Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!aurora!labrea!agate!ucbvax!VTVAX3.BITNET!FOXEA From: FOXEA@VTVAX3.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.theory.info-retrieval Subject: IRList Digest V4 #3 Message-ID: <8801270735.AA21769@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 27 Jan 88 02:27:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IRLIST-L%VTVM2.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu Organization: The Internet Lines: 281 Approved: irlist-l@vtvm2.bitnet IRList Digest Tuesday, 26 January 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: COGSCI - Emergence of utterance meaning through social interaction - Cooperative plans and discourse CSLI - 4th yr. report, 1987 Linguistics Institute, Postdoc. fellowships News addresses are Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1988 15:55 EST From: Peter de Jong Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed] Date: Monday, 4 January 1988 10:02-EST From: Dori Wells Re: Reminder Lang. & Cognition Seminar BBN Science Development Program Language and Cognition Seminar THE EMERGENCE OF UTTERANCE MEANING THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTION Charles and Marjorie Goodwin Department of Anthropology University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina BBN Laboraatories 10 Moulton Street Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor 10:30 a.m., Thursday, January 7, 1988 Abstract: Using micro-analysis of video-taped materials, we will show how utterances (and the sentences being made visible through them) are shaped by ongoing processes of interaction between speaker and recipient(s) that is occurring while the utterance is being spoken. The emerging utterance is modified as various contingencies emerge within the interaction. For example as speaker moves his or her gaze from one possible recipient to another, the emerging sentence is changed so that it remains appropriate to its recipient of the moment. As the interaction unfolds new segments are added to the emerging utterance, other projected segments are deleted and the emerging meaning of the utterance is reconstructed. The utterance thus emerges not from the actions of speaker alone, but rather as the result of an collaborative process of interaction that includes the active participation of recipient(s) as well. For information about this Seminar Series contact Livia Polanyi at 873-3455 [lpolanyi@g.bbn.com] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1988 17:46 EST From: Peter de Jong Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed] Date: Friday, 15 January 1988 11:39-EST From: Marc Vilain Re: BBN AI Seminar -- Grosz & Sidner BBN Science Development Program AI Seminar Series Lecture COLLABORATIVE PLANS AND DISCOURSE Barbara Grosz, Harvard University Candy Sidner, BBN Laboratories, Inc. (grosz@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU, sidner@G.BBN.COM) BBN Labs 10 Moulton Street 2nd floor large conference room 10:30 am, Tuesday January 19th Discourses are fundamentally instances of collaborative behavior among multiple agents. The collaborative nature of discourse is most apparent in dialogues. The participants in a dialogue work together to satisfy various of their individual and joint needs. Their utterances are actions that contribute to the satisfaction of these needs. From this perspective communication is a means for working collaboratively to achieve shared objectives. Because collaborative action comprises actions by different agents, collaborative plans involve the intentions of multiple agents. Furthermore, the collaborative planning process is a refinement process; a partial plan description is modified over the course of planning by the [multiple] agents involved in the collaboration. Most existing theories of actions, plans, and the plan recognition process do not deal adequately with collaboration. In this seminar we will discuss recent joint work on defining a model for plans that involve actions by two agents, and on specifying the process of developing a collaborative plan for satisfying a jointly agreed upon objective. Collaborative plans will be defined in terms of intentions of the agents and beliefs they share about actions and intentions. We will show how utterances are used to establish shared beliefs, to establish the holding of intentions, and to refine a partial plan. Examples will be presented involving several different types of actions performed by multiple agents, including simultaneous actions. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 17:10:22 PST From: Emma Pease Subject: CSLI Monthly [Extract - Ed] January 1988 Dear Monthly Subscriber: CSLI has decided to suspend publication of the Monthly, at least temporarily. On request, I will send you a copy of our Fourth Year Report, which contains the project reports that were promised for the next few issues of the Monthly. Please send e-mail with your postal address to hyde@russell.stanford.edu if you would like to receive a copy of the report. Attached is a report from Ivan Sag about the 1987 Linguistic Institute, an announcement about CSLI's postdoctoral fellow program for 1988-89, ... Thank you for your interest in CSLI. I hope you will continue to keep in contact with us via our CSLI reports and CSLI lecture notes. For further information about these series, please write to: Dikran Karagueuzian Editor Center for the Study of Language and Information Ventura Hall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4115 Sincerely, Elizabeth Macken Associate Director CSLI -------------------- THE 1987 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE >From 29 June to 7 August 1987, the Stanford Linguistics Department was host to the 54th Linguistic Institute, whose theme was "Computational and Contextual Dimensions of Language." The program we mounted offered more than sixty courses in a number of different research areas, including linguistic theory, computational linguistics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, artificial intelligence, historical linguistics, the philosophy of language, educational linguistics, theories of information, and African linguistics. These courses were taught by more than eighty faculty, including many CSLI researchers, and attracted more than a thousand participants. In addition, there were eight conferences, five ongoing workshops, and three lecture series. It was exhausting, but it was exhilarating. Since the 1920s, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has sponsored Linguistic Institutes on any number of university campuses. They have always been the locus of intellectual excitement, featuring courses by distinguished scholars from all over the world. And our Institute was no exception. But ours was unique in a number of ways: it was probably the biggest (counting all the diverse sorts of participants); it was the most interdisciplinary (the faculty included a bevy of computer scientists, psychologists, and philosophers); it was the most "hi-tech" (hundreds of linguists took their first crack at sophisticated computing facilities) and it was the most intense. I've participated in nine previous Institutes, and never have I seen people attend lectures virtually nonstop from early in the morning to late at night and still have the energy to boogie 'til they dropped on weekends. What got these hundreds of people so excited? It wasn't just the well-catered parties and the rock 'n' roll (was it?). It was the enthusiasm of the individual instructors, the quality of the courses, the richness of the special events, and -- in hundreds of cases -- the opportunity to get a first-hand acquaintance with the work being done around CSLI. Computational linguistics in particular seemed to be the most popular area of study, but situation semantics, information-based grammatical theories, and discourse/pragmatics also generated enthusiastic responses from the large number of students, visiting scholars, and other auditors who attended courses in these areas. At the 1974 Institute at UMass (Amherst), there were two courses in particular that generated this same sort of excitement: Barbara Partee's Montague Grammar course, and David Perlmutter and Paul Postal's course in relational grammar. In both cases, Institute participants from all over the world took away new ideas, perspectives, and analytic techniques, which gave rise to new research communities in many distant lands. Both research traditions have had a major impact on the field of linguistics, due in no small part to the Amherst Institute. It will be interesting to watch the effects of our Institute in the years to come. But even if you missed it (while you were on vacation in the south of France), all is not lost. Thanks to the efforts of Fernando Pereira, Ray Perrault, and Bob Moore, SRI International agreed to finance the videotaping of eleven Institute courses (those taught by Kay, Pereira, Shieber, Pollard and Sag, Bresnan, Hayes and Nilsson, Gazdar and Mellish, Chierchia, and Gazdar and Pullum). These will be available for sale in the near future, with part of the royalties going to a fund to support fellowships for future Linguistic Institutes. There are many debts to acknowledge. The Institute received generous support from its cosponsoring organizations, the Linguistic Society of America, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, as well as from the Sloan Foundation and the Soros Foundation. In addition, the System Development Foundation made a generous gift to the LSA to support student fellowships. Thanks are also due to the Xerox Corporation, which contributed the services of several Institute faculty and support for the Logic and Linguistics Conference; to the Hewlett-Packard Company, which sponsored the symposium on Evaluating Natural Language Systems and an elegant post-symposium reception; to AT&T Bell Laboratories and Schlumberger Laboratories, each of which contributed the services of a faculty member; and to the IREX Board of ACLS, which supported the symposium on Lexical Semantics. But in particular, I would like to take this opportunity to thank CSLI, which (under the inspired leadership of Tom Wasow) provided constant support for every aspect of the 1987 Linguistic Institute, including our computer needs, our brochures, our posters, virtually every conference and workshop, and most importantly, our students. It would have been a very different Institute without the help of the CSLI staff (thanks to Emma, Rich, Brad, Doug, and Joyce in particular), and the various individuals supported by CSLI research funds who graciously contributed their lecturing services. It was an honor and a privilege to serve as director of the Institute, an honor and a privilege I will gladly pass on to one of you, should we ever decide (God help us!) to do it again. Ivan A. Sag Director: 1987 Linguistic Institute (on sabbatical: 1987--1988) -------------------- POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS The Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University is currently accepting applications for a small number of one-year postdoctoral fellowships commencing 1 September 1988. The awards are intended for people who have received their Ph.D. degrees since June 1985. Postdoctoral fellows will participate in an integrated program of basic research on situated language -- language as used by agents situated in the world to exchange, store, and process information, including both natural and computer languages. Awards are intended for scholars interested in at least one of the following areas of research: situation theory and situation semantics, discourse as rational activity, and embedded computation. For more information about CSLI's research programs and details of postdoctoral fellowship appointments, write to: Dr. Elizabeth Macken Associate Director Center for the Study of Language and Information Ventura Hall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4115 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 7 MARCH 1988 ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************