CALL FOR PAPERS : IWCS'97
Irene Ludman
ludman at austerlitz.devinci.fr
Sun Feb 9 18:07:46 UTC 1997
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
COMPUTATIONAL SEMIOTICS
26th - 27th May, 1997
Ptle Universitaire Lionard de Vinci
PARIS - LA DEFENSE - FRANCE
TOPICS
SEMIOTICS OF TEXT : Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy, University of Montreal
Computers are increasingly used to assist text analysis for cognitive, literary,
anthropological, sociological, documentary, etc. research. The
workshop will focus on actual realisations, on the possibilities and limits of
methodologies and existing tools to take into account the complex and
multidimensional nature of texts, allowing multiple points of views for a
variety of user needs. Issues such as desirable features of text analysis
software, robustness and conviviality of implantations, interaction between
corpora and users, constraints that actual tools put upon kinds of
analyses and coding choices, the ability to elaborate models of electronic
analytical tools suited to different semiotic theories, semiotical
foundations of markup languages are examples of possible debates.
SEMIOMETHODOLOGY : Claude Vogel, Lionard de Vinci University
Several genres are currently under investigation for semiotic studies :
electronic mail, news, corporate information, Web publishing. The flood of
full text is overflowing semantic analysis, and this major paradigm break leads
us to reconsider our approach of text processing. The size of these
new corpora, the lack of consistency of information, the physical scattering of
the basic units of texts, make the classical documentary solutions
very uncomfortable. Instead, the semiotic based analysis seems to be a highly
compelling perspective. It is focused on chronology; it provides a way
to build transitive narratives throughout large amounts of data, and it does not
require the understanding of the details of each local grammatical
sentence in order for a global plot to be elaborated. This promising trend may
give a second wind to ethnomethodology. For this reason, it is more
appropriate to use the term "semiomethodology" when evoking this attempt to
rationalize the computational approach of the symbolic dynamics which
underlie collaborative production.
ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS : Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University
Organizational semiotics is the semiotics of organizations and organizational
dimensions of textual semiotics. The objective of this workshop is to
define the boundaries of this new specialty. Specifically, we will address the
issue of : "How can semiotic analysis of interpersonal and corporate
exchanges be used to reveal, evaluate, and contrast the underlying
organizational logics and changes in these logics over time ?" Recent advances
in
textual analysis are facilitating this endeavor and creating new opportunities
for understanding organizational behavior. Critical issues in the area
of organizational semiotics include : 1) how to quickly and reliably analyze
large quantities of texts, 2) how to reduce textual data to an empirical
form that can be combined with other types of data and analyzed statistically,
3) how to identify corporate texts (those representing the "view" of
the organization as an entity) and address issues of authorship, and 4) how to
identify institutional constraints on the production and maintenance
of corporate texts. New and innovative computational methods for empirically
analyzing texts are being developed to address these and related
concerns. These techniques have the potential to move textual analysis beyond
counting words or locating a few themes or concepts. This section will
focus on the issues involved in performing organizational semiotics with
particular attention to the new computationally based techniques for
facilitating organizational analysis that increase the ease, speed or
reliability of coding texts and generate information that can be analyzed
statistically.
BIOSEMIOTICS : Jean-Claude Heudin, Lionard de Vinci University
Recently, algorithms and architectures based on models derived from biological
systems have been receiving an increasing amount of interest. This
section will explore how such new approaches and techniques could be used for
managing large amount of information exchanges on Internet or Intranet.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, applications of
agent-based systems, autonomous and evolving agents, genetic
algorithms and programming, neural networks, cellular automata etc. to text
stream analysis and in the more general framework of semiotics analysis.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Send four copies of an abstract (approximately 500 words) in english or email it
to :
Irhne Ludman - IWCS'97
Ptle Universitaire Lionard de Vinci
92916 PARIS-LA DEFENSE-CEDEX, FRANCE
Phone: (33) 01 41 16 73 05
Fax : (33) 01 41 16 73 35
Email : irene.ludmann at devinci.fr
DEADLINES
Submission of abstracts
by 1st April 1997
Acceptance notification to authors
by 15th April 1997
Submission of full papers
by 12th May 1997
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Claude Vogel (chairman)
Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy
Kathleen Carley
Jean-Claude Heudin
PROGRAM COMMITTE
Pierre Boudon (canada)
Guillaume Deffuant (France)
Evelyne Lutton (France)
Joe Porac (USA)
Carl Roberts (USA)
J. Sebeok (Canada)
Peter Stockinger (France)
Bill Turner (France)
For more information please visit the following Web page :
http://www.devinci.fr/home/actua.htm
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