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FLUIDS Bulletin - 2nd Issue
FLUIDS Project Partners:
MIZAR Automazione S.p.A. (Co-ordinator)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
DFKI German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
Consorzio 5T
A recent theme issue of
Computer
,
the major journal of the
IEEE Computer Society
focuses on interactive natural language processing, Manaris and Slator [1996],
and documents also some current advances in the area of natural
language generation.
The article by Paris and Vander Linden [1996] presents an interactive
document-drafting tool that works with the technical writer to
automatically and simultaneously generate draft, final, and updated
versions of manuals in several languages.
Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg [1996] describe an experimental system for
semiautomatic authoring of patent claims.
The contribution by Moore and Mittal [1996] focusses on extending automatic
text-generation systems to cope with follow-up questions.
The approach proposed in this article relies on the dynamic synthesis
of potential follow-up questions to be offered to the user.
The YPPS (Yellow-Page Pagination
System) component integrated into the product DSMP
(Directory Systems Multi-Platform)
available from
Pre Print Inc.
, Edmonton, Canada and Pre Press
Gesellschaft für Software-Entwicklung mbH, Dresden, Germany,
is a constraint-based pagination tool for yellow-page telephone
directories.
This product has been designed to support the automated pagination
of both printed yellow pages and electronic directories in HTML
format.
YPPS constitutes one of the first real-world applications of
constraint technology for automatic, knowledge-based layout.
This innovative commercial product is mainly based on the transfer of
expertise gained during the development of an academic research
prototype, the knowledge-based multimedia layout manager
LayLab, Graf [1995].
Automatic layout is regarded as a very promising subarea of
knowledge-based graphics generation since it may offer a high market
potential.
European research groups are very active in conducting basic research
in this area, mainly focussing on the integration of constraint
programming and artificial intelligence methods in the layout
process.
From these constraint-based approaches powerful techniques have
resulted as first commercial applications demonstrate.
The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
(MITI
)
has recently approved a new
Human Media
project that addresses the development of a multimedia information
infrastructure which covers also subjective information such as a
taste, a feeling on something, and so on.
As the
Feasibility Study on Human Media Technology
shows, intelligent multimedia techniques are considered as
essential technologies for the new generation of human-machine
interfaces envisaged in this project.
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of
the US National Science Foundation
(NSF
)
recently announced a new interagency initiative called
STIMULATE (Speech, Text, Image,
and Multimedia Advanced Technology
Effort), which aims to fund basic research in human
multimodal communication, including speech, text, and images,
NSF [1996].
IUI'97:
-
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces ,
Orlando, Florida, USA, January 6-9, 1997.
The 1997 IUI meeting is the third in a series of gatherings of the
intelligent interfaces community.
The series will now become a biennial conference and will provide a
major forum for outstanding research and development on all aspects of
intelligent interfaces.
-
CHI'97:
-
ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing
Systems
,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March 22-27, 1997.
The annual CHI conference is the leading forum for the exchange of
ideas on all aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI) and it will
also provide contributions related to various aspects of
intelligent user interfaces.
The
Human Computer Interaction Group
at the Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London,
maintains a small archive of articles related to
human-computer interaction (HCI).
The electronic archive can be found at
In particular, sections related to
intelligent interfaces
and
user modeling
are included in the archive.
The HCI Bibliography, Perlman [1991], is a free-access online bibliographic
database on human-computer interaction, which is avaliable under the
following URL:
This service is also provided at the
Graz University of Technology
:
The
Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Library
is a meta-index of information on human-computer interaction on the Web.
It lists and reviews pages that have collections of pointers to HCI
information.
This Virtual Library is located at
- W. Graf.
- The Constraint-Based Layout Framework LayLab and Its Applications. In: I. F. Cruz, J. Marks, K. Wittenburg, eds., Proc. of ACM Workshop on Effective Abstractions in Multimedia: Layout, Presentation, and Interaction , San Francisco, CA, 1995.
- B. Z. Manaris, B. M. Slator.
- Interactive Natural Language Processing: Building on Success. Computer , 29(7), 28-32, 1996.
- J. Moore, V. O. Mittal.
- Dynamically Generated Follow-up Questions. Computer , 29(7), 75-86, 1996.
- NSF.
- STIMULATE: Speech, Text, Image, and MULtimedia Advanced Technology Effort (A joint NSF/NSA/CIA/DARPA Program Solicitation). Publication NSF 96-85, US National Science Foundation
, Arlington, VA, 1996.
- C. Paris, K. Vander Linden.
- An Interactive Support Tool for Writing Multilingual Manuals. Computer , 29(7), 49-56, 1996.
- G. Perlman.
- The HCI Bibliography Project. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin , 23(3), 15-20, 1991.
- S. Sheremetyeva, S. Nirenburg.
- Knowledge Elicitation for Authoring Patent Claims. Computer , 29(7), 57-63, 1996.
Gerd Herzog
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