Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 17:54:08 EDT
From:: tar@hx.lcs.mit.edu (Thomas Russ)
To: gsl@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Parsley Project Lecture Series--this Fri. at Noon

		    PARSLEY PROJECT LECTURE SERIES

			    Monch N. Knosh
		     Artificial Ingestion Center
			 Jolly G. Giant, Inc.

	AUTOMATIC INDEXING AND GROCERY-SUSTENANCE-LUNCH THEORY
				
			       ABSTRACT

A system will be described that receives, parses,  indexes, and routes
food.  Central to this automatic indexing system is  a parser based on
Grocery-Sustenance-Lunch (GSL) Theory that derives thematic and buying
relationships of   groceries used in  creating  lunches.   A cuisinart
processor interprets menu   structures  with  respect   to  conceptual
filters that represent terms within  a caloric vocabulary.   In short,
the system is capable of processing food in  conjunction with a social
interaction  vocabulary whose items denote the  content of the student
thought and experience.

The  architecture of   the system will   be presented and each of  its
components will be discussed with  a special focus  on the buyer, menu
interpreter, and final disposal.  Although the system was developed as
a practical application,  it relies    heavily on  a component of    a
theoretical or research nature, viz., GSL-Theory.  Since GSL-Theory is
a  theory of hard-core graduate   students and ``real-world''  buffets
contain apetizer or  desert  choices, certain processing issues  arise
which need  to  be resolved  for   successfully deploying the  system.
Problems, tradeoffs, and benefits of coupling theory  with application
will be explored in an interactive demonstration immediately following
the talk.

TIME:   FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
        NOON
PLACE:  AI LAB PLAYROOM, NE43 8TH FLOOR
HOSTS:  Steve Brobst and Derek Chiou
HUMOR:  Tom Russ