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                    PRAGMATICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
       5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90)
                 Science Hall and Music Center Auditorium
                         New Mexico State University
                 Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, June 28-30, 1990 

  
PRAGMATICS PROBLEM:
The problem of pragmatics in AI is one of developing theories, models,
and implementations of systems that make effective use of contextual
information to solve problems in changing environments.
 
CONFERENCE GOAL: 
This conference will provide a forum for researchers from all
subfields of AI to discuss the problem of pragmatics in AI.
The implications that each area has for the others in tackling
this problem are of particular interest.

COOPERATION:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
IEEE Computer Society

SPONSORSHIP:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), NMSU
Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society
for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI)

INVITED SPEAKERS: 
The following researchers are invited to present papers
at the conference:
 
*Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos USA
*Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland EC
*Jerry Feldman, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley USA
                & International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley USA
*Barbara Grosz, Harvard University, Cambridge USA
*James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder USA
*Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, United Kingdom EC
*Roger Schank, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
*Philip Stenton, Hewlett Packard, United Kingdom EC
*Robert Wilensky, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley USA

SUBMITTED PAPERS:
In addition over 40 papers on pragmatics in AI have been accepted
for the conference.

THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT:
Las Cruces, lies in THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (New Mexico),
USA and is situated in the Rio Grande Corridor with the scenic
Organ Mountains overlooking the city. The city is
close to Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands National Monument.
There are a number of Indian Reservations and Pueblos in the Land Of
Enchantment and the cultural and scenic cities of Taos and Santa Fe
lie to the north. New Mexico has an interesting mixture of Indian, Mexican
and Spanish culture. There is quite a variation of Mexican and New
Mexican food to be found here too.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a major
regional forum in the USA for scientific exchange and presentation
of AI research.
 
The conference emphasizes discussion and informal interaction
as well as presentations.
 
The conference encourages the presentation of completed research,
ongoing research, and preliminary investigations.
 
Researchers from both within and outside the region
are invited to participate.
 
DEADLINES:
Pre-registration: June 1st, 1990
Final papers due: June 1st, 1990 

TRANSPORT:
Las Cruces, New Mexico is located one hour from El Paso, Texas on I-10
West. Participants can fly into El-Paso International Airport and
transport will be provided from and to the airport.

SOCIALS:
The conference will include a registration reception buffet,
going_away_party full-buffet, banquet and banquet speaker (+ $25.00),
and numerous refreshments,

HOTELS:
The Las Cruces Hilton has rooms for $47.00 per night.
(Call 1-800-284-0616, cutoff date is June 13th)
Accommodation is also available in other Hotels and Motels.

REGISTRATION: 
Pre-Registration: Professionals: $50.00; Students $30.00
(Pre-Registration cutoff date is June 1st 1990)
Registration: Professionals: $70.00; Students $50.00
(at the conference)

(Copied proof of student status is required).

Registration form (IN BLOCK CAPITALS).
Enclose payment made out to New Mexico State University.
(ONLY checks in US dollars will be accepted).


Send to the following address (MARKED REGISTRATION):

	Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90
	Computing Research Laboratory
	Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, NMSU
	Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA.

 
Name:_______________________________	E-mail_____________________________	Phone__________________________


Affiliation:	____________________________________________________


Fax:	 ____________________________________________________


Address:	____________________________________________________


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	COUNTRY__________________________________________


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90.
(same postal address as above).

INQUIRIES:
Inquiries regarding conference brochure and registration form
should be addressed to the Local Arrangements Chairperson.
Inquiries regarding the conference program should be addressed
to the Program Chairperson.

Local Arrangements Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: rmcai at nmsu.edu
                                Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5466
                                Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218.

Program Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: paul at sparta.nmsu.edu
                     Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5109
                     Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218.
 
Paul Mc Kevitt,
Program Chairperson, RMCAI-90,
Computing Research Laboratory (CRL),
Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001,
New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. 


TOPICS OF INTEREST: 
You are invited to submit a research paper addressing Pragmatics
in AI, with any of the following orientations:
 
  Philosophy, Foundations and Methodology
  Knowledge Representation
  Neural Networks and Connectionism
  Genetic Algorithms, Emergent Computation, Nonlinear Systems
  Natural Language and Speech Understanding
  Problem Solving, Planning, Reasoning
  Machine Learning
  Vision and Robotics
  Applications

TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
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WEDNESDAY 27th June 1990:

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm:  Registration and Reception, Double Eagle, Old Mesilla

THURSDAY 28th June 1990:

\fB8:50 am:  Yorick Wilks and Paul Mc Kevitt: Welcome\fR

\fB9:00 am:  Invited talk: Jerry Feldman, UC Berkeley \fR
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	Miniature Language Acquisition: A Paradigm problem and some approaches

10:00 am: Coffee

10:30 am - 12:30 pm:  Three tracks of submitted papers.
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\fBTRACK A:\fR

	PRACMA:  Processing Arguments between Controversially-Minded Agents
	Jurgen Allgayer : Alfred Kobsa : Carola Reddig : Norbert Reithinger

	Relevant Beliefs
	Afzal Ballim : Yorick Wilks

	Speech Acts and Mental States
	Robbert-Jan Beun

	Extensions of Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity
	Elizabeth A. Hinkelman

\fBTRACK B:\fR

	Dynamic Route Planning 
	E. Cortes-Rello : F. Golshani

	Strategic Planning System (SPS)
	Mitchell Smith : Peter Briggs : Edward Freeman

	Re-planning a Route - A Pragmatic Approach
	Wai-Kiang Yeap

	Evaluation of Pragmatics Processing in a Direction Finding Domain
	Deborah A. Dahl

\fBTRACK C:\fR

	Computing with Fast Modulation: Experiments with Biologically
        	Realistic Model Neurons
	Mark DeYong : Randall Findley : Chris Fields

	Competition and Selection in Neural Networks with Distributed
      		Representations
	Kankanahalli Srinivas : John Barnden

	Using Genetic Algorithms as a Post-Processor for Improving Vehicle
      		Routing Solutions
	Nagesh Kadaba : Kendall E. Nygard

	An Application of Neural Networks is Robotics
	Dr. Behzad Ghavimi

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm:  Lunch

\fB2:00 pm:  Invited talk:  Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley, USA\fP

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm:  Coffee

\fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Invited talk:  Phil Stenton, HP Laboratories, Bristol, UK\fP
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	Putting NL to work: A dialogue modeling approach
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm:  Three tracks of submitted talks

\fBTRACK A:\fR
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	Using relational knowledge structures to handle null value situations
      	in natural language interfaces
	Nick Cercone : Dan Fass : Chris Groeneboer : Gary Hall : Mimi Kao :
	Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowich

	A Classification of User-System Interactions in Natural Language
      	with Special Reference to :
	Dan Fass : Nick Cercone : Gary Hall : Chris Groeneboer : 
	Paul McFetridge : Fred Popowick 

\fBTRACK B:\fR

	Problem Solving Experience and Problem Solving Knowledge
	Stephen W. Smoliar

	An Abstraction-Partitioned Model for Reactive Planning
	Lee Spector : James A. Hendler

\fBTRACK C:\fR

	A Graph Theoretic Basis for Problem Solving
	Daniel P. Eshner : Heather D. Pfeiffer

	Meta-Structures: Intelligent Structures for Inference Control
	Daniel J. Goter : David E. Monarchi

FRIDAY 29th June 1990:

\fB9:00 am:  Invited talk:  Barbara Grosz, Harvard University\fP
	Collaborative Planning for Discourse

10:00 am:  Coffee

10:30 am - 12:30 pm:  Three tracks of submitted papers

\fBTRACK A:\fR

	Why Does Language Matter to Artificial Intelligence
	Marcelo Dascal

	Pragmatics of Postdeterminers Non-restrictive Modifications & Wh-phrases
	Frens J.H. Dols

	Pragmatics and Natural Language Processing
	Eduard H. Hovy

	On the Semantics of the Conjunction "but" 
	Wlodek Zadrozny : Karen Jensen

\fBTRACK B:\fR

	How to Become Immune to Facts
	M.J. Coombs : R.T. Hartley : W.B. Kilgore : H.D. Pfeiffer

	Constrained Rational Agency
	Bruce D'Ambrosio : Tony Fountain : Lothar Kaul

	Abductive Inference in AI: Potential Unifications
	Venugopala Rao Dasigi

	A Prolog Implementation of the Stable Model TMS
	Stephen Pimentel : John L. Cuadrado

\fBTRACK C:\fR

	Multiple Level Island Search
	Peter C. Nelson : John F. Dillenburg

	Efficient Learning with Representative Presentations
	Xiaofeng (Charles) Ling

	User Modelling in a Knowledge-Based Environment for European Learning
	Michael F. McTear : Norman Creaney : Weiru Liu

	Training a Neural Network to be a Context Sensitive Grammer
	Robert F. Simmons : Yeong-Ho Yu

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm:  Lunch

\fB2:00 pm: Invited talk:  Roger Schank, Northwestern University\fP

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm:  Coffee

\fB3:30 pm - 4:30 pm:  Invited talk: Arthur Cater, University College Dublin, Ireland\fP 

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm:  Three tracks of submitted papers



\fBTRACK A:\fR

	Towards Empirically Derived Semantic Classes
	Brian M. Slator : Shahrzad Amirsoleymani : Sandra Andersen : Kent Braaten 
	John Davis : Rhonda Ficek : Hossein Hakimzadeh : Lester McCann :
	Joseph Rajkumar : Sam Thangiah : Daniel Thureen

	Using Words
	Louise Guthrie : Paul Mc Kevitt : Yorick Wilks

\fBTRACK B:\fR

	An Expert Tool for Digital Circuit Design
	F.N. Sibai : K. L. Watson

	Explaining Control Strategy in Second Generation Expert Systems
	Xuejun Tong

\fBTRACK C:\fR

	A New Approach to Analyzing Aerial Photographics
	Dwayne Phillips

	Acquiring Categorical Aspects: A Connectionist Account of Figurative
      	Noun Semantics
	Susan Hollbach Weber

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm:  Japanese Buffet in Garden Center (Budagher's)

SATURDAY 30th June 1990:

\fB9:00 am:  Invited talk:  Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, UK\fP

10:00 am:  Coffee

10:30 am - 11:30:  Two tracks of submitted papers

\fBTRACK A\fR

	An Experiment on Technical Text Reproduction
	Wanying Jin

	Explanation Dialogues: Interpreting Real Life Questions & Explanations 
	Efstratios Sarantinos : Peter Johnson

	Modeling of mind and its application to image sequence understanding
	Naoyuki Okada

\fBTRACK B:\fR

	Communication and Belief Changes in a Society of Agents
	Graca Gaspar

	An Interval Calculus Based Finite Domain Constraint and
      	its Implementation in Prolog
	Jin-Kao Hao : Jean-Jacques Chabrier

	Dynamic Context Diagrams:
	the pragmatics of social interaction in KBS development
	Simon P.H. Morgan

11:30 am - 1:30 pm:  Lunch

\fB1:30 pm - 2:30 pm:  Invited talk: James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder\fP 
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	A Unified Approach To Conventional Non-Literal Language

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm:  Coffee

\fB2:30 pm - 3:30 pm:  Invited talk:  Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratories\fP 
	Pragmatic Artificial Neural Nets for the Nonlinear Prediction of Time Series

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm:  Banquet (Double Eagle)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 
*John Barnden, New Mexico State University 
(Connectionism, Beliefs, Metaphor processing)
*Hans Brunner, U S WEST Advanced Technologies 
(Natural language interfaces, Dialogue interfaces)
*Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(Dynamical systems, Artificial neural networks, Applications)
*Mike Coombs, New Mexico State University 
(Problem solving, Adaptive systems, Planning)
*Dan Eshner, University of Maryland
(Planning, Search, Knowledge Representation)
*Thomas Eskridge, Lockheed Missile and Space Co. 
(Analogy, Problem solving)
*Chris Fields, New Mexico State University 
(Neural networks, Nonlinear systems, Applications)
*Roger Hartley, New Mexico State University 
(Knowledge Representation, Planning, Problem Solving)
*Victor Johnson, New Mexico State University 
(Genetic Algorithms)
*Paul Mc Kevitt, New Mexico State University
(Natural language interfaces, Dialogue modeling)
*Joe Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University 
(Computer Vision, Parallel architectures)
*Keith Phillips, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 
(Computer vision, Mathematical modelling)
*Roger Schvaneveldt, New Mexico State University
(Knowledge representation, Knowledge elicitation, cognitive modeling)
*Brian Slator, North Dakota State University
(Natural language processing, Knowledge acquisition)
*Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University 
(Natural language processing, Knowledge representation)
*Scott Wolff, U S WEST Advanced Technologies 
(Intelligent tutoring, User interface design, Cognitive modeling)

Organizing Committee RMCAI-90:

Paul Mc Kevitt                Yorick Wilks
Research Scientist            Director, CRL
CRL                           and Professor, NMSU Computer Science

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