Hamburg, August 2013: Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013), Call for Papers

[Mark Finlayson]

CALL FOR PAPERS

   2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2013)
                     4-6 August 2013
              Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
           http://narrative.csail.mit.edu/ws13/

(a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive 
Science Society Berlin, Germany, 31 July - 3 August 2013)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

   Richard Gerrig, Stony Brook University, U.S.A.
   Inderjeet Mani, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Paper Submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013

Important Dates:

     24 February 2013. Submission deadline.
     31 March 2013. Notification.
     30 April 2013. Final versions due.
     31 July - 3 August 2013. CogSci 2013 in Berlin.
     4-6 August 2013. Workshop in Hamburg.

Workshop Aims

Narratives are ubiquitous in human experience. We use them to 
communicate, convince, explain, and entertain. As far as we know, every 
society in the world has narratives, which suggests they are rooted in 
our psychology and serve an important cognitive function. It is becoming 
increasingly clear that, to truly understand and explain human 
intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we will have to understand why and 
to what extent narrative is universal and explain (or explain away) the 
function it serves. The aim of this workshop series is to address key 
questions that advance our understanding of narrative and our ability to 
model it computationally.

Special Focus: Cognitive Science

This workshop will be an appropriate venue for papers addressing 
fundamental topics and questions regarding narrative. The workshop will 
be held as a satellite event of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive 
Science Society (to be held in Berlin 31st July - 3rd August), and so 
will have a special focus on the cognitive science of narrative. Papers 
should be relevant to issues fundamental to the computational modeling 
and scientific understanding of narrative; we especially welcome papers 
relevant to the cognitive, linguistic, or philosophical aspects of 
narrative. Cognitive psychological or neuroscientific experimental work 
which may provide insights critical to computational modeling is 
appropriate for this workshop, and is encouraged. Discussing 
technological applications or motivations is not prohibited, but is not 
required. We accept both finished research and more tentative 
exploratory work.

We invite and encourage submissions either as full papers or position 
papers, through the workshop's EasyChair website

    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmn2013

Accepted papers will be published in an electronic proceedings volume in 
the series OASIcs (Open Access Series in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl). 
Full papers should contain original research and have to fit within 16 
pages in the OASIcs style (plus two pages of references); position 
papers can report on work-in-progress, research plans or projects and 
have to fit within four pages in the OASIcs style (plus one page of 
references).

OASIcs webpage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics
OASICs style: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/oasics/oasics-authors.tgz

Programme Committee: Rossana Damiano, Kerstin Dautenhahn, David K. 
Elson, Mark Finlayson (co-chair), Pablo Gervas, Andrew S. Gordon, 
Valerie G. Hardcastle, Patrik Haslum, Benedikt Loewe (co-chair), Jan 
Christoph Meister, Peggy J. Miller, Erik T. Mueller, Livia Polanyi, 
Marie-Laure Ryan, Timothy Tangherlini, Mariet Theune, R. Michael Young, 
Atif Waraich, Patrick Henry Winston.

Organizers: Mark A. Finlayson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
U.S.A.), Bernhard Fisseni (Universitaet Hamburg & Universitaet 
Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Benedikt Loewe (Universitaet Hamburg, Germany 
& Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Jan Christoph Meister 
(Universitaet Hamburg, Germany).