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CSLI Calendar, 27 May 1998, vol. 13:35
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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27 May 1998 Stanford Vol. 13, No. 35
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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 27 MAY TO 5 JUNE 1998
WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY
1:00pm Semantics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Conditionals R Us: From IF to IFF via R-based implicature
Laurence Horn
Department of Linguistics, Yale University
Abstract below
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Cordura 100
Innovations in Local Modeling for Time Series Prediction
James McNames
Information Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering
Department, Stanford University.
Abstract below
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
UltraSPARC-III: A Scalable High Clock Rate SPARC Processor
Gary Lauterbach
SUN Microsystems
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/contents.html
4:30pm Engineering Economic Systems Colloquium
Room 380:380Y (Math Corner)
Tractable Inference for Complex Stochastic Processes
Daphne Koller
Computer Science Department
http://www.stanford.edu/class/eesor406/
8:00pm Kant Lectures
Cubberley 128 (Education)
Making Up People:
"Making and Finding Disorder: Autism For Example"
Ian Hacking
Victoria College, University of Toronto
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/general/colloqs.html
THURSDAY, 28 MAY
11:00am CCRMA Hearing Seminar
CCRMA Ballroom
Model of Auditory Perception
Kristin Precoda
CCRMA
Abstract below
12 noon CSLI CogLunch
Cordura Hall, Room 100
Some Interesting Problems at the Interface Between
Computer Science and Economics
Yoav Shoham
Stanford, CS
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/csli/Coglunch/schedule.shtml
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
Intelligent Information Access
Ramana Rao
Inxight
Abstract below
4:15pm Symbolic Systems Honors Projects II
Cordura 100
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/symbol/
4:15pm AI-Vision-Robotics Division Colloquium
Gates 104
Touching and Being Touched:
Robot Hands, Arms and Haptic Interfaces
Kenneth Salisbury
MIT
Abstract below
4:15pm Frontiers of Neuroscience Seminars
Munzer Auditorium
How do Fish Smell? Spatial Encoding of Olfactory
Information
Dr. Sigrun Korsching
University of Cologne
Host: Dr. Lubert Stryer
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nbio/Spring98.html
4:15pm CS548: Distributed Systems Research Seminar
Gates B01
CORBA, Java, etc.
Kierran Harty
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs548/
8:00pm Kant Lectures
Cubberley 128 (Education)
Making Up People:
"Making Up Dreams"
Ian Hacking
Victoria College, University of Toronto
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/general/colloqs.html
FRIDAY, 29 MAY
all day Seventh CSLI Workshop on Logic, Language, and Computation
Cordura 100
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/llc/
Some information below
12:30pm Seminar on People, Computers, and Design
Gates B03 (NEC classroom)
Work beyond the Desktop: Our Cooperative Building and
Roomware
Erich J. Neuhold
GMD-IPSI & T.U.. Darmstadt
Abstract below
3:15pm Philosophy Department Colloquium
Bldg. 90:92Q (Philosophy)
Ian Hacking
Victoria College, University of Toronto
http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/general/colloqs.html
3:15pm Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Beth Marsh
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html
3:15pm Computer Science Database Seminar
Gates B-12
Metadata and the Web
Ramanathan Guha
Netscape
Abstract below
3:30pm Linguistics Department Colloquium
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Split-Base Effects: Analysis and Significance
Donca Steriade
UCLA
Abstract below
MONDAY, 1 JUNE
3:30pm Psychology Social Lab
Jordan Hall 420:100
Identification And Expectancies In Stereotype Threat
Joseph Brown
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html
4:30pm Stanford Digital Libraries Seminar
Gates B08
Trends in Electronic Commerce: Another Strategic Context
for Digital Libraries
Craig Mudge
Pacific Challenge and Citibank
Abstract below
TUESDAY, 2 JUNE
4:15pm Logic Seminar
Room 380:381T
to be announced
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
WEDNESDAY, 3 JUNE
12 noon Semantics Workshop
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
Discussion on the Upcoming International Conference on
Pragmatics
Elizabeth Traugott
Linguistics, Stanford
AND
Discussion on Polarity Sensitivity as a Lexical Phenomenon
Michael Israel
Linguistics, UC San Diego
Linguistics, Berkeley
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
4:15pm Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation (SCLA)
Cordura 100
Title to be announced
Melinda Gervasio
Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise.
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
4:15pm EE380: Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
Gates B03 (NEC Auditorium)
GPS Chips for Consumer Applications
Greg Turetzky
SiRF
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/schedule.html
THURSDAY, 4 JUNE
4:00pm Xerox PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox PARC
The Lunar Prospector
Alan Binder
The Lunar Research Institute
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum
4:15pm Frontiers of Neuroscience Seminars
Munzer Auditorium
Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Persistent Neural
Activity
Dr. David W. Tank
Lucent Technologies
Host: Dr. William Newsome
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nbio/Spring98.html
FRIDAY, 5 JUNE
12 noon Logic Lunch
Room 380:383N
to be announced
http://www-logic.stanford.edu/seminars.html
3:15pm Computer Science Database Seminar
Gates B-12
Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to the WWW
Rudi Studer
Universitat Karlsruhe (visiting Stanford)
Abstract below
3:15pm Cognitive Seminar
Jordan Hall 420:100
Julie Morrison
http://matia.stanford.edu/html/talks.html
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STANFORD SEMANTICS WORKSHOP
on Wednesday, 27 May 1998, 1:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:146
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/
Conditionals R Us: From IF to IFF via R-based implicature
Laurence Horn
Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/linguist/faculty/horn.html
In this talk, I present my version of conditional perfection and
related phenomena, responding to two papers Johan van der Auwera
published last year.
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SEMINAR ON COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING AND ADAPTATION (SCLA)
on Wednesday, 27 May 1998, 4:15pm to 5:30pm
Cordura 100
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/cll/scla.html
Innovations in Local Modeling for Time Series Prediction
James McNames
Information Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
mailto:mcnames@teleport.com
Unlike most time series studied in statistics, chaotic time series
generally contain very little noise, are highly nonlinear, and are
very long (1,000-100,000 points). For prediction, researchers have
often used nonlinear regression algorithms such as radial basis
functions, neural networks, MARS, and k-nearest neighbors regression
(loess). However, there are several important differences between the
regression problem and the time series prediction problem that have
been mostly overlooked. A new local modeling algorithm will be
described that incorporates these differences to increase accuracy and
reduce computation.
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CCRMA HEARING SEMINAR
on Thursday, 28 May 1998, 11:00am
CCRMA Ballroom
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Events/Events.html
A Multidimensional Model for
Perceptual Evaluation of Audio Codecs
Kristin Precoda
mailto:precoda@leland.Stanford.EDU
In subjective perceptual evaluations of audio codec quality, lack of
agreement between listeners or groups of listeners is a common problem
arising even in the most carefully conducted tests, under tightly
controlled conditions. Examples can be found in listening tests on the
MPEG-2 Non-Backwards Compatible algorithm (1996), tests of MPEG-2
algorithms (1994), and tests performed for the FCC Advisory Committee
on Advanced Television Service (1993). In particular, in MPEG testing,
listener groups at different test sites have repeatedly been found to
generate sufficiently statistically different ratings that combining
their results would obscure the effects of the codecs and musical
excerpts being judged. Because listening conditions at the test sites
were fairly strictly controlled, rating differences were likely caused
by differences among the listeners in their sensitivity and amount of
attention paid to various kinds of artifacts. Therefore, to examine
listener differences, we designed an evaluation procedure which would
yield information both about codec quality and about the strategies
used by each listener in making judgments. The analysis used a
multivariate statistical technique to build listener-specific models
which generate (a generalization of) perceptual quality ratings
monotonically related to the ratings given by a listener. Reliable
differences between listeners are thus captured as differences in the
listener models. A model of the perceptions of an "average listener"
or an "expert's expert" can then be created and used to evaluate codec
outputs. The models can also be interpreted to give information about
the acoustic attributes upon which listeners base their judgments,
hence can guide further development of an algorithm. In addition,
application of this evaluation procedure in an evaluation experiment
produced results concerning within-listener stability, cross-listener
agreement or divergence, and the influence of the musical excerpt
under test; these data will also be discussed.
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XEROX PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 28 May 1998, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, Xerox
http://www.parc.xerox.com/ops/projects/forum/
Intelligent Information Access
Ramana Rao
Chief Technology Officer and Director of Engineering
Inxight Software, Inc.
http://www.inxight.com/
How can we more intelligently make sense and take advantage of large
amounts of electronic information? About a year ago, Inxight was
launched to capitalize on many of the inventions that came from this
campaign and other even longer running missions. Inxight's success
depends on its ability to deliver packaged answers to some of the hard
problems solved at PARC and Grenoble.
Many fast-growing markets focused on extracting value from information
including business intelligence, data mining, knowledge management,
document repositories, online publications, and ecommerce seem to be
crying out for these answers. In this talk, we will present our vision
of the future of information applications in many domains and the role
our products and their kind will play.
Biography: As a founding member and chief technology officer of
Inxight, Ramana Rao leads its engineering organization in its charge
to build products based on Xerox's research in next-generation user
interface and natural language technologies.
Ramana is the co-inventor of the Hyperbolic Tree and the Table Lens,
two novel techniques for interacting with large amounts of information
in a wide range of applications. As a key member of Xerox PARC's user
interface research group, he spearheaded the effort to commercialize
its influential information visualization work. In 10 years at PARC,
Ramana built systems and published research in a variety of areas
including information visualization, intelligent information access,
paper user interfaces, document imaging, object-oriented programming,
reflection, and window systems.
In previous jobs at startups, Ramana developed presentation graphics
and animation applications for the IBM PC and designed system software
for a fault-tolerant file server. He received his BS and MS degrees
in computer science and engineering from MIT.
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AI-VISION-ROBOTICS DIVISION COLLOQUIUM
on Thursday, 28 May 1998, 4:15pm until 5:30pm
Gates 104
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/aicolloq/
Touching and Being Touched:
Robot Hands, Arms and Haptic Interfaces
Kenneth Salisbury, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
MIT Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
During the past 15 years at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
our group's research has focused on the development of devices that
physically interact with the real world. More recently our work has
addressed the development of haptic interfaces which allow users to
feel the mechanical properties of remote and virtual environments.
Common to these dual application areas, robotics and haptics, is the
development of devices that can sense and exert forces on the
environment and humans. It has been found that performance in terms
of force dynamic range and bandwidth has been of more value than
mechanism complexity.
This talk will focus on the lessons we have learned about how to build
and utilize high performance force controllable devices to extend
human capabilities. The design philosophy that has evolved will be
illustrated with examples including the MIT WAM arm, the PHANToM
haptic interface and the MIT Black Falcon surgical robot. I will also
speculate a bit on the coming convergence of virtual and remote
manipulation for training, performance enhancement and enabling of
physical immersion in remote and virtual physical task environments.
Biography: Affiliated with MIT since 1982, Dr. J. Kenneth Salisbury,
Jr. is a Principal Research Scientist in MIT's Department of
Mechanical Engineering and is a member of the MIT Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. Prior to life at MIT, his undergraduate and
graduate work was completed at Stanford University where he earned a
BS in Electrical Engineering, and then returning to his roots, a
Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1982. On his way to MIT
he started Salisbury Robotics, finding a welcome home for his robot
hand among researchers around the world. A tinkerer by nature, he has
been involved in the development of other novel robotic mechanisms
including the JPL Force Reflecting Hand Controller, the MIT WAM arm,
the PHANToM haptic interface and the Black Falcon minimally invasive
surgical robot. Constructively opinionated about how things should be
built, he has made contributions to the development of haptic systems,
force control techniques, robotic sensors and high performance robot
mechanisms. Holder of nine patents and author of numerous papers in
the field, he co-authored "Robot Hands and the Mechanics of
Manipulation" (MIT Press, 1985).
Currently on sabbatical leave from MIT, he is co-editor of "Human and
Machine Haptics" (MIT Press, available Fall 1998), consultant and
member of the scientific advisory board at SensAble Technologies
(Cambridge MA), and Fellow with Intuitive Surgical Corporation
(Mountain View CA). When the winds are right, he tosses his radio
control model planes into the air in hope of long flights and safe
landings.
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SEVENTH ANNUAL CSLI WORKSHOP ON
LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION
29-31 May 1998
Cordura 100
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/llc/
The Workshop is organized by Johan van Benthem, Martina Faller, Rob
van Glabbeek, David Israel, and David Beaver.
This year's program reflected the usual lively mix of topics and
interests that CSLI was designed to bring together. It includes recent
developments in dynamic processing of linguistic and non-linguistic
information, as well as key techniques from mathematical logic that
underlie both formal proof and computation. The mix also includes
contributions by established researchers and by newcomers to the
field, in line with a long-standing tradition. Finally, some
contributions this year reflect the growing interactions with a
broader world, witness talks on logic teaching, as well as
presentations by representatives of industry and high performance
computing. We hope to broaden our 'circle of debate'.
For more information, contact faller@csli.stanford.edu (Martina
Faller) or check http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/llc/.
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SEMINAR ON PEOPLE, COMPUTER, AND DESIGN
on Friday, 29 May 1998, 12:30-2:00pm
Gates B03 (NEC Classroom)
http://hci.stanford.edu/html/cs547.html
(SITN Channel E2)
Work beyond the Desktop:
Our Cooperative Building and Roomware Projects
Erich J. Neuhold
GMD-IPSI & T.U.. Darmstadt
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/IPSI/
The availability of the worldwide information infrastructure and the
ever present computer power is profoundly changing the way we do our
work in every type of enterprise. Our notion of Cooperative Building
places the human into the center of attention and tries to
substantially reduce the currently unnecessary high cognitive overload
one faces when dealing with the opportunities offered. This
perspective needs to address issues from information technology, new
work practices, organizational innovation, new physical and virtual
architectural structures and facilities management at work, at home,
and on the road.
In this talk I will illustrate the general idea further and then
concentrate on two specific project groups:
* Virtual Cooperative Meeting Rooms are being developed for
discussions, on the job learning, and conferencing and are
currently utilized and evaluated in support of distributed
government agencies, global as well as virtual enterprises, and
distributed congresses. Multimedia and large screen based meeting
support as well as handling of distributed large document
depositories (on SGML and XML basis) are concentration points in
our approach.
* I-Land integrates several so-called 'room ware' components into a
combination of real architectural and virtual work environments
for dynamic teams. An Electronic Wall, an Interactive Table and
Computer-enhanced Chairs are currently explored, evaluated and
integrated into this environment
Biography: Prof. Dr. Erich J. Neuhold is the Director of the Institute
for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of the German
National Research Center for Information Technology in Darmstadt,
Germany. His primary research and development interests are in
heterogeneous interoperable database systems, object-oriented
multimedia knowledge bases and intelligent information retrieval. He
also guides research and development in user interfaces including
virtual reality concepts for information visualization, computer
supported cooperative work, virtual meetings and conferences as well
as integrated publication and information systems with special
emphasize on multimedia hyperdocuments and on information mining in
complex distributed systems. He is also Professor of Computer Science,
Integrated Publication and Information Systems, at the Darmstadt
University of Technology, Germany. He has published 4 books and about
100 papers.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE SEMINAR
on Friday, 29 May 1998, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Gates B12
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
Metadata and the Web
Ramanathan Guha
Netscape
This talk will describe the Resource Description Framework, a very
simple knowledge representation system that has been developed by the
W3C. RDF is designed to represent different kinds of metadata
including sitemaps, content ratings (PICs), Dublin Core and Privacy
Statements (P3P).
In addition to covering the technical aspects of RDF, I will also
touch upon some of the more interesting RDF based features that will
be available in the next generation of Web browsers.
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LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
on Friday, 29 May 1998, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 460:146
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/colloq/colloq.html
Split-Base Effects: Analysis and Significance
Donca Steriade
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/steriade/steriade.htm
There are at least three distinct interpretations of the statement in
(1):
(1) "identify is the base of identifiable."
On a first interpretation, identify is the morphosyntactic base of the
derived word identifiable: a syntactic property of identify -- the
fact that it is a transitive verb -- is a prerequisite for the
affixation of -able. On a second interpretation, identify is the
semantic base of identifiable: the semantics of the -able form are a
function of those of the verb contained within it. A third
interpretation of (1) has to do with phonology : the phonological
shape of the -able word is a function of the shape of its inner
constituent.
One goal of the talk is to show that the usual conflation of the
concepts of phonological and morphosyntactic or semantic base cannot
be maintained. This can be shown by examining a cases in which complex
expressions are formed by reference to several distinct reference
terms: this is the split-base effect. For instance, in forming a novel
adjective such as remediable (recorded with this stress in the OED but
treated as a nonce form by most speakers), the speaker must consult
not only the verb remedy, which serves as its morphosyntactic base,
but also the adjective remedial, which serves its phonological base,
in lending its stress to the -able form. I argue that split-base
effects arise when the morphosyntactic or semantic base of affixation
lacks a phonological property that is desirable in the derivative: in
such cases, the derivative may adopt the phonology of a distinct
listed allomorph, here the stress of remedial. The stress pattern
adopted in the novel form must however have a lexical precedent, a
precedent in a listed allomorph: it is this requirement that blocks
(for many speakers) forms like remediable. Split-base effects will be
documented for a large class of English suffixes -- previously
classified as belonging to Level 1 (e.g., -atory, -ify), Level 2
(e.g., -ize, -ism) and variably Level 1 or 2 (e.g., -able). In all
these cases, novel affixed forms display the systematic option of
metrical improvement, but only in lexical paradigms that include more
than one stress pattern. It is shown that the notion of lexical
conservatism (avoidance of phonologically innovative forms) provides a
better classification of English affixes than the Level 1/Level 2
distinction or the recent OT successors of these notions
(output-output correspondence to a unique base form).
The talk's second point is to outline an analytical framework that
uses the notion of lexical conservatism to characterize in unified
fashion both split-base and single-base derivatives.
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STANFORD DIGITAL LIBRARIES SEMINAR
on Monday, 1 June 1998, 4:15pm
Gates Building, B08
http://diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/seminars/seminars.html
Trends in Electronic Commerce:
Another Strategic Context for Digital Libraries
Craig Mudge
Pacific Challenge and Citibank
Rather than focus on the electronic delivery of financial services, we
will explore the much broader context of commerce and how
Internet-based commerce is emerging. We'll look at how different
industries capture business value from the Internet by supporting the
various relationships firms have (with customers, employees,
shareholders, partners, and the community). Models which emphasize
the differences between business-business and business-consumer
electronic commerce will help us better understand some important
trends, for example, the one towards more buyer-centric markets.
Commerce in information goods and its technology base will be covered.
Finally, we'll see how standards-based extensions to the Web allow
interoperability between related Internet markets (such as those
selling cars, car insurance, and car loans) and new possibilities for
aggregation.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE SEMINAR
on Friday, 5 June 1998, 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Gates B12
http://www-db.stanford.edu/dbseminar/dbseminar.html
Ontobroker: Ontology Based Access to the WWW
Rudi Studer
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
on sabbatical at the InfoLab, Stanford University
The World Wide Web (WWW) is currently one of the most important
electronic information sources. However, its query functionality and
the provided reasoning services are rather limited.
Ontobroker consists of a number of languages and tools that enhance
query access and inference service in the WWW. It provides languages
to annotate Web documents with ontological information, to represent
ontologies and to formulate queries based on these ontologies.
Ontobroker allows to access directly the Web information you are
interested in and to infer new knowledge with an inference engine
based on techniques from logic programming. This talk uses examples
from the 'Knowledge Annotation Initiative of the Knowledge Acquisition
Community' to illustrate these languages and tools and the kind of
services that are provided.
The Ontobroker system is available on the Web at:
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/broker.
The Ontobroker system was developed jointly with Stefan Decker,
Michael Erdmann and Dieter Fensel.
Biography: From January 1977 to June 1985 Rudi Studer worked as a
research scientist at the University of Stuttgart. From July 1985 till
October 1989 he was project leader and manager at IBM Germany
Scientific Centre, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems. Since
November 1989 he has been full professor in Applied Computer Science
at the University of Karlsruhe. He received his Doctor's degree in
Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart in
1982. His research interests include Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge
Discovery in Databases and Knowledge Management.
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