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Subject: find out about natural language work at MCC

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	TITLE:		"Natural Language Research at the
			MCC Human Interface Lab"

	SPEAKER:  	DR. KENT WITTENBURG
			Human Interface Laboratory
			Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.

	DATE:		Friday, July 22, 1988

	TIME:		9:30-11:00 AM

	PLACE:		DLB5 Cafeteria

	HOST:		Jim Milstein
			Principal Software Engineer
			Architecture and Technology Development
			AI Tools Group			


	The goals of the MCC Human Interface Lab include the design and
	implementation of a set of integrated tools for building multi-
	modal knowledge-based interfaces.  Technologies included in the
	Human Interface Tool Set (HITS) are graphical interfaces, natural
	language interfaces, intelligent user assistance, and data 
	collection tools for protocol analysis.  Common threads in the
	integration are knowledge-based representations, multimodal 
	command loops, and integrated discourse histories.  This talk 
	will be an overview of the natural language research at MCC and
	its role in HITS.  

	Among accomplishments to date, the natural language group has
	built a natural language interface prototype called LUCY, and
	has applied it in the multimodal interface of a knowledge editor
	and set of acquisition tools called LUKE.  LUKE was released
	to DEC and the other MCC shareholders in December, 1987.

	Ken Wittenburg is the leader of the natural language research
	team in the MCC Human Interface Lab.  He holds a Ph.D. from
	the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied natural
	language parsing and Categorial Unification Grammar.  He has
	previously held computational linguistics posistions at SRI
	International and the Linguistics Research Center at the 
	University of Texas.


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	NOTE:  As a courtesy to the speaker and the people attending
	       the seminar, please refrain from using the vending
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