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CSLI Calendar, 2 November 1989, vol. 5:7
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Subject: CSLI Calendar, 2 November 1989, vol. 5:7
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Date: Wed 1 Nov 1989 15:10:30
C S L I C A L E N D A R O F P U B L I C E V E N T S
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2 November 1989 Stanford Vol. 5, No. 7
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A weekly publication of the Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR THIS THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 1989
12:00 noon TINLunch
Cordura 100 Local Prepositions and the Syntax-Semantics
Relationship
Dieter Wunderlich
University of Duesseldorf
(dieter@csli)
Abstract below
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Cordura 100 Models of Rational Agency 6
Michael Bratman, Martha Pollack, Stan Rosenschein
(bratman@csli.stanford.edu,
pollack@warbucks.ai.sri.com, stan@teleos.com)
Speaker: Yoav Shoham
(shoham@score.stanford.edu)
Abstract in last week's Calendar
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 1989
12:00 noon TINLunch
Cordura 100 Empirical Studies of the Role of Notation
in Program Development
Elin Roenby Pedersen
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Copenhagen School of Business and Administration
(elin@csli.stanford.edu)
Abstract below
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Cordura 100 Models of Rational Agency 7
Michael Bratman, Martha Pollack, Stan Rosenschein
(bratman@csli.stanford.edu,
pollack@warbucks.ai.sri.com, stan@teleos.com)
Speaker: Phil Cohen
(pcohen@ai.sri.com)
Abstract in next week's Calendar
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THIS WEEK'S TINLUNCH
Local Prepositions and the Syntax-Semantics Relationship
Dieter Wunderlich
1. Some assumptions about compositionality and the structure of
lexical entries: The theta-grid as an interface between semantics
and syntax.
2. On the predicative nature of prepositional phrases.
3. Attributes and adverbials as syntactic parasites: On the conflict
between X-bar theory and categorial grammar, and its solution.
4. Prepositional phrases as arguments: On transferred and incorporated
predicates. (What, e.g., is the proper lexical entry of verbs such
as "put"?)
5. Data from word order in German as syntactic evidence for
predicate incorporation: Why must predicative theta-roles be
discharged first?
6. Data from prefixed verbs in German as morphological evidence
for predicate incorporation: On diathesis and functional
composition in the prefixed verbs of German.
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NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
Empirical Studies of the Role of Notation
in Program Development
Elin Roenby Pedersen
In my talk, I shall describe a series of empirical studies of the role
of "notation" in program development. The studies resulted in the
development of a view of notation as aspects of linguistic practice
and knowledge that are concerned with the psychological phonomenon of
"encircling modes of description." This view of notation differs from
earlier concepts of it, e.g., as some system of representation that the
author and the reader are supposed to be using, whether consciously or
unconsciously, or as some system that lies intrinsically beneath
texts.
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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
The Riemann Hypothesis from a Logician's Point of View
Yuri Matijasevitch
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Leningrad, USSR
Thursday, 2 November, 4:15, 380-380W (basement)
No abstract available. Tea will be served before the colloquium, at
3:30, in the third-floor lounge of the mathematics department, room 383N.
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
Bell's Theorem: What It Takes
Jeremy Butterfield
Jesus College, Cambridge University
visiting at Princeton University
Friday, 3 November, 3:15, 90-91A
No abstract available.
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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT SPECIAL SEMINAR
Exponential Diophantine Equations as Computers
Yuri Matijasevitch
Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Leningrad, USSR
Friday, 3 November, 4:15, 380-383N
No abstract available.
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COMMONSENSE AND NONMONOTONIC REASONING SEMINAR
Autoepistemic Modal Logics
Grigory Shvarts
Program Systems Institute
of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Pereslavl-Zalessky, USSR
Monday, 6 November, 3:15
Margaret Jacks Hall 252
A modal approach to nonmonotonic reasoning was proposed by Drew
McDermott and Jon Doyle in 1980-82. Almost immediately, some
disadvantages of that approach were pointed out. Robert Moore (1983)
proposed his autoepistemic logic, which overcomes these difficulties.
Later, some authors (Kurt Konolige, Paul Morris, and others) found
peculiarities of different kinds in Moore's logic and proposed rather
complicated solutions to these problems.
A careful mathematical analysis of Moore's and McDermott's approaches
shows that Moore's logic is merely a special case of McDermott's
logic, at least formally. The problems that arose in Moore's logic
may find a simple and uniform solution by coming back to McDermott's
original concept.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTERS, DESIGN, AND WORK
Work-Mapping Analysis for Design of Computer Support
Terry Winograd and Finn Kensing
(winograd@csli.stanford.edu, kensing@csli.stanford.edu)
Wednesday, 8 November, 12:15, Ventura 17
We are developing a methodology for systematically observing and
analyzing work patterns, including but not limited to computer-based
work. The resulting analysis is intended as the basis for proposing
and designing computer-based support systems and the reorganization
they will bring to the work. We have developed a framework for
analysis, based on the language/action perspective, which focuses on
the communicative activities of the work participants, identifying
recurrent patterns of conversation and the associated patterns of
breakdown. We are planning to do a first field study using this
framework later in November.
In this presentation, we will describe the analysis framework within
the context of the overall methodology and seek help from the
attendees in improving it as we get ready to put it into practice.
Later in the quarter, we plan to give another seminar describing what
happens when the theory meets the real world.