8.0009 Conference: Conceptual Structures (1/621)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 15 May 1994 20:40:44 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 8, No. 0009. Sunday, 15 May 1994.
Date: 13 May 1994 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide)
Subject: ICCS'94
From: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu (Cecilia Kullman)
Second International Conference on
CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
ICCS'94
August 16-20, 1994
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
ADVANCE PROGRAM
10th Anniversary Meeting
Conceptual graphs (cgs) comprise a representational language which
consists of a logic with a graph notation. It integrates several
features from semantic net and frame representations. Research
teams around the world are working on the application and extension
of cgs theory in many domains. This conference is the forum in which
cgs researchers report their progress. Domains featured this year are
natural language understanding, database modeling, and knowledge
representation for expert systems. Also, the conference will support
three special interest workshops: PEIRCE: A Conceptual Graph Workbench;
Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory; and Deep Knowledge
Enterprise Modeling.
Sponsored by:
l'Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Unisys
AAAI
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services
AT & T Bell Laboratories
Sun Systems
WELCOME TO ICCS'94
This year we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of "Conceptual Structures"
(Sowa, 1984) and ten years of conceptual graphs (cgs) development in
both theory and application. ICCS'94 marks a turning point as we move
into our second decade. Outstanding speakers will give a retrospective
of the last ten years and their views on the future. A selection of
high quality papers will be presented covering, among other subjects,
general problem solving, knowledge engineering, natural language
understanding, formal languages and contexts.
ICCS'93, last year at Laval, signaled our coming of age. It was our
first international conference following a series of workshops. It bound
our European and North American communities with our Australian and Asian
contingents. We hope to build on that foundation this year.
We anticipate that ICCS'94 will be the cornerstone of development
in the next decade. It will be an event you will not want to miss,
where the future promise of cgs will be expounded and the real
challenges to come will be highlighted. In line with our focus on
future development, we shall place special emphasis on student and
first-time participants. We look forward to welcoming you to the
Washington area and to sharing with you a stimulating new-year
celebration.
Judith P. Dick
William Tepfenhart
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair
John F. Sowa
State Univ. of New York
sowa@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu
General Chair
Judith P. Dick
Univ. of Maryland
dick@glue.umd.edu
Program Chair
William Tepfenhart
AT&T Bell Laboratories
bill@violin.att.com
European Coordinator
Pavel Kocura
Loughborough Univ. of Technology
P.Kocura@lut.ac.uk
Peirce Workshop Chair
Gerard Ellis
Univ. of Queensland
ged@cs.uq.oz.au
Knowledge Acquisition
Workshop Chair
D. Lukose
Univ. of New England
lukose@peirce.une.edu.au
Enterprise Modeling
Workshop Chair
Alex Bejan
IBM Corporation
bejan@vnet.IBM.COM
Alex Bejan, IBM Corp.
Barbara Brunson, Scarborough College Univ.
Michel Chein, LIRMM
Peter Creasy, Univ. of Queensland
Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser Univ.
Harry Delugach, Univ. of Alabama
Bonnie Dorr, Univ. of Maryland
John Eddy, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bruno Emond, Univ. du Quebec
John Esch, Unisys
Jean Fargues, IBM Corp.
Timothy Finin, Univ. of Maryland
Norman Foo, Univ. of Sydney
Helen Gigley, Naval Research Laboratory
James Hampton, City Univ. of London
John Heaton, Loughborough Univ. of Techn.
Jim Hendler, Univ. of Maryland
Graeme Hirst, Univ. of Toronto
Fritz Lehmann, GRANDAI Software
Guy Mineau, Univ. Laval Quebec City
Robert Mohr, PRC
Bernard Moulin, Univ. Laval Quebec City
M. L. Mugnier, LIRMM
Sung Myaeng, Syracuse Univ.
Peter Oehrstroem, Alborg Univ.
Ghassan Qada, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Stephen Regoczei, Trent Univ.
Douglas Skuce, Univ. of Ottawa
Dagobert Soergel, Univ. of Maryland
Eileen Way, SUNY, Binghamton
Amy Weinberg, Univ. of Maryland
M. H. Williams, Heriot-Watt Univ.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Tuesday, August 16
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address
9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - Eileen Way
11:00 - 12:00 Session 1
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Session 2
3:00 - 4:30 Session 3
4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
5:30 Reception
Wednesday, August 17
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session 4
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Pat Hayes
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Session 5
3:00 - 5:00 Session 6
Thursday, August 18
8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting
9:00 - 10:30 Session 7
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Jack Minker
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Session 8
3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - John Sowa
4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting
5:30 Buffet Reception
Friday, August 19
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop:
A Conceptual Graph Workbench
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition
Using Conceptual Graph Theory
Saturday, August 20
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop:
A Conceptual Graph Workbench
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge
Enterprise Modeling
INVITED TALKS
EILEEN WAY, SUNY at Binghamton
"Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future"
Pay Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Ill.
"Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation"
Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park
"Deductive Databases - A Retrospective"
John F. Sowa, SUNY at Binghamton
"Representations of Representations"
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Tuesday August 16
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening
9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - "Conceptual Graphs - Past,
Present, and Future"
Eileen Way, (USA)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 1: Rational Problem Solving
11:00 - 11:30 "A Rational Goal-Seeking Agent Using Conceptual Graphs"
G. Mann (Australia)
11:30 - 12:00 "Attitudes: Keys to Problem Identification"
W. Tepfenhart (USA)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided)
Session 2: Natural Language I
1:30 - 2:00 "Pragmatic Semantics by Conceptual Graphs"
M. Willems (The Netherlands)
2:00 - 2:30 "The Temporal Structure of a Discourse and Verb Tense
Determination"
B. Moulin, S. Dumas (Canada)
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
Session 3: Natural Language II
3:00 - 3:30 "Extracting Explicit and Implicit Knowledge from
Natural Language Texts"
J. Sykes, V. Konstantinou, P. Morse (United Kingdom)
3:30 - 4:00 "Linguistic Processing of Text for a Large-scale
Conceptual Retrieval System"
S. Myaeng, C. Khoo, M. Li (USA)
4:00 - 4:30 "Multilingual Analyzer of Medical Texts"
A.-M. Rassinoux, R. Baud, J.-R. Scheer (Switzerland)
4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: Conceptual Graphs in Natural Language
5:30 Reception
Wednesday August 17
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
Session 4: Knowledge Representation and Applications
9:00 - 9:15 "Conceptual Graphs and Manufacturing Processes"
D. Boning, M. McIlrath (USA)
9:15 - 9:45 "Knowledge Visualization from Conceptual Structures"
W. Cyre, S. Balachandar, A. Thakar (USA)
9:45 - 10:00 "A Cooperative Program for the Construction of a
Concept Type Lattice"
M. Chein, M. Leclere (France)
10:00 - 10:30 "An Object-Oriented Logic for Conceptual and Contextual
Programming: The PROLOG++ Language"
A. Kabbaj, C. Frasson, M. Kaltenbach,
J.-Y. Djamen (Canada)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Aristotelian and Platonic
Views of Knowledge Representation"
Pat Hayes (USA)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided)
Session 5: Conceptual Graph Theory
1:30 - 2:00 "Basic Conceptual Structures Theory"
M. Wermelinger, J. Lopes (Portugal)
2:00 - 2:30 "Views, Mappings and Functions: Essential Definitions
of the Conceptual Graph Theory"
G. Mineau (Canada)
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break
Session 6: Contexts and Canons
3:00 - 3:25 "Contexts and Concepts, Abstraction Duals"
J. Esch (USA)
3:25 - 3:45 "Contexts, Canons, and Coreferent Types"
J. Esch (USA)
3:45 - 4:15 "Using Contexts to Represent Text"
J. Dick (USA)
4:15 - 4:30 "Constrained Line of Identity: An Approach to
Conditional Joins"
H. Delugach, T. Hinke (USA)
4:30 - 4:45 "Identification of Coreferences with
Conceptual Graphs"
S. Shankaranarayanan, W. Cyre (USA)
4:45 - 5:00 "Similarities of Microtheory and Conceptual Graph
Contexts"
J. Esch (USA)
Thursday August 18
8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting
Session 7: Data Modeling
9:00 - 9:30 "UDS: A Universal Data Structure"
R. Levinson (USA)
9:30 - 9:45 "Conceptual Graphs as a Canonical Data Model"
P. Creasy (Australia)
9:45 - 10:00 "Some Peircean Problems Regarding Graphs for Time and
Modality"
P. Oehrstroem (Denmark), J. Schmidt (Czech Republic),
H. van den Berg (The Netherlands)
10:00 - 10:30 "Inference Systems for Conceptual Graphs"
B. Ghosh, V. Wuwongse (Thailand)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - "Deductive Databases - A Retrospective"
J. Minker (USA)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Not Provided)
Session 8: Conceptual Graphs and Data Conceptual Modeling
1:30 - 2:00 "Exploiting the Induced Order on Type-Labeled Graphs
for Fast Knowledge Retrieval"
G. Ellis (Australia), F. Lehmann (USA)
2:00 - 2:15 "Adaptive Relational Storage for Conceptual Graphs"
B. Bowen, P. Kocura (United Kingdom)
2:15 - 2:30 "A Class of Conceptual Graphs with Polynomial
Iso-projection"
M. Liquiere (France)
2:30 - 3:00 "Conceptual Graphs for Relational Databases
Standardization"
B. Carbonneill, O. Haemmerle (France)
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - "Representations of Representations"
John Sowa (USA)
4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting
5:30 Buffet Reception
Friday August 19
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop:
A Conceptual Graph Workbench
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual
Graph Theory
Saturday August 20
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop:
A Conceptual Graph Workbench
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling
WORKSHOPS
Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench
Chairperson: G. Ellis (Australia)
PEIRCE is an international project, the purpose of which is to
integrate conceptual graph tool and application development.
We shall discuss implementation techniques for conceptual graphs,
including databases, programs, language standards, workbench programming
standards, dictionaries, and graphical user interfaces.
Applications and requirements for natural language processing,
information systems engineering, software engineering, and machine
learning will be included as well.
Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory
Chairperson: D. Lukose (Australia)
The major issues to be discussed at the workshop are when, how,
and where particular knowledge acquisition paradigms work successfully.
Consequently, this discussion will focus on the prototypical knowledge
structures requisite for the knowledge acquisition process, the
cgs operators, and the different knowledge-processing activities that
will enable the encoding of the domain knowledge into knowledge base
systems. A better understanding of "when," "how," and "where" questions
will no doubt help to lay a solid foundation for development of new
knowledge acquisition paradigms based on conceptual graph theory.
3. Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling
Chairperson: A. Bejan (USA)
The purpose of the Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling
Workshop is to investigate the formalization, storage and management
of knowledge for enterprise models. Conceptual graphs are
attractive due to their semantic power, ease of use, and
processability, but other systems of logic are also interesting.
Participants will debate any method or technique that may bring
a solution to the next generation enterprise information
modeling tools.
INVITED TALKS
"Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future"
Eileen Way, State University of New York at Binghamton.
August 16, 9:30 - 10:30
It has been ten years since John Sowa's book "Conceptual
Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine" was first
published. Since that time, the representational language known
as Conceptual Graphs has been adopted by researchers all over the
world for a wide variety of tasks. This tenth anniversary is an
appropriate occasion to look at the growth and evolution of
conceptual graphs, the changes in the field of knowledge
representation, and the significance of the kind of ontological
engineering involved in representing knowledge for intelligent
systems.
"Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation."
Pat Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Ill.
August 17, 11:00 - 12:00
Conventional semantic accounts of knowledge representation systems
use the jargon of contemporary mathematics to describe possible
interpretations. While this is about as clear a language as one
can hope to get for purposes of mathematical analysis, it leaves
open an important philosophical question: Does mathematics
describe a Platonic world of abstractions, or is it an idealized
Aristotelian language for describing the actual world? For example,
a "model" in model theory is defined as consisting of a set of individuals
with various relational structures and certain recursive mappings
from formal expressions. If one takes a Platonic view, these models
are mathematical abstractions only tenuously connected to most
real domains of application; but in an Aristotelian view, such a
model might itself be a piece of the physical world. We hope to
show that these different philosophical perspectives which
have been responsible for much recent debate yield
different intuitions on several technical issues, such as the
significance of completeness theorems, the relationship between
first-order and higher-order languages, and the relevance of
"grounding" in fixing the meaning of knowledge representational
formalisms.
"Deductive Databases - A Retrospective"
Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park
August 18, 11:00 - 12:00
Starting approximately in 1978, deductive databases grew out of logic
programming. We discuss some of the contributions that have been
made to this field since that date. We emphasize the relationship
between deductive databases and knowledge base systems. The role
of integrity constraints, both to support updates and for semantic
query optimization and cooperative answering, is discussed.
Contributions to the semantics of deductive databases and implementations
of such systems are also discussed. Finally, some directions for future
developments are specified.
"Representations of Representations"
John F. Sowa, State University of New York at Binghamton
August 18, 3:30 - 4:30
Since physical objects cannot be stored in computer memory, every
program that interacts with the world must use abstract representations
that serve as surrogates for the external objects. C. S. Peirce's
theory of signs or semiotics provides an architectonic of categories
for classifying and relating the various representations to the world
and to each other. His three-way distinction of icon (imagelike
representation that is similar to or homomorphic to some aspect of
the object, index (pointer, address, or other physical mechanism for
finding an object), and symbol (name or conventional association)
helps to clarify many of the ongoing controversies about imagelike
vs. symbolic representations. His system of interrelated signs
provides the logical and philosophical foundation for the
"symbol grounding" issues about how symbols are related to the
world and for the metalevel issues of how symbols are related to
other symbols. In this talk, we review some of the ongoing controversies
in AI, summarize Peirce's theory of signs, and apply that theory
to an analysis and clarification of the issues.
CONFERENCE LOCATION
ICCS'94 will be held at the Inn and Conference Center at the University
of Maryland, College Park. Nine miles from the nation's capital,
College Park sits at the doorstep of some of the country's most
important landmarks, monuments and institutions - from the United
States Capitol, the White House and the Smithsonian to the Library
of Congress, Lincoln Memorial and the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts. College Park is only a short drive from
Baltimore - a great historical city famed for its arts and
architecture, National Aquarium and colorful Inner Harbor -
and Annapolis, the state capital and home of the U.S. Naval Academy.
DIRECTIONS TO UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
INN AND CONFERENCE CENTER
From National (DCA) Airport:
Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs to Washington, D.C.,
using the George Washington Parkway. Stay on the parkway until
you see the I-495 Rockville exit. Follow 495 until you get to
the New Hampshire Avenue exit. Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park
exit. Stay on New Hampshire Avenue and make a left at the second
light onto Adelphi Road. Drive approximately three miles on Adelphi
Road through two traffic lights. At the third light, make a left
turn onto University Boulevard and an immediate right into the
parking garage. The building is marked University College
Center of Adult Education.
From BWI Airport:
Upon exiting the airport, follow signs for I-95 (toward Washington).
I-95 will take you to 95 South. Follow 95 South approximately
30 miles. Stay on 95 South until you get to the Route 1
South/College Park exit (Exit 25B). Follow Route 1 to the
first exit for the University of Maryland (Systems Administration).
Take this exit (Route 193) which immediately becomes University Boulevard.
Keep on University Boulevard and go through two traffic lights.
At the third light (intersection of University Boulevard & Adelphi
Road) make a U-turn and an immediate right into the parking garage.
The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education.
From Dulles (IAD) Airport:
Upon leaving the airport, follow the signs towards Washington, D.C.,
until you see the signs for I-495. Take the exit towards Rockville.
Follow 495 until you get to the exit for New Hampshire Avenue.
Take the New Hampshire/Takoma Park exit. Stay on New Hampshire
Avenue and make a left at the second light onto Adelphi Road.
Drive approximately three miles on Adelphi Road through two traffic
ligths. At the third light, make a left turn onto University
Boulevard and an immediate right into the parking garage.
The building is marked University College Center of Adult Education.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The conference facility is the Inn and Conference Center at the
University or Maryland. To make a room reservation at the Inn
and Conference Center, please use the registration form on the
next page. Additional rooms are available at the Greenbelt
Marriott at $97 - $112 for a regular room and $107 - $122 for
an upgraded concierge room. Marriott Reservations: (301) 441-3700.
Quality Inn has rooms for $44 - $49. Please ask for University of
Maryland rates. Quality Inn Reservations: (301) 864-5820.
Reservations at these facilities should be made directly.
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ICCS'94 REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ___________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Telephone: ___________________________
Tax: ________________________________
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___ $325 Conference fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94
___ $370 Conference fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94
___ $125 Student fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94
___ $175 Student fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94
___ $50 PEIRCE Workshop
___ $40 PEIRCE Workshop, student
___ $35 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
___ $25 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, student
___ $35 Enterprise Modeling Workshop
___ $25 Enterprise Modeling Workshop, student
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