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 Meadowhall shopping and leisure complex is already open. The University of Sheffield's Halls of Residence are situated on the western side of the city in a leafy residential area described by John Betjeman as ``the prettiest suburb in England''. Halifax Hall is centred on a local Steel Baron's house, dating back to 1830 and set in extensive grounds. It was acquired by the University in 1830 and converted into a Hall of Residence for women with the addition of a new wing. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Computer Science Department has a strong programme in Cognitive Systems and is part of the University's Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH). ILASH has its own machines and support staff, and academic staff attached to it from nine departments. Sheffield Psychology Department has the Artificial Intelligence Vision Research Unit (AIVRU) which was founded in 1984 to coordinate a large industry/university Alvey research consortium working on the development of computer vision systems for autonomous vehicles and robot workstations. FORMAT AND DEADLINES: Four copies of submitted papers must be received by the Programme Chair no later than 24 OCTOBER 1994 to be considered. Papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12 point, with at most 60 lines of text per A4 page and margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm) wide on all sides (default LaTeX article style is OK). They should include a cover sheet (not counted in the 12 page limit) giving the paper title, the abstract, the authors and their affiliations, including a contact address for both electronic and paper mail for the principal author. Papers should be submitted in hard-copy, not electronically. Papers that do not adhere to this format specification may be rejected without review. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by 7 DECEMBER 1994 and full camera-ready copy will be due in early JANUARY 1995 (publishers' deadlines permitting). CONFERENCE ADDRESS: Correspondence relating to the conference programme, submissions of papers, etc. should be directed to the conference programme chair at the address below. John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31 650 3097 FAX: + 44 31 650 6899 E-mail: john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk Correspondence concerning local arrangements should be directed to the local arrangements organiser at the following address. Paul Mc Kevitt, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, ENGLAND. Phone: + 44 742 825572 FAX: + 44 742 780972 E-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk From: Koenraad De Smedt To: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Robert Dale; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Subject: CFP: 5th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation Date: Friday, 7 October 1994 12:43PM CALL FOR PAPERS 5th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 20-23 May 1995 Leiden, The Netherlands This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in Natural Language Generation from such different perspectives as linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and engineering. The meeting continues the tradition of a series of workshops held biannually in Europe (Royaumont, 1987; Edinburgh, 1989; Judenstein, 1991 and Pisa, 1993) but open to researchers from all over the world. Programme --------- The Programme Committee consists of: Koenraad de Smedt (Leiden University; chair), Chris Mellish (University of Edinburgh) and Hajo Novak (IBM Deutschland). Papers, posters and demonstrations are invited on original and substantial work related to the automatic generation of natural language, including computer linguistics research, artificial intelligence methods, computer models of human language processing, empirical research, and the development and evaluation of applied systems. Contributions on all aspects of natural language generation are welcome, but a special theme of this workshop will be 'human text generation'. Researchers studying human professional writing in relation to automatic generation are especially encouraged to submit. To encourage a workshop atmosphere while allowing a relatively large number of people to participate, selected papers will be given large time slots including ample discussion time; other papers will be grouped for shorter presentations and mutual interaction, and there will be sessions for posters and computer demonstrations. Submissions ----------- Researchers wishing to present a PAPER are requested to submit three copies of an original unpublished article between 4000 and 8000 words long (inclusive of references). The first page should include the title, the name(s) and complete address(es) of the author(s), a short summary, and an exact word count. Researchers wishing to present a POSTER are invited to submit three copies of a reduced version of their poster on 4 normal pages that together form an A2 size sheet. Use a normal character size. The poster should include a title, the name(s) and complete address(es) of the author(s). Researchers wishing to demonstrate a computer PROGRAM are invited to send a three copies of a short description of their program together with some examples of input and output and hardware requirements. Please include the name(s) and complete address(es) of the author(s) in the description. All contributions should be sent BEFORE 1 JANUARY 1995 to the Programme Chairman at the following address: Dr. Koenraad De Smedt Leiden University Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology P.O.Box 9555 NL - 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands E-mail: desmedt@ruls40.leidenuniv.nl Tel: +31 71-273407 Local arrangements ------------------ Local arrangements are handled by: Koenraad de Smedt and Gerard Kempen (Leiden University). The meeting will be held from the afternoon of Saturday May 20, 1995 through noon on Tuesday 23, in Castle Oud-Poelgeest in Leiden. The estate consists of a hotel, meeting rooms, restaurant, sauna, and a seventeenth century castle with a bar, situated in a 25 acre park, 5 min. by taxi from the centre of Leiden. The city of Leiden, where Rembrandt was born, has the oldest university in The Netherlands. Leiden is 15 min. by train from Amsterdam (Schiphol) airport. The cost of the workshop to each participant is currently estimated at about DFL 700 (Dutch guilders) including accommodation and meals, but the participants' fee may turn out to be lower depending on funding. The workshop will also be open to a limited number of participants not contributing a paper, poster or demo. A call for participation including more information and a registration form will be sent out later as soon as the programme has been put together. N.B. The workshop is scheduled immediately before CMC/95 in Eindhoven. From: John Nerbonne To: Cc: John Nerbonne Subject: CFP Linguistic Databases Date: Monday, 17 October 1994 10:00AM Call for Papers: Linguistic Databases 23-24 March 1995 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands A database is simply a declarative representation of information which is designed to make data entry and retrieval easy, but is not optimized for other processing. Databases have long been standard repositories in phonetic research, but they are finding increasing use not only in phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics and dialectology but also in areas of applied linguistics such as lexicography and computer-assisted language learning. Normally, they serve as a repositories for large amounts of data, but they are also important for the organization they impose, which serves to ease access for researchers and applications specialists. The purpose of a workshop specifically on this topic to provide a forum for the exchange of information and views on the proper use of databases within the various subfields of linguistics. We hope to include papers addressing the following questions: 1. Databases vs. annotated corpora, pros and cons. 2. Needs wrt acoustic data, string data, temporal data. Existing facilities. 3. Developing (maximally) theory-neutral db schemas for annotation systems. 4. Commercially available systems vs. public domain systems. What's available? 5. Uses in grammar checking, replication of results. 6. Needs of applications such as lexicography. 7. Making use of CD-ROM technology. 8. Existing professional expertise: Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), TEI. Invited Speakers Jan Aarts, Prof. of English, Nijmegen, leader of TOSCA, Linguistic Database: "Annotation of Corpora: General Issues and the Nijmegen Experience" Natalie Granger, Prof. of English, Louvain (tentative) "Corpora and Computer-Assisted Language Learning" Mark Liberman, Prof. of Linguistics & Computer Science, Pennsylvania; Director, Ling. Data Consortium "The Linguistic Data Consortium" (tentative title) Abstracts We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not more than 2 pp. (A4) should be marked "Attention: Ling-DBs" and submitted by Dec 15 to: John Nerbonne, Alfa-Informatica Postbus 716 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Email submissions are likewise welcome. They must meet the same length requirement, must be|either in plain ASCII or in postscript. Include "Attention: Ling-DBs" in the subject line and send to nerbonne@let.rug.nl Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise welcome. Please be specific about time and hardware/software requirements. Publication: We plan no unrefereed publication. Given sufficient interest, we shall discuss publication at the workshop. Submitting an abstract is NOT a promise to participate in publication. Program Committee: Tjeerd de Graaf (Phonetics), Tette Hofstra (Historical Ling.), John Nerbonne (Computational Ling., Program Chair), and Herman Wekker (Descriptive Ling.). Local Arangements: Duco Dokter d.a.dokter@let.rug.nl From: Elaine Brennan To: Multiple recipients of list HUMANIST Subject: 8.0269 ACH-ALLC '95 Call for Papers (1/249) Date: Thursday, 20 October 1994 8:24AM ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING 1995 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ACH-ALLC 95 JULY 11-15, 1995 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA CALL FOR PAPERS This conference -- the major forum for literary, linguistic and humanities computing-- will highlight the development of new computing methodologies for research and teaching in the humanities, the development of significant new computer-based resources for humanities research, especially focusing on the issues and problems of networked access to materials, and the developing applications, evaluation, and use of traditional y scientific and computing techniques in humanities disciplines. TOPICS: We welcome submissions on topics and applications focused on the humanities disciplines, defined as broadly as possible: languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, linguistics, anthropology and archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We are interested in receiving technical proposals that focus on the cutting edge issues of the application of scientific tools and approaches to humanities disciplines; discipline-based proposals that focus on some of the more traditionally defined applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; broad library and research-based proposals that focus on significant issues of text documentation and information retrieval; and tools-focused proposals that offer innovative and substantial applications and uses for humanities-based teaching and research, throughout the academic and research worlds. The deadline for submissions is 15 DECEMBER 1994. REQUIREMENTS: Proposals should describe substantial and original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities (e.g., a study of the style of an author) should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Abstracts of 1500-2000 words should be submitted for presentations of thirty minutes including questions. SESSIONS: Proposals for sessions (90 minutes) are also invited. These should take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of up to 6 speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ACH-ALLC '95 will include poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) to give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. 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 are actually several large pieces of paper that present an overview of a topic or a problem. Poster presenters are given space to display two or three posters, and may provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Poster presenters must be present at their posters at a specific time during the conference to describe their work and answer questions, but posters will remain up throughout the conference. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. Further information on poster presentations is available from the Program Committee chair. Posters proposals and software and project demonstrations will be accepted until February 15, 1995 to provide an opportunity for submitting very current work that need not be written up in a full paper. Poster or software/project demonstration proposals should contain a 300 to 500 word abstract in the same format described below for paper proposals. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indic ate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. Doctoral students are encouraged to consider poster submission as a viable means for discussing ongoing dissertation research. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TITLE: title of paper AUTHOR(S): names of authors AFFILIATION: of author(s) CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address E-MAIL: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) FAX NUMBER: of main author PHONE NUMBER: of main author (1) Electronic submissions These should be plain ASCII text files, not files formatted by a wordprocessor, and should not contain TAB characters or soft hyphens. Paragraphs should be separated by blank lines. Headings and subheadings should be on separate lines and be numbered. Notes, if needed at all, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. References, up to six, should be given at the end. Choose a simple markup scheme for accents and other characters that cannot be transmitted by electronic mail, and include an explanation of the markup scheme after the title information and before the start of the text. Electronic submissions should be sent to Elaine Brennan with the subject line " Submission for ACH-ALLC95". (2) Paper submissions Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. Six copies should be sent to ACH-ALLC95 (Paper submission) Elaine Brennan ATLIS Consulting Group 6011 Executive Boulevard Rockville, MD 20852 USA EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a Kodak slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), a computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (NTSC) videocassette recorder. PAL format will be available; if you anticipate needing PAL, please note this information in your proposal. It will be possible to transfer programs and data from removable media (floppy disks, SyQuest 44MB cartridges, and Bernoulli cartridges) to the presentation computers. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizer; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizer no later than December 31, 1994. DEADLINES Proposals for papers and sessions December 31, 1994 Proposals for poster presentations February 15, 1995 Notification of acceptance March 15, 1995 PUBLICATION A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in the series Research in Humanities Computing edited by Susan Hockey and Nancy Ide and published by Oxford University Press. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprised of: Chair: Elaine Brennan, ATLIS Consulting Group (ACH) Marilyn Deegan, Oxford University (ALLC) Gordon Dixon, Manchester Metropolitan University (ALLC) Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University (ACH) Susan Hockey, Rutgers and Princeton Universities (ALLC) Nancy Ide, Vassar College (ACH) Espen Ore, University of Bergen (ALLC) Willard McCarty, University of Toronto (ACH) Local Organizer: Eric Dahlin, University of California, Santa Barbara (ACH) LOCATION UC Santa Barbara, one of the nine campuses of the University of California, has an enrollment of some 18000 graduate and undergraduate students and is situated on a scenic 500 acre seashore campus 10 miles north of the city of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, a Southern California coastal community of 80,000 population, lies about 100 miles north of Los Angeles on Highway 101, the principal coast highway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A popular tourist center, it offers the visitor a wide range of accommodations and a great variety of recreational and cultural attractions. It is readily accessible by road, and is served by the major airlines. Economically priced accommodation for those attending the conference will also be available on the campus itself. It is expected at this time that the fee for early registration for the conference will be in the $125 to $150 range, with an additional fee for late registration. Detailed information about the conference will be made available in January or February of 1995. For further information please communicate with: Eric Dahlin Local Organizer, ACH/ALLC '95 Office of the Provost College of Letters and Science University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 USA Phone: 805/687-5003 E-mail: HCF1DAHL@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu From: Philippe Blache To: Multiple recipients of list LN Subject: Appel: Recent Advances in NLP Date: Tuesday, 25 October 1994 9:11AM From: "Ruslan Mitkov" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "RECENT ADVANCES NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" 14-16 September 1995 Velingrad, Bulgaria Topics of interest Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and generation; multilingual NLP, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; text summarization; computer- assisted language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and standards in language engineering; and theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind. The conference welcomes also new results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches. In general, the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the area of language engineering in view of the imminent developments in information technology. Program committee B. Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) C. Boitet (IMAG, Grenoble) K.S. Choi (KAIST, Taejon) A. DeRoeck (University of Essex) R. Delmonte (University of Venice) S. Fincher (University of Edinburgh) J. Haller (IAI, Saarbruecken) P. Jacobs (SRA, Arlington) A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) L. Kartunen (Xerox Grenoble) R. Kittredge (University of Montreal) K. Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown) C. Martin-Vide (University Rovira i Virgili) Y. Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) K. McKeown (Columbia University) R. Mitkov (IAI/Institute of Mathematics) S. Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) H. Somers (UMIST, Manchester) P. Seuren (University of Nijmegen) O. Stock (IRST, Trento) B. Tsou (City Polytechnic of Hong Kong) J. Tsuji (UMIST, Manchester) D. Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences) Z. Yusoff (University Science Malaysia) M. Zock (LISMI, Orsay) Paper submission Papers not exceeding 3500 words should be submitted via Email (preferably as plain text or LATEX format) not later than 15 April 1995 to: ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de If electronic submission is problematic (e.g. due to non-standard format, characters, graphics) not possible, 4 copies of the paper should reach Ruslan Mitkov IAI Martin-Luther str. 14 D-66111 Saarbruecken GERMANY not later than 20 April 1995. The submissions will be reviewed by three members of the program committee and authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection of their papers by June 1995. Camera-ready versions of the accepted papers will be due on 20 July 1995. Invited speakers The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics including A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) and J. Tsuji (UMIST, Manchester). Location The town of Velingrad is situated in a picturesque valley in the Western Rhodope mountains and is only 130km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The local organizers will provide a daily shuttle bus/ conference taxi from the Sofia airport to the conference location at an inexpensive rate. Sofia is easily accessible by plane from most of the major European cities (e.g. daily flights or several flights per week from Frankfurt, London, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and other European cities). There are also direct flights to Sofia from North America (Washington) and Asia (Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur). Organizing Committee The Organizing Committee of the Conference includes Ruslan Mitkov (IAI Saarbruecken/Institute of Mathematics Sofia), Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay), Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg), Nikolai Nikolov (Incoma/School of Computational Linguistics Bulgaria), Nicolas Nicolov (University of Edinburgh). Conference information For further information please contact Mr. Nicolas Nicolov, Email nicolas@edinburgh.aisb.ac.uk. Local Email addresses, faxes and telephone numbers will be given at a later date. Conference Listserv Conference Listserv will soon be set up and details will be given in the second call for papers. Related events Conference participants are also invited to take part in the International Summer School "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics", which will take place just before the conference in Tzigov Chark, Batak Lake, only 20 km from Velingrad. Further information on the summer school can be obtained from Prof. R. Mitkov, Email ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de or Mr. Nicolas Nicolov, Email nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk. Industrial participants / Publishing companies Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP- related products as well as publsihing companies to exhibit their new books on NLP. Company representatives should inform Mr. Nicolas Nicolov (Email nicolas@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk) of their intention and publishing houses should contact Dr. Mitkov at ruslan@iai.uni-sb.de. Alternative program An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on 7 hills 80 km away from Velingrad. Second Call for Papers A second call for papers, including more information on invited talks, conference location and registration fees is due to come out in January 1995. From: Philippe Blache To: Multiple recipients of list LN Subject: Appel: EPIA'95 Date: Tuesday, 25 October 1994 9:10AM From: njm@cupido.inesc.pt EPIA'95 - CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on October 3-6, 1995. As in previous issues ('89, '91, and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and paper presentations. Five well known researchers will present invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and foundational issues and applications as well. Parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision Systems will run simultaneously (see below). INVITED LECTURERS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The following researchers have already confirmed their participation, as guest speakers: Marvin Minsky, MIT (USA) Manuela Veloso, CMU (USA) Luis Borges de Almeida, IST (Portugal) Rodney Brooks, MIT (USA) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Authors must submit five (5) complete printed copies of their papers to the "EPIA'95 submission address". Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Submissions must be printed on A4 or 8 1/2"x11" paper using 12 point type. Each page must have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. The body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the title page and bibliography. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should send to epia95-abstracts@inesc.pt a short (200 words) electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing process. The electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX)) in the following format: TITLE: FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name> EMAIL: <email of the first author> FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address> COAUTHORS: <their names, if any> KEYWORDS: <keywords separated by commas> ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract> Authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate keywords from the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional keywords descriptors as needed. Applications, agent-oriented programming, automated reasoning, belief revision, case-based reasoning, common sense reasoning, constraint satisfaction, distributed AI, expert systems, genetic algorithms, knowledge representation, logic programming, machine learning, natural language understanding, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, spatial reasoning, theorem proving, theory of computation, tutoring systems. REVIEW OF PAPERS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and clarity. Reviewing will be blind to the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. Each copy of the paper must have a title page, separated from the body of the paper, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a list of content areas (see above) and any acknowledgments. The second page should include the same title, a short abstract of less than 200 words, and the exact same contents areas, but not the names nor affiliations of the authors. This page may include text of the paper. The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, but should not include unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own work, use the third person. For example, say "previously, Peter [17] has shown that ...". Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. Submitted papers must be unpublished. PUBLICATION %%%%%%%%%%% The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (lecture notes in A.I. series). Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to Springer-Verlag. ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% In the framework of the conference three workshops will be organized: Applications of Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Engineering, and Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and Vision Systems. Real world applications, running systems, and demos are welcome. CONFERENCE & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Mamede Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 8475105 Voice: +351 (1) 310-0234 Fax: +351 (1) 3523014 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: cpf@kappa.ist.utl.pt Email: njm@inesc.pt PROGRAM COMMITTEE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Antonio Porto (Portugal) Lauiri Carlson (Finland) Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luigia Aiello (Italy) David Makinson (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal) Joao Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA) Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France) DEADLINES %%%%%%%%% Papers Submission: ................. March 20, 1995 Notification of acceptance: ........ May 15, 1995 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... 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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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > About this document ... > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [next] [up] [previous] > Next: About this document > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > John Lee (EdCaad) > Wed Nov 2 15:45:36 GMT 1994 From: Philippe Blache <pb@harar.unice.fr> To: Multiple recipients of list LN <LN@frmop11.earn> Subject: Appel: NLDB'95 Date: Wednesday, 9 November 1994 6:27PM From: "Jose Coch" <jose.coch@erli.gsi.fr> N L D B ' 9 5 * First Workshop on Applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE to DATA BASES * Versailles, France, JUNE 28-29 1995 ________________________________ / C A L L F O R P A P E R S / ________________________________ This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, potential industrial and users, interested in various applications of natural language in the database field. The integration of databases and natural language has been for a long time an utopia. Since two decades, consulting databases or getting answers in natural language remain a dream for many users. This is nowadays an accessible convergent point for which a lot of researchers are focusing on. It is mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of the life cycle of the information system may be improved by using natural language techniques : database design (specification, validation, conflicts resolution), database query languages and consulting programs that use new software engineering research allowing natural language program specifications. TOPICS: Major Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following: - Natural languages interfaces for database querying, - Natural language as a specification interface for database design, - Paraphrasing of database design conceptual schema in natural language, - Linguistic aspects of view integration, - Conceptual modelling and linguistic knowledge, - Use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries, - Textual databases, indexing and retrieval, - Generating texts from structured data, - Generation of natural language texts from formal specifications, - Semi-formal interfaces for interacting with databases, - Hypertext facilities for database querying. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman: Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM, University of Versailles, France Alain Bonnet Langage Naturel, France Janis Bubenko U. of Stockholm, Sweeden Hans Burg Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Cauvet U. of Paris I, France Jose Coch Erli, France Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Essec, France Roland Dachelet Inria, France Christian Fluhr CEA, France Vladimir Fomichov Moscow State U., Russia Robert Goldstein U. of British Columbia, Canada Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Henri Habrias U. of Nantes, France Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, France Elisabeth Metais U.of Paris VI, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Arne Solvberg NTH Trondheim, Norway Veda Storey Rochester U., Canada ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairwoman: Elisabeth Mitais PRiSM, University of Versailles, France Email: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Christiane Boucher PRiSM, France Gilles Levreau PRiSM, France Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Sweeney AFCET, France FIRST SPONSORS: AFCET , University of Versailles, ERLI, ESSEC. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of an original paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chairman: Prof. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Laboratoire PRiSM, Universite de Versailles 45, av des Etats-Unis 78000 Versailles, France. IMPORTANTE DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1st, 1995 Notification of acceptance : March 30 Camera-ready paper : May 15th, 1995 Elisabeth METAIS Laboratoire PRiSM Universite de Versailles 45, avenue des Etats-Unis 78000 VERSAILLES, FRANCE Tel: +33 (1) 39 25 40 53 Fax: +33 (1) 39 25 40 57 Email: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr From: Secretary of the European Speech Communication Assocciation <esca@icp.grenet.fr> To: <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: EUROSPEECH'95 Call for papers Date: Thursday, 10 November 1994 1:02PM ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) EUROSPEECH '95 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY. Madrid, Spain 18-21 September 1995. CALL FOR PAPERS AIMS The ESCA (European Speech Communication Association) is organizing its Fourth EUROSPEECH CONFERENCE, after the success of previous conferences in Paris (1989), Genova (1991) and Berlin (1993). EUROSPEECH'95 will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 18 to 21 September, 1995. As it is well known, ESCA is concentrating its efforts in the field of SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY all around Europe. This new event will, therefore, gather and present the latest research, development and applications (telecommunications, automation, access control, education, etc.) in this field of growing international importance. MAJOR TOPICS EUROSPEECH'95 will cover the following areas: 1) Speech Production: Acoustics of Speech. 2) Speech Perception. 3) Phonetics and Phonology. 4) Neuropsychology/Psychoacoustics/Psycholinguistics of Speech. 5) Auditory Models for Speech Processing. 6) Prosody of Spoken Language. 7) Speech Analysis and Parametrization. 8) Speech Coding. 9) Speech Synthesis. 10) Speech Recognition and Understanding. 11) Robust Speech Modeling and Speech Enhancement. 12) Spoken Dialogue Systems. 13) Integration of Speech and Natural Language Processing. 14) Speaker and Language Identification/Verification. 15) Neural Networks Applied to Speech Science. 16) Assessment and Human Factors. 17) Databases and Standards for Speech Technology. 18) Hearing and Speech Disorders and Aids for the Handicapped. 19) Technology for Speech Acquisition/Learning. 20) Hardware/Systems for Speech Processing. 21) Applications of Speech Technology. 22) Others. SESSIONS The Conference Sessions will comprise invited and contributed papers in oral and poster presentations. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS EUROSPEECH'95 will welcome all contributed papers related to the areas above mentioned. Five copies of a 2 pages summary (including figures and references) together with the filled cover form (at the end of this message) should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat TO BE RECEIVED BY 15 February, 1995, for being refereed by the Scientific Programme Committee. Every contribution must be original and not published somewhere else. Submission of a summary implies a commitment to present a paper if accepted. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION Authors of accepted papers will be required to send a typed manuscript. Further details regarding the format of the papers will be sent together with the notification of acceptance. Photo-ready paper for printing will be required by 15 June 1995. PROCEEDINGS The Conference Proceedings will be available to delegates at EUROSPEECH'95. SPEECH COMMUNICATION JOURNAL A number of Conference papers will be selected by the Scientific Committee, whose authors will be invited to make an extended version of them to be submitted for publication to the Journal. VENUE EUROSPEECH'95 will be held in the "Palacio de Congresos", the most important convention Center of Madrid, sited in the main street "Paseo de la Castellana", beside the "Estadio S. Bernabeu", in the heart of "Azca", the modern business center of Madrid and, consequently, well communicated either by bus or subway ("Metro"). SOCIAL PROGRAMME As it is well known, Madrid offers many cultural and recreative activities and sites (Museo del Prado, Plaza Mayor, Puerta del Sol, Madrid de los Austrias, etc.), as well as a nice sunny weather in this season. Besides, a number of nearby wonderful historical and artistical towns can be visited (Toledo, Segovia, El Escorial, Aranjuez, vila, Salamanca ...). A full social programme will be offered to participants and accompanying persons. EUROSPEECH'95 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of EUROSPEECH'95 is English. All scientific presentations and printed material should be in English. SCHEDULE Submission of Abstracts: To be received by 15 February 1995. Notification of Acceptance: To be mailed out on 30 March 1995. Submission of photo-ready paper: To be received by 15 June 1995. Conference: 18-21 September 1995. EXHIBITION A scientific, technical and industrial exhibition will be held during the Conference, and will be opened to companies and research institutions. It will constitute an excellent opportunity for feedbacking real-world necessities with state-of-the-art R&D, reaching a large international audience of decision-makers in this rapidly growing field. SATELLITE EVENTS An ESCA Workshop on Stressed Speech will be held in Lisbon on September, 25-26 1995. For more information contact: R. Moore. Defence Research Agency, St. Andrews Road, Malvern Worcs WR143RS. United Kingdom. Fax: (+44) 684 894 540. EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA) ESCA is a non profit organization, whose object is to promote the pursuit of speech communication science and technology in an European context. If you are interested in joining ESCA, or need any kind of information, please contact: ESCA, European Speech Communication Association ICP, Universite Stendhal BP 25X, 38400 Grenoble Cedex FRANCE Tel.: (+33) 76 82 43 36 Fax.: (+33) 76 82 43 35 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT To receive further information about EUROSPEECH'95, in both Conference and Exhibition aspects, please complete the attached form and return it to: CONGRHISA C/ Serrano, 240. E-28016 Madrid SPAIN Tel.: (+34 1) 457 61 12 Fax.: (+34 1) 457 01 73 =========================================================================== GENERAL CHAIRMAN Jose M. PARDO, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE R. ANDRE-OBRECHT, IRIT UPS, Toulouse, France. C. BENOIT, ICP, Universite Stendhal, France. R. BILLI, CSELT, Torino, Italy. J. BLAUERT, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. H. BOURLARD, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium. L. BOVES, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands. P. DALSGAARD, University of Aalborg, Denmark. E. ENRIQUEZ, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain K. FELLBAUM, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. A. FOURCIN, University College, London, UK. S. FURUI, NTT, Japan. B. GRANSTROM, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. E. HAJICOVA, Charles University, Czech Republic. B. A. HANSON, Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA USA. L. HERNANDEZ, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. M. JACK, University of Edinburgh, UK. G. KOKKINAKIS, Patras University, Greece. J. LLISTERRI, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. A. MARCHAL, CNRS, France. J. MARIANI, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France. R.K. MOORE, RSRE-DRA, Malvern, UK. C. NADEU, Universidad Politecnica de Catalu$a, Spain. H. NEY, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. J. OHALA, University of California, Berkeley, USA. L. POLS, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A. RUBIO, Universidad de Granada, Spain. R. STERN, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA. K. STEVENS, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA I. TRANCOSO, INESC, Lisboa, Portugal. E. VIDAL, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. V. VITORELLI, Consultant, Torino, Italy LOCAL COMMITTEE VICE-CHAIRMAN Emilia ENRIQUEZ, Univ. Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain. SECRETARY Javier ORTEGA, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. M.A. Berrojo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. J. Colas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. R. de Cordoba, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. J. Ferreiros, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. J. Gonzalez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. J. Macias-Guarasa, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain A. Romero, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. F. Valverde, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. COOPERATIONS: In cooperation with the IEEE Signal Processing Society. =========================================================================== If you need more information, please, send us the following information to: CONGRHISA C/ Serrano, 240. E-28016 Madrid SPAIN Tel.: (+34 1) 457 61 12 Fax.: (+34 1) 457 01 73 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY EUROSPEECH '95 Madrid, Spain, 18-21 September 1995. Mr. Mrs. Dr. Prof. Name ................................... Family name .............................................................. Organization/Company ..................................................... Address .................................................................. Zip Code/City ............................... Country .................... Telephone .............................. Fax ............................. E-mail ................................................................... ( ) I wish to attend the Conference; please send Program and Application form ( ) I with further details of the Exhibition Signature Date =========================================================================== COVER FORM Please attach this form to the 2 pages summary of your paper, answering concisely all questions. Lack of adequate information may cause rejection of your paper. ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Paper Title ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. Name of first or sole author (attach additional sheets for multiple authors): Last (family) name ..................................................... First (personal) name .................................................. Organization ........................................................... Telephone number ..................... Fax Number ..................... Order in the author's list .... E-mail ................................................................. ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Complete Name and mailing address of author with whom correspondence regarding this paper should be conducted. Last (family) name ..................................................... First (personal) name .................................................. Organization ........................................................... Street Address ......................................................... City ............................ State/Province ....................... Zip/Postal Code ......... Country ...................................... ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Major Topic of your paper according to the proposed list. First choice: ................. Second choice: .................... ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. Describe concisely the problem that you have addressed and its importance. ___________________________________________________________________________ 6. Describe the original contribution of your work, and compare to those of other authors (give references at the end of your summary). -- ESCA - European Speech Communication Association ICP, Universite Stendhal, BP 25X, 38040 GRENOBLE Cedex, FRANCE Christian BENOIT, Secr./Tres. Ester MONTANER, Asst.-secr. Tel: (+33).76.82.43.36 Fax: (+33).76.82.43.35 Mosaic page: http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/esca.html From: Prof. Roly Sussex <sussex@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au> To: <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: please distribute Date: Friday, 11 November 1994 6:49AM CALL FOR PAPERS (Third Circular and extended submission date) ********************************************* 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: cmathies@extro.ucc.su.oz.au ************ * SCHEDULE * ************ NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB NB +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EXTENDED DEADLINE +++++++++++++++++ In order to overcome some problems of information distribution, the deadline for the submission of papers has been extended by 4 weeks. Submission deadline: November 30th, 1994 Notification of acceptance: January 16th, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: March 1st, 1995 ******************************************** * BACK TO BACK COGNITIVE SCIENCE CONFERENCE* ******************************************** The annual meeting of the Australian Cognitive Science Society will be held at the University of Queensland from April 18-20. Arrangements are being made with the organizers of that conference for Pacling delegates to attend sessions of the Cognitive Science Conference, and we are negotiating with them about joint sessions and a coordinated program. On the afternoon of Thursday 20 April CogSci95 will hold a workshop on the applications of cognitive science. Pacling delegates who would like to demonstrate software, or who would like to offer a contribution, should contact Roly Sussex as soon as possible. ******************************* * 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) * Program Coordinator From: Roger Debreceny <rdebrece@scu.edu.au> To: <www-announce@info.cern.ch>; <resodlaa@@usq.edu.au>; <aiwg-res-des@aarnet.edu.au>; <ascilite@cutl.city.unisa.edu.au>; <CWIS-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>; <aus-epub@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>; <infosys@american.edu>; <link@wombat.anu.edu.au>; <wombat@aarnet.edu.au>; <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>; <anews-l@alsvid.scu.edu.au>; <wg-all@rare.nl>; <agocg-mm@mailbase.ac.uk>; <www-its@its.csiro.au>; <mmis@mailbase.ac.uk>; <JAYMACHADO@delphi.com>; <scout@is.internic.net>; <ICIS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>; <ctiss@uk.ac.ox.vax> Cc: <aellis@alsvid.scu.edu.au>; <sdaley@alsvid.scu.edu.au>; <shase@alsvid.scu.edu.au> Subject: AusWeb95-First Australian WWW conference (4/95) Announcement @ CFP Date: Monday, 21 November 1994 7:59PM This has been cross-posted to a number of services and lists. Our apologies if received more than once. ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS - AusWeb95 - AUSTRALIA, April 1995 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS - AusWeb95 - AUSTRALIA, April 1995 Ballina Beach Resort, Ballina, Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia. 29 April to 2 May 1995 A QUICK OVERVIEW Southern Cross University hosts AusWeb95 at the Ballina Beach Resort in Ballina on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia from 29 April to 2 May 1995. AusWeb95 is the first Australian conference on the WorldWideWeb. The conference has been designed to bring together those that are interested in the content, technical and societal aspects of the Web. Because the Web is so new and evolving so rapidly, we are all "beginners" and can (and must) learn from each other. The conference will cover the major issues in WorldWideWeb development in ten "tracks" and a poster and "Birds of a Feather" session. It will feature both Australian and international speakers. The proceedings of AusWeb95 will be published in both electronic and print formats. There will also be a competition for "the most interesting Web site in the World". Full details on AusWeb95 can be seen at http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/index.html or by emailing the organisers at mailto:AusWeb95@scu.edu.au WHERE IS IT BEING HELD? Ballina is a seaside, tourist town on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, Australia with excellent connections by air to Sydney and by road from Coolangatta.It is only 20 minutes drive from Byron Bay which is one of the most sought after tourist areas in Australia and an hour to the World Heritage listed rain forest of the Nightcaps National Park. The Ballina Beach resort is 50 metres from Ballina's excellent surfing Lighthouse Beach. In April you can still comfortably swim in the sea but there is also the Resort's pool, spa and sauna, not to mention the tennis courts. The AusWeb95 home page has pictures of the resort, the beach and of Byron Bay. The Lismore campus of Southern Cross University is 28km inland from Ballina. PRECONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP A "hands on" Preconference Training Workshop will be held at the University on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 April. The workshop is designed for those who have heard about the Web and wish to learn about this important resource. No WWW, or for that matter Internet, experience is assumed. Participants will learn how to author WorldWideWeb materials and how to bring a server to the net. The workshop will be very much hands on and will use training materials which have been developed for staff at Southern Cross University. The workshop will conclude with each participant developing material which will incorporate text, graphics, video and sound. There will be a limit of 20 people in the training workshop with each participant having their own computer. For further details, email the conference organisers at mailto:AusWeb95@scu.edu.au or call Allan Ellis (+61 66 20 3611) or Roger Debreceny (+61 66 20 3837). WHAT IS THE CONFERENCE FORMAT? AusWeb95 has been designed to maximise the interaction between the participants and to facilitate the sharing of experiences and to foster co- operative project and content development. There are a total of ten simultaneous sessions on the programs which will be designated as tracks. As all papers will be available well ahead of the conference there is no need for lengthy formal presentations. For each track there will be a moderator who will be asked to draw the threads from each of the presentations on that track. Paper contributors will then be able to make some opening comments before the issues are thrown open to general discussion amongst the participants. WHAT IS THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM? The program, which will be amended as necessary following feedback from participants, is as follows: Friday 28 April Preconference Workshop participants arrive. Saturday 29 April 9:00am-5:00pm All day Preconference Training Workshop 7:00pm Preconference workshop dinner at Ballina Beach Resort. Sunday 30 April 9:00am-5:00pm All day Preconference Training Workshop 8:00pm Conference Dinner and Official Opening. The conference dinner is being held at the start of the conference so that everyone has a chance to meet the other conference participants before the conference commences. Monday 1 May 9:00-9:15 The opening of the conference will be short and sweet. 9:15-10:00 am "The best Web site competition". The Web is changing so very quickly that no one person can keep up with all Web developments. This competition will allow conference participants to vie for an excellent prize by making three minute presentations on "the best Web site". Voting will be by all the participants. 10:00-10:15am Morning Tea 10:15am-12:00pm Simultaneous sessions (2) 12:00-1:00pm Lunch 1:00pm-2:30pm Simultaneous sessions (2) 2:30pm-2:45pm Afternoon Tea 3:00-4:30pm Simultaneous sessions (2) Enjoy the pool, spa, sauna or beach, then: 6:30 BBQ Dinner 7:30-8:30 Overseas speaker Tuesday 2 May 9:00 -10:15am Simultaneous sessions (2) 10:15-10:30am Morning Tea 10:30am-12:00pm Simultaneous sessions (2) 12:30-1:30pm Lunch 1:30-3:00pm Poster and Birds of a Feather sessions 3:00-3:15pm Afternoon Tea 3:15-4pm Report Backs from the Simultaneous sessions 4:00-5:00pm Plenary session and overseas speaker WHAT ARE THE THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE? The themes from the conference will be drawn from the expressed interests of the participants. Listed below and on the registration form are a total of 21 tracks - clearly 21 tracks into 10 simultaneous sessions do not go! And it is very likely that there will need to be more than one track on education. So some of these tracks may well be put together, and others will be covered in the poster and Birds of a Feather session. The final tracks will be decided after 3 February 1995. Australia and the Web - what is our future? Campus-wide information systems Collaboration Collaborative writing Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) using the Web Scientific collaboration Commercial applications Connectivity Bandwidth Remote usage of the Web Governmental information on the Web Local community access to the Web Education Case studies on the Web Course delivery Discipline specific Business and Commerce General sciences Humanities Law Media communications Medicine Social sciences Teacher education Visual and performing arts Instructional design Preparation of courseware Testing and Assessment Emerging services Multicasting Radio Video Voice Gender issues Hypertext theory Interfaces Developments in client technology Future of interfaces Publishing to multiple clients Libraries Z39.50 and the Web Internetworking the Web and other library services Publishing on the Web from a librarian's viewpoint Management issues Caching Managing numerous servers within a domain Mirroring Proxies Setting campus standards Overview of Web developments Publishing tools Presentation standards HTML and other presentation standards HTML+ SGML and the Web Publishing on the Web Academic publishing Book publishing Ephemera Security Secure material Secure transactions Sociology of the Web Training Virtual Reality Web Tools Accessing other database services Agents Robots, spiders and crawlers Searching PAPERS AND PUBLICATION There will be both full papers and poster sessions at AusWeb95. Full papers will be moderated on the basis of submission of abstracts and will normally be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length. The proceedings will be made available on the Web and also in print form in "R Debreceny and A Ellis (1995) AusWeb95 Lismore, NSW: Norsearch". KEY DATES The key dates for AusWeb95 are: 23 January 1995 - Abstracts due for full papers 3 February 1995 - Decisions on abstracts and tracks 3 March 1995 - Early bird registrations close 23 March 1995 - Full papers due 23 March 1995 - Final date for poster sessions proposals 23 March 1995 - Final date for Birds of a Feather proposals 29-30 April 1995 - Preconference Workshop 30 April-2 May 1995 - AusWeb95 HOW CAN I REGISTER? You can register with the online registration form which can be found at AusWeb95 home page: http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/ or by sending an email to the conference organisers for an email version of the registration form (which is also found at the AusWeb95 home page. HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? The fee includes accomodation at the Ballina Beach Resort on a first-come, first-served basis with alternative accomodation at other high quality motels in Ballina, transfers, two conference dinners, all other meals, morning and afternoon teas and the conference proceedings. The Preconference Training Workshop includes full set of training notes and slides and ancillary materials, two nights accommodation, and a dinner on the Saturday night and all other food. Coach transport between Ballina and the university campus is included. Early-Bird registration up to 3 March 1995 Conference A$550 US$410 Training Workshop (max 20 people) A$650 US$490 Combined Conference and Preconference Training Workshop A$1,090 US$820 Regular registration from 3 March 1995 Conference A$650 US$490 Training Workshop (max 20 people) A$650 US$490 Combined Conference and Training Workshop A$1,190 US$890 WHO CAN I CONTACT? The conference email address is AusWeb95@scu.edu.au The conference URL is http://www.scu.edu.au/ausweb95/ The following staff at Southern Cross University can be contacted for further information on AusWeb95: Norsearch, the university conference organisers: Sheridan Daley, Email: mailto:sdaley@scu.edu.au +61 66 20 3922 Fax: +61 66 22 1954 Stewart Hase, Email: mailto:shase@scu.edu.au +61 66 20 3922 Fax: +61 66 22 1954 Academic conference team: Allan Ellis, Email: mailto:aellis@scu.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3611 Roger Debreceny, Email: mailto:rdebrece@scu.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3837 From: <Agnar.Aamodt@ifi.unit.no> To: <IE-list@cs.ucl.ac.uk>; ag-exp-l <@forsythe.Stanford.EDU:ag-exp-l@ndsuvm1.BITNET>; <agosta@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>; <ai-ed@sun.com>; <ai-medicine@stanford.med.ed.ac.uk>; <ai-nat@adfa.oz.au>; <ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca>; <cbr-med@cs.uchicago.edu>; class-l <@forsythe.Stanford.EDU:class-l@sbccvm.BITNET>; <cybsys-l@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu>; <diagrams@cs.swarthmore.edu>; <idss@socs.uts.edu.au>; <kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl>; <kdd@gte.com>; <met-ai@comp.vuw.ac.nz>; <ml@ics.uci.edu> Subject: SCAI'95 - 2nd CfP Date: Thursday, 24 November 1994 11:12AM SCAI'95 FIFTH SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Trondheim, Norway, May 29 - 31, 1995 2. CALL FOR PAPERS and PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The biennial Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence is the international, open Scandinavian forum for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research and development. The conference language is English. The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI, and to bring together basic and applied research. The technical program will include paper and poster presentations, invited talks and panels. An award will be given to the best student paper. The major theme for SCAI'95 will be "Theory meets Practice", with facilitation of feedback from real world applications to the researchers as a central goal. Industry is particularly encouraged to submit papers. The fifth SCAI is hosted by the University of Trondheim and SINTEF DELAB, in cooperation with the Norwegian AI Society, NAIS. Submission of papers -------------------- Authors are requested to submit 5 hard-copies of papers written in English. Submitted papers should be unpublished and present original work. Papers should be double-spaced and not exceed 6000 words. Each copy of the paper should include a separate title page containing the title, full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all authors, an abstract of 100-200 words and an indicator whether a paper or poster presentation is preferred. Papers should be sent to ------------------ SCAI'95 Agnar Aamodt Dept. of Informatics, College of Arts and Science The University of Trondheim, N-7055 Dragvoll, NORWAY email: agnar@ifi.unit.no, fax: +47-73591733, phone: +47-73591838 / -1840 or SCAI'95 Jan Komorowski Knowledge Systems Group Dept. of Computer Systems and Telematics O.S. Bragstads plass 2E The Norwegian Institute of Technology The University of Trondheim N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY e-mail: Komorowski@idt.unit.no fax: +47-73594466, phone: +47-73594567 Key Dates --------- January 10, 1995 - Papers due. February 25, 1995 - Notification of acceptance or rejection March 25, 1995 - Camera ready paper due Preliminary program ------------------- Sunday 28. May -------------- 1800 - 2000 Registration Reception Monday 29. May -------------- 0830 - 0930 Registration 0930 - 1230 Tutorial 1 Evolutionary computation Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 1230 - 1400 Lunch 1400 - 1700 Tutorial 2 The successful application of modern artificial intelligence technologies Dr. Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd., England Tuesday 30. May --------------- 0900 - 1000 Invited speaker Exploring design space and niche space Prof. Aaron Sloman, The University of Birmingham, England 1000 - 1030 Coffee 1030 - 1230 Paper presentations 1230 - 1400 Lunch 1400 - 1530 Paper presentations 1530 - 1600 Coffee 1600 - 1700 Paper presentations 1715 - 1830 Norwegian AI Society Annual meeting 2000 Conference dinner Wednesday 31. May ----------------- 0900 - 1000 Invited speaker Synthesis of adaptive decision systems from experimental data Prof. Andrzej Skworon, Poland, Warsaw University 1000 - 1030 Coffee 1030 - 1230 Paper presentation 1230 - 1400 Lunch 1400 - 1530 Panel discussion Rates ----- Conference: NOK 2000 Not member of SAIS, DAIS, NAIS, FAIS: NOK 2250 Tutorials: NOK 500 Late registration (after April 15, 1994) Conference: NOK 2250 Not member of SAIS, DAIS, NAIS, FAIS: NOK 2500 Tutorials: NOK 750 NOTE: The conference rate includes reception, 2 lunches, conference dinner and coffee. The tutorial rate includes both tutorials, lunch and coffee. Program committee ----------------- Agnar Aamodt, University of Trondheim/AVH, co-chair Jan Komorowski, University of Trondheim/NTH, co-chair Tore Amble, University of Trondheim/NTH Bernt Bremdal, Bremdal Technology Services, Asker Roar Fjellheim, Computas Expert Systems, Sandvika Steffen Leo Hansen, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Frederiksberg Johan Moller Holst, Norsk Hydro, Bergen Sture Hagglund, Linkopings Universitet Carl Gustaf Jansson, Stockholm Universitet Andrew Jones, Institutt for Rettsinformatikk, Oslo Mette Kloster, SINTEF Informatikk, Oslo Aarno Lehtola, VTT/TTE, Laboratory of Information Processing Morten Lind, Danmarks tekniske universitet Mihhail Matskin, University of Trondheim/NTH Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University Jorgen Fischer Nilsson, Danmarks tekniske universitet Erik Sandewall, Linkopings Universitet Markku Syrjaenen, Tekniska Hogskolan i Helsingfors Ingeborg Solvberg, University of Trondheim/AVH and SINTEF DELAB Henry Tirri, Helskinki University Enn Tuygu, KTH, Stockholm Universitet Erling Woods, SINTEF Reguleringsteknikk, Trondheim Conference organizing committee ------------------------------- Inge Nordbo, SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, co-chair Arvid Holme, University of Trondheim/AVH, co-chair Conference secretariat ---------------------- SCAI'95 Inge Nordbo SINTEF DELAB, N-7034 Trondheim, Norway fax: +47 73 53 25 86 e-mail: scai95@delab.sintef.no Welcome to Trondheim ! ---------------------- Trondheim is the third largest city and the technical capital of Norway. Trondheim was already a center of power in Norway in 997, when the Viking king Olav Tryggvason founded a trading town at the mouth of the Nid river and built a castle there. Trondheim became Norway's first capital. Modern Trondheim features culture, research and education, besides trade and industry. The Norwegian Institute of Technology (abbreviated in Norwegian: NTH) was established here in 1910 and is the only technical university in the country. A major technological environment has grown up around it, larger than any other technological center in Norway. The other major part of the University is the College of Arts and Science (AVH), which has grown from a rather small college 25 years ago, to its present size equal to NTH. With its 16000 students, the University of Trondheim is the second largest in Norway. Close to the University there is Scandinavia's largest foundation for scientific and industrial research - SINTEF - with 2200 employees performing contract research and development for industry and public sector. Take the opportunity to participate in both technical and cultural events during SCAI'95. We look forward to seeing you in Trondheim! =============================== From: Anne Hee Hiong Ngu <anne@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: <seminars@cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: CFP: CoopIS-95 (fwd) Date: Wednesday, 30 November 1994 11:35PM coopis writes: > From coopis@dke.univie.ac.at Wed Nov 30 01:05:47 1994 > From: coopis <coopis@dke.univie.ac.at> > To: anne@cs.unsw.oz.au > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 15:02:58 +0100 > Message-Id: <199411291402.PAA01354@fidelio.dke.univie.ac.at> > Subject: CFP: CoopIS-95 > > > My apologies if you receive this more than once. > > Here is a CFP for Third International Conference on Cooperative Information > Systems. Please Feel free to pass it on to interested people. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Call for Papers > > Third International Conference on > Cooperative Information Systems > (CoopIS-95) > > > May 9-12, 1995 > Schloss Wilhelminen-Berg, Vienna, Austria > > In cooperation with IEEE CS, ACM SIGOIS, ACM SIGMOD (pending approval) > > *********************************************************************** ******** > *** Important dates *** > *** --------------- *** > *** *** > *** December 15,1994 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due *** > *** February 15,1995 notification of acceptance *** > *** March 1,1995 camera-ready version due *** > *********************************************************************** ******** > > An Evolving CIS Paradigm > ------------------------ > > The paradigm for the next generation of information systems (ISs) will > involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex > computer/communication networks. Such ISs will manage or have acces to > large amounts of information and computing services. They will support > individual or collaborative human work. > > > The Conference > --------------- > > The CoopIS-95 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and > dissemination of research covering all aspects of CIS design, requirements, > functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. > > The CoopIS-95 conference programme will include technical sessions, > invited presentations, panels and tutorials that deal with CISs and > the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-95 plans > to host special sessions on the industrial applicability of CIS > technology. Further information about the conference and its programme > can be obtained from the CoopIS-95 General and Program Co-Chairs by email at > coopis@dke.univie.ac.at. > > > > Information for Authors > ----------------------- > > Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the > concept of CIS, rather than just describing aspects of a component > technology (e.g., state assumptions or definitions as to the nature of > CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS > application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs > are particularly welcome. > > Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: vision, > research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, > ideas, or visoins that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. > Vison papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable > applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do > not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state > of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. > Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or > methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues > raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy > information systems. > > > Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 6000 words > that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing > period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. > Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail > address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, exact word count, and > explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience). > > > Suggested themes for submitted papers include (not limited to): > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > - CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy > - CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open > architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, > speech acts, advanced information services in support of > interoperability > - Business Process Management Systems: Architectures, Concepts, > Technology (e.g. analysis, modeling, reengineering and evaluation of > business processes) > - Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for CIS - sharing and reuse of > worldwide knowledge, knowledge of knowledge structures, > trends and applications in this area > - Core Technology for CIS - open distributed computing architectures, > type systems, object models and advanced transaction models for > interoperability, advanced query models and languages, active databases > - CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for > CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information > bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases > - Integration Challenges - interoperability, multiple paradigms, > forms of transparency, object and transaction model integration, global > information (e.g., schemas, directories, repositories), semantic > interoperability, negotiation, optimization (e.g., queries, indexing, ...) > - Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple > perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, > analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving > - Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information > requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple > programming paradigms > - Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, > classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing > and management > - Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer > legacy and new information systems into CISs > - CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, > development, and maintenance > - Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of > information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent > engineering and other groupware frameworks. > - CIS Applications - current and future. > > > General Chair > ------------- > Dimitris Karagiannis > Dept. Knowledge Engineering > University of Vienna > Bruenner Str. 72 > A-1210 Vienna, Austria > email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at > > Program Co-Chairs > ----------------- > > America (North & South) > Steven C. Laufmann (USA) > U S WEST Technologies > 4001 Discovery Drive > Boulder, CO, 80303, USA > laufmann@advtech.uswest.com > > Europe & Middle East > Stefano Spaccapietra (CH) > EPFL-DI-LBD > CH-1015 Lausanne > Switzerland > spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch > > Far East, Africa & Australia > Toshio Yokoi (Japan) > Japan Electronic Dictionary > Research Institue Ltd. > Mita-Kokusai > 1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku > Tokyo 108, Japan > yokoi@edr.co.jp > > > Steering Committee > ------------------ > Michael L. Brodie, GTE-Laboratories, USA > Michael N. Huhns, MCC, USA > Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany > John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada > Mike Papazoglou, Queensland Uni. Technology, Australia > Gunter Schlageter, FU Hagen, Germany > > > Program Committee > ----------------- > > Alexander Borgida (USA) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) > Michael L. Brodie (USA) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) > Panos Constantopoulos (Greece) Louis Marinos (Germany) > Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Patrick Martin (Canada) > Misbah Deen (UK) Dennis McLeod (USA) > Lois M. Delcambre (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) > Asuman Dogac (Turkey) Juzar Motiwalla (Singapore) > Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) John Mylopoulos (Canada) > Les Gasser (USA) Erich Neuhold (Germany) > J. L. Hainaut (Belgium) Anne Ngu (Australia) > Yoshinori Hara (Japan) Moira Norrie (Switzerland) > Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) > Michael N. Huhns (USA) Maurizio Panti (Italy) > Aranza Illaramendi (Spain) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) > Toru Ishida (Japan) Charles Petrie (USA) > V. Jaganathan (USA) Don Potter (USA) > Matthias Jarke (Germany) Andreas Reuter (Germany) > Nick Jennings (UK) Daniel Ries (USA) > Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA) > Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Felix Saltor (Spain) > Hannu Kangassalo (Finland) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) > Roger King (USA) Sandip Sen (USA) > Carig Knoblock (USA) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) > Jacques Kouloumdjian (France) Katsumi Tanaka (Japan) > Eiji Kuwana (Japan) A Min Tjoa (Austria) > Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Patrick Valduriez (France) > Michel Leonard (Switzerland) Carson Woo (Canada) > Victor Lesser (USA) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SUBMISSIONS TO CoopIS'95 > Third International Conference on Cooperative Information > Systems (CoopIS-95) > May 19-12, 1995 > Schloss Wilhelminen-Berg, Vienna, Austria > > FIRM SUBMISSION DEADLINE: > > As with many other conferences, CoopIS'95 will have a FIRM > deadline ("official" = "real"). As stated in the Call for > Papers, all submissions must be received by > > DECEMBER 15, 1994 > (or postmarked December 10 and sent by airmail) to be > considered. > > Specific paper submission guidelines for CoopIS'95 are > provided in this message and in the call for papers. > Other information about the conference can be obtained by > sending e-mail to coopis@dke.univie.ac.at > > > SUBMISSION INFORMATION > > Submission must be identified as one of three different > categories: visions, research, or experience. Vision papers > should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that > lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision > papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, > realizable applications and technologies, and technical > challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of > solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the > art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional > scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the > practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will > be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues > raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those > of legacy information systems. > > Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to > the concept of Cooperative Information System (CIS), rather > than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., > state your assumptions or definitions as to the nature of > CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an > CIS application or address technology integration issues > leading to CISs are particularly welcome. > > Please follow guidelines. Papers that do not meet the > criteria given in the call for papers will not be considered. > To assist you further, the program committee review form > against which your paper will be evaluated in included at the > end of this message. > > Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up > to 6000 words that are not under consideration for > publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be > sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. > Submissions must include contact information (contact name, > postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word > abstract, exact word count, and explicitly indicate the paper > category (vision, research, or experience). > > TOPIC(S) OF THE SUBMISSION > Authors are asked to state which of the following topics the > paper addresses (these are elaborated further in the Call for > Papers): > > CIS Systems Issues: > ___ : CIS Principles > ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols > ___ : Bussiness Process Management > ___ : Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for CIS > ___ : Core Technology for CIS > ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques > ___ : Integration Challenges > CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: > ___ : CIS Applications > ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs > ___ : Advanced CIS Programming > ___ : Information Engineering for CIS > ___ : Re-Engineering > ___ : CIS Evolution > ___ : Information Agents > > ___ : Other (please > specify):___________________________________ > > > HARD COPY SUBMISSION (to the correct PC co-chair) > > America (North & South) > Steven C. Laufmann (USA) > U S WEST Technologies > 4001 Discovery Drive > Boulder, CO, 80303, USA > laufmann@advtech.uswest.com > > > Europe & Middle East > Stefano Spaccapietra (CH) > EPFL-DI-LBD > CH-1015 Lausanne > Switzerland > spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch > > Far East, Africa & Australia > Toshio Yokoi (Japan) > Japan Electronic Dictionary > Research Institue Ltd. > Mita-Kokusai > 1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku > Tokyo 108, Japan > yokoi@edr.co.jp > > > > > CoopIS95 REVIEW FORM > > Below is the review form against which your paper will be > evaluated by the program committee. You may want to ensure > that your paper meets the criteria against which it will be > evaluated. > > PPPPPPPPPThis page for the AuthorsPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP > CoopIS-95 > 3RD INT'L CONF ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS > REVIEW REPORT > PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP > Paper Number: <paper number> > Authors: <authors> > Title: <title> > PPPPPPPPPPPCoopIS-95 Topics Section (To be provided by > authors):PPPPPPPPPPP > Topic Areas of the Paper > > CIS Systems Issues: > ___ : CIS Principles > ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols > ___ : Bussiness Process Management > ___ : Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for CIS > ___ : Core Technology for CIS > ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques > ___ : Integration Challenges > CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: > ___ : CIS Applications > ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs > ___ : Advanced CIS Programming > ___ : Information Engineering for CIS > ___ : Re-Engineering > ___ : CIS Evolution > ___ : Information Agents > > ___ : Other (please specify) > > PPCoopIS-95 Criteria Section (To be completed by reviewer)PPP > Answers: Y (=yes), N (=no) > > ___ : Less than 6,000 words ? > ___ : CIS assumptions/definition given ? > ___ : Contributions clearly related to (some) concept of CIS ? > ___ : Contributions illustrated in terms of CIS application(s) ? > ___ : Addresses technology integration issues leading to CISs ? > > PRatings Section (To be completed by reviewer)PPPPPPPPPPPPPP > Rating scale: Reject: 0-3 Weak Reject: 4-5 Weak Accept:6-7 > Accept:8-10 > > For All papers > ___ : Originality/Innovation > ___ : Significance of topic (cf. those in call for papers) > ___ : Technical quality > ___ : Relevance to CoopIS (cf. topics and challenges in call > for papers) > ___ : Presentation: clear, readable, well illustrated, well > structured, ... > ___ : Overall rating (i.e., accept or reject the whole > thing?) > > For Scientific papers only: > ___ : Advances the state of the art relevant to CIS > > > For Vision papers only: > ___ : Visionary (vs. advanced product concept) > ___ : Compelling (vs. fall asleep reading or listening) > ___ : Opportunities posed (vs. narrow, non-applicable) > ___ : Technical challenge(s) raised (vs. existing solutions) > ___ : Realizable application(s) or technologies (vs. > impossible) > > For Experience papers only: > ___ : Clear lesson(s) learned > ___ : General applicability of lessons learned (vs. solution > to isolated problem) > ___ : Research issues raised > > PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP > Referee+s expertise on the topic: > [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High > PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP > Amount of rewriting required: > [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High > PPPPPPComments Section (To be completed by reviewer)PPPPPPP > Comments to Authors: > > Main contribution(s): > > Positive aspect(s): > > Negative aspect(s): > > Further comments: > > > > > ----- End Included Message ----- > From: David Yarowsky <yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> To: <sigparse-list@edu.cmu.cs.nl> Subject: Call for Papers - ACL-95 Corpus Workshop Date: Wednesday, 30 November 1994 4:55PM ACL's SIGDAT presents the THIRD WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA Preliminary Call for Papers WHEN: June 30, 1995 - immediately following ACL-95 (June 27-29) WHERE: MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): sense disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, robust parsing, term and name identification, alignment of parallel text, machine translation, lexicography, spelling correction, morphological analysis and anaphora resolution. This year, the workshop will be organized around the theme of: Supervised Training vs. Self-organizing Methods Is annotation worth the effort? Historically, annotated corpora have made a significant contribution. The tagged Brown Corpus, for example, led to important improvements in part-of-speech tagging. But annotated corpora are expensive. Very little annotated data is currently available, especially for languages other than English. Self-organizing methods offer the hope that annotated corpora might not be necessary. Do these methods really work? Do we have to choose between annotated corpora and unannotated corpora? Can we use both? The workshop will encourage contributions of innovative research along this spectrum. In particular, it will seek work in languages other than English and in applications where appropriately tagged training corpora do not exist. It will also explore what new kinds of corpus annotations (such as discourse structure, co-reference and sense tagging) would be useful to the community, and will encourage papers on their development and use in experimental projects. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for debate. However, we expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ken Church - AT&T Bell Laboratories David Yarowsky - University of Pennsylvania SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard-copy. Electronic submissions must either be plain ascii text or a single latex file following the ACL-95 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib files). Hard copy submissions should include four (4) copies of the paper. Authors should consult the primary call for papers in late January for updated specifications. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: March 10, 1995 Notification Date: April 10, 1995 Camera ready copy due: May 10, 1995 CONTACT: Ken Church David Yarowsky Room 2B-421 Dept. of Computer and Info. Science AT&T Bell Laboratories University of Pennsylvania 600 Mountain Ave. 200 S. 33rd St. Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu From: Raya Fidel <fidelr@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> To: Multiple recipients of list INDEX-L <INDEX-L@BINGVMB.EARN> Subject: SIGIR'95 -- A Reminder Date: Monday, 5 December 1994 4:30PM ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- *** REMINDER *** CALL FOR PAPERS SIGIR'95 There is still time to submit a paper---or a proposal for a poster, tutorial, demonstration, or workshop---for SIGIR '95. The deadline for papers is January 6, and for other formats, February 10. A brief description of the conference follows; for further information: Detailed information regarding submissions, addresses of program chairs, etc. is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.u.washington.edu (/public/sigir95/cfp). Questions should be addressed to the Conference Chair or sigir95@u.washington.edu ********** 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). SIGIR'95 is an international research conference on information retrieval theory, systems, and applications. It will interest a broad spectrum of professionals including theoreticians, developers, publishers, researchers, educators, and designers of systems, interfaces, information bases, and related applications. Topics covered include: IR fundamentals; Users and IR interaction; IR and cognitive approaches; Dedicated IR applications; and Education in IR. Submissions can be in the form of contributed papers, tutorials, panels, posters or demonstrations, and should be made to the relevant Chairs. Deadlines: JAN. 6, 1995 Submission of papers to Program Co-chair FEB. 10, 1995 Submission of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops to the relevant Chair MAR. 10, 1995 Author notification APR. 3, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms 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 From: "Prof. Dr. H.-J. Hoffmann" <hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> To: Multiple recipients of list VISUAL-L <VISUAL-L@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu> Subject: IEEE Intl. Symp. on Visual languages 1995 Date: Monday, 12 December 1994 12:39PM Please find below Announcement and Call for Paper for the 1995 IEEE Intl. Symp. on Visual Languages. ==================================================================== Please distribute! Please post! Sorry for multiple copies! Call for Participation 11th Intl. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages ********************************************* Tutorials Sept. 5 - 6, 1995 ---- Paper sessions Sept. 6 - 9, 1995 University at Darmstadt, Germany General Chairs: Allen L. Ambler, University of Kansas, USA Takayuki Dan Kimura, Washington Univ. St. Louis, USA Programme Chair: Hans-Juergen Hoffmann, Univ. at Darmstadt, Germany The Symposium continues the previous annual workshops and symposia on Visual Languages 1984, 1986, 1987, ... 1993, 1994. The focus of the symposium series is an interest in multi-dimensional, multi-sensorial man-machine communication, particularly when such com- munication is for the purpose of defining tasks, whether in the sense of programming or querying or operating. The means of achieving such definition of tasks can include text description, visual manipulation, visual image recognition, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, physical gestures and other technologies. While, historically, visual technologies have dominated the Symposium on Visual Languages, we would like to encourage submissions employing other multi-dimensional or multi-sensorial technologies, particularly when combined with visual technologies. For 1995 the following list of topics gives ideas of emphasis: Visual, iconic, and multimodal languages for programming and querying, Visual languages "in-the-large", Application domains - Visual languages and geographic information systems (GIS), - Visual languages and architecture / design, - Diagrammatical reasoning / spatial reasoning, - Visual languages for end-user programming, - Visual languages in groupware applications, - Visual languages to support tele-communication, - ... (you invent them, let's talk about!), Iconic languages, Foundations of visual languages, Metalevel modelling of visual languages, Tools for specification of and reasoning about languages of the kind considered, Application of intelligence to enhance language communication, including logical deduction to interpret visual, iconic, and multimodal interactions, Empirical studies and evaluations, usability studies, reports on applications, Multimodal interaction techniques (3D, voice, pen-based, eye tracking, ...) in visual environments, Integration of visual approaches with multimedia, Animation, Implementation issues, Environments for visual, iconic, and multimodal operations, editing, visualization, animation etc. What are "Visual Languages"? See http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/computing.visual.html to get an idea to this frequently asked question. Information board ----------------- Send E-mail to vl95@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de or look into WWW http://www.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/vl95/ Deadline for submission of contributions for review --------------------------------------------------- April 7, 1995 ************* Technical papers, maximum 8 pages in IEEE publications format Poster abstracts, maximum 2 pages in IEEE publications format Proposals for demonstrations, panels, and tutorials. For details of submission (preferred electronically) contact Dirk Koschorek koschorek@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Contributions covering any aspects of visual languages may be well supported by short video-clips, live demonstrations and the like; ask koschorek@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de for planning your "performance". Further important dates ----------------------- Deadline of submissions for review April 7, 1995 Notification to authors of acceptance May 15, 1995 Final camera-ready manuscripts of accepted papers June 9, 1995 Contact ------- Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann University at Darmstadt Department of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64282 Darmstadt Tel.: intl+49+6151+163410 Fax: intl+49+6151+166648 E-Mail: hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Programme Committee ------------------- Alberto Del Bimbo, Italy Meera Blattner, USA Margaret Burnett, USA Wayne Citrin, USA Isabel Cruz, USA Tim Dudley, Canada Stephen G. Eick, USA Ephraim Glinert, USA Volker Haarslev, Germany Masahito Hirakawa, Japan Chris M. Holt, United Kingdom Robert Laurini, France Satoshi Matsuoka, Japan Lisa Neal, USA Kai Olsen, Norway Joerg Poswig, Germany Alex Quilici, Hawaii Stefan Schiffer, Austria Omid Sojoodi, USA John Stasko, USA Gerd Szwillus, Germany Steven L. Tanimoto, USA Juergen F. H. Winkler, Germany Special responsibilities ------------------------ Volker Haarslev, Publications Dirk Koschorek, Local arrangements Gerd Szwillus, Tutorials Juergen Winkler, Demonstrations / Posters ======================================================================== -- vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoffmann Technische Hochschule Darmstadt / University at Darmstadt (Germany) FB Informatik, FG PU / Dept. of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany Tel. (06151) 163410 / Phone +49+6151+163410 Fax (06151) 166648 / Fax +49+6151+166648 E-mail hoffmann@pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: <Hui.Zhang@N3.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> To: <sigmedia@bellcore.com> Subject: CFP: ACM MULTIMEDIA'95 Date: Wednesday, 14 December 1994 5:05PM ACM MULTIMEDIA'95 November 5-9, 1995 Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero) San Francisco, CA THE THIRD ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION Sponsored by the ACM SIG Multimedia, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH, SIGBIT, SIGOIS, SIGIR, and IEEE Communications Society PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Multimedia can substantially improve communication between information providers and consumers by making it more effective and more engaging. ACM Multimedia'95 will provide an international forum for papers, panels, videos, demonstrations, courses, workshops, and exhibits focusing on all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field: from underlying technologies to applications and issues, and from theory to practice. We invite your participation. Topics include, but are not limited to: applications in education, entertainment, government, medicine, etc.; collaboration environments; databases; digital libraries; distributed systems; documents and authoring; hardware and architectures; image, video and audio compression techniques; information retrieval; interactive television; media integration and synchronization; networking and communication; operating system extensions; programming paradigms and environments; standards and legal issues; storage and I/O architectures; tools; user interfaces; and virtual reality. Papers ------ Technical papers on completed or in-progress research, innovative applications, or experience with multimedia systems are solicited. Submissions must use a typeface no smaller than 10 point, double sided if possible, and be no longer than 12 pages including figures, tables, and references. Where applicable, prototype demonstrations or videotape presentations are encouraged to supplement the talks. Submit complete papers to: Polle Zellweger, Program Chair. Outstanding papers on different areas of multimedia will be given awards. Papers with a student as the primary author will enter a student paper award competition. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for the student paper competition. Selected papers will be forwarded to ACM/Springer-Verlag Multimedia Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, or ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Panels ------ Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should be limited to 2 pages, plus a biography of at most one paragraph for each participant. Submit panel proposals to: Fillia Makedon, Panels Chair. Videos ------ Videos of innovative multimedia technology should be 5-8 minutes long, in NTSC format, and accompanied by one copy of a 1-2 page description of the material shown in the video. Submit videos to: Gil Cruz, Videos Chair. Demonstrations -------------- We solicit demonstrations of working systems in technical and artistic categories. Submissions (at most 2 pages) should include a description of the exhibit, demo requirements, a biography, and a single VHS NTSC video. Submit demonstrations to: Tom Little, Demonstrations Chair. Courses ------- There will be a series of 1/2-day tutorial courses, focused on issues relevant to researchers and/or practitioners of multimedia technology. Proposals (at most 5 pages) should include a description of the subject matter and brief biographical sketches of the instructors. Evaluation of proposals will be based on expertise and experience of instructors, relevance of subject matter, and the use of multimedia technology in the presentation. Submit tutorial proposals to: Sorel Reisman, Tutorials Chair. Workshops --------- Workshops preceding the conference will allow participants to exchange ideas on a topic. Workshop results and issues will be integrated into the main body of the conference. Submit workshop proposals to: Ephraim Glinert, Workshops Chair. Exhibits -------- ACM Multimedia'95 offers a unique opportunity for vendors and publishers to exhibit and demonstrate multimedia products. For more information, contact Don Collier, Exhibition Manager. ============= Authors of accepted submissions will be required to submit both a camera- ready copy of the manuscript for the printed proceedings and an electronic copy for the CD ROM proceedings. Authors must assign copyright to ACM as a condition of publishing their work in the proceedings. An author who embeds an object, such as an art image, copyrighted by a third party is expected to obtain that party's permission to include the object with the understanding that the entire work may be distributed as a unity to ACM members and others. Up-to-date information about ACM Multimedia'95, including a more detailed version of this call, can be found on the World Wide Web at http://acm.org/MM95/. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Six copies of all submissions due: March 29, 1995. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1995. Submissions in final form due: August 11, 1995. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair: Treasurer: R.B. Allen, Bellcore M. Brown, DEC Electronic Information: Networking: H. Zhang, CMU G. Paxinos, Metro Link Electronic Publishing: Proceedings: R. Phillips, LANL S. Heller, GWU Publicity: European Liaison: R. Mehrotra, UM-St. Louis C. Thanos, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Pisa) Steering Committee Co-Chairs: S. Bulick, US WEST A. Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard PROGRAM CHAIR: PANELS CHAIR: Polle Zellweger Fillia Makedon Xerox PARC Dept. of Math and Computer Sci. 3333 Coyote Hill Road Dartmouth College Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, Room 109 mm95@parc.xerox.com Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA Phone: +1-415-812-4426 makedon@kinsman.dartmouth.edu Phone: +1-603-646-3048 VIDEOS CHAIR: DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR: Gil Cruz, R. Hill Tom Little MRE-2B280 Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr. Bellcore Boston University 445 South Street 44 Cummington St. Morristown, NJ 07960 USA Boston, MA 02215 USA {gil,rdh}@bellcore.com tdcl@spiderman.bu.edu Phone: +1-201-829-5212 Phone: +1-617-353-9877 TUTORIALS CHAIR: WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Sorel Reisman Ephraim Glinert Dept. of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science California State University R. P. I. Fullerton, CA 92634 USA Troy, NY 12180 USA sreisman@ccvax.fullerton.edu glinert@cs.rpi.edu Phone: +1-714-773-3325 Phone: +1-518-276-2657 EXHIBITS CHAIR: EXHIBITOR INFORMATION: Brent Hailpern Don Collier IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr. DC Expositions, Inc. 30 Sawmill River Roada 555 Republic Drive, Suite #316 Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA Plano, TX 75074 USA bth@watson.ibm.com dcexpo@aol.com Phone: +1-914-784-6821 Phone +1-214-423-4286 1995 ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION From: Behcet Sarikaya <sarikaya@u-aizu.ac.jp> To: <end2end-interest@ISI.EDU>; <f-troup@aurora.cis.upenn.edu>; <rem-conf-request@es.net>; <cost237-transport@computing.lancaster.ac.uk>; <reres@laas.fr>; <hipparch@sophia.inria.fr>; <xtp-relay@cs.concordia.ca>; <rem-conf@es.net>; <sigmedia@bellcore.com>; <tccc@cs.umass.edu> Subject: MmNet95 Call for Papers, please distribute. Happy holidays!! Date: Wednesday, 21 December 1994 2:35PM CALL FOR PAPERS - MMNET'95 The International Conference on Multimedia Networking Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan (27-29 September 1995) SCOPE and OBJECTIVE ------------------- The University of Aizu was founded in 1993 by the Fukushima Government. It presently has two departments: Computer Hardware and Computer Software. The conference is being launched to promote research on multimedia and networking. Topics of interests include the following for which original research papers are solicited: A. Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia B. Teleservices, Multimedia mail C. Quality of Service Issues and Architectures D. Media Scheduling and Synchronization Techniques E. Broadband Network Transport Issues F. Synchronization Mechanisms G. Distributed Multimedia Systems H. Multimedia Models, Frameworks, and Document Architectures I. Multimedia in Personal Communication Systems VENUE ----- The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Aizu. The University of Aizu is located in Aizu-Wakamatsu City, 300 km northwest of Tokyo. Aizu-Wakamatsu can easily be reached from Tokyo or other major cities in Japan via toll expressway. The Japanese bullet train (Shinkansen) from Tokyo stops in Koriyama which is 50 km east of Aizu-Wakamatsu and a local train connects Koriyama to Aizu-Wakamatsu. Aizu-Wakamatsu is the historic capital of the Aizu region of Fukushima Prefecture and is in the scenic vicinity of the Bandai-Asahi National Park. Aizu region is famous for its hot springs, skiing resorts and the Japanese wine, sake. The average daily high temperature in September is about 20 degrees Celsius (about 70 degrees F). CONTRIBUTIONS ------------- IMPORTANT DATES: - April 28, 1995: Submission of papers - June 9, 1995: Authors will be notified - July 12, 1995: Camera-ready papers will be due The papers should not exceed 12 pages single-spaced. The front page should contain the author(s)'s name(s), affiliation, address, phone, fax and email, as well as an informative abstract. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please submit the papers by email to mmnet95@u-aizu.ac.jp in (printable) postscript form by April 28, 1995. ====================================================================== CONFERENCE CHAIR. Makoto Ikeda, University of Aizu PROGRAM CHAIR. Behcet Sarikaya, University of Aizu PROGRAM COMMITTEE. ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA), Geoff Coulson (Lancaster University, UK) Jean-Pierre Courtiat (LAAS, France), Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany) Masaki Ito (NTT-Tokyo, Japan) Lian Li (Bell Northern Research-Ottawa, Canada) Tom D.C. Little (Boston University, USA) Shiro Sakata (NEC-Kawasaki, Japan) Aruna Seneviratne (Univ. of Technology, Australia) Ralf Steinmetz (IBM-Heidelberg, Germany) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR. Senro Saito, University of Aizu For further information, please contact Behcet Sarikaya via email: sarikaya@u-aizu.ac.jp, fax: (81) 242-37-2742 phone: (81) 242-37-2559 or by post Behcet Sarikaya The University of Aizu Tsuruga, Ikki-machi Aizu-Wakamatsu Shi, Fukushima Ken Japan 965-80. From: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk> To: <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>; <salt@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: CFP: IJCAI-95 Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis Date: Wednesday, 21 December 1994 7:17PM Call For Papers IJCAI-95 Workshop on Computational Auditory Scene Analysis August 19-20, 1995, Montreal, CANADA Two day workshop The interest of AI in problems related to understanding sounds has a rich history dating back to the ARPA Speech Understanding Project in the 1970's. While a great deal has been learned from this and subsequent speech understanding research, the goal of building systems that can understand general acoustic signals (e.g. continuous speech and/or non-speech sounds) from unconstrained environments is still unrealized. Instead, there are now systems that understand "clean" speech well in relatively noiseless laboratory environments, but that break down in more realistic, noisier environments. As seen in the "cocktail-party effect," humans (and other mammals) have the ability to selectively attend to sound from a particular source, even when it is mixed with other sounds. Computers also need to be able to decide which parts of a mixed acoustic signal are relevant to a particular purpose -- which part should be interpreted as speech, for example, and which should be interpreted as a door closing, an air conditioner humming, or another person interrupting. Observations such as these have led a number of researchers to conclude that research on speech understanding and on non-speech understanding need to be united within a more general framework. One such framework is suggested by the Bregman's recent book, "Auditory Scene Analysis" (MIT Press, '90). This work has inspired a number of systems that attempt to model what is known about the human auditory system. It has also encouraged researchers to explore general models of the structure of sounds in order to deal with more realistic acoustic environments. Researchers have also begun trying to understand computational auditory frameworks as parts of larger perception systems whose purpose is to give a computer integrated information about the real world. Inspiration for this work ranges from research on how different sensors can be integrated to models of how humans' auditory apparatus works in concert with vision, proprioception, etc. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers to compare approaches to AI-oriented auditory scene analysis. We invite papers from researchers active in all fields which have a bearing on this complex and diverse field. The topics include, but are not limited to: - Modeling Issues: Cognitive Modeling Low-level Auditory Models Evaluation of Auditory models from viewpoint of engineering - Sound Understanding: Auditory Stream Segregation Multi-Modal Understanding (i.e. integration with other perceptual systems) Engineering Aspects of Psychoacoustics -Architectural Issues: Unified Architectures Blackboard Architectures Multi-Agent Paradigm Hybrid Approach to Top-Down/ Bottom-Up processing - Control Issues: Reactive/ Planned Behavior Adaptive Behavior - Representational Issues: Representation of Audition Representation of Speech Representation of Music Unified Representation of (possibly Dynamic) Vision and Audition - Applications: Speech Understanding Music Understanding Multi-Modal Integration Submissions: ============ Please submit a detailed abstract (approx. 1500 words) or a full paper (limited to 5000 words) by February 20. For those who can submit electronically, please submit materials in plain, unformatted text or Postscript text to casa-submission@mit.media.edu. For those who can not submit via e-mail, send five hard copies to David Rosenthal to arrive by February 20, 1995. All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Time table: =========== Papers due: February 20, 1995 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: April 20, 1995 Important Notice ================ Delegates should note that workshop participation is not possible WITHOUT REGISTRATION for the main conference (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-95). Workshop Committee ================== David Rosenthal (co-chair) 16 Surrey Road Woburn, MA 01801 USA dfr@media.mit.edu Phone (617) 935-3644 Hiroshi G. Okuno (co-chair) NTT Basic Research Laboratories 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi Kanagawa, 243-01 Japan okuno@nuesun.ntt.jp Malcolm Crawford University of Sheffield, UK M.Crawford@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk S. Hamid Nawab Boston University, USA hamid@engc.bu.edu Malcolm Slaney Interval Research, Inc. USA malcolm@interval.com ******************************************************************** Call For Papers of Postscript version is available by anonymous FTP. sail.stanford.edu: ~ftp/pub/casa/ijcai95-casa-cfp.ps.Z aka http://sail.stanford.edu/pub/casa/ijcai95-casa-cfp.ps.Z You may also get a compress-ed, uuencode-d version directly by email: simply send m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk an email with ijcai-cfp as the Subject line, and it will be automatically sent to you. ******************************************************************** From: Richard Sutcliffe <sutcliffer@ul.ie> To: <nlpeople@aisb.edinburgh.ac.uk>; <nlpeople@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>; <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>; <siggen@black.bgu.ac.il>; <aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>; <salt@cstr.edinburgh.ac.uk>; <acl@cs.columbia.edu>; <ikbsbb@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk>; <fj-ai@etl.go.jp>; <ln-fr@frmop11.bitnet>; <arpanet-bboard@mc.lcs.mit.edu>; <ir-l@uccmvsa.bitnet>; <M5675@eurokom.ie>; <corpora@hd.uib.no> Subject: 1st Announcement: Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals 1995 Date: Thursday, 22 December 1994 11:17PM First Announcement I P S M ' 9 5 International Workshop on Industrial Parsing of Software Manuals 1995 Thursday 4 - Friday 5 May 1995 University of Limerick Ireland Organisers: Heinz-Detlev Koch, University of Heidelberg Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick Introduction ============ A considerable potential market exists for robust systems which can perform free text information retrieval, machine assisted translation, summarisation, routing and related tasks on pre-existing documents. An important component in many systems of this kind is a parser which will allow grammatical (and hence semantic) relations between textual units to be determined. There is a large literature on parsing but only recently has much emphasis been placed upon robust coverage of real texts rather than the fragile analysis of simple example sentences. Competitions such as the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) and the Message Understanding Conference (MUC) have provided a useful focus on practical considerations by concentrating on the optimisation of overall system performance in a specific task which is shared by all participants. Our aim is to concentrate on parsing alone and to undertake a more detailed comparison of approaches. Discussion and experimentation will revolve around our chosen text domain - the instruction manuals shipped with computer software for the PC. This is an important area because there is an increasing convergence between the development of accompanying documentation and the provision of on-line help. In addition there is a need to automate the complex process of product localisation. One aspect of this process is the semi-automatic translation of accompanying documents into the language of each target market, a task which is greatly facilitated if an accurate syntactic analysis of the texts is available. It is not our intention to compare the literal characteristics of different parsing algorithms as this topic is very well covered already. Rather we wish to investigate the efficacy of competing parsing *systems*, each comprising a parser and grammar taken together. What exactly are the difficulties faced in trying to analyse utterances derived from the domain of instruction manuals, and what are the strengths and weaknesses of the various parsing methods when applied to it? The following general issues are of interest: * How easy is it to develop a grammar for the parser? * What existing resources exist for the parser and how easy are they to modify for new purposes? * What type of data structures are returned by the parser? * What information do these data structures structures contain and how easy is it to extract that information? Organisation of Workshop ======================== Early in 1995, each participating group will be supplied with a technical text in machine readable form together with a list of the terminology occurring in that text. The document will be in American English. The group will then spend some time working on the development of their parser/grammar to ensure coverage of utterances within the text. The next stage will be analysis of the resulting parse trees with a view to establishing the efficacy of the parsing system with respect to the following kinds of issues: * The resolution of prepositional phrase attachment - how accurately can this be accomplished in this domain? * The analysis of and/or/comma coordination - what characteristics do such coordinations have in this domain and what techniques can be used to analyse them accurately? * The handling of gapping and other forms of ellipsis - to what extent is the best approach to this problem dependent on the parsing system being used? * Efficiency - how long does it take to analyse the sentences and what space requirements are entailed? Finally, participants will meet in Limerick in May to compare results and to discuss their implications. Proceedings of the workshop will be produced as a UL Technical Report and it is planned to publish this after the meeting. Participation ============= The following have already agreed to take part in the workshop: University College Dublin, Ireland University of Heidelberg, Germany University of Limerick, Ireland University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands University of Pennsylvania, USA Proposals for participation are welcomed by other groups. Please contact the organisers for more information. The above groups all use systems consisting of a parser together with either a grammar or a syntagmatic lexicon. However we are happy to include teams who work with statistical or connectionist methods. Natural Language Processing at UL ================================= The NLP group at Limerick has interests in computational lexicology and lexicography, computer assisted language learning, information retrieval, machine assisted translation, software localisation, syntagmatic parsing and word sense disambiguation. The group has received sponsorship from a number of sources including Apple Computer, the European Union, EOLAS, the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland, K & M, Microsoft, the National Software Directorate and Siemens. Previous conferences organised at UL include Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 1992, Eagna chun Gnimh (Irish Computational Linguistics), Natural Language Processing in Ireland 1992 (NLPI'92), NLPI'93, and International Workshop on Machine Translation 1994. About the University of Limerick ================================ The University of Limerick is situated on rolling parkland beside the historic River Shannon. The tranquil red brick campus is complemented by lakes, fountains and sculptures. The workshop will be based in the Robert Schuman Building, home of the Computer Science and Information Systems Department, an airy and majestic structure incorporating lecture theatres. meeting rooms, computer laboratories and research centres, all equipped to the highest standards. The Shannon Region is especially beautiful in early summer, and there are many sights worth visiting: Bunratty Castle, the thousand foot high Cliffs of Moher, Rock of Cashel, King John's Castle, and Aillwee Caves are all close by. In addition there is Loch Derg, teeming with wildlife on its many islands and surrounded by blue-green hills and lofty mountains. The University is easily reached - Shannon International Airport is only 20kms away, with regular direct flights to London, New York, and many other cities. Heinz-Detlev Koch Lehrstuhl fuer Computerlinguistik KarlstraBe 2 D-69117 Heidelberg Deutschland +49 6221 543 248 Direct +49 6221 543 242 Fax koch@novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de Richard F.E. Sutcliffe Department of Computer Science and Information Systems University of Limerick Ireland +353 61 202706 Direct +353 61 330876 Fax email sutcliffer@ul.ie From: Raya Fidel <fidelr@u.washington.edu> To: humanist <@homer18.u.washington.edu:humanist@brownvm>; <ncgur@uccmvsa.ucop.edu>; <para@cs.cmu.edu>; <tei-l@uicvn.bitnet>; <smart-people@cs.cornell.edu>; <fay@arch.su>; <edu.au@u.washington.edu>; <hcf1dahl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu>; <weischedel@bbn.com>; <corpora@hd.uib.no>; <lexical@nmsu.edu>; <linguist@tam2000.tamu.edu>; <humbul@mail.rutherford.ac.uk>; <ln@frmop11.cnusc.fr>; <nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu>; <empiricists@csli.stanford.edu>; asis-l <@homer18.u.washington.edu:asis-l@uiucvmd>; <index-l@bingvmg.cc.binghamton.edu> Date: Wednesday, 4 January 1995 12:03PM NOTE: EXTENSION OF PAPER DUE DATE TO 11 JANUARY 1995 !!! 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 In co-operation with ACM AICA-GLIR (Italy) BCS-IRSG (UK) CEPIS-EIRSG (Europe) DD (Denmark) GI (Germany) IPSJ (Japan) IMPORTANT DATES E-mail to <sigir95@u.washington.edu> to be added to mailing list: Today RECEIPT of papers by relevant Program Co-chair: JANUARY 11, 1995 RECEIPT of proposals for tutorials, panels, demonstrations, posters, and workshops by the relevant Chair: FEBRUARY 10, 1995 Author notifications sent: MARCH 10, 1995 Final manuscript due in camera ready and electronic forms: APRIL 3, 1995. For additional information contact the Conference Chair or <sigir95@u.washington.edu> 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 H. 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 also would 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: Ioan Alfred Letia <letia@utcluj.ro> To: ELSNET email <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: icc95 Date: Friday, 6 January 1995 10:28AM We thought that perhaps someone from your group might be interested in participating at ICC '95. ____________________________________________________________________________ CALL for PAPERS ICC '95 Intelligent Computer Communication Cluj-Napoca, Romania 29-30 June 1995 Participation is invited for the workshop on intelligent computer communi- cation. The workshop centres on the theme that intelligent communication and cooperation between computer systems and their users is essential for a wider usage of computer technology. Contributions on every style of com- munication and cooperation in various application areas are invited. The workshop spans the spectrum from theory to concrete applications, with empha- sis on communication tools and the methods and techniques for their imple- mentation, including: * Intelligent Interfaces * Parallel Processing * Multi Agent Architectures * Knowledge Engineering * Natural Language Communication * Learning Techniques * Deductive/Active Databases * Neural Processing * Distributed Systems We invite not only original papers, but also reports of current research and of completed projects. All contributions will be refereed and - if accepted - published in the workshop proceedings. Poster sessions and demonstrations can be arranged. Invited talks will be included into the program. Submission of Papers Authors are invited to submit contributions in the form of a full paper, not exceeding 10 pages (4000 words), or a poster, not exceeding 4 pages. All con- tributions must clearly identify the name, address, and e-mail address (if available) of the responsible author. The working language of the workshop will be English, papers and posters must be submitted in English. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the workshop. Three copies of the full paper should be received by the chair or the local orga- nizer not later than 6 March 1995. Program Chair Claus Unger, University of Hagen, Germany Program Committee Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Ioan Jurca, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania Alfred Kobsa, University of Konstanz, Germany Jana Koehler, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany Ioan Alfred Letia, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Emil Munteanu, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Ajit Narayanan, Exeter University, UK Reinhard Oppermann, GMD Sankt Augustin, Germany Mircea Petrescu, Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania Kalman Pusztai, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Deadlines (materials are to arrive by): Full Papers Due 6 March 1995 Notification of Acceptance 17 April 1995 Camera-ready Final Version 15 May 1995 Workshop 29-30 June 1995 Submission: Papers and posters must be sent in hardcopy either to the program chair or to the local organizer: Program Chair: Local Organizer: Claus Unger Ioan Alfred Letia Praktische Informatik II Department of Computer Science University of Hagen Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Feithstr. 140 Baritiu 26 D-58084 Hagen, Germany RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania E-mail: Claus.Unger@fernuni-hagen.de E-mail: letia@utcluj.ro Fax: +49 (2331) 987-313 Fax: +40 (64) 192055 Phone: +49 (2331) 987-2999 Phone: +40 (64) 194684 The workshop is hosted by the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, a town with a fairly long academic and computing tradition. ____________________________________________________________________________ Good wishes for the New Year. I.A. Letia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ioan Alfred Letia Department of Computer Science Email: letia@utcluj.ro Technical University of Cluj-Napoca Fax: +40 (64) 192055 Baritiu 26 Phone: +40 (64) 194684 RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania From: G Cheng <ubacr46@dcs.bbk.ac.uk> To: <diagrams@cs.swarthmore.edu> Subject: IDA-95: International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis Date: Thursday, 12 January 1995 8:50PM Last CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA-95) Baden-Baden, Germany 17th-19th August 1995 Objective --------- The gap between data generation and data comprehension is widening. Efficient computational methods for analysing data effectively are required to narrow this gap. There have been a variety of computationally intelligent techniques developed, which are beginning to provide such capability. However, many questions need to be properly addressed before these techniques can be most effectively employed to perform various data analysis tasks. It is the purpose of IDA-95 to provide an international forum for the discussion of these questions, some of which are listed below: a) How important is it to understand the data characteristics and to pre-process data accordingly before using the data for tasks such as classification and forecasting? [Exploratory data analysis, incompleteness and uncertainty, noise filters, outliers] b) With so many modern techniques, which technique should I use for my application? [Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, decision trees, genetic algorithms, neural nets, statistical pattern recognition] c) What is the impact of modern visualisation techniques on data analysis? [Computer graphics, computational geometry, image processing, user interface] d) What is the role of domain knowledge in data analysis? Does it help analyse data more effectively or simply introduce "biases" into the analysis procedure? e) How do we evaluate the performance of intelligent data analysis systems? What should we do when "golden standards" do not exist? f) How can one integrate a variety of related techniques to develop the most effective system for a given application? Submissions ----------- Participants who wish to present a paper are requested to submit a 1000 word extended abstract as soon as possible, but not later than February 1, 1995. (E-mail submissions are preferred.) Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors by March 15, 1995. Full camera-ready papers, not exceeding 5 single-spaced pages, will be required by May 1, 1995 for publication in the Symposium Proceedings. In addition to paper presentations, panel sessions on one or more of the above-mentioned topics are planned. If you would like to organise a panel discussion in these or other related topics, please submit your proposals with a one-page description of the subject matter and a list of proposed panelists by April 1, 1995. Program Committee ----------------- Nirwan Ansari New Jersey Inst. of Tech., USA David Bell Univ. of Ulster at Jordanstown, N. Ireland Max Bramer Univ. of Portsmouth, England Paul Cohen Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Doug Fisher Vanderbilt University, USA Alex Gammerman Royal Holloway, London Univ., England Se June Hong IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Xiaohui Liu Birkbeck College, London Univ., England (Chair) Alan Payne Kodak Research Division, England Henri Prade Univ. of Paul Sabatier, France Alexander Ryjov Moscow State University, Russia Colin Shearer Integral Solutions Limited, England Hongbao Shi Xi'an Jiaotong University, PRC Paul Snow Independent Consultant, Concord, USA Lionel Tarassenko Oxford University, England Serdar Uckun Rockwell International Science Center, USA Vladimir Vapnik AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA John Yen Texas A&M University USA Sholom Weiss Rutgers Univ. at New Brunswick, USA H-J Zimmermann ELITE Foundation, Aachen Inst. of Tech., Germany Location -------- Baden-Baden is a beautiful spa-resort town and convention centre located in the middle of the Black Forest in Germany. It can be reached in two hours by train from Frankfurt or Stuttgart. Those travelling by car can reach Baden-Baden by Autobahn A5 (Frankfurt - Basel) or Autobahn A8 (Stuttgart - Karlsruhe). The Conference will be held in the Markraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium. Sponsor ------- IDA-95 is sponsored by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in System Research and Cybernetics and will be held as part of their annual conference on "Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics". The aim of this year's conference is to encourage and facilitate the interdisciplinary communication and co-operation amongst scientists, engineers, and professionals working in different fields such as computer science, cognitive science, engineering, linguistics, logic, management, medicine, philosophy and psychocybernetics, and to identify and develop those areas of research that will most benefit from such a cooperation. Those who want to submit papers to the general conference should contact: Professor G E Lasker, School of Computer Science, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada. Fax: (+1) 519 974 8191 Correspondence -------------- Paper submissions for IDA-95 should be addressed to: Dr X Liu, Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. E-mail: ida-95@dcs.bbk.ac.uk Tel: (+44) 171 631 6711 Fax: (+44) 171 631 6727 Those who are interested in organising or participating in panels should contact: Dr A Famili, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, IIT- NRC, Bldg. M-50 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0R6 Canada E-mail: famili@ai.iit.nrc.ca Tel:: (+1) 613 993 8554 Fax : (+1) 613 952 7151 Latest information regarding IDA-95 will be available on the World Wide Web Server of the Department of Computer Science at Birkbeck College, London: http://web.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/CS/Research/IDA/cfp.html From: Tatham M A A <maat@essex.ac.uk> To: <elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl> Subject: LANGUAGE ENGINEERING CONVENTION Date: Saturday, 14 January 1995 10:52AM _________________________________________________________________ LANGUAGE ENGINEERING CONVENTION 1995 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS and TECHNICAL EXHIBITORS The 1995 Language Engineering Convention and Exhibition will take place at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 16 - 18 October 1995. It is being organised by the Department of Trade and Industry and co-organised by the European Commission. Aims of the Language Engineering Convention The aims of the Convention will be to promote the transfer of emerging and current technology in speech and language, to stimulate the industrial take-up in order to provide competitive advantage to European industry and commerce, and to increase the possibilities for communication in European languages by integrating new spoken and written language-processing tools. The Convention will be of importance to IT people in tourism, banking, financial services, publishing, the Press, Government and the IT industry in general and anyone else interested in the transfer and future exploitation of this new technology from the research base to application. Convention sessions In addition to detailed technical presentations in parallel sessions there will be a number of invited speakers who will give overview papers on topics of general interest. There will also be opportunities during the plenary sessions for general discussions on issues of interest to all delegates. Call for Papers Offers of papers are invited from teams working on EC funded projects, European National programmes and others and will follow a theme of application and usability to provide a vision for the future. Papers should follow one of two routes with a focus on results from ongoing European projects and national programmes or on areas covering social policy, scientific challenges etc based around the five following clusters: 1. Office Systems, translation, multilingual interfaces and software. 2. Information and communication services and language aids for the handicapped. 3. Language training, multimedia publishing and sectoral applications. 4. Language resources, tools and standards. 5. Technical authoring, information management and terminology. Additionally, the final day sessions will be devoted to position papers, which will be the basis for general discussions. The position papers will be based around: a) Social policy b) Scientific challenges c) Programme funding/resources d) CEC and Government directions e) Relationship between theory and technology f) Usability The time allocated for the presentation of technical papers will be 20 minutes plus five minutes for discussion. Those intending to offer a paper should, in the first instance, submit five (5) copies of a synopsis of not more than 300 words on or before 1st March 1995 to Mrs Linda Prior, Department of Trade and Industry, EED, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SWlW 9SS, fax 071 215 1966. Each synopsis should include the main points of the paper and indicate where the emphasis will be placed. It is most important that each synopsis should indicate very clearly: i. the title of your paper; ii. the title, affiliation, address, telephone and fax number of leading author; iii. the technical session for which your paper is intended iv. the name and address of anticipated presenter (if different from author). Papers will be refereed by the Technical Programme Committee, and the selection of papers will be based on the following criteria: Significant achievements Product potential/application potential Technical excellence Authors will be notified of the results of the selection process during the week commencing 8 May 1995. Final Manuscript Preparation Authors of accepted papers will be required to send in three (3) camera-ready copies of up to eight (8) A4 pages (including diagrams) by 12 July 1995 for inclusion in the Convention Digest which will be available to delegates on arrival at the Convention. Further details of the format of these papers will be sent at the time of notification of successful papers. TECHNICAL EXHIBITION - Call for Exhibitors A technical exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Language Engineering Convention. It will take place immediately adjacent to the main conference session halls. Time will be allocated during the programme each day for delegates to visit the exhibition. Offers of demonstrations are invited from industrial, commercial and academic institutions. A limited subsidy may be available to small and medium sizes companies (SMEs) to help meet the cost of the hire of floor space. Letters outlining the type of exhibition proposed and indicating the name, address and telephone number of the main contact should be sent to our Conference Administrators, Concorde Services Ltd, (Miss Dion Bassett) 10 Wendell Road, London W12 9RT, England on or before 3 April 1995. Schedule of dates: Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 1995 Notification of results: week commencing 8 May Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: 12 July 1995 Deadline for submission of exhibition offers: 3 April 1995. Official Language The official language of the Convention will be English and all scientific presentations and printed material should be in English. English/French simultaneous translation facilities will be available during most sessions. Any queries regarding this Call for Papers or the Convention generally should be addressed to: Mrs Linda Prior EED Department of Trade & Industry 4th Flooor 151 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 9SS Tel: 0171-215 1256 Fax: 0171-215 1966 Enquiries relating to the Exhibition should be addressed to: Mrs Dion Bassett Concorde Services Ltd 10 Wendell Road London W12 9RT Tel: 0181 793 3106 Fax: 0181 793 1010 _________________________________________________________________ From: Robert Ward <CL0087P@pegasus.huddersfield.ac.uk> To: <wricom@mailbase.ac.uk> Subject: SIGDOC 95 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday, 17 January 1995 10:08AM ACM 1995 SIGDOC CONFERENCE A CALL FOR PAPERS EMERGING FROM CHAOS: SOLUTIONS FOR THE GROWING COMPLEXITY OF OUR JOBS October 2 - 4, 1995 Hyatt Regency on the historic Savannah riverfront Savannah, Georgia SIGDOC 95 is a platform for us, as documentation specialists, to share the solutions we have implemented to meet the challenges we face in our jobs. As we grow in experience and expertise, the challenges become more complex. We are no longer asked to provide one piece of the project but the complete solution. * Print or on-line? Now we must deliver information through interactive software, graphics, hypertext, video, and sound running on multiple platforms. * On-line help? Now we have help systems that mix full-text searches, performance enhancement, and on-line selective viewing. Many of these challenges are not solved by one project but by interdependent projects, involving multiple teams from various departments to provide the required skills. More collaboration is needed among documentation, development, and other departments to deliver the solutions. SIGDOC 95 wants to hear * how you approached these challenges * what were the factors on which you based your decisions * what were the constraints (distance, media, technology) * how the plan was developed, reviewed, and approved * how you deployed your plan * what mid-project changes you had to make to the plan * what results you achieved The aim of SIGDOC 95 is to showcase real-life solutions we can apply in our jobs. ***************************** CONFERENCE THEMES: Share your experiences and practical solutions with your colleagues in Savannah. Presentations or tutorials addressing these areas are appropriate: ON-LINE INFORMATION: THE SECOND GENERATION * developing on-line information on one platform and porting to other platforms * collaborating with your development groups to produce on-line help systems that provide full-text searches, performance enhancement systems, on-line selective viewing, and usable GUIs EXPLOITING ELECTRONIC CONNECTIONS * using the networks, Internet, or World Wide Web to collaborate, gather, or disseminate information * distributing documentation, help systems, and software electronically EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES * using innovative technologies that "in combination" support authoring, document management, group work, hypertext design and mapping, networks and distribution, multimedia, testing, integration of tool sets * what do we do to migrate to SGML and once we are there, where do we go? CHANGING ROLES * joining the design or development teams to produce solutions * defining processes and using them to mature and improve an organization * measuring and improving quality * measuring and improving customer satisfaction * solving organizational issues such as merging with training and support ***************************** PRESENTATION TYPES * Papers 60- to 90-minute in-depth presentations 30-minute presentations of a paper by one or more authors 20- to 30-minute presentations of two or three related papers * Panels discussion involving a moderator and a number of speakers with audience participation * Tutorials half-day or full-day workshops * Posters visual presentations, including text and multimedia demos, of solutions to documentation/communication problems Proposals must include: * PAPERS: A 500- to 1000-word description of the session topic, outlining the thesis, main points, and implications for the field. Please include an estimate of the time required for your presentation. If you need more than 30 minutes, provide an outline with the time breakdown. * POSTERS: A 200- to 300-word abstract of your poster topic and, if you plan to do one, a description of your multimedia demo. * On a separate page, the name, title, organization, address, and telephone number of each participant. Please indicate the principal contact. * The software discussed and demonstrated in your presentation. The software should also be available for display at the conference. Please send your proposal to: SIGDOC 95 Bell-Northern Research P.O. Box 3511 Station C, Stop 231 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7 E-mail: <sigdoc95@bnr.ca> Fax: (613) 763-9344 Tel: (613) 763-9526 The Program Committee must receive all proposals by March 1, 1995. We will let you know by May 1, 1995, whether or not your proposal is accepted. Accepted papers and abstracts will appear in the proceedings (CACM). We must receive an electronic, final copy of your paper via e-mail or on diskette by July 15, 1995. ***************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Committee Chair, Caroline B. Pope, Bell-Northern Research <cpope@bnr.ca> Susan B. Jones, MIT <sbjones@mit.edu> Mary Jane Northrop, University of Michigan <mjn@citi.umich.edu Stephanie Rosenbaum, Tec-Ed Inc. <stephanie@teced.com> Mimi Saffer, SAS Institute <sasmes@unx.sas.com> Ray Siemens, University of British Columbia <siemens@unixg.ubc.ca> Pat Sullivan, Perdue University ***************************** TWO CONFERENCES - ONE TRIP! The week preceding SIGDOC 95 is IPCC 95, the IEEE Professional Communication Society Conference, September 27-29. Its theme is "Smooth Sailing to the Future." For information on IPCC 95, contact Roger Grice, IPCC 95 Program Manager, Roger Grice Associates, Inc., 52 Doris Lane, Lake Katrine, NY 12449, Tel: (914) 382-2015, E-mail: <r.grice@ieee.org> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Robert Ward Phone 01484-422288 School of Computing & Maths Direct Line 01484-472300 University of Huddersfield email r.d.ward@hud.ac.uk Huddersfield HD1 3DH Fax 01484-421106 ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: <R.J.Collingham@durham.ac.uk> Subject: IOA Meeting: Integrating Speech and Natural Language Technology Date: Friday, 20 January 1995 1:18PM ************************ Call for Papers *********************** INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS SPEECH GROUP One Day Meeting on INTEGRATING SPEECH RECOGNITION & NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS Hosted by the Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering University of Durham, UK The theme of this meeting is to explore ways in which research into speech recognition technology and natural language processing can be integrated to produce spoken language understanding systems. The US ARPA Spoken Language Systems (SLS) programme encourages the integration of SR and NLP systems in the ATIS domain and the CSR programme has had one or two word recognition systems that use NL techniques. The traditional approach is for an NL system to post-process the n-best output of an SR system. How successful is this approach, what are its limitations? What is the future of speech recognition, especially with respect to the handling of more natural, spontaneous, speech? Do NL systems have anything to offer, perhaps through providing summaries instead of verbatim recognition? The meeting will take place in Durham on Thursday, 23rd March, 1995 Prospective speakers should send a short abstract of their talk to Russell Collingham (address at the end of this message) NO LATER THAN Friday 10th February 1995. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell J. Collingham Lecturer Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering Department of Computer Science University of Durham email: R.J.Collingham@durham.ac.uk South Road phone: (+44 191 or 0191) 374 2637 (2630 secretary) Durham, England DH1 3LE fax: (+44 191 or 0191) 374 2560 From: David Barker-Plummer <dbp@Proof.Stanford.EDU> To: <diagrams@Proof.Stanford.EDU> Subject: COSIT '95 Date: Sunday, 5 February 1995 1:03PM Barbara Tversky (bt@psych.stanford.edu) asked me to forward this to diagrams. -- Dave ******************************************** * * * Final Call for Papers * * * * COSIT 95 * * * * Conference on Spatial Information Theory * * * * September 21-23, 1995 * * * * Semmering near Vienna (Austria) * * * ******************************************** Chairs: Andrew U. Frank (Technical University Vienna) Werner Kuhn (Technical University Vienna) David M. Mark (NCGIA, Suny Buffalo) THEME AND TARGET GROUP The second international Conference On Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 95, will concentrate on theoretical aspects of space and spatial information. It will deal with all aspects of "large scale" or "geographic" space and the description of objects, processes or events in it. Spatial information theory is the basis for the construction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), but also necessary for other uses of geographic information and useful for information system design in general. The use of GIS technology reveals a large number of interesting research questions which require an interdisciplinary approach for their solution. COSIT will bring together researchers from different disciplines, e.g. - Geography - Engineering - Geodesy - Computer Science - Cognitive Sciences - Environmental Psychology - Artificial Intelligence - Administration - History - Sociology The conference organizers welcome all contributions on Spatial Information Theory. An idea of the conference's orientation can be gained from the proceedings of COSIT 93, published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 716. The following topics are indicative for the field of interest and do not exclude other research areas: - Cognitive structure of space - Social and cultural organization of space - Languages of spatial relations - Structure of geographic information - Time in geographic information - Spatial and temporal reasoning - Quality aspects of geographic information - Treating incomplete or imprecise spatial data - Spatial data integration - Presentation of spatial information - Cartographic generalization - Computational geography - Spatial analysis and modeling - Simulation of processes in geographic space - User interface design - Design of generic elements for GIS interfaces - Metaphors for GIS - Virtual Reality - Cooperative work with spatial information - Administrative and legal processes in space CONFERENCE PROGRAM At the conference, results from recent research will be presented and discussions about work in progress will take place. The conference program will be determined by an international, interdisciplinary scientific committee. Papers will be selected through a rigorous review of full paper contributions and the proceedings will be printed by a major publisher before the conference. Panels will discuss the relevance of research questions and compare possible approaches. Before the conference, Tutorials or Workshops introducing the topics of the conference will be organized, lasting from half a day to two days. Topical Meetings ("birds of a feather sessions") can be organized and proposals from convenors are welcome at any time before or during the conference. A NOTE ON THE SITE The small town of Semmering is a nice mountain resort, only an hour by train from Vienna on the main railway line to the south. It offers a calm and productive conference environment with great views, fresh air, and ample opportunities for outdoor activities. The conference will be held at a beautiful, recently remodeled classical hotel, offering accommodation for approximately $80 in a single and $55 in a double room (including a breakfast buffet). Hotel Panhans Hochstrasse 32 A-2680 Semmering Tel. +43-2664-8181 fax +43-2664-8184-513 =46or reservations at the conference hotel, please contact Hotel Panhans directly. For information and booking of alternative accommodation in the immediate neighborhood, please contact the local tourist office, Tel. +43-2664-2539 or Fax +43-2664-2335. We recommend early booking as the area is quite popular at that time of the year. SUBMISSIONS Papers: Authors are requested to submit full papers, not abstracts, in English to the program chairs in Vienna. The title page of the paper should contain the title, author(s), affiliation(s), the submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract. The total length of a paper should be less than 18 pages double spaced (less than 6000 words), including figures and bibliography. The Program Committee will evaluate the papers based on scientific significance, relevance to the conference, novelty, relation to previously published literature, and clarity of presentation. Posters: Proposals for poster presentations should include a title and an extended abstract of up to 1000 words. Tutorials and Workshops: If you are interested in holding a tutorial or workshop, please submit a brief proposal describing the topic, objective, and intended format as soon as possible. So far we have received tentative proposals for tutorials on - Voronoi applications (Chris Gold, Universit=E9 Laval) - Experientialism (David Mark, Suny Buffalo and Andrew Frank, Technical University Vienna) - Spatial Cognition (Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh) SCHEDULE * Deadline for receiving full papers: March 13, 1995 * Program committee meeting: April 28, 1995 * Information on acceptance sent out: May 2, 1995 * Poster proposals: May 31, 1995 * Papers due in camera-ready form: June 12, 1995 REGISTRATION, FEES AND PAYMENT =46or registration please use the attached form and return it to us (email preferred). The following registration fees cover full participation at the conference, a copy of the proceedings volume, and social events: Payment before June 12, 1995 AS 2640.- (US $ 240) Payment after June 12, 1995 AS 2970.- (US $ 270) Student registration AS 1100.- (US $ 100) Payment is possible by bank transfer to the Austrian bank DIE ERSTE (20111), Account No. 025-63592, or by a personal cheque in U.S. Dollars, drawn on a U.S. bank, made out to Andrew U. Frank. Credit cards can not be accepted. PARTICIPATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION If you intend to participate, present a paper or poster, propose a tutorial or workshop, or suggest a panel, please send us a preliminary title for your contribution together with your name, affiliation, email address, and fax number. Please address all correspondence to: Department of Geoinformation Technical University Vienna Gusshausstrasse 27-29/127 A - 1040 Vienna, Austria Attn.: Irene Orchard Phone: +43 1 58801 3787 fax: +43 1 504 3535 Email: cosit@geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at The conference will be organized primarily by using email. We would greatly appreciate further distribution of this announcement and are particularly grateful for inclusion in newsletters and other outlets. =46or conference up-dates, more information and wayfinding instructions, please access our World-Wide Web server: http://mc4.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/Department/cosit.html SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Marc Armstrong (USA), Antonio Arnaud (Portugal) Norbert Bartelme (Austria), Patrick Bergougnoux (France) Ralf Bill (Germany), Peter Burrough (The Netherlands) Barbara Buttenfield (USA), Irene Campari (Italy) Kai-Uwe Carstensen (Germany), Shi-Kuo Chang (USA) Jean Paul Cheylan (France), Nick Chrisman (USA) Helen Couclelis (USA), David Cowen (USA) Max Craglia (UK), Costancio Castro (Spain) Leila De Floriani (Italy), Pierre Dumolard (France) Jan Willem van Eck (The Netherlands), Max Egenhofer (USA) Greg Elmes (USA), Carola Eschenbach (Germany) Giacomo Ferrari (Italy), Manfred Fischer (Austria) Ubaldo Formentini (Italy), Wolfgang F=F6rstner (Germany) Georg Franck (Austria), Wm. Randolph Franklin (USA) Christian Freksa (Germany), Chris Gold (Canada) Reg Golledge (USA), Mike Goodchild (USA) Oliver G=FCnther (Germany), Ralph Hartmut G=FCting (Germany) Thanasis Hadzilacos (Greece), Daniel Hernandez (Germany) John Herring (USA), Klaus Hinrichs (Germany) Stephen Hirtle (USA), Erland Jungert (Sweden) Marinos Kavouras (Greece), Fritz Kelnhofer (Austria) Milan Konecny (Czech Republic), Cliff Kottman (USA) Karl Kraus (Austria), Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Robert Laurini (France), Mirjanka Lechthaler (Austria) Duane Marble (USA), Matt McGranaghan (USA) Robert McMaster (USA), Martien Molenaar (The Netherlands) Mark Monmonier (USA), Dan Montello (USA) Jean-Claude Mueller (Germany), John O'Callaghan (Australia) Harlan Onsrud (USA), Peter van Oosterom (The Netherlands) Dimitris Papadias (USA), Giuseppe Pozzana (Italy) Enrico Puppo (Italy), Jan van Roessel (USA) Tapani Sarjakoski (Finland), Matth=E4us Schilcher (Germany) Hansgeorg Schlichtmann (Canada) , Michel Scholl (France) Roberto Scopigno (Italy), Timos Sellis (Greece) Richard Snodgrass (USA), Heinz Stanek (Austria) Joseph Strobl (Austria), Eric Stubkjaer (Denmark) A Min Tjoa (Austria), Andrew Turk (Australia) Barbara Tversky (USA), Michael Wegener (Germany) Robert Weibel (Switzerland), Michael Worboys (UK) *************************************************************************** REGISTRATION FORM Email: cosit@geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at COSIT 95 (Conference on Spatial Information Theory) September 21 - 23, 1995 Semmering near Vienna (Austria) ------------------------------------- Name: Affiliation: Street/P.O.Box: Postcode, City: State/Country: Email: fax: Phone: -------------------------------------- I intend to submit a paper with the preliminary title: I intend to present a poster on: I intend to participate in a tutorial/workshop on: -------------------------------------- Please return the completed registration form to: Email: cosit@geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at Department of Geoinformation Technical University Vienna Gusshausstrasse 27-29/127 A - 1040 Vienna, Austria Attn.: Irene Orchard Phone: +43 1 58801 3787 fax: +43 1 504 3535 *********************************************************** From: Mike Sharples <mike@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> To: <R0MILL01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>; <wricom@mailbase.ac.uk>; <alisonw@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>; <announce@cogs.sussex.ac.uk> Subject: Conference Announcement Date: Monday, 6 February 1995 3:06PM Could you please circulate this conference announcement. ------------------------------ CUT HERE ------------------------------------- **************************************************** * CPC'95 * * * * International Conference * * * * Cognitive Processes * * in * * Spoken and Written Communication: * * Theories and Applications * * * * September 18-23, 1995 * * Crimea, Ukraine * * * **************************************************** Organized by Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, ~~~~~~~~~~~~ University of St.Petersburg, Russia, Simferopol State University, Crimea, Ukraine. Crimean Research Centre for Humanities, Crimea, Ukraine The CPC'95 will address ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Theory of Literature * Logical and Psychological Bases of Cognitive Linguistics * Cognitive Processes in Improvement of Speech Activity * Cognitive and Communicative Aspects of Bilingualism * Cognitive Basis for Computer-Assisted Learning * Computer-Mediated Types of Verbal Communication ** Computer-Aided Writing ** Computer-Aided Reading ** Computer-Mediated Interaction *** E-mail Dialogue *** Teleconferencing Submissions include ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - a cover page: the title, names of each author, affiliations, addresses, E-mail address of principle presenter, suggested conference topic and type of presentation (paper, poster); - an abstract (750 words). Electronic proposals are preferred and must be in pure ASCII text. The CPC'95 Conference Deadlines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions Due: April 17, 1995 Authors Notified: May 15, 1995 Camera Ready Copy Due: June 19, 1995 Pre-Registration Deadline: July 17, 1995 Submit to ~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Dikareva Svetlana Simferopol State University, Dept. of Russian Language Yaltinskaya 4, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine 333036 Phone (0652) 23-23-82 Fax (0652) 23-21-69 email: dikareva@ccssu.crimea.ua Conference Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Larisa Aksenova (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Valentin Bogdanov (University of St.Petersburg, Russia) Peter Brusilovsky (ICSTI, Russia) Svetlana Dikareva (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Georges Faffiotte (University of Grenoble, France) Vladimir Kazarin ( University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Anatoly Novikov (Academy of Sciences, Russia) Vladimir Ronginsky (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Madis Saluveer (University of Tartu, Estonia) Aleksander Shakhnarovich (Academy of Sciences, Russia) Mike Sharples (University of Sussex, UK) Tatiana Yaschenko (University of Simferopol, Ukraine) Conference Venue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Crimea is one of the most beautiful places in the world. This magic land washed by the Black Sea has a variety of natural conditions and climatic zones. There are many places of great historical and cultural interest. The Conference will be held in a holiday-home near Yalta. We invite you to participate in the Conference! ------------------------------ CUT HERE ---------------------------------- -- ***************************************************************************** Mike Sharples School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences University of Sussex BRIGHTON BN1 9QH Email: mike@cogs.sussex.ac.uk Tel: +44 273 678393 Fax: +44 273 671320 WWW: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/mike/index.html ***************************************************************************** From: Harry C. Bunt ITK <Harry.Bunt@kub.nl> To: <elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl> Subject: IWPT'95 announcement Date: Tuesday, 7 February 1995 2:00PM +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | IWPT'95: | | | | FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES | | | | 20 - 23 September 1995 | | Prague/Karlovy Vary | | Czech Republic | | | | ********* | | | | Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE | | Association for Computational Linguistics, | | Special Interest Group on Parsing | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ The Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'95 will take place this year on September 20 through 23 in the Czech Republic in the heart of Europe. This workshop will continue the tradition, established by IWPT'89 and IWPT'93, of taking place partly on the premises of a university and partly in a rather secluded conference resort. The first part of IWPT'95 will thus be held at Charles University in Prague; the workshop then moves to a conference resort (Grand Hotel Pupp) in the famous old bathing resort of Karlovy Vary, also known as Karlsbad. C a l l f o r A b s t r a c t s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'95) Submissions are invited from all areas of parsing technology. These areas include, but not limited to, theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, and speech, as well as multidimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Authors who intend to submit a paper are invited to submit an abstract of approximately 300 words. Authors will be then notified how to submit a full paper, which will be reviewed by the program committee for acceptance. Time schedule: April 21, 1995: Abstract Due May 26, 1995: Full Paper Due June 26, 1995: Notification of Acceptance August 14, 1995: Final Manuscript Due Submission: All abstracts must be submitted via email to: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl Abstracts should be either in plain ascii format, in standard LaTeX, or in Postscript. Authors having any difficulty with electronic submission are advised to contact the general chairman by phone: +31 13 66 30 60 or by fax: +31 13 66 25 37 (Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence ITK, Tilburg University, The Netherlands), if not by email. General Chair: Harry Bunt Workshop Chair: Eva Hajicova Program Committee: Robert Berwick Makoto Nagao Harry Bunt Anton Nijholt Bob Carpenter Yves Schabes Ken Church Mark Steedman Eva Hajicova Henry Thompson Arvind Joshi Masaru Tomita Ronald Kaplan K. Vijay-Shanker Martin Kay Yorick Wilks Bernard Lang Kent Wittenburg The conference fee will be $ 125. Details of a complete package including accomodation in Prague and Karlovy Vary, and other additional information will soon be available through WorldWideWeb. -- *-------------------------- Harry C. Bunt ------------------------+ * + * ITK, Instituut voor Taal- en Kennistechnologie * * Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence * * Tilburg University * * P.O. Box 90153 * * 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands * * Phone: +31 - 13 66.30.60 Fax: +31 - 13 66.25.37 * * bunt@kub.nl * +----------------------------- ITK -----------------------------+ From: <tbilisi@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> To: <nlpeople@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk> Subject: The Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Date: Wednesday, 8 February 1995 6:55PM First Call For Papers The Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation -------------------------------------------------------- Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia October 19-22, 1995 Host institution: Tbilisi State University Dedicated to Solomon Dodashvili In order to foster communication between researchers in the Republic of Georgia and the international research community, the Georgian Centre for Language and Speech, based at the Tbilisi State University, will host an international symposium on language, logic and computation in 19-22, October 1995. The Tbilisi Symposium is anticipated to be the first of a regular series. TOPICS OF INTEREST: The Tbilisi Symposium will welcome papers on current research in all aspects of language, logic and computation, including but not limited to: * natural language semantics/pragmatics * dynamic and modal logic * quantified extensions of modal systems and intermediate logics: semantical and computational aspects * information oriented logical frameworks: domain theory, linear logic, situation theory * natural language parsing and generation * machine translation and translation aids * statistics and language processing * automated deduction and logic programming * lambda and combinatory calculi * process algebra * category theory in computer science INVITED SPEAKERS: R. Cooper (Edinburgh) P. Gardenfors (Lund) A. Joshi (Philadelphia) H. Ono (Ishikawa) A. Preller (Montpelier) H. Uszkoreit (Saarbruecken) R. Wojcicki (Warszawa) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: J. van Benthem (Amsterdam) J. Bergstra (Amsterdam) P.L. Curien (Paris) G. Erbach (Saarbruecken) L. Esakia (Tbilisi) T. Fernando (Stuttgart) H. Ganzinger (Saarbruecken) J. Ginzburg (Edinburgh) D. de Jongh (Amsterdam) E. Klein (Edinburgh) Z. Khasidashvili (Norwich) (Co-chair) E. Khmaladze (Tbilisi) J.-J. Levy (Rocquencourt) (Co-chair) A. Mikheev (Edinburgh) S. Peters (Stanford) K. Segerberg (Stockholm) E. Vallduvi (Edinburgh) PROCEEDINGS: The papers will be refereed and a selection will appear as a book published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford. SUBMISSION DETAILS: Papers not exceeding 10-pages should be submitted electronically or, if electronic submission is problematic, in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be in plain text, latex, or ready-to-print postscript. Papers submitted by postal mail should be accompanied by 3 additional copies. No fax submissions. Papers should be accompanied by a two-page abstract. The abstract should also include the full postal and e-mail address and fax/phone of the author (or a designated contact author in case of joint papers), as well as a specification of the topic area. These abstracts will be collated together and will be made available to all symposium participants. Papers should be submitted to: The Tbilisi Symposium E-mail: tbilisi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Human Communication Research Centre Phone: +44 131 650 4667 University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 131 650 4587 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh, EH8 9LW Scotland, UK SCHEDULE: Authors must submit their 10-page papers by 31 May 1995. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the (contact) author. Authors will be notified of acceptance by 15 July 1995. The deadline for submission of final versions of the presented papers will be 31 October 1995. Papers will undergo review and a selection will be published in the proceedings. We expect the proceedings to appear in the first half of 1996. Final submission details will be sent along with the symposium materials. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: J. Ginzburg (Co-Chair) E. Vallduvi (Co-Chair) Human Communication Research Centre Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland Scotland ginzburg@cogsci.ed.ac.uk enric@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Phone: +44-131-650-4627 Phone: +44-131-650-4451 Fax: +44-131-650-4587 Fax: +44-131-650-4587 Z. Khasidashvili (Programme Co-Chair) J.-J. Levy (Programme Co-chair) School of Information Systems INRIA Rocquencourt, University of East Anglia Domaine de Voluceau, Norwich NR4 7TJ B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesney Cedex England France zurab@sys.uea.ac.uk Jean-Jacques.Levy@inria.fr Phone: +44-1603-592607 Phone: +33 1 39 63 56 44 Fax: +44-1603-593344 Fax: +33 1 39 63 55 11. LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Chair: T. Khurodze (Vice-rector, TSU) Vicechair: N. Chanishvili (Dept. of Modern Georgian, TSU); Secretaries: R. Asatiani (Inst. of Oriental Studies, GAS); T. Sukhiashvili (Inst. of Cybern., GAS). Georgian Academy of Sciences: M. Abashidze, R. Grigolia (Inst. of Cybern.); G. Tagviashvili (Inst. of Computational Math.); G. Chikoidze (Inst. of Control Systems); N. Amiridze (Inst. of Oriental Studies); T. Uturgaidze (Inst. of Linguistics); M. Bejanishvili (Inst. of Philosophy); Tbilisi State University: J. Antidze, T. Kutsia (Inst. of Applied Math.); L. Mchedlishvili, N. Ivanidze (Dept. of Logics); L. Chkhaidze (Inst. Comp. Science and Telecommunication); LOCATION: The Republic of Georgia offers many singular attractions. Tbilisi is a beautiful urban centre of Georgia, which is rich in architectural, historical, and natural attractions. Tbilisi is easily accessible by plane from many major European cities (e.g. several flights per week from Frankfurt, Istanbul, Koeln, Paris, Prague, Thessaloniki, Vienna). There are also direct flights to Tbilisi from Tel Aviv and Cairo. SOLOMON DODASHVILI: Solomon Dodashvili was a Professor at St. Petersburg University. He is the author of a well-known tutorial book of logic, published by St. Petersburg University in 1827. In 1995 Georgia will celebrate the 190th anniversary of his birth. An excursion will be organised to the Kakheti region, where Dodashvili was born. CONFERENCE INFORMATION: This announcement (ascii, dvi and postcript formats) is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.cogsci.ed.ac.uk in directory pub/tbilisi. Information about flight schedules to Tbilisi is also available. For further information contact the Edinburgh address above. Information on registration and accommodation will appear in future announcements From: rocling <rocltsh@hp.iis.sinica.edu.tw> To: <CMP-LG@xxx.lanl.gov>; <zzlsa@gallua.bitnet>; <weischedel@bbn.com>; <linguist@tam2000.tamu.edu>; <corpora@hd.uib.no>; <nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu>; <efg@list.stanford.edu>; <Chinese@kenyon.edu>; <empiricists@csli.stanford.edu>; <audreyli@mizar.usc.edu> Subject: Call For Papers - ROCLING Date: Wednesday, 15 February 1995 10:30AM TITLE:ROCLING VIII objetive: CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsored by:The ROC Computational Linguistics Society Information Technology Research Center, Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology. Tutorial Date:August 17, 1995 Conference Dates:August 18-19, 1995 Conference Venue:Yuan-Ze Institue of Technology,Chung-Li, Taiwan, ROC Scope:Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to the following. Psyntax/semantics Plarge text corpora Pphonetics/phonology Pelectronic dictionaries Pparsing/generation Pdocument database Pmorphology Pmachine translation Pdiscourse Pnatural language interface Ptext processing Pdialogue systems Pcognitive linguistics Pelectronic books Planguage understanding PSGML tools and applications Pspeech analysis/synthesis PHytime tools and applications Pquantitative/qualitative linguistics PDSSSL tools and applications Pmathematical linguistics PODA tools and applications Pcontrastive linguistics Paper Submission: Four copies of a preliminary version of a full paper (maximum 25 letter-or A4-sized pages, double spaced throughout) in English or Chinese should be sent to the following address. The first page of the submitted paper should bear the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, (email) address for correspondence. All these items should be properly centered on top, with a short abstract of the paper following. H Shinn-Shi Cheng x_xWjTu{s Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan EMAIL:hh-chen@csie.ntu.edu.tw FAX:886-2-3628167 Important Dates: Preliminary paper submission due: June 15,1995 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: July 25,1995 Conference Chairman:Shy-Ming Ju (Yuan-Ze) Program Committee: Shinn-Shi Chen (National Taiwan University, chair) Shiuh Wang (National Tsing Hua University) Junn-Fa Wang (National Cheng Kung University) Shyi-Jian Li (National Chiao-Tung University) Keh-jiann Chen (Acade Mia Sinica) Jiu-ren Hwang (Acade Mia Sinica) Shiuan-Fann Hwang (National Taiwan University) Jiunn-Sheng Chang (National Tsing Hua University) Tein-Yaw Chung (Yuan-Ze Institute of Technology) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University) Local Arrangement:Kou-Hua Lai (Yuan-Ze) From: David Yarowsky <yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu> To: <corpora@hd.uib.no> Subject: ACL-95 Corpus-based NLP Workshop - Call for Papers Date: Wednesday, 15 February 1995 12:05PM *** PRIMARY CALL FOR PAPERS **** ACL's SIGDAT and SIGNLL present the THIRD WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA WHEN: June 30, 1995 - immediately following ACL-95 (June 27-29) WHERE: MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): sense disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, robust parsing, term and name identification, alignment of parallel text, machine translation, lexicography, spelling correction, morphological analysis and anaphora resolution. This year, the workshop will be organized around the theme of: Supervised Training vs. Self-organizing Methods Is annotation worth the effort? Historically, annotated corpora have made a significant contribution. The tagged Brown Corpus, for example, led to important improvements in part-of-speech tagging. But annotated corpora are expensive. Very little annotated data is currently available, especially for languages other than English. Self-organizing methods offer the hope that annotated corpora might not be necessary. Do these methods really work? Do we have to choose between annotated corpora and unannotated corpora? Can we use both? The workshop will encourage contributions of innovative research along this spectrum. In particular, it will seek work in languages and applications where appropriately tagged training corpora do not currently exist. It will also explore what new kinds of corpus annotations (such as discourse structure, co-reference and sense tagging) would be useful to the community, and will encourage papers on their development and use in experimental projects. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for debate. However, we expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ken Church - AT&T Bell Laboratories David Yarowsky - University of Pennsylvania SPONSORS: LEXIS-NEXIS, Division of Reed and Elsevier, Plc. SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) SIGNLL (ACL's special interest group for natural language learning) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu", and must either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single latex file following the ACL-95 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: March 20, 1995 Notification Date: April 18, 1995 Camera ready copy due: May 11, 1995 CONTACT: Ken Church David Yarowsky Room 2B-421 Dept. of Computer and Info. Science AT&T Bell Laboratories University of Pennsylvania 600 Mountain Ave. 200 S. 33rd St. Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA e-mail: kwc@research.att.com email: yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu From: Glyn Morrill <morrill@lsi.upc.es> To: acl <acl@cs.columbia.edu>; aisb <aisb@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>; arpanet-bboards <arpanet-bboards@mc.lcs.mit.edu>; comp-ai <comp-ai@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>; "comp.at.nat-lang" <comp.at.nat-lang@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>; corpora <corpora@hd.uib.no>; elsnet-list <elsnet-list@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk>; humanist <humanist@brownvm.brown.edu>; ikbsbb <ikbsbb@informatics.rutherford.ac.uk>; stuart <stuart@vax.oxford.ac.uk> Subject: Conference call Date: Tuesday, 21 February 1995 5:02PM -------------please post-------------- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS FORMAL GRAMMAR Barcelona August 12-13, 1995 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. Address for correspondence: Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar c/o Glyn Morrill Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pau Gargallo, 5 08028 BARCELONA e-mail: morrill@lsi.upc.es Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: esslli95@gilcub.es \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in} \begin{document} \begin{center} \rule{1in}{.01in}please post\rule{1in}{.01in}\\ \medskip {\large PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS}\\ \bigskip {\Large \bf FORMAL GRAMMAR}\\ \medskip Barcelona \\ August 12-13, 1995 \\ in conjunction with the \\ {\bf European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information} \end{center} \medskip \noindent In 1995 the Seventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is to be held in Barcelona. As on previous occasions this meeting will serve as a forum for areas including computational linguistics, formal linguistics, and the role of logic in grammar formalisms. This year the programme includes a conference on formal grammar open to all participants to present contemporary research in this domain. Themes of interest include formal and computational phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; logical methods in linguistics; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Ten copies of anonymous abstracts of not more than 800 words (on one two-sided sheet) should be sent to the address below to arrive not later than April 21st, 1995. Please provide a separate sheet detailing title, author(s) and institution(s), and address, e-mail, telephone and fax of one author for communication purposes. Indicate on both the abstract and the identification sheet whether you require 20 minutes or 40 minutes for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be by May 22nd. Final versions of papers are to be received by 7th July for inclusion in a proceedings to be distributed at the time of the Summer School. \medskip \noindent Address for correspondence: \medskip \begin{tabular}{l} Committee of the ESSLLI Conference on Formal Grammar\\ c/o Glyn Morrill \\ Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Inform\`{a}tics \\ Universitat Polit\`{e}cnica de Catalunya \\ Pau Gargallo, 5 \\ 08028 BARCELONA \\ \\ e-mail: {\sf morrill@lsi.upc.es} \end{tabular} \medskip \noindent Programme Committee: Elisabet Engdahl, Ewan Klein, Glyn Morrill, Dick Oehrle, Fernando Pereira, Carl Pollard, Richard Sproat, Susan Steele, Rich Thomason, Annie Zaenen. \medskip \noindent For information about the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (14th-25th August) contact: ESSLLI95, GILCUB, Avda. Vallvidrera 25, 08017 Barcelona; Fax +43 3 2054656; e-mail: {\sf esslli95@gilcub.es} \end{document} From: <Hui.Zhang@N3.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> To: <sigmedia@bellcore.com> Subject: CFP: ACM Multimedia'95 Date: Monday, 27 February 1995 10:54AM ACM Multimedia '95 Nov 5-9 San Francisco, CA Technical Papers, Videos, Workshops, Tutorials, Panels, Demo Deadline March 31, 1995 For more information: http://acm.org/MM95/ From: Mark Torrance <TORRANCM@psycho1.bham.ac.uk> To: <wricom@mailbase.ac.uk>; <wc8-announce@mailbase.ac.uk> Subject: Writing and Computers VIII Call for Papers Date: Tuesday, 28 February 1995 11:09AM EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON WRITING AND COMPUTERS 7th - 9th September 1995 Institute of Education, University of London, UK FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS After a successful visit to the continent last year, Writing and Computers returns to the UK for 1995 and will be hosted by the Institute of Education in central London. It will be an international conference bringing together theorists, practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines concerned with all aspects of the writing process and computers. Contributions will be welcome from authors, lecturers, journalists, psychologists researchers, software designers, students, technical writers and teachers. The theme of this year's conference is open and we invite contributions on any of the following topics. academic writing teaching and training writers with computer cognitive and social accounts of writing the psychology of writing automatic assessment of writing uses of hypertext in writing interactive fiction story generation computer-based discourse modelling computers and technical writing collaborative writing and computer support interface designs for writing systems writing within the curriculum writing on the Internet multimedia publishing and the future of print integrated learning systems for writing support research methods for studying the writing process computer generated poetry and prose the discourse of electronic communication software for writers Format of contributions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are invited to submit contributions in one of the following formats. Research paper presenting the findings of new, empirical research (20 and 25 minutes). Position paper a shorter paper presenting new and interesting ideas but not necessarily research findings (10 minutes). Poster a poster presenting ideas or research findings. These should contain less than 400 words of text and be clearly presented on either A1 or A0 sized paper. Workshop these are practical, how-to-do-it sessions in which the presenter(s) discuss some practical aspect of research, instruction or computer use (90 mins). Symposium a collection of three or four papers and a discussion on a single theme. The symposium organiser will be responsible for recruiting presenters and introducing the symposium (half day). Demonstration of computer software which participants can come and try out for themselves. Commercial presenters should contact the conference organisers to discuss rates. Submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~ Please submit for peer review a short (maximum 200 word) abstract describing your proposed contribution. At a later date, we will also ask presenters to provide an extended abstract suitable for inclusion in the conference proceedings. When submitting your abstract you should include a separate cover sheet indicating * the kind of contribution you intend to make * the author's or authors' names and affiliations * the name of the author to whom correspondence should be sent * an address for correspondence * email address (if possible), telephone and fax numbers Abstracts should be submitted by the 28th April to Christina Preston and Mary Scott, Project Miranda, The Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WCIH OAL or by email to temsccp@ioe.ac.uk Notification of acceptance will be sent by 12th May. Conference Location and Accommodation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Institute of Education is in Bloomsbury where Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and T.S. Eliot formed the Bloomsbury group The British Library is a few yards from the Campus. Those with more eclectic tastes can walk to Soho or Oxford Street. Accommodation will be arranged by the Institute of Education conference organiser, Cathy Bird. Over one hundred rooms have been reserved in university halls nearby from 21 pounds sterling per night. Early booking is advised. Bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation will also be available. The university campus is well served by bus and three underground stations, Russell Square, Warren Street and Goodge Street. Further details will be provided following registration of intention to contribute or to attend. Fees ~~~~ Conference fee and lunches Association members 95 pounds Non-members 110 pounds Conference dinner (optional) 25 pounds Daily rate 40 pounds Students rate per day 10 pounds Membership fee for computers and writing is 12 pounds or 4 pounds for students Membership application forms can be obtained from Ken Thomson, Writing and Computers Association c/o Department of Education, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, AB9 2UB Conference Email List ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a conference email list called WC8-ANNOUNCE. This will carry carry further information about the conference and, we hope, will be a way of answering frequently asked questions about travel, presentation formats, accommodation and so forth. It will also carry information about arrangements for electronic discussion of the conference themes which we hope to organise both before and after the event. The list is open for anyone, whether or not you plan to attend or contribute to the conference. To join you need to send the following message and nothing else in the body of an email message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk join wc8-announce yourfirstname yourlastname Email wc8-announce-request@mailbase.ac.uk if you require any more information or help with joining. Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please register your interest as soon as possible using the form below. An optional social programme sent on registration. Mail to Cathy Bird, Writing and Computers Eight, The Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WCIH OAL or Email to Christina Preston temsccp@ioe.ac.uk Family Name: First Name(s): Academic Title: male / female Institution, company or affiliation: Address: Telephone: Fax: Email: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Torrance m.s.torrance@birmingham.ac.uk School of Psychology tel: 021 414 3410 University of Birmingham fax: 021 414 4897 Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK From: <njm@cupido.inesc.pt> To: <diagrams@cs.swarthmore.edu> Subject: 2nd CFP: EPIA'95 Date: Wednesday, 1 March 1995 4:30PM EPIA'95 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal October 3-6, 1995 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 20, 1995 The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, on October 3-6, 1995. As in previous issues ('89, '91, and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and paper presentations. Five well known researchers will present invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and foundational issues and applications as well. Parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision Systems will run simultaneously (see below). INVITED LECTURERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In this issue of the conference,four special invited lectures will promote a debate on the very foundations of Artificial Intelligence, its approaches and results. It is an honour to announce the invited lecturers and the corresponding talks: "Why Human Brains Can't Really Think", by Marvin Minsky (MIT-USA); "Planning and Learning in Intelligent Agents", by Manuela Veloso (CMU-USA); "The Connectionist Paradigm and AI", by Borges de Almeida (IST-Portugal); "The Evolutionist Approach - Past, Present, and Future of AI", by Rodney Brooks (MIT-USA). TUTORIALS ~~~~~~~~~ In this issue of the conference, four tutorials will be delivered: "Artificial Life and Autonomous Robots", by Luc Steels (VUB AI Lab-Belgium); "Virtual Reality - The AI perspective", by David Hogg (Univ. of Leeds-UK); "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", by Ernesto Costa (Univ. of Coimbra-Portugal); (in Portuguese) "Design of Expert Systems", by Ernesto Morgado (IST-Portugal); (in Portuguese) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors must submit five (5) complete printed copies of their papers to the "EPIA'95 submission address". Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Submissions must be printed on A4 or 8 1/2"x11" paper using 12 point type. Each page must have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12 point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. The body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding the title page and bibliography. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should send to epia95-abstracts@inesc.pt a short (200 words) electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing process. The electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text (no LaTeX)) in the following format: TITLE: <title of the paper> FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name> EMAIL: <email of the first author> FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address> COAUTHORS: <their names, if any> KEYWORDS: <keywords separated by commas> ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract> Authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate keywords from the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional keywords descriptors as needed. Applications, agent-oriented programming, automated reasoning, belief revision, case-based reasoning, common sense reasoning, constraint satisfaction, distributed AI, expert systems, genetic algorithms, knowledge representation, logic programming, machine learning, natural language understanding, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, spatial reasoning, theorem proving, theory of computation, tutoring systems. REVIEW OF PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and clarity. Reviewing will be blind to the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. Each copy of the paper must have a title page, separated from the body of the paper, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a list of content areas (see above) and any acknowledgments. The second page should include the same title, a short abstract of less than 200 words, and the exact same contents areas, but not the names nor affiliations of the authors. This page may include text of the paper. The references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, but should not include unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own work, use the third person. For example, say "previously, Peter [17] has shown that ...". Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. Submitted papers must be unpublished. PUBLICATION ~~~~~~~~~~~ The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (lecture notes in A.I. series). Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their paper to Springer-Verlag. ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the framework of the conference three workshops will be organized: Applications of Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks in Engineering, and Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and Vision Systems. Real world applications, running systems, and demos are welcome. CONFERENCE & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Mamede Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 8475105 Voice: +351 (1) 310-0234 Fax: +351 (1) 3523014 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: cpf@kappa.ist.utl.pt Email: njm@inesc.pt PROGRAM COMMITTEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Antonio Porto (Portugal) Lauiri Carlson (Finland) Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium) Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luigia Aiello (Italy) David Makinson (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA) Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal) Joao Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA) Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France) DEADLINES ~~~~~~~~~ Papers Submission: ................. March 20, 1995 Notification of acceptance: ........ May 15, 1995 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... June 12, 1995 SUBMISSION & INQUIRIES ADDRESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EPIA95 INESC, Apartado 13069 1000 Lisboa, Portugal Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325 Fax: +351 (1) 525843 Email: epia95@inesc.pt SUPPORTERS ~~~~~~~~~~ Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira Instituto Superior Tecnico SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos INESC CITMA IBM TAPair Portugal PLANNING TO ATTEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the conference or attend a workshop are asked to complete and return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their intention. It will help the conference organizers to estimate the facilities needed for the conference and will enable all interested people to receive updated information. +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | REGISTRATION OF INTEREST | | | | Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . | | Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . | | I will travel with ... guests | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ From: <alex@compapp.dcu.ie> To: <corpora@hd.uib.no> Subject: Call For Papers Date: Saturday, 4 March 1995 9:56AM PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! PLEASE POST! Call for Papers for the Fourth International Conference on The COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Dublin City University, 5-7 July 1995 Subject Areas: This is a non-exclusive list of subjects which fall within the scope of CSNLP. It is intended as a guide only. * Corpus-based NLP * Connectionist NLP * Statistical and knowledge-based MT * Linguistic knowledge representation * Cognitive linguistics * Declarative approaches to NLP * NLG and NLU * Dialogue and discourse * Human language processing * Text linguistics * Evaluation of NLP * Hybrid approaches to NLP Submissions may deal with theoretical issues, applications, databases or other aspects of CSNLP, but the importance of cognitive aspects should be borne in mind. Papers should report original substantive research. Theme: The Role of Syntax There is currently considerable debate regarding the place and importance of syntax in NLP. Papers dealing with this matter will be given preference. Invited Speakers: The following speakers have agreed to give keynote talks: Mark Steedman, University of Pennsylvania Alison Henry, University of Ulster Registration and Accommodation: The registration fee will be IR#60, and will include proceedings, lunches and one evening meal. Accommodation can be reserved in the campus residences at DCU. A single room is IR#16 per night, with full Irish breakfast an additional IR#4. Accommodation will be "First come, first served": there is a heavy demand for campus rooms in the summer. There are also several hotels and B&B establishments nearby: addresses will be provided on request. To register, contact Alex Monaghan at the addresses given below. Payment in advance is possible but not obligatory. Please state gender (for accommodation purposes) and any unusual dietary requirements. Submission of Abstracts: Those wishing to present a paper at CSNLP should submit a 400-word abstract to arrive not later than 10/4/95. Abstracts should give the author's full name and address, with Email address if possible, and should be sent to: CSNLP Alex Monaghan School of Computer Applications Dublin City University Dublin 9 Ireland Email submissions are preferred, plain ASCII text please to: --------- alex@compapp.dcu.ie (internet) Completed papers should be around 8 pages long, although longer papers will be considered if requested. Camera-ready copy must be submitted to arrive in Dublin by 19/6/94. No particular conference style will be imposed, but papers should be legible (12pt laser printed) and well-structured. Deadlines: 10th April --- Submission of 400-word abstract 1st May --- Notification of acceptance 19th June --- Deadline for receipt of camera-ready paper (c.8 pages) 26th June --- Final date for registration, accommodation, meals etc. From: mserv@let.ruu.nl To: Robert Dale Subject: colibri/nlp/general/snlp95.8-1995 (complete) ascii Date: Tuesday, 7 March 1995 12:21AM Request: colibri/nlp/general/snlp95.8-1995 ------ begin of snlp95.8-1995 -- ascii -- complete ------ CALL FOR PAPERS SNLP'95 The Second Symposium on Natural Language Processing August 2-4, 1995 Central Plaza Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Supported by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Thailand Hosted by Kasetsart University, Thailand Papers Due March 15, 1995 =========================================================================== CONFERENCE THEME The primary objective of the symposium is to determine the present situation of all the sub-areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially those related but not limited to, Asian languages and then to seek an appropriate direction for extensive research pertaining to computer technologies which would assist NLP in the future. The symposium will serve as a forum for linguists, computer scientists, researchers and other related parties who have been working on languages of diverse families spoken to exchange ideas and information. Moreover, as 1995 has been declared the National Information Technology Year of Thailand, and 1996 will mark the 50th anniversary of H.M. King Bhumipol's reign, the organizing committee on behalf of the government of Thailand through the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment would like to extend an invitation to all who are interested to participate in this symposium from August 2-4, 1995. TOPICS OF INTEREST Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research and applications of natural language processing, especially those of Asian languages. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Natural Language Understanding * Machine Translation * Discourse Processing * Local Language Processing and Applications * Character Recognition and Font Development * Speech Recognition and Synthesizing * Word Processing and Collaborative Writing * NLP Product Development * I/O Processing including CD Storage * Database Design and Text Search SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit THREE copies of their papers, written in English, of up to 20 double-spaced A4-size pages, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to one or more of the topics of interest. Electronic (PostScript) submissions will be accepted but fax submission cannot be accepted. Submissions should be received by the Program Chair by March 15, 1995. Each paper must include a separate page on which the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, telephones, fax numbers and email addresses of the authors are listed. The first page of each manuscript should contain the title and an abstract of 100-200 words. All papers will undergo a review process and those accepted will be published in the symposium proceedings. PROPOSALS In addition, we will be accepting proposals for panel discussion and for tutorials. Suggested topics and targeted participants should be presented in a summary of not more than 1000 words. IMPORTANT DATES March 15, 1995: Three copies of papers and proposals are due. April 30, 1995: Author notifications will be mailed. June 30, 1995: Camera-ready copies are due. SUBMIT PAPERS AND PROPOSALS TO THE PROGRAM CHAIR Asanee Kawtrakul Department of Computer Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Tel: (662) 561-4621 Ext 182 Fax: (662) 579-6245 E-mail: ak@nontri.ku.ac.th INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Christian Boitet Universite' Joseph Fourier, France Huang Changning Tsinghua University, China Inagaki Yasuyoshi Nagoya University, Japan John Laver Univeristy of Edinburg, Scotland Kamala Nakasiri Kasetsart University, Thailand Kingkarn Thepkarnjana Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Hirasato Nomura Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan R.M.K Sinha Indian Institute of Technology, India Somnuk Keretho Kasetsart University, Thailand Thaweesak Koanantakool The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand Vilas Wuwongse Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Zaharin Yusoff University of Sains Malaysia, Malaysia PROGRAM COMMITTEE Apiluck Tumtavitikul Rangsit University, Thailand Booncharoen Sirinaovakul King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Chaiyong Wongschaisuwat Kasetsart University, Thailand Peansiri Vongvipanond Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Robert McCarthy Kasetsart University, Thailand Ruttikorn Varakulsiripunth King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand Siriporn Tangtiang Kasetsart University, Thailand Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Virash Sornlertlamvanich The National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand Wichian Premchaiswadi Khonkaen University, Thailand Wismai Manomaiphibul Kasetsart University, Thailand For further details, please contact the GENERAL CHAIR: Yuen Poovarawan Director, The Office of University Computer Services Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Tel: (662) 561-1469, 561-1463, 579-5539 Ext 361 Fax: (662) 579-8559, 561-1900 E-mail: yuen@nontri.ku.ac.th A World Wide Web home page is mounted at http://mis.cpc.ku.ac.th/SNLP95.html with up-to-date information on the conference, paper submission, and accommodation. ------ end of snlp95.8-1995 -- ascii -- complete ------ From: John Lee EdCaad <john@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: <div-tdoc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: <div-educ@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Subject: Computers and writing conference Date: Monday, 13 March 1995 3:25PM Simon noticed the following announcement. If it's likely to be well attended by industrial folk, maybe it's a good place to go in the interests of diversification. (I'm not sure whether this is plausible.) It may also be a good focus for thinking about overlap between Tech Documentation and Education. John. ----- Begin Included Message ----- EIGHTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON WRITING AND COMPUTERS 7th - 9th September 1995 Institute of Education, University of London, UK FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS After a successful visit to the continent last year, Writing and Computers returns to the UK for 1995 and will be hosted by the Institute of Education in central London. It will be an international conference bringing together theorists, practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines concerned with all aspects of the writing process and computers. Contributions will be welcome from authors, lecturers, journalists, psychologists researchers, software designers, students, technical writers and teachers. The theme of this year's conference is open and we invite contributions on any of the following topics. academic writing teaching and training writers with computer cognitive and social accounts of writing the psychology of writing automatic assessment of writing uses of hypertext in writing interactive fiction story generation computer-based discourse modelling computers and technical writing collaborative writing and computer support interface designs for writing systems writing within the curriculum writing on the Internet multimedia publishing and the future of print integrated learning systems for writing support research methods for studying the writing process computer generated poetry and prose the discourse of electronic communication software for writers Format of contributions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You are invited to submit contributions in one of the following formats. Research paper presenting the findings of new, empirical research (20 and 25 minutes). Position paper a shorter paper presenting new and interesting ideas but not necessarily research findings (10 minutes). Poster a poster presenting ideas or research findings. These should contain less than 400 words of text and be clearly presented on either A1 or A0 sized paper. Workshop these are practical, how-to-do-it sessions in which the presenter(s) discuss some practical aspect of research, instruction or computer use (90 mins). Symposium a collection of three or four papers and a discussion on a single theme. The symposium organiser will be responsible for recruiting presenters and introducing the symposium (half day). Demonstration of computer software which participants can come and try out for themselves. Commercial presenters should contact the conference organisers to discuss rates. Submissions ~~~~~~~~~~~ Please submit for peer review a short (maximum 200 word) abstract describing your proposed contribution. At a later date, we will also ask presenters to provide an extended abstract suitable for inclusion in the conference proceedings. When submitting your abstract you should include a separate cover sheet indicating * the kind of contribution you intend to make * the author's or authors' names and affiliations * the name of the author to whom correspondence should be sent * an address for correspondence * email address (if possible), telephone and fax numbers Abstracts should be submitted by the 28th April to Christina Preston and Mary Scott, Project Miranda, The Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WCIH OAL or by email to temsccp@ioe.ac.uk Notification of acceptance will be sent by 12th May. Conference Location and Accommodation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Institute of Education is in Bloomsbury where Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and T.S. Eliot formed the Bloomsbury group The British Library is a few yards from the Campus. Those with more eclectic tastes can walk to Soho or Oxford Street. Accommodation will be arranged by the Institute of Education conference organiser, Cathy Bird. Over one hundred rooms have been reserved in university halls nearby from 21 pounds sterling per night. Early booking is advised. Bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation will also be available. The university campus is well served by bus and three underground stations, Russell Square, Warren Street and Goodge Street. Further details will be provided following registration of intention to contribute or to attend. Fees ~~~~ Conference fee and lunches Association members 95 pounds Non-members 110 pounds Conference dinner (optional) 25 pounds Daily rate 40 pounds Students rate per day 10 pounds Membership fee for computers and writing is 12 pounds or 4 pounds for students Membership application forms can be obtained from Ken Thomson, Writing and Computers Association c/o Department of Education, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, AB9 2UB Conference Email List ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a conference email list called WC8-ANNOUNCE. This will carry carry further information about the conference and, we hope, will be a way of answering frequently asked questions about travel, presentation formats, accommodation and so forth. It will also carry information about arrangements for electronic discussion of the conference themes which we hope to organise both before and after the event. The list is open for anyone, whether or not you plan to attend or contribute to the conference. To join you need to send the following message and nothing else in the body of an email message to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk join wc8-announce yourfirstname yourlastname Email wc8-announce-request@mailbase.ac.uk if you require any more information or help with joining. Registration ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please register your interest as soon as possible using the form below. An optional social programme sent on registration. Mail to Cathy Bird, Writing and Computers Eight, The Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WCIH OAL or Email to Christina Preston temsccp@ioe.ac.uk Family Name: First Name(s): Academic Title: male / female Institution, company or affiliation: Address: Telephone: Fax: Email: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Torrance m.s.torrance@birmingham.ac.uk School of Psychology tel: 021 414 3410 University of Birmingham fax: 021 414 4897 Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK ======================================================================= ====== Annie Trapp Tel: +44 904 433156 CTI Centre for Psychology Fax: +44 904 433181 University of York Email: ctipsych@york.ac.uk York YO1 5DD WWW: http://ctipsych.york.ac.uk/ctipsych.html ======================================================================= ====== Cheers Simon ----- End Included Message -----