15.2646, Confs: Cognitive Science/Forensic Ling/Washington, DC,USA

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Date: 19-Sep-2004
From: Shlomo Argamon < argamon at iit.edu >
Subject: AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium: Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design


	
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:41:19
From: Shlomo Argamon < argamon at iit.edu >
Subject: AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium: Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2004 Fall Symposium:
Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design

Date: 22-Oct-2004 - 24-Oct-2004
Location: Washington, DC, United States of America
Contact: Shlomo Argamon
Contact Email: argamon at iit.edu
Meeting URL: http://music.ucsd.edu/~sdubnov/style2004.htm

Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Forensic Linguistics

Meeting Description:

In recent years a growing number of researchers working in artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, computer graphics, computer music, and
multimedia have begun to explicitly address issues of 'style' or connotative
semantics in their work.  While it is still difficult to precisely characterize
these concepts satisfactorily (we know it when we see it), common denominators
are: an emphasis on manner rather than topic, a focus on affective aspects of
expression and understanding, and a search for 'dense' representations of
meaning in which elements simultaneously symbolize multiple layers of meaning
at once.

Recent work has included forensic authorship attribution, information
retrieval based on document genre or affect, composition of new
music in a given composer's style, rendering animation in different motion
styles, analyzing architectural styles for function and affect, and
much more. Work in all media shares the complex problem of formalizing
a notion of style, and developing a modeling language that supports
the representation of differing styles.

The goal of this symposium is to bring style researchers
together to seek out common frameworks for discussion.  It will provide a
unique meeting ground for researchers and practitioners in all media that
share the problem of formalizing a notion of style, generating
discourse between diverse forms and approaches.  We thus hope to move
towards better understanding style in all its manifestations, with an
eye to developing computational models and tools for dealing with it.

To facilitate interaction among participants, the symposium will
include, in addition to a number of ''traditional'' research paper
presentations: (a) invited talks by leading figures in style research,
(b) brief tutorials on work in individual media, and (c) panel
discussions discussing various practical issues in research on style.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Sheldon Brown, UCSD (New Media Art)
Harold Cohen, Artist (Visual Arts)
Eduard Hovy, USC ISI (Natural Language)
Christopher Raphael, Indiana U. (Computer Music)
George Stiny, MIT (Architecture)

TUTORIAL SESSIONS:
Cognitive Linguistics: Joseph Goguen, UCSD
Computer Music: Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon
Computers and Architecture: Terry Knight, MIT

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
To register, please download the registration brochure at:
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2004/fssregistration-04.pdf
Registration is also available on-line:
http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fssregform.html
Reduced hotel rates are available until September 27 at:
http://crystalcity.hyatt.com/groupbooking/arti



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