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- have complete information:
- o Sources for online copies of the Roget's 1911 thesaurus.
- o Sources for online copies of Project Gutenberg's public domain
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- Subject: FAQ: Questions about Artificial Intelligence [Monthly posting]
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- Summary: Frequently asked questions about AI
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- Topics Covered:
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- [0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
- [1] Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
- [2] AI-related Associations
- [3] AI-related Mailing Lists
- [4] FTP and Other Resources
- [5] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
- [6] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
- [7] What AI competitions exist?
- [8] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
- other text corpora?
- [9] List of Prolog and Smalltalk implementations.
-
- Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
-
-
- Introduction:
-
- Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the various network
- discussion groups devoted to and related to Artificial Intelligence
- (AI). This file/article is an attempt to gather these questions and
- their answers into a convenient reference for AI researchers. It is
- posted on a monthly basis. The hope is that this will cut down on the
- user time and network bandwidth used to post, read and respond to the
- same questions over and over, as well as providing education by
- answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask.
-
- The latest version of this file is available via anonymous FTP from CMU:
-
- To obtain the file from CMU, connect by anonymous ftp to any CMU CS
- machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]), using username
- "anonymous" and password "name@host". The file ai-faq.text
- is located in the directory
- /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/AI/
- [Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as
- some of the superior directories on the path are protected from
- access by anonymous ftp.] If your site runs the Andrew File System,
- you can just cp the file directly without bothering with FTP.
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- Subject: [0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
-
- The newsgroup comp.ai exists for general discussion of topics related
- to Artificial Intelligence. For example, possible topics can
- include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- announcements of AI books and products
- discussion of AI programs and tools
- questions about AI techniques
- problems implementing an AI technique
- Postings should be of general interest to the AI community. See also
- question [3].
-
- We've tried to minimize the overlap with the FAQ postings to the
- comp.lang.lisp and comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroups, so if you don't find
- what you're looking for here, we suggest you try the FAQs for those
- newsgroups.
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- Subject: [1] Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
-
- This section provides a bibliography of good introductory texts and
- overviews of AI and specific subfields of AI:
-
- 1. AI in general (Introductions, Overviews)
-
- Elaine Rich & Kevin Knight, "Artificial Intelligence", 2nd edition,
- McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991. ISBN 0-07-052263-4
-
- Shapiro, Stuart C. (ed), "Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence",
- John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1987.
-
- Alan Bundy, editor, "Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence
- Techniques", 3rd Edition, Springer Verlag, 1990, ISBN 0-387-52959-4.
-
- Older general introductions:
-
- Patrick Henry Winston, "Artificial Intelligence", 2nd Edition,
- Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1984.
-
- Nils J. Nilsson, "Principles of Artificial Intelligence", Tioga
- Publishing Company, Palo Alto, CA, 1980.
-
- Eugene Charniak and Drew V. McDermott, "Introduction to Artificial
- Intelligence", Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985.
-
- 2. Natural Language Processing (NLP)
-
- General:
-
- Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C., "Natural Language Processing in Lisp:
- An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
- Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
- of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Poplog.)
-
- Grosz, B.J., Sparck-Jones, K., and Webber, B.L., "Readings in
- Natural Language Processing", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los
- Altos, CA, 1986.
-
- Robert C. Berwick, "Computational Linguistics", MIT Press,
- Cambridge, MA, 1989, ISBN 0262-02266-4.
-
- Brady, Michael, and Berwick, Robert C., "Computational Models
- of Discourse", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
-
- Klaus K. Obermeier, "Natural Language Processing Technologies
- in Artificial Intelligence: The Science and Industry Perspective",
- John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989.
-
- Terry Winograd, "Language as a Cognitive Process", Addison-Wesley,
- Reading, MA, 1983.
-
- Parsing:
-
- Tomita, M. (Editor), "Current Issues in Parsing Technology",
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991.
-
- Tomita, M., "An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm",
- Computational Linguistics 13:31-46, 1987.
-
- Probabilistic Parsing:
-
- Wright, J., "LR Parsing of Probabilistic Grammars with Input
- Uncertainty for Speech Recognition", Computer Speech and Language
- 4:297-323, 1990.
-
- Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalised Probabilistic LR Parsing of
- Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-based Grammars",
- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical Report Number
- 224, 1991.
-
- Natural Language Understanding:
-
- Allen, James F., "Natural Language Understanding", The
- Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California,
- (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts),
- 1988, ISBN 0-8053-0330-8.
-
- Natural Language Generation:
-
- McKeown, Kathleen R. and Swartout, William R., "Language
- Generation and Explanation", in Zock, M. and Sabah, G.,
- editors, Advances in Natural Language Generation, Volume 1, Pages
- 1-51, Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1988. (Overview of
- the state of the art in natural language generation.)
-
- 3. Planning
-
- Intros, Overviews, Paper Collections:
-
- John Allen, James Hendler and Austin Tate, editors,
- "Readings in Planning", Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1990.
-
- James Hendler, Austin Tate and Mark Drummond, "AI Planning:
- Systems and Techniques", AI Magazine, May, 1990. (Review article.)
-
- Georgeff, M. P., "Planning," in Annual Review of Computer Science,
- Annual Reviews Inc., pages 359-400, 1987.
-
- STRIPS:
-
- Fikes, R.E. and Nilsson, N.J., "STRIPS: A new approach to the
- application of theorem proving to problem solving", Artificial
- Intelligence 2:189-208, 1971.
-
- ABSTRIPS:
-
- Sacerdoti, E. D., "Planning in a Hierarchy of Abstraction Spaces,"
- Artificial Intelligence, 5:115-135, 1974.
-
- Conjunctive Goals:
-
- Chapman, D., "Planning for Conjunctive Goals", Artificial Intelligence
- 32:333-377, 1987.
-
- NOAH:
-
- Sacerdoti, E., "A Structure for Plans and Behavior", Artificial
- Intelligence, pages 1-65, American Elsevier, New York, 1977.
-
- Sacerdoti, E. D., "The Nonlinear Nature of Plans," Proc. of the Fourth
- Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1975, 206-214.
-
- Reactive Planning:
-
- Agre P.E. and Chapman, D., "Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of
- Activity", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on
- Aritificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, July 1987.
-
- Georgeoff, M.P. and Lansky, A.L., "Reactive Reasoning and
- Planning", in Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on
- Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, pages 677-682, July 1987.
-
- Simmons, R.G., "A theory of debugging plans and interpretations", in
- Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial
- Intelligence (AAAI-88), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Palo Alto,
- CA, pages 94-99, 1988.
-
- Case-based Planning:
-
- Hammond, K., "Case-based Planning: Viewing Planning as a Memory Task",
- Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.
-
- Miscellaneous:
-
- Stefik, M.J., "Planning with Constraints", Artificial Intelligence
- 15:111-140 and 16:141-170, 1981.
-
- Wilkins, D.E., "Domain-Independent Planning: Representation and Plan
- Generation", Artificial Intelligence 22:269-301, 1984.
-
- 4. Connectionism and Neural Nets
-
- Geoffrey E. Hinton, "Connectionist Learning Procedures",
- Technical Report CMU-CS-87-115 (version 2), Carnegie Mellon
- University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1987. Also appears in Artificial
- Intelligence 40(1-3):185-234, September 1989.
-
- Kevin Knight, "A gentle introduction to subsymbolic
- computation: Connectionism for the AI researcher". Technical Report
- CMU-CS-89-150, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science,
- Pittsburgh, PA, May 30, 1989.
-
- Rumelhart, D.E., Hinton G.E. and Williams R.J., "Learning internal
- representations", in D.E. Rumelhart and J.L. McClelland,
- editors, Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the
- Microstructure of Cognition (Vol 1: Foundations), Cambridge,
- MA, MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1986.
-
- J.A. Feldman and D.H. Ballard, "Connectionist models and their
- properties", Cognitive Science, 6(3):205-254, 1982.
-
- 5. Machine Learning
-
- General:
-
- J. G. Carbonell, editor, "Machine Learning: Paradigms and Methods", MIT
- Press, Cambridge, MA 1990.
-
- Decision Trees:
-
- Quinlan, J.R., "Induction of Decision Trees", Machine Learning
- 1:81-106, 1986.
-
- Quinlan, J.R., "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning", Morgan Kaufmann
- Publishers, 1992. For a slight additional charge, the book comes with
- software.
-
- Probabilistic Clustering:
-
- Fisher, D.H., "Knowledge Acquisition Via Incremental Conceptual
- Clustering", Machine Learning 2:139-172, 1987. (Probabilistic
- clustering methods.)
-
- Clancey, W.J., "Classification Problem Solving", Proceedings of the
- National Conference on Aritificial Intelligence, 49-55, Los Altos, CA,
- Morgan Kaufmann. 1984.
-
- Version Spaces:
-
- Tom M. Mitchell, "Generalization as Search", Artificial Intelligence
- 18:203-226, 1982.
-
- Machine Discovery:
-
- Langley, P., Simon, H.A. and Bradshaw, G.L., "Heuristics for
- Empirical Discovery", in L. Bolc, editor, Computational Models
- of Learning, Springer-Verlag, 1987.
-
- Chunking:
-
- Laird J.E., Rosenbloom, P.S. and Newell, A., "Chunking in SOAR: The
- Anatomy of a General Learning Mechanism", Machine Learning
- 1:1-46, 1986.
-
- Explanation-Based Learning:
-
- Mitchell, Tom M., Keller, R. M., and Kedar-Cabelli, S. T.,
- "Explanation-based learning: A unified view", Machine Learning
- 1:47-80, 1986.
-
- Derivational Analogy:
-
- Carbonell, J. G., "Derivational analogy: A theory of
- reconstructive problem solving and expertise acquisition." In R.S.
- Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, and Tom M. Mitchell, editors, Machine
- Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Morgan Kaufmann
- Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1986.
-
- Theoretical Results:
-
- Haussler, D., "Quantifying Inductive Bias: AI Learning
- Algorithms and Valiant's Learning Framework", Artificial Intelligence,
- 36:177-221, 1988.
-
- 6. Case-Based Reasoning
-
- Roger C. Schank, "Dynamic Memory: A Theory of Reminding and
- Learning in Computers and People", Cambridge University Press, New
- York, NY, 1982.
-
- Roger C. Schank and C. Riesbeck, "Inside Case-Based Reasoning",
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1989.
-
- Craig Stanfill and David Waltz, "Toward Memory-Based
- Reasoning", Communications of the ACM, 29(12):1213-1228,
- December 1986. (Memory-based reasoning.)
-
- 7. Genetic Algorithms
-
- L. B. Booker, D.E. Goldberg and J.H. Holland, "Classifier Systems and
- Genetic Algorithms", Artificial Intelligence 40(1-3):235-282,
- September 1989.
-
- See also the July 1992 issue of Scientific American.
-
- 8. Production Systems and Match Algorithms
-
- OPS5:
- Charles L. Forgy, "OPS5 User's Manual", Technical Report
- CMU-CS-81-135, Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer
- Science, Pittsburgh, PA 1981.
-
- RETE:
- Charles L. Forgy, "RETE: A fast algorithm for the many
- pattern/many object pattern match problem", Artificial
- Intelligence 19(1):17-37, September 1982.
-
- TREAT:
- Daniel P. Miranker, "TREAT: A better match algorithm for AI
- production systems". In Proceedings of the Sixth National
- Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), pages 42-47,
- August 1987.
-
- MatchBox:
- Mark Perlin, "The match box algorithm for parallel production
- system match", Technical Report CMU-CS-89-163, Carnegie Mellon
- University, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh,
- Pennsylvania, May 1989.
-
- DRETE:
- Michael A. Kelly and Rudolph E. Seviora, "An evaluation of DRETE
- on CUPID for OPS5 matching", in Proceedings of the Eleventh
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-89),
- pages 84-90, Detroit MI, August 1989, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
-
- 9. Integrated AI Architectures
-
- Kurt VanLehn, editor, "Architectures for Intelligence",
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.
-
- SOAR:
- John E. Laird, Allen Newell, and Paul S. Rosenbloom, "SOAR: An
- Architecture for General Intelligence", Artificial
- Intelligence, 33(1):1-64, 1987.
-
- PRODIGY:
- Steven Minton, Jaime G. Carbonell, Craig A. Knoblock,
- Daniel R. Kuokka, Oren Etzioni, and Yolanda Gil.
- "Explanation-based learning: A problem solving perspective".
- Technical Report CMU-CS-89-103, Carnegie Mellon University,
- School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA, 1989.
-
- THEO:
- Tom M. Mitchell, J. Allen, P. Chalasani, J. Cheng, Oren Etzioni,
- Marc Ringuette, and Jeffrey Schlimmer, "THEO: A Framework for
- Self-Improving Systems", in Kurt VanLehn, editor, Architectures for
- Intelligence, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.
-
- Subsumption Architectures:
- Brooks, R., "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot",
- IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-2, pages 14-23, April 1986.
-
- 10. Knowledge Representation
-
- Brachman, R.J. and Levesque, H.J., editors, "Readings in Knowledge
- Representation", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1985.
-
- 11. Fuzzy Logic
-
- Zadeh, L.A., "Fuzzy Sets," Information and Control, 8, 338-353, 1965.
-
- Klir, George J. and Folger, Tina A., "Fuzzy Sets, Uncertainty, and
- Information", Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988.
-
- Zimmermann, Hans J., "Fuzzy Set Theory and its Applications",
- Boston, MA, Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, 1985.
-
- Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, and Ronald R. Yager, editors,
- "Readings in Fuzzy Systems", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992.
-
- 12. Artificial Life
-
- The best source for information is the proceedings of the
- Artificial Life conferences. The proceedings were edited by
- Christopher G. Langton and published by Addison-Wesley.
-
- There is also a book on Artificial Life by Steven Levy, the
- author of the book Hackers.
-
- 13. Miscellaneous (Search, Logic, TMS)
-
- Hans J. Berliner, "The B* Tree Search Algorithm: A Best-First Proof
- Procedure", Artificial Intelligence, 12(1):23-40, May 1979.
-
- Pearl, J., "Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer
- Problem Solving", Addison-Wesley, 1984.
-
- Genesereth, M.R. and Nilsson, N.J., "Logical Foundations of Artificial
- Intelligence", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1987.
-
- Doyle, J., "Truth Maintenance Systems", Artificial Intelligence,
- 12:231-272, 1979.
-
- Kirkpatrick, S. Gelatt, CD, and Vecci, MP, "Optimization by Simulated
- Annealing", Science 220(4589):671-680.
-
-
- Morgan Kaufmann Publisher's order number is 800-745-7323 (415-578-9911)
- and their email address is morgan@unix.sri.com. Their "Readings in X"
- series is a good source of information on various AI topics.
-
-
- Videotapes:
-
- The 4th episode of the PBS series "The Machine That Changed the World" is
- a good introduction to AI. It is available for $90 from Films for the
- Humanities, 1-800-257-5126.
-
- Morgan Kaufmann also has a good set of tapes of AI-related lectures, but
- it runs on the expensive side.
-
-
- AI-related magazines include:
-
- AI EXPERT
- Miller Freeman, Inc., 600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.
- Subscriptions: 1-800-274-2534 or 303-447-9330
- $42/year (12 issues), $6 extra in Canada and Mexico,
- $15 extra (surface mail) or $40 (air mail) for overseas.
-
- PC AI
- 3310 West Bell Road, Suite 119, Phoenix, AZ 85023.
- Subscriptions: 602-971-1869, fax 602-971-2321.
- $28/year (6 issues); $54 for two years; $78 for three years.
- $9 extra in Canada and Mexico, $25 extra (air mail) for all
- other countries.
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- Subject: [2] AI-related Associations and Journals
-
- Associations:
-
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI)
- AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
- 415-328-3123, info@aaai.org
- Membership includes AI Magazine:
- $40 regular, $20 student (US/Canadian)
- $65 regular, $45 student (Foreign)
-
- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM)
- ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
- Member Services, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
- 212-869-7440. Fax 212-944-1318. Email: acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet.
- $75 regular, $22 student (includes Communications of the ACM)
- $15 ($8 students) extra for SIGART membership (gets Sigart Bulletin)
- $12 ($7 students) extra for Lisp Pointers.
- $15 ($10 students) extra for Computing Surveys
- $34 ($29 students) extra for Computing Reviews
-
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS (IAKE)
- IAKE, 11820 Parklawn Drive, Suite 302, Rockville, MD 20852.
- 301-231-7826
- $65 regular, $30 students.
-
- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
- c/o Dr. Donald E. Walker
- Bellcore, MRE 2A379
- 445 South Street, Box 1910
- Morristown, NJ 07960-1910
- 201-829-4312
- walker@flash.bellcore.com
- $25 regular, $15 student (includes Computational Linguistics)
- Add $10 for first class mail to US, Canada, or Mexico, and $20 elsewhere.
-
- INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE)
- IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855.
- 1-800-678-IEEE
- IEEE membership is $95 regular ($23 students)
- For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22.
- $20 for IEEE Expert (expert systems)
- $12 for Transactions on Neural Networks
- $12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- $15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation
- $19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- $24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
-
-
- Journals:
-
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- Basil Blackwell Publishers, Journal Subscription Department,
- 3 Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, MA 02142.
- Individual subscriptions are $85 in North America and $100 in the rest of
- the world. Institutional subscriptions are $175 and $190, respectively.
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW (Survey and Tutorial Journal)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers,
- 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, 617-871-6600, fax 617-871-6528.
- PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
- Email: kluwer@world.std.com
- The institutional subscription rate is $130 per volume (4 issues).
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- $80 individuals (must be a member of one of the major AI societies).
- To order in the US, write to AAAI, AI Journal, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo
- Park, CA 94025-3496, or to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of
- the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US,
- contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103,
- 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608.
-
- COGNITIVE SCIENCE
- Ablex Publishing Company,
- 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648
- 201-767-8450, fax 201-767-6717
- $50 individual, $125 institution.
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-
-
- AI in Medicine:
- ai-medicine@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
-
- Focus is on computer-based medical decision support.
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
- etc., should be sent to ai-medicine-request@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
-
-
- Cellular Automata:
- cellular-automata@think.com (aka ca@think.com)
-
- Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.theory.cell-automata.
-
- Archived messages may be found at ftp.think.com in the files:
- mail/ca.archive*
-
- All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to cellular-automata-request@think.com.
-
-
- Classification and clustering:
- class-l%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
-
- To subscribe to CLASS-L you should send a message to the internet address
- listserv%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- The body of the message should consist of:
- subscribe CLASS-L <your full name>
- To have your name removed from the CLASS-L subscriber list, send:
- signoff CLASS-L
-
-
- Connectionism and Neural Networks:
-
- Connectionism:
- connectionists@cs.cmu.edu
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu.
-
- Neural Networks (moderated):
- Neuron@hplabs.hp.com (formerly neuron%csl.ti.com@relay.cs.net)
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to neuron-request@HPLABS.HP.COM.
-
- Neuron Digest archives are kept in the OSU Neuroprose collection
- and in hplpm.hlp.hp.com:/pub/Neuron-Digest
-
- Users of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator:
- simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu
- simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu.
-
- The simulator is available in cs.rochester.edu:/pub/simulator
-
- Expert Systems in Agriculture:
- ag-exp-l%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
-
- To subscribe to ag-exp-l you should send a message to the internet address
- listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- The body of the message should consist of:
- subscribe AG-EXP-L <your full name>
-
-
- Use of computers in the Fine Arts:
- fineart%ecs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net
-
- The FINEART Forum is dedicated to International collaboration between
- artists and scientists. It is subsidized by the International Society for
- the Arts, Science, and Technology (ISAST), 2020 Milvia, Berkeley, CA 94704.
-
- The purpose of this bulletin board is to disseminate information regarding
- the use of computers in the Fine Arts. One of the general areas of
- interest is Art & AI.
-
-
- Genetic Algorithms:
-
- GA-List@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL
-
- Send subscription requests to the -request form of the list
- or to gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil.
-
-
- Logic Programming, Prolog:
-
- Prolog and Logic Programming:
- prolog@sushi.stanford.edu (general)
- prolog-hackers@sushi.stanford.edu (nitty gritty)
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to prolog-request@sushi.stanford.edu
-
- Concurrent Logic Programming:
- clp.x@xerox.com
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to clp-request.x@xerox.com or to
- Jacob Levy <jlevy.pa@xerox.com>.
-
-
- Machine Learning:
-
- ml@ics.uci.edu
-
- The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be
- relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Mail requests
- to be added or deleted to ml-request@ics.uci.edu.
-
- Back issues may be FTP'd from ics.uci.edu in pub/ml-list/V<X>/<N> or
- N.Z where X and N are the volume and number of the issue; ID:
- anonymous PASSWORD: <your mail address>
-
-
- Natural Language Processing:
-
- Information Retrieval:
- irlist <ir-l%uccvma.bitnet@vm1.nodak.edu>
-
- To subscribe send the following command to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET:
- SUB IR-L your_full_name
- where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
- Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only
- line in the text/body of a message to
- LISTSERV%UCCVMA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU.
-
- Moderator: IRLUR%UCCMVSA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU
-
- Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (moderated):
- nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (formerly nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu)
- Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.ai.nlang-know-rep.
-
- BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr.
- You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS
- and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS.
-
- Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18]
- in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests
- will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you
- may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead.
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu.
-
- Natural Language Generation:
- siggen@cs.rpi.edu
-
- Speech production and perception:
- foNETiks <r34334%uqam.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
-
- Focus is on speech production, speech perception, speech disorders,
- automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis.
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
- questions, etc., should be sent to the coordinator,
- Eric Keller <r34334%UQAM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>.
-
- Speech Interfaces:
-
- Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe (or ECTL) is a moderated mailing list
- for speech interface enthusiats. To subscribe, send a message with your
- name, institution, department, daytime phone and an email address to
- ectl-request@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca. If you have trouble with this mail
- address, call David Leip at (519) 824-4120 ext.3709.
-
- Translation and Interpretation of Natural Language:
- lantra-l%finhutc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
-
- To add or remove yourself from the list, send a message to
- listserv%finhutc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu. The Sender of the message
- you send must be the name (E-mail address) you want to add or remove
- from the list. The text body of the message should be:
- SUBSCRIBE LANTRA-L your_full_name
- or:
- SIGNOFF LANTRA-L
- where your_full_name is your normal name, not your E-mail address.
-
-
- Neural Networks:
- See Connectionism.
-
-
- Simulation:
- simulation@ufl.edu
- Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.simulation.
-
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
- etc., should be sent to simulation-request@ufl.edu.
-
-
- Symbolic Math:
- Symbolic Math <leff%smu.uucp@UUNET.UU.NET>
- Gatewayed to the newsgroup sci.math.symbolic.
-
- Mailing list covering symbolic math algorithms, applications and problems
- relating to the various symbolic math languages.
-
- Mail to be forwarded to the list should be sent to
- leff%smu.uucp@uunet.uu.net (ARPANET/MilNet) or sci.math.symbolic (USENET).
- Requests to be included on the list should be sent to
- leff%smu.uucp@uunet.uu.net.
-
-
- AI Vision Research:
-
- vision-list@ads.com
- All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
- etc., should be sent to vision-list-request@ads.com.
-
- cvnet%yorkvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
- Color and vision research.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [4] FTP and Other Resources
-
- See the Lisp FAQ for Lisp-related software.
-
- Ada Repository:
-
- The Ada Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (mailing list
- ada-sw@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) contains a directory of AI programs in
- PD2:<ADA.AI>*.*. A somewhat easier to access copy of the archives is
- available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/ada/ai.
-
- ICOT:
-
- Japan's Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) has
- made their software available to the public free of charge. The
- collection includes a variety of prolog-based programs in symbol
- processing, knowledge representation, reasoning and problem solving,
- natural language processing. All programs are available by anonymous
- ftp from ftp.icot.or.jp. For further information, send email to
- ifs@icot.or.jp, or write to ICOT Free Software Desk, Institute for New
- Generation Computer Technology, 21st Floor, Mita Kokusai Bldg., 4-28,
- Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan, fax +81-3-3456-1618.
-
- NL Software Registry:
-
- The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software
- implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether
- available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. Some of the topics
- listed include speech signal processing, morphological analysis,
- parsers, and knowledge representation systems. The catalogue is
- available by anonymous ftp to tira.uchicago.edu (IP 128.135.96.31), by
- email to registry@tira.uchicago.edu, and by physical mail to NL
- Software Registry, Center for Information and Language Studies, 1100
- East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
-
- Prolog Repository:
-
- Established by Jocelyn Paine in 1987. Contributions and queries may be
- sent to popx%vax.ox.ac.uk@oxmail.ox.ac.uk.
-
- UC/Irvine AI Repository:
-
- ics.uci.edu has a variety of AI-related materials, with a special
- focus on machine learning. The directory /pub/machine-learning-databases
- contains benchmark databases for classifier systems.
-
- UCLA Artificial Life Depository:
-
- ftp.cognet.ucla.edu (128.97.50.19):~ftp/pub/alife
-
- Repository of papers, articles, tech reports, software and other items of
- interest to Artificial Life researchers. It includes an archive of
- past postings to the alife mailing list, alife@cognet.ucla.edu (send
- mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list).
-
- (Other artificial life information is available from santafe.edu
- in the directory pub/Artificial-Life-III.)
-
- Stanford University (SUMEX-AIM):
- aim.stanford.edu:/pub/ai{1,2,3}.bib
- Large BibTeX bibliography of Artificial Intelligence papers and
- technical reports.
-
- University of Toronto:
- ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/ailist
-
- Archives of ailist mailing list, defunct as of January 19, 1990
-
- OSU Neuroprose:
- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose (128.146.8.52)
-
- This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
- connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
- organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
-
- Other AI-related systems, some of which are available free by anonymous
- ftp and others for a nominal fee, include:
-
- CLIPS is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in ANSI C
- by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance, dynamic
- rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies. CLIPS,
- including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other
- applications. CLIPS runs on IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh, VAX 11/780,
- Sun 3/260, and HP9000/500. CLIPS is available from COSMIC at a nominal
- fee for unlimited copies with no royalties. For more information, email
- service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu, write COSMIC, University of Georgia, 382
- East Broad Street, Athens, GA 30602, call 404-542-3265, or fax
- 404-542-4807. To subscribe to the CLIPS mailing list, send a message to
- the list server listserv@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu (128.192.14.4) with
- message body SUBSCRIBE CLIPS-LIST. An electronic bulletin board
- containing information regarding CLIPS can be reached 24 hours a day at
- 713-280-3896 or 713-280-3892. Communications information is 300, 1200, or
- 2400 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. The CLIPS help desk
- phone number is 713-280-2233 and email address is
- stbprod@krakatoa.jsc.nasa.gov.
-
- Tierra is an artificial life system for studying the evolution of digital
- organisms. Tierra runs in Unix and MS-DOS. Source code and documentation
- is available by anonymous ftp at tierra.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.34) and
- life.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.33) in the directories almond/, beagle/,
- doc/, and tierra/. To be added to either the tierra-announce (official
- announcements only) or tierra-digest (moderated discussion plus
- announcements) mailing lists, send mail to
- tierra-request@life.slhs.udel.edu. Send bug reports to
- tierra-bug@life.slhs.udel.edu.
-
- Aspirin/MIGRAINES is a neural network simulator available free from the
- MITRE Corporation. It contains a neural network simulation code generator
- which generates high performance C code implementations for
- backpropagation networks. It runs on the following platforms: Apollo,
- Convex, Cray, DecStation, HP, IBM RS/6000, Intel 486/386 (Unix System V),
- NeXT, News, Silicon Graphics Iris, Sun3, Sun4, Mercury i860 (40MHz)
- Coprocessors, Meiko Computing Surface w/i860 (40MHz) Nodes, Skystation
- i860 (40MHz) Coprocessors, and iWarp Cells. The software is available by
- anonymous ftp from the CMU simulator collection on pt.cs.cmu.edu
- (128.2.254.155) in the directory /afs/cs/project/connect/code (you must
- cd to this directory in one atomic operation) and UCLA's cognitive
- science collection on ftp.cognet.ucla.edu (128.97.50.3) in the
- directory alexis as the file am5.tar.Z. For more information, contact
- Russell Leighton <leighton@mitre.org>.
-
- CLP(R) is a constraint logic programming language with real-arithmetic
- constraints. The implementation contains a built-in constraint solver
- which deals with linear arithmetic and contains a mechanism for delaying
- nonlinear constraints until they become linear. Since CLP(R) subsumes
- PROLOG, the system is also usable as a general-purpose logic programming
- language. It icnludes facilities for meta-programming with constraints.
- The system consists of a compiler, byte-code emulator, and constraint
- solver. CLP(R) is written entirely in C and runs on Suns, Vaxen,
- MIPS-based machines (Decstations, Silicon Graphics), IBM RS6000s and
- PS2s. It is available free from IBM for academic and research purposes
- only. For more information, write to Joxan Jaffar, H1-D48, IBM Thomas J.
- Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, or send
- email to joxan@watson.ibm.com or joxan@yktvmh.bitnet.
-
- The Link Parser is a highly efficient English parser written by Danny
- Sleator and Davy Temperley. It uses a novel grammatical formalism known
- as Link Grammar to represent a robust and diverse collection of
- English-language phenomena. The system is available by anonymous ftp from
- spade.pc.cs.cmu.edu in the directory /usr/sleator/public/. Read the
- README file for more information.
-
- Adaptive Logic Network (ALN)
- Available by anonymous ftp from menaik.cs.ualberta.ca (129.128.4.241)
- in pub/atree2.tar.Z. pub/atree2.zip is the MS-Windows/IBM PC version.
- Documentation is in pub/atree2.ps.Z.
-
- PC-KIMMO
- An implementation of KIMMO morphological analyzer for the IBM PC.
- msdos.archive.umich.edu:/msdos/linguistics/pckim105.zip
-
- BPS
- Neural network simulator. Other files of interest. Executables are
- free; source code for a small fee.
- gmuvax2.gmu.edu:/pub/nn
-
- CONDELA
- A neural network definition language.
- tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/condela
-
- The Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM (Volume One, 1992) is being produced
- by Network Cybernetics Corporation. The AI CD-ROM will contain a variety
- of public domain, shareware, and other software of special interest to
- the AI community. The disk will contain source code, executable programs,
- demonstration versions of commercial programs, tutorials and other files
- for a variety of operating systems. Among the supported operating
- systems are MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and Unix. The CD-ROM itself will
- be an ISO-9660 format disk usable on any computer system. The final
- pricing for the CD-ROM has not been set but will be less than $100
- retail. The CD-ROM is scheduled to go into replication in mid to late
- July and should be available in August. Among the items included are
- CLIPS v5.1 and NETS, courtesy of COSMIC, the collected source code from
- AIExpert magazine from the premier issue in June of 1986 to the present,
- and complete transcriptions of the first annual Loebner Prize
- competition, which took place at the Boston Computer Museum. It also
- includes examples many different kinds of neural networks, genetic
- algorithms, artificial life simulators, natural language software, public
- domain and shareware compilers for a wide range of languages such as
- Lisp, Xlisp, Scheme, XScheme, Smalltalk, Prolog, ICON, SNOBOL, and many
- others. For more information, write to Network Cybernetics Corporation,
- 2821 Vassar Drive, Irving, TX 75062, or send email to
- aicdrom@ocitor.fidonet.org or steve.rainwater@ocitor.fidonet.org (Steve
- Rainwater).
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [5] Technical Reports available by FTP
-
- This section lists the anonymous ftp sites for technical reports from
- several universities and other organizations. Some of the sites
- provide only an online catalog of technical reports, while the rest
- make the actual reports available online. The email address listed is
- that of the appropriate person to contact with questions about
- ordering technical reports.
-
- When ftping compressed .Z files, remember to set the transfer type to
- binary first, using the command
- ftp> binary
-
- Another general location for technical reports from several
- universities is available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/techreports/.
-
- The Computer Science Department at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany,
- maintains a large bibliographic database of articles pertaining to the
- field of Artificial Intelligence. Currently the database contains more
- than 25,000 references, which can be retrieved by electronic mail from
- the LIDO mailserver at lido@cs.uni-sb.de. Send a mail message with
- subject line "lidosearch help info" to get instructions on using the
- mail server. A variety of queries based on author names, title and
- year of publication are possible. The references can be provided in
- BibTeX or Refer formats. The entire bibliographic database can be
- obtained for a fee by ftp or on tape. Questions may be directed to
- bib-1@cs.uni-sb.de.
-
- For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational
- linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send
- mail to clbib@csli.stanford.edu with the subject HELP.
-
- The newsgroup comp.doc.techreports is devoted to distributing lists of
- tech reports and their abstracts.
-
- MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory:
- ftp -- ftp.ai.mit.edu:pub/publications/
- email -- publications@ai.mit.edu
-
- A full catalog of MIT AI Lab technical reports (and a listing of recent
- updates) may be obtained from the above location, by writing to
- Publications, Room NE43-818, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
- 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or by calling
- 1-617-253-6773. The catalog lists the technical reports ("AI Memos")
- with a short abstract and their current prices. There is also a charge
- for shipping.
-
- The only technical report currently available online is Sandiway
- Fong's 1991 PhD thesis, ``The Computational Properties of
- Principle-Based Grammatical Theories,'' which may be found in the
- directory pub/sandiway/.
-
- CMU School of Computer Science:
- ftp -- reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu
- email -- Technical.Reports@cs.cmu.edu
-
- CMU Software Engineering Institute:
- ftp -- ftp.sei.cmu.edu:/pub/documents
- email -- bjz@sei.cmu.edu
-
- Yale:
- ftp -- dept.cs.yale.edu:/pub/TR/
-
- University of Washington CSE Tech Reports:
- ftp -- june.cs.washington.edu:/tr
- email -- tr-request@cs.washington.edu
-
- ================
-
- AT&T Bell Laboratories:
- ftp -- research.att.com:/netlib/research/cstr
-
- bib.Z contains short bibliography, including all the technical
- reports contained in this directory.
-
- Boston University:
- ftp -- cs.bu.edu:techreports/
- email -- techreports@cs.bu.edu
-
- Brown University:
- ftp -- wilma.cs.brown.edu:techreports/
- email -- techreports@cs.brown.edu
-
- Columbia University:
- ftp -- cs.columbia.edu:/pub/reports
- email -- tech-reports@cs.columbia.edu
-
- DEC Cambridge Research Lab:
- ftp -- crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/CRL/{abstracts,tech-reports}
-
- DFKI:
- ftp -- duck.dfki.uni-sb.de:/pub/papers
- email -- Martin Henz (henz@dfki.uni-sb.de)
-
- Duke University:
- ftp -- cs.duke.edu:/dist/{papers,theses}
- email -- techreport@cs.duke.edu
-
- Edinburgh:
- A list of available reports can be sent via email. Send requests
- for information about reports from the Center for Cognitive Science
- to cogsci%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, and from the Human Communication
- Research Center to HCRC%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk.
-
- Georgia Tech College of Computing, AI Group:
- ftp -- ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/ai (130.207.3.245)
- email -- Professor Ashwin Ram <ashwin@cc.gatech.edu>
-
- Illinois:
- email -- Erna Amerman <erna@uiuc.edu>
-
- Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University:
- ftp -- ftp.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/papers/
-
- New York University (NYU):
- ftp -- cs.nyu.edu:/pub/tech-reports
-
- OGI:
- ftp -- cse.ogi.edu:/pub/tech-reports
- email -- csedept@cse.ogi.edu
-
- OSU Neuroprose:
- ftp -- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose (128.146.8.52)
-
- This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
- connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
- organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
-
- SUNY at Stony Brook:
- ftp -- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/TechReports
- email -- rick@cs.sunysb.edu or stark@cs.sunysb.edu
-
- The /pub/sunysb directory contains the SB-Prolog implementation
- of the Prolog language. Contact warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu for more
- information.
-
- Thinking Machines:
- ftp -- ftp.think.com:think/techreport.list
-
- This file contains a list of Thinking Machines technical reports.
- Orders may be placed by email (limit 5) to t-rex@think.com, or by US
- Mail to Thinking Machines Corporation, Attn: Technical reports, 245
- First Street, Cambridge, MA 01241. In addition, the directories
- cm/starlisp and cm/starlogo contain code for the *Lisp and *Logo
- simulators.
-
- University of Arizona:
- ftp -- cs.arizona.edu:reports/
- email -- tr_libr@cs.arizona.edu
-
- The directory /japan/kahaner.reports contains reports on AI in
- Japan, among other things.
-
- University of California/Santa Cruz:
- ftp -- ftp.cse.ucsc.edu:/pub/{bib,tr}
- email -- jean@cs.ucsc.edu
-
- University of Colorado:
- ftp -- ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/techreports
-
- University of Florida:
- ftp -- bikini.cis.ufl.edu:/cis/tech-reports
-
- University of Illinois at Urbana:
- ftp -- a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/dcs
- email -- erna@a.cs.uiuc.edu
-
- University of Indiana, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition:
- ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub/
- email -- helga@cogsci.indiana.edu
-
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
- email -- techrept@cs.umass.edu
-
- University of Michigan:
- ftp -- z.eecs.umich.edu:/techreports
-
- University of North Carolina:
- ftp -- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/technical-reports/
-
- University of Pennsylvania:
- email -- publications@upenn.edu
-
- USC/Information Sciences Institute:
- email -- Sheila Coyazo <scoyazo@isi.edu> is the contact.
-
- University of Toronto:
- ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/reports
- email -- tech-reports@cs.toronto.edu
-
- University of Virginia:
- ftp -- uvacs.cs.virginia.edu:/pub/techreports/cs
-
- University of Wisconsin:
- ftp -- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/tech-reports
- email -- tech-reports-archive@cs.wisc.edu
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [6] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
-
- Cellular Automata, of which Life is an example, were suggested by
- Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s, and first formalized by von Neumann.
- Conway's "Game of Life" was popularized in Martin Gardner's
- mathematical games column in the October 1970 and February 1971 issues
- of Scientific American. (Shorter notes on life are alse given in the
- column in each month from October 1970 to April 1971, and well as
- November 1971, January 1972, and December 1972.)
-
- The rules for the game of life are quite simple. The game board is a
- rectangular cell array, with each cell either empty or filled. At each
- tick of the clock, we generate the next generation by the following rules:
-
- if a cell is empty, fill it if 3 of its neighbors are filled
- (otherwise leave it empty)
-
- if a cell is filled, it
- dies of loneliness if it has 1 or fewer neighbors
- continues to live if it has 2 or 3 neighbors
- dies of overcrowding if it has more than 3 neighbors
-
- Neighbors include the cells on the diagonals. Some implementations use
- a torus-based array (edges joined top-to-bottom and left-to-right) for
- computing neighbors.
-
- For example, a row of 3 filled cells will become a column of 3 filled
- cells in the next generation. The R pentomino is an interesting
- pattern:
- xx
- xx
- x
- Try it with other patterns of 5 cells initially occupied. If you
- record the ages of cells, and map the ages to colors, you can get a
- variety of beautiful images.
-
- When implementing Life, be sure to maintain separate arrays for the
- old and new generation. Updating the array in place will not work
- correctly.
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- Subject: [7] What AI competitions exist?
-
- The Loebner Prize, based on a fund of over $100,000 established by New
- York businessman Hugh G. Loebner, is awarded annually for the computer
- program that best emulates natural human behavior. During the
- contest, a panel of independent judges attempts to determine whether
- the responses on a computer terminal are being produced by a computer
- or a person, along the lines of the Turing Test. The designers of the
- best program each year win a cash award and a medal. If a program
- passes the test in all its particulars, then the entire fund will be
- paid to the program's designer and the fund abolished. For further
- information about the Loebner Prize, write Dr. Robert Epstein,
- Executive Director, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, 11
- Waterhouse Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, or call 617-491-9020.
-
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- Subject: [8] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
- other text corpora?
-
- Free:
-
- The Open Book Initiative maintains a text repository on world.std.com
- (a public access UNIX system, 617-739-WRLD). For more information,
- send email to obi@world.std.com, write to Software Tool & Die, 1330
- Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146, or call 617-739-0202.
-
- The CHILDES project at Carnegie Mellon University has a lot of data of
- children speaking to adults, as well as the adult written and adult
- spoken corpora from the CORNELL project. Contact Brian MacWhinney
- <brian@andrew.cmu.edu> for more information.
-
- The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has a Data
- Collection Initiative. For more information, contact Donald Walker at
- Bellcore, walker@flash.bellcore.com.
-
- Two lists of common female first names (4967 names) and male first
- names (2924 names) are available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu
- in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Corpii/Names/. Read
- the file README first. [Note that you must cd to this directory in one
- atomic operation, as superior directories are protected during an
- anonymous ftp.] Send mail to mkant@cs.cmu.edu for more information.
-
- Commercial:
-
- Illumind publishes the Moby Thesaurus (25,000 roots/1.2 million
- synonyms), Moby Words (560,000 entries), Moby Hyphenator (155,000
- entries), and the Moby Part-of-Speech (214,000 entries) and Moby
- Pronunciator (167,000 entries) lexical databases. All databases are
- supplied in pure ASCII, royalty-free, in both Macintosh and MS-DOS
- disk formats (also in .Z file formats). Both commercial (to resell
- derived structures as part of commercial applications) and
- educational/research licenses are available. For more information,
- write to Illumind, Grady Ward, compiler, 571 Belden Street, Suite A,
- Monterey, CA 93940, call 408-373-1491, or send email to grady@btr.com.
-
- The Oxford Text Archive has hundreds of online texts in a wide variety
- of languages, including a few dictionaries (the OED, Collins, etc.).
- The Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB), Brown, and London-Lund corpii are also
- available from them. For more information, write to Oxford Electronic
- Publishing, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
- 10016, call 212-889-0206, or send mail to archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk.
- (Their contact information in England is Oxford Text Archive, Oxford
- University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK, +44
- (865) 273238.)
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- Subject: [9] List of Prolog and Smalltalk implementations.
-
- The following list of free Prolog implementations excludes those listed
- in the comp.lang.lisp FAQ (i.e., Prolog interpreters written in Lisp).
-
- Open Prolog
- nexus.yorku.ca:/pub/prolog/ (Macintosh)
-
- PD Prolog 19
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/prolog/ (IBM PC)
-
- ROLOG
- cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/ROLOG
- Parallel PROLOG compiler with a reduce-OR process model.
-
- SB-Prolog
- cs.arizona.edu:/sbprolog
- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/sbprolog
- Runs on Sun4, Pyramid-98x, DEC3100, SGI Iris, Amiga, and MS-DOS machines.
- Send email to warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu if questions. SB-Hilog runs in
- SB-Prolog and Quintus Prolog and is available on
- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/hilog/
-
- XWIP
- export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xwip.tar.Z
- X Window interface for PROLOG.
-
-
- Smalltalk implementations:
-
- Little Smalltalk -- Tim Budd's version of Smalltalk
- cs.orst.edu: /pub/budd/small.v3.tar
-
- GNU Smalltalk
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.1.tar.Z
-
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