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CSLI Calendar, Wednesday, 19 March 2003, vol. 18:25
CSLI CALENDAR OF PUBLIC EVENTS
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19 March 2003 Stanford Vol. 18, No. 25
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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
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/
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ACTIVITIES FROM 19 MARCH 2003 TO 28 MARCH 2003
WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH 2003
3:00pm Reuters Foundation Digital Vision Program Seminar
email for location mailto:digitalvision@csli.stanford.edu
Satjiv S. Chahil
Palm, Inc.
http://reuters.stanford.edu/seminar_speakers.html
THURSDAY, 20 MARCH 2003
4:00pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Imaging the Structure and Function of Dendritic Spines"
Rafael Yuste
Columbia University
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Enabling Productivity with Large Displays"
Gary Starkweather
Microsoft
http://www.parc.com/forum/
Abstract below
FRIDAY, 21 MARCH 2003
12 noon Syntax Workshop
Margaret Jacks 460:126
"Extending case theory:
quirky case and four-place predicates in Basque"
Cathryn Donohue
Stanford University
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
Abstract below
2:15pm NLP Reading Group
Math Corner, 380:383P
"Using morphosyntactic diagnostics to automatically measure
the degree of transitivity"
Presented by: Effi Georgala, IMS Stuttgart
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
Abstract below
THURSDAY, 27 MARCH 2003
4:00pm PARC Forum
George Pake Auditorium at PARC
"Adaptive Workspaces Preparing For The Future Of Work"
Dan Rasmus
V.P. Collaboration and Knowledge Management, Giga
http://www.parc.com/forum/
4:00pm UC Berkeley CIS Seminar
Soda Hall 380 (UC Berkeley)
"Building Rich and Grounded Robot World Models from Sensory
and Symbolic Sources"
Mary-Anne Williams
Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/Mary-Anne
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~eyal/cis-seminar
Abstract below
4:15pm Neurobiology of Disease Seminar Series
Munzer Auditorium, Beckman B060
"Nicotinic Mechanisms Influence Circuits and Synaptic Plasticity:
The Implications of Dysfunction"
John A. Dani
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/calendar/
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COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
CS377D: User Research Methods Practicum
Stanford University Spring Quarter 2002-2003
Th 3:30-6:30 Gates 459
Bonnie Nardi, Agilent, and Diane J. Schiano,
mailto:diane@psych.stanford.edu
This course is an intensive practicum on research methods for user
studies, emphasizing ethnographic methods. The course will be limited
to a small number of students in a seminar format. Students will
conduct an in-depth field study, under the guidance of the
instructors, and we will use the data to collectively write a paper
for publication. After an initial series of lectures, course meetings
will be devoted to discussing the collection and analysis of field
data. Students will be expected to participate fully, sharing their
data and experiences with the class as well as to lead class
discussions on the readings. Class attendance is mandatory and
students must have time for extensive field research. The topic of the
research is computer-mediated communication. We will choose an area
of interest such as blogging or online networked communities to focus
our research. The course will provide students with ethnographic
training and the opportunity to participate in writing a scientific
paper for publication
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PARC FORUM
on Thursday, 20 March 2003, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
George Pake Auditorium, PARC
http://www.parc.com/forum/
"Enabling Productivity with Large Displays"
Gary Starkweather
Microsoft Research
Over the past 30 or so years, the personal computer has developed in a
remarkable fashion. There have been massive increases in memory, disk
storage, CPU speed, etc. All of these developments have significantly
increased the value of the PC in out lives. What other opportunities
exist? One such opportunity that has occupied my time for several
years now is the display. We have seen many new technologies such as
the LCD and now OLED technologies and they represent real
improvements. However, I have been looking at the utility of large
displays. Such displays would have operating diagonal dimensions of 36
inches (about 1 meter) and larger.
One such display that was built as a prototype here at Microsoft
Research is a display named DSHARP. DSHARP is not a product prototype
but a technology evaluator. DSHARP has an 11 x 44 inch screen size
with a resolution of 3072 x 768 or TXGA (triple XGA). Extensive
experiments have been done to assess user productivity and interaction
experience on large displays. This talk will briefly review the DSHARP
display, discuss some of our findings on how users benefit from large
display areas and review what technologies might enable productizing
such large displays such as MEMS, miniature projection arrays etc.
About the Speaker: Gary Starkweather has spent over 40 years in the
imaging sciences and holds more than 44 patents in the fields of
imaging, color and hardcopy devices. He worked for Bausch & Lomb and
Xerox in Rochester, NY. before transferring to the newly formed Xerox
research center in Palo Alto, CA. While at PARC, Gary invented the
laser printer which went to market as the Xerox 9700 in 1977. He has
received a number of awards for this work, including the Xerox
President's Achievement Award. In 1987, he received the Johann
Gutenberg Prize from the Society for Information Display and in 1991
he received the David Richardson medal from the Optical Society of
America. Gary was a PARC Senior Research Fellow when, in 1988, he left
to join Apple Computer as an Apple Fellow involved in Publishing and
Color Imaging products and research. In March of 1994 he received a
Technical Academy Award for his consulting work with Lucasfilm and
Pixar on color film scanning. In November of 2002, he was inducted
into the Technology Hall of Fame at COMDEX. Currently, he is part of
Microsoft Research as an Architect working on displays and information
processing.
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SYNTAX WORKSHOP
on Friday, 21 March 2003, 12 noon
Margaret Jacks Hall 460:126
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/sssg/
"Extending case theory:
quirky case and four-place predicates in Basque"
Cathryn Donohue
Stanford University
The aim of this talk is to provide a unified account of a wide range
of morphosyntactic phenomena within a single case theory. Most case
theories have provided coverage for only a restricted set of data.
There has been disproportionately more work centered on accusative
languages than on ergative languages, which is perhaps why many case
theories require a more complex analysis to model ergative languages.
Case theories have also been limited in their range of types of data,
largely focusing on accounting for transitive case arrays, with little
work focusing on three (or four) place predicates. Moreover, while
there has been a large amount of work on the so-called quirky cases of
(especially) Icelandic, these have typically been analyzed as
lexically stipulated - often the only alternative to structural case,
which is limited to default cases only and analyzed in the syntactic
component. In this talk, I explore the intersection of these complex
areas by investigating quirky case and causatives in Basque, a
relatively little studied language isolate. Basque is particularly
well suited for this study as it is morphologically ergative, has a
structural dative, and has quirky case (which I define as the
non-canonical use of structural case, not idiosyncratic case).
Moreover, Basque allows causatives of all basic clauses, including its
ditransitives, which creates a situation where the language is forced
to assign non-structural case to exactly one of the four resulting
arguments as Basque does not allow case doubling.
I first present an analysis for each of the three quirky case arrays
in Basque and illustrate the Case Ordering Principle, an observation
about the possible orderings of structural cases (in both canonical
and non-canonical case arrays) which follows naturally from the
framework that I use, Lexical Decomposition Grammar (Kiparsky 1997,
Wunderlich 1997). Next, I present an account of the case marking for
the causativized counterparts of the canonical and quirky case arrays.
This improves upon earlier work by correctly predicting both the
morphological form and the structural status of each argument's case.
This is particularly important for the four-place predicate, the
causativized ditransitive. I then present an overview of how case
marking in four-place predicates of this kind varies
cross-linguistically, notably between accusative and ergative language
types. Finally, I extend my analysis to account for the typological
range of case marking patterns for causativized ditransitives.
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NLP READING GROUP
on Friday, 21 March 2003, 2:15pm
Math Corner, 380:383P
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/nlp/nlpgroup.html
"Using morphosyntactic diagnostics
to automatically measure the degree of transitivity"
Effi Georgala
IMS Stuttgart
Empirical evidence suggests that transitivity is a central property of
language use. Transitivity, loosely speaking, involves at least two
participants and an action which is typically effective in some way
[Hopper & Thompson, 1980]. Many discussions on transitivity recognize
a semantic prototype for transitive verbs [Lakoff, 1977, Croft, 1997
etc.].
Prototypical transitive verbs are semantically defined as those verbs
which describe an action that both affects and necessarily changes the
state of the patient [Tsunoda, 1985]. So, unlike destroy, break etc.,
verbs such as kick and rub do not always entail a change of state.
[Levin, 1999] focuses on the contrast between prototypical transitive
verbs, which she calls core transitive verbs, while she terms the
remaining transitive verbs as non-core transitive verbs. She
identifies core transitive verbs with causative verbs of a complex
event structure with two sub-events. In contrast, non-core transitive
verbs have a simple event structure and denote only one sub-event.
[Rappaport Hovav & Levin, 1998] and [Levin, 1999] propose that the
morphosyntactic behavior of two-argument verbs associated with a
simple event structure differs from those verbs that are associated
with a complex event structure. Unlike simple event verbs, complex
event verbs (such as verbs of change of state, e.g. open, break,
murder) have highly circumscribed distributions and therefore cannot
be found in English with: (i) unspecified objects, (ii) the prefix
out-, and (iii) the resultative construction.
The talk will present research which aims to automatically measure the
degree of transitivity for verbs of English and Greek by examining
their distributional range in large corpus data. Broad-coverage
lexicalized probabilistic grammars are used to collect observations of
valence frames and the heads of their fillers [Carroll & Rooth,
1998]. In a subsequent step, a model for classification (e.g. decision
tree learning) is used to: (i) assign verbs to the category of core or
non-core transitive verbs, and (ii) identify those attributes which
are relevant for the classification, i.e. morphosyntactic diagnostics,
such as the omissibility of patient argument.
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UC BERKELEY CIS SEMINAR
on Thursday, 27 March 2003, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Soda Hall 380 (UC Berkeley)
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~eyal/cis-seminar
"Building Rich and Grounded Robot World Models
from Sensory and Symbolic Sources"
Mary-Anne Williams
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia
http://research.it.uts.edu.au/magic/Mary-Anne/
Robots interacting with other agents in rich information landscapes
and complex dynamic physical environments require sophisticated and
robust concept and knowledge management capabilities if they are to
solve problems, communicate, learn and exhibit intelligent behaviours.
In this talk I will describe how conceptual spaces provide a powerful
substrate upon which to build effective concept and knowledge
management capabilities that integrate information from multiple
sensory and symbolic sources.
We use SONY AIBO robots and the robot soccer domain to illustrate the
ideas, the framework and the approach. The conceptual spaces
framework allows robots to build rich and grounded world models from a
wide variety of internal and external knowledge resources,
e.g. sensors, ontologies, databases, knowledge bases, the Semantic
Web, web services, other agents etc.
About the Speaker: Mary-Anne is a Research Professor and directs the
Innovation and Technology Research Lab at the University of Technology
Sydney. She recently moved from the Faculty of Business and Law at the
University of Newcastle Australia where she directed an eBusiness
Research Centre.
Mary-Anne has spend many years working in Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning with a special focus on Belief Revision, Intelligent Agents,
and Reasoning about Action. Her PhD was awarded the Best Australian
PhD Dissertation in Computer Science Award from the Computer Science
Association in 1994. Some recent scholarly activities include Workshop
Chair for IJCAI-03, Program Chair for KR in 2002, and Conference Chair
for KR in 2004.
Mary-Anne was Team Leader of the NUbots Robot Soccer Team who came
Third in the SONY Four-Legged League at RoboCup 2002 in Japan. She
recently established a new Robot Soccer Team at UTS, and one of her
main projects is integrating Robot sensor information and knowledge
resources on the Semantic Web.
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