8.497, Calls: Language Development, Applied Semiotics

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Subject: 8.497, Calls: Language Development, Applied Semiotics

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1)
Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 97 13:02:31 -0400
From:  langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject:  BU Conf on Language Development '97: Call for Papers

2)
Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:46:33 +0400
From:  "Elena Suleymanova" <helen at ai.botik.ru>
Subject:  Second Workshop on Applied Semiotics

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 97 13:02:31 -0400
From:  langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu (BU Conference on Language Development)
Subject:  BU Conf on Language Development '97: Call for Papers



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                           The 22nd Annual

         Boston University Conference on Language Development
                           Call for Papers

                       November 7, 8, and 9, 1997

  Keynote Speaker: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, University College London
          Plenary Speaker: Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena

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                FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

All topics in the field of language acquisition will be fully considered,
including:

           Bilingualism                Narrative
           Cognition & Language        Neurolinguistics
           Creoles & Pidgins           Pragmatics
           Discourse                   Pre-linguistic Development
           Exceptional Language        Signed Languages
           Input & Interaction         Sociolinguistics
           Language Disorders          Speech Perception & Production
           Literacy
           Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology,
	   Morphology, and Lexicon)


Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
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 copy of a 150-word abstract for use in the conference
                program book if abstract is accepted.  If your paper is
                accepted, this abstract will be scanned into the
                conference handbook.  No changes in title or authors will
                be possible after acceptance.

             3) for EACH author, one copy of the information form printed
                at the bottom of this message.

Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard for acknowledgment
of receipt.  Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by
late July.  Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will
be available in late August, 1997.

All authors who present papers at the conference will be invited to
contribute their papers to the Proceedings Volumes.  Those papers will
be due in January, 1998.

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.

DEADLINE:  All submissions must be received by May 19, 1997.

Send submissions to:

      Boston University
      Conference on Language Development
      704 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 101
      Boston, MA 02215  U.S.A.

      Telephone: 617-353-3085
      E-mail: langconf at louis-xiv.bu.edu
              info at louis-xiv.bu.edu (automated-reply info mailer)

(WE REGRET THAT WE CANNOT ACCEPT ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS BY FAX OR E-MAIL.)


      Author Information Form (fill one out completely for EACH author)

Title:

Topic area:                                   Audiovisual requests:

Full name:                                    Affiliation:

Current address:                              Summer address if
                                              different, and dates:






Current e-mail:                               Summer e-mail:

Current phone number:                         Summer phone if different:


*To accommodate as many papers as possible, we reserve the right to
limit each submitter to one first authorship and if circumstances
warrant, to limit each submitter to two papers in any authorship
status.
*Please indicate whether, if your paper is not one of the 90 initially
selected for presentation, you would be willing to be considered as an
alternate.  (If you indicate that you are willing to be considered,
this does not commit you to accepting alternate status if it should be
offered to you.)

__Yes, consider me as an alternate if necessary

__No, please do not consider me as an alternate

Please indicate how you received the 1997 Call for Papers:

__e-mail/electronic   __surface mail   __word of mouth

Please indicate how you wish to receive the 1998 Call for Papers:

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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:46:33 +0400
From:  "Elena Suleymanova" <helen at ai.botik.ru>
Subject:  Second Workshop on Applied Semiotics

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SECOND WORKSHOP ON APPLIED SEMIOTICS
September 14, 1997

AIICSR'97 Seventh International Conference
Artificial Intelligence and Information-Control Systems of Robots
10-14 September 1997, Bratislava, Slovakia


GENERAL

The Workshop will discuss the problems of developing and
using applied semiotic systems. In a general case, by applied
semiotic systems one means a subclass of semiotic systems.
This subclass taken as a means for modelling has the following
peculiarities: a) sign is viewed as the unity of name, concept,
and mental image; and b) interpretation of a sign exists in the
mental world, and is variable. This leads to the fact that unlike
formal systems (to which mathematical theories belong),
semiotic systems allow changes in any component of formal
system definition (set of basic symbols, set of syntactic rules,
inference rules and axioms).

Applied semiotic systems may be viewed as partially ordered
sets of formal systems. Semiotic systems may turn out to be
appropriate tools for modelling in large complex systems whose
inherent features are: openness, non-quantitative (qualitative)
descriptions of state parameters and relations over them, and
non-quantitative descriptions of behavioural criteria.

The systems of such kind are adequate for solving a lot of
problems of a real complexity level, among which: describing
the dynamics in knowledge based systems and modelling of
goal-directed behaviour, describing the knowledge
aggregation/disaggregation process, describing the interaction
of knowledge and actions, developing the multi-step control,
controlling the behaviour of an object in dynamic environment,
solving control tasks in multiresolutional systems, and some
other theoretically and practically urgent problems.

QUESTIONS TO BE DEBATED

-  Methodological foundation of semiotic modelling. Theory of
   applied semiotic systems.
-  Derivability and satisfiability in semiotic systems.
   Derivability and satisfiability in different formal sub-
   systems of a semiotic system.
-  Semiotic systems and knowledge engineering. Automation of
   semiotic systems development.
-  Methods of transforming natural language descriptions into
   semantic representations.
-  Methods and procedures of knowledge
   aggregation/disaggregetaion in semiotic systems.
-  Interaction of knowledge and actions in semiotic systems.
-  Models of expedient behaviour in semiotic systems.
-  Applied semiotic systems and control theory.
-  Applied typology of semiotic systems.

ATTENDANCE

Due to a one-day timing, the Workshop attendance will be
limited to ACTIVE participants only (25 people maximum).
Participants will be selected on the basis of papers submitted on
the above and related topics. Submissions will be reviewed by
the Programme Committee members or by other people
knowledgeable in the field. Papers (5 pages maximum) must
include in the first page: title, author's name(s), affiliation,
complete mailing address, phone/fax number, e-mail, abstract of
150 words at most, up to 5 keywords. Submissions are to be
sent to the Secretary of the Workshop (helen at ai.botik.ru) by
electronic mail (as either LaTex Source, Postscript or WinWord
file uuencoded). As an exception, submission by surface mail (4
copies) is acceptable.

The Workshop programme will revolve around the hottest
topics revealed from the papers retained. No formal
presentations are expected, though authors should have a couple
of transparencies to illustrate their position.

The Workshop materials will be published by World Scientific
under the same cover as the AIICSR'97 Proceedings. The files
with instructions for producing a camera-ready manuscript can
be obtained from WWW pages at http://www.wspc.co.uk and
by ftp from ftp.wspc.com.sg,
cd/pub/style_files/proceedings/SPROC.
For authors' convenience, style files for LaTex users and PDF
version of the guidelines for those who do not have LaTex are
attached to this CFP.


IMPERATIVE DEADLINES:

Papers due:			May 1, 1997
Notification of acceptance:	May 20, 1997
Final papers due:		June 15, 1997
Workshop on Applied Semiotics:	September 14, 1997

CHAIRPERSON OF THE WORKSHOP:  Gennady Osipov

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:

Vladimir Khoroshevsky (Computer Centre, Russian Academy
of Science, Russia)
Gennady Osipov (Artificial Intelligence Research Centre,
Programme Systems Institute, Russian
Academy of Science, Russia)
Dmitri Pospelov (University of Aizu, Japan)
Paul Prueitt (Highland Technologies, Inc., USA)
Vadim Stefanuk (Information Transfer Problems Institute,
Russian Academy of Science)

CONTACT ADDRESS:

Gennady Osipov
Artificial Intelligence Research Centre,
Programme Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Science
152140 Pereslavl-Zalessky RUSSIA

phone/fax: 	+7 08535 205 66 (office)
phone:		+7 08535 983 58 (home)
email: 	osipov at airec.botik.ru
        home at osipov.botik.ru


SECRETARY OF THE WORKSHOP:

Elena Suleymanova
Artificial Intelligence Research Centre,
Programme Systems Institute of Russian Academy of Science
152140 Pereslavl-Zalessky RUSSIA

phone/fax:	+7 08535 205 66 (office)
phone:     +	+7 08535 989 47 (office)
+7 08535 263 63 (home)
email: 	helen at ai.botik.ru

ATTENTION:

All Workshop participants MUST be registered for the main
AIICSR'97 Conference. Registration fee for the Conference is
$220, for the Workshop $60.

The updated version of the Call for Participation is available
through WWW at URL:
http://www.botik.ru/PSI/AIReC/AIICSR'97_Workshop_on_Applied_Semiotics.html

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