12.25, Calls: Linguistics/Literature, Formal Ontology

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Subject: 12.25, Calls: Linguistics/Literature, Formal Ontology

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1)
Date:  Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:29:14 +0300
From:  "Scientific Department" <science at science.lang.pu.ru>
Subject:  4th Undergrad Student Conf in Linguistics and Literature

2)
Date:  Sat, 30 Dec 2000 10:09:43 +0100
From:  Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
Subject:  Formal Ontology in Information Systems

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

Date:  Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:29:14 +0300
From:  "Scientific Department" <science at science.lang.pu.ru>
Subject:  4th Undergrad Student Conf in Linguistics and Literature

The 4th Undergraduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Literature
University of St.Petersburg, Russia
Philological Department
April 9-13, 2001

The following sessions will be held:
Balkan languages
Baltic languages
Modern Greek and Bisantium
Grammar (Romance and Germanic languages)
Grammar and semantics of the Russian language
Historical linguistics
History of Western literature
History of the Russian language
Classical philology
Translation: culture of speech in a foreign language
Lexicology (Romance and Germanic languages)
Lexicology and stylistics
General linguistics
Russian literature: history -- poetics -- stylistics
Russian as a foreign language
Scandinavian languages
Slavic languages
Folklore and modern literature
Phonetics

Application deadline is March 1, 2001. The applications should include
1) personal data of the applicant: first and last name, place of study (year
of studies, specialization), address, phone number, e-mail
2) a short annotation of the talk (about 100 words)
3) a reference letter from the applicant's scientific advisor.

Foreign citizens are requested to submit the questionaire with personal data
(see file attached) and a photo copy of their passport by February 1, 2001.

For further details and to submit the applications, please, contact
Aleksey Andronov
phone.: (812) 324-07-47; 328-95-10
fax: (812) 328-97-65
e-mail: aleksey.andronov at lycos.com
http://www.spbu.ru/rus/html/News/conference/


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Date:  Sat, 30 Dec 2000 10:09:43 +0100
From:  Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it>
Subject:  Formal Ontology in Information Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS

FOIS-2001

October 17-19, 2001

Ogunquit, Maine

Sponsored by ACM

http://www.fois.org/

Paper Submission Deadline: April 11, 2001

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer
science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse
as e-commerce, enterprise and information integration, qualitative modelling
of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering,
database design, geographic information science, libraries, and intelligent
information access.  Insights in this field have potential impact on the
whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general
foundation for this work, it is important to focus on the common scientific
principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and
applications of ontology.

We envision FOIS to be a unique gathering whose essential character is
strongly interdisciplinary, and truly unlike any other conference. The
program committee includes representatives of three broad disciplines:
computer and information science, philosophy, and linguistics, and includes
researchers from sub-areas as diverse as formal ontology, knowledge
engineering, logic, database design, natural language processing, library
science, knowledge representation, descriptive metaphysics, and geographic
information systems.

Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues,
methodological proposals as well as papers dealing with concrete
applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. We
also encourage those interested in top-level ontologies, web and e-commerce
content standards, and enterprise modeling to participate.

This is the second conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems,
following the first FOIS, held in Trento, Italy in 1998.

The conference will be held in the beautiful Cliff House, an Inn in
the finest New England style that has been in operation since 1872.
The Cliff House is located on Bald Head Cliff, Maine, overlooking the
Atlantic Ocean.  The timing of the conference should put us there
during the prime Autumn season, when the leaves will be changing
colors.  Conference attendees will have a free afternoon to chat with
colleagues and enjoy the 72 Acres (30 hectares) of ocean front
scenery.

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Papers

Papers will be peer reviewed by three members of the program
committee.  Reviews of papers will typically be handled by at least
one person outside the primary field of the authors, in order to
encourage a diversity of remarks.

Papers should be 10 pages or less, and submitted in electronic form on
A4 or US Letter size paper. PDF submissions are preferred. Authors not
able to submit electronically must submit five copies of their paper
to the address below by April 11, 2001:

Chris Welty
Vassar College Computer Science Dept.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
USA
+1-914-437-5992

Fax copies will not be accepted.

Authors submitting papers electronically must submit a plain text
abstract by April 11, 2001, and their final papers by April 17.
Electronic submissions will be collected on the FOIS-2001 web page,
http://www.fois.org/


Topics

We seek high-quality papers on a wide range of topics.  While authors
may focus on fairly narrow and specific issues, all papers should
emphasize the relevance of the work described to formal ontology and
to information systems.  Papers that completely ignore one or the
other of these aspects will be considered out of scope.  Topics of
particular interest to the conference are:

  THEORETICAL ISSUES                   APPLICATION AREAS

     * Foundations: mereology,            * Knowledge organization,
       constitution, identity,              integration and standardization
       integrity, dependence,             * Intelligent information access
       causality, vagueness,              * B2C and B2B e-commerce
       granularity                        * Information systems design
     * Kinds of entity: particulars vs.   * Knowledge engineering
       universals, continuants vs.        * Conceptual modelling
       occurrents, abstracta vs.          * Qualitative modelling
       concreta, attributes, relations,   * Lexical semantics
       qualities, quantities, events,     * Terminology integration
       tropes or moments, states,         * Product knowledge integration
       situations, environments           * Geographic information systems
     * Matter, space, time, motion,       * Legal information systems
       change                               Business information systems
     * Natural kinds, organisms,
       artifacts
     * The ontology of social reality:
       legal and administrative
       entities, artistic expressions
     * The ontology of information,
       information processing, and
       software products
     * Cognitive foundations of
       ontologies, elicited ontologies,
       cross-cultural ontologies
       Kinds of ontology: top-level
       ontologies, domain ontologies,
       task ontologies, application
       ontologies
  TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES

     * Ontological and linguistic
       instruments for conceptual
       analysis
     * Methodologies for ontology
       development, maintenance, and
       integration

  DEADLINES                            PROCEEDINGS

  Electronic Abstracts: April 11, 2001 The proceedings will probably be
  Final Submission: April 17, 2001     published, as in 1998, in the
                                       IOS-Press (Amsterdam) bookseries
                                       "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
                                       and Applcations" and it will be
                                       distributed to registered
                                       participants.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

  CONFERENCE CHAIR                             PROGRAM CHAIRS

  Nicola Guarino                         Chris Welty   Barry Smith
  National Research          Vassar College Computer   Seminar Philosophie,
  Council, LADSEB-CNR             Science Department   Universitaat Koblenz,
  Corso Stati Uniti, 4              Poughkeepsie, NY   Rheinau
  I-35127 Padova                          12604-0462   56075 Koblenz
  Italy                                          USA   Germany
  e-mail:
  guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it      weltyc at cs.vassar.edu   phismith at buffalo.edu

Local Arrangements:                       Publicity:

James Pustejovsky                         Bill Andersen
Department of Computer Science and        Chief Technology Officer -
Ontology Works
Volen Center for Complex Systems          1130 Annapolis Road, Suite 203
Brandeis University                       Odenton, MD 21113
Waltham, MA 02254



PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    * Paul Buitelaar (Language Technology, DFKI, Germany)
    * Tony Cohn (Division of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Leeds, UK)
    * Robert Colomb (School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering,
      The University of Queensland, Australia)
    * Ernest Davis (Deptartment of Computer Science, New York University,
      USA)
    * Randall Dipert (Dept. of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo, USA)
    * Carola Eschenbach (Department for Informatics, University of Hamburg,
      Germany)
    * Andrew Frank (Insitute of Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna,
      Austria)
    * Antony Galton (School of Engineering and Computer Science, University
      of Exeter, UK)
    * Aldo Gangemi (ITBM-CNR, Italy)
    * Pierdaniele Giaretta (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. Padua, Italy)
    * Wolfgang Grassl (Department of Economics and Business, Hillsdale
      College, USA)
    * Mike Gruninger (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto,
      Canada)
    * Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, National Research Council, Padova, Italy)
    * Patrick J. Hayes (Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition, Univ. of West
      Florida, USA)
    * Heinrich Herre (Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Leipzig,
      Germany)
    * Graeme Hirst (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
      Canada)
    * Ed Hovy (USC/ISI, Los Angeles, USA)
    * Hannu Kangassalo (Department of Computer and Information Sciences,
      University of Tampere, Finland)
    * Fritz Lehmann (CYCorp, Austin, Texas, USA)
    * William E. McCarthy (Department of Accounting, Michigan State
      University, USA)
    * Deborah McGuinness (Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University,
      USA)
    * Robert Meersman (Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit
      Brussels, Belgium)
    * Chris Menzel (Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA)
    * Kevin Mulligan (Deptartment of Philosophy, University of Geneva,
      Switzerland)
    * John Mylopoulos (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,
      Canada)
    * Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab., New Mexico State Univ., USA)
    * James Pustejovsky (Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University,
      USA)
    * Peter Simons (School of Philosophy, Univ. of Leeds, UK and Ontek Corp.,
      USA)
    * Barry Smith (Seminar Philosophie, Universitaat Koblenz, Germany)
    * Dagobert Soergel (College of Information Studies, University of
      Maryland, USA)
    * Veda Storey (Georgia State University, USA)
    * Austin Tate (Univ. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
    * Mike Uschold (The Boeing Company, USA)
    * Reind Van De Riet (Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit,
      The Netherlands)
    * Achille Varzi (Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA)
    * Laure Vieu (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France)
    * Piek Vossen (SAIL Labs, Belgium)
    * Chris Welty (Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, New York,
      USA)
    * Roel Wieringa (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije
      Univ., The Netherlands)
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Nicola Guarino
National Research Council	phone: +39 O49 8295751
LADSEB-CNR		fax:   +39 O49 8295763
Corso Stati Uniti, 4		email: Nicola.Guarino at ladseb.pd.cnr.it
I-35127 Padova
Italy

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/ontology/ontology.html
(***updated 1/12/2000***)

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