Csaba Pleh Pleh Csaba
Cognitive Science Group Megismerestudomanyi Csoport
Department of Psychology Pszichologiai Tanszek
University of Szeged Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem
Szeged
Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:07:58 +0100
From: Ian Pitchford <ian.pitchford(a)scientist.com>
To: evolutionary-psychology(a)egroups.com
Subject: [evol-psych] Structural cues make 'six degrees' phenomenon work
FOR RELEASE: 23 AUGUST 2000 AT 14:00 ET US
Cornell University News Service
http://www.news.cornell.edu/
Structural cues make 'six degrees' phenomenon work
ITHACA, N.Y. -- We all know it's a small world: Any one of us is only about six
acquaintances away from anyone else. Even in the vast confusion of the World
Wide Web, on the average, one page is only about 16 to 20 clicks away from any
other. But how, without being able to see the whole map, can we get a message
to a person who is only "six degrees of separation" away?
A Cornell University computer scientist has concluded that the answer lies in
personal networking: We use "structural cues" in our local network of friends.
"It's a collective phenomenon. Collectively the network knows how to find
people even if no one person does," says Jon Kleinberg, assistant professor of
computer science, who published his explanation in the latest issue (Aug. 24)
of the journal Nature.
His research is based on a computer model showing that an "ideal" network
structure is one in which connections spread out in an "inverse square"
pattern. In human terms that means that an "ideal" person in the model would
have just about as many friends in the rest of the county as in the
neighborhood, just as many in the rest of the state as in the county, just as
many in the whole nation as in the state, and so on, as you might find in a
highly mobile society.
Kleinberg's answers might have a very practical use in helping to reduce the
number of clicks needed when surfing the web, as well as helping to speed up
other kinds of networks.
Although Kleinberg has been instrumental in the development of improved search
engines for the web, he doesn't see this work as applying to traditional search
engines. They already have the "big picture" of the network, he explains, since
they work from indexes of the web. Rather, he sees it being useful in the
construction of "agents," computer programs that will jump around the web
looking for specific information.
It could also apply to the distribution of data over the Internet, where
computers called routers must send packets of information on their way toward
their destinations without knowing what the state of the network is outside of
their own immediate neighborhood.
Kleinberg has shown that a computer algorithm (the basic design for a program)
can choose the best way to send a message to a faraway place in a network even
if it has knowledge only about the characteristics of its immediate
neighborhood. "The correlation between local structure and long-range
connections provides fundamental cues for finding paths through the network,"
he writes in the Nature paper.
Kleinberg's work is a refinement of an earlier study by two other Cornellians,
Steven H. Strogatz, professor of theoretical and applied mechanics, and his
graduate student, Duncan Watts, now an assistant professor in Columbia
University's sociology department.
Strogatz and Watts offered a mathematical explanation for the results of a
landmark experiment performed in the 1960s at Harvard by social psychologist
Stanley Milgram. The researcher gave letters to randomly chosen residents of
Omaha, Neb., and asked them to deliver the letters to people in Massachusetts
by passing them from one person to another. The average number of steps turned
out to be about six, giving rise to the popular notion of "six degrees of
separation," and eventually the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" game in which
actors are connected by their movie appearances with other actors.
Strogatz and Watts created a mathematical model of a network in which each
point, or node, is closely connected to many other nodes nearby. When they
added just a few random connections between a few widely separated nodes,
messages could travel from one node to any other much faster than the size of
the network would suggest. The six degrees of separation idea works, they said,
because in every small group of friends there are a few people who have wider
connections, either geographically or across social divisions. They also showed
that such cross-connected networks exist not only between human beings but also
in such diverse places as computer networks, power grids and the human brain.
But Kleinberg has found mathematically that the model proposed by Strogatz and
Watts doesn't explain how messages can travel so quickly through real human
networks. "The Strogatz-Watts model had random connections between nodes.
Completely random connections bring everyone closer together," Kleinberg
explains, "but a computer algorithm would have only local information. The
long-range connections are so random that it [the algorithm] gets lost."
So Kleinberg designed a model in which nodes are arranged in a square grid and
each node is connected randomly to others but with "a bias based on geography."
As a result each node is connected to many nearby, a few at a longer distance
and even fewer at a great distance -- the "inverse square" structure. "This
bias builds in the structural cues in my long-range
connections, and it's the bias that is implicitly guiding you to the target,"
Kleinberg explains. "In the Strogatz-Watts model, there is no bias at all and,
hence, no cues -- the structure of the long-range connections gives you no
information at all about the underlying network structure."
The sender of a message in this system doesn't know where all the connections
are but does know the general geographic direction of the destination, and if
messages are sent in that direction, Kleinberg says, they arrive much faster
than they would by completely random travel.
Kleinberg explains, "The Watts and Strogatz model is sort of like a large group
of people who know each other purely through electronic chat on the Internet.
If you are given the user ID of someone you don't know, it's really hard to
guess which of your friends is liable to help you forward a message to them.
"The inverse square model is more like the geographic view of Milgram's
experiment -- if you live on the West Coast and need to forward a message to
someone in Ithaca, you can guess that a resident of New York state is a good
first step in the chain. They are more likely to know someone in the Finger
Lakes region, who in turn is more likely to know someone in Ithaca and so
forth. Knowing that our distribution of friends is correlated with the
geography lets you form guesses about how to forward the message quickly."
The geographic information on the grid, he adds, is an analogue of the social
connections between people. Just as nodes on his simulated network choose the
correct geographical direction to send a message, so humans may choose a social
direction: A mathematician who wants to send a message to a politician might
start by handing it to a lawyer.
On the other hand, he says, "When long-range connections are generated
uniformly at random, our model describes a world in which short chains exist
but individuals, faced with a disorienting array of social contacts, are unable
to find them."
The paper in Nature is titled "Navigation in a Small World."
Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional
information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell
University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or
availability.
-- Jon Kleinberg's home page: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber
-- Nature: http://www.nature.comhttp://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cuns-scm082200.html
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Csaba Pleh Pleh Csaba
Cognitive Science Group Megismerestudomanyi Csoport
Department of Psychology Pszichologiai Tanszek
University of Szeged Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem
Szeged
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:24:42 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Albert R Abuzarov <ksu1(a)newmail.ru>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;;@newmail.ru@sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
Subject: [E-Conf] Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics2000
Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 100 12:31:13 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
International Conference "Cognitive Modeling in
LinguisticsÂ’2000"
October, 23-24, 2000. PereslavlÂ’-Zalesskiy (near
Moscow), Russia
The conference is organized by Russian Association
of Artificial Intelligence, Computing Center of Russian
Academy of Science, and ŤWeb Journal of Formal,
Computational and Cognitive Linguisticsť. It will be
third conference in the series.
The aim of the conference is joining efforts in
research of cognitive processes of researchers in the
fields of cognitive linguistics, learning theory,
neural networks, cognitive psychology, knowledge
engineering.
The reports on the following themes (but not only
listed) are welcome: formal models in linguistics,
psycholinguistics, language and thought, language
processing in neural networks, cognitive models of
thought and memory, cognitive models of language
acquisition, semantic and pragmatic, language and
culture, child speech, psychosemantics.
The size of a paper is not limited. The papers
could be presented in English (preferable) or Russian,
in the later case an abstract in English is required.
Please, send your papers by e-mail. Next formats are
acceptable: MS_Word, RTF, PostScript, plain text.
The deadline for the papers is September, 1, 2000.
Please, send your papers by e-mail both to
"solovyev(a)mi.ru" and "vladimir_polyakov@ yahoo.com".
Contact. Post address: Russia, 420140, Kazan,
Fuchika str., 127-88. Phone: 7-8432-624252 (home).
Program committee chair
Prof. Valery Solovyev (Kazan State University)
Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh
Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group
Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology
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From: info-psyling-digest <owner-info-psyling-digest(a)gla.ac.uk>
To: info-psyling-digest(a)gla.ac.uk
Subject: info-psyling-digest V1 #31
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info-psyling-digest Monday, August 14 2000 Volume 01 : Number 031
This digest covers the subjects listed below
(indicating also the originator):
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN SYDNEY
(Sally Andrews <s.andrews(a)unsw.edu.au>)
Re: InfoPsyling
(Charles Perfetti <perfetti+(a)pitt.edu>)
U of R working papers
(Joyce McDonough <joyce(a)ling.rochester.edu>)
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:21:43 +1000 (EST)
From: Sally Andrews <s.andrews(a)unsw.edu.au>
Subject: POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN SYDNEY
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
I am seeking a post-doctoral fellow to join me in researching issues
related to lexical processing of visual word forms. My current research
grants have three main foci:
1. Investigating the "perceptual unit" underlying processing of visual word
forms
2. Using reaction distribution analyses and mathematical modeling to
explore the common and task-specific processes contributing to performance
in different word identification tasks.
3. Evaluating how orthographic processing is modulated by the different
mapping relationships that characterise different alphabetic languages.
Applicants with interests in these or related areas, and particularly those
with skills in computational or mathematical modeling, are encouraged to
apply.
I am based at the University of New South Wales which is close to both the
centre of Sydney and to magnificant exemplars of Australian beaches.
Although at the "bottom of the world", Sydney has a relatively large group
of psycholinguistic researchers with interests in lexical access both here
and at Macquarie University where Max Coltheart and others have established
the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science.
The position is initially available for 1 year but may be able to be
renewed contingent on further funding.
Salary range: $A41,257-$45,580
Please email CV specifying your educational and research background and
experience and your particular research interests to: s.andrews(a)unsw.edu.au
Sally Andrews
*************************************
Associate Professor Sally Andrews
Head of School, School of Psychology
University of New South Wales
Sydney, 2052
Australia
Phone: 61-2-93853034
Fax: 61-2-93851193
Email: S.Andrews(a)unsw.edu.au
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:10:23 -0400
From: Charles Perfetti <perfetti+(a)pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: InfoPsyling
> 1. Post-doctoral fellowship: Montreal
> 2. Research Assistant/Postdoctoral position: MIT
> 3. Research Fellow: Edinburgh
> 4. Postdoctoral fellowship in fMRI: Groningen
> 5. Research assistant: Cambridge
> 6. Third Annual Undergraduate
> Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience
> 7. Conference: On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: UT Austin
> 8. Two brief queries
>
> *************************************************
>
> 1. Post-doctoral fellowship in Montreal
>
> From: Helene Kaufman <kaufmanh(a)magellan.umontreal.ca>
>
>
> JOB OPENING
>
> The international research group on the Mental Lexicon, funded by
> the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
> (Director and Co-principal investigator: Dr. Gonia Jarema, at
> Universite de Montreal; Co-principal investigator: Dr. Eva
> Kehayia, at McGill University and Co-prinicipal investigator, Dr.
> Gary Libben, at University of Alberta) has a position open for a
> Post-Doctoral fellow in Montreal at the Research Centre of the
> Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal.
>
> Candidates must have a Ph.D. with a specialization in psycho
> and/or neurolinguistics. Preference will be given to candidates
> with research experience on the mental lexicon. The fellowship is
> a one-year position, starting on April 3, 2000. Salary: in
> accordance with the norms in force at the Universite de Montreal.
>
> Applicants should be interested in conducting cross-language
> research on the mental lexicon as part of an international
> collaborative research initiative. The candidate will also be
> expected to mentor graduate students working on the project.
>
> Interested candidates should forward their curriculum vitae, a
> summary of their doctoral dissertation, a 1- to 2-page research
> proposal, and two letters of reference to Dr. Gonia Jarema,
> Project Director, by January 14, 2000.
>
> Mailing address:
>
> Centre de recherche Institut universitaire de geriatrie de
> Montreal 4565 Queen Mary Road Montreal, Quebec H3W 1W5
>
> fax: 514-340-3548 e-mail: jarema(a)ere.umontreal.ca NB: Attachments
> in Word 6.0 or equivalent please
>
> PLEASE POST IN YOUR DEPARTMENTS AND CIRCULATE
>
>
> ***************************************************
>
> 2. Research Assistant/Postdoctoral position, MIT
>
>
> From: "Mary C. Potter" <molly(a)psyche.mit.edu>
>
> RESEARCH ASSISTANT or POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COGNITION AT MIT
>
> Mary C. Potter is seeking a research assistant (Technical
> Assistant) and/or a postdoctoral fellow/associate, starting as
> soon as possible.
>
> My current research is on conceptual short-term attention and
> memory, including the attentional blink, competition between
> words in visual attention, the influence of sentence context on
> visual word perception and selection, picture encoding and
> memory, and crossmodal processing.
>
> The Technical Assistant or postdoc will have primary
> responsibility for running the lab, including supervising
> undergraduate research assistants, preparing and running
> experiments (with undergraduates as subjects), and analyzing
> data. A postdoc would collaborate on projects and would have some
> freedom to initiate projects within the domain of my grant. The
> research community in our building provides a good work
> environment, with opportunities to become acquainted with the
> work of students and faculty in the cognitive science section.
>
> Requirements for the research position include a B.A. or B.S
> degree, some experience in experimental research (preferably in
> cognition, language, or perception), and experience with
> programming Macintosh computers (not just word-processing). Other
> programming experience is a plus. A postdoctoral candidate would
> need, in addition, a Ph.D in experimental psychology,
> psycholinguistics, or a related field.
>
> To apply, please email, fax, or write me, enclosing a resume and
> the names and telephone numbers of at least two people as
> references. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the
> position. MIT is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
> employer, and minority and women applicants are encouraged to
> apply.
>
> Mary C. Potter (Molly) Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
> NE20-453 MIT Cambridge MA 02139
>
> molly(a)psyche.mit.edu (617)253-5526 or 868-1436 FAX 617-258-8654
>
> **********************************************************
>
> 3. Research Fellow: Edinburgh
>
>
> From: "Martin Pickering" <martin(a)psy.gla.ac.uk>
>
> DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
>
> RESEARCH FELLOW
>
> Required for a fixed term of three years in psycholinguistics.
> You will join a large research team working on varied aspects of
> human language processing and will conduct original research
> within this area. Applicants should have relevant postdoctoral
> research experience and a good publication record.
>
> Salary range : UK 21,597 to 30,065 p.a.
>
> Please quote ref : 776924
>
> Informal enquiries to : Martin Pickering (martin(a)psy.gla.ac.uk).
>
>
> Further particulars including details of the application
> procedure should be obtained from the Personnel Department, 1
> Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131-650-2511 (24
> hour answering service).
>
> http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm
>
>
> Closing date: 14 January 2000
>
> ******************************************************
>
> 4. Postdoctoral fellowship in fMRI: Groningen
>
> from: L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl (Laurie Stowe)
>
>
> Functional MRI Postdoctoral Position School of Behavioral and
> Cognitive Neuroscience University of Groningen, The Netherlands
>
> A two-year post-doctoral fellowship to start as soon as possible.
> The candidate should have some experience with neuroimaging,
> preferably using functional magnetic resonance imaging applied to
> an area of neurology/neuropsychology/neurolinguistics. Expertise
> in either the methodology itself or in the statistical analysis
> of such data is desired or equivalent experience which can
> readily be extended for use with this methodology.
>
> The focus of the project is the use of the neuro-imaging
> technique of functional MRI to investigate the processing of
> language by normal adults and by groups with various language
> processing problems. The postdoctoral fellow will function as
> part of a tema with responsibility for developing the methodology
> to be applied in such studies and analyzing experimental data.
> The experiments will be coordinated with other research within
> the project, with the goal of developing a set of paradigms which
> can be applied across a variety of neurological conditions to
> extend our knowledge of the variation within within the
> neuroanatomy of language processing.
>
> To apply, send a cv and letters of recommendation, and references
> to articles available viainternet to L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl. The
> letters of recommendation may also be electronic. If you wish to
> apply by mail, use the address below.
>
> Forfurther information, please contact Dr. Laurie A. Stowe at:
> Dept. of Linguistics +31 50 6366627 Faculty of Letters RuG
> Postbus 716 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands or:
> L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl
>
>
>
> Laurie A. Stowe Postbus 716 Dept. of Linguistics 9700 AS Goningen
> Faculty of Letters RuG The Netherlands tel: +31 50 363 6627 fax:
> +31 50 363 6855 email: L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl
>
> ******************************************************
>
> 5. Research assistant: Cambridge
>
> From: lktyler(a)csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk (L.K. Tyler)
>
> UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
> OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
>
>
> Research Assistant (full or part-time)
>
>
> Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work as part
> of a multi-disciplinary team, led by Professor L K. Tyler,
> working on language processing in healthy subjects and
> brain-damaged patients. The post will involve designing, running
> and analysing experimental studies with adult subjects.
> Candidates should have an appropriate background in
> psycholinguistics or experimental psychology, and have experience
> in using experimental software and in data analysis. Good
> computing skills would be an advantage.
>
> Salary will be on the RA1B scale within the 16286 - 18185 range
> (according to age and experience) for the full-time post, and pro
> rated accordingly for a part-time post. The position is funded
> from January 1 1999 August 31 2000. Applications in the form of
> a covering letter, full c.v. and the names and addresses of two
> referees should be sent to Professor L. K. Tyler, Department of
> Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street,
> Cambridge CB2 3EB, or by email [lktyler(a)csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk]
> to arrive no later than 22 December 1999.
>
> The University of Cambridge is an equal opportunities employer.
>
>
> ******************************************************
>
> 6. Third Annual Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive Science and
> Cognitive Neuroscience
>
>
> From: trueswel(a)cattell.psych.upenn.edu (John Trueswell)
>
>
>
> Friends and colleagues,
>
> This email is to let you know about the Third Annual
> Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive
> Neuroscience, to be held at Penn's Institute for Research in
> Cognitive Science, June 5-23, 2000.
>
> I'm writing to ask if you could help spread the news of the
> workshop to your undergrads and faculty colleagues. If you
> could, please forward this announcement to undergraduates and
> colleagues via email.
>
> Last year's workshop was a big success. The students were
> excellent, and they provided very positive reviews of the
> seminars, labs, and panel discussions. Next year's workshop
> should be a lot of fun, and we think your undergraduates might be
> interested in applying.
>
> Also, if you are currently teaching a cognitive science-related
> course, please consider distributing this information to your
> class.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> John Trueswell Co-Coordinator of the IRCS Summer Workshop
>
>
>
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
>
> Third Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science
> and Cognitive Neuroscience
>
> University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA June 5 - 23, 2000
>
> To apply for the workshop, please see our on-line application
> form at:
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/events/ugradsumwork.html
>
> The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2000.
>
> Each year, the cognitive science community at the University of
> Pennsylvania brings together the best and brightest undergraduate
> students from around the world who are interested in the growing
> fields of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience.
>
> The workshop is held on Penn's campus, at the Institute for
> Research in Cognitive Science, site of the National Science
> Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Research in
> Cognitive Science with the cooperation of the Center for
> Cognitive Neuroscience.
>
> As a workshop participant, you can:
>
> * Hear lectures from distinguished researchers in the fields of
> cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience
>
> * Participate in labs and lab tours involving some of the latest
> technologies and research methods
>
> * Present your own work through our Student Poster Session
>
> * Participate in panel discussions on the future of cognitive
> science and cognitive neuroscience
>
> Labs and Tours:
>
> * Free-Head Eye Tracking Lab in Language Processing
>
> * Language Development Lab
>
> * Graphics, Animation, and Human Modeling Lab
>
> * Language Corpus Analysis Lab
>
> * Event-Related Potential (ERP) Lab
>
> * Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Lab
>
> * Cognitive Neurology Stroke Lab
>
> Lecture Topics:
>
> * Primate Communication
>
> * Real-time Language Processing
>
> * Language Development
>
> * Learning, Memory and Attention
>
> * Working Memory and Executive Function
>
> * Human and Machine Vision
>
> * Computational Modeling of Language and Cognition
>
> * Statistical Natural Language Processing
>
>
> Participating IRCS faculty include:
>
> Norman Badler, Steven Bird, Anjan Chatterjee, Dorothy Cheney,
> Robin Clark, Martha Farah, Leif Finkel, Lila Gleitman, Aravind
> Joshi, John Kounios, Mark Liberman, Mitch Marcus, Dimitris
> Metaxas, Martha Palmer, Ellen Prince, Maribel Romero, Robert
> Seyfarth, Mark Steedman, C. J. Taylor, Sharon Thompson-Schill,
> John Trueswell and Bonnie Webber.
>
> To apply, please complete our on-line application form at
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/events/ugradsumwork.html
>
> *** Course experience with cognitive science is desired, but not
> required. ***
>
> Admitted participants will be provided with a travel stipend,
> accommodations at the Penn dormitories and a food plan through
> the dining services. There are no tuition costs for
> participants.
>
> Questions? Please see our web page or send email to
> summer_workshop(a)central.cis.upenn.edu
>
>
> Mailing Address for Workshop Correspondence: Institute for
> Research in Cognitive Science Attn: Summer Workshop Suite 400A,
> 3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
>
>
> ******************************************************
>
> 7. Conference: On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: UT
> Austin
>
> From: David Gorfein <gorfein(a)exchange.uta.edu>
>
> On the Consequences of Meaning Selection A conference sponsored
> by the American Psychological Association & The University of
> Texas at Arlington Psychology Department
>
> March 10-11, 2000
>
> For a number of years researchers of reading and language have
> studied lexically ambiguous words (homographs and homophones).
> Much of the interest focussed on the form of lexical
> representation of these words and how they were accessed. In the
> late 1980's a few investigators began to go beyond the topic of
> access in an attempt to characterize the immediate effects of the
> disambiguation process. Meaning selection for one meaning was
> shown to make it difficult to select an alternative meaning of
> the homograph and at the same time there appeared to be enhanced
> ability to process materials related to the meaning selected. In
> short, those investigator's have argued that the effects of
> disambiguating have important consequences for discourse
> processes including the reading and comprehension of text.
>
> A conference addressed to address the theoretical issues raised
> by this research is scheduled for Arlington, Texas in March. The
> presenters (in alphabetic order) are: Michael C. Anderson,
> University of Oregon; David A. Balota, Washington University;
> Curt Burgess, University of California, Riverside; James R.
> Erickson, University of Texas, Arlington; Morton Ann Gernsbacher,
> University of Wisconsin; David S. Gorfein, University of Texas,
> Arlington; Walter Kintsch, University of Colorado; Thomas K.
> Landauer, University of Colorado; Robin Morris, University of
> South Carolina; Charles A. Perfetti, University of Pittsburgh;
> Greg B. Simpson, University of Kansas; and Patrizia Tabossi,
> University of Trieste.
>
> For conference details including abstracts, registration
> materials, housing, etc. see
> http://www.uta.edu/psychology/apa_conference.
>
> ******************************************************
>
> 8. Two brief queries
>
> From: hamideh marefat <marefat(a)chamran.ut.ac.ir>
>
>
> Dear Members,
>
> 1. Do you know Inagaki's email? She wrote an
> article in Language Learning 1997. The mail Shunji Inagaki wrote
> at the end of the article seems to have changed.
>
> 2. I would
> appreciate your comments about the following question: If a
> person shows mastery over the syntactic structure of a verb,
> he/she knows the meaning of that verb, bothe the broad range and
> the narrow range constraints, as Pinker (1989) calls them. Thank
> you in advance
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> hamideh marefat
> * * The university of Tehran
> * * The Faculty of Foreign Languages
> * * English Department
> * * Iran Tehran P.O.Box: 11495 - 136
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
>
>
Charles A. Perfetti
Professor of Psychology & Linguistics
Senior Scientist & Associate Director
Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh
412-624-7071
Perfetti+(a)Pitt.edu
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:13:04 -0400
From: Joyce McDonough <joyce(a)ling.rochester.edu>
Subject: U of R working papers
** N E W ONLINE **
THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
WORKING PAPERS IN THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES (WPLS:UR)
The University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences
(WPLS:UR) is pleased to announce the release of an online issue,
containing recent work by linguists and language scientists working at
the University of Rochester: "WPLS:UR Vol. Spring/Summer 2000, no. 1.
The contents are drawn from a wide range of subfields, and are available
at http://www.ling.rochester.edu/wpls/. The Table of Contents follows:
===================================================
University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences
(WPLS:UR) Vol. Spring/Summer 2000, no. 1
Editors: Katherine Crosswhite & Joyce McDonough
175pp.
_________________________
JOYCE M. McDONOUGH & MARY ANN WILLIE
Allowable variability: A preliminary investigation of word recognition
in Navajo
KATRINA SCHACK
Comparison of intonation patterns in Mandarin and English for a
particular speaker
JAMES S. MAGNUSON, MICHAEL K. TANENHAUS & RICHARD N. ASLIN
Simple Recurrent Networks and Competition Effects in Spoken Word
Recognition
BOB McMURRAY
Connectionism for . . .er. . . linguists
GREG CARLSON
"Mismatches" of Form and Interpretation
KATHERINE M. CROSSWHITE
Vowel Reduction in Russian
================================================
For more information about the WPLS:UR, please see our website at:
http://www.ling.rochester.edu/wpls/
- --
Joyce McDonough
Department of Linguistics
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York 14627
(716) 275-2895
(716) 273-1088 (fax)
http://ling.rochester.edu/
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SZAMITOGEPES AGYKUTATAS Minisymposium
augusztus 25, pentek
Helyszin: MTA KFKI RMKI Tanacsterem (III. epulet)
Erdeklodoket szivesen latunk.
Elozetes jelentkezes:
Erdi Peternel: 392-2742 (vagy persze 2742).
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Budapest - Cincinnati Brain and Mind Minysimposium
August 25th, 2000
9.30
Erdi, Peter
Dept. Biophysics, KFKI Res. Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics of thwe
Hung. Acad. Sci, Budapest
Introduction: Computational Neuroscience vs Neural Computation (after the
CNS*00 and IJCNN conferences)
9.45
Bickle, John
Department of Philosophy and Neuroscience
Graduate Faculty, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Understanding Neural Complexity: Reduction to the Rescue.
10.35 Kampis, George
Dept. History and Philosphy of Sciences, Eotvos University, Budapest
Dynamic Models of the Mind
11.25 Break
11.40 Marica Bernstein
Department of Biological Sciences, University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
The effect of affect on cognitive sequences: Generalizing a
neurocomputational model of cingulo-frontal circuits generating
'motivated' saccadic eye movements.
12.30 Zalanyi, Laszlo
Dept. Biophysics, KFKI Res. Inst. for Particle and Nuclear Physics of the
Hung. Acad. Sci, Budapest
Modeling the the spatial distribution of LTP and LTD in the hippocampal
CA1 region in transversal slices
Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by TTOMPA(a)PHYS.SZOTE.U-SZEGED.HU follows.
Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed.
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A cim helyesen (hogy ne kelljen keresgelni):
http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/
(s ezen belul kell ertelemszeruen a konferenciak, 7. konf. es program link=
ekre)
Udvozlettel:
Tompa Tamas
> Kedves barataim:
>
> julius 9 es 14 kozott Budapesten kerul sorra a 7. Nemzetkozi Pragmatikai
> Kongresszus, melynek vezeto temaja a megismeres kerdese.
> A reszletes program a kovetkezo helkyen talalhato:
>
> htttp://www.uia.ac.be/ipra/7t_PrelimProgram.html
>
> Prabaltam kivonatolni, de igen nehez, mivel mintegy 800 (sic
> !) eloadasrol illetve poszterrol van szo.
>
> Mindenesetre a tenyleges program heton delelott kezdodik, s minden
> lenyegeben a budapesti Muegyetem Kozponmti (K) epuleteben lesz.
>
> Mindenkit szeretettel varunk,
>
> udvozlettel
>
>
> Pleh Csaba
>
>
>
> Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh
> Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group
> Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology
> Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
> Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology =
> foszerkeszto editor
>
> Szeged
> Petofi sgt. 30, H-6722
> Hungary
> Phone: (36(62)544691
> Home: Budakeszi, Zichy P. u 4, 2092
> Phone: (36)(23)453933,06203278922
> Mobile: (0620)3278922
> Fax: (36)(23)453932
> email: pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
> Homepage: www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~pleh
>
>
Kedves barataim:
julius 9 es 14 kozott Budapesten kerul sorra a 7. Nemzetkozi Pragmatikai
Kongresszus, melynek vezeto temaja a megismeres kerdese.
A reszletes program a kovetkezo helkyen talalhato:
htttp://www.uia.ac.be/ipra/7t_PrelimProgram.html
Prabaltam kivonatolni, de igen nehez, mivel mintegy 800 (sic
!) eloadasrol illetve poszterrol van szo.
Mindenesetre a tenyleges program heton delelott kezdodik, s minden
lenyegeben a budapesti Muegyetem Kozponmti (K) epuleteben lesz.
Mindenkit szeretettel varunk,
udvozlettel
Pleh Csaba
Pleh Csaba egyetemi tanar Professor Csaba Pleh
Megismerestudomanyi Csoport Cognitive Science Group
Pszichologia Tanszek Department of Psychology
Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem University of Szeged
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle Hungarian Review of Psychology
foszerkeszto editor
Szeged
Petofi sgt. 30, H-6722
Hungary
Phone: (36(62)544691
Home: Budakeszi, Zichy P. u 4, 2092
Phone: (36)(23)453933,06203278922
Mobile: (0620)3278922
Fax: (36)(23)453932
email: pleh(a)edpsy.u-szeged.hu
Homepage: www.jate.u-szeged.hu/~pleh
CALL FOR PAPERS
1ST SIGDIAL WORKSHOP ON DISCOURSE AND DIALOGUE
Including Theme Session On Principles For
Dialogue System Evaluation
October 7,8, 2000
Hong Kong
In conjunction with
ACL-2000: The 38th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
www.pitt.edu/~dialcal/ACL2Ksymp.html
Description:
There has been a perceived need in the SigDIAL Community for a regular
workshop spanning the SigDIAL interest area of discourse and
dialogue. While there has been a lot of activity in this area, and
fairly frequent "specialty" workshops on various sub-topics, there has
not been a regular place for such research to be presented in a forum
to receive attention from the larger SigDIAL community. This workshop
is intended to be the first in a regular series. A general session,
open to the range of work in the area is to be combined with a
Specialty "Theme Session", in this case on Principles for Dialogue
System Evaluation.
TOPICS OF INTEREST FOR THE GENERAL SESSION
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work
on discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes:
(i) Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
including topics such as:
- dialogue management models
- task complexity and interfaces for less common and less
expected tasks
- repair, clarification and correction types
- grounding and feedback strategies
- user and user group modeling
- mixed initiative and user-adaptive dialogue
- re-usable components for different systems
- generic architectures and common toolkits for building
dialogue systems
- speech, text and graphics integration
(ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools
Support for corpus-based work on discourse and dialogue, in
particular
- issues in discourse and dialogue annotation
- tools and resources for discourse and dialogue studies
- XML-based tools for dialogue access to internet information
(iii) Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
a. The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue
(i.e., beyond a single sentence) including the following issues:
- ellipsis and anaphora
- dependent reference
- presupposition and accommodation
- genres of discourse and dialogue
- politeness
b. Specific aspects of discourse and dialogue structure, in
particular
- dialogue acts
- rhetorical structure
- prosody and discourse
- temporal structure
- topic-comment structure in discourse and dialogue
- focus and the distribution of discourse referents
- discourse structure and conversational implicatures
TOPICS OF INTEREST FOR THE THEME SESSION ON PRINCIPLES FOR EVALUATION
OF DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
As a special-theme session, we wish to discuss methods for evaluation
which promote fruitful research directions. Contributions in this
respect are solicited on topics including but not limited to:
- evaluation of task-oriented dialogue systems vs.
self-oriented (amusement-oriented) dialogue systems
- how to evaluate the efficiency and/or comfort of dialogues
- objective, quantitative, synthetic evaluation vs.
subjective, qualitative, analytic evaluation
- relation of evaluation of dialogue systems with evaluation of
other parts of NLP
- common tools and infrastructures for evaluation
- how to assess/implement diversity of dialogues in evaluation
The last topic may need further description: A generally important issue
in evaluation of allegedly intelligent artifacts is how to manipulate
the diversity under the present state of the art. The diversity of
dialogues encompasses the vocabulary, syntactic constructions,
discourse structures, and so forth. A major source of the diversity
here is the gap between linguistic expressions and the description of
the world to talk about. Diverse dialogues in fact arise in tasks,
such as the Map Task, involving pattern recognition. However, the
visual pattern recognition in the Map Task makes it utterly impossible
to computationally implement with the current technologies.
SUBMISSIONS
To stimulate discussions, both the general and theme
session will feature both full paper presentations and short
position/discussion papers. Please indicate the submission format, as
described below.
All papers should be sent electronically to dialcal(a)pitt.edu with
subject line SigDIAL workshop submission. Papers should be received by
July 10th to insure full consideration.
FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS are limited to original, unpublished work in
the areas of interest. Extended abstracts of papers may not exceed
3200 words (exclusive of title page, example pages, and
references). In addition to the regular text, 2 additional pages are
allowed (as an appendix) which may include examples of extended
discourse, graphical representation of discourse structure, or other
supporting material.
The style files for submission are the same as the ones
for ACL regular papers, which can be downloaded from
http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/Latex/index.html (for latex)
http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/work/ACL2000_submission.doc (for MS Word)
The title page should include the following information:
Title:
Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses:
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject
area (preferably from lists above)
Which Session: General or Theme
Word Count, excluding title page and references:
Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)
SHORT PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Short papers should be in the same format as long papers, but no more
than 2000 words (with similar final length). As well as original work
in progress, short papers may also involve positions on the topics
above, comparative analysis of other approaches, or new relevant
topics for discussion.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions July 10th
Notification August 10th
Final Submissions September 1st
Workshop October 7-8th
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Laila Dybkjaer (co-chair), Koiti Hasisa (co-chair), David Traum
(co-chair), Morena Danielli, Yasuharu Den, Barbara Di Eugenio,
Kristiina Jokinen, Pamela Jordan, Ian Lewin, Daniel Marcu, Katashi
Nagao, Akira Shimazu, Michael Strube, Jan van Kuppevelt, Marilyn
Walker (and others).
Contact Information:
Questions about submission: Pamela Jordan <dialcal(a)pitt.edu>
Questions about General Session: Laila Dybkjaer <laila(a)nis.sdu.dk>
Questions about Theme Session: Koiti Hasida <hasida(a)etl.go.jp>
Miscellaneous and Logistical Questions: David Traum <traum(a)cs.umd.edu>
PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS:
Tenopir/King: Towards Electronic Journals
Below is the Abstract of "Towards Electronic Journals" by Carol
Tenopir and Donald W. King. This book has been selected for
multiple review in Psycoloquy, a refereed journal of Open Peer
Commentary in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. If you wish
to submit a formal book review please write to
psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu
indicating what expertise you would bring to bear on reviewing the
book if you were selected to review it.
(If you have never reviewed for PSYCOLOQUY or Behavioral & Brain
Sciences before, it would be helpful if you could also append a
copy of your CV to your inquiry.) If you are selected as one of the
reviewers and do not have a copy of the book, you will be sent a
copy of the book directly by the publisher (please let us know if
you have a copy already). Reviews may also be submitted without
invitation, but all reviews will be refereed. The author will reply
to all accepted reviews.
FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/
FULL ARTICLE-LENGTH PRECIS OF THE BOOK IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084
Note: Psycoloquy reviews are of the BOOK not the Precis. Review
Length should be about 200 lines [c. 1800 words], with a short
abstract (about 50 words), an indexable title, and reviewer's full
name and institutional address, email and Home Page URL. All
references that are electronically accessible should also have
URLs.
AUTHORS' RATIONALE FOR SOLICITING MULTIPLE REVIEW: We would like
scientists as authors, readers, editors, referees and observers of
the coming electronic age to review the book through their personal
experiences and knowledge, which they think confirm, reinforce, or
refute our observations. We would also appreciate comments on our
interpretation of results. We look at the book as a stepping-stone
in our further study of electronic journals. Input from scientists
is particularly desired for our future study.
psycoloquy.00.11.084.electronic-journals.1.tenopir Sun Jun 18 2000
ISSN 1055-0143 (53 paragraphs, 7 references, 954 lines)
PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA)
Copyright 2000 Carol Tenopir & Donald W. King
TOWARDS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS:
REALITIES FOR SCIENTISTS, LIBRARIANS, AND PUBLISHERS
[Special Libraries Association 2000, xxii + 488pp ISBN 0-87111-507-7]
Precis of Tenopir on Electronic-Journals
Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
804 Volunteer Boulevard
Knoxville, TN 37919
tenopir(a)utk.edu
http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/tenopir.html
Donald W. King
4915 Gullane Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
dwking(a)umich.edu
ABSTRACT: This precis of "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir &
King 2000) focuses mostly on scientists' perspective as authors and
readers, how changes over the years by publishers and librarians
have affected scientists, and what they should expect from
electronic journal and digital journal article databases. We
describe some myths concerning scholarly journals and attempt to
assess the future in a realistic manner. Most of our primary data
involves U.S. scientists, libraries and publishers, but much of the
secondary data is from a European perspective, which shows few
differences.
KEYWORDS: copyright, citation impact, digital library, electronic
archives, electronic publishing, electronic journals, peer review,
publication costs, research funding
OVERVIEW OF CONTENTS: "Towards Electronic Journals" (Tenopir & King
2000) is addressed to four audiences: scientists as authors and
readers; journal publishers; librarians and other intermediaries;
and organizational funders of scientists and libraries. An attempt
was made: (1) to describe the communication practices of
scientists, librarians, and publishers; (2) to establish their
goals, motives, and incentives for the way in which they do things;
and (3) to determine the cost and other economic aspects of their
involvement. In particular, we felt it important for each journal
system participant to gain a better understanding and appreciation
of the contributions made by all participants and to enable them to
make more informed decisions about electronic journals in the
future.
To achieve these objectives we partitioned the book into five
parts, in addition to an introduction. A background part provides a
summary of the quantitative results, a brief history of scientific
scholarly journals including early electronic publishing, a
framework for describing scholarly journals as a system embedded in
larger communication and science systems, and a description of our
data collection methods. Data include results from 13,591
readership survey responses from scientists (1977 to 1998); more
than 100 cost studies of library services, publishing, and
scientists' authorship and information seeking; a study of the
characteristics of a sample of 715 scholarly journals tracked from
1960 to 1995; and review of more than 800 relevant publications.
The next three parts address the principal participants: (1)
scientists, including their general communication activities and
journal authorship, readership and information-seeking patterns; (2)
libraries, including general library use and journal-related
services use and economics; and (3) publishers, including journal
publishing costs, pricing, and financial considerations. The last
part covers electronic publishing details and aspects appropriate
to each of the journal system participants.
Tenopir, Carol, and Donald W. King (2000) Towards Electronic Journals:
Realities for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers. Washington,
D.C.: Special Libraries Association.
http://www.sla.org
FULL PRECIS IS RETRIEVABLE FROM:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc-bin/newpsy?11.084
FULL PSYCOLOQUY BOOK REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS AT:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.htmlhttp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/