10.831, Calls: Intelligent Virtual Agents, Comp Linguistics

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Subject: 10.831, Calls: Intelligent Virtual Agents, Comp Linguistics

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1)
Date:  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:58:36 +0100
From:  "Daniel Ballin" <d.ballin at iti.salford.ac.uk>
Subject:  Intelligent Virtual Agents

2)
Date:  Mon, 31 May 1999 15:06:12 +0100 (WET DST)
From:  Miriam Butt <mutt at callisto.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject:  DGfS/CL 99, Computational Linguistics

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:58:36 +0100
From:  "Daniel Ballin" <d.ballin at iti.salford.ac.uk>
Subject:  Intelligent Virtual Agents

            Intelligent Virtual Agents (Virtual Agents 99)
                The Centre for Virtual Environments
		       Salford, United Kingdom

                          Final Call For Papers		
                	      13th September 1999

         	    http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/

			Sponsored By
           AgentLink,
           Deneb Visual Interactive Systems Ltd,
           GEMISIS,
           NICVE,
           Simulation Solutions Ltd,
           VR-News,

Keynote Speaker
- ------------------------
Professor Demetri Terzopoulos
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

Topics of interest include (but not limited to)
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Virtual and physical agent interaction
Perception in autonomous virtual agents
Mixed reality with virtual agents
Intelligent virtual agent architectures
Intelligent virtual actors
Emotionally driven synthetic characters
Novel applications of virtual agents
New tools and technologies for the building of virtual agents
Human interaction with virtual agents (e.g. voice recognition)
The use of virtual agents for training
Virtual agents in shared worlds
Biologically inspired virtual agents
Virtual ecosystems
Applications within industry: Film, Manufacturing, Fashions etc

Paper Submission
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If you are interested in contributing please send an extended abstract
1000 - 2000 words or final paper electronically, in Word, HTML or
Postscript to: va99 at angmar.iti.salford.ac.uk. Final papers should be
about 4000 words. The deadlines for submission are given below

Programme Committee
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Ruth Aylett, 		Centre for Virtual Environments,  - Programme Chair
Daniel Ballin, 		Centre for Virtual Environments
Marc Cavazza,		University of Bradford
Dave Cliff,	 	Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol
Kerstin Dautenhahn,	University of Reading
Chris Hand, 		Napier University
Mike Luck,		University of Warwick
Divine Ndumu,		Bristish Telecommunications Laboratories,
Paolo Petta, 		Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Peter Wavish,		Philips Research Labs, Redhill,
Mark Wells, 		Televirtual, Norwich,
Christopher Winter,	Cyberlife Technology Ltd

Important Dates
- ----------------------
Submission of Final Papers
or extended Abstracts		 		11th June 1999
Notification of accepted papers 		16th July 1999
Proposals for Demonstrations/Exhibits 		6th August 1999
Submission of camera-ready full papers 		20th August 1999
Deadline for registration 			20th August 1999
Intelligent Virtual Agents workshop 		13th September 1999

Publication
- ---------------
All papers will be in the formal proceedings and considered for later
publication in a special journal issue, details of this will follow.

Contact person
- --------------------
Daniel Ballin,
The Centre for Virtual Environments
Business House
University of Salford,
Salford
M5 4WT, UK
Email: d.ballin at iti.salford.ac.uk
Tel: +44-(0)161-295-2918
Fax: +44-(0)161-295-2925
http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/

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Date:  Mon, 31 May 1999 15:06:12 +0100 (WET DST)
From:  Miriam Butt <mutt at callisto.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject:  DGfS/CL 99, Computational Linguistics

			      DGfS/CL 99

       7th Meeting of the Section for Computational Linguistics

	 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft

			   October 6-8,1999
	       Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken
 Theme: Computational Linguistics: Theoretical vs. Empirical Concerns

The conference welcomes current work within research and application
oriented computational linguistics.  Abstracts which pertain to the
main theme of the conference will generally be preferred. The language
of the conference is both English and German and abstracts will be
accepted in either language.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is June 18th, 1999.  3
copies of abstracts no longer than 6 pages should be submitted by
that date.  The electronic submission of abstracts is strongly
encouraged (we will take postscript, Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML or PDF,
as well as simple ASCII).

A workshop on practical issues will form a part of the meeting.

         Workshop: (Computational) Linguistics  in University Programs

NOTE: This meeting will be the last of its kind (an autumn school will
take its place)

DATES:
     Abstract Submission: June 18, 1999
     Notification of Acceptance: July 7, 1999
     Meeting: October 6-8, 1999

PROGRAMM COMMITTEE:

    Miriam Butt (Konstanz)
    Anette Frank (XRCE, Grenoble)
    Josef van Genabith (Dublin)
    Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld)
    Tibor Kiss (Bochum)
    Manfred Pinkal (Saarbruecken)
    Hinrich Schuetze (Xerox PARC)
    Hans Uszkoreit (Saarbruecken), Organiser

WHERE TO SUBMIT:

Miriam Butt
Universitaet Konstanz
Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft
Fach D 186
D-78457 Konstanz

E-mail: miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de

We would appreciate it if you registered by August 15th, 1999 with the
local organizer.

Hans Uszkoreit
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Germany

E-mail: uszkoreit at coli.uni-sb.de

This call for papers and further information can be accessed via

   http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DGfS/Sektionen/SektionCL/

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German Version:

			      DGfS/CL 99

	     7. Fachtagung der Sektion Computerlinguistik

	  der Deutschen Gesellschaft f\252r Sprachwissenschaft

			  6.10. - 8.10.1999
	       Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken
    Rahmenthema: Computerlinguistik zwischen Theorie und Empirie.

Erwuenscht sind Beitraege in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die
sich mit aktuellen Forschungs- und Anwendungsfragen aus allen Gebieten
der Computerlinguistik auseinandersetzen, wobei in der Regel ein Bezug
zum Rahmenthema hergestellt werden sollte. Erweiterte Abstracts in
einem Umfang von maximal 6 Seiten muessen in drei Kopien bis zum
18.6.1999 bei der Sprecherin der Sektion Computerlinguistik, Miriam
Butt, eingereicht werden. Wenn moeglich sollten die Abstracts in
elektronischer Form eingereicht werden (angenommen werden
PostScript-Dateien, Microsoft Word, RTF, HTML oder PDF Formate, sowie
auch einfaches ASCII).

       Anwendungsworkshop: (Computer-)Linguistik und gestufte Studiengaenge

WICHTIGER HINWEIS:

Diese Fachtagung wird nach Beschluss der Sektion die letzte ihrer Art sein.

TERMINE:

     Einreichung von Beitraegen: 18.6.1999
     Benachrichtigung ueber Annahme: 15.7.1999
     Fachtagung: 6-8.10.1999

PROGRAMM KOMMITTEE:

    Miriam Butt (Konstanz)
    Anette Frank (XRCE, Grenoble)
    Josef van Genabith (Dublin)
    Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld)
    Tibor Kiss (Bochum)
    Manfred Pinkal (Saarbruecken)
    Hinrich Schuetze (Xerox PARC)
    Hans Uszkoreit (Saarbruecken), Organiser

ADRESSE FUER DIE EINREICHUNG VON BEITRAEGEN:

Miriam Butt
Universitaet Konstanz
Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft
Fach D 186
D-78457 Konstanz

E-mail: miriam.butt at uni-konstanz.de

ANMELDUNG

Die Anmeldung zur Fachtagung ist erwuenscht bis zum 15.8.1999 beim
Organisator:

Hans Uszkoreit
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik
D-66041 Saarbruecken
Germany

E-mail: uszkoreit at coli.uni-sb.de

Dieser Call for Papers und weitere Informationen sind ueber
folgende Addresse abrufbar:

   http://coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DGfS/Sektionen/SektionCL/

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