15.2097, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Sweden; Computational Ling
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Subject: 15.2097, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Sweden; Computational Ling
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: cornelia.ilie at hum.oru.se
Subject: Argumentative Strategies and Rhetorical Styles in European Parliaments
2)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: vasile at cs.iusb.edu
Subject: Natural Language based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: cornelia.ilie at hum.oru.se
Subject: Argumentative Strategies and Rhetorical Styles in European Parliaments
Argumentative Strategies and Rhetorical Styles in European Parliaments
Short Title: ASLA Parliamentary Panel
Date: 11-Nov-2004 - 12-Nov-2004
Location: Södertörns högskola, Stockholm, Sweden
Contact: Cornelia Ilie
Contact Email: cornelia.ilie at hum.oru.se
Meeting URL: http://www.sh.se/asla_eng
Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics ,Discourse Analysis ,General
Linguistics ,Pragmatics ,Psycholinguistics ,Semantics
,Sociolinguistics ,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Cognitive Science
,Anthropological Linguistics
Call Deadline: 20-Sep-2004
Meeting Description:
ASLA Parliamentary Panel and/or Edited Volume
Argumentative Strategies and Rhetorical Styles in European Parliaments
(11 November 2004)
Convener: Cornelia Ilie (Örebro Univ. & Södertörns Högskola)
cornelia.ilie at hum.oru.se
CALL FOR PAPERS
An English-speaking Panel entitled Argumentative Strategies and
Rhetorical Styles in European Parliaments will be organised as part of
this year's ASLA Conference, which will take place at Södertörns
Högskola (South Stockholm University College) on 11-12
November. Preliminary information about the ASLA Conference is
available at www.sh.se/asla_eng
The contributions to the Parliamentary Panel will be published with a
major international publisher. If you are interested, but cannot
actually participate in the panel, contributions for the edited volume
are also welcome. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 20
September.
The Panel can be viewed as an opportunity to highlight the importance
of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of parliamentary
discourse for a broader understanding of the role of national
parliaments in post-modern, post-enlargement, European societies that
are faced with new challenges and often dramatic changes. An important
aspect to be dealt with concerns the converging and/or diverging
tendencies manifested in the debating cultures and political
argumentation displayed from East to West (in East European and West
European parliaments) and from North to South (in North European and
South European parliaments). How big are the differences with respect
to rhetorical traditions, debating styles, argumentation practices,
politeness rules/principles, gender relations, stereotyping devices,
to name but a few aspects? Are there any common denominators? Which
are the most widely shared socio-political and cultural concerns in
most European parliaments that are reflected in the recurrence of
particular clichés, key words, etc.? Is there a shared
intertextuality? How are identical/similar controversial
Europe-related issues handled in various parliaments?
Potential topics of interest include the following:
- Post-modern mediatisation of European parliamentary discourse
- Parliamentary discourse patterns in pro-European vs. anti-European
national settings
- Politeness issues in European parliaments
- Interdisciplinary approaches to parliamentary argumentation
strategies
- Gender perspectives in the rhetoric of European parliaments
- Converging and diverging identities: national vs. European
identities in Parliament
- Patterns of ethnic inclusion and exclusion in European parliaments
- Dialogic patterns of negotiation, deliberation and decision making
in European parliaments
- Cooperation and confrontation: Shifting debating practices in
European parliaments
- Deixis and intertextuality in parliamentary dialogue
- Discourse and metadiscourse in parliamentary dialogue
- The public and the private sphere in parliamentary dialogue
You are, of course, most welcome to suggest further topics.
The proposals should be presented as 4-page abstracts. These abstracts
will be circulated among all the participants in the panel before the
conference. Each participant is expected to read the full proposal of
one other participant in the panel and act as respondent. At the
conference, each participant will be given about five-ten minutes to
summarise her/his paper and the respondent will be given about five
minutes to initiate the debate. None of the participants will be
allowed to read. Previous knowledge by all panel members of the
contents of the rest of the papers should facilitate the discussion
with active participation from the floor.
Your abstracts should be sent to the panel convenor
(cornelia.ilie at hum.oru.se). The abstract should include the name and
affiliation of the speaker. Please specify whether it is for the
seminar, the edited volume, or both.
The ASLA homepage is available at http://www.nordiska.su.se/asla/ and
the AILA homepage is available at
http://www.aila.soton.ac.uk/scientific01.htm
A recommended bibliography concerning different aspects of
parliamentary discourse will be sent to panel participants in due
time.
I would be grateful if you could pass on this Call for Papers to
colleagues that might be interested.
Cornelia Ilie
Professor of English Linguistics
Örebro University & Södertörn University College
Linguistics/Rhetoric ME 229
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
Phone: +46-8-608 49 43
Fax: +46-8-608 40 30
E-mail: Cornelia.Ilie at hum.oru.se
http://www.oru.se/templates/oruExtNormal.aspx?id=7209
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: vasile at cs.iusb.edu
Subject: Natural Language based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives
Natural Language based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives
Date: 16-May-2004 - 18-May-2004
Location: Clear Water Beach, FL, United States of America
Contact: Vasile Rus
Contact Email: vasile at cs.iusb.edu
Meeting URL: http://logica.iusb.edu/flairs05.html
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 22-Oct-2004
Meeting Description:
Call for Papers - http://logica.iusb.edu/flairs05.html
Natural Language based Knowledge Representations: New Perspectives
Special Track at the 18th International FLAIRS Conference
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence
Adam's Mark Hotel
Clearwater Beach, FL
May 16-18, 2005
Paper submission deadline: Friday, October 22, 2004.
Notifications sent by: Wednesday, January 7, 2005.
Final papers due: Friday, February 4, 2005.
Special Track Coordinator
Vasile Rus
Indiana University - South Bend
Preliminary Call for Papers
Goal
The goal of this Special Track is to re-assess the status of Natural
Language (NL) based Knowledge Representations (KR) and systems. It was
believed that NL-based KR systems would deliver representational and
inferential properties of natural language but the hard issues in NL
such as ambiguity, context-dependency and the complexity of syntax,
semantics and pragmatics limited in the past the progress of building
promising knowledge processing systems.
Among the advantages of building NL-based KR systems are:
NL-based systems would be user friendly
Most human knowledge is encoded and transmitted via natural language
and thus NL-based KR are a natural development
searching on the Internet has become a necessity and a daily task for
most of us; natural language is heavily used in this task since more
than 90% of the web information is textual
NL-based knowledge processing sytems would provide a uniform symbolic
representation for encoding knowledge and processing it it is hard to
match expressiveness and precision of natural language, particularly
in not (well) formalized domains Recent advances of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) in the areas of syntactic parsing, semantics and
pragmatics have opened new perspectives for developing expressive KR
and building promising NL-based knowledge processing systems.
A special track to re-assess the new perspectives is needed and this
Special Track aims to satisfy this need.
Topics
We invite highly original papers that describe:
novel, expressive NL-based representations
multi-level representations
NL-based inference methods and reasoning engines
evaluation techniques for NL-based KR
challenges in NL-based representations and in deriving such
representations from NL texts, especially how recent advances in NL
technologies provide new opportunities for knowledge aquisition and
processing
techniques for coreference resolution, word sense disambiguation,
information extraction, predicate-argument structure, frame semantics,
preposition semantics, syntactic parsing, named entity recognition,
etc. and their impact on NL-based KR
NL-based KR in dialogue management
NL-based KR in Question/Query Answering
NL-based KR in auto tutoring systems
NL-based KR in Information Retrieval
large knowledge bases construction using NL-based KR
scalability issues of systems built using NL-based KR
other related issues
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI
formatting guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are
due by October 22, 2004. Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from
the first CFP. Additional pages (7 and more) have to be cleared by the
program chairs and will be $100 each. The papers should not identify
the author(s) in any manner. Authors should indicate the special track
if one exists that closely matches the topic of their paper. All
submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission
system available through the paper submission site at
http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html.
Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press.
Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their
papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2006.
Organizing Committee
Vasile Rus, Indiana University
Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
Programme Committee
Jerry Hobbs, USC/ISI
Andrew Gordon, USC/ICT
Art Graesser, University of Memphis
Bob Givan, Purdue University
Lucja Iwanska, Georgia Southwestern State University
Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Tudor Muresan, Technical University of Cluj
Stephen Anthony, University of Sydney
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University
Vasile Rus, Indiana University
Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
Boris Galitsky, University of London
David Ahn, University of Amsterdam
Valentin Jijkoun, University of Amsterdam
Further Information
Questions regarding the NL-based KR track should be addressed
to the track co-chairs:
Vasile Rus at vasile at cs.iusb.edu
Viviana Nastase at vnastase at csi.uottawa.ca
Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the
FLAIRS-2005 program co-chairs:
Ingrid Russell, irussell at hartford.edu, University of Hartford
Zdravko Markov, markovz at ccsu.edu, Central Connecticut State
University
General questions concerning the conference should be addressed
to the FLAIRS-2005 conference co-chairs:
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington
Special Tracks Coordinator
Todd Neller, Gettysburg College
Invited Speakers
Lawrence Hunter, University of Colorado
Martha Pollack, University of Michigan
Ted Senator, DARPA
David Stork, Ricoh and Stanford University
Conference Web Sites
Paper submission site: http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html
NL-based KR special track web page: http://logica.iusb.edu/flairs05.html
FLAIRS-2005 conference web page: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2005/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
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