15.2117, Calls: Computational Ling; Phonology/Cognitive Science

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-2117. Thu Jul 22 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.2117, Calls: Computational Ling; Phonology/Cognitive Science

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Date:  Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Vasile Rus <vasile at cs01.cs.iusb.edu>
Subject:  FLAIRS 2005 - Special track on Natural Language based Knowledge Representations

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Date:  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:  geoffnathan at wayne.edu
Subject:  Phonology in the Cognitive Grammar Worldview

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Date:  Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:42:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Vasile Rus <vasile at cs01.cs.iusb.edu>
Subject:  FLAIRS 2005 - Special track on Natural Language based Knowledge Representations

FLAIRS 2005 Special Track (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
Vivi Nastase at vnastase at site.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://www.cs.iusb.edu/~vasile/flairs2005-NL_as_KR/

FLAIRS-2005 conference web page: http://www.flairs.com/flairs2005/

Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com



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Date:  Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:  geoffnathan at wayne.edu
Subject:  Phonology in the Cognitive Grammar Worldview

Phonology in the Cognitive Grammar Worldview

Date: 17-Jul-2004 - 22-Jul-2004
Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Contact: Geoffrey Nathan
Contact Email: geoffnathan at wayne.edu
Meeting URL:

Linguistic Sub-field: Linguistic Theories ,Phonetics ,Phonology
,Psycholinguistics ,Cognitive Science

Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2004

This is a session of the following conference: 9th International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference


Meeting Description:

A Theme session exploring how fundamental principles of Cognitive
Grammar (prototype theory, experiential grounding--'embodiment',
principles of categorization, including the concept of the 'basic
level,' and usage-based theories) can elucidate the organization of
phonology in Language (either spoken or signed).

Phonology in the Cognitive Grammar Worldview

a theme session within the

Ninth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
17-22nd of July 2005

We invite abstracts from researchers in all areas of cognitive
linguistics and related frameworks who are interested in the way the
purely form-oriented, physical aspect of language is perceived,
categorized, organized and produced.

Abstracts should be between 300 and 500 words, and clearly display
their relevance to the topic. Abstracts should be submitted
electronically (RTF or PDF format) to Geoffrey Nathan
(geoffnathan at wayne.edu) and José Antonio Mompeán,(mompean at um.es), and
should reach us no later than August 30. Authors will be notified by
September 5th whether their abstracts have been selected for the theme
session. The theme session proposal will then be submitted to the
organizers of the ICLC-9, who will notify us of acceptance or
rejection by January 15th.

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