[Robotgroup] Fwd: [fai] Forum for AI, Monday, August 25, Alexander Koller, Saarland University (at UT)

[Andre Lamothe]

Looks interesting. Apropros, does anyone know where a good link/site 
maintained by UTA people that shows all the talks and scheduled technical 
meetings for UT Austin, by department or something?  EE, CS, ME, MATH, 
PHYSICS, kind of stuff all in once place?

Thanks,

Andre'


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From: "Bryan Bishop" <kanzure at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Robotgroup] Fwd: [fai] Forum for AI, Monday, August 25,Alexander 
Koller, Saarland University (at UT)


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> Subject: [fai] Forum for AI, Monday, August 25, Alexander Koller,
> Saarland University
> Date: Sunday 17 August 2008
> From: "Lily Mihalkova" <lilyanam at cs.utexas.edu>
> To: fai at utlists.utexas.edu
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> An AI talk from the Linguistics department:
>
> Speaker:  Alexander Koller,  Saarland University
>
> Title:      Generation as planning
>
> Date:      Monday, August 25th, 2008
>
> Time:      3:00pm
>
> Place:    PAR 301
>
> ABSTRACT:
>
> Joint work with Matthew Stone and Ron Petrick.
>
> The problem of natural language generation is intimately related to AI
> planning on many levels. In both problems, the computer has to search
> for a sequence of actions that combine in appropriate ways to achieve
> a given goal; in the case of generation, these actions may correspond
> to uttering speech acts, sentences, or individual words. This has been
> recognized in the literature for several decades, but there is
> currently a revival of interest in exploring this connection, which
> has been sparked especially by the recent efficiency improvements in
> planning. In my talk, I will first show how sentence generation can be
> translated into a planning problem. This has the advantage that the
> (somewhat artificial) separation of sentence generation into
> microplanning and surface realization can be overcome. Furthermore,
> each plan action captures the complete grammatical, semantic, and
> pragmatic preconditions and effects of uttering a single word. I will
> then present a new shared task for the generation community, in which
> the system must generate instructions in a virtual environment. I will
> discuss some problems that arise in this application -- particularly
> regarding the use of extralinguistic context in generation -- and
> propose some ideas on how they can be tackled using a planning
> approach.
>
> ---------------
>
> The Forum for Artificial Intelligence meets regularly to discuss
> scientific, philosophical, and cultural issues in artificial
> intelligence.  Both technical research topics and broader
> inter-disciplinary aspects of AI are covered, and all are welcome to
> attend.
>
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/fai/
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