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- From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: Natural Language newsgroup
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:45:04 GMT
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- In article <1k3ec3INNkms@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
- >
- >In article <1k1co6INN3d3@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
- >
- > Here's the current state of the charter.
- >
- >***
- >Charter for Natural Language Newsgroup
- >
- > Name: comp.ai.nlp (vs. comp.ai.natural-lang) ==> undecided, at the moment
- > 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
- * Dialogue and Discourse Systems
- > * Natural Language Interfaces
- > * Parsing
- > * Computational Linguistics.
- > * Computer Aided Language Learning (newly added)
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >***
-
- A few more names:
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- (31) Lila Ghermi (lila@mcc.com)
- (32) Ronnie Smith (rws@cs.duke.edu)
- (33) Ion ??? (ion@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk)
- (34) Miles Osborne (miles@minister.york.ac.uk)
- (35) Ruvan Weerasinghe (ruvan@clu.cardiff.ac.uk)
- (36) Ron Brachman (rjb@research.att.com)
- (37) Stefan Momma (steff%phoenix@adler.ims.uni-stuttgart.de)
- (38) Mark Adler (adler@aiag.enet.dec.com)
- (39) Colin Goldberg (cgoldber@trirex.com)
- (40) Paul Zhu (paulzhu@ruby.ils.unc.edu)
-
- I should note that not everyone (though most everyone) on this list
- supports the formation of the newsgroup. This is just a tally of those
- who have sent me mail.
-
- In another day or so, I will post the charter as it stands to the
- newsgroup, news.announce.newgroups. This will mean that there will
- be thirty days for discussion about the formation of this group.
- In this time, we can further debate the charter, or the need for
- this group. Any postings that will go to more than one group should
- be crossposted (by adding the name in the Newsgroup header) not reposted
- several times (I assume this is for efficiency of space). Discussion
- should probably take place on news.groups. About once a week, I will
- send a RFD (request for discussion) on relevant newsgroups. At the
- end of one month, if the opposition does not appear great, then there
- will be a CFV (call for votes) which will last a period of thirty days
- (or so). Further instructions will be given at a furthe point.
-
- I will make an announcement to this newsgroup in a day or two that
- I have set up an RFD, and there will be a neutrally worded post, plus
- a sample charter at that point.
-
- --
- Charles Lin
- clin@eng.umd.edu
-