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- From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: Natural Language newsgroup
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:49:42 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
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- Sender: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)
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-
- Based on suggestions by Mark Kantrowitz (correct?), the charter now looks like
- this. Any further modifications can be suggested.
-
- ***
- >Charter for Natural Language Newsgroup
- >
- > Name: comp.ai.nlp (vs. comp.ai.natural-lang)
- > Moderated?: Unmoderated
- > Purpose: To discuss issues related to natural language, especially
- > but not solely the kind of issues that researchers in
- > AI would consider important to natural language. This
- > would include issues such as:
- >
- > * Natural Language Understanding
- > * Natural Language Generation
- > * Machine Translation
- * Natural Language Interfaces
- * Parsing
- * Computational Linguistics.
- >
- > Issues related to specific research being done in the
- > field may also be considered. (new) This newsgroup
- will leave out areas, such as speech synthesis, which
- are already covered by other newsgroups unless it pertains
- directly to issues above or related issues.
- >
- ***
- >
- > If anyone else has any additions, please contact me at clin@eng.umd.edu.
- >Jaime Cisneros has expressed interest in helping out, but to make it
- >easier, I'll use my e-mail address. If this bounces, you can try
- >him at cisneros@eola.cs.ucf.edu. Send mail concerning whether you
- >would vote for such a group or not. If neither, then you do not need
- >to send mail. If you have suggestions, or would like to help, please
- >send either of us or both, e-mail.
- >
- > Despite my interest in setting up this newsgroup, I should warn
- >you that I consider myself only a novice in the area. So, any questions
- >concerning anything related to natural language issues should wait
- >about half a year or so. If the vote is successful, we can set up
- >some anonymous ftp site to hold FAQ information.
- >
- Mark has already volunteered to help set up an anonymous FTP site
- if this group is formally formed.
-
- The total count is up to eight in support of such a newsgroup.
-
- --
- Charles Lin
- clin@eng.umd.edu
-