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From: vhahn@nats3.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Walther von Hahn)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 90 15:27:56 +0100
Subject: COLING Colloquia
Keywords: Konferenzen

mod-ki message 0423
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PRE-COLING ELECTRONIC COLLOQUIA
 
Walther von Hahn and Hans Karlgren are organizing two electronic
discussion groups that will serve as the basis for a panel session at
COLING-90 and may be published afterward.
 
THE UNFINISHED LANGUAGE:
No matter how comprehensively we linguists document language as it is,
language processing machines must sooner or later cope with unknown
words, shades of meanings and concepts: human language is a language in
the making, changing by small shifts during every text or dialogue.
Machine learning is being studied today by many means.  But it is not
unreasonable to expect that it is from linguistics, with its tradition
of studying change and with an object which so obviously does not wait
till the next authorized release before it changes, that a major
break-through will come for linguistic adaptation and for learning at
large.  Why not at COLING?
Send your messages on this topic to Mail Moderator Walther
von Hahn, you will receive previous contributions on request.
 
Address:        vhahn@rz.informatik.uni-hamburg.dbp.de.
 
 
HOMUNCULUS LOQUENS:
A labour-saving robot, a man-made monster and/or
a self-portrait?  What are we computational linguists really
working at?  How ancient are, at bottom, our ideas and concerns?
We shall try to identify some origins of hopes, fears and beliefs
underlying modern attempts to make machines read and write, talk
and listen.
Send your messages on this topic to Mail Moderator
Hans Karlgren,
 
Address:  homunculus@com.qz.se or homunculus@qzcom.bitnet.
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