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ccl.kuleuven.ac.be>Content-Length: 7071 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. ======================================================================= 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: tmi95Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dcs.shef.ac.uk>Content-Length: 9292 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: SLeongMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue