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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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23 May 1996 Stanford Vol. 11, No. 28
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A weekly publication of the Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), Stanford University, Ventura Hall, Stanford, CA 94305-4115
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CSLI ACTIVITIES DURING 23 MAY -- 31 MAY 1996
THURSDAY, 23 MAY
12:00 - CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
[Commentary: Guven Guzeldere]
Indexicality and the Knowledge Argument
John Perry, Stanford Philosophy
[john@csli.stanford.edu]
4:15 - SSP Forum
Presentation Palace, Room 025 [NOTE ROOM CHANGE]
SiliconBase: Networked Scholarly Workspaces for the
History of High Technology
Tim Lenoir, Stanford History Department
Abstract below
7:30 - Stanford Phonology Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall, Seminar Room 146
Regular and Exceptional Stress in German
Caroline Fery, University of Tuebingen
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 24 MAY
12:00 - Logic Seminar
Building 380, Room 383-N
Extensions of First Order Logic
Maria Manzano [manzano@csli.stanford.edu]
Abstract below
12:30 - HCI Seminar
Skilling Auditorium
Play and Learning with Technology, Realities of the
Marketplace
Ann McCormick, CAPS Mira Studio [ann@mirastudio.com]
Abstract below
1:00 - Philosophy Department One-Day Conference
Tresidder Union, Oak West Lounge, 2nd Fl
Evolution & Human Behavior
Philip Kitcher (UCSD), Susan Oyama (CUNY),
and John Dupre (Stanford)
1:15 - Translation Seminar
Ventura Hall, Room 17
Multilingual Document Recognition
Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center
Abstract below
3:30 - Linguistic Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Distribution of Objects in Urdu
Miriam Butt (Universitaet Stuttgart
[mutt@ims.uni-stuttgart.de]) and
Tracy King (Stanford [thking@csli])
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 28 MAY
6:30 - SSP Film Series
Cubberly Hall, Room 128
Stranger in the Mirror [NOVA program about visual
agnosia] (1993)
WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY
4:15 - Seminar on Computational Learning and Probabilistic
Reasoning
Gates Building, Room 104
Recent Work on Probabilistic Methods in Learning
Wray Buntine
THURSDAY, 30 MAY
11:00 - Special Talk
Ventura Hall, Room 17
Metaphor and Lexical Semantics
James Pustejovsky, Computer Science, Brandeis
FRIDAY, 31 MAY
12:30 - HCI Seminar
Skilling Auditorium
The interactions design awards
Lauralee Alben (Alben+Ferris), Harry Saddler (Apple),
Terry Winograd (Stanford) [mail@albenfaris.com]
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COGLUNCH SPRING SCHEDULE
Theme: Consciousness
The Thursday noon CogLunch series on consciousness will continue
through the Spring Quarter, starting in April. Here is a tentative
schedule of speakers and titles of the talks:
April 4: MARLEEN ROZEMOND (Philosophy, Stanford U.)
"Descartes and Consciousness"
11: TEED ROCKWELL (Berkeley, CA)
"Awareness, Mental Phenomena, and Consciousness:
A Synthesis of Dennett and Rosenthal"
18: ROGER SHEPARD (Psychology, Stanford U.)
"My Experience, Your Experience, and the World We Experience"
25: JOHN GABRIELI (Psychology, Stanford U.)
"Consciousness as the Gatekeeper of Memory"
May 2: BRIAN SMITH (Xerox PARC & Philosophy, Stanford U.)
"Who's on Third? The Physical Bases of Consciousness"
9: BOB ZAJONC (Psychology, Stanford U.)
"Unappraised Affect"
16: MICHAEL CORNER (Netherlands Institute for Brain Research)
"Prolegomena to Any Future Mind-Brain Synthesis, and
a Theory About the Nature of Self-Consciousness:
Phenomenological and Physiological Constraints"
23: JOHN PERRY [Commentary: G. Guzeldere]
"Indexicality and the Knowledge Argument"
PLEASE NOTE: The last CogLunch talk of the Spring Quarter by Ken Taylor has
been cancelled (5/30). CogLunch will conclude its 1995-96 program by John
Perry's talk on 5/23.
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FIFTH CSLI WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE, AND COMPUTATION
on 31 May - 2 June
Cordura Hall, Room 100
This annual event brings together philosophers, linguists, and computer
scientists with an interest in logic, with the overall aim of facilitating
interdisciplinary interaction. The previous four installments have been
pleasant and productive, with a mix of participants from (mainly) California
and The Netherlands.
The Workshop is organized by Johan van Benthem, Henriette de Swart, Rob van
Glabbeek, and Jean Braithwaite
For information, contact (braith@csli.stanford.edu).
Webpage http://www-csli.stanford.edu/users/kyle/llc5.html
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Each talk will consist of 30 minutes of presentation followed by a fifteen
minute question and discussion period.
FRIDAY, MAY 31: COMPUTATION CHAIR: GRIGORI MINTS
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15-10:00 ALBERT VISSER
Two faces of dynamic interpretation: Relations and
partial information states
10:00-10:45 GERARD RENARDEL
A Variant of Quantified Dynamic Logic
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 ATOCHA ALISEDA
Toward a Logic of Abduction
11:45-12:30 NIR FRIEDMAN
Plausibility Measures and Default Reasoning
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
II. LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION CHAIR: LIVIA POLANYI
1:30-2:15 JAMES PUSTEJOVSKI
The semantics of complex types
2:15-3:00 VIJAY SARASWAT
Linear concurrent constraint programming as a basis
for semantic interpretation in LFG
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 WILLEM GROENEVELD
Dynamic Epistemic Logic
4:00-4:45 MARK GAWRON
Questions and the Semantics of the English Universal
Concessive Conditional
SATURDAY, JUNE 1
III. LANGUAGE CHAIR: TOM WASOW
9:15-10:00 JACK HOEKSEMA
Systems of negative concord
10:00-10:45 DONKA FARKAS
Distributed Indefinites
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 YOOKYUNG KIM
A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences
11:45-12:30 FRANS ZWARTS
Determinants of scope and negation in the language of children
and adults
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
IV. LANGUAGE AND LOGIC CHAIR: ED ZALTA
1:30-2:15 JAAP VAN DER DOES
Interpreting Nominal Anaphora by means of Scope Extension
2:15-3:00 MANFRED KRIFKA
Frameworks for the Representation of Focus
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 JAN-TORE LOENNING
Plural quantification, predication, and ontology
4:00-4:45 MARTIN STOKHOF
Objects and Concepts? Perspectives in multi-speaker discourse
SUNDAY, JUNE 2
V. LOGIC CHAIR: STEVE GIVANT
9:15-10:00 ANTONIA HUERTAS & MARIA MANZANO
Partial and heterogeneous tools for building new logics
10:00-10:45 MICHIEL VAN LAMBALGEN
Local quantification, or poor man's probability
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 MARTIN GROHE
The Complexity of Logical Equivalence and Bisimulation
11:45-12:30 KIT FINE
Semantics for the Logic of Essence
12:30-1:30 Lunch Break
VI. LOGIC AND COMPUTATION CHAIR: JOSE MESEGUER
1:30-2:15 NATARAJAN SHANKAR
Model Checking and Theorem Proving in PVS
2:15-3:00 HENNY SIPMA
Deductive Modelchecking
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:00 TOM COSTELLO
Limit Circumscription
4:00-4:45 VAUGHAN PRATT
An Abstract Notion of Language
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INTENSIONAL LOGIC
1:15 p.m., Room 550D
As usual, the final part of this course is devoted to presentations of special
topics from current research.
May 13: Modal Remodeling for Predicate Logic 1
(how to make first-order logic decidable by generalizing Tarski
semantics)
JOHAN VAN BENTHEM
May 15: Modal Remodeling for Predicate Logic 2
(general consequences of this viewpoint)
JOHAN VAN BENTHEM
May 20: Dynamic Epistemic Logic
(many-person updates in epistemic logic)
Willem Groeneveld (Amsterdam)
May 22: Modal Logic, Representation and Translation
(analyzing modal logics via other, less or more, multi-purpose
standard logics)
MARIA MANZANO (Barcelona)
May 29: A Philosophical Conception of Modal Logic
(a view of modal logic leading to strong intensional theories with
both historic
(Leibniz, Frege) and systematical uses)
ED ZALTA (Stanford)
LAST WEEK: There may be presentations by some Dutch visitors to the '5th CSLI
Workshop in Logic, Language and Computation', which will be announced
separately.
To get further information concerning course contents, as well as reading
materials, please contact {johan, willem, manzano, zalta} @csli.stanford.edu,
respectively.
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CSLI COGLUNCH
on Thursday, 23 May
12:00 noon, Cordura Hall, Room 100
[Commentary: Guven Guzeldere]
Indexicality and the Knowledge Argument
John Perry, Stanford Philosophy
[john@csli.stanford.edu]
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SSP FORUM
on Thursday, 23 May
4:15 p.m., Presentation Palace, Room 025 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
SiliconBase: Networked Scholarly
Workspaces for the History of High Technology
Tim Lenoir, Stanford History Department
tlenoir@leland.stanford.edu
I will discuss the Stanford Information Technology and Society Project and
our goals of constructing a digital library and networked scholarly
workspace to enable collaborate research projects and distance learning on
topics related to SiliconValley and the history of high technology. A live
demo of our progress to date and description of current work in progress
will serve as a basis for discussing the future of scholarly practices.
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STANFORD PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP
on Thursday, 23 May
7:30 p.m., Margaret Jacks Hall, Seminar Room 146
Regular and Exceptional Stress in German
Caroline Fery
University of Tuebingen
Optimality Theory has shed a new light on the problem of the best
treatment of exceptional stress, as exemplified by the work of Sharon
Inkelas, Mike Hammond and John McCarthy. In traditional metrical
phonology, exceptional stress is really exceptional in the sense that
it is not accounted for by the stress assignment rules of the
language. Hayes (1995) makes a distinction between predictable or
fixed stress patterns as opposed to unpredictable, or free or
lexically listed stress. But he says that this distinction is a blurry
one, because languages can have additional conditions restricting
stress position. These additional conditions are particularly
interesting, because they can be stated as violable constraints in the
OT framework. The guiding idea of my talk will be that one stress
pattern (the moraic trochee) is unmarked in German; other patterns are
more or less deviant from this regular one (antepenultimate stress and
final stress on a light syllable).
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LOGIC SEMINAR
on Friday, 24 May
12 noon, Building 380, Room 383-N
Extensions of First Order Logic
Maria Manzano
[manzano@csli.stanford.edu]
Several extensions of first order logic are going to be considered
while trying to pursue the thesis that most reasonable logical systems
can be naturally translated into many-sorted first order logic.
I will credit most of the ideas involved in my current presentation to
Henkin's paper "Completeness in the theory of types" of 1950 and " Banishing
the rule of substitution for functional variables" of 1953.
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SEMINAR ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
on Friday, 24 May
12:30 p.m., Skilling Auditorium
Play and Learning with Technology, Realities
of the Marketplace
Ann McCormick
CAPS Mira Studio
[ann@mirastudio.com]
What makes software fun? What makes powerful learning? How much "edge" do
parents want in kid's software? Ann McCormick will discuss her perspective
as a children's software designer with marketing responsibilities. She
will show a concept demo of a multimedia reading program for urban
illiterate teens and describe changes that came about in preparing it for
market.
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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
Evolution & Human Behavior
on Friday, 24 May
1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.Tresidder Union
Oak West Lounge, 2nd Fl
SPEAKERS:
States of Nature: Evolution, Altruism, and Morality
PHILIP KITCHER (UC San Diego)
Politics of the Boundary
Susan Oyama (CUNY)
What the Theory of Evolution Can't Tell Us
JOHN DUPRE (Stanford University)
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TRANSLATION SEMINAR
on Friday, 24 May
1:15 p.m., Ventura Hall, Room 17
Multilingual Document Recognition
Larry Spitz
Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center
As world trade barriers fall and we are increasingly exposed to documents
in languages in which we may not be fluent. Central to solving the problems
is the process of determining which language a document contains. Knowledge
of the language content of the document has important implications to the
further processing of the document, whether this processing is OCR, filing
and retrieval, or machine translation.
Language identification is done from the image but without character
recognition. The set of possible languages currently includes 27 languages
ranging from English, French and German to Japanese, Chinese and
Korean. The technique involves the analysis of the spatial relationships
between fiducial points in the text image to determine which of two broad
script classes are present: Han or Latin.
Within the Han script class, language identification is determined on the
basis of an optical density distribution analysis. Within the Latin
script class, language identification is performed by simple character
shape classification. These shape codes are aggregated into word shape
tokens and language determination is accomplished.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 24 May
3:30 p.m., Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Distribution of Objects in Urdu
Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
University of Stuttgart and Stanford
In an examination of the interaction between object positions,
(morphological) case marking, and discourse functions in both Urdu and
Turkish we determined in previous work (Butt and King 1995) that the
interaction between immediately preverbal focus and the distribution
of objects must distinguish between two differing types of objects. To
this end, we adopted a version of the structural and semantic
distinction between Strong and Weak objects first proposed by de Hoop
(1992).
The data to be accounted for are essentially as follows. Urdu allows
direct objects to surface with two kinds of morphological case:
nominative (unmarked) and accusative ("-ko"). This difference in
morphological marking correlates with a difference in interpretation:
accusative objects must be interpreted as specific, nominative objects
need not be. This is reminiscent of a similar pattern in Turkish (Enc
1991). Furthermore, nominative objects can only be interpreted as
nonspecific in the immediately preverbal position. When scrambled,
they must be interpreted as specific. This pattern was first noted by
T. Mohanan (1993) for Hindi and is again reminiscent of Turkish where
"bare" NPs cannot usually appear in any position other than the
immediately preverbal one (Kornfilt 1995). In addition, focus is also
situated in the immediately preverbal position in both Urdu and
Turkish, thus leading to a seeming conflict of interest with regard to
this position.
In this talk, we present the interaction between topic, background,
immediately preverbal focus, and objects for Urdu, and then
concentrate on examining the distribution of the two differing types
of objects in Urdu from a linking perspective. In particular, we
propose to inform the linking theory of LFG through a different
semantic perspective, thus allowing for a linking rather than a
structural account of the distinction between Strong and Weak
objects.
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SSP FILM SERIES
on Tuesday, 28 May
6:30 p.m., Cubberly Hall, Room 128
Stranger in the Mirror [NOVA program
about visual agnosia] (1993)
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATION LEARNING AND PROBABILISTIC
REASONING
on Wednesday, 29 May
4:15 p.m., Gates Building, Room 104
Recent Work on Probabilistic Methods in Learning
Wray Buntine
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SPECIAL TALK
on Thursday, 30 May
11:00 a.m., Ventura Hall, Room 17
Metaphor and Lexical Semantics
James Pustejovsky
Computer Science, Brandeis
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SEMINAR ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
on Friday, 31 May
12:30 p.m., Skilling Auditorium
The interactions design awards
Lauralee Alben (Alben+Ferris), Harry Saddler (Apple),
Terry Winograd (Stanford) [mail@albenfaris.com]
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