IRList Digest Thursday, 9 July 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: Query - Stemming - Online HAI Discussion - Representation of dictionary information Announcement - ISI Grapher - Preliminary program Visual Languages '87 News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 87 14:54:01 EDT From: Michael Hawley Subject: IR query I'm looking for reasonable stemming algorithms -- one good one, for English, to reduce a given word form to a canonical base form, would be great. An inflection generator would also be wonderful (something to cast a word in some other functional form, e.g., plural, past tense, whatever). Any leads appreciated - Michael Hawley mike@media-lab.mit.edu [Note: I expect donna@nlm-vax.arpa is a good place to start. - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jun 87 14:14:09 EDT From: Bruce Nevin Subject: online HAI Is the machine-readable text of the _Handbook of Artificial Intelligence_ available on line by ftp? I saw your mention of it in IRList 3.16 (last Friday's digest). [Note: I have it online but had to obtain tapes after getting permission of publisher and authors. Also, I am not yet on ARPAnet (but am supposed to be in about a month!). - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Jun 87 11:51:16 edt From: amsler@flash.bellcore.com (Robert Amsler) Subject: representation of dictionary information . . . I am concerned now with the representation of dictionary information by whomever wants to use dictionaries and in making sure that whatever format is developed meets all users needs. Personally, I am involved in correcting a lot of errors in the Seventh Collegiate and improving its format for easier extraction of linguistic data as well as extending the format to other dictionaries. Generally, all formats tend to have more in common with each other than with the original book--as long as they didn't discard information. Thus, while two formats may look radically different, they tend to be algorithmically derivable whereas the original work may lack information and require extensive manual labor to get formatted. So, I'd welcome news of your format. [Note: We have put the Collins dictionary into a set of Prolog relations. Alas, we have spent an enormous amount of time making manual corrections, but the end is in sight! We (Martha Evens of IIT, along with J. Terry Nutter and I at Virginia Tech) are starting a new project soon to build an enormous semantic network from several dictionaries merged together, with hopes that it will be of service to many others, and would welcome comments from you and others regarding how to "meet all users needs". - Ed] Bob Amsler ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Jun 87 16:35 EDT From: Gabriel Robins Subject: The ISI Grapher [Excerpted from NL-KR which in turn excerpted from AIList - Ed] Greetings, Due to the considerable interest drawn by the ISI Grapher so far, I am posting this abstract summarizing its function and current status. Interested parties may obtain further information by directly sending EMail to "gabriel@vaxa.isi.edu" or by writing to: Gabriel Robins Intelligent Systems Division Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey, Ca 90292-6695 If you want documentation in hardcopy, please include your U.S. Mail address. Gabe The ISI Grapher June, 1987 Gabriel Robins Intelligent Systems Division Information Sciences Institute The ISI Grapher is a set of functions that convert an arbitrary graph structure (or relation) into an equivalent pictorial representation and displays the resulting diagram. Nodes and edges in the graph become boxes and lines on the workstation screen, and the user may then interact with the Grapher in various ways via the mouse and the keyboard. The fundamental motivation which gave birth to the ISI Grapher is the observation that graphs are very basic and common structures, and the belief that the ability to quickly display, manipulate, and browse through graphs may greatly enhance the productivity of a researcher, both quantitatively and qualitatively. This seems especially true in knowledge representation and natural language research. The ISI Grapher is both powerful and versatile, allowing an application-builder to easily build other tools on top of it. The ISI NIKL Browser is an example of one such tool. The salient features of the ISI Grapher are its portability, speed, versatility, and extensibility. Several additional applications were already built on top of the ISI Grapher, providing the ability to graph lists, flavors, packages, divisors, functions, and Common-Loops classes. Several basic Grapher operations may be user-controlled via the specification of alternate functions for performing these tasks. These operations include the drawing of nodes and edges, the selection of fonts, the determination of print-names, pretty-printing, and highlighting operations. Standard definitions are already provided for these operations and are used by default if the application-builder does not override them by specifying his own custom-tailored functions for performing the same tasks. The ISI Grapher now spans about 100 pages of CommonLisp code. The 120-page ISI Grapher manual is available; this manual describes the general ideas, the interface, the application-builder's back-end, the algorithms, the implementation, and the data structures. The ISI Grapher presently runs on both Symbolics (6 & 7) and TI Explorer workstations. If you are interested in more information, the sources themselves, or just the documentation/manual, please feel free to forward your U.S. Mail address to "gabriel@vaxa.isi.edu" or write to "Gabriel Robins, c/o Information Sciences Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, Ca 90292-6695." ------------------------------ Date: Tue 23 Jun 87 16:45:40 From: Roland Hjerppe Subject: Prel. Program Visual Languages 1987 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1987 WORKSHOP ON VISUAL LANGUAGES August 19-21, 1987 Linkoping, Sweden Program Declaration: The workshop is concentrated on theory, methodology and applications of visual languages, including languagaes that have a heavy visual component as well as languages designed for operating on visual objects. Areas related to visual languages, such as: Man-Machine Interface, Office Automation, Computer Hardware, Knowledge Based Systems are also of interest if the visual language is in focus. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Wednesday August 19, 1987 09.00 Welcome address Sven Erlander Rector of the University of Linkoping 09.20 Key-note-address Werner Schneider, University of Uppsala 10.10 Coffee break 10.40 Session 1. Icon Formalization Co-chairmen: S. K. Chang and Nan Shu Icon Purity - Toward a Formal Theory of Icons Shi-Kuo Chang, G. Tortora*, Bing Yu and A. Guercio* University of Pittsburgh, *University of Salerno Visual Representaion in the Game of Adumbration Steven L. Tanimoto University of Washington Approach to Standardize Icons K. Furuya, S. Tayama, E. Kutsuwada and K. Matsumura Toshiba Corporation 12.10 Lunch 13.30 Session 2: Visual Programming Co-chairmen: Clarence Ellis and Ch. Krysander Animation of Algorithms without Programming A. Hyrskykari and K.-J. Raiha University of Tampere Visual Programming of Program Visualizations A Gestural Interface for Animating Algorithms Robert Duisberg Tektronix, Inc Software Design Capture Don Petersen MCC Generalized Halstead Metrics for Iconic Programming? Ephraim P. Glinert and Craig D. Smith* Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, *AT & T Bell Labs 15.00 Coffee break 15.30 Session 3: Sheet Languages Co-chairmen: E. Glinert and W. Schneider A Spreadsheet-Based Visual Language for Freehand Sketching of Complex Motions J. Michael Moshell, Charles E. Huges, Lee Lacy, Rick Lewis University of Central Florida and David N. Blower Naval Training Systems Center Forms: Expanding the Visualness of Sheet Languages Allen L. Ambler University of Kansas Description Based Icon Design P. Mussio, M. Padula* and M. Protti University of Milan, *C.N.R. S.I.A.M. 18.30 Cocktail Party at the CS Dept. of University of Linkoping Thursday August 20 1987 09.00 Session 4: Applications Co-chairmen: S. Levialdi and G. Borgefors Animation Using Behaviour Functions Timothy C. Lethbridge and Colin Ware University of New Brunswick An Extended Visual Programming Synthesizer for Computer Aided Instruction Applications K. Y. Cheng, M. S. Hwu and C. C. Hsu National Taiwan University Visual Programming of Graphical User Interfaces Gurminder Singh and Mark Green University of Alberta 10.15 Coffee break 10.45 Session 5: Information Retrieval Applications Co-chairmen: Robert R. Korfhage and Roland Hjerppe A Pictorial Representation of Data in an Information Retrieval Environment Donald B. Crouch Tulane University A Graphical Tool for Structuring and Understanding Quantiative Decision Models Charles Wiecha and Max Henrion Carnegie-Mellon University QPF - A Versatile Query Language Based on ADTS Tao Chen and Jian-Kang Wu University of Science and Technology of China Methodologies and Applications of Visual languages for Information Services S. C. Chan, I. F. Chang, T. S. Chua, K. C. Chu, A. B. H. Kang, K. C. Kwok, C. K. Law, J. L. Lim, K. T. Loh, H. B. Low, A. D. Narasimhalu, T. M. Ng, and W. H. Wong, National University of Singapore 12.15 Lunch 13.30 Session 6: Panel: Visual Grammars: Consistency and Desirability Chairman and Moderator: Erland Jungert National Defence Research Institute, Sweden Panelists: S. K. Chang, Univ. of Pittsburg S. L. Tanimoto, Univ. of Washington M. Tauber, Univ. of Paderborn 14.45 Coffee break 15.15 Session 7: Visual Data Structures Co-chairmen: Tadao Ichikawa and G. Tortora Specification of Visual Representations of Petri Nets A. T. Berztiss University of Pittsburgh A Rapid Prototyping of Real-Time Software Using Petri Nets Tadashi Ae and Reiji Aibara University of Hiroshima A Visual Programming Environment for Hierarchical Data Structures Sandra Loosemore University of Utah 18.00 Buses from Ekoxen and Stora Hotellet depart for the Conference dinnner. Friday August 21 09.00 Session 8: Panel on Visual Human-Machine Interfaces Chairman and Moderator Stefano Levialdi University of Rome 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Session 9: Visual Languages and Systems Co-chairmen: Steven L. Tanimoto and T. Ae From Modern Alchemy to a New Renaissance Kim Fairchild and Eric Gullichsen MCC Simulacrum: A System Behavior Example Editor David Bridgeland MCC Icon Driven Troubleshooting L. Cinque, M. Crisplodi and S. Levialdi* SELENIA s.p.a. *University of Rome Visual Specification of Security Constraints J. D. Tygar and Jeannette M. Wing Carnegie Mellon University 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 10: Visual Programming Languages Co-chairmen: P. Mussio and S. Hagglund An Environment for HI-VISUAL Iconic Programming M. Hirakawa, S. Iwata, I. Yosimoto, M. Tanaka and T. Ichikawa University of Hiroshima ALEX - An Alexical Programming Language D. Kozen, T. Teitelbaum, W. Chen, J. Field, W. Pugh and B. Vander Zanden Cornell University A Visual Environment for the Design of Distributed Systems Michael Graf MCC 15.30 Closing session CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Sponsors: Univ. of Linkoping, Dept. of Computer and Information Science Univ. of Pittsburg, Dept. of Information Science In cooperation with: IEEE-CS With support from: FOA3, National Defense Research Institute, Linkoping FFV Elektronik AB, Linkoping SSI, Swedish Society for Information Processing, Local Chapter of Linkoping Conference Chairman: Prof. Robert Korfhage, Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA 15260, U.S.A. Program Chairman: Erland Jungert, FOA3, Box 1165, S-581 11 Linkoping Sweden Organizers: Roland Hjerppe, Christian Krysander, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Linkoping, S-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden UUCP:RHJ@LIUIDA, ARPA:RHJ%LIUIDA.UUCP@SEISMO Conference Secretary: Ingrid Nyman, Telephone +46 13 281148 (not during July) ADVANCE REGISTRATION FORM, VisLang87 Aug. 19-21, 1987 Linkoping, SWEDEN Name: Company/Organisation: Address: City/State/ZIP: Country: ************************************************************************** WORKSHOP FEE Workshop fee including proceedings, refreshments and banquet. Early registration before June 25, 1987 SEK 1700/person ............... Registration from June 25, 1987 SEK 2100/person ............... (IEEE-CS members will receive repayment of SEK 65.00 ($10.00) at registration) Please note that the number of delegates are limited. 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