8.1737, Calls: German Ling., Computation/Metaphors/Analogy
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Subject: 8.1737, Calls: German Ling., Computation/Metaphors/Analogy
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:18:47 +0100
From: Gregor Hens <hens.1 at osu.edu>
Subject: Germanic Linguistics (GLAC 4)
2)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 23:19:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at emma.ruc.dk>
Subject: Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:18:47 +0100
From: Gregor Hens <hens.1 at osu.edu>
Subject: Germanic Linguistics (GLAC 4)
The Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at The Ohio State
University
is pleased to announce the fourth
Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference
to be held in Columbus, Ohio, USA on April 17-19, 1998.
Abstracts are hereby invited for thirty-minute papers in all areas of
linguistics dealing with any Germanic language, past and present. All
abstracts will be evaluated anonymously, by a panel of reviewers. Please
send five copies of a one-page abstract (font size 12). On the abstract
include the title of the proposed paper but do not include the author's
name. Attach a three-by-five inch index card with the following
information: author(s), academic affiliation(s), title of paper, postal
address, e-mail, phone, and fax (if available). Deadline for submissions is
January 2, 1998.
Send your abstracts to:
GLAC 4 Conference Committee
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
314 Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210-1229
Tel. (614) 292-6985
Fax. (614) 292-8510
For more information send e-mail to
glac4 at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
_________________________________________
Gregor Hens
Indiana-Purdue-Ohio State Studienprogramm
G\228stehaus der Universit\228t Nr. 405
Rothenbaumchaussee 34
D-20148 Hamburg
-40-418741 (phone)
-40-452792 (fax)
hens.1 at osu.edu
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 23:19:35 +0100 (MET)
From: Hartmut Haberland <hartmut at emma.ruc.dk>
Subject: Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents
__________________________________________
Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents:
An International Workshop *
6-10 April 1998 - University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan
(* Pending Final Funding Approval)
__________________________________________
Aims and Objectives
Metaphor and analogy have served as powerful methods in language,
cognition and the history of science for human agents and cultures.
Software, robotic and living agents also show or may take advantage of
such methods in interacting with their worlds.
The focus of this workshop is the phenomena of meaning transfer
between different domains (minds, systems, technologies, cultures,
etc.) and their computational structure and design. The tools of
transfer include imitation, analogy, metaphor, and narrativity which
support learning, reasoning, understanding and culture for agents
coping with their worlds.
In metaphor, meaning transferred (between different agents or from one
realm to another within a single system) may be, for example, symbolic
or non-representational knowledge, particular sets of behaviours, a
structural description or finite-state automaton model of a physical
phenomenon, cognitive models and hierarchical categories, coordinate
systems affording understanding, or a paradigmatic viewpoint for
construction of science or social reality.
This workshop seeks to bring together researchers from various
disciplines where aspects of descriptive, mathematical, computational
or design knowledge concerning metaphor and analogy have emerged,
including, for example, embodied intelligence, robotics, software and
virtual agents, semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science, psychology,
philosophy, cultural anthropology, history of science, consciousness
studies, mathematics, algebraic engineering, and intelligent systems.
Suggested Topics
* algebraic, computational, symbolic or non-representational
approaches to metaphor
* analogy as a cognitive and linguistic phenomena
* computational nature of metaphor and analogy
* applications within agents (including living organisms, software
agents and robots).
* issues of grounding of analogies
* cross-cultural, cross-technology, cross-species understanding of
metaphors
* imitation, narrativity and metaphor
* social intelligence and sharing of metaphors by human and
non-human agents
* automatic generation and manipulation of metaphor and analogy
* embodied and situated, computational systems and meaning transfer
* empowering metaphors
* metaphors in scientific discourse
* evolution of metaphor in language and culture
* metaphor and cognitive technology
* algebraic engineering
* formal models affording understanding
Invited Plenary Speakers
(partial list)
* * Rodney A. Brooks, MIT AI Lab, U.S.A.
* * Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading, U.K.
* * Joseph Goguen, University of California, Santa Diego, U.S.A. &
Oxford Univ., U.K.
* * John L. Rhodes, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.
Advisory Committee
* Joseph Goguen, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. &
Oxford Univ., U.K.
* Douglas R. Hofstadter, Indiana University, U.S.A.
* Melanie Mitchell, Sante Fe Institute, U.S.A.
International Program Committee
(tentative partial list)
* Meurig Beynon, University of Warwick, U.K.
* Lawrence Bull, University of the West of England, U.K.
* Zixue Cheng, Univ. Aizu, Japan
* Donna J. Haraway, University of California, Santa Diego, U.S.A.
* Masami Ito, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
* Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading, U.K.
* Robert M. French, University of Liege, Belgium
* Joseph Goguen, University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. &
Oxford Univ., U.K.
* Minetada Osano, Univ. Aizu, Japan
* Chrystopher L. Nehaniv (Chair), Univ. Aizu, Japan
* Thomas S. Ray, ATR Human Information Research Labs, Japan &
University of Delaware, U.S.A.
* John L. Rhodes, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.
* Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Canada
Local Organization
* Zixue Cheng, Univ. Aizu, Japan
* Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Univ. Aizu, Japan
* Minetada Osano, Univ. Aizu, Japan
Publication & Submissions:
We plan to publish a high-quality post-conference proceedings volume
with an internationally recognized scientific publisher.
Prospective authors are invited to send a electronic postscript
submission or three hardcopies to the program chair at the address
below by January 1, 1998. Fontsize should be 11 point and the length
may vary between 4-6 pages. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection by February 15, 1998, and final versions for the working
notes will be due March 10, 1998. A working papers volume will also be
published and available at the workshop.
Submissions and requests for further information should be sent to the
program chair:
Prof. C. L. Nehaniv - CMA^2
Cybernetics & Software Systems Group
University of Aizu
Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Pref.
965 Japan
nehaniv at u-aizu.ac.jp
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Links & Updates at: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/CMAA/welcome.html
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