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| "text": "The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given, at each International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research program has been carried out collaboratively the award may be made jointly to the research team. The first recipient of this award was John McCarthy in 1985.", |
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| "text": "The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $1,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The researcher(s) will be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings.", |
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| "text": "Primarily, however, the award carries the honour of having one's work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in the maturing science of Artificial Intelligence.", |
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| "text": "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 provides the relevant details.", |
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| "text": "The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence by an outstanding young scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $1,000 plus travel and subsistence expenses for the IJCAI. The Lecture is one evening during the Conference, and the public is invited to attend. The Lecturer is invited to publish the Lecture in the conference proceedings. The Lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds.", |
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| "text": "Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971 ), Patrick Winston (1973 ), Chuck Rieger (1975 ), Douglas Lenat (1977 ), David Marr (1979 ), Gerald Sussman (1981 ), Tom Mitchell (1983 ), and Hector Levesque (1985 .", |
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Doug Appelt, SRI International, Chair Dave Waltz, Thinking Machines and Brandeis, Chair Martin Kay, Xerox-PARC Deborah Dahl, SDC Inc Bonnie Webber, University of Pennsylvania Gary Cottrell, Univerity of California at San Diego Amichai Kronfeld, SRI International Gene Charniak, Brown University Jay McClelland, Carnegie-Mellon University Brad Goodman, BBN Laboratories Inc</td><td colspan=\"2\">Formal versus Commonsense Semantics \u2022 What does Montague grammar or situation semantics have to say to CL? \u2022 Can we distinguish the good parts from what is bad and useless? \u2022 For what NLP applications might these formalisms be particularly appropriate? \u2022 What have such theories chosen to ignore, in terms of data or intuitions? \u2022 How are they to be computed: compositionally, randomly? \u2022 REGISTRATION Registration covers pre-circulated preprints, mid-session \u2022 How well can such formalisms mesh with the rest of language representation processes, e.g. discourse and refreshments, etc., some local transportation, and admin-pragmatic analysis? istration. 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Roger Schank, Yale University, Chair Norm Sondheimer, University of Southern California-Information Sciences Institute Larry Birnbaum, Yale University Mitch Marcus, A T&T Bell Laboratories (one more to be confirmed \u2022 Will the demands of language production bring AI, Bob Amsler, Bell Communications Research Bran Boguraev, Cambridge University between analysis and production? \u2022 Has everyone really been doing unification for decades and just found out? \u2022 Is it a real advance or just a Hollywood term? Fernando Pereira, SRI International, Chair Dedre Gentner, Natural Language Generation Gerald Gazdar, (one more to be confirmed) World and World Representations \u2022 How have these suddenly become more interesting? \u2022 Do they offer a way through from the old \"primitive\" dispute, and do they offer a way out from having to separate world and linguistic knowledge? \u2022 How does what we know about words fit into the language understanding and generation process, and is that different for understanding and generation ? Don Walker, Bell Communications Research, Chair theoretical linguistics (and of course CL) closer togeth-Discourse Theory and Speech Acts er than the demands of comprehension did in the past? \u2022 Is there yet any serious discourse theory with testable \u2022 Is there anything special about generation? computational and empirical consequences? \u2022 Does generation constrain problems differently from \u2022 What phenomena ought a processing theory of understanding, in that it would not matter if some high-discourse understanding/generation to address itself to powered machine could understand things no human that are not already being attended to currently? could say, but it would matter if the same machine \u2022 What aspects of discourse are language problems and generated them!? which are general AI/KR problems? \u2022 Are knowledge structures, of the world as much as \u2022 What makes a theory of discourse a processing theory? language, the same or different for understanding and \u2022 Does spoken language affect one's theory of discourse? \u2022 Is there any real hope that we will be able to recognise generation?</td></tr><tr><td>(two more to be confirmed)</td><td/><td>tionist parsing? linguistic window anyway?</td></tr><tr><td>Computational Linguistics, Volume 12, Number 3, July-September 1986</td><td/></tr></table>", |
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