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CSLI Calendar, 25 March 1998, vol. 13:26
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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25 March 1998 Stanford Vol. 13, No. 26
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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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ACTIVITIES DURING 25 MARCH TO 3 APRIL 1998
THURSDAY, 26 MARCH
12 noon CSLI Talk
Cordura 100
Grounding Meaning through Language Games
Prof. Luc Steels
VUB AI Lab (Brussels)
and Sony CSL (Paris)
Abstract below
4:15pm CSLI Talk
Cordura 100
Producing Intelligent Telegraphic Text Reduction to
Provide an Audio Scanning Service for the Blind
Gregory Grefenstette
Xerox Research Centre Europe
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Gates 100
Summarizing Similarities and Differences Among Related
Documents
Eric Bloedorn
Mitre, McLean, VA.
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 27 MARCH
10:00am Neurobiology Seminar
Neural Learning Rules in the Cerebellum: Insights from
the Vestibulo-ocular Reflex
Dr. Jennifer Raymond
Department of Physiology and Keck Center for Integrative
Neuroscience
University of California, San Francisco
Host: Dr. Eric Knudsen
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nbio/seminars.html
MONDAY, 30 MARCH
10:00am Neurobiology Seminars
Knockouts, Networks, and Navigation
Dr. Kenneth Blum
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Biology
M.I.T.
Host: Dr. Eric Knudsen
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nbio/seminars.html
WEDNESDAY, 1 APRIL
5:30pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 200:002 (History Corner)
Pictorial Representations
Richard Wollheim
UC Berkeley
THURSDAY, 2 APRIL
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
Wages, Skills and Technology in the United States and
Canada
Paul Romer
Stanford University
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
4:15pm Frontiers of Neuroscience Seminars
Munzer Auditorium
Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate CNS
Dr. Connie Cepko
Harvard Medical School
Host: Dr. Susan McConnell
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nbio/Spring98.html
7:30pm Phonology Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall, 460:146
Title to be announced
Bruce Hayes
Department of Linguistics, UCLA
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/pinterest/
4:15pm AI-Vision-Robotics Division Colloquium
Gates 104
Geometric Algorithms in AdeptRAPID
John Craig
Adept Technology
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 3 APRIL
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q (Philosophy)
The Science of Pragmatics and the Pragmatics of Science:
Scientific Philosophy and Unified Science in Carnap and
Morris
Alan Richardson
University of British Columbia
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Narrative and Institutional Memory
Charlotte Linde
Institute for Research and Learning, and Stanford
University
SATURDAY, 4 APRIL
all day Second Annual Stanford Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference
Bldg. 60:61H
Information below
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CSLI TALK
on Thursday, 26 March 1998, 12 noon
Cordura Hall, Room 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/csli/Coglunch/
Grounding Meaning through Language Games
Prof. Luc Steels
VUB AI Lab (Brussels)
http://arti.vub.ac.be/www/
and Sony CSL (Paris)
http://www.csl.sony.fr/
Experiments are presented with physical robotic agents operating in a
real-world environment. It is shown how these agents can build up a
repertoire of perceptually grounded distinctions through
discrimination games and how they can develop a shared lexicon
verbalising these distinctions through adaptive naming games.
These experiments illustrate that language can be viewed as a complex
adaptive system that emerges through self-organization from the local
interactions of individuals. Language continues to evolve and adapt
due to stochasticity (which introduces innovation), uncertainty (which
maintains variation), and constant renewal of its user population.
Biography: Luc Steels is a professor in Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Brussels (VUB). He also directs the Sony Computer
Science Laboratory in Paris. His current work focuses on
behavior-oriented approaches to sensori-motor intelligence using
physical robotic agents as experimental platforms, and the origins and
evolution of language.
A limited number of sandwiches available for purchase at the talk.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Thursday, 26 March 1998, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Gates 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
Summarizing Similarities and Differences Among Related Documents
Eric E. Bloedorn
MITRE Corporation
mailto:bloedorn@azrael.mitre.org
Text summarization attempts to address the information overload
problem by taking a partially-structured source text, extracting
information content from it, and presenting the most important content
to the user in a manner sensitive to the user's or application's
needs. The first part of the talk will describe WebSumm, a system for
summarizing related documents. The approach in WebSumm exploits recent
progress in information extraction to represent salient units of text
and their relationships. By exploiting meaningful relations between
units based on an analysis of text cohesion and the context in which
the comparison is desired, the summarizer can pinpoint similarities
and differences, and align text segments. The second part of the talk
will describe an application of machine learning methods to train our
summarizer. The goal of this learning approach is to have a system
capable of adjusting summarizers to better fit the user's interest.
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AI-VISION-ROBOTICS DIVISION COLLOQUIUM
on Thursday, 2 April 1998, 4:15pm until 5:30pm
Gates 104
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/aicolloq/
Geometric Algorithms in AdeptRAPID
John J. Craig
Director of R&D
SILMA Division of Adept Technology
AdeptRAPID is a software package used to design and simulate
robot-based flexible automation cells. Its goal is to simplify the
conception and design of automation installations used for
applications such as mechanical assembly, material handling, or
packaging. Ease of use is of paramount importance so that this
technology can truly impact the way industrial automation is
accomplished. The need for ease of use drives the need for the
simulation system to behave like the actual physical world. The more
the simulator acts like the real world, the simpler the user interface
paradigm for the user, since the physical world is the one we are all
familiar with. At the same time, trade-offs for computational speed
and other factors have driven a design in which a particular "slice"
of reality is simulated, while many details are not. AdeptRAPID is
well-suited as a host for a variety of geometric algorithms. The need
to model various portions of the real world, as well as the need to
unburden the user by making various computations of a geometric nature
drive the need for such algorithms. AdeptRAPID provides the
environment in which some advanced algorithms can be brought to bear
on real problems occurring in industry. This paper presents the
current state of development of the AdeptRAPID simulator. Attention is
paid to the various geometric algorithms already in place as well as
the need for more and better algorithms.
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SECOND ANNUAL STANFORD UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
on Saturday, 4 April 1998
Bldg. 60:61H
http://www.stanford.edu/group/dualist/conference.html
Sponsored by The Dualist
and The Undergraduate Philosophy Association
Philip Kitcher, Professor of Philosophy, UCSD
"Scientific Progress and Human Flourishing": The ways in which
the sciences make progress, focusing not only on advances in
knowledge, but also on how knowledge affects the ways in which
people live.
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford
"On Genes and Codes": How do claims about genetic coding
relate to philosophical analyses of meaning, coding, and
information?
Eric Beerbohm, Senior, Political Science and Ethics in Society, Stanford
"Where the Action _Isn't_: On the Site of Distributive
Justice"
Johannes Kratz, Senior, Philosophy, Stanford
"Hume: Between Moral Subjectivism and Realism"
Kritika Yegnashankaran, Senior, Philosophy, Stanford
"The Philosophy of Biology"
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