Report on the 1 st Cognac International Scientific Symposium

1 st International Symposium on Shapes and Semantics

For an autonomous agent system which can interact with users through natural language, it is necessary to deal with the vagueness of natural language and consider its semantics. My talk focused on spatial constraints in the interaction and developed a framework which can interpret thus vagueness. I explain the framework. At first, I analyzed and classified the spatial constraints in Japanese sp...

Report on the 3rd International ESCOP-Symposium.

1 st CEE Symposium on Business Informatics

This paper deals with the dilemma followed from the double character of knowledge. On the one hand, knowledge is an individual and social good determining quality of life. On the other hand, knowledge is an economical good, a funding concept of the knowledge-based economy. The dilemma is: should knowledge be for free or paid? It is argued in the paper that achievement of knowledge (information)...

1 st Doctoral Symposium of the International Conference on Software Language

The use of unconstrained context-free grammars for generalized parsing techniques has several advantages over traditional grammar classes, but comes with the danger of undiscovered ambiguities. The ambiguity problem for these grammars is undecidable in the general case, but this does not have to be a problem in practice. Our goal is to find ambiguity detection techniques that have sufficient pr...

Report on the Sixth International Symposium on Temperature

The Sixth International Symposiun on Temperature was held in Washington, DC, March 15-18, 1982. The live preceding symposia on Temperature were in 1971, 1961, 1954, 1939, and 1919. The symposium in 1919 was held in Chicago and called the Symposium on Pyrometry. The symposia in 1939 and in 1954 were held in New York City and in Washington, DC, respectively; the fourth symposium was held in Colum...