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Note: Question [4-2] is split across parts 4 and 5.
Part 5 (FTP Resources):
[4-2b] FTP and Other Resources: Qualitative Reasoning -- Theorem Proving
[5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
[5-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
[5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
[5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
[5-5] AI-related CD-ROMs
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Subject: [4-2b] FTP and Other Resources: Qualitative Reasoning --
Theorem Proving
Qualitative Reasoning/Qualitative Physics:
QSIM -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/qsim
Contact: Ben Kuipers <kuipers@cs.utexas.edu>
QPE -- multivac.ils.nwu.edu:pub/QPE
contact: Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus <forbus@ils.nwu.edu>
Qualitative Process Engine (an implementation of QP theory)
Robotics (Planning Testbeds and Simulators):
TILEWORLD -- cs.washington.edu:new-tileworld.tar.Z
Planning testbed
The ARS MAGNA abstract robot simular provides an abstract world in
which a planner controls a mobile robot. This abstract world is more
realistic than typical blocks worlds, in which micro-world simplifying
assumptions do not hold. Experiments may be controlled by varying
global world parameters, such as perceptual noise, as well as building
specific environments in order to exercise particular planner
features. The world is also extensible to allow new experimental
designs that were not thought of originally. The simulator also
includes a simple graphical user-interface which uses the CLX
interface to the X window system. ARS MAGNA can be obtained by
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.yale.edu, as ars-magna.tar.Z in the pub/nisp
directory. Installation instructions are in the file
Installation.readme. The simulator is written in Nisp, a macro-package
for Common Lisp. Nisp can be retrieved in the same way as the
simulator. Version 1.0 of the ARS MAGNA simulator is documented in
Yale Technical Report YALEU/DCS/RR #928, "ARS MAGNA: The Abstract
Robot Simulator". This report is available in the distribution as a
PostScript file. Comments should be directed to Sean Philip
Engelson <engelson@cs.yale.edu>.
Simderella is a robot simulator consisting of three programs: CONNEL
(the controller), SIMMEL (the robot simulator), and BEMMEL (the
X-windows oriented graphics back-end). SIMMEL performs a few matrix
multiplications, based on the Denavit Hartenberg method, calculates
velocities with the Newton-Euler scheme, and communicates with the
other two programs. BEMMEL only displays the robot. CONNEL is the
controller, which must be designed by the user (in the distributed
version, CONNEL is a simple inverse kinematics routine.) The programs
use Unix sockets for communication, so you must have sockets, but you
can run the programs on different machines. The software is available
by anonymous ftp from
galba.mbfys.kun.nl:pub/neuro-software/pd/ [131.174.82.73]
as the file simderella.1.0.2.tar.Z The software has been compiled using
gcc on SunOS running under X11R4/5 on Sun3, Sun4, Sun Sparc 1, 2, and
10, and Silicon Graphics architectures. For more information,
send email to Patrick van der Smagt, <smagt@fwi.uva.nl>.
The Michigan Intelligent Coordination Experiment (MICE) testbed is a
tool for experimenting with coordination between intelligent systems
under a variety of conditions. MICE simulates a two-dimensional
grid-world in which agents may move, communicate, and affect their
environment. MICE is essentially a discrete-event simulator that
helps control the domain and a graphical representation, but provides
relatively few constraints on the form of the domain and the agents'
abilities. Users may specify the time required by various activities,
the constraints on an agents' sensors, the configuration of the domain
and its properties, etc. MICE runs under XWindows on Un*x boxes, on
Macs, and on TI Explorers, with relatively consistent graphical
displays. Source code, documentation, and examples are available via
anonymous ftp to ftp.eecs.umich.edu:software/Mice/Mice.tar.Z. MICE was
produced by the University of Michigan's Distributed Intelligent Agent
Group (UM DIAG). For further information, write to
umdiagmice@caen.engin.umich.edu.
Simulated Annealing:
ASA (Adaptive Simulated Annealing) is a powerful global optimization
C-code algorithm especially useful for nonlinear and/or stochastic
systems. Most current copies can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
ftp.caltech.edu:pub/ingber/asa.Z [131.215.48.151]; an uncompressed
version, asa, also is in that archive. There are several related
(p)reprints in the Caltech archive, including sa_pvt93.ps.Z, "Simulated
annealing: Practice versus theory." The first VFSR code was developed
by Lester Ingber in 1987, and the reprint of that paper is vfsr89.ps.Z,
"Very fast simulated re-annealing". If you cannot use ftp or ftpmail,
then copies of the code are also available by email from the author
at ingber@alumni.caltech.edu. To be added to the mailing list, send
mail to asa-request@alumni.caltech.edu.
The VFSR code was made publicly available in 1992 under the GNU GPL, by
Lester Ingber and Bruce Rosen. The last version of that code before
the introduction of ASA is available via anonymous ftp from
ringer.cs.utsa.edu:pub/rosen/vfsr.tar.Z. Bruce Rosen has a comparison
study, "Function Optimization based on Advanced Simulated Annealing,"
which is available via anonymous ftp from
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/neuroprose/rosen.advsim.ps.Z.
[VFSR is no longer supported, but ASA is. --mk]
Speech:
RECNET is a complete speech recognition system for the DARPA TIMIT and
Resource Management tasks. It uses recurrent networks to estimate phone
probabilities and Markov models to find the most probable sequence of
phones or words. The system is a snapshot of evolving research code.
There is no documentation other than published research papers. It is
configured for the two specific databases and is unlikely to be of use as
a complete system for other tasks. It is available by anonymous ftp from
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:misc/recnet-1.3.tar.Z. Related publications can be
found in svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:reports/ (see the ABSTRACT file first).
You will need the relevant CDROMs, 150MByte of free space for TIMIT and
300MByte for RM. If you use the code, the author would appreciate an
email message so that he can keep you informed of new releases. Write to
Tony Robinson, <ajr@eng.cam.ac.uk>, for more information.
CELP 3.2a is available from super.org:/pub/celp_3.2a.tar.Z
[192.31.192.1] with copies available on
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:comp.speech/sources/ The code (C, FORTRAN,
diskio) all has been built and tested on a Sun4 under SunOS4.1.3. If
you want to run it somewhere else, then you may have to do a bit of
work. (A Solaris 2.x-compatible release is planned soon.) Written by
Joe Campbell <jpcampb@afterlife.ncsc.mil> of the Department of
Defense. Distribution facilitated by Craig F. Reese
<cfreese@super.org>, IDA/Supercomputing Research Center.
Temporal Reasoning:
See also KNOWBEL above.
MATS -- Metric/Allen Time System
Contact: Henry Kautz <kautz@research.att.com>
MATS is a Common Lisp program which solves temporal
constraint problems. Input constraints are either
difference inequalities or Allen-style qualitative constraints.
TMM -- New implementation of Dean & McDermott's Temporal Map
Manager system written in Common Lisp.
See SIGART Bulletin 4(3), July 1993.
Contact: carciofi@src.honeywell.com
MTMM -- Modified version of Dean & McDermott's TMM written in
MCL. Available on diskette.
Contact: Eckehard Gross (gross@gmd.de)
TimeGraph-- Metric and Qualitative temporal reasoning system which
handles (<, =, >) point relations, bounds on absolute
calendar/clock times, and bounds on durations. Data entry
and retrieval is through interval or point relations.
The system is scalable in the sense that storage
remains linear in the number of relations added.
Efficient retrieval is achieved through a simple
timepoint numbering scheme and metagraph structure.
See SIGART Bulletin 4 (3), pp. 21-25, July 1993.
Contact: Lenhart Schubert (schubert@cs.rochester.edu)
TimeGraph-II (TG-II) Successor of TimeGraph, but does not handle metric
constraints. It handles the full set of point relations
and automatically structures the timegraph for efficiency.
The system is scalable in the sense that storage tends to
remain linear in the number of relations asserted. As in TG-I,
efficient query handling is achieved through a time
point numbering scheme (with some improvements) and
metagraph structure.
See SIGART Bulletin 4(3), July 1993 and
Proceedings of IJCAI 1993.
Contact: Alfonso Gerevini (gerevini@irst.it) or
Lenhart Schubert (schubert@cs.rochester.edu)
Tachyon -- Performs constraint satisfaction for point-based metric
reasoning. Qualitative constraints are also handled by
translation into quantitative ones. Written in C++.
See SIGART Bulletin 4(3), July 1993.
Contact: Richard Arthur (arthurr@crd.ge.com)
TimeLogic-- The TimeLogic system is an interval-based forward
chaining inference engine and database manager of
temporal constraints. Relational constraints,
indicating relative order between intervals, are based
on Allen's interval logic. The TimeLogic system also
supports durational constraints, indicating relative
magnitude between intervals, and reference links, used
for the explicit or automatic construction of interval
hierarchies. Constraints are posed and propagated in
user-defined contexts with inheritance. Supports relative
metric constraints but no absolute dates or times.
Written in Common Lisp.
Contact: Peggy Meeker (timelogic-request@cs.rochester.edu)
TemPro -- A temporal constraint system that uses both interval
algebra and point-based algebra. Written in Common Lisp.
Contact: J-P Haton <jph@loria.fr> or
F. Charpillet <charp@loria.fr>
TCNM -- Temporal Constraint Network Manager. Handles both
qualitative and quantitative constraints between
time-points and durations. Written in Common Lisp.
Contact: Federico A. Barber <fbarber@csic.upv.es>.
[email bounces]
TIE -- Temporal Inference Engine. Written in Common Lisp.
Contact: E. Tsang (Essex University, UK)
Theorem Proving/Automated Reasoning:
Otter -- info.mcs.anl.gov:pub/Otter/Otter-2.2/otter22.tar.Z
anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/Otter/
Contact: otter@mcs.anl.gov
Resolution-based theorem prover.
ATP Problems -- anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/ATP_Problems/*
Collection of ATP problems from Otter, CADE, and JAR.
The problems include algebra, analysis, circuits,
geometry, logic problems, Pelletier's problem set,
program verification, puzzles, set theory, and topology.
SETHEO -- flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:pub/fki/ [131.159.8.35]
Get the files setheo.info and setheo.tar.Z.
SETHEO (SEquential THEOrem prover) is an automated
theorem prover for formulae of predicate logic.
SETHEO is based on the calculus of ``connection
tableaux''. SETHEO runs on Sun SPARCs only.
Contact: setheo@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Isabelle -- ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:ml/ [128.232.0.56]
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:lehrstuhl/nipkow/
[131.159.0.110]
Relevant files include:
intro.dvi.Z "Introduction to Isabelle"
ref.dvi.Z "The Isabelle Reference Manual"
logics.dvi.Z "Isabelle's Object-Logics"
92.tar.Z Isabelle-92 distribution directory
Written in Standard ML, and comes with 8 different
logics, including LCF, some modal logics, first-order
logic, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, and higher-order logic.
Contact: Larry.Paulson@cl.cam.ac.uk
Tobias.Nipkow@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
MVL -- t.stanford.edu:/mvl/mvl.tar.Z
Contact: ginsberg@t.stanford.edu
Multi-valued logics
Boyer-Moore -- ftp.cli.com:pub/nqthm/nqthm.tar.Z
rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/pub/nqthm 128.83.138.20
Contact: kaufmann@cli.com
DTP is a general theorem prover incorporating domain-independent control
of inference. Implemented in CLtL2 Common Lisp, it runs in Franz
Allegro, Lucid, and Macintosh (MCL) Common Lisp. It is available by
anonymous ftp from meta.stanford.edu:pub/dtp/ [36.8.0.54]. Contact
Don Geddis <Geddis@CS.Stanford.EDU> for more information.
RRL -- herky.cs.uiowa.edu:public/rrl [128.255.28.100]
Rewrite Rule Laboratory
FRAPPS (Framework for Resolution-based Automated Proof Procedures) is
a portable resolution theorem-prover written in Common Lisp. It is
available via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/frapps [128.174.252.1].
If you take a copy of FRAPPS, please send a short note to Prof.
Alan M. Frisch <frisch@cs.uiuc.edu>.
XPNet (X Proof Net) is a graphical interface to proof nets with an
efficient proof checker. It is available by anonymous ftp to
ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/xpnet.tar.Z [130.91.6.8]. For further
information, write to Jawahar Chirimar <chirimar@saul.cis.upenn.edu>,
Carl A. Gunter <gunter@saul.cis.upenn.edu>, or Myra VanInwegen
<myra@saul.cis.upenn.edu>.
Gazer is a sequent calculus based system for first order logic with a
novel inference rule, gazing, that enables the system to determine
which of a possibly large number of definitions and lemmas should be
used at any point in a proof. Available from the authors, Dave
Barker-Plummer <plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu> and Alex Rothenberg
<alex@cs.swarthmore.edu>.
KEIM is a collection of software modules, written in Common Lisp with
CLOS, designed to be used in the production of theorem proving
systems. KEIM is intended to be used by those who want to build or
use deduction systems (such as resolution theorem provers) without
having to write the entire framework. KEIM is also suitable for
embedding a reasoning component into another Common Lisp program.
KEIM offers a range of datatypes implementing a logical language of
type theory (higher order logic), in which first order logic can be
embedded. KEIM's datatypes and algorithms include: types; terms
(symbols, applications, abstractions), environments (e.g., associating
symbols with types); unification and substitutions; proofs, including
resolution and natural deduction style. KEIM also provides
functionality for the pretty-printing, error handling, formula parsing
and user interface facilities which form a large part of any theorem
prover. Implementing with KEIM thus allows the programmer to avoid a
great deal of drudgery. KEIM has been tested in Allegro CL 4.1 and
Lucid CL 4.0 on Sun 4 workstations. KEIM is available for
noncommercial use via anonymous FTP from
js-sfbsun.cs.uni-sb.de:pub/keim/keim*
For more information contact Dan Nesmith, Fachbereich Informatik/AG
Siekmann, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Postfach 1150, D-66041
Saarbruecken, Germany, or send email to keim@cs.uni-sb.de. A mailing
list for KEIM users is also being set up. Send mail to
keim-users-request@cs.uni-sb.de to be put on the list.
Truth Maintenance:
The truth maintenance system and problem solver implementations
described in the book "Building Problem Solvers" by Ken Forbus and
Johan de Kleer are available by anonymous ftp from
multivac.ils.nwu.edu:pub/BPS/
parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/bps/
For more information send mail to Johan de Kleer <deKleer@parc.xerox.com>.
Send bug reports to bug-bps@ils.nwu.edu.
Miscellaneous:
University of Toronto:
ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/ailist
Archives of ailist mailing list, defunct as of January 19, 1990
PAIL (Portable AI Lab)
ftp -- pobox.cscs.ch:/pub/ai/pail-2.2/ [148.187.10.13]
contact: pail-info@idsia.ch
authors: Mike Rosner <mike@idsia.ch>
Dean Allemang <allemang@lia.di.epfl.ch>
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Subject: [5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
The Computer Science Department at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany,
maintains a large bibliographic database of articles pertaining to the
field of Artificial Intelligence. Currently the database contains more
than 25,000 references, which can be retrieved by electronic mail from
the LIDO mailserver at lido@cs.uni-sb.de. Send a mail message with
subject line "lidosearch help info" to get instructions on using the
mail server. A variety of queries based on author names, title and
year of publication are possible. The references can be provided in
BibTeX or Refer formats. The entire bibliographic database can be
obtained for a fee by ftp or on tape. Questions may be directed to
bib-1@cs.uni-sb.de.
A variety of AI-related bibliographies are located on nexus.yorku.ca
in the directory /pub/bibliographies.
For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational
linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send
mail to clbib@csli.stanford.edu with the subject HELP.
Stanford University (SUMEX-AIM) has a large BibTeX bibliography of
Artificial Intelligence papers and technical reports. Available by
anonymous ftp from aim.stanford.edu:/pub/ai{1,2,3}.bib
A BibTeX database of references addressing neuro-fuzzy issues can be
obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.tu-bs.de (134.169.34.15) in the
directory local/papers as the (ascii) file fuzzy-nn.bib.
Robert Dale's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is
available by anonymous ftp from scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.3] in
the directory pub/nlg. Note that it is formatted for A4 paper. For
further information, write to Robert Dale, University of Edinburgh,
Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland, or <R.Dale@edinburgh.ac.uk>.
Mark Kantrowitz's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is
available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the
directory user/ai/software/nlp/nlg/bibs/mk/. In addition to the tech
report, the BibTeX file containing the bibliography is also available.
The bibliography contains more than 1,200 entries. Additions and
corrections should be sent to mkant@cs.cmu.edu.
A bibliography of over 400 Evolutionary Computation references (GA,
ES, EP, GP) is available by anonymous ftp from
magenta.me.fau.edu:/pub/ep-list/bib/
The file EC-ref.bib.Z is in BibTeX format; EC-ref.ps.Z is a postscript
version of the bibliography. Please send additions and corrections to
saravan@amber.me.fau.edu or EP-List@amber.me.fau.edu.
A bibliography of over 1000 entries about Self-Organizing Map
(SOM) and Learning vector Quantization (LVQ) studies is
available by anonymous ftp from
cochlea.hut.fi:/pub/ref/
as the files references.bib.Z (BibTeX file) and references.ps.Z
(PostScript file). Please send additions and corrections to
biblio@cochlea.hut.fi.
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Subject: [5-2] Technical Reports available by FTP
This section lists the anonymous ftp sites for technical reports from
several universities and other organizations. Some of the sites
provide only an online catalog of technical reports, while the rest
make the actual reports available online. The email address listed is
that of the appropriate person to contact with questions about
ordering technical reports.
When ftping compressed .Z files, remember to set the transfer type to
binary first, using the command
ftp> binary
Other general locations for technical reports from several
universities include:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/techreports/ [128.252.135.4]
cs-archive.uwaterloo.edu:cs-archive (see Index for an index)
AKA watdragon.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.140.24]
The uwaterloo archive includes tech reports from the Logic Programming
and Artificial Intelligence Group (LPAIG) of the University of Waterloo.
There is also a WAIS server containing tech report abstracts that can be
searched. To use, create the file ~/wais-sources/cs-techreport-abstracts.src
containing
(:source
:version 3
:ip-address "130.194.74.201"
:ip-name "daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au"
:tcp-port 210
:database-name "cs-techreport-abstracts"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "wais@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au")
and invoke your local wais client. To add to it, email abstracts of
your papers to wais@rdt.monash.edu.au in the following format:
%TI Title
%AU Author (use multiple %AU lines for multiple authors)
%PU Published In (citation information)
%AV Availability (e.g., ftp reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu:1992/CMU-CS-92-101.ps)
%OR Organization (see cs-techreport-archives.src for institution codes)
%LT Local title (e.g., tech report number)
%DA Date (and, if you want, %MN Month, %YR Year)
%AB Abstract
If your papers are not available by FTP, you can use a %AV line such as:
%AV mail harry.bovik@cs.cmu.edu
Further instructions are available from
daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au:/pub/techreports/reports/README
[Based on a post by Ashwin Ram.]
An archive of linguistics papers and preprints is available from
linguistics.archive.umich.edu:linguistics/papers/. Contact John Lawler
(jlawler@umich.edu) or linguistics-archivist@umich.edu for more
information.
The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia
University has placed ASCII versions of the concurrent
engineering-related abstracts (over 500) that were on CERCnet, ASCII
back issues of the Concurrent Engineering Research in Review journal
(now discontinued), and Postscript copies of CERC technical reports in
the gopher server gopher.cerc.wvu.edu. In addition, many of the CERC
technical reports, including journal articles, symposium papers,
theses, dissertations, and issues of the Concurrent Engineering
Research in Review journal, are available as Postscript versions via
anonymous ftp from babcock.cerc.wvu.edu:pub/techReports/
(157.182.44.36). An index to all the reports, including some that are
available only in hardcopy, is contained in the file "CERC-TR-INDEX".
If you need additional information, contact Mary Carriger, CERC Office
of Information Services, at carriger@cerc.wvu.edu.
The newsgroup comp.doc.techreports is devoted to distributing lists of
tech reports and their abstracts.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory:
ftp -- publications.ai.mit.edu:ai-publications/
email -- publications@ai.mit.edu
browse -- telnet reading-room.lcs.mit.edu
A full catalog of MIT AI Lab technical reports (and a listing of recent
updates) may be obtained from the above location, by writing to
Publications, Room NE43-818, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or by calling
1-617-253-6773. The catalog lists the technical reports ("AI Memos")
with a short abstract and their current prices. There is also a charge
for shipping. Some recent tech reports (since 1991) are available in the
ai-publications/ subdirectory; older technical reports are NOT
available by ftp. A bibliography is in the bibliography/ directory.
Sandiway Fong's 1991 PhD thesis, ``The Computational Properties of
Principle-Based Grammatical Theories,'' may be found in the
directory pub/sandiway/.
CMU School of Computer Science:
ftp -- reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu
email -- Technical.Reports@cs.cmu.edu
CMU Software Engineering Institute:
ftp -- ftp.sei.cmu.edu:/pub/documents
email -- bjz@sei.cmu.edu
Yale:
ftp -- dept.cs.yale.edu:/pub/TR/
University of Washington CSE Tech Reports:
ftp -- june.cs.washington.edu:/tr
email -- tr-request@cs.washington.edu
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AT&T Bell Laboratories:
ftp -- research.att.com:/netlib/research/cstr
bib.Z contains short bibliography, including all the technical
reports contained in this directory.
ftp -- research.att.com:/dist/ai
Argonne National Laboratory:
ftp -- anagram.mcs.anl.gov:pub/tech_reports
email -- wright@mcs.anl.gov
Contains MCS Division preprints and technical memoranda,
available as either .dvi or .ps files. For descriptions of the
contents, see the subdirectory pub/tech_reports/abstracts; for
the files themselves see the subdirectory pub/tech_reports/reports.
Boston University:
ftp -- cs.bu.edu:techreports/
email -- techreports@cs.bu.edu
Brown University:
ftp -- wilma.cs.brown.edu:techreports/
email -- techreports@cs.brown.edu
Cambridge University: Speech, Vision & Robotics Group
ftp -- svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:reports/
Columbia University:
ftp -- cs.columbia.edu:/pub/reports
email -- tech-reports@cs.columbia.edu
DEC Cambridge Research Lab:
ftp -- crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/CRL/{abstracts,tech-reports}
DEC Paris Research Lab:
email -- doc-server@prl.dec.com
Put commands in Subject: line of the message.
To get a list of articles, use
send index articles
To get a list of tech reports, use
send index reports
DEC WRL:
email -- wrl-techreports@decwrl.dec.com
To get a helpfile, send a message with
help
in the subject line.
DFKI:
ftp -- duck.dfki.uni-sb.de:/pub/papers
email -- Martin Henz (henz@dfki.uni-sb.de)
Duke University:
ftp -- cs.duke.edu:/dist/{papers,theses}
email -- techreport@cs.duke.edu [unknown user, 7/7/93]
Edinburgh:
A list of available reports can be sent via email. Send requests
for information about reports from the Center for Cognitive Science
to cogsci%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, and from the Human Communication
Research Center to HCRC%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk.
Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan:
Reports from the Cooperative Architecture project (half AI, half
software engineering).
ftp -- etlport.etl.go.jp:pub/kyocho/Papers [192.31.197.99]
See file Index.English.
email -- Hideyuki Nakashima <nakashim@etl.go.jp>.
Georgia Tech College of Computing, AI Group:
ftp -- ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/ai (130.207.3.245)
email -- Professor Ashwin Ram <ashwin@cc.gatech.edu>
Illinois:
email -- Erna Amerman <erna@uiuc.edu>
Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL):
email -- Eric Thompson <library@gal1.ge.uiuc.edu>
phone -- 217-333-2346 (9AM to 5PM CT, M-F)
mail -- Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
Department of General Engineering
117 Transportation Building
104 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801-2996
ftp -- coming soon.
Indiana:
ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub [129.79.238.12]
ftp -- cs.indiana.edu:pub/techreports [129.79.254.191]
INRIA, France:
ftp -- ftp.inria.fr:INRIA/publication/
Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University:
ftp -- aristotle.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/papers/
New York University (NYU):
ftp -- cs.nyu.edu:/pub/tech-reports
OGI:
ftp -- cse.ogi.edu:/pub/tech-reports
email -- csedept@cse.ogi.edu
Ohio State University, Laboratory for AI Research
ftp -- nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/papers
email -- lair-librarian@cis.ohio-state.edu
OSU Neuroprose:
ftp -- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose (128.146.8.52)
This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
Includes several bibliographies.
Stanford:
ftp -- elib.stanford.edu:/cs
Very spotty collection.
SRI:
email -- Donna O'Neal, donna@ai.sri.com
SUNY Buffalo:
ftp -- ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:/pub/tech-reports/
SUNY at Stony Brook:
ftp -- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/TechReports
email -- rick@cs.sunysb.edu or stark@cs.sunysb.edu
The /pub/sunysb directory contains the SB-Prolog implementation
of the Prolog language. Contact warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu for more
information.
TCGA (The Clearinghouse for Genetic Algorithms):
email -- Robert Elliott Smith <rob@comec4.mh.ua.edu>
Department of Engineering of Mechanics
Room 210 Hardaway Hall
The University of Alabama
PO Box 870278
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
205-348-1618, fax 205-348-6419
Thinking Machines:
ftp -- ftp.think.com:think/techreport.list
This file contains a list of Thinking Machines technical reports.
Orders may be placed by email (limit 5) to t-rex@think.com, or by US
Mail to Thinking Machines Corporation, Attn: Technical reports, 245
First Street, Cambridge, MA 01241. In addition, the directories
cm/starlisp and cm/starlogo contain code for the *Lisp and *Logo
simulators.
Tulane University:
ftp -- rex.cs.tulane.edu:pub/tech/ [129.81.132.1]
University of Arizona:
ftp -- cs.arizona.edu:reports/
email -- tr_libr@cs.arizona.edu
The directory /japan/kahaner.reports contains reports on AI in
Japan, among other things, written by Dr. David Kahaner, a
numerical analyst on sabbatical to the Office of Naval
Research-Asia (ONR Asia) in Tokyo from NIST. The reports are not
written in any sort of official capacity, but are quite interesting.
University of California/Santa Cruz:
ftp -- ftp.cse.ucsc.edu:/pub/{bib,tr}
email -- jean@cs.ucsc.edu
University of Colorado:
ftp -- ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/techreports
University of Florida:
ftp -- bikini.cis.ufl.edu:/cis/tech-reports
University of Illinois at Urbana:
ftp -- a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/dcs
email -- e-amerman@a.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Indiana, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition:
ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub/
email -- helga@cogsci.indiana.edu
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany:
ftp -- ftp.uni-kl.de:reports_uni-kl/computer_science/
University of Kentucky:
ftp -- ftp.ms.uky.edu:ftp/pub/tech-reports/UK/cs/
University of Massachusetts at Amherst:
email -- techrept@cs.umass.edu
University of Michigan:
ftp -- ftp.eecs.umich.edu:/techreports
University of North Carolina:
ftp -- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/technical-reports/
University of Pennsylvania:
ftp -- ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/papers/
email -- publications@upenn.edu [email bounced 7/7/93]
USC/Information Sciences Institute:
email -- Sheila Coyazo <scoyazo@isi.edu> is the contact. [email
bounced 7/7/93]
University of Toronto:
ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/reports
email -- tech-reports@cs.toronto.edu
University of Virginia:
ftp -- uvacs.cs.virginia.edu:/pub/techreports/cs
University of Wisconsin:
ftp -- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/tech-reports
email -- tech-reports-archive@cs.wisc.edu
Some AI authors have set up repositories of their own papers:
Matthew Ginsberg: t.stanford.edu:/u/ftp/papers
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Subject: [5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
Free:
Roget's 1911 Thesaurus is available by anonymous FTP from the
Consortium for Lexical Research (clr.nmsu.edu, [128.123.1.12]).
The pathname is /pub/lexica/thesauri/roget-1911.
It is also available from
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/literary/collections/project_gutenberg/roget11.txt.Z
An old Webster's dictionary is in /text/dict/{DICT.Z,DICT.INDEX.Z}.
Project Gutenberg also has Roget's 1911 Thesaurus. The Project
Gutenberg archive is at mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/etext/. The
Project Gutenberg archive collects public domain electronic books. For more
information, write to Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text,
Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext, Illinois Benedictine
College, Lisle, IL 60532 or send email to hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu.
For people without FTP, Austin Code Works sells floppy disks
containing Roget's 1911 Thesaurus for $40.00. This money helps support
the production of other useful texts, such as the 1913 Webster's dictionary.
The Online Book Initiative maintains a text repository on
world.std.com (a public access UNIX system, 617-739-WRLD). See the
README file on obi.std.com:/obi/. For more information, send email to
obi@world.std.com, write to Software Tool & Die, 1330 Beacon Street,
Brookline, MA 02146, or call 617-739-0202.
The CHILDES project at Carnegie Mellon University has a lot of data of
children speaking to adults, as well as the adult written and adult
spoken corpora from the CORNELL project. Contact Brian MacWhinney
<brian@andrew.cmu.edu> for more information.
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) has a Data
Collection Initiative. For more information, contact Donald Walker at
Bellcore, walker@flash.bellcore.com.
Two lists of common female first names (4967 names) and male first
names (2924 names) are available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu
in the directory user/ai/software/nlp/corpora/names/. Read
the file README first. [Note that you must cd to this directory in one
atomic operation, as superior directories are protected during an
anonymous ftp.] Send mail to mkant@cs.cmu.edu for more information.
A list of 110,000 English words (one per line, in ASCII) is
available in the PD1:<MSDOS.LINGUISTICS> directory on SIMTEL20 as the
files WORDS1.ZIP, WORDS2.ZIP, WORDS3.ZIP, and WORDS4.ZIP. Although the
list is in MS-DOS files, it can easily be used on other machines (but
first you'll have to unzip the files on a DOS machine). The list
includes inflected forms of the words, such as plural nouns and the
-s, -ed, and -ing forms of verbs; thus the number of lexical stems in
the list is considerably smaller than the total number of word forms.
These files are available via FTP from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
[192.88.110.20]. SIMTEL20 files are mirrored on wuarchive.wustl.edu.
The Collins English Dictionary encoded as a Prolog fact base is
available from the Oxford Text Archive by anonymous ftp from
black.ox.ac.uk:ota/dicts/1192/ [129.67.1.165]
The Oxford Text Archive includes many other texts, dictionaries,
thesauri, word lists, and so on, most of which are available for
scholarly use and research only. See the files
black.ox.ac.uk:ota/textarchive.{form,info,list,sgml}
for more information, or write to archive@ox.ac.uk, Oxford Text Archive,
Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2
6NN, UK, call 44-865-273238 or fax 44-865-273275.
Chuck Wooters <wooters@icsi.berkeley.edu> has extracted the most
likely pronunciation for each of about 6100 words in the hand-labeled
TIMIT database, and made them available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu:pub/speech/TIMIT.mostlikely.Z.
A list of homophones from general American English is available by
anonymous ftp from svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:comp.speech/data/ as the file
homophones-1.01.txt. To receive the list by email, send mail to
Evan.Antworth@sil.org. The list was compiled by Tony Robinson.
Commercial:
Illumind publishes the Moby Thesaurus (25,000 roots/1.2 million
synonyms), Moby Words (560,000 entries), Moby Hyphenator (155,000
entries), and the Moby Part-of-Speech (214,000 entries), Moby
Pronunciator (167,000 entries with IPA encoding, syllabification, and
primary, secondary, and tertiary stress marks) and Moby Language
(100,000 word word lists in five major world languages) lexical
databases. All databases are supplied in pure ASCII, royalty-free, in
both Macintosh and MS-DOS disk formats (also in .Z file formats). Both
commercial (to resell derived structures as part of commercial
applications) and educational/research licenses are available. Samples
of each of the lexical databases are available by anonymous ftp from
netcom.com:/pub/grady/Moby_Sampler.tar.Z [192.100.81.100]. For more
information, write to Illumind, Attn: Grady Ward, 3449 Martha Court,
Arcata, CA 95521, call/fax 707-826-7715, or send email to
grady@netcom.com.
The Oxford Text Archive has hundreds of online texts in a wide variety
of languages, including a few dictionaries (the OED, Collins, etc.).
The Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB), Brown, and London-Lund corpii are also
available from them. For more information, write to Oxford Electronic
Publishing, Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
10016, call 212-889-0206, or send mail to archive@vax.oxford.ac.uk.
(Their contact information in England is Oxford Text Archive, Oxford
University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK, +44
(865) 273238.)
Mailing Lists:
CORPORA is a mailing list for Text Corpora. It welcomes information
and questions about text corpora such as availability, aspects of
compiling and using corpora, software, tagging, parsing, and
bibliography. To be added to the list, send a message to
corpora-request@x400.hd.uib.no. Contributions should be sent to
corpora@x400.hd.uib.no.
Linguistic Data Consortium:
The Linguistic Data Consortium was established to broaden the collection
and distribution of speech and natural language data bases for the
purposes of research and technology development in automatic speech
recognition, natural language processing, and other areas where large
amounts of linguistic data are needed. Information about the LDC is
available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/ldc [130.91.6.8].
Documents available in this directory include a paper on the background,
rationale and goals of the LDC, a brief list of available data bases,
and some tables summarizing these corpora. For further information,
contact Elizabeth Hodas, <ehodas@walnut.ling.upenn.edu>, Mark Liberman
<myl@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>, or Jack Godfrey <jgodfrey@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>.
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Subject: [5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
Little Smalltalk -- Tim Budd's version of Smalltalk
cs.orst.edu: /pub/budd/small.v3.tar
GNU Smalltalk
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.1.tar.Z
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Subject: [5-5] AI-related CD-ROMs
The Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM (Revision 2, 1993) is available
from Network Cybernetics Corporation for $129.00 per copy (plus $5
shipping domestic, $10 shipping international). If you currently own
the first edition of the AI CD-ROM, you can "upgrade" to the Rev.2 CD
for $79 + shipping. The AI CD-ROM is an ISO-9660 format disk usable
on any computer system, and contain a variety of public domain,
shareware, and other software of special interest to the AI community.
The disk contains source code, executable programs, demonstration
versions of commercial programs, tutorials and other files for a
variety of operating systems. Among the supported operating systems
are MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and Unix. Among the items included are
CLIPS v6.0 and NETS, courtesy of COSMIC, the collected source code
from AIExpert magazine from the premier issue in June of 1986 to the
present, and complete transcriptions of the first annual Loebner Prize
competition, which took place at the Boston Computer Museum. It also
includes examples many different kinds of neural networks, genetic
algorithms, artificial life simulators, natural language software,
public domain and shareware compilers for a wide range of languages
such as Lisp, Xlisp, Scheme, XScheme, Smalltalk, Prolog, ICON, SNOBOL,
and many others. Complete collections of the Neural Digest, Genetic
Algorithms Digest, and Vision List Digest are included. All files on
the disk are compressed in ZIP format. Network Cybernetics Corporation
intends to release annual revisions to the AI CD-ROM to keep it up to
date with current developments in the field. For more information,
write to Network Cybernetics Corporation, 4201 Wingren Road, Suite
202, Irving, Texas 75062-2763, call 214-650-2002, fax 214-650-1929, or
send email to ai-cdrom@ncc.com or steve.rainwater@ncc.com (Steve
Rainwater).
PTF is a semi-annual CD-ROM collection of UNIX-related freeware source
code and documentation. PTF in no way modifies the legal restrictions
on any package it includes. Each issue consists of two ISO-9660
CD-ROMs, bound into a 50+ page booklet. PTF is particularly useful for
programmers who do not have FTP access, but may also be useful as a
way of saving disk space and avoiding annoying FTP searches and
retrievals. The current issue (2-1; January, 1993) includes, among
other things, ICOT collection and several varieties of Lisp and other
AI languages. It sells (list) for $60 US plus applicable sales tax and
shipping and handling charges. SUG and USENIX members may purchase the
issue for $50. Payable through Visa, Mastercard, postal money orders
in US funds, and checks in US funds drawn on a US bank. For more
information write to Prime Time Freeware, 370 Altair Way, Suite 150,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086 call 408-433-9662, fax 408-432-6149, or send email
to ptf@cfcl.com.
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