10.150, Calls: Slavic Ling., Language, Vision & Music

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Subject: 10.150, Calls: Slavic Ling., Language, Vision & Music

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Date:  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:22 +0100
From:  Uwe Junghanns <uwe at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject:  Slavic linguistics/FDSL-3

2)
Date:  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:05:37 +0100
From:  Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck at kom.auc.dk>
Subject:  Language, Vision & Music, GALWAY, IRELAND

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Date:  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:02:22 +0100
From:  Uwe Junghanns <uwe at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Subject:  Slavic linguistics/FDSL-3

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd European Conference
on
Formal Description of Slavic Languages

1-3 December, 1999

hosted by the University of Leipzig

The Slavic Department of the University of Leipzig is pleased to announce
the 3rd European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages
(FDSL-3).

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20-minute presentation plus 10
minutes for discussion) on the syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics,
and psycholinguistics of Slavic languages. Presentations will be in any
Slavic language, English or German.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: May 30, 1999

How to submit abstracts:
Abstract submission must be by post (email submissions will not be
accepted). Send 4 copies of an anonymous one-page abstract to the postal
address below. One additional page with references, figures and data (no
text) may be appended, if necessary. Please include an extra sheet of paper
with:
- title of paper
- your name (and title)
- complete mailing address and affiliation (or home address, if necessary)
- telephone and fax numbers
- email address (and URL of personal homepage)

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be notified in mid-July 1999.

Those interested in attending FDSL-3 are invited to register their email
and/or postal addresses at the conference address below (email is preferred
for all communication except submission of abstracts).

Additional information is available at the FDSL-3 web site:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jungslav/fdsl/fdsl-3/fdsl-3.html

Organizing Committee:
Gerhild Zybatow, Uwe Junghanns, Grit Mehlhorn, Luka Szucsich

Postal address:
Universitaet Leipzig
Institut fuer Slavistik
FDSL-3 Organizing Committee
Augustusplatz 9
04109 Leipzig
GERMANY

Email: <fdsl-3 at rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Phone: ++49-341-97 37 450, -454
Fax: ++49-341-97 37 499



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Date:  Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:05:37 +0100
From:  Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck at kom.auc.dk>
Subject:  Language, Vision & Music, GALWAY, IRELAND

	


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                          "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"

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                  The Eighth International Workshop on the
        Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8)
                        (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/)

                          "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"

             National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
                               GALWAY, IRELAND

                  Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999

                              in association with:
                         "Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"
                 (Monday 16th  - Thursday 19th August, 1999)
                       (Dublin City University, Ireland)
                (http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html)

                          "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"

What common   cognitive   patterns underlie our  competence   in these
disparate modes of  thought?? Language (natural  & formal), vision and
music seem to share at least  the following attributes: a hierarchical
organisation of  constituents, recursivity,  metaphor, the possibility
of  self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity.   Can we propose the
existence of a  general  symbol system  with  instantiations in  these
three  modes or is  the only commonality to  be found at  the level of
such entities  as cerebral columnar automna??   Also, we invite papers
which examine cross-cultural experience of these modalities.

What can Engineering  of software platforms for integrated Intelligent
MultiModal & MultiMedia processing of language/vision/music/etc.  tell
us??

TOPICS INCLUDE:
o  combinations: language and music; language and vision; music and vision.
o  What can Engineering of software platforms
   (e.g. AAU CHAMELEON; c.f. http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm) for
   integrated Intelligent MultiMedia processing of language/vision/etc.
   tell us??
o  Metaphor: For example: the use of terms like "interval"
   and "range" in music.
o  Rhythm: How is Rhythm important for language, vision and music??
o  Acoustics: What role does it play in the three modalities??
o  The roles of embodiment  and culture in  the formation of symbolic
   apparati;  For example:   the   use   of  gesture  in     face-to-face
   communication.
o  Emotions: what role do they play in the three modalities??
o  Synesthesia
o  What the visual, musical and linguistic arts can tell us.
o  What is the developmental  relationship between prosody and music??
   What  is the  cognitive  evidence  for   the  dependence of music   on
   language??
o  Can we speak meaningfully about a semantics of music??
o  Architectures for integration of language, vision and music;
   what aspects are conscious and what automatic?? What aspects are
   common and what are specific to each??

o  What is the role of modelling creativity??
   Are the creative processes similar or in what way are they different??
   SPECIAL SESSION ON CREATIVITY:
   In AI we have failed to get much handle on creativity.
   Conn Mulvihill will Chair a special session on creativity
   looking at writing, poetry, painting, and music composition.
   Irish Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney is
   composing a translation of Beowulf at present with special attention to
   the sound - reminiscent of movement in a longship type craft and there
   are those that claim that music is central to any hope of understanding
   Joyce. We think also of the likes of Kandinsky here.
   Is Joyce prose or music? Is Kandinsky art or music??
   What is Picasso? What are the links between language, vision and music??
   Is creativity the same for each? and by the way, What is creativity??
   It is intended to involve Writers in Residence at NUI, Galway
   Pat McCabe ("The Butcher Boy") & Paula Meehan (Poet).

o  Are recent trends towards integrating ideas in the
   Arts/Humanities and Sciences/Engineering important here??
o  Why are there many arts and not just one??

CSNLP:
The International   Workshop   on the Cognitive  Science   of  Natural
Language Processing (CSNLP) has  been run in IRELAND  since 1992.  The
CSNLP-8 workshop   will    continue  the tradition    of   emphasising
presentations of Ireland's and International  original research in all
areas of the   Cognitive Science of  NLP including   Computer Science,
Psychology,     Linguistics, Philosophy,   Neuroscience  and   related
disciplines  on the  obvious problems   of   speech, NLP,  and  vision
processing,  robotics, learning,  reasoning,  knowledge representation
and mobile/remote computing.  Papers addressing  this year's theme are
particularly welcome.

                      CSNLP-8 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKER

                            *** Mark Steedman ***

                           Division of Informatics
                      University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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MARK STEEDMAN has recently   become Professor of Cognitive Science  in
the  Division of Informatics at the  University of Edinburgh, Scotland
after a  move from the  University of Pennsylvania,  US where he was a
Professor of Computer and  Infomation Science.  He is  a Fellow of the
American Association for  Artificial Intelligence.  His research spans
a wide  range of issues  in lingusitcs  and computational linguistics,
artificial   intelligence, computer  science  and cognitive   science,
including  syntax and semantics  of natural  languages and programming
languages, parsing and comprehension of  natural language discourse by
humans and  by  machine,  natural   language  generation,  and  spoken
discourse, as well  as the analysis of  music by humans  and machines.
He     has published    widely    in  linguistic,   computational, and
psychological arenas.  Much  of his current  NLP research is addressed
to issues in spoken discourse and dialogue,  especially the meaning of
intonation and prosody, using  the framework of Combinatory Categorial
Grammar (CCG) which he helped to develop.
(http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~steedman/)
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call for participation.
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                                  HOSTED BY:
              THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI)
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             Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI)
                                     and
             National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
                               GALWAY, IRELAND

                                   CHAIRS:
                                Paul Mc Kevitt
        (Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Sheffield, England)
                                Conn Mulvihill
         (National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland)
                              Se/an /O Nuall/ain
                       (Dublin City University, Ireland)

CSNLP-8 (LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Liam Bannon            (University of Limerick & Xerox PARC, Stanford, US)
John Barnden           (University of Birmingham, England)
Bill Barry             (University of Sarbruecken, Germany)
David Bell             (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Niels Ole Bernsen      (Odense University, Denmark)
Mike Brady             (Oxford University, England)
Derek Bridge           (University College Cork)
Harry Bunt             (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Jon Campbell           (University of Ulster, Magee)
Norman Creaney         (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Michel Denis           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
Koenraad de Smedt      (University of Bergen, Norway)
Daniel Dennett         (Tufts University, US)
Charles Fillmore       (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Mikael Fernstrom       (University of Limerick)
John Fitch             (University of Bath, England)
James Flanagan         (Rutgers University, US)
John Gammack           (Murdoch University, Perth, Australia)
Erik Granum            (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Niall Griffith         (University of Limerick)
ChengMing Guo          (University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Steven Harnad          (University of Southampton, England)
Jerry Harper           (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Douglas Hofstadter     (Indiana University, US)
Brian Karlsen          (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Mark Keane             (University College Dublin)
Shalom Lappin          (King's College London, England)
Margaret Leahy         (Trinity College Dublin)
Chin-Hui Lee           (Lucent Technologies, US)
Bernard Levrat         (LERIA, University of Angers, France)
James Martin           (University of Colorado, US)
Mark Maybury           (MITRE, Massachusetts, US)
Tony McEnery           (Lancaster University, England)
Paul Mc Kevitt         (Aalborg University & University of Sheffield)
Peadar Mc Kevitt       (Global Information Partnership (GIP) Ltd., Dublin)
Barry McMullin         (Dublin City University)
Alex Monaghan          (Dublin City University)
Andrew Morris          (IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland)
Conn Mulvihill         (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Fergal Murray          (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Fionn Murtagh          (Queen's University Belfast)
Stephen Nachmanovitch  (Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US)
Yoshiki Niwa           (Hitachi Limited, Tokyo, Japan)
John Nolan             (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Diarmuid O Donoghue    (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Greg O Hare            (University College Dublin)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain     (Dublin City University)
Melanie O Reilly       (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Padraig /O Seaghdha    (Lehigh University, US)
Douglas O Shaughnessy  (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada)
Ryuichi Oka            (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Naoyuki Okada          (Kyushu University, Japan)
Derek Partridge        (University of Exeter, England)
Gert Rickheit          (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Jonathan Rowe          (De Montford University, England)
Gerard Sabah           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
NNoel Sharkey          (University of Sheffield, England)
Noel Sheehy            (Queen's University Belfast)
Arnold Smith           (NRC, Ottawa, Canada)
Humphrey Sorensen      (University College Cork)
Mark Steedman          (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Keith Stenning         (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Oliviero Stock         (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Kris Th/orisson        (MIT Media Lab., Cambridge, US)
Peter Todd             (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Jun-Ichi Tsujii        (University of Tokyo, Japan & UMIST, England)
David Vernon           (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Walther von Hahn       (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Ipke Wachsmuth         (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Paul Whelan            (Dublin City University)
Mary McGee-Wood        (University of Manchester, England)
Michael Zock           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)


THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI):
The aim of the CSSI is the promotion of cognitive science teaching
and research in the island of Ireland.  Membership is open to anyone
anywhere who supports the goals of the organization.  We are open to
further nominations for the steering committee.  Membership is
IR #20 (IEP) (US DOLLARS $30) (STERLING #19).

Two already-established conferences will be run in Ireland by CSSI:
"The Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP)", and
"Mind".  Members will receive free electronic
copies of proceedings of both conferences, an annual newsletter, and
proceedings of the AGM.  It is planned to establish a web page
which, over time, will offer an increasing range of services.
Initially, conference information, a membership form, and links to
other relevant web sites will be provided.
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~jkellehe/CSSI/cssi.html
                        http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci/latest/cssi.html

WORKSHOP FORMAT:
Our intention  is to have as  much interaction  as possible during the
workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as much as formal
paper presentations.  Plenary session will attempt to integrate themes
and topics of CSNLP-8.


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Papers of not more than 8  A4 pages should  be submitted by electronic
mail (ASCII plain text  + preferably uuencoded  compressed postscript)
to Paul Mc Kevitt at pmck at cpk.auc.dk.  If you cannot submit your paper
by E-mail please submit three copies to Paul Mc Kevitt by snail mail.

**** Submission Deadline:  March 17,  1999
**** Notification Date:    May    1,  1999
**** Camera ready Copy:    June   1,  1999


PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be  published.   If there is  sufficient
interest  we will  publish a book   on the workshop.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK)
vFredrik Bajers Vej 7-A5
Institute of Electronic Systems (IES)
Aalborg University
DK- 9220, Aalborg
DENMARK.
E-mail: pmck at cpk.auc.dk
FaX:   (+45) 98 15 15 83
Phone: (+45) 96 35 86 56
WWW: http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm

Conn Mulvihill
Information Technology (IT) Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
IRL- Galway, Co. Galway
IRELAND.
E-mail: conn at it.ucg.ie
FaX: (+353) -91-750501
Phone: (+353) -91-524411
WWW:   http://www.it.ucg.ie/

Se/an /O Nuall/ain
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
IRL- Dublin 9, Dublin
IRELAND.
E-mail: sean.onuallain at compapp.dcu.ie
FaX: (+353) -1-7045442
Phone: (+353) -1-7045073
WWW:   http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/

SOCIAL:
This meeting will have a surplus of social events and a
planned conference tour is a boat trip of the Aran Islands.

CEILI:
It is intended that we organise at least one
Ceili during the Workshop and all participants are
invited to bring their musical instruments to participate.

GALWAY, IRELAND:
http://www.galway.net
http://www.galway.local.ie
http://www.galwayonline.ie

GALWAY, IRELAND is a twin-city of AALBORG, DENMARK

""CITY OF THE TRIBES "To hell or to Connaught" ordered Cromwell as the
dispossessed flocked west in their droves.  The land may still be poor
but no-one these days would equate Connaught  with hell. As anyone who
ever watched the sun go down on the famously beautiful Galway bay will
tell you, it's definitely more on the  heavenly end of the spectrum. A
friendly sprawling city, Galway has all the amenities of a much larger
place yet maintains  its laid-back vibe. As a  University town,  it is
incredibly     youthful,     culturally   vibrant      and  undeniably
cosmopolitan. You can lose your shirt at the races or your inhibitions
at the oyster festival. A  light mist will  enhance your complexion as
you cycle  over the  salmon weir, along  by the  cathedral. Bring your
umbrella and prepare to have lots of fun....""
(see http://www.galway.local.ie)

EVENTS IRELAND:
http://www.emigrant.ie/calendar.htm

VISIT IRELAND:
http://www.ireland.travel.ie
http://www.iol.ie/~discover
http://www.local.ie
                                related meetings:

                                    IJCAI-99
                           JULY 31 - AUGUST 6, 1999
                               STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
The above meetings will follow the Sixteenth International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99)
to be held in Stockholm, Sweden
(see http://www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/)

       7TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION
       ***************************************************************
            MULTIMODALITY IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH SYSTEMS (MiLaSS)
                                 12-23 July 1999
                                Stockholm, Sweden
                       (http://www.speech.kth.se/milass)

                  INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE IN MULTI-MODAL SYSTEMS
                            JUNE 22 - JUNE 25, 1999
                             Kloster Irsee, Germany
                        (http://www.cpk.auc.dk/ids99/)

                                   also soon:
                          Tenth Irish Conference on
            Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-99)
                 (Wednesday 1st  - Friday 3rd September, 1999)
                      (University College Cork, Ireland)
                         (http://www.cs.ucc.ie/aics99)

         Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP-99)
                             8th - 9th September, 1999
                       (Dublin City University, Ireland)
                 (http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~imvip99/imvip99.html)

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