6.1186, Calls: Special Issue of NAMES, CFP: SPATIAL REPRESENTATION

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Subject: 6.1186, Calls: Special Issue of NAMES, CFP: SPATIAL REPRESENTATION

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>

Associate Editor:  Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
Assistant Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
                   Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
                   Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>

Editor for this issue: lveselin at emunix.emich.edu (Ljuba Veselinova)

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Date:  Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:58:59 MDT
From:  brightw at spot.colorado.edu (BRIGHT WILLIAM)
Subject:  special issue of NAMES

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Date:  Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:50:29 BST
From:  plo at aber.ac.uk (PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER)
Subject:  CFP:  SPATIAL REPRESENTATION

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Date:  Tue, 29 Aug 1995 15:58:59 MDT
From:  brightw at spot.colorado.edu (BRIGHT WILLIAM)
Subject:  special issue of NAMES

CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE OF NAMES

NAMES, the Journal of the American Name Society, now in its
43rd year of continuous publication, invites proposals for
papers for a special issue on NATIVE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHIC
NAMES: PROBLEMS, PRACTICES AND PROSPECTS, to be
edited by William Bright (University of Colorado),
scheduled for publication in early 1997.

The focus will be on native geographic names and naming,
and issues involved in their investigation. Papers
should not primarily report research, but on-going or
completed research should provide a framework for discussing
larger issues involved in the study of native geographic
names and the presentation of the results of that study. Papers
may have to do with the use of place names *within* Native
American societies (ethnogeographic studies), or with the
etymology and history of Native American place names
which have been borrowed into English, Spanish, French or
other European languages.

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
* problems arising in the identification, definition,
  and use of native geographic names
* concerns arising from the social, political, cultural
  or religious contexts of native geographic names
* problems arising in the encoding and sorting of information,
  and with the transliteration or transcription of native names
* current practices among scholars of native geographic names
* prospects for the future understanding of native geographic
  names.

The term 'American' is purposely vague, intended to include
all of the Western Hemisphere.

Contributors need not be members of the American Name Society.

Send proposals for papers and requests for further information to:
William Bright, Editor, Special Issue of NAMES,
1625 Mariposa Ave., Boulder, CO 80302
(e-mail: brightw at spot.colorado.edu).

Completed MSS must reach the editor not later than March 1, 1996.
Shortly after that date, the editor will be traveling outside the US,
and communications will be uncertain.

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Date:  Wed, 30 Aug 1995 01:50:29 BST
From:  plo at aber.ac.uk (PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER)
Subject:  CFP:  SPATIAL REPRESENTATION

      ******************  CALL FOR PAPERS ************************
      COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
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           American Association for Artificial Intelligence
                   1996 Spring Symposium Series

                       March 25 - 27, 1996
                       Stanford University
                           California

COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION

Technological advances in  multimedia,   graphics, vision and    speech
technology are driving  research  into  new interfaces   and  retrieval
mechanisms based  on spatial dialogues  and queries.  Recent years have
also seen  an increase in interest  in newer fields that depend heavily
on   spatial  representation, in    particular, analogical/diagrammatic
reasoning,  and multimodal  interface   design. Concurrently, cognitive
linguistics has concentrated   much   effort on semantic accounts    of
spatial language, and the revival  of the imagery debate has  sharpened
the focus of research into human spatial cognition.

Despite its    increasing importance, spatial representation   has been
tackled as a  subproblem of many  different domains, which  in turn has
led  to a fragmentation of the  overall research effort. This symposium
intends to  meet the growing  desire to integrate research into spatial
representation and reasoning by  the artificial intelligence, cognitive
science and    cognitive  psychology communities.    The  goals  of the
symposium are:

o to initiate  an interdisciplinary  dialogue to facilitate exchange of
  ideas and cross-fertilization among researchers;

o review the  current influence  that  research into spatial  cognition
  has on approaches to spatial representation in AI;

o develop a better appreciation of research into spatial representation
  by identifying issues that span domain and discipline boundaries;

o stimulate  the discussion of  issues in the computational realization
  of cognitive models of spatial representation.

Contributions are invited  on the computational and  cognitive modeling
of spatial representation in any problem domain,  in particular, we are
keen to encourage contributions  from researchers interested in spatial
aspects of: the acquisition, representation  and processing of  natural
language spatial   expressions;   mental  and   computational  imagery;
diagrammatic reasoning; analogical reasoning and direct representations
of space; navigation and cognitive models of large scale space.

For further information see http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~plo/AAAI_SSS  or
contact Patrick Olivier (plo at aber.ac.uk) at the address below.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Tony Cohn (agc at scs.leeds.ac.uk), University of Leeds, UK.
Janice Glasgow (janice at qucis.queensu.ca), Queen's University, Canada.
Barbara Landau (blandau at orion.uci.edu), UC Irvine, USA.
Keiichi Nakata (kkn at aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Patrick Olivier (plo at aber.ac.uk), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Barbara Tversky (bt at psych.stanford.edu), Stanford University, USA.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Potential attendees should submit   either (1) a full  technical  paper
(not exceeding   5000 words),  or   (2) a  brief  statement of interest
preferably a summary of an ongoing research  effort (not exceeding 1000
words). Send five copies by October 31, 1995 to:

Patrick Olivier (plo at aber.ac.uk)
Centre for Intelligent Systems
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
Tel: +44 1970 622447
Fax: +44 1970 622455
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