From: Laure Vieu To: ; ; Subject: ECAI Workshop on Parts and Wholes Date: Monday, 7 February 1994 12:10PM Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by netmail.microsoft.com with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) id AA26916; Mon, 7 Feb 94 03:12:32 -0800 Via: uk.ac.edinburgh.cogsci; Mon, 7 Feb 1994 11:14:21 +0000 Received: from irit.irit.fr (irit-fddi.irit.fr) by cstr.ed.ac.uk; Mon, 7 Feb 94 11:11:42 GMT Received: from [141.115.12.14] (lizzie.irit.fr [141.115.12.14]) by irit.irit.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) with SMTP id MAA15913; Mon, 7 Feb 1994 12:10:13 GMT Message-Id: <199402071210.MAA15913@irit.irit.fr> X-Sender: vieu@irit.irit.fr Sender: netmail!salt-request@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk ******************** PLEASE POST --- PLEASE POST ************************* CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION PARTS AND WHOLES: CONCEPTUAL PART-WHOLE RELATIONS AND FORMAL MEREOLOGY Monday, August 8, 1994 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Held in conjunction with ECAI-94 (11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Currently, there are two main approaches to the study of "parts" and their relations. The conceptual (cognitive) approach looks at the variety of part-whole relations and their role in language processing, perception, and action planning; the philosophical/logical approach, on the other hand, looks at formal theories of parts, wholes and related concepts in the framework of formal ontology. There are important differences between the two views. Philosophical systems tend to focus on a single "part-*of*" relation used for modeling ontological domains like time, space, or pluralities; conceptual approaches tend to assume a whole family of different "part-*whole*" relations for a variety of entities and tasks. Classical logical theories such as Lesniewski's or Goodman's privileged extensional aspects of the part-wholerelation, while for conceptual approaches and intensional formal mereology the old proverb holds that a whole is more than its parts. While disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy and psychology have contributed significantly to the research in this field, their impact on artificial intelligence is extremely limited, although AI could represent the ideal workbench for a unification of approaches dominant in different fields. Knowledge about parts is of great importance for a wide variety of AI domains, like vision, qualitative and naive physics, robotics, and natural language processing. For example, the structure of an object can be used for visual recognition, for reasoning about the functionality of the whole, or for planning its assembly. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these various disciplines in order to explore (i) the benefits and limits of formal mereology in modeling commonsense part-whole relations; (ii) the import for knowledge representation formalisms of the two current approaches to the study of "parts" and their relations; (iii) the possibility of a unified theory of parts and wholes. The workshop topics will include the following: - Classical extensional mereology: uses, extensions and adaptations; comparison with alternatives to mereology: set theory and lattices. - Intensional mereology: essence, dependence, and integrity; individual properties as parts. - Conceptual distinctions among wholes: masses, collections, complexes; natural entities and artifacts; sums and scattered individuals. - Parts and structure: physical connection, spatial, temporal, functional and other constraints among parts; Gestalt theories and perceptual parts; granularity issues. - Parts, space and time: relationships between mereology, topology, geometry; boundaries and surfaces; relationships between parts of physical objects (continuants) and parts of events (occurrents). - Parts and natural language: parts, part-names and possessive constructions; plurals and mass terms. - Reasoning about parts: transitivity, upper and downward inheritance of properties. - Dealing with parts within existing KR formalisms: distinguishing parts from other attributes, computational issues of reasoning about parts. Two possible kinds of contributions are solicited from interested participants: (a) regular papers of 10 pages max, presenting on-going research; (b) position papers of 3 pages max, motivating the interest in the field and explaining particular points of view. A limited number of regular papers will be chosen for an oral presentation at the workshop, while suitable space will be devoted to discussions based on contributions from participants (rejected regular papers are automatically treated as position papers). Participation will be limited to around 35 people. Preference will be given in the workshop schedule to contributions underlining the impact of mereological issues on AI practice, especially on: knowledge representation, natural language processing, qualitative and naive physics, spatial and temporal reasoning, vision, and robotics. Submission of papers, regular and position, to any member of the workshop organizing committee is due by April 15 1994. Hard copy (4 copies) and electronic submissions (either PostScript, LaTex or MacWord converted in BinHex format) are equally acceptable, with a strong preference for the latter. All submissions should include an exact address and an e-mail address. TIMETABLE: Paper submission deadline: April 15, 1994 Notification: May 20, 1994 Final version due: June 6, 1994 Workshop: August 8, 1994 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Participants will be requested to register for the main ECAI conference. Organizing committee: Nicola Guarino LADSEB-CNR Corso Stati Uniti 4, I-35020 Padova tel: +39 49 8295751, fax: +39 49 8295778 email: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it Simone Pribbenow University of Hamburg, Computer Science Department, Bodenstedtstr. 16, D-22765 Hamburg tel: +49 40 4123-6111, fax: +49 40 4123-6159 email: pribbeno@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Laure Vieu Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31326 Toulouse tel: +33 61556091, fax: +33 61558325 email: vieu@irit.fr From: icgi94 To: Non Receipt Notification Requested Date: Friday, 11 February 1994 7:05PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND & FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE ICGI - 94 Pueblo Acantilado, Alicante, Spain September 21-23, 1994 Co-sponsored by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), the Universidad de Alicante (UA), the Asociacion Espa7ola de Reconocimiento de Formas y Analisis de Imagenes (AERFAI), the Asociacion Espa7ola Para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA), the Asociacion Espa7ola de Informatica y Automatica (AEIA), the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRPERSONS, PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Chairpersons: P. Garcia (Univ. Polit. de Valencia, PGarcia@dsic.upv.es; FAX: +34 6 3877359) J. Oncina (Univ. de Alicante, JOncina%EALIUN11.BITNET; FAX: +34 6 5903464) Program Committee: D. Angluin (Yale Univ.) R. Damper (Univ. Southampton) J. Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley) C. L. Giles (NEC, Princeton) J. Gregor (Univ. Tennessee) F. Gruau (CENG, Grenoble) D. Luzeaux (ETCA-CREA-SP, Arcueil) E. Makinen (Univ. Tampere) L. Miclet (IRISA-ENSSAT, Lannion) G. Nagaraja (IIT Bombay) F. Pereira (ATT Bell Labs, New Jersey) L. Pitt (Univ. Illinois) Y. Sakakibara (Fujitsu Labs.) A. Sanfeliu (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya) R. Sharman (IBM United Kingdom) A. Stolcke (ICSI, Berkeley) Y. Takada (Fujitsu Labs.) E. Vidal (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) P. S. P. Wang (Northeastern Univ. Boston) J. Wright (Bristol Univ.) P. Wyard (British Telecom) T. Yokomori (Univ. of Electro-Comm., Tokio) S. J. Young (Univ. Cambridge) Organization Committee: S. Lucas (Essex Univ.) R. Alquezar (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya) F. Casacuberta (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) A. Castano (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) A. Castellanos (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) R. Carrasco (Univ. de Alicante) A. Corbi (Univ. de Alicante) I. Galiano (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) L. Mico (Univ. de Alicante) P. Pastor (Univ. de Alicante) E. Segarra (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) J. Sempere (Univ. Politecnica de Valencia) GRAMMATICAL INFERENCE COLLOQUIUM Grammatical Inference (GI) is broadly understood as the task of learning grammars from data. Traditionally, GI has been studied within several contexts: Information Theory, Formal Language Theory, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computational Learning and Neural Networks, to name but a few. This multidisciplinary perspective, however, has lead so far to a lack of a focussed research community. A first attempt to correct this started with the "First Colloquium on Grammatical Inference: Theory, Applications and Alternatives" held in the University of Essex (U.K.), in April 1993. Following the success of this colloquium, the ICGI-94 aims to provide a forum for discussion of principles, theory and applications of all those aspects of Automatic Learning that explicitly focus on Grammars and Languages. Within this framework, topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Theory and Algorithms. - Learning Paradigms (Identification in the limit, PAC-Learning, Stochastic Approaches, Genetic Algorithms). - Pattern Recognition. - Neural Networks. - Computational Linguistics. - Machine Learning. - Applications to Natural Language Processing, Language Translation, Sequence Learning and Prediction, Speech and Image Processing, Gene Analysis, Cryptography, etc. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Please submit (not via electronic mail) three copies of your extended abstract (maximum length 8 pages, 12 pt. font, including figures, tables, references, etc.) to: J. Oncina Dept. Tecnologia Informatica y Computacion Universidad de Alicante E-03080 Alicante (Spain) SCHEDULE April 15, 1994 Deadline for submitted papers. June 15, 1994 Notification of acceptance. July 15, 1994 Camera ready copy. September 21-23, 1994 Colloquium. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COLLOQUIUM Accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of the Colloquium. (Probably as a volume in the Lecture Notes series in Artificial Intelligence from Springer-Verlag). LOCATION The Colloquium will be held in Pueblo Acantilado (Alicante), a congress and convention centre located in the Mediterranean Sea coast 32 km. far from Alicante. REGISTRATION Registration fee will be in the region of 60,000 pesetas ($410 approx- imately). A limited number of grants will be available for students. Registration includes: - Admission to the sessions. - Proceedings of the Colloquium (probably published by Springer-Verlag). - Coffee-breaks. Send completed registration form without payment to the following address: J. Oncina Dept. Tecnologia Informatica y Computacion Universidad de Alicante E-03080 Alicante (Spain) JOncina%EALIUN11.BITNET Fax: +34 6 590 34 64 Further information will be supplied upon the reception of the registration form (below). REGISTRATION FORM Last Name:__________________________________________________________________ ___ First Name:__________________________________________________________________ __ Organization or Company:_______________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________________ City:__________________________________________________________________ ________ Country:_______________________________________________________________________ Postal Code/Zip Code:__________________________________________________________ Telephone:_____________________________________________________________________ Telefax:_______________________________________________________________ ________ E-Mail:________________________________________________________________________ From: Philippe Blache To: Multiple recipients of list LN Subject: Appel: 6th IEEE Date: Monday, 14 February 1994 9:48AM From: Philippe Blache CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence November 6-9, 1994 Hotel Intercontinental New Orleans, Louisiana This conference is envisioned to foster the transfer of ideas relating to artificial intelligence among academics, industry, and government agencies. It focuses on methodologies which can aid the development of AI, as well as the demanding issues involved in turning these methodologies to practical tools. Thus, this conference encompasses the technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating theoretical and applied mechanisms which can serve as tools for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. Focal topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Machine Learning, Computational Learning * Artificial Neural Networks * Uncertainty Management, Fuzzy Logic * Distributed and Cooperative AI, Information Agents * Knowledge Based Systems, Intelligent Data Bases * Intelligent Strategies for Scheduling and Planning * AI Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms * Expert Systems * Natural Language Processing * AI Applications (Vision, Robotics, Signal Processing, etc.) * Information Modeling, Reasoning Techniques * AI Languages, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Systems * Logic and Constraint Programming * Strategies for AI development * AI tools for Biotechnology INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS There will be both academic and industry tracks. A one day workshop (November 6th) precedes the conference (November 7-9). Authors are requested to submit original papers to the program chair by April 20, 1994. Five copies (in English) of double-spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 25 pages) with an abstract are required. Please attach a cover letter indicating the conference track (academic/industry) and areas (in order of preference) most relevant to the paper. Include the contact author's postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Submissions in other audio-visual forms are acceptable only for the industry track, but they must focus on methodology and timely results on AI technological applications and problems. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 1994 and will be given instruc- tions for camera ready papers at that time. The deadline for camera ready papers will be August 19, 1994. Outstanding papers will be eli- gible for publication in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Submit papers and panel proposals by April 20, 1994 to the Program Chair: Cris Koutsougeras Computer Science Department Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 865-5840 e-mail: ck@cs.tulane.edu Potential panel organizers please submit a subject statement and a list of panelists. Acceptances of panel proposals will be announced by June 30, 1994. A computer account (tai@cs.tulane.edu) is running to provide automatic information responses. You can obtain the electronic files for the CFP, program, registration form, hotel reservation form, and general conference information. For more information please contact: Conference Chair Steering Committee Chair Jeffrey J.P. Tsai Nikolaos G. Bourbakis Dept. of EECS (M/C 154) Dept. of Electrical Engineering 851 S. Morgan Street SUNY at Binghamton University of Illinois Binghamton, NY 13902 Chicago, IL 60607-7053 Tel: (607)777-2165 (312)996-9324 e-mail: bourbaki@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (312)413-0024 (fax) tsai@bert.eecs.uic.edu Program Chair : Cris Koutsougeras, Tulane University Registration Chair : Takis Metaxas, (617) 283-3054, e-mail: takis@poobah.wellesley.edu Local Arrangements Chair : Akhtar Jameel, e-mail: jameel@cs.tulane.edu Workshop Organizing Chair : Mark Boddy, Honeywell Industrial Track Vice Chairs : Steven Szygenda, Raymond Paul Program Vice Chairs : Machine Learning: E. Kounalis Computational Learning: J. Vitter Uncertainty Management, Fuzzy Logic: R. Goldman Knowledge Based Systems, Intelligent Data Bases: M. Ozsoyoglu AI Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms: P. Marquis Natural Language Processing: B. Manaris Information Modeling, Reasoning Techniques: D. Zhang Logic and Constraint Programming: A. Bansal AI Languages, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Systems: B. Bryant Artificial Neural Networks: P. Israel Distributed and Cooperative AI, Information Agents: C. Tsatsoulis Intelligent Strategies for Scheduling and Planning: L. Hoebel Expert Systems: F. Bastani AI Applications (Vision, Robotics, Signal Processing, etc.): C. T. Chen AI tools for Biotechnology: M. Perlin Strategies for AI development: U. Yalcinalp Publicity Chairs : R. Brause, Germany Mikio Aoyama, Japan Benjamin Jang, Taiwan Steering Committee : Chair: Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, SUNY-Binghamton John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California-Berkeley Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago Wei-Tek Tsai, University of Minnesota Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana From: To: Subject: CPF -- 3D Interaction Workshop at CHI '94 Date: Tuesday, 15 February 1994 4:36PM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Workshop on the Challenges of 3D Interaction CHI '94, Boston, Mass. April 24-25, 1994 (2 days prior to main conference) ORGANIZERS: Kenneth Herndon, Brown University Andries van Dam, Brown University Michael Gleicher, Carnegie Mellon University THEME: Challenges of 3D interaction and 3D user interfaces, including design considerations, implementation and evaluation; Tools for designing and building 3D interfaces. GOALS: The primary goal of this workshop is to help define principles and techniques for the design, implementation and evaluation of future 3D user interfaces. These interfaces must address many challenges arising from such sources as users' perceptual and cognitive skills and abilities, limitations of currently available input and output devices, the nature of 3D tasks and the variety of implementation strategies and development environments. This workshop will explore these challenges so that we can more effectively design, implement, and evaluate new user interfaces, appraise the tools used to build 3D interfaces, and identify key areas of research. To discuss these challenges in adequate depth will require diverse expertise among the participants of this workshop. We therefore hope to gather researchers from many disciplines to discuss the following topics: + Challenges in the design and evaluation of 3D interfaces: What makes 3D interfaces difficult? Are they intrinsically harder to design than 2D ones? What characteristics must 3D interfaces have to exploit the perceptual and spatial reasoning skills of users? How should we evaluate the usability of 3D interfaces? Do virtual and augmented-reality applications provide any opportunities or challenges different from conventional desktop 3D applications? + Challenges in specifying and constructing 3D interfaces: How do the strategies used for constructing 2D interfaces apply in 3D? How do they fail? How can the expertise of other disciplines such as industrial design apply? What kinds of tools and environments can help the process? + The current state of the art in 3D interfaces:} What is the state of the art today? What challenges were encountered in creating these interfaces? How well do current interfaces meet the challenges above? What common denominators are emerging? + The future of 3D interface technology:} How can we create better 3D interfaces? What can we do to make the design, implementation and evaluation of 3D interfaces easier? PLANNED WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES The first day of the workshop will be devoted to discussing 3D user interfaces from a user's point of view. Participants will present research work relating to this theme for 10-15 minutes. Presentations will be followed by short question-and-answer periods, but in-depth discussion will be postponed until all have had an opportunity to speak. After all the presentations, we will discuss the salient issues concerning the challenges of 3D interfaces outlined above. We will then attempt to identify some principles and define research topics for 3D user interface design. The second day of the workshop will focus on 3D user interfaces from the implementer's point of view. The same format as the first day will be followed in order to provide an opportunity to discuss and critique one another's other's work. We will attempt to identify commonalities among the approaches to designing and implementing the various user interfaces presented, and aim to propose a set of research topics and a more standardized methodology for continuing to explore the field. Not all participants are expected to present both days. We hope to have 15 to 20 participants so that everyone has a chance to present their ideas and have an adequate discussion of them. SUBMISSION: Participants are requested to submit a short (3-5 page) position statement describing your relevant experience with 3D interfaces and what you would present at the workshop. Send 3 copies of the statement to: Prof. Andries van Dam Department of Computer Science Box 1910 115 Waterman Street, 4th Floor Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Submissions must be recieved by February 18, 1994. Please include your email address (even though we cannot accept submissions by email). IMPORTANT DATES: February 18 - submit 3 copies of a position statement to Andries van Dam March 4 - notification of acceptance March 18 - acceptance of invitations April 24-25 - CHI 94 Workshop on the Challenges of 3D Interaction For more information contact: Michael Gleicher (gleicher@cs.cmu.edu) Andries van Dam (avd@cs.brown.edu) Kenneth Herndon (kph@cs.brown.edu) ----- End Included Message ----- From: NEMLAP mail delivery To: Subject: Announcement and CFP: NeMLaP (International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing) Date: Wednesday, 23 March 1994 9:51AM ***************************************************** * International Conference on * * New Methods in Language Processing * * * * (NEMLAP) * * * * * * Centre for Computational Linguistics, * * UMIST, * * Manchester, * * United Kingdom. * * * * * * 14-16th September 1994 * * * * * * Third Announcement and * * Final Call for Papers * * * ***************************************************** Summary of Key Dates: Deadline for submission: 31st March 1994 Acceptance Notification by: 1st June 1994 Camera-ready copy due: 1st August 1994 Early registration by: 14th August 1994 Background: In recent years there has been a steadily increasing interest in alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic computational linguistics. This international conference will provide a forum for researchers in the broad area of new methods in NLP, i.e., symbolic and non-symbolic techniques of analogy-based, statistical, and connectionist processing, to present their most recent research and to discuss its implications. In order to focus the conference, however, it is intended to concentrate on research primarily involving written NLP. It is also hoped that the conference will promote discussion in general terms of what this branch of NLP hopes to achieve and how far this paradigm can take NLP in the future. Particular areas of interest to the conference include the following: * Example- and Memory-based MT * Corpus-based NLP * Bootstrapping techniques * Analogy-based NLP * Connectionist NLP * Statistical MT/NLP * Theoretical issues of sub-symbolic vs. symbolic NLP * Hybrid approaches Organising and Programme Committee: Harold Somers, Daniel Jones, Ian McLean (Co-chairs, UMIST). Ken Church (AT&T), Hitoshi Iida (ATR), Sergei Nirenburg (CMU), David Powers (IMPACT), James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University), Satoshi Sato (JAIST), Noel Sharkey (Sheffield University), Royal Skousen (Brigham Young University), Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST), Susan Warwick-Armstrong (ISSCO), Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University). Location and Dates: The conference will be held in Manchester at UMIST from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th September 1994 (inclusive). Registration: Registration before 14th August will be 30 pounds. A fee of 45 pounds will be charged for late registration. The registration fee will include lunch and refreshments on Thursday and Friday as well as pre-prints. The cost of accommodation is NOT included in the registration. Registration forms can be obtained by writing to the conference organisers (ordinary mail or email). Alternatively, a machine-readable version can be obtained by anonymous ftp to coll.ccl.umist.ac.uk (130.88.131.18) from the file /pub/nemlap/nemlap.register or from the URL http://honshu.ccl.umist.ac.uk/nemlap/nemlap.register (or http://130.88.131.46/nemlap/nemlap.register) by using a Word Wide Web browser such as NCSA's Mosaic. Accommodation: The following type of accommodation is available on the UMIST campus - the location of the conference. Student Residence: single room: 18.75 pounds. Conference Centre: single en-suite student room: 35 pounds, single en-suite room: 56.60 pounds. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONFERENCE ORGANISERS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE NON-CAMPUS BOOKINGS FOR DELEGATES. Information access: As well as being able to access machine-readable registration forms, the latest information about the conference can be accessed by anonymous ftp from the file /pub/nemlap/nemlap.info or from the URL http://honshu.ccl.umist.ac.uk/nemlap/nemlap.info Enquiries: General enquiries and requests for registration forms etc. can also be made to: NeMLaP, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK, or by email to nemlap@ccl.umist.ac.uk From: Network in Language and Speech To: Subject: [dikareva@ua.crimea.elis.eagle: EWED94] Date: Monday, 28 March 1994 10:15AM ------- Forwarded Message **************************************************** * * * East-West Conference * * on Computer Technologies in Education * * * * EW-ED'94 * * * * September 19-23, 1994 * Crimea, Ukraine * * * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * Papers Posters Tutorials Demonstrations * * * **************************************************** ____________________ INVITATION ____________________ The East-West Conference on Computer Technologies in Education (EW-ED'94) is the third in the series of conferences designed to report the best research in the field of Computer Technologies and Education and to provide opportunities for the exchange of information and ideas between Eastern and Western scientists. EW-ED'94 is the successor to EW'92 and ICCTE'93 Conferences which were held in Moscow in April 1992 and in Kiev in September 1993. The Conference is organised by: - - Simferopol State University, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine - - International Training and Research Center UNESCO//IIP at Glushkov Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine - - International Center of Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), Moscow, Russia The Conference will be held at the Conference Hall in one of the holiday-homes located on the Black Sea Coast, near Yalta. We invite you to participate in the EW-ED'94 conference and submit proposals for papers, panels, tutorials, and demonstration posters. MAJOR TOPICS The conference will address the problems associated with the five main directions: - Educational Hypermedia and Multimedia - Telecommunication and Education - Artificial Intelligence in Education - Cognitive and Environmental Principles of Verbal Communication - Social, Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Computer-Assisted Learning Areas of Interest include but are not limited to: Cognitive Models and Student Modeling Computer-Assisted Language Learning Computer-Assisted Reading and Writing Computer-Assisted Teaching and Learning Programming Computer-Aided Educational Planning and Scheduling Computers for Science Education in Secondary and High School Evaluation of Instructional Computer Systems Expert Systems Application in Education Natural Language Interfaces Teaching and Learning Business Communication Theories of Teaching and Computer Technologies SUBMISSION: Authors intending to present full papers should submit an EXTENDED abstract of up to 2000 words (of text only). Those intending to submit tutorial proposals, posters, or demonstrations should submit and abstract of up to 750 words. An abstract should include the title of the submission, type (tutorial, paper, poster, or demonstration), names and addresses of the authors e-mail of the author who is responsible for all correspondence, and a list of keywords. Please, indicate clearly one or two of five main conference directions on your submission and list all related areas of interest from the list above when possible. All abstracts should be prepared in electronic form in ASCII format and sent by e-mail to Peter Brusilovsky (edtech@icsti.msk.su) or (if e-mail is not awailable) on a PC diskette to Helen Ilovayskaya Univ. of Simferopol, Computer Center, Yaltinskaya 4, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, 333036. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to prepare a full version for publication in the conference proceedings. Instructions will be sent concerning the final camera-ready format for their papers. For those who wish to attend the conference without submitting an abstract, please contact the Local Organising Committee as soon as possible. EW-ED'94 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: Papers and tutorials deadline 1st April 1994 Papers and tutorials acceptance 10th May 1994 Posters and demonstrations deadline 1st May 1994 Posters and demonstrations acceptance 20th May 1994 Camera ready papers 20th June 1994 Registration Early 1st June 1994 Late 20th Aug. 1994 Conference 19th-23rd September 1994 Venue EW-ED'94 will be held in the Crimea, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world. There is a mild climate, azure sea, tasty and very famous wines, many interesting historical and modern places, and other pleasant things. Welcome to the Crimea, to the best region for the rest, the health and the ideas' exchange! To Yalta through Moscow, Kiev and Simferopol. You are welcome to visit Moscow, Kiev or Simferopol before/after the Conference. ICSTI, Moscow and ITRC, Kiev being co-organisers of the Conference provide Russian and Ukrainian visa support, hotel accomodation, arival/departure transportation and special cultural and social programme. In the week right before the EW-ED'94 ICSTI is organizing another related international conference on hypermedia, telemedia and virtual reality for business and education. Queries about other international conferences organized or co-organized by ICSTI in 1994 can be sent to edtech@icsti.msk.su For further information, contact: Simferopol: Dr Svetlana Dikareva Computer Center, Simferopol State University Yaltinskaya, 4, Simferopol Crimea, Ukraine 333036 E-mail: cted94%ccssu.crimea.ua@ussr.eu.net Phone: (0652) 23-23-82 Fax: (0652) 23-23-10 Moscow: Dr Peter Brusilovsky E-mail: plb@plb.icsti.su Kiev: Dr Valery Petrushin E-mail: petr%itslab.kiev.ua@ussr.eu.net _______________________ EW-ED'94 COMMITTEES ____________________________ Programme Committee Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valentin Bogdanov, University of St.-Petersburg, Russia Jim Greer, University of Saskatchevan, Canada Valery Petrushin, Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Conference Organizing Board ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Brusilovsky, ICSTI, Russia (chair) Svetlana Dikareva, Univ. of Simferopol, Ukraine Alexey Dovgyallo, ITRC, Ukraine Greg Kearsley, George Washington University, USA Joel Greenberg, Open University, UK Piet Kommers, Univ. of Twente, the Netherlands Jury Mohyla, Flinders University, Australia Luigi Sarti, ITD, Italy Organizing Commitee Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vladimir Gritsenko, ITRC, Kiev, Ukraine General Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ V.Sidyakin, University of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine Programme Committee: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KSR Anjaneyulu (NCST, Bombay, India) Natalia Apatova (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Ehud Bar-On (Technion, Israel) Peter Brusilovsky (ICSTI, Russia) Tak-Wai Chan (National Central University, Taiwan) Svetlana Dikareva (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Pierre Dillenbourg (University of Geneve, Switzerland) Alexey Dovgyallo (ITRC, Kiev, Ukraine) Joel Greenberg (Open University, UK) Heinz-Ulrich Hoppe (GMD, Germany) Judith Kay (Sydney University, Australia) Greg Kearsley (George Washington University, USA) Piet Kommers (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Susan Lajoie (McGill University, Canada) Philip Miller (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Jury Mohyla (Flinders University, Australia) Claus Moebus (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Setsuko Otsuki (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Helen Pain (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Rein Prank (Tartu University, Estonia) Luigi Sarti (ITD, Italy) Zahava Scherz (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) John Self (Lancaster University, UK) Bronius Tamulynas (Kaunas University, Lithuania) Julita Vassileva (Federal Armed Forces University, Germany) Local Arrangements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vitaliy Govorovsky, Univ. of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine Helen Ilovayskaya, Univ. of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine Helen Danilova, Univ. of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine Natalia Alexeeva, Univ. of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine Katherine Sinitsa, Institute for Cybernetics, Kiev, Ukraine Irene Rozet, ICSTI, Mosow, Russia ------- End of Forwarded Message From: Philippe Blache To: Multiple recipients of list LN Subject: Appel: SEPLN'94 Date: Friday, 25 March 1994 8:56AM From: jibagbee@sisb00.si.ehu.es SEPLN'94 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SPANISH ASSOCIATION FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEPLN'94 CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Dates: July 20 - 22, 1994 Conference Place: Cordoba (Spain) Communications and demonstrations. Tutorials, invited talks and panels will also be hold (detailed information will be given soon) Topics of interest ================== Among others: large text corpora phonetics phonology morphology syntax semantics machine translation electronic dictionaries machine aids for translation Important dates =============== Preliminary paper submission due: 15 April, 1994 Acceptance notification: 5 May, 1994 Final version due: 20 May, 1994 Papers must be sent to: Dr. Leocadio Martin Mingorance Dpto. de Filologia Inglesa Facultad de Filosofia y Letras Plaza del Cardenal Salazar 3 14071 Cordoba SPAIN Formats for submission ===================== COMMUNICATIONS Authors should submit three copies of preliminary versions of their papers (maximum 10 pages), on A4 paper with the title, author(s), address(es) and affiliation across the page top, a short (15 lines) summary (in english and spanish) and a specification of the topic area. DEMONSTRATIONS Authors interested in presenting a demonstration should submit a summary (maximum 20 lines) and software and hardware requirements. From: BU Conference on Language Development To: Subject: Call For Papers: BU Conference on Language Development Date: Friday, 1 April 1994 9:30AM CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** The 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development November 4, 5 and 6, 1994 Keynote Speaker: Andrew Radford, University of Essex Plenary Speaker: Jill de Villiers, Smith College ****************************************************************************** FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism Literacy Cognition & Language Narrative Creoles & Pidgins Neurolinguistics Discourse Pragmatics Exceptional Language Pre-linguistic Development Input & Interaction Signed Languages Language Disorders Sociolinguistics Lexicon Speech Perception & Production Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology) Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research. We regret that we are unable to accept more than TWO submissions per author. (This includes abstracts with multiple authors.) Presentations will be 20 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for questions. PLEASE SUBMIT: 1) six copies of an anonymous, clearly titled 450-word summary for review 2) one 3 x 5 card stating: i) Title, ii) Topic area, iii) audiovisual requests, and iv) for EACH author: a) Full name & affiliation d) Summer address & phone b) Current address & phone e) Summer e-mail address c) E-mail address f) Fax number Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment of receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by late July. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August 1994. Note: All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. If your paper is accepted, you will be asked to submit a 150-word abstract for inclusion in the conference program book. Requests for these program abstracts will be sent with acceptance letters. Program abstracts must be submitted on diskette or by e-mail. DEADLINE: All submissions must be RECEIVED by May 15, 1994. Send abstract submissions to: Boston University Telephone: (617) 353-3085 Conference on Language Development Fax: (617) 353-6218 138 Mountfort Street E-mail: langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu OR Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. info@louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated reply) (WE ARE NOT ABLE TO ACCEPT ABSTRACTS SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Hari Narayanan To: Subject: CFP: Reasoning with shapes in design, AID'94 Workshop Date: Thursday, 14 April 1994 5:19PM ============================================================== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION Reasoning with Shapes in Design =============================== Sunday, August 14th, 1994 14:00--18:00 hs Lausanne, Switzerland Held in conjunction with AID'94 (Artificial Intelligence in Design '94) Description of Workshop ----------------------- 'Shape' -- models of geometry -- plays an important role in the development of design ideas. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers in artificial intelligence in design to discuss reasoning with shape in design and the representations and computations that support such reasoning. The workshop organisers especially invite attention to the following issues: * designers' understanding of shape information * the role of shape information in different models of design (examples of design models include search, constraints, prototypes, optimisation, and genetic processes) * models of shapes * representations of shapes (emerging representational schemes such as connectionist and diagrammatic representations as well as traditional symbolic representations, including mathematical ones, are of interest) * reasoning with shapes * transformations between alternative representations of shapes * computing with shapes * design applications involving shape Format of the Workshop ---------------------- The workshop will have a round-table format. Up to four 20-minute presentations based on extended abstracts submitted by participants will be given. Its duration will be 4 hours with a half hour break at the midpoint. The presentations are intended to act as catalysts for discussion which can and should go beyond the presentations themselves. Attendance ---------- Attendance at the workshop will be restricted to persons whose extended abstracts are accepted by the advisory committee. To help ensure a focussed and collegial atmosphere, the number of attendees will be limited to 20-30 people. Participants must register for both the workshop and the general conference. The workshop fee will be SFr 75. This is to cover administration, workshop notes and coffee break. Any questions regarding the technical content of the workshop should be directed to either of the coordinators. Submissions Requirements ------------------------ Submit an extended abstract of 2-5 pages. Authors whose abstracts are selected by the advisory committee for presentation will be requested to prepare 20-minute presentations of their work. Send submissions in plain ascii or Latex source format to jose@arch.su.edu.au, or mail 4 copies of hardcopy submissions to Jose Damski at the address below. Electronic submissions are preferred. Please do not send floppy disks or tapes. Important Dates --------------- 2 June 1994 Deadline for submissions. 4 July 1994 Notification of acceptance. 15 July 1994 Deadline for camera-ready copies. Publication ------------ The preprints of the workshop will be published, and distributed to the participants at the workshop. Authors of some abstracts may subsequently be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of an archival journal related to the topic of reasoning with shapes. Workshop Committee ------------------ Christopher Carlson Research Institute for Symbolic Computation Johannes Kepler University ccarlson@risc.uni-linz.ac.at Jose Damski (coordinator) Key Centre of Design Computing Dept of Architectural and Design Science University of Sydney - Sydney - 2006 - NSW - Australia fax: +61-2-692 3031 jose@arch.su.edu.au Ernest Edmonds LUTCHI Research Centre Department of Computer Studies Loughborough University of Technology e.a.edmonds@lut.ac.uk Hari Narayanan Knowledge Systems Laboratory Stanford University narayan@hpp.stanford.edu George Stiny University of California - Los Angeles STINY@pace1.gsaup.ucla.edu Robert Woodbury (coordinator) Department of Architecture University of Adelaide rw@arch.adelaide.edu.au ============================================================== From: "Harry C. Bunt, ITK" To: Subject: call for papers Date: Wednesday, 20 April 1994 2:19PM CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS December 19-21, 1994, Tilburg, The Netherlands The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence will host a Workshop on Computational Semantics that will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 19 - 21 December 1994. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of computational semantics of natural language. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop will focus on the computational aspects of formal semantic theories and on the theoretical issues involved in the development of natural language processing systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * ambiguous formal representations * the use of context in interpretation * dynamic logic and natural language * semantic automata * the semantics-pragmatics interface * incremental interpretation * interpretation and inference * algorithmic aspects of interpretation * constructive type theory and natural language interpretation All submitted papers will be refereed by an international programme committee. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 10 pages by Monday August 15, 1994. We strongly encourage papers to be electronically submitted. In this case they should be in LaTeX format (a LaTeX style sheet (conf.sty) can be obtained by anonymous ftp from itkwww.kub.nl, in the directory /pub/iwcs) and should be emailed to: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl If electronic submission in this form is impossible, four hard copies of the paper, preferably prepared with LaTeX, should be sent to: Reinhard Muskens Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ITK) Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Each title page should contain the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses (if available) of all authors. Final papers are due on November 1, 1994. A copy of the proceedings will be available for each participant at the workshop. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Gerrit Rentier PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mario Borillo Harry Bunt Robin Cooper (to be confirmed) Jan van Eijck Erhard Hinrichs (to be confirmed) Jerry Hobbs (to be confirmed) Laszlo Kalman Reinhard Muskens John Nerbonne Fernando Pereira (to be confirmed) Manfred Pinkal Stanley Peters Jerry Seligman IMPORTANT DATES Submission of preliminary papers 15 August, 1994 Notification of acceptance 1 October, 1994 Final papers due 1 November, 1994 REGISTRATION FORM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 19-21 DECEMBER 1994 TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS Name : ................................. Affiliation : ................................. Address : ................................. City, State, Zip Code : ................................. Country : ................................. Telephone : ................................. Fax : ................................. Email address : ................................. REGISTRATION FEE Before October 15, 1994 After October 15, 1994 Dfl. 275,00 Dfl. 325,00 METHOD OF PAYMENT: 0 Bank Transfer Transfer the registration fee in Dutch guilders to: * ABN/AMRO Bank Account number 45 50 46 042; Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics, and your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid upon arrival. 0 Postal Money Order Make the fee (in Dutch guilders) payable to: * Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics and your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid upon arrival. 0 VISA card If you pay by credit card please FAX us the following information: Card number : ......................... Expiration date : ......................... Name as it appears on card: ......................... I authorize Tilburg University to charge my account for the total fee of .......... (signature) HOTEL RESERVATION Do you want us to make hotel reservations for you? (The price of a single room will be approximately Dfl. 150,00 per person per night, breakfast included.) YES / NO If your answer to the previous question was YES, please fill in the date of your arrival and departure. Date of arrival : ................................................ Date of departure: ................................................ Send the registration form to: Peggy Bertens Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE TILBURG The Netherlands Tel.: +31 13 663113 Fax : +31 13 662537 Email:Computational.Semantics@kub.nl -- ***--*--*---------------------- Harry C. Bunt ----------------------------+ ** * * KUB-University Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: (+31) 13 663060| * * * bunt@kub.nl | +-*--*----------------------------- ITK ---------------------------------+ From: Allan Ramsay To: Date: Wednesday, 15 June 1994 3:02PM EACL-95 CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--29, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. Requirements: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed (1991) ..." Care should be taken to mask identity in the bibliography by referring to the author's own papers as anonymous. This is especially applicable of unpublished in-house technical reports which are certain to reveal the identity of the author(s). To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic areas. Submission Media: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Chair: Erhard W. Hinrichs Universitaet Tuebingen Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de phone: +49--7071-294279 Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format: title: < title > author: < name of first author > address: < address of first author > .... author: < name of last author > address: < address of last author > abstract: < abstract > content areas: first area >, ... ,< last area > word count: Schedule: Authors must submit their papers by October 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 23rd 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 31 January 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. Other Activities: The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by John Nerbonne, Alfa-informatica, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Postbus 716, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL-9700 AS Groningen; email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be available from the ACL LISTSERV. Conference Information: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by: Allan Ramsay, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (phone: (353)-1-7062479, FAX: (353)-1-2687262, email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie) ACL Information: For other information on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (global) or Mike Rosner (for Europe): Judith Klavans, Columbia University, Computer Science, Room 724, New York, NY 10027, USA; phone: +1-212-939-7120, fax: +1-914-478-1802; email:acl@cs.columbia.edu; Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email: mike@idsia.uu.ch. General information about the ACL AND electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV. Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html Participants from Eastern Europe: There may be subsidies to enable participants from Eastern Europe to attend the conference. Contact Allan Ramsay at the address above for more information. ACL Listserv: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user type-in is in bold): $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: Allan Ramsay To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: EACL-95 Date: Friday, 24 June 1994 3:52PM REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED EACL-95 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics March 27--31, 1995 University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Topics of Interest: Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. Requirements: Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Format for Submission: Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers, not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers outside the specified length and formatting requirements are subject to rejection without review. Papers should be headed by a title page containing the paper title, a short (5 line) summary and a specification of the subject area. Since reviewing will be "blind", the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed (1991) ..." Care should be taken to mask identity in the bibliography by referring to the author's own papers as anonymous. This is especially applicable of unpublished in-house technical reports which are certain to reveal the identity of the author(s). To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied, containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, and a specification of the topic areas. Submission Media: Papers should be submitted electronically or in hard copy to the Program Co-chairs: Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Universitaet Tuebingen Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note however that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Hard copy submissions should consist of four (4) copies of the paper and one (1) copy of the identification page. For both kinds of submissions, if at all possible, a plain text version of the identification page should be sent separately by electronic mail, using the following format: title: < title > author: < name of first author > address: < address of first author > .... author: < name of last author > address: < address of last author > abstract: < abstract > content areas: first area >, ... ,< last area > word count: Schedule: Authors must submit their papers by October 20, 1994. Papers received after this date will not be considered. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 23rd 1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 31 January 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The paper sessions, including student papers, will take place on March 29-31. Student Sessions: There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee of (E)ACL graduate student members. (E)ACL student members are invited to submit short papers in any of the topics listed above. The papers will be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in a special section of the conference proceedings. There will be a separate call for papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV or from the chair of the program committee for the student sessions: Thorsten Brants, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Computerlinguistik, D-66041 Saarbr"ucken, Germany, email: thorsten@coli.uni-sb.de. Other Activities: The meeting will include a program of tutorials coordinated by John Nerbonne, Alfa-informatica, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Postbus 716, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL-9700 AS Groningen; email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl. Proposals for tutorials may be sent to him. There is no special form. Tutorials are scheduled for March 27-28; registration for tutorials will take place on March 26. Some of the ACL Special Interest Groups may arrange workshops or other activities. Further information may be available from the ACL LISTSERV. Conference Information: The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by: Allan Ramsay, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (phone: (353)-1-7062479, FAX: (353)-1-2687262, email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie) ACL Information: For other information on the ACL more generally, contact Judith Klavans (global) or Mike Rosner (for Europe): Judith Klavans, Columbia University, Computer Science, Room 724, New York, NY 10027, USA; phone: +1-212-939-7120, fax: +1-914-478-1802; email:acl@cs.columbia.edu; Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email: mike@idsia.ch. General information about the ACL AND electronic membership and order forms are available from the ACL LISTSERV. Information on the ACL is also available through www URL http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html ACL Listserv: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserver@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the following body should be sent: get acl-l membership-form.txt Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP (user type-in is in bold): $ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed ftp > cd acl-l/Information ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z ftp > quit $ uncompress 94membership.form.Z From: ICCS-95 To: Subject: ICCS-95 Date: Wednesday, 29 June 1994 12:13PM ***************************************************** Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science Donostia - San Sebastin, May 3-6, 1995 ***************************************************** The Colloquium is organized by the Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI) of the University of the Basque Country. It will take place in DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. MAIN TOPICS: 1. Social Action and Cooperation. 2. Cognitive Approaches in Discourse Processing: Grammatical and Semantical Aspects. 3. Models of Information in Communication Systems. 4. Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits. Provisional list of invited speakers: J. Barwise (Bloomington), H. Clark (Stanford), J.E. Fenstad (Oslo), J.Y. Halpern (IBM, San Jose), R.M. Kempson (London), E. Klein (Edinburgh), G. Lakoff (Berkeley), J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastian), F.J. Pelletier (Edmonton), M.E. Pollack (Pittsburgh), Z.W. Pylyshyn (Rutgers), J.S. Rosenschein (Jerusalem), V. Sanchez de Zavala (San Sebastin), C.L. Sidner (Cambridge, MA), P. Smolensky (Boulder), R. Tuomela (Helsinki), H. Uszkoreit (Saarbrcken), E. Werner (Hamburg). Contributed papers (25-30 minutes) are invited from all areas of Cognitive Science. Authors wishing to submit a paper should send four (4) hardcopies of an extended abstract of 5-6 pages written in English to Dr. J. Ezquerro (address below) by January 17th, 1995. A cover page should be added to the abstract including title, all authors names and affiliations, corresponding author`s address, Fax number and email address. To facilitate blind review by two or more referees all indications of authorship should appear on this detachable cover page only.Papers will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of originality, clarity, correctness and significance of results. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present them at the Colloquium. Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 11, 1995. Best paper award: A prize will be awarded to the author(s) of the best contributed paper as judged by a committee drawn from the Program Committee. Submissions of complete papers (25 pages maximum, 4 hardcopies) of previously accepted abstracts, with indication of salient keywords, should be sent to the Organizing Committee by April 6, 1995. Registration Fee: $ 200.00 or 28,000 ptas. ($ 100.00 or 14.000 ptas. for students and accompanying persons). Further information may be obtained by writing to: K. Korta Dr. J. Ezquerro ICCS-95 ICCS-95 Organizing Committee Program Committee ILCLI ILCLI Villa Asuncin. Apdo. 220 Villa Asuncin. Apdo. 220 20080 San Sebastin, Spain. 20080 San Sebastin, Spain. FAX: 34 43 293677 FAX: 34 43 293677 E. mail: ICCS-95@sf.ehu.es E. mail: ICCS-95@sf.ehu.es PROGRAM COMMITTEE: J. Barwise (Bloomington), J. Ezquerro (Secretary), J.E. Fenstad (Oslo), R.M. Kempson (London), E. Klein (Edinburgh), K. Korta (San Sebastin), A. Lpez (Valencia), F. Migura (Vitoria), F.J. Pelletier (Edmonton), V. Sanchez de Zavala (San Sebastian), C.L. Sidner (Cambridge, MA), R. Tuomela (Helsinki), J. Tynan (Vitoria), H. Uszkoreit (?) (Saarbrcken), E. Werner (?) (Hamburg). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: X. Arrazola (Assistant secretary), M. Aurnague (Toulouse), B. Bara (Torino), S. Garrod (Glasgow), L. Gonzlez (Madrid), K. Korta (Secretary), J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastin), C. Martnez (Santiago), S. Rementeria (Zamudio). Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 17:02:00 +0200 From: Reinhard Muskens To: linguist@EDU.TAMU.TAMVM1, elsnet@edinburgh.cogsci, M.M.vdWiel@nl.kub, R.A.Muskens@nl.kub, kathol@edu.ohio-state.ling, aisb@sussex.cogs, comp-ai@edu.berkeley.ucbvax, comp.at.nat-lang@edu.berkeley.ucbvax, ln@bitnet.frmop11, nl-kr@edu.rpi.cs Subject: IWCS - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS December 19-21, 1994, Tilburg, The Netherlands The Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence will host a Workshop on Computational Semantics that will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 19 - 21 December 1994. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in all aspects of computational semantics of natural language. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop will focus on the computational aspects of formal semantic theories and on the theoretical issues involved in the development of natural language processing systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * ambiguous formal representations * the use of context in interpretation * dynamic logic and natural language * semantic automata * the semantics-pragmatics interface * incremental interpretation * interpretation and inference * algorithmic aspects of interpretation * constructive type theory and natural language interpretation All submitted papers will be refereed by an international programme committee. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 10 pages by Monday August 15, 1994. We strongly encourage papers to be electronically submitted. In this case they should be in LaTeX format (a LaTeX style sheet (iwcs.sty) can be obtained by anonymous ftp from itkwww.kub.nl, in the directory /pub/iwcs) and should be emailed to: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl If electronic submission in this form is impossible, four hard copies of the paper, preferably prepared with LaTeX, should be sent to: Reinhard Muskens Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ITK) Tilburg University PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Each title page should contain the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses (if available) of all authors. Final papers are due on November 1, 1994. A copy of the proceedings will be available for each participant at the workshop. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Gerrit Rentier PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mario Borillo Harry Bunt Robin Cooper Jan van Eijck Laszlo Kalman Reinhard Muskens John Nerbonne Fernando Pereira Manfred Pinkal Stanley Peters Jerry Seligman IMPORTANT DATES Submission of preliminary papers 15 August, 1994 Notification of acceptance 1 October, 1994 Final papers due 1 November, 1994 REGISTRATION FORM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 19-21 DECEMBER 1994 TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS Name : ................................. Affiliation : ................................. Address : ................................. City, State, Zip Code : ................................. Country : ................................. Telephone : ................................. Fax : ................................. Email address : ................................. REGISTRATION FEE Before October 15, 1994 After October 15, 1994 Dfl. 275,00 Dfl. 325,00 METHOD OF PAYMENT: 0 Bank Transfer Transfer the registration fee in Dutch guilders to: * ABN/AMRO Bank Account number 45 50 46 042; Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics, and your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid upon arrival. 0 Postal Money Order Make the fee (in Dutch guilders) payable to: * Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037 GC TILBURG Please mention code 951.55, Computational Semantics and your name. Please calculate transfer charges, as we must receive the full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have to be paid upon arrival. 0 VISA card If you pay by credit card please FAX us the following information: Card number : ......................... Expiration date : ......................... Name as it appears on card: ......................... I authorize Tilburg University to charge my account for the total fee of .......... (signature) HOTEL RESERVATION Do you want us to make hotel reservations for you? (The price of a single room will be approximately Dfl. 150,00 per person per night, breakfast included.) YES / NO If your answer to the previous question was YES, please fill in the date of your arrival and departure. Date of arrival : ................................................ Date of departure: ................................................ Send the registration form to: Peggy Bertens Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE TILBURG The Netherlands Tel.: +31 13 663113 Fax : +31 13 662537 Email:Computational.Semantics@kub.nl From: "Paul A. DeMaine" To: ; ; ; ; ; quantz <@relay.eu.net:quantz@db0tui11.bitnet>; ; r01502 ; Subject: KARP-95 Conference Date: Friday, 22 July 1994 12:10AM C a l l F o r P a p e r s ------------------------------ K A R P - 95 Second International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and Processing (KARP-95) September 27 - September 30, 1995 Auburn University Conference Center Auburn, Alabama ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: Auburn University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Technology (Rzeszow, Poland), Polish National Academy of Sciences (Committee for Scientific Research), ORNL (Oak Ridge)-pending, U.S. Bureau of Mines (Tuscaloosa)-pending, in pending cooperation with: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Chemical Society (ACS), Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineering (IEEE), and International Society for Computer Applications (ISCA). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Symposium ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ KARP is an international forum for presentation and discussion of inter- disciplinary research on knowledge acquisition, representation, and processing, as well as recent advances on discipline independent tools for realizing large-scale applications of knowledge based systems. The purpose of the symposium is to identify challenging problems common to many disciplines that must be solved to realize future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the symposium is the provision for one-on- one interactions provided by an intimate setting, poster sessions and demonstrations of operational systems. Focus ~~~~~ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas. Papers should be focused on particular aspects of the symposium theme (KARP) and demonstrate how the particular topic(s) of choice relates to the symposium. o Application Independent Tools: - Neuromorphic & Evolutionary Systems - Fuzzy Knowledge Systems & Language Interfaces - High-Speed Management Systems - Cognitive Maps - Rule Based Systems - Autonomous Agents - Autodeductive & Autolearning Systems - Automatic Acquisition & Processing of Data - Mathematical Modeling - Parallel & Distributed Computing - Object-Oriented Databases - Multimedia - OpenDoc and Object Linking Environment (OLE) o Software Engineering: - CASE Tools - Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - Object-Oriented Programming - Ada 9X versus C++ - Program Testing and System Integrity - Reverse Engineering - Interdisciplinary Education - Data Acquisition and Validation - Software Libraries - Intelligent Sensors - User Interfaces o Artificial Intelligence: - Knowledge Acquisition approaches & Tools - Knowledge Representation - Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Representations - Knowledge Bases & Models - Uncertainty issues in Knowledge Representation & Processing - Search & planning approaches - Inference Methodologies - Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Applications o Applications Areas: - Engineering Science Applications - Physical Science Applications - Computer Chemistry - Medicine, Health Care, Life, and Biological Sciences - Industrial Applications - Business Applications Paper and Poster Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Symposium Proceedings will contain extended abstracts (two to three single space pages) of accepted papers and posters. Presentations will be selected on the basis of the extended abstracts. Camera ready complete papers, not to exceed 5,000 words, will be due on the first day of the symposium and then judged by the program committee for inclusion in a special issue of an appropriate international journal. Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts to the Program Chair at the following address: Chuck Karr U.S. Bureau of Mines The University of Alabama Campus P.O. Box L Tuscaloosa AL 35486-9777 Tel: +1 (205) 759-9432 FAX: +1 (205) 759-9440 E-Mail: karr@ai.usbm.gov Extended abstracts for papers and posters should reach the program chair by December 1, 1994. Authors must send either six (6) copies of each extended abstract, or an email copy, accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax numbers. All submissions will be reviewed and judged with respect to quality and relevance. Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paper & Poster Extended Abstract Submission: ... December 1, 1994. Notification of acceptance: .................... February 1, 1995. Camera Ready Copies of Extended Abstract Due: .. March 15, 1995. Camera Ready Copies of full Paper Due: ......... September 27,1995. More Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More information on KARP-95 can be obtained automatically by sending email to karp-info@eng.auburn.edu, or by contacting one of the General Co-Chairs and Regional Coordinators. Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Z.S. Hippe (Poland, Technical University) P.A.D. de Maine (U.S.A., Auburn University) - Chair John Wu (U.S.A., Auburn University) Brian J. Garner (Australia, Deakin University) Shin-Ichi Sasaki (Japan, Toyohashi University) David H. Jonassen (U.S.A., Pennsylvania State University) Cherri Pancake (U.S.A., Oregon State University) General Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul A.D. de Maine (Auburn University) E-Mail: pdemaine@eng.auburn.edu Z.S. Hippe (University of Technology, Rzeszow) E-Mail: zdhippe@plcry11.bitnet Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chuck Karr (U.S. Bureau of Mines, Tuscaloosa) E-Mail: karr@ai.usbm.gov Poster & Demonstration Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Cross (Auburn University) E-Mail: cross@eng.auburn.edu Administrative Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ms. Elaine Ridgway (Auburn University) E-Mail:eridgway@eng.auburn.edu Awards Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Z.S. Hippe (University of Technology, Rzeszow, POLAND) E-Mail: zdhippe@plcry11.bitnet Publicity Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Dress (Oak Ridge National Laboratories, U.S.A.) Peter Lykos (Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S.A.) Local Arrangements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Margaret M. de Maine (Auburn University, U.S.A.) Regional Coordinators ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shin-Ichi Sasaki (Toyohashi University, Japan) Kurt Varmuza (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) Murray P. Shanahan (Imperial College, England) Bryan J. Garner (Deakin University, Australia) Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Dave Brown (U.S.A., Computer Science) Dr. Kai Chang (U.S.A., Computer Science) - Vice Chair Prof. J.T.(Thomas) Clerc (Switzerland, Comp. Pharmacy) Dr. James Cross (U.S.A., Software Engineering) - Vice Chair Prof. Carl Davis (U.S.A., Computer Science) Dr. William B. Dress (U.S.A., Theoretical Physics) - Vice Chair Prof. Bryan J. Garner (Australia, Computer Science) - Vice Chair Prof. Herb Gelernter (U.S.A., Computer Science) Prof. Z.S. Hippe (Poland, Computer Chemistry) - Vice Chair Dr. Heinz-Dieter Huemmer (Germany, Electrical Eng.) Prof. David H. Jonassen (U.S.A., Education) - Vice Chair Dr. Chuck Karr (U.S.A., Mechanical Engineering) - Chair Prof. Peter Lykos (U.S.A., Computer Chemistry) Prof. Marc Nanard (France, Integrated Systems) - Vice Chair Prof. Kevin C. O'Kane (U.S.A., Computer Medicine) - Vice Chair Prof. Cherri Pancake (U.S.A., Computer Science) - Vice Chair Mr. Bertus Pretorius (Rep. South Africa, Comp. Tech.) Prof. E. Pungor (Hungary, Chemometrics) Prof. John R. Rose (U.S.A., Computer Science) Prof. Shin-Ichi Sasaki (Japan, Computer Chemistry) Dr. Murray P. Shanahan (U.K., Computer Science) - Vice Chair Dr. H.C. Smit (Netherlands, Analytical Chemistry) Dr. Kurt Varmuza (Austria, Chemistry) - Vice Chair Prof. J. Weglarz (Poland, Computer Science) Prof. John Wu (U.S.A., Electrical Engineering) - Vice Chair Dr. Yelena Yesha (U.S.A., Computer Science) Dr. Gian Piero Zarri (France, Computer Science) Prof. Engelbert Ziegler (Germany, Computer Technology) Prof. Jure Zupan (Slovenia, Computer Chemistry) Keynote Speakers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ivar Ugi (Technische Universitaet, Munchen, Germany) will speak about A mathematical model and computer software for predicting unprecedented chemistry. Mailen Kootsey (National Biomedical Simulation Resource) will speak about Mathematical modeling and computer software for studying complex biomedical processes. Paul A.D. de Maine Professor of Comp. Sci. & Eng. 108 Dunstan Hall Auburn University AL 36849, U.S.A. pdemaine@eng.auburn.edu Tel: +1 (205) 844-6306 Fax: +1 (205) 844-6329 From: David Lewis To: Subject: CFP : SDAIR95 Date: Monday, 8 August 1994 4:58PM Call for Papers Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR '95) April 24-26, 1995 Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Conference Chair: Donna Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to present the results of current research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas in the general field of Document Understanding. Papers on all aspects of document analysis and information retrieval are solicited, with particular emphasis on: Document Analysis Multilingual OCR Language identification Multilingual character sets Domain specific dictionaries / lexicons Logical structure recognition Recognition of tables and equations Recognition of maps and mechanical drawings Information Retrieval Full-text retrieval Retrieval from structured documents Text categorization Evaluation of IR systems Image and multimedia retrieval Language-specific influences on retrieval Text representation The two themes to be highlighted at this year's symposium are the intersection of document analysis and information retrieval, and the ramifications of multilingual data in both fields. SUBMISSIONS Please send seven copies of complete papers, with authors name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address to the appropriate Program Chair: Larry Spitz, Chair (Doc. Analysis) or David D. Lewis, Chair (Info. Ret.) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 The papers should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000 words. Papers which have already appeared in journals or published conference proceedings should not be submitted. Both camera ready and machine readable copies of the accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Papers Due October 1, 1994 Notification To Authors December 1, 1994 Camera Ready Copy February 1, 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Document Analysis ----------------- Larry SPITZ, Fuji Xerox (chair) Henry BAIRD, AT&T Bell Labs Andreas DENGEL, DFKI Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi Jonathon HULL, SUNY Buffalo Junichi KANAI, UNLV Juergen SCHUERMANN, Daimler Benz Suzanne TAYLOR, Unisys Karl TOMBRE, INRIA Information Retrieval --------------------- David LEWIS, AT&T Bell Labs (chair) Christopher BUCKLEY, Cornell Kenneth CHURCH, AT&T Bell Labs Robert KORFHAGE, U. Pittsburgh Fausto RABITTI, CNR-IEI Kazem TAGHVA, UNLV TOKUNAGA Takenobu, Tokyo Inst. Tech. Howard TURTLE, West Publishing Peter WILLETT, U. Sheffield Ross WILKINSON, RMIT From: Philippe Blache To: Multiple recipients of list LN Subject: Appel: SIGIR'95 Date: Wednesday, 31 August 1994 6:05PM From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide) CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR'95 18th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval The Sheraton, Seattle, WA, USA July 9 - July 13, 1995 Sponsored by ACM and in co-operation with: AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) IPSJ (Japan) IMPORTANT DATES E-mail to to be added to mailing list: Today Submission of papers to relevant Program Co-chair: JANUARY 6, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the relevant Chair: FEBRUARY 10, 1995 Author notification: MARCH 10, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms: APRIL 3, 1995. For additional information contact the Conference Chair or ABOUT THE CONFERENCE SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, and applications. The ACM SIGIR conference occurs annually, alternating between locations in North America and elsewhere (e.g., Europe). This conference will interest a broad spectrum of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the First Society in Computing, is a major force in advancing the skills and knowledge of IT professionals and students throughout the world. ACM serves as an umbrella organization offering its 90,000 members a variety of forums in order to fulfill its members' needs -- the delivery of cutting-edge technical information, the transfer of ideas from theory to practice, and opportunities for information exchange. Providing high quality products and services -- world-class journals and magazines; dynamic special interest groups; numerous "main event" conferences; tutorials; workshops; local special interest groups and chapters; and electronic forums -- ACM is the resource for life-long learning in the rapidly changing IT field. TOPICS Though we look for all good, innovative submissions in the broad field of information storage and retrieval (IR), the following list of topics may make clearer some of the areas that are of particular interest: 1. IR FUNDAMENTALS (focusing on one or combinations of the following): A. Types: text, hypertext, multimedia (including audio, images, video) B. Representations: source, conversions, storage, presentation C. Information structures, interaction, time-based issues D. Processing: indexing, analysis, compression, retrieval, rendering, publishing E. Systems: design, implementation, measures, evaluation, architectures, scalability, integration with DBMS F. Theories and models, evaluation G. Reasoning: logic, case-based F. Standards: SGML (and HTML), HyTime, MPEG, Z39.50, HTTP 2. USERS AND IR INTERACTION: A. Modeling, empirical studies B. Interface design, human-computer interaction, visualization C. IR tasks, including query formulation and expansion D. IR and information seeking behavior 3. IR AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES: A. Natural language processing, linguistic resources, multilingual systems B. Knowledge bases and their use C. Learning: genetic algorithms, neural nets D. Pattern matching, uncertainty, data fusion 4. DEDICATED IR APPLICATIONS: A. Digital libraries: architectures, prototypes, studies, issues B. Networked information (e.g., WAIS, WWW): infrastructure, tools, systems, protocols, collections, interfaces, case studies, intellectual property rights 5. EDUCATION IN IR: A. Curriculum, training B. Tools, systems PAPERS SIGIR'95 seeks papers about significant contributions to the broad field of information storage and retrieval, which covers: handling of all types of information; its applications; information systems; and underlying theories, models, and implementations. We encourage discussions of experimental studies, tests of usability, explorations of information-retrieval behavior, reports on large scale system performance, and demonstrations of advanced approaches. We prefer: that contributions that discuss theory have sufficient motivation and proof of utility; that designs have been proven by a prototype; that reports on small-scale experiments include convincing arguments or simulations to show their likelihood to generalize; and that writing is carefully copy edited and well organized. All papers shall provide a concise message to the audience about how the work relates to previous research or experience, what aspects of the work are new, and the "lessons learned." Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, quality of research, and quality of writing. Papers shall be submitted in English to the relevant Program Co-chair. Specific submission requirements: (a) Papers shall be submitted in four copies. (b) Papers must include an abstract of not more than 100 words. (c) Papers must be 20 pages or less (double spaced), including abstract, figures, and references. Final versions of accepted papers may require further trimming to meet publication standards. (d) Authors shall provide a separate cover page (not included in the length limitations) with the title, the author name(s), and the author affiliation(s), plus complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail) for the author to whom correspondence should be send. (e) Show the word count for the paper on the cover page. (f) Indicate if the paper is to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. This Award requires that the first and primary author be a full-time student at time of submission. TUTORIALS SIGIR'95 will begin with a full day of tutorials, each of which is intended to cover a single topic in detail. Proposals are solicited from people willing to give tutorials. Tutorials may be either a half day (4 hours) or full day in length and can cover topics at an introductory or advanced level. Submissions shall be made to the Tutorials and Panels Chair and shall consist of: (a) An extended abstract outlining the exact content of the tutorial. This should be approximately 3 to 5 pages in length. Sample slides would also be helpful. (b) Tutorial Length: half-day or full day. (c) A description of the intended audience outlining what attendees are expected to know, the technical level of the tutorial and the objectives of the tutorial. (d) A CV for each presenter detailing relevant qualifications and experience. Some biographical details may also be helpful. (e) A complete description of A/V and computer equipment required for the tutorial. (f) Complete address for the presenter(s), including phone, FAX and e-mail addresses. E-mail submissions shall be in plain ASCII text. PANELS SIGIR'95 will include a small number of panel sessions. These are intended to examine issues of interest to the research and development community and stimulate lively debate between panelists and audience members. Presentations by panel members should lay the groundwork and open the debate. Ideally the panel shall consist of 4 members, with very divergent views on the topic. The moderator shall referee the debate, ensuring a good balance in the discussion without presenting a position. Proposals are solicited from moderators and/or panelists. Submissions shall be made to the Tutorials and Panels Chair and shall consist of: (a) An extended abstract outlining the proposed topic, including the questions likely to arise. (b) A list of panel members and the name of a moderator. (c) A CV for each panelist and the moderator, detailing relevant qualifications and experience. Some biographical details may also be helpful. (e) Complete addresses for the moderator and panelists, including phone, FAX and e-mail addresses. E-mail submissions shall be in plain ASCII text. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstrations provide an opportunity for first-hand, interactive experience with information retrieval systems. Researchers and developers have the opportunity to present their new systems, and conference participants have the opportunity to interact directly with creators of the systems demonstrated. We invite proposals for demonstrations of information retrieval systems and applications. Demonstrations should focus on aspects of the system that are novel and important. Demonstrations are not limited to experimental systems only. IR researchers participating in the NIST/ARPA sponsored TREC, MUC, TIPSTER projects and the European Community research initiatives are encouraged to participate. Presenters of the systems must be individuals who have been directly involved with the development of the system, and who are aware of the differentiating and interesting ideas embodied in their system. All presenters are expected to register for the conference. Presenters shall submit a proposal of at most three pages, describing the planned demonstration, to the Demonstration Chair. The proposal shall include: (a) A description of noteworthy and distinguishing ideas or approaches the demonstration will illustrate. (b) An explanation of how the demonstration will illustrate these ideas or approaches. (c) Complete contact information (mailing address, telephone, FAX, and e-mail) and affiliation of the person(s) who will present the demonstration, including their relationship to the project (e.g., principal investigator, developer, project manager, architect). (d) A 100-word summary for inclusion in the conference's preliminary program. (e) A description of the technical specifications of the system. The selected presenters shall provide a description that is modeled after the TREC technical specification descriptions. An electronic form will be available via e-mail. (f) A bibliography of published and unpublished materials that relate to the system, its algorithms and underlying theories as well as any evaluations that have been undertaken. (g) The hardware, software, and network requirements for the demonstration, including the electrical requirements of the equipment. No FAX submissions; e-mail submissions preferred. POSTERS SIGIR '95 will include poster presentations to enable researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. Poster presenters will have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Posters will be reviewed by appropriate subject specialists as well as the Program Committee, and will be selected on the basis of their contribution to research-focused discussion. Posters will be accepted a full month later than papers in order to provide an opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full paper. Abstracts of posters will appear in the conference proceedings. There will be a specific time during the conference when authors will be expected to be present at their posters to describe their work and answer questions, but posters will also be accessible for informal viewing throughout the day. Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research. Submissions shall be made to the Posters Chair and shall consist of: (a) Abstract, submitted in three copies. (b) An extended abstract of approximately three to four pages. (c) Abstract shall emphasize the research problem, the approach or methodology being used, and why the work is important. (d) A separate cover page with the title of the poster, the name and affiliation of the author(s)/presenter(s), as well as complete contact information to include postal address, email address, phone number and FAX number of the author(s). WORKSHOPS Proposals are being solicited from both individuals and groups for one-day workshops to be held on July 13. Workshops bring together researchers to share information and discuss a topic that relates to their expertise. Submissions shall be made to the Workshops Chair and shall be limited to 3 pages. They shall contain: (a) The theme and goal of the workshop. (b) The planned activities. (c) A CV for each organizer detailing relevant qualifications and experience (not included in the length limitations). Some biographical details may also be helpful. (d) Maximum number of participants. (e) Process for selecting participants. (f) List of potential participants. After the workshop, organizers will provide an article summarizing the workshop for SIGIR Forum. No FAX submissions. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- General Conference Chair: Raya Fidel GSLIS, FM-30 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA fidelr@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-543-1888 Fax: +1-206-685-8049 Program Co-chairs: (N and S America, Asia) Edward A. Fox Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0160, USA fox@vt.edu Tel: +1-703-231-5113 Fax: +1-703-231-6075 (Europe, Africa, Australia) Peter Ingwersen Royal School of Librarianship Birketinget 6 DK 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark biskpi@unidhp.uni-c.dk Tel: +45 31 58 60 66 Fax: +45 32 84 02 01 Tutorials and Panels Chair: Joan Morrissey School of Computer Science University of Windsor Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada joan@cs.uwindsor.ca Tel: +1-519-253-4232 ext 2992 Fax: +1-519-973-7093 Posters Chair: Elizabeth D. Liddy School of Information Studies Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244, USA liddy@mailbox.syr.edu Tel: +1-315-443-2911 Fax: +1-315-443-5806 Demonstrations Chair: Efthimis N. Efthimiadis GSLIS University of California Los Angeles, CA 20024, USA efthimis@gslis.ucla.edu Tel: +1-310-825-8975 Fax: +1-310-206-4460 Workshops Chair: Katie Hover Research Librarian Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, USA katieh@microsoft.com Tel: +1-206-936-8082 Fax: +1-206-936-7329 Local Arrangements Chair: Michael Crandall Boeing Technical Libraries P.O. Box 3707, MS 8K-38 Seattle, WA 98124, USA crandall@atc.boeing.com Tel: +1-206-237-3238 Fax: +1-206-237-3491 Publicity Chair: Edie Rasmussen SLIS University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA emr1@vms.cis.pitt.edu Tel: +1-412-624-9459 Fax: +1-412-648-7001 Sponsorship Chair: Jill McKinstry Library Systems, FM-25 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195, USA jillmck@u.washington.edu Tel: +1-206-685-3933 Fax: +1-206-685-8727 Program Committee: Ijsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Phillips, USA Maristella Agosti, U. Padua, Italy Richard K. Belew, UC San Diego, USA Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers U., USA Abraham Bookstein, U. Chicago, USA Christine Borgman, UCLA, USA Giorgio Brajnik, U. Udine, Italy Peter D. Bruza, QUT, Australia Forbes Burkowski, Waterloo U., Canada Yves Chiaramella, LGI-IMAG, France W. Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts, USA Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA, USA Hans-Peter Frei, UBILAB, Switzerland Norbert Fuhr, U. Dortmund, Germany Richard Furuta, Texas A&M U., USA Micheline Hancock, City University, UK Donna Harman, NIST, USA David Harper, Robert Gordon U., UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Tetsuya Ishikawa, ULIS, Japan Kalervo Jarvelin, U. Tampere, Finland Haruo Kimoto, NTT, Japan Shmuel T. Klein, Bar-Ilan U., Israel Robert Korfhage, U. Pittsburgh, USA Ray Larson, UC Berkeley, USA David Lewis, AT&T, USA Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse U., USA Paul Lindner, DCS, USA Clifford Lynch, U. California, USA Gary Marchionini, U. Maryland, USA Yasushi Ogawa, RICOH, Japan Annelise Mark Pejtersen, Risoe, Denmark Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow U., UK Gerard Salton, Cornell U., USA Peter Schauble, ETH, Switzerland Fabrizio Sebastiani, U. Glasgow, UK Alan Smeaton, Dublin City U., Ireland Phil Smith, Ohio State U., USA Craig Stanfill, Thinking Machines, USA Ulrich Thiel, GMD, Germany Richard Tong, Verity, USA Howard Turtle, West Publishing, USA Ellen Voorhees, Siemens, USA Ross Wilkinson, RMIT, Australia Peter Willett, U. Sheffield, UK E.J. Yannakoudakis, Athens U., Greece From: David Lewis To: Multiple recipients of list INDEX-L <@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu:INDEX-L@BINGVMB.BITNET> Subject: CFP: SDAIR '95 Date: Tuesday, 6 September 1994 4:45PM ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Call for Papers Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR '95) April 24-26, 1995 Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Conference Chair: Donna Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to present the results of current research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas in the general field of Document Understanding. Papers on all aspects of document analysis and information retrieval are solicited, with particular emphasis on: Document Analysis Multilingual OCR Language identification Multilingual character sets Domain specific dictionaries / lexicons Logical structure recognition Recognition of tables and equations Recognition of maps and mechanical drawings Information Retrieval Full-text retrieval Retrieval from structured documents Text categorization Evaluation of IR systems Image and multimedia retrieval Language-specific influences on retrieval Text representation The two themes to be highlighted at this year's symposium are the intersection of document analysis and information retrieval, and the ramifications of multilingual data in both fields. SUBMISSIONS Please send seven copies of complete papers, with authors name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address to the appropriate Program Chair: Larry Spitz, Chair (Doc. Analysis) or David D. Lewis, Chair (Info. Ret.) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 The papers should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000 words. Papers which have already appeared in journals or published conference proceedings should not be submitted. Both camera ready and machine readable copies of the accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Papers Due October 1, 1994 Notification To Authors December 1, 1994 Camera Ready Copy February 1, 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Document Analysis ----------------- Larry SPITZ, Fuji Xerox (chair) Henry BAIRD, AT&T Bell Labs Andreas DENGEL, DFKI Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi Jonathon HULL, SUNY Buffalo Junichi KANAI, UNLV Juergen SCHUERMANN, Daimler Benz Suzanne TAYLOR, Unisys Karl TOMBRE, INRIA Information Retrieval --------------------- David LEWIS, AT&T Bell Labs (chair) Christopher BUCKLEY, Cornell Kenneth CHURCH, AT&T Bell Labs Robert KORFHAGE, U. Pittsburgh Fausto RABITTI, CNR-IEI Kazem TAGHVA, UNLV TOKUNAGA Takenobu, Tokyo Inst. Tech. Howard TURTLE, West Publishing Peter WILLETT, U. Sheffield Ross WILKINSON, RMIT From: Prof. Roly Sussex To: Robert Dale Subject: Do you know about this? Can you provide help? Attend? Date: Thursday, 8 September 1994 11:33PM CALL FOR PAPERS (Third Circular) PACLING '95 Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics 2nd Conference April 19-22 (Wed-Sat) 1995 The University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ******************** * HISTORY AND AIMS * ******************** PACLING (= Pacific Association for Computational LINGuistics) has grown out of the very successful Japan- Australia joint symposia on natural language processing (NLP) held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia and in October 1991 in Iizuka City, Japan. The first meeting of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in April 1993. PACLING '95 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop- oriented meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant "schools of thought," and on technological transfer within the Pacific region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological exchange, being smaller than ACL, COLING or Applied NLP, and also more regional with extensive representation from the Western Pacific (as well as the Eastern). ********** * TOPICS * ********** Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following: Language subjects: text, speech; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology, phonology, phonetics; language and communication channels, e.g., touch, movement, vision, sound; language and input/output devices, e.g., keyboards, menus, touch screens, mice, light pens, graphics (incl. animation); language and context, e.g., from the subject domain, discourse, spatial and temporal deixis. Approaches and architectures: computational linguistic, multi-modal but natural-language centred; formal, knowledge-based, statistical, connectionist; dialogue, user, belief or other model-based; parallel/serial processing corpora and large-text linguistics Applications: text and message understanding and generation, language translation and translation aids, language learning and learning aids; question-answering systems and interfaces to multi- media databases (text, audio/video, (geo)graphic); terminals for Asian and other languages, user interfaces; natural language-based software. ************************ * SUBMISSION OF PAPERS * ************************ Authors should prepare full papers, in English, not more than 5000 words including references, approximately 20 double- spaced pages. The title page must include: author's name, postal address, e-mail address (if applicable), telephone and fax numbers; a brief 100-200 word summary; and some key words for classifying the submission. Please send four (4) copies of each submission to: Christian Matthiessen Department of Linguistics University of Sydney Sydney 2006 AUSTRALIA tel: +61 2 692 4227 fax: +61 2 552 1683 email: xian@brutus.ee.su.oz.au ************ * SCHEDULE * ************ Submission deadline: October 31st, 1994 Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995 ******************************* * CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CHAIR * ****************************** The Conference Committee Chair of PACLING'95 is Roland Sussex Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia telephone: +61 7 365 6896 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PUBLICITY AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS * ************************************ The conference will take place at the Centre for Language Teaching and Research of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. We are negotiating preferential rates from downtown hotels. Delegates may wish to visit attractions like the Barrier Reef, Australia's desert centre or tropical rain forests before or after the Conference, and we shall be negotiating with travel companies to provide tour and travel information. For further information on the conference and on local arrangements, contact Hongliang Qiao Centre for Language Teaching and Research The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia tel: +61 7 365 6897 fax: +61 7 365 7077 email: qiao@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au ************************************ * PACLING '95 COMMITTEES * ************************************ Organizing Committee Chair: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Members: Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Christian Matthiessen (University of Sydney, Australia)* Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Charles Fillmore(University of California, Berkeley, USA) Conference committee Chair: Roland Sussex (University of Queensland, Australia) Members: Dan Fass(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Randy Goebel(University of Alberta, Canada) Kiyoshi Kogure(NTT, Japan)* Paul McFetridge(Simon Fraser University, Canada)* Jun-ichi Nakamura(Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan) Minako O'Hagan(Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand) Fred Popowich(Simon Fraser University, Canada) Hiroshi Sakaki(KDD, Japan) Akira Shimazu(NTT, Japan) Stanley Starosta(University of Hawaii, USA)* Roland Sussex(University of Queensland, Australia) Masami Suzuki(KDD, Japan) From: John.Tait To: Subject: Natural language Processing and Information Retrieval Date: Thursday, 29 September 1994 1:28PM UK SALT Committee Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing Technology 3 & 4 January 1995 University of Sunderland U.K. First Call for Papers Objectives This meeting aims to: - promote a better understanding of information retrieval tasks and technologies amongst the speech and language communities; - provide a conduit for the communication experience gained from participation in US-based initiatives (MUC, TREC) to a wider British and European audience; - produce a strengthened pool of expertise in these important application areas for speech and language technologies. Background In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in the use of automatic speech and language processing to enhance the effectiveness of computer systems which retrieve, for example, specific text financial reports from databases of such articles or which produce summaries of incoming electronic mail messages. This interest is exemplified by (or perhaps triggered by) the MUC, TREC and TIPSTER initiatives in the U.S. There is now growing interest in promoting parallel initiative on a Europe-wide multi-lingual basis, and also on U.K. specific initiatives. The U.K. Speech and Language Technology Committee therefore determined that it was timely to organise a meeting on this topic within the U.K. Topics papers are invited on Topic Extraction, Mail Routing, Medical Informatics, SDI, Indexing, Retrieval from Large Knowledge Bases, Multi-media, text and other databases, evaluation of these technologies and related technologies. Form of Meeting The meeting will consist of a number of invited talks from leading people in the field, together with submitted papers from other who can contributed towards the achievement of the objectives. In order to promote inter-communication between the various elements of the community there will be no parallel sessions. Submission Details Intending authors should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words either by Electronic Mail (plain ASCII text only please) or paper to: Dr. J.I. Tait Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing University of Sunderland School of Computing and Information Systems Priestman Building Green Terrace Sunderland SR1 3SD U.K. Telephone: +44 91 515 2712 Fax: +44 91 515 2781 Email: John.Tait@sunderland.ac.uk From whom further details may be obtained. Deadline for submission: 1 November 1994 Decision on inclusion announced by: 1 December 1994 Abstracts of Papers presented at the meeting will be included in the meeting proceedings. From: To: Subject: Multimedia workshop Date: Thursday, 29 September 1994 3:29PM Anne's message reminds me that I have an activity I've been cooking up for some weeks, which is now about ready to be advertised. So here goes. Spread this around as you see fit. It may not be directly diversification, but with any luck it will help with generating useful contacts through the IISIG and through the fact that it is explicitly supported by BT. (Next move: get it onto the Web ...) John. --------------------------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS IMMI-1 First International Workshop on Intelligence and Multimodality in Multimedia Interfaces: Research and Applications Human Communication Research Centre and EdCAAD, Dept. of Architecture University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland Thursday 13th - Friday 14th July 1995 Arranged on behalf of: UK Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI) Intelligent Systems Integration Programme: Special Interest Group on Intelligent Interfaces (IISIG) In cooperation with the AAAI and in association with The HCI Group (a specialist group of the BCS) ACL SIGMEDIA BT Multimedia is hailed as the next great step forward in interface technology. But the potential of this technology depends on a greater understanding of how to exploit it more dynamically and interactively. Bringing ``intelligence'' into multimedia interfaces is thus increasingly important. This Workshop seeks to assess progress and examine pointers for future research and development directions; it seeks also to highlight issues arising from experience of real multimedia applications, and hence encourages reports from practice. Contributions are invited concerning all kinds of work in the area. Themes include (but are not restricted to): * Intelligent guidance for the creation, indexing and presentation of material stored in multimedia form (as in CD-I). * The development of techniques to handle presentation and dialogue involving arbitrary information in different media. * A focus on the interpretation (semantics) of different channels of communication, allowing display of the same information in different ways (often termed ``multimodality''). * The relationship between multimodal presentation and aspects of users' tasks (e.g. reasoning, identification, etc.). * Formal methods for specification and reasoning in multimodal interactive systems. * A special theme on the integration of natural language and speech processing technology with interaction using other modalities such as graphics. A followup Workshop is proposed, to be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in late 1996, with the intention of further fostering transatlantic links. Edinburgh, historic capital of Scotland, is one of the most attractive of European cities. This Workshop will be located in the majestic City Chambers, less than five minutes' walk from the famous Castle. University accommodation will be available very close to the venue. Edinburgh in summer is invariably host to a wide range of events and activities, which in 1995 includes for instance the spectacular Tall Ships Race, due to begin immediately following the Workshop. Abstracts of approximately 5 pages in length should be submitted by 14th February 1995 (preferably in electronic form) to: John Lee Human Communication Research Centre University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland, UK. Email: J.Lee@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4420 Fax: +44 131 650 4587 Requests for further information, registration forms, bookings for accommodation etc. should be directed to the same address. A notice of intention to submit an abstract would be appreciated as early as possible, preferably by 30th November 1994. Abstracts will be refereed: participation is limited to promote discussion. Accepted abstracts will be published in the quarterly of the IISIG (IIQ: ISSN 1356-3262) and it is intended that selected authors will be invited to expand their contributions into full-length papers to be published in book form. International Programme Committee: Elisabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany Noelle Carbonell, CRIN, France Ernest Edmonds, LUTCHI, UK Alistair Kilgour, Heriot-Watt University, UK John Lee, HCRC/EdCAAD, UK Mark Maybury, Mitre Corp., US Jon Oberlander, HCRC, UK Fabio Paterno, CNUCE, Italy Luis Pineda, IEE, Mexico Mike Revett, BT, UK Keith Stenning, HCRC, UK Michael Wilson, RAL, UK Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore, US From: Paul Mc Kevitt To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Cc: ; Subject: AISB-95 Sheffield CALL-FOR-PAPERS Date: Tuesday, 4 October 1994 4:35PM CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS AISB-95: Hybrid Problems, Hybrid Solutions. ============================================ Monday 3rd -- Friday 7th April 1995 Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department University of Sheffield Sheffield, ENGLAND The Tenth Biennial Conference on AI and Cognitive Science organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Programme Chair: John Hallam (University of Edinburgh) Programme Committee: Dave Cliff (University of Sussex) Erik Sandewall (University of Linkoeping) Nigel Shadbolt (University of Nottingham) Sam Steel (University of Essex) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Local Organisation: Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Sheffield) The past few years have seen an increasing tendency for diversification in research into Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Artificial Life. A number of approaches are being pursued, based variously on symbolic reasoning, connectionist systems and models, behaviour-based systems, and ideas from complex dynamical systems. Each has its own particular insight and philosophical position. This variety of approaches appears in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. There are both sybmolic and connectionist natural language processing, both classical and behaviour-based vision research, for instance. While purists from each approach may claim that all the problems of cognition can in principle be tackled without recourse to other methods, in practice (and maybe in theory, also) combinations of methods from the different approaches (hybrid methods) are more successful than a pure approach for certain kinds of problems. The committee feels that there is an unrealised synergy between the various approaches that an AISB conference may be able to explore. Thus, the focus of the tenth AISB Conference is on such hybrid methods. We particularly seek papers that describe novel theoretical and/or experimental work which uses a hybrid approach or papers from purists, arguing cogently that compromise is unnecessary or unproductive. While papers such as those are particularly sought, good papers on any topic in Artificial Intelligence will be considered: as always, the most important criteria for acceptance will be soundness, originality, substance and clarity. Research in all areas is equally welcome. The AISB conference is a single track conference lasting three days, with a two day tutorial and workshop programme preceding the main technical event, and around twenty high calibre papers will be presented in the technical sessions. It is expected that the proceedings of the conference will be published in book form in time to be available at the conference itself, making it a forum for rapid dissemination of research results. SUBMISSIONS: High quality original papers dealing with the issues raised by mixing different approaches, or otherwise related to the Conference Theme, should be sent to the Programme Chair. Papers which give comparative experimental evaluation of methods from different paradigms applied to the same problem, papers which propose and evaluate mixed-paradigm theoretical models or tools, and papers that focus on hybrid systems applied to real world problems will be particularly welcome, as will papers from purists who argue cogently that the hybrid approach is flawed and a particular pure approach is to be preferred. Papers being submitted, whether verbatim or in essence, to other conferences whose review process runs concurrently with AISB-95 should indicate this fact on their title page. If a submitted paper appears at another conference it must be withdrawn from AISB-95 (this does not apply to presentation at specialist workshops). Papers that violate these requirements may be rejected without review. SHEFFIELD: Sheffield is one of the friendliest cities in the UK and is situated well having the best and closest surrounding countryside of any major city in the UK. The Peak District National Park is only minutes away. It is a good city for walkers, runners, and climbers. It has two theatres, the Crucible and Lyceum. The Lyceum, a beautiful Victorian theatre, has recently been renovated. Also, the city has three 10 screen cinemas. There is a library theatre which shows more artistic films. The city has a large number of museums many of which demonstrate Sheffield's industrial past, and there are a number of Galleries in the City, including the Mapping Gallery and Ruskin. A number of important ancient houses are close to Sheffield such as Chatsworth House. The Peak District National Park is a beautiful site for visiting and rambling upon. There are large shopping areas in the City and by 1995 Sheffield will be served by a 'supertram' system: the line to the Meado