IRList Digest Thursday, 3 July 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: Email - Problems with CSNET to BITNET transfers Email - IRList connection to BITNET is probably OK Query - URGENT! Can IR community advise on online ACM Computing Reviews? Query - Specific references on natural language: rapid reply needed References - Natural language processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From fox Wed Jul 2 11:08 EDT 1986 Subject: trouble with ARPAnet/Bitnet gateway News has recently filtered down to me from CSNET about some loss of messages that people should be made aware of. There is a severe overload of traffic at Wisconsin machine "wiscvm" which is the official gateway between BITNET and ARPANET. When mail is sent to CSNET, destined for a BITNET machine, it may not get through! Please let me know if you have missed IRList messages. I suggest you ask for acknowledgment on all crucial messages going through wiscvm. - Ed Fox ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jul 86 21:54:16 EDT From: Rick Adams Subject: Re: CSNET problems with BITNET traffic [Note: following is comment sent regarding IRList traffic to BITNET recipients. It looks like we are OK, but caution is advised! - Ed] it goes through wiscvm. Occasionally there is a backup and then I reroute them through harvard ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jun 86 19:24:24 edt From: vtcs1::janlee Subject: Computing Reviews [Note: the following is from J.A.N. Lee, Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He has been serving as Vice President of ACM. He would like the advice of one or more members of the IR community. Please respond to IRList so we can all discuss this, and send direct communications to JAN at: ARPANET: janlee%vt@csnet-relay.arpa BITNET: janlee@vtcs1 CSNET: janlee@vt Thanks for your cooperation! - Ed] Ed: Over the past few years, under Jean Sammet's leadership, ACM's journal "Computing Reviews" has been "automated" in two significant ways: (1) The management of the review process is now installed on the Association's IBM 4361, mainly to better select reviewers and to track their responses, and (2) To prepare the journal on-line with automatic type-setting through Science Press. We have thus created a massive "data base" which is also used to create the Annual Guides to the Literature. On the other hand, the income from the sales of the journal and the annual Guides does not come close to covering our costs. At the same time, after many years of service Jean Sammet has asked to be relieved of the editorship at the end of the current volume. I have been asked to head a committee to look at how we might enhance our services to the community using this data base. ACM is already considering electronic publications for other journals so there might be a possibility of "piggy-backing" several such activities together. I would like to invite the IR community to suggest directions that we might take in making good use of this volunteer driven data base; all suggestions will be earnestly considered. Commentaries should be sent to me at "janlee at vtcs1 on csnet" before August 4th next. Thanks JAN ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jul 86 10:54:00 PST Subject: NL references/ideas From: sefai@nwc-143b.ARPA Ed, Thanks for the two references. Before I head off to UCLA this weekend and dive thru all the literature, do you know if anyone has addressed the issue of using specific bit configurations to represent words. What I'm after is the creation of an index that I can use to manipulate words and somehow use this index to relay semantic information. What comes to mind is Shank's definition of interlingua in one of his earlier works. I'd appreciate any leads/info/thoughts you may have. Thanks, Gene Guglielmo sefai@nwc-143b China Lake, Ca. [Note: see the references below that Gene has already received, and please reply directly to him as well as to IRList if you have any additions to help. - Ed] ------------------------------ From: sefai@nwc-143b.ARPA Date: 1 Jul 86 15:35:00 PST Subject: Natural Language References [Note: this refers back to Query in V2 #26, 8 June 1986 - Ed] As promised, the following is a list of references on Natural Language. I'd like to thank all who contributed references as well as suggestions. Before I can definitely commit to my topic, I need to investigate work done by Harris and Wiley, Sager, and Winograd. Hopefully, I'll nail this down before summer's end. Will keep you posted. Gene Guglielmo SEFAI@NWC-143B China Lake, Ca. rA Ananiashviii, G.G. rA Mundzhishvii, Z.I. rA Bichashvii, N.N. rP Word Identification in a Natural Language in Interactive Systems rC Soobshch. Akad. Nauk. Gurzin. SSR rD 1984 rA Boguraev, B.K. rA Jones, K.S. rP A Framework for Inference in Natural Language Front Ends to Databases rI University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory rC Report No. 64 rD 1985 rA Brachman, Ron (ed) rA Levesque, Hector (ed) rB Readings in Knowledge Representation rI Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. rW Palo Alto, California rD 1986 rA Briggs, R. rP Transcendental Semantic Primitives for Natural Language Processing rI Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center rC RIACS Techical Report TR 85.14 rW Moffett Field, California rD 1985 rA Damerau, F.J. rP An Interactive Customization Program for a Natural Language Database Query System rI IBM Research Division rC Report No. 10411 rD 1984 rA Damerau, F.J. rP Problems and Some Solutions in Customization of Natural Language Data Base Front Ends rI IBM Research Division rC Report No. 10872 rD 1984 rA Dyer, M.G. rB In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated Processing for Narrative Comprehension rI MIT Press rW Cambridge, Massachusetts rD 1986 rA Enomoto, H. rP TELL: a Natural Language Based Software Development System rI Institute for New Generation Computer Technology rC Report No. 67 rD 1984 rA Findler, Nicholas V. (ed) rB Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers rI Academic Press rW NY rD 1983 rA Frederking, R.E. rP Syntax and Semantics in natural Language Parsers rI Carnegie-Melon University rC Department of Computer Science rC Report No. 85-133 rD 1985 rA Harris, M.D. rB Introduction to Natural Language Processing rA Harris, Z. rA Wiley rB A Grammar of English on Mathematical Principles rD 1984 rA Ibragimov, T.I. rB Cybernetics and Natural Languages rA Jacobs, P.S. rP PHRED: A Generator for Natural Language Interfaces rI University of California rC Berkeley Computer Science Division rC Report No. 85-198 rD 1985 rA Johnson, D.E. rP Design of a Robust, Portable Natural Language Interface Grammar rI IBM Research Division rC Report NO. 10867 rD 1984 rA Johnson, T. rB Natural Language Computing: The Commercial Applications rI Ovum Limited rW London rA Kalita, J.K. rP Generating Summary Responses to Natural Language Database rI University of Saskatchewan rC Report No. 84-9 rD 1984 rA Kandrirody, A. rA Kapur, D. rA Narendran, P. rB An Ideal-Theoretic Approach to Word Problems and Unification Problems over Finitely Presented Commutative Algebras rA Karpen, J.L rP The Digitized Word: Orality, Literacy, and the Computerization of Language rC Ph.D. thesis rI Bowling Green State University rW Bowling Green, Ohio rD 1984 rA Marcus, M.P. rB A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language rI MIT Press rW Cambridge, Massachusetts rD 1985 rA Mays, E. rP A Modal Temporal Logic for Reasoning About Changing Database with Applications to Natural Language Question Answering rI Unviersity of Pennsylvania rC Moore School of Electrical Engineering rC Department of Computer Science rC Report No. 85-01 rD 1985 rA Michalski, R.S. rA Carbonell, J.G. rA Mitchell, T.M. rB Machine Learning; An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume II rI Morgan kaufman Publishers, Inc. rW Palo Alto, California rD 1986 rA Neuamnn, B. rP Natural Language Descriptions of TIme-Varying Scenes rI Universitaet Hamburg. rC Fachbereich Informatik rC Report NO. 105 rD 1984 rA Orlowska, E. rP The Montague Formalization of Natural Language rI Polish Academy of Sciences rC Institute of Computer Sciences rC Report No. 105 rD 1984 rA Petrick, S.R. rP Natural Language Database Query Systems rI IBM Research Division rC Report No. 10508 rD 1984 rA Rau, L.F. rP The Understanding and Generation of Ellipses in a Natural Language Systems. rI University of California Berkeley rC Computer Science Division rC Report No. 85-227 rD 1984 rA Sager, Naomi rB Natural Language Information Processing rI Addison-Wesley rW Reading rA Saint-Dizier, P. rP An Approach to natural Language Semantics in Logic Programming rI Institute National de Recherce en Informatique et en Automatique rC Report NO. 389 rA Salton rA McGill rB Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval rA Schank, R.C (ed) rA Colby, K.M. (ed) rB Computer Models of Thought and Language rI W.H.Freeman and Company rW San Francisco rD 1973 rA Schank, R.C. rB Conceptual Information Processing rI Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. rW Amsterdam rD 1984 rA Schank, R.C. rA Childers, P.G. rB The Cognitive Computer rI Addison-Wesley rW Reading rD 1984 rA Schieber, Stuart M. rP An Introduction to Unification-based Approaches to Grammar rI University of Chicago Press rC CSLI Lecture Note Series rD 1986 rA Sowa, John F. rB Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine rP Addison-Wesley rW Reading rD 1984 rA VanRijsbergen rB Information Retrieval, 2nd Edition rA Winograd, Terry rB Language as a Cognitive Process, Volume 1: Syntax rI Addison-Wesley rW Reading rD 1983 rP Large-Dictionary, On-Line Recognition of Spoken Words rI Helsinki University of Technology rC PB84-214246/CAO rD 1983 rB Natural Language Processing: A Knowledge Engineering Approach rL 0-8476-7358-8