7.253, Books: Language and Vision Integration

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-253. Sat Feb 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  252
 
Subject: 7.253, Books: Language and Vision Integration
 
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------------------------------New Books-------------------------------------
 
LANGUAGE AND VISION INTEGRATION (4 Volumes)
 
Edited by
 
Paul Mc Kevitt
 
Aalborg University, Denmark and Sheffield University, England
 
USA: Kluwer, 1995/96
 
 
CONTACT:
Polly Margules
KLUWER OFFICE, BOSTON (USA)
 
E-mail:  kluwer at world.std.com
Phone:   +1 617 871 6600
Fax:     +1 617 871 6528
 
PRICE:
Book costs                      ISBN
I:   US$: 110.00                ISBN-0-7923-3379-9
II:  US$: 110.00                ISBN-0-7923-3758-1
III: US$: 110.00                ISBN-0-7923-3944-4
IV:  US$: 110.00                ISBN-0-?
 
SPECIAL OFFERS "BUY ALL 4 AND GET FOR HALF PRICE" etc. are
available!
 
(The BLUE book)
 
1995
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume I):
Computational Models and Systems
 
ISBN-0-7923-3379-9
 
Price: $ US: 110.00
 
Although there  has been much  progress in developing theories, models
and systems in the areas   of  Natural Language Processing (NLP)   and
Vision Processing (VP) there has  heretofore  been little progress  on
integrating these two subareas of  Artificial Intelligence (AI).  This
book contains a  set of edited  papers addressing computational models
and  systems for the  integration of NLP  and VP.  The papers focus on
site descriptions such as that of the large Japanese $500 million Real
World Computing (RWC)  project, on historical philosophical issues, on
systems  which have been built  and which  integrate the processing of
visual scenes  together  with language   about  them, and  on  spatial
relations which appear to  be the key  to integration.  The USA, Japan
and the EU are well-reflected showing up  the fact that integration is
a truly international issue.  There is no doubt  that all of this will
be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
 
 
(The BLACK book)
 
1995
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume II):
Intelligent Multimedia
 
ISBN-0-7923-3758-1
 
Price: $ US: 110.00
 
Although  there has been  much progress in developing theories, models
and  systems  in the areas  of  Natural Language Processing  (NLP) and
Vision Processing (VP) there has  heretofore  been little progress  on
integrating these two subareas of Artificial  Intelligence (AI).  This
book  contains  a   set of   edited   papers addressing  computational
intelligent  multimedia for the integration of  NLP and VP. The papers
include site descriptions from Apple Computer, California, USA and the
DFKI, Saarbr"ucken,  Germany,  and  present historical  overviews  and
philosophical    issues, on systems which  have   been built and which
enable  communications through   text,  speech,  sound, touch,  video,
graphics and icons,  and on the  automatic presentation of information
whether  it be instruction manuals,  statistical data or visualization
of  language.  Mark  Maybury's original  book,  Intelligent Multimedia
Interfaces,  is also  reviewed  here.    The  USA   and  the EU    are
well-reflected showing up   the  fact  that integration is    a  truly
international issue.  There   is no doubt   that all of this will   be
necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
 
 
(The GREEN book)
 
1996
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume III):
Theory and Grounding Representations
 
ISBN-0-7923-3944-4
 
Price: $ US: 110.00
 
Although there has  been much progress  in developing theories, models
and  systems  in the areas   of Natural Language Processing  (NLP) and
Vision Processing (VP)  there has heretofore  been little progress  on
integrating these two subareas of Artificial  Intelligence (AI).  This
book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and
the grounding of representations in  NLP and VP from Philosophical and
Psychological points  of view.  The  papers focus on site descriptions
such as the reasoning  work on  space at  Leeds, England,  the systems
work of the ILS (Illinois, USA) and philosophical work on grounding at
Torino, Italy,   on Schank's earlier  work  on pragmatics  and meaning
incorporated  into   hypermedia teaching systems,  Wilks'   visions on
metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision
and  theories   and computational  models,  mainly connectionist,  for
tackling  Searle's Chinese Room  Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding
Problem. The  Irish Room is  introduced  as a mechanism  through which
integration solves the  Chinese Room.  The  USA, China and  the EU are
well-reflected   showing the   fact  that   integration  is  a   truly
international  issue.  There is  no  doubt that all   of this will  be
necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
 
 
(The RED book)
 
1996
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing (Volume IV):
Recent Advances
 
ISBN-0-?
 
Price: $ US: 110.00
 
Although  there has been much progress  in developing theories, models
and   systems in the  areas  of Natural  Language Processing (NLP) and
Vision  Processing (VP) there  has heretofore been  little progress on
integrating these two subareas of  Artificial Intelligence (AI).  This
book   contains a set  of edited  papers  on  recent  advances for the
integration of NLP   and VP with  theories, computational   models and
systems. A site description focusses on  a large project at Bielefeld,
Germany called  Situated Artificial  Communicators.  We   have Okada's
Aesop's World considering intentions of agents in visual environments,
Cohn's spatial reasoning  (where spatial relations are considered  the
key to  integration),  Tonfoni's visual languages  for  communication,
computational  models for   interpreting  blood   vessel  vasculature,
developing sensitive interfaces  and   the visualisation  of  rhythmic
structure.   The  CMU work  of  Waibel on  Multimodal Interfaces which
integrates speech, gesture  and  pointing,  eye-gaze, lip  motion  and
facial  expression, handwriting, face  recognition, face tracking, and
sound localisation in a connectionist framework shows the way forward.
The USA, Japan and the EU are  well-reflected showing up the fact that
integration is a  truly international issue.   There is no  doubt that
all of this will be necessary for  the SuperInformationHighways of the
future.
 
 
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Paul Mc Kevitt is 32 and from D/un Na nGall  (Donegal), Ireland on the
Northwest of  the   EU.  He is   a  Visiting Professor of  Intelligent
Multimedia  Computing at  Aalborg  University  in  Denmark,  EU and  a
British EPSRC   (Engineering and  Physical Sciences Research  Council)
Advanced    Fellow in the Department    of   Computer Science at   the
University of  Sheffield  in Sheffield, England,  EU.  The Fellowship,
commenced   in 1994, and   releases him from  his tenured Lecturership
(Associate Professorship) for 5 years to conduct full-time research on
the integration of natural language, speech and vision processing.  He
is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Education at the University
of  Sheffield.  He  completed his  Ph.D.  in  Computer Science at  the
University of Exeter, England in 1991. His Master's Degree in Computer
Science was obtained from New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USA
in 1988 and his Bachelor's Degree in  Computer Science from University
College  Dublin, Dublin,  Ireland, EU  in 1985.   His primary research
interests are in Natural  Language Processing including the processing
of pragmatics, beliefs    and  intentions in dialogue.    He   is also
interested  in   Philosophy, Multimedia    and   the general  area  of
Artificial Intelligence.
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                       Artificial Intelligence Review Journal
                              (Kluwer, The Netherlands)
 
                                 Special VOLUME on
                                   INTEGRATION OF
                       NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION PROCESSING
 
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Nicola Berridge (Humanities and Social Sciences Division)
Bill George (Desk Editor, Editorial Department)
Polly Margules (Kluwer Inhouse Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences)
Evangelos Simoudis (USA Editor, AI Review)
Melanie Willow (Journals Editorial Office)
Masoud Yazdani (Founding Editor, AI Review)
 
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