12.1039, Calls: Spanish Lang Processing, Cognitive Agents
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Subject: 12.1039, Calls: Spanish Lang Processing, Cognitive Agents
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:47:11 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Spanish Language Processing & Language Technologies
2)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Charles X. Ling" <ling at csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:47:11 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Spanish Language Processing & Language Technologies
The Second International Workshop on
Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies
The Computing Research Laboratory and the Spanish Society for Natural
Language Processing (SEPLN) are pleased to announce plans for the Second
International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language
Technologies (SLPLT-2). The workshop is scheduled to take place Friday,
September 14, and Saturday, September 15, 2001, in Jain, Spain,
immediately following and as part of the 17th Conference of the Spanish
Society for Natural Language Processing (September 12-14, 2001). It will
precedes the Machine Translation Summit VIII which will be held in
Santiago de Compostella, Spain, September 18-21, 2001.
The goal of the International Workshops on Spanish Language Processing
and Language Technologies is to promote the creation of an
infrastructure for carrying out research and development in the
computational processing of spoken and written Spanish. They do this by
bringing together researchers and developers from Europe and the
Americas to present the most recent advances in the field and to catalog
available resources for research and development as well as by promoting
cooperative efforts among participants from the different geographical
regions. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 80
participants (at least 20 from each region) and the structure of
activities emphasizes broad descriptions of research and development
activities and infrastructure accompanied by ample discussions. Also
integral to their success are a number of social events, which will
provide a more informal context for establishing networks of contacts.
Program
The program consists of morning and afternoon panel sessions each day.
In addition, there will be a reception after the first day's activities
and a banquet after the second.
Friday, September 14
9:30-1:30: Research Activities and Interests
Summary reports of the research activities and interests from a number
of R&D centers from each of the three regions (including text and dialog
analysis, text generation and speech recognition and synthesis). There
will be a 30-minute break at 11:30.
1:30-3:30: LUNCH
3:30-7:00: Technologies and Applications
Summary reports on current or planned R&D efforts related to the
development of specific applications (including Information Retrieval,
Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Query and Dialog Systems,
Expert and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Speech Recognition and
Synthesis, Text Summarization, Text Processing, Document Handling,
etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00.
8:00-9:30: RECEPTION
Saturday, September 15
9:30-1:30: Research and Development Infrastructure
Summary reports on existing and planned infrastructure resources for
supporting Spanish language processing R&D (including corpora;
databases--geographical place names, company names, person names;
knowledge bases--ontologies, thesauri, dictionaries; processing
tools--tokenizers, POS-taggers, syntactic analyzers, lexica, text
generators, corpus analysis tools, speech processing tools, etc.). There
will be a 30-minute break at 11:15.
1:30-3:30: LUNCH
3:30-7:00: Funding Opportunities and Future Directions
Reports from funding agencies on pending initiatives and position papers
on future needs for Spanish language processing technologies and the
kinds of research needed to meet those needs. There will be a 30-minute
break at 5:00.
10:00: BANQUET
Submissions
We are requesting that those interested in participating submit a five
page (2000-2500 words) paper addressing one of the above panel topics
and a brief two page (800-1000 words) biographical sketch. Each
submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program
committee each representing one of the regions. Submissions will be
accepted in Spanish or in English and the presentations are expected to
be in whichever language is used for the written submission. Both
Spanish and English are official languages for the workshop.
Submissions will be accepted in either electronic form or hard copy
although the former is preferred. Format instructions will follow those
for submissions to SEPLN-2001 (refer to: http://sepln2001.ujaen.es).
Please send submissions to:
David Farwell
Computing Research Laboratory
Box 30001/3CRL
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
USA
E-mail: david at crl.nmsu.edu
Important Dates
15 May: Submission deadline
15 June: Notification of acceptance
15 July: Submission of final drafts
Organizing Committee
The organizing committee includes:
General Chair and North American Coordinator:
David Farwell New Mexico State University
European Coordinator:
Antonio Ferrandez Rodrmguez Universidad de Alicante
Latin American Coordinator:
Dina Wonsever Universidad de la Repzblica, Montevideo
Local Organizing Chair
Patricio Martmnez Barco Universidad de Alicante
Program Committee
The program committee includes:
J. Gabriel Amores Universidad de Sevilla
Alejandro Bassi Universidad de Chile
Veronica Dahl Simon Fraser University
Lori Levin Center for Language Technology, CMU
Antonia Martm Universidad de Barcelona
Lmdia Moreno Universidad Politicnica de Valencia
Plutarco Naranjo SIGNUM, S.A., Ecuador
Manuel Palomar Universidad de Alicante
Horacio Rodrmguez Universidad Politicnica de Cataluqa
Horacio Saggion University of Sheffield
Ana Garcma Serrano Universidad Politicnica de Madrid
Randall Sharp University of British Columbia
Davide Turcato Gavagai Inc., Vancouver, Canada
Alfonso Ureqa Lspez Universidad de Jain
Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
Felisa Verdejo Universidad Nacional de Educacisn a Distancia
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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Charles X. Ling" <ling at csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction
Second Call For Paper
Workshop on Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction
A symposium at ICCS 2001 (Aug 27-31, Beijing, China)
What's New:
- A special issue of Cognitive System Research is planned for the selected
papers accepted by the Workshop.
- Check http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling/Agents.html for updates
Background
Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate aspects of
reactive, deliberative, goal-driven, adaptive, autonomous, learning,
communicative, competitive, and collaborative behaviors and multi-agent
interaction provide an attractive paradigm for addressing foundational
questions in Cognitive Science.
Artificial intelligence, in its early days, started out with the goal of
designing intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous complexity
of the task, the focus soon shifted to modelling specific aspects of
intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. In recent years, some
researchers have begun to focus on putting the pieces together with the goal
of designing intelligent agents. There is also a growing interest in
multi-agent systems that address aspects of coordination and communication
among groups of agents.
On the other hand, historically, the main focus of research in Cognitive
Science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception,
memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modelling
of cognitive agents and multi-agent systems provide new avenues for
addressing foundational questions in Cognitive Science
Against this background, the workshop seeks to bring together cognitive
scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to discuss research problems
and exchange recent results that have broad implications for understanding
cognition in computational terms at the whole systems level. We invite full
papers, extended abstracts, or position papers on all aspects of cognitive
agents and multi-agent interaction including, but not limited to:
- Cognitive Architectures (including alternative formalisms for modelling
reactive, deliberative, autonomous, rational, learning, communicating agents)
- Ontologies, knowledge representations, and inference for cognitive agents
and multi-agent systems (including reasoning about space, time, and behaviors)
- Multi-agent organizations (e.g., democracies, economies, societies, and
associated coordination structures and mechanisms).
- Learning and adaptation in cognition (including learning in dynamic
environments consisting of active, distributed information sources).
- Language and communication (signs, signals, symbols, syntax, semantics,
and pragmatics of communication among cognitive agents).
- Multi-agent coordination (cooperation, competition etc. in multi-agent
societies).
- Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for modelling cognitive
agents and multi-agent interaction.
- Evolution of cognitive behavior .
The workshop is open to all members of the Cognitive Science community.
However, the number of participants is limited. Consequently, authors of
accepted papers will be given priority in terms of attendance. The organizers
will make a concerted effort to ensure a good mix of established researchers,
graduate students and junior researchers with diverse backgrounds.
Important Dates and Deadlines
- Deadline for submission of full papers (up to 6 pages) or abstract (1 page):
May 15, 2001.
- Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2001.
- Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers: June 30, 2001
Instructions for Authors
Electronic submission (postscript, pdf, or MS Word) is strongly encouraged.
Each paper will be refereed for technical soundness, relevance, significance,
and clarity of presentation.
Organizers
Prof. Vasant Honavar
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
honavar at cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~honavar/
Prof. Charles Ling
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Ontario
ling at csd.uwo.ca
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling
Prof. Ron Sun
CECS Department
University of Missouri-Columbia
201 Engineering Building West
Columbia, MO 65211-2060
rsun at cecs.missouri.edu
http://www.cecs.missouri.edu/~rsun
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