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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 82
NL-KR Digest Sun Dec 31 18:56:09 PST 1995 Volume 14 No. 82
Today's Topics:
CFP: ECAI96 Nonmonotonicity/Automated Reasoning, Aug 96, Budapest
CFP: AAAI-96 Cognitive Modeling, Aug 96, Portland
CFP: WVLC-4 Computational Linguistics, Aug 96, Copenhagen
CFP: KRIMS'96 Knowledge Rep for Multimedia, Aug 96, Budapest
CFP: Rep and Proc. of Spatial Expressions, Aug 96, Budapest
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:11:22 +0100
From: "Dr. Ilkka Niemelae" <ini@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de>
To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: ECAI96 Nonmonotonicity/Automated Reasoning, Aug 96, Budapest
CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
ECAI'96 Workshop on
INTEGRATING NONMONOTONICITY INTO AUTOMATED REASONING SYSTEMS
August 12 or 13, 1996 (to be determined)
Budapest, Hungary
In many AI applications, nonmonotonic reasoning plays an important
role. That is why several approaches to knowledge representation such as
expert systems, description logics, logic programs, and databases have
been extended to include constructs enabling nonmonotonic reasoning
patterns. Early attempts in this direction often had an ad hoc
character. However, the field of nonmonotonic reasoning has been a very
active research field in recent years with an increasing emphasis on
computational issues. The results provide an interesting and exciting
basis for systematically integrating nonmonotonicity into automated
reasoning systems. Indeed, new principled ways have already been
developed, e.g. in the context of description logics, logic programs,
automated theorem provers, and reasoning about actions.
The workshop will focus on systematic methods for integrating
nonmonotonicity, and will try to compare and unify approaches developed
in different areas. Another important topic will be the integration of
nonmonotonic reasoning capabilities into more expressive reasoning
systems. Until recently much of the work on nonmonotonic reasoning has
been restricted to the propositional case, but new issues arise when
trying to integrate nonmonotonicity into first-order reasoning.
The workshop is intended to bring together researchers from the
nonmonotonic reasoning community and researchers working on different
automated reasoning systems to address these problems. Specific topics
include questions like:
- What kind of approaches to integrating nonmonotonicity exist?
- How easy/difficult is it to integrate particular forms of nonmonotonic
reasoning?
- Are the traditional first-order theorem-proving techniques sufficient
when integrating nonmonotonicity/what kind of requirements are posed on
the automated reasoning system?
- Can the integration of nonmonotonic reasoning capabilities actually
speed up an automated reasoning system?
- Can the thoroughly studied connections between nonmonotonic reasoning
(NMR) and Logic Programming (LP) on one hand and LP and theorem-proving
(TP) on the other hand tell us something about the connection between
NMR and TP?
- What are the applications of different scopes/forms of
nonmonotonicity/what is the role of nonmonotonic reasoning in
applications ?
PARTICIPATION
Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only. Those wishing
to present a paper should make a submission as described below (see
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS). Others (e.g. students) wishing to attend should
submit a short description of their current research plan and previous
accomplishments.
This workshop is part of the European Conference on Artificial
Intelligence held in Budapest, Aug 12-16, 1996. For details on the
ECAI conference, see
http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html
Please note that workshop participation is not possible without
registration to the main conference.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit
- extended abstracts of technical papers (not exceeding 4 pages),
- position papers, system descriptions and experience reports (not
exceeding 2 pages).
All submission must be in English. The papers should preferably have
double-column pages formatted according to the "Guidelines for Preparing a
Paper for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence". Electronic
(PostScript) submissions are preferred. Otherwise 5 hard-copies should be
sent. Fax submissions cannot be accepted.
Submissions should be sent by March 15, 1996 to
Ilkka Niemela
Department of Computer Science
University of Koblenz
Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
email: tpnmr96@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
In addition, an ASCII title page of each submitted paper containing the
title of the paper, full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax
numbers and email addresses of all authors, an abstract of 100-200 words
and the category of the paper (technical paper, position paper, system
abstract, experience report) should be sent by e-mail to
tpnmr96@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
The "Guidelines for Preparing a Paper for the European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence" are available via FTP as a Postscript file and
Latex style files. Please use ftp dfki.uni-sb.de or ftp 134.96.188.7
Use "anonymous" as login and your e-mail address as password and download
the files from directory /pub/ECAI-96. Please read the index file for file
descriptions.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will consist of short talks, panels, discussions, experience
reports, system posters and demos. Where possible, panels and discussions
will be organized around groups of related papers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 1996
Invitations sent out: April 30, 1996
Final versions of papers: May 24, 1996
WEB PAGE
There is a web page for the workshop
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~ini/tpnmr96/homepage.html
where the call for papers and current information can be found.
Electronic versions of the accepted submissions will be made available
via the web page by July 1996.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ilkka Niemela (Chair)
Department of Computer Science, University of Koblenz
Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
email: ini@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
phone: +49 261 9119-649
fax: +49 261 9119-496
Franz Baader
Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Theoretische Informatik
RWTH Aachen
Patrick Doherty
Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Linkoping University
Torsten Schaub
LERIA/IRIN
Department de Mathematiques et Informatique, Faculte des Sciences
Universite d'Angers
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Franz Baader (Aachen)
Gerd Brewka (Vienna)
Patrick Doherty (Linkoping)
Ulrich Furbach (Koblenz)
Georg Gottlob (Vienna)
Vladimir Lifschitz (Texas)
Ilkka Niemela (Koblenz)
Vincent Risch (Marseille)
Torsten Schaub (Angers)
Karl Schlechta (Marseille)
Mirek Truszczynski (Kentucky)
Cees Witteveen (Delft)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:52:43 -0600
From: rsun@cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: AAAI-96 Cognitive Modeling, Aug 96, Portland
Computational Cognitive Modeling: Source of the Power
AAAI-96 Workshop
URL:http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling
CALL FOR PAPERS
Computational models for various cognitive tasks, such as
language acquisition, skill acquisition, and conceptual
development, have been extensively studied by cognitive
scientists, AI researchers, and psychologists.
We attempt to bring researchers from different backgrounds
together, and to examine how and why computational models
(connectionist, symbolic, or others) are successful in terms
of the source of power. The possible sources of power include:
-- Representation of the task;
-- General properties of the learning algorithm;
-- Data sampling/selection;
-- Parameters of the learning algorithms.
The workshop will focus on, but not be limited to, the following
topics, all of which should be discussed in relation to the
source of power:
-- Proper criteria for judging success or failure of a model.
-- Methods for recognizing the source of power.
-- Analyses of the success or failure of existing models.
-- Presentation of new cognitive models.
Potential presenters should submit a paper (maximum 12 pages,
12 point font). We strongly encourage email submissions of
text/postscript files; or you may also send 4 paper copies to
one workshop co-chair:
Charles Ling (co-chair) Ron Sun (co-chair)
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
University of Hong Kong University of Alabama
Hong Kong Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
ling@csd.uwo.ca rsun@cs.ua.edu
(on leave)
Researchers interested in attending Workshop only should send
a short description of interests to one co-chair by deadline.
The Workshop will consist of invited talks, presentations,
and a poster session. All accepted papers will be included
in the Workshop Working Notes.
Deadline for submission: March 18, 1996.
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 1996.
Submission of final versions: May 13, 1996.
Program Committee:
Pat Langley, Stanford University, langley@flamingo.Stanford.EDU
Mike Pazzani, UC Irvine, pazzani@super-pan.ICS.UCI.EDU
Tom Shultz, McGill University, shultz@psych.mcgill.ca
Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo, pthagard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Kurt VanLehn, Univ. of Pittsburgh, vanlehn+@pitt.edu
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 12:13:45 --100
From: phred@ling.umu.se (Fredrick Backman)
To: nl-kr-mods@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Subject: CFP: WVLC-4 Computational Linguistics, Aug 96, Copenhagen
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WVLC-4 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the
FOURTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-4)
WHEN: August 4, 1996 - in conjunction with COLING 96
(Tutorials: Aug 2-3, Main conference: Aug 5-9, 1996).
WHERE: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
SPONSORD BY:
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer an
international and general forum for the presentation of new advances
and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural
language processing.
The fourth workshop will focus on the theme of:
Innovative uses and applications of large corpora
Large corpora, i.e. corpora ranging anywhere from 10^4 to 10^9 words, are
coming into existence for several different languages, and techniques for
analyzing them are improving. How are these resources actually being used?
The workshop encourages contributions that show innovative applications of
corpus-based NLP to problems of practical industrial importance.
The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer
a focus for discussion and debate between researchers and industrialists.
We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas
of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to)
Text Analysis Techniques:
- robust parsing
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- morphological analysis
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- sense disambiguation
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure
Applications:
- Information Retrieval
- Lexicography
- Machine Translation
- Spelling and Grammar Correction
- Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Eva Ejerhed - University of Umea, Umea, Sweden
Ido Dagan - Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Susan Armstrong (ISCCO, Switzerland)
Huang Changning (Tsinghua University, China)
Keh-Jiann Chen (IIS Sinica, Taiwan)
Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Labs, USA)
Helmut Feldweg (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany)
Don Hindle (AT&T Bell Labs, USA)
Fred Karlsson (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Mark Lauer (Microsoft, Australia)
Ellen Riloff (University of Utah, USA)
Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Mark Wasson (LEXIS-NEXIS, USA)
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 "WVLC-4@ling.umu.se" and must be
either (a) a plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or
(c) a single LaTex file (no separate figures or .bib files), following
the COLING 96 stylesheet, which is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
ftp.ling.umu.se, /pub/SIGDAT/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided
in /pub/SIGDAT/modelsub.tex. Hard copy submissions should be mailed
to Eva Ejerhed (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: April 10, 1996
Notification Date: May 10, 1996
Camera ready copy due: June 10, 1996
The camera ready hard copies of final papers, laser printed, should
be air-mailed to Eva Ejerhed (address below) and must be received by
June 10, 1996.
CONTACT:
Eva Ejerhed Ido Dagan
Dept of Linguistics, DGL Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Umea Bar Ilan University
S 90187 Umea, Sweden Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
e-mail: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se e-mail: dagan@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
http://www.ling.umu.se/SIGDAT/WVLC-4.html
NOTE:
The Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora is one of two meetings organized
by SIGDAT in 1996. The other meeting is the Conference on Empirical Methods
in Natural Language Processing, that will be held at the University of
Pennsylvania, May 17-18, 1996, in conjunction with the University's 50th
Anniversary celebration of the Eniac Computer.
The URL for the UPenn conference page is:
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/brill/Conf_on_Emp_Meth.html
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From: George Vouros <georgev@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>
Subject: CFP: KRIMS'96 Knowledge Rep for Multimedia, Aug 96, Budapest
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, context@laforia.ibp.fr,
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:20:30 +0200 (EET)
CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP ON
KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION FOR INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS:
RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE (KRIMS'96)
WWW: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CfP/KRIMS96
August 12 or 13, 1996, Budapest, Hungary
In conjunction with the ECAI'96 conference (August 12-16)
(ECAI'96 WWW: http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html)
WORKSHOP ISSUES
A critical issue in the emerging area of Multimedia Information
Systems is the ability of these systems to fulfil the information
requirements of various user groups.
Future Interactive Multimedia Systems go beyond the scenario-based
example of multimedia information presentation. They have abilities
for multimedia information composition, construction of presentation
plan, intelligent simulation, and adaptation of the presented
material to the peculiarities and style of individual users. To be
capable of performing these functions, interactive multimedia systems
should possess and utilise knowledge about:
o Domain
o User requirements
o Tasks
o Context of interaction
o Content of the stored information.
The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in developing interactive multimedia systems. The aim
is to investigate the industrial needs and requirements on
representing knowledge for such systems, and identify open research
problems in the area.
Some of the topics that this workshop should address are:
o Generic Knowledge Representation Schemes for Multimedia Information
Repositories.
o Knowledge representation for multimedia information integration,
coordination and presentation.
o Case studies and experiences on developing and utilising
knowledge bases for interactive multimedia systems.
The target audience includes both researchers and practitioners in the
area of interactive multimedia systems.
SUBMISSION
Authors must submit a 2-pages abstract before the 10th of February
1996 via email in plain ASCII. Submitted abstracts will be judged on
the quality and originality of the work they describe. Due to the
restricted number of presentations, qualified submissions will be
accepted on priority basis. Authors must address the motivation of
their work, related background work, innovative features, as well as
limitations of their work.
Paper presentations will not exceed 15 in order to have ample time
for discussion. Authors of accepted submissions will be asked to
provide a full paper describing their work before the 10th of April
1996. Comments to authors will be provided by 30th of April and the
deadline for final paper's receipt is the 20th of May 1996.
Attendees will exchange working notes prior to the workshop and will
be encouraged to discuss and make comments to others' work in order
to settle the ground for fruitful discussions during the workshop.
Enquiries and submissions must be addressed to
George Vouros
University of the Aegean. Dept of Mathematics
Karlovasi, Samos GREECE.
Email: georgev@aegean.gr
IMPORTANT NOTE
Please note that workshop participation is not possible without
registration for the ECAI'96 conference.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Dr. Wolfgang Klas. GMD-IPSI Darmstadt, Germany
- Prof. T.Sellis. National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
- Dr. M.Vazirgiannis. National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
- Dr. George A. Vouros. University of the Aegean. Greece.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Extended abstract (2 pages) submission deadline 10 Feb
Notification of acceptance 10 March
Full papers deadline 10 April
Comments to Authors 30 April
Final papers receipt 20 May
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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GEORGE A. VOUROS.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of the Aegean. Dept of Mathematics
Karlovasi, Samos GREECE.
Email: georgev@iit.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr,
georgev@aegean.gr
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To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: Rep and Proc. of Spatial Expressions, Aug 96, Budapest
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 15:28:38 +0000
From: PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER <plo@aber.ac.uk>
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 2nd WORKSHOP ON THE REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS
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12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96)
Budapest, Hungary
http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~plo/ECAI-96/cfp.html
Following the success of the first workshop held at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, the
2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions is
to be held at ECAI-96 in Budapest, Hungary, on either the 12th or 13th August
1996.
Workshop Background
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The size, shape, orientation and position of objects can be conveyed using a
wide range of spatial expressions. The semantic treatment of such expressions
presents particular challenges for natural language processing. The meaning
representation used must be capable of distinguishing between fine-grained
sense differences and ambiguities grounded in our experiential and perceptual
structure.
On-going research projects that in part address the problem of representing
and processing spatial expressions include:
o Spatial language for the instruction of semi- and autonomous agents.
o Dialogue understanding using "mental images".
o Interfaces to CAD and multi-media systems, eg. natural language querying
of photographic databases and speech-driven design and assembly.
o Machine translation systems, finding a systematic approach for translating
spatial expressions correctly is notoriously difficult.
o Spatial queries for Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
o Generation of spatial descriptions on the basis of maps, cognitive maps or
other spatial representations.
Workshop Issues
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Though here are been many different approaches to the representation
and processing of spatial expressions, most existing computational
characterisations have so far been restricted to particularly narrow problem
domains, usually specific spatial contexts determined by overall system
goals.
To date, artificial intelligence research in this field has rarely taken
advantage of studies of language and spatial cognition carried out by the
cognitive science community. One of the intentions of this workshop is to
bring together researchers from both disciplines in the belief that
artificial intelligence has much to gain from an appreciation of cognitive
theories.
In addition to presenting original research participants will be asked where
possible to address the following questions:
o How does your work draw upon, differ from, refine or extend existing
linguistic, cognitive and artificial intelligence approaches? What are the
limitations and assumptions of your approach?
o How should knowledge about space be represented? What is your underlying
knowledge representation and reasoning formalism and what issues have
motivated your choice?
o How important is the issue of cognitive plausibility?
o How should the lexicon be organised with respect to spatial prepositions
and spatially relevant words? How can multiple meanings for such words be
accommodated?
o The meaning of spatial expressions cannot be addressed in isolation.
Indeed spatial expressions are used in many different physical contexts
and environments. How should the meanings of individual spatially relevant
words be composed during processing to obtain meanings of complex spatial
expressions?
o Object knowledge is generally thought to play an important role in the
interpretation of spatial words especially spatial prepositions. How can
this be realised and are there any other factors which affect the
interpretation of spatially relevant words?
o How language dependent is your approach?
o What are the open questions?
Organizing Committee
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Klaus-Peter Gapp (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT, Kanpur, India)
Patrick Olivier (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)
Simone Pribbenow (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Joerg Schirra (University of Bremen, Germany)
Laure Vieu (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Workshop Format and Attendance Requirements
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It is specifically intended that this workshop will be highly interactive.
In addition to conventional paper presentations, attendees may also be
required to deliver commentaries on other papers, coordinate group discussion
and contribute to key issue debates.
Between 30 and 40 people will attend the workshop. All workshop participants
are expected to register for the main ECAI conference.
Submissions Guidelines: full papers and statements of interest
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To facilitate the organisation of the workshop there will be two classes of
submission: (1) a full paper or (2) a statement of interest.
Papers must be a maximum of 15 pages, each page having no more than 43 lines
with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and references must be included
within this limit.
Statements of interest must be at most 4 pages long.
Electronic submission is strongly encouraged (preferably postscript or
self-contained LaTeX), submissions should be made to plo@aber.ac.uk. For
hard copy submissions double sided printing is preferred and four copies
should be mailed to the following address:
Patrick Olivier
Centre for Intelligent Systems
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
E-mail: plo@aber.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1970622447
Fax: +44 1970622455
Deadlines
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Submission deadline: 11th March 1996
Notification of acceptance: 8th April 1996
Camera ready copy due: 29th April 1996
Publication
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Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the workshop
notes/preprints by ECAI. Revised versions of the Montreal workshop's papers
are in the process of being published as a book by Laurence Erlbaum. If there
is sufficient interest this year, we hope to do the same again.
Abstracts from the first workshop's papers can be found at:
http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~plo/IJCAI_WS/abstracts.html
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