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The FINITE STRING Newsletter: Announcements The FINITE STRING Newsletter Announcements CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IJCAI AWARDS prepare a short submission (less than 2,000 words) for THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE the voters, outlining the nominee's qualifications with respect to the criteria for the particular award. The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given, at The award selection committee is the union of the each International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelli- Program, Conference, and Advisory Committees of the gence, to a scientist who has carried out a program of upcoming IJCAI and the Board of Trustees of IJCAII, research of consistently high quality yielding several with nominees excluded. Nominations should be submit- substantial results. If the research program has been ted before 1 December 1986, to the Conference Chair carried out collaboratively the award may be made jointly for IJCAI-8 7: to the research team. The first recipient of this award Dr Alan Bundy, was John McCarthy in 1985. IJCAI-87 Conference Chair The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of Department of Artificial Intelligence $1,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The University of Edinburgh researcher(s) will be invited to deliver an address on the 80 South Bridge nature and significance of the results achieved and write Edinburgh, EH1 IHN a paper for the conference proceedings. Primarily, Scotland however, the award carries the honour of having one's (+44 31) 225-7774 ext 242 work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained ArpaNet: [email protected] research in the maturing science of Artificial Intelligence. JANet: [email protected] We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence to be made at IJCAI-87 in Milan. The note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards ANNOUNCEMENTS provides the relevant details. THE CATALOGUE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Tools is a kind of The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each mail order catalogue of AI techniques and portable soft- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Ware. Its purpose is to promote interaction between by an outstanding young scientist in the field of artificial members of the AI community. It does this by announc- intelligence. The Award carries with it a certificate and ing the existence of AI tools, and acting as a pointer into the sum of $1,000 plus travel and subsistence expenses the literature. Thus the AI community will have access to for the IJCAI. The Lecture is one evening during the a common, extensional definition of the field, which will: Conference, and the public is invited to attend. The • promote a common terminology, Lecturer is invited to publish the Lecture in the confer- • discourage the reinvention of wheels, and ence proceedings. The Lectureship was established with • act as a clearing house for ideas and software. royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, The catalogue is a reference work providing a quick edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman; it is currently guide to the AI tools available for different jobs. It is not supported by income from IJCAI funds. intended to be a textbook like the Artificial Intelligence Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Wino- Handbook. It, intentionally, only provides a brief grad (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger description of each tool, with no extended discussion of (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), the historical origin of the tool or how it has been used in Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), and particular AI programs. The focus is on techniques Hector Levesque (1985). abstracted from their historical origins. Nominations are invited for The Computers and The original version of the catalogue was hastily built Thought Award to be made at IJCAI-87 in Milan. The in 1983 as part of the UK SERC-DoI, IKBS, Architec- note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards covers ture Study. It has now been adopted by the UK Alvey the nomination procedures to be followed. Programme and is both kept as an on-line document SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS undergoing constant revision and refinement and published as a paperback by Springer Verlag. Springer Nominations for The Computers and Thought Award Verlag have agreed to reprint the Catalogue at frequent and The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence are intervals in order to keep it up to date. invited from all in the Artificial Intelligence international The on-line and paperback versions of the catalogue community. The procedures are the same for both meet different needs and differ in the entries they awards. contain. In particular, the on-line version was designed There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least to promote UK interaction and contains all the entries we one of whom should not have been in the same institu- received that meet the criteria defined below. Details of tion as the nominee. The nominee must agree to be how to access the on-line version are available from nominated. There are no other restrictions on nominees, John Smith nominators, or seconders. The nominators should Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory Computational Linguistics, Volume 12, Number 3, July-September 1986 227 The FINITE STRING Newsletter Announcements Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 OQX (+44 31) 225-7774 ext 242 United Kingdom JANet: [email protected] The paperback version was designed to serve as a refer- ARPAnet: [email protected] ence book for the international community, and does not FORMAT FOR ENTRIES contain entries which are only of interest in a UK context. Title: By "AI techniques" we mean algorithms, data (know- Arias: ledge) formalisms, architectures, and methodological Abstract: [Paragraph length description of tool or tech- techniques that can be described in a precise, clean way. nique] The catalogue entries are intended to be non-technical and brief, but with a literature reference. The reference Contributor: [Your name] might not be the "classic" one. It will often be to a text- References: [Aim for the most helpful rather than the book or survey article. The border between AI and "classic" one] non-AI techniques is fuzzy. Since the catalogue is to Availability: [e.g. commercially available with documen- promote interaction, some techniques are included tation and support, available as a research vehicle because they are vital parts of many AI programs, even only with limited documentation] though they did not originate in AI. Environment: [necessary supporting software/hardware] By "portable AI software" we mean programming From: [contact address for distribution, incl. telephone languages, shells, packages, toolkits etc. available for use number and electronic mail address if appropriate] by AI researchers outside the group of the implementor, including both commercial and non-commercial products. To obtain a copy of software, do not write to us or the TINLAP3 contributor of the entry; look at the "Availability" field 7-9 January 1987, New Mexico State University, Las or write to the implementor. We hope that (s)he will Cruces, New Mexieco supply sufficient documentation for the system to be used by an outsider, but do not expect non-commercial TINLAP3 will be the third in the series of interdisciplinary products to be as professionally polished as commercial workshops ones. Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing. We have not included in the catalogue separate entries The format will be as in MIT (1985) and Illinois (1978): for each slight variation of a technique, programming invited panels of distinguished figures in the field will language, etc. Neither have we always included details of discuss pre-circulated statements of position. Lively audi- how to obtain the software, nor descriptions of AI ence participation is anticipated. The panels are intended programs tied to a particular application, nor of to cover the major contentious issues of the moment. descriptions of work in progress. The catalogue is not TINLAP3 is being supported by the Association of intended to be a dictionary of AI terminology nor to Computational Linguistics and funds are also being include definitions of AI problems. sought from NSF, AAAI, and ACM. Entries are short (abstract length) descriptions of a TINLAP GRAND COMMITTEE technique or piece of software. They include a title, list Nick Cercone, Simon Fraser University of aliases, contributor's name, paragraph of description, Richard Rosenberg, Dalhousie University information on availability and references. The contribu- Roger Schank, Yale University tor's name is that of the original contributor of the entry. David Waltz, Brandeis University Only occasionally is the contributor of the entry also the Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania implementor of the software or the inventor of the tech- TINLAP3 GENERAL CHAIR nique. The "Availability" field or the reference is a Andrew Ortony, University of Illinois better guide to the identity of the implementor or inven- tor. Some entries have been subsequently modified by TINLAP3 PROGRAM CHAIR Yorick Wilks, the referees and/or editorial team, and these modifica- New Mexico State University tions have not always been checked with the original PANELS contributor, so (s)he should not always be held morally Connectionist and Other Parallel Approaches to Natural responsible, and should never be held legally responsible. Language processing If you would like to submit an entry for the catalogue • Is
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