips, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Computer vision, Mathematical modelling) *Roger Schvaneveldt, New Mexico State University (Knowledge representation, Knowledge elicitation, cognitive modeling) *Brian Slator, North Dakota State University (Natural language processing, Knowledge acquisition) *Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University (Natural language processing, Knowledge representation) *Scott Wolff, U S WEST Advanced Technologies (Intelligent tutoring, User interface design, Cognitive modeling) Organizing Committee RMCAI-90: Paul Mc Kevitt Yorick Wilks Research Scientist Director, CRL CRL and Professor, NMSU Computer Science cut------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ********************************************** Paul Mc Kevitt, Computing Research Laboratory, Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. E-mail: INTERNET: paul@sparta.nmsu.edu Fax: (+1 505)-646-6218 Phone: (+1 505)-646-5109/5466 Nil an la an gaothaithe la na scolb!! **********************************************