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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 76
NL-KR Digest Sat Dec 2 20:20:24 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 76
Today's Topics:
CFP: UCIS'96 Complex Information Systems, Sep 96, Poitiers
CFP: IVTTA 3rd Wkshp on Interactive Voice, Sep 96, Basking Ridge
CFP: Wkshp on Conceptual Descriptions from Images, Apr 96, Cambridge
CFP: KB System Experience, Oct 96, Bangkok
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 15:30:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Jarmo J Levonen <levonen+@pitt.edu>
Subject: CFP: UCIS'96 Complex Information Systems, Sep 96, Poitiers
To: "Gutierrez Serrano. Julian" <jipgusej@si.ehu.es>,
Second Call For Papers, November 1, 1995
An Interdisciplinary Workshop on
USING COMPLEX INFORMATION SYSTEMS (UCIS'96):
Cognitive, educational, ergonomic aspects
POITIERS, FRANCE, SEPTEMBER 4-6, 1996
Language and Communication Laboratory
CNRS and University of Poitiers, France
and
R&D Center for Information Technology in Education (TOTY)
University of Joensuu, Finland
WWW (EU): http://toty.joensuu.fi/ucis96/
WWW (US): http://www.pitt.edu/~levonen/ucis96/
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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 29, 1995
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INTRODUCTION TO UCIS'96
Texts, documents, electronic databases and other interactive
environments play an increasingly important role at home, at school
and at the workplace. The cognitive processes by which people use such
complex information systems are subject to an increased attention on
the part of psychologists, educational scientists and human factors
specialists. UCIS'96 will bring together researchers from these
different disciplines, and to promote communication and
cross-fertilization of theoretical and experimental advances made in
each discipline.
Participants are invited to submit original contributions on any or a
combination of the following topics:
* Processing of complex or multiple texts
* Integration of textual and pictorial information
* Learning with pictures, texts and documents
* Text models and document literacy
* Training of information usage skills
* Knowledge acquisition in complex learning environments
* Ergonomic aspects of information systems
* Information systems and distance education
* Use of multimedia computerized systems
Proposals on related topics will also be considered.
The official language of the workshop is English. A poster session
will be conducted in French.
SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
Participants are invited to submit proposals in one of the following
formats:
- Regular paper: Oral presentation of an original research study
- Position paper: Shorter oral presentation of an original position on
a current issue.
- Interactive poster: Posters will be grouped in thematic sessions
with a discussant. There will be time for oral discussion of the posters.
Poster proposals may written be either in French or English.
Other proposals must be written in English.
Demonstrations will be considered only in addition to presentations in one
of the above formats. Demonstrators will be responsible for providing the
necessary equipment.
All proposals should include the following:
A cover page with author name(s), affiliation, mail, phone, fax and email,
the requested presentation format, and a list of keywords preferably taken
in the list of topics.
- A 200 word abstract
- A 2-3 page paper, including references of cited papers. The paper should
include as many of the following as applicable: Theoretical background and
rationale; method; results; Discussion and conclusions. In case of studies in
progress, the paper should clearly mention what additional information will
be provided during the meeting.
Proposals should comply with the APA manuscript preparation guidelines
except for the following:
Proposals should be printed in Times 12pt or equivalent, laser-quality,
single-spaced, with 2.5cm (1 inch) margins. Proposals in fax or email
format will be accepted provided that they are confirmed in printed mail
within 7 days.
SEND PROPOSALS TO:
Jean-Francois Rouet - UCIS'96
Language and Communication Laboratory
95 avenue du Recteur Pineau
86022 Poitiers Cedex
France
Tel (+33) 49.88.59.76
Fax (+33) 49.46.30.25
email rouet@isis.imag.fr
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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 29, 1995
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZERS
Jean-Francois Rouet (Univ. of Poitiers and CNRS)
Jarmo J. Levonen (LRDC, Univ. of Pittsburgh & TOTY, Univ. of Joensuu)
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Jerry ANDRIESSEN (Utrecht U., The Netherlands)
Mario CARRETERO (Autonomous U. of Madrid, Spain)
Diana DEE LUCAS (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Guy DENHIERE (U. of Montpellier, France)
Francoise DETIENNE (INRIA, France)
Pierre DILLENBOURG (U. of Geneva, Switzerland)
Andrew DILLON (Indiana U., USA)
Jorma ENKENBERG (U. of Joensuu, Finland)
Eric ESPERET (U. of Poitiers, France)
Peter FOLTZ (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Luc GIROUX (U. of Montreal, Canada)
Uli GLOWALLA (U. of Giessen, Germany)
Paivi HAKKINEN (U. of Joensuu, Finland)
Sanna JARVELA (U. of Oulu, Finland)
Frank DE JONG (U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Erno LEHTINEN (U. of Turku, Finland)
Alan LESGOLD (U. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Kirsti LONKA (U. of Helsinki, Finland)
Gote NYMAN (U. of Helsinki, Finland)
Jacques PERRIAULT (CNED, France)
Peter REIMANN (U. of Freiburg, Germany)
Jean-Francois RICHARD ( U. of Paris VIII, France)
Karl STEFFENS (U. of Cologne, Germany)
Andre TRICOT (U. of Provence, France)
Herre VAN OOSTENDORP (Utrecht U., The Netherlands)
Erica DE VRIES (U. of Lyon, France)
UCIS'96 INFORMATION ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB:
USA: http://www.pitt.edu/~levonen/ucis96/
EUROPE: http://toty.joensuu.fi/ucis96/
WELCOME TO POITIERS!
Poitiers is located 350 km southwest from Paris, France. Poitiers can
be reached through Paris in only 1:30 hour by fast train (TGV).
Poitiers is a pretty mid-size city with many treasures of
Romanesque architecture. It is a few minutes from "Futuroscope", the
European Image Park. Also of interest for visiting near Poitiers are
Cognac, the Loire castles, the Dordogne (with world famous prehistoric
caves) and the Atlantic coast, usually mild and sunny in September.
Please check our WWW pages or contact us for further information!
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DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: DECEMBER 29, 1995
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: spiegel@din.bellcore.com (Murray F Spiegel)
Subject: CFP: IVTTA 3rd Wkshp on Interactive Voice, Sep 96, Basking Ridge
Date: 1 Dec 1995 14:51:17 GMT
Reply-To: spiegel@bellcore.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
THIRD IEEE WORKSHOP ON
INTERACTIVE VOICE TECHNOLOGY
FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS
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September 30 - October 1, 1996
The AT&T Learning Center
300 N Maple Ave
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 USA
Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society
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The third of a series of IEEE workshops on Interactive Voice Technology
for Telecommunications Applications will be held at the AT&T Learning Center,
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, from September 30 - October 1, 1996.
The conference venue is on 35 semi-rural acres and is close enough (1 hour)
for side trips to New York City. Our workshop will be held immediately before
ICSLP '96 in Philadelphia, PA, approximately 80 miles from our location.
The IVTTA workshop brings together application researchers planning to conduct
or who have recently conducted field trials of new applications of
speech recognition, speaker indentity verification, text-to-speech
synthesis over the telephone network. The workshop will explore
promising opportunities for applications and attempt to identify
areas where further research is needed.
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Topic areas of interest:
- ASR/verification systems for the cellular environment
- User interface / human factors of applying speech to telecommunications tasks
- Language modeling and dialog design for "audio-only" communication
- Experimental interactive systems for telecommunication applications
- Experience in deployment & assessment of deployed ASR/verification systems
- Text-to-speech applications in the network
- Speech enhancement for telecommunications applications
- Telephone services for the disabled
- Architectures for speech-based services
______________________________________________________________________
Prospective authors should submit 1-page abstracts of no more than 400 words
for review. Submissions should include a title, authors' names, affiliations,
address, telephone and fax numbers and email address if any. Please indicate
the topic area of interest closest to your submission. Camera-ready
full papers (maximum of 6 pages) will be published in the proceedings
distributed at the workshop. Due to workshop facility constraints, attendance
will be limited with priority given to authors with accepted contributions.
For further information about the workshop, please contact:
Dr. Murray Spiegel, Bellcore, 445 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960 USA
Phone: 1-201-829-4519; Fax: 1-201-829-5963; E-mail: spiegel@bellcore.com
For full information, visit our web page:
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
______________________________________________________________________
Send abstracts (fax or email preferred) to:
Dr. David Roe
IEEE IVTTA '96
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA
Phone: 1-908-582-2548; Fax: 1-908-582-3306
E-mail: roe@hogpb.att.com
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SCHEDULE
Abstracts due (400 words, maximum 1 page): Mar 15, 1996
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1996
Submission of photo-ready paper (maximum 6 pages): Jun 15, 1996
Advance registration to be received before: Jun 15, 1996
Late registration cut-off: Aug 30, 1996
IVTTA '96 Evening welcoming reception: Sep 29, 1996
IVTTA '96 Conference: Sep 30 & Oct 1, 1996
______________________________________________________________________
WEB PAGE
Check our web page for late breaking news and developments:
http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html
______________________________________________________________________
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Early registration (prior to June 15, 1996):
Day-only: $390
Full: $650
Late registration (Jun 15 - Aug 30, 1996):
Day-only: $465
Full: $725
IEEE members: charges are $25 less
Additional proceedings: $25
Day-only registration includes all technical sessions, welcoming reception,
lunches, snacks, banquet, and a copy of the proceedings.
Full registration includes all of the above plus: dinner on evening of arrival,
breakfast both days, two nights lodging at the conference center,
and use of the center facilities (jogging track, exercise center, pool, etc).
______________________________________________________________________
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIR REGISTRATION & FINANCE
Candace Kamm Dick Rosinski
AT&T Bell Laboratories AT&T Bell Laboratories
cak@research.att.com rrr@arch4.att.com
PROGRAM CHAIRS PUBLICITY
David Roe Murray Spiegel
AT&T Bell Laboratories Bellcore
roe@hogpb.att.com spiegel@bellcore.com
George Vysotsky LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
NYNEX Science & Technology David Pepper
george@nynexst.com Bellcore
dpepper@bellcore.com
INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
Sadaoki Furui, NTT PROCEEDINGS
Matthew Lennig, BNR Jay Naik
David Roe, AT&T Bell Laboratories NYNEX Science & Technology
Christel Sorin, CNET naik@nynexst.com
George Vysotsky, NYNEX
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To: vision-list@teleos.com, simulation@ufl.edu, info-robo@mom.spie.org,
Subject: CFP: Wkshp on Conceptual Descriptions from Images, Apr 96, Cambridge
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:04:54 +0000
From: PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER <plo@aber.ac.uk>
CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP ON CONCEPTUAL DESCRIPTIONS FROM IMAGES
Fourth European Conference on Computer Vision
Cambridge, UK
19th April 1996
An international workshop on `Conceptual Descriptions from Images' will be held
at the University of Cambridge on April 19th, following ECCV'96. This activity
is linked to the ECVNet working group of the same name ECVNet.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Mike Brady (Oxford, UK)
Hilary Buxton (Sussex, UK)
Tony Cohn (Leeds, UK)
Peter Hall (Wellington, New Zealand)
David Hogg (Leeds, UK)
Jana Kosecka (Pennsylvania, US)
Paul McKevitt (Sheffield, UK)
Amitabha Mukerjee (Kanpur, India)
Hans-Hellmut Nagel (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany)
Patrick Olivier (Aberystwyth, UK)
WORKSHOP ISSUES
The workshop aims to stimulate collaborative research within the AI subfields
of computer vision, natural language, and spatio-temporal reasoning, working
towards the goal of deriving meaningful descriptions of scene content. Most
current work in computer vision develops automated techniques that extract
information from images without high-level knowledge of what is being seen or
consideration of the high-level goals of intelligent visual agents. However, to
deal with real-world visual tasks, it seems that contextual knowledge of some
sort is required. The issues we want to address involve questioning what
representation and reasoning is required for such tasks. In particular, for
many visual application systems (for example, advanced visual surveillance,
multimedia and geographic information systems, even automated driving) there is
a general need to generate conceptual descriptions of objects and their
behaviour from images. Papers should address this central theme.
Research topics that address the issues of representing visual knowledge and
processing images to obtain conceptual descriptions include:
o Context-based vision.
o Integration of vision and natural language.
o Spatial and temporal reasoning in images.
o Representation and control of visual behaviours.
In addition to presenting original research, participants are asked to address
the following questions:
o How does your work draw upon, differ from, refine or extend existing
computer vision, natural language, and AI approaches?
What are the limitations and assumptions of your approach?
o How should domain knowledge be represented? What is your underlying
knowledge representation and reasoning formalism and what issues have
motivated your choice?
o What are the open questions?
ATTENDANCE
It is intended that between 30 and 50 people will attend the workshop. All
workshop participants are expected to register for the main ECCV conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers must be a maximum of 30 pages. Title, abstract, figures and references
must be included within this length limit. Four copies should be mailed to the
address below. Double sided printing is encouraged. Electronic submission is
also encouraged (self-contained LaTeX).
Hilary Buxton
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
E-mail: hilaryb@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1273 678569
Fax: +44 1273 671320
For information on ECCV'96 see the conference home page at:
http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/Research/Vision/ECCV/ECCV.html
DEADLINES
Submission deadline: 20th January 1996
Notification of acceptance: 17th February 1996
Camera ready copy due: 9th March 1996
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and distributed
to all workshop participants.
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Patrick Olivier
Centre for Intelligent Systems
Department of Computer Science Tel: +44 1970 622447
University of Wales Fax: +44 1970 622455
Aberystwyth e-mail: plo@aber.ac.uk
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@moderators.univ-lyon1.fr
From: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr (Brezillon Patrick)
Subject: CFP: KB System Experience, Oct 96, Bangkok
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 07:46:54 +0000
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on
Successes and Pitfalls of Knowledge-Based Systems
in Real-World Applications
Bangkok, Thailand
October 28-30, 1996
SPONSORS (more to follow) : French Foreign Ministry
IOS Press
OBJECTIVE
Since the implementation of the first expert systems, there has always
been a number of Industrial Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). We consider the
term 'KBS' in the large, i.e., expert systems, tutoring systems,
information systems, active databases, application of logic programming
and of fuzzy logic, neural networks, etc. are considered here as KBSs
because they use Artificial Intelligence techniques. Few of the early
systems remain. The most successful systems have been presented in a
special issue of AI Journal (Volume 59, 1993). However, other
systems--successful and unsuccessful ones--represent considerable
experience that may provide many useful lessons for the community.
Successes and failures occur for a variety of reasons that, once shared,
may permit others to save time, work and money.
This conference is an attempt to gather and share all this knowledge. Its
goal is to focus on the experience acquired during design, development and
use of KBSs, rather than focus mainly on technical details. In order to
share easily and compare the experiences, the papers must address the
following points (describing reasons for any choices, any problems, any
chosen solutions, etc.):
1. Context of the project (initial motivation, domain, addressed problem,
constraints on the project, role of end-users, position of the various
actors at the start of the project, etc.).
2. Description of the system (particularities, problems encountered during
the design process and the development process, chosen representation
language, integration in the working place, validation by end-users,
etc.).
3. Results of the project (reasons for its success or failure, initial
cost vs. final cost, parts that are reusable, desired extension by
end-users, user's evaluation of the system, etc.).
4. Organizational issues (integration in working places, changes in the
working environment, alteration of the user's work, adaptating the working
environment to the system vs. adaptating the system to the working
environment, efforts to persuade people to use the system, etc.).
5. Lessons for the future (mistakes to avoid, points to check beforehand,
needed paradigms as cooperation and explanation, needs for maintenance of
the operational version, update, evolution, need for incremental knowledge
acquisition, etc.).
PRACTICAL DETAILS
Schedule:
Papers received: February 15th, 1996
Author notification: April 1st, 1996
Final papers received: July 1st, 1996
Conference: October 28-30, 1996
Participants will be selected on the basis of submitted papers (10
single-spaced pages maximum in four copies) by at least three referees.
Papers must include in the first page: title, author's name(s),
affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail,
an abstract of 300 words maximum, and up to five keywords. Papers must be
sent to the chairperson of the Program Committee (see address below).
The conference will take place either at the hotel of the Asian Institute
of Technology or in the center of Bangkok according to the number of
participants. Please, contact the chairperson of the Organization
Committee for futher logistics information.
Facing the emphasis on applications at the conference, there is an
Industrial Committee. The role of this Committee is to manage
relationships with companies that would like to be concerned by the
conference (e.g., as a sponsor) and present demonstrations or products.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Abu-Hakima Sue (NRC, Canada)
Bannon Liam (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Batanov (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
Burrel Phillip (South Bank University, UK)
Boy Guy (EURISCO, France)
Bradshaw Jeff (Boeing, USA)
Brezillon Patrick (University Paris 6, France)
Chandrasekaran B. (Ohio State University, USA)
Dung Pham Minh (AIT, Thailand)
Feigenbaum Edward (Stanford University, USA)
Findler Nicolas (Arizona State University, USA)
Fischer Gerhard (University of Colorado, Germany)
Frasson Claude (University of Montreal, Canada)
Gasser Les (University of Southern California, USA)
Guha Ramanathan (USA)
He Z. (Zhejiang University, China)
Hertz Arnaud (Electricite de France, France)
Mizoguchi Riichiro (Osaka University, Japan)
Pomerol Jean-Charles (University of Paris, France)
Sadananda R. (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand)
Sergot Marek (Imperial College of Science, UK)
Shi Zhongzhi (Academia Sinica, China)
Stefanuk Vadim (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Sterling Leon (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Suthers Dan (University of Massassuchetts, USA)
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
At the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand):
Batanov D.N.
Dung P.M.
Lefevre T
Sadananda R.
INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE
For America:
Callaos N. (Universitad S. Bolivar, Venezuela)
For Asia and Australia:
Nagendra N.N (Industrial Systems Engn., Thailand)
Tsui E. (Continuum, Australia)
For Europe:
Brezillon Patrick (University of Paris 6, France)
CHAIRS OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Programme Committee:
Patrick Brezillon
LAFORIA, case 169
Universit=E9 Paris 6
4, place Jussieu
75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
Tel.: + 33 1 44 27 70 08
Fax: + 33 1 44 27 70 00
E-mail: brezil@laforia.ibp.fr
Organization Committee:
Batanov Dentcho N.
School of Advanced Technologies
Asian Institute of Technology
G.P.O. Box 2754
Bangkok 10501, Thailand
Tel: (66-2) 524-5712 (office)
Fax: (66-2) 524-5721 (office)
E-mail :batanov@rccsun.ait.ac.th
Industrial Committee:
Callaos Nagib
Ingenieros Consultores C.A.
C.C. El Placer II, Locales 5 y 7
Calle Sur 7
Urb. El Placer
Caracas, Venezuela
Fax: +58 2 962 15 19
E-mail: ncallaos@usb.ve
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