Recent Papers and Talks

1. "On Defining and Capturing Events in Business Communication Systems," Alan S. Abrahams, David M. Eyers, and Steven O. Kimbrough, IDT brownbag, 4/22/06. Part 1 in PDF. Part 2 in .ppt.
2. "A Note on Interpretations for Federated Languages and the Use of Disquotation" (Steven O. Kimbrough), ICAIL '05, Tenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law. Paper in PDF. Foils for presentation (PDF). See also http://www.iaail.org/, International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law.
3. "On Original Generation of Structure in Legal Documents" (Steven O. Kimbrough, Thomas Y. Lee, Balaji Padmanabhan, and Yinghui Yang), The 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, Proceedings of the Conference (ICAIL), June 24-28, 2003, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, pages 152-161. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, ISBN: 1-58113-747-8. PDF. Slides for the presentation at ICAIL PDF.
4. Steven Orla Kimbrough, "A Note on teh Good Samaritan Paradox and the Disquotation Theory of Propositional Content," DEON'02. Paper in PDF and Slides in PDF.
5. Steven Orla Kimbrough, "A Note on Getting Started with FLBC: Towards a User Guide for FLBC" PDF. August 25, 2001 version (a draft).
6. Kimbrough, Steven Orla, "Reasoning about the Objects of Attitudes and Operators: Towards a Disquotation Theory for Representation of Propositional Content," forthcoming ICAIL'01. PDF
7. Kimbrough, Steven Orla, "EDI, XML, and the Transparency Problem in Electronic Commerce," working paper, February 5, 2000. PDF .
8. Kimbrough, Steven Orla and Tan Yao-Hua, "On Lean Messaging with Unfolding and Unwrapping for Electronic Commerce," similar version published in International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 5, no. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 83-108. PDF .
9. Kimbrough, Steven Orla, "A Note on the FLBC Treatment of an Example X12 Purchase Order". PDF.

Current Slide Set

• "Business by Machine: Design of Application Languages for Conducting Electronic Commerce." PDF.

Recent Presentations

• "Business by Machine" talk at Penn State on October 18, 2001. Slides.
• "From Data Base to Utterance Base: Envisioning Automated Business Communications," keynote talk at LAP 2001, Montreal, CA, July 22, 2001. PDF.
• "On a Dual Interpretatin of Evolutionary Dynamics," FMEC, Oslo, Norway, June 11-12, 2001. PDF.
• "Reasoning about the Objects of Attitudes and Operators: Towards a Disquotation Theory for Representation of Propositional Content," ICAIL 2001, St. Louis. PDF.
• "Business by Machine: Design of Application Languages for Conducting Electronic Commerce," University of Southern California, January 26, 2001. Abstract (HTML) .

  Slides in PDF.

• "EDI, XML, and the Myth of Semantic Transparency," INFORMS,San Antonio, fall 2000. Abstract (HTML).

Sources on Message Types

• Locally, message types.

Papers and Resources

• Marek Sergot's papers.
• Partial list of papers on FLBC. HTML.
• Partial list of FLBC-related resources. HTML.
• XML/EDI Discussion Group: No Clothes! HTML.
• Interfaces special issue, March-april 2001.
• Mark Weiser's page on ubiquitous computing.
• IBM's MQSeries product.

Sources for Basic English

1. Marshallnet Basic English
2. DIAC Basic English
3. English club
   • Regular Verbs
   • Irregular Verbs
   • Verbs
4. LineOne
5. GSU Jones
6. GSU GR Lists
7. WordNet
8. Download WordNet
9. Atomica (dictionary)
10. SeaSpeak and AirSpeak.

External Projects and Resources

1. SOAP homepage. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

   SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.

2. ebXML at IBM.
3. FrameNet at Berkeley.
4. EAGLES. Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards.

Business Forms

1. The 'Lectric Law Library's Business & General Forms
2. BFMA.org