10.1589, Calls: Gen'l Ling/Berkeley, Interdisciplinary/DIAGRAMS

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Subject: 10.1589, Calls: Gen'l Ling/Berkeley, Interdisciplinary/DIAGRAMS

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1)
Date:  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:22:00 -0700
From:  bls at socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject:  Final Call/Gen'l Linguistics/Berkely Ling Society

2)
Date:  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 16:23:51 +1000
From:  Bernd Meyer <berndm at floyd.cs.monash.edu.au>
Subject:  Interdisciplinary/DIAGRAMS 2000

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Date:  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:22:00 -0700
From:  bls at socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject:  Final Call/Gen'l Linguistics/Berkely Ling Society

Berkeley Linguistics Society 26
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/BLS26CALL.html

CALL FOR PAPERS

February 18-21, 2000. University of California, Berkeley

General Session:
The General Session will cover all areas of general linguistic interest.

    Invited Speakers
    ELLEN PRINCE, University of Pennsylvania
    MICHAEL TOMASELLO, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    SHERMAN WILCOX, University of New Mexico
    WALT WOLFRAM, North Carolina State University

Parasession:  Aspect

The Parasession invites papers on aspectual systems and related phenomena
from various theoretical/formal, historical, cognitive,
functional, sociolinguistic, and typological perspectives, as well as
descriptive work and field reports.

    Invited Speakers
    BETH LEVIN, Stanford University
    ANGELIKA KRATZER, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    MANFRED KRIFKA, University of Texas, Austin

Special Session:  Syntax and Semantics of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas

The Special Session will feature research on the indigenous languages of
the Americas.  Papers addressing both synchronic and
diachronic issues are welcome.

    Invited Speakers
    EMMON BACH, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    MARIANNE MITHUN, University of California, Santa Barbara
    JERRY SADOCK, University of Chicago

We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome
papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology,
Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide
camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 2000.  Presentations
will be allotted 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes
for questions.

We ask that you make your abstract as as specific as possible.  Include a
statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your
conclusions.  Please send 10 copies of an anonymous one-page (8 1/2" x 11",
unreduced) abstract.  The reverse side of the page may be
used for data and references only.

Along with the abstract send a 3"x5" card listing:

  #paper title;
  #session (General, Parasession, or Special);
  #for general session abstracts only, subfield, viz., Discourse Analysis,
	Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Philosophy and
	Methodology of Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics,
	Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, or Syntax;
  #name(s) of author(s);
  #affiliation(s) of author(S);
  #e-mail address to which notification of acceptance or rejection should
	be sent;
  #primary author's office and home phone numbers;
  #primary author's e-mail address, if available.

An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract.  In case of
joint authorship, one address should be designated for
communication with BLS.
Please send abstracts to:

    BLS 26 Abstracts Committee
    1203 Dwinelle Hall
    University of California, Berkeley
    CA  94720-2650.

Abstracts must be received by 4:00 p.m., October 29, 1999.  We may be
contacted by e-mail at bls at socrates.berkeley.edu.  We
will not accept faxed abstracts.

We strongly encourage submission by e-mail. Please use the subject header
"Abstract", and include all the author
information in the body of the e-mail. Electronic submissions may be sent
to bls-abs at trill.linguistics.berkeley.edu.

Plain text abstracts should be sent in the body of the e-mail, following
the author information. Acceptable formats are  (in a descending
order of preference):

1. Adobe PDF;
2. Microsoft Word;
3. Microsoft RTF;
4. Plain text

Abstracts in formats other than plain text should be sent as an attachment
to your e-mail. PDF and PostScript files should have all fonts
embedded. Wirh the exception of SIL IPA fonts, please include any
non-standard fonts that you use (including all non-SIL IPA phonetic
and mathematical fonts). If you send your abstract in any format other than
plain text, please allow for time to solve any technical
difficulties that may arise.

Acknowledgment of receipt will be via e-mail. If you cannot use e-mail,
please make note of this and provide us with your postal
address.

Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail by November 20, 1999.

Registration Fees:  Before February 5, 2000; $15 for students, $30 for
non-students; After February 5, 1999; $20 for students, $35 for
non-students.

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Date:  Fri, 22 Oct 1999 16:23:51 +1000
From:  Bernd Meyer <berndm at floyd.cs.monash.edu.au>
Subject:  Interdisciplinary/DIAGRAMS 2000

                            DIAGRAMS 2000

                     An International Conference
                               on the
                 Theory and Application of Diagrams

                       University of Edinburgh
                         September 1-3, 2000

                  http://www-cs.hartford.edu/~d2k/

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Diagrams 2000 is the first event in a new interdisciplinary conference
series on the Theory and Application of Diagrams.

Driven by the pervasiveness of diagrams in human communication and by
the increasing availability of graphical environments in computerised
work, the study of diagrammatic notations is emerging as a research
field in its own right. This development has simultaneously taken
place in several scientific disciplines, including, amonst others:
cognitive science, artificial intelligence and computer science.
Consequently, a number of different workshop series on this topic have
successfully been organised during the last few years: Thinking with
Diagrams, Theory of Visual Languages, Reasoning with Diagrammatic
Representations, and Formalizing Reasoning with Visual and
Diagrammatic Representations.

Diagrams are simultaneously complex cognitive phenonema and
sophisticated computational artifacts. So, to be successful and
relevant the study of diagrams must as a whole be interdisciplinary in
nature. Thus, the workshop series mentioned above have decided to
merge into Diagrams 2000, as the single interdisciplinary conference
for this exciting new field. Diagrams 2000 provides a forum with
sufficient breadth of scope to encompass researchers from all academic
areas who are studying the nature of diagrammatic representations and
their use by humans and in machines. It is intended to become the
premier international conference series in this field and will attract
participants from applied linguistics, architecture, artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, education, graphic
design, history of science, human-computer interaction, philosophical
logic, psychology and others.

The conference will consist of technical sessions with presentations
of refereed papers and tutorials which are intended to bridge the gap
between the various disciplines and foster the development of a common
language.

Some examples of the broad topics and issues that papers might cover
are:

* psychological/educational investigations of how people reason or
  learn with diagrams;
* computational reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams;
* usability issues concerning diagrams;
* classification and formalization of abstract properties of diagrams;
* descriptions of particular diagramming notations and their use.

We invite submissions of research papers that focus primarily on
diagrams or diagram use by human or computer. Other than this, there
are no particular restrictions on the field of study or the specific
topics of the papers. The papers will be peer reviewed. It is planned
to publish the proceedings as a volume in the Springer series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

Appropriate research methodologies and approaches include, amongst
others: experimental investigation; rigorous empirical observation and
analysis; computational modelling of the processes of reasoning with
diagrams; implementation of systems deploying diagrams; knowledge
accumulated from reflection on extensive practice; analysis of a
particular diagramming notation; mathematical proofs of complexity and
expressiveness of classes of diagrams.

For further information and details of electronic submission of papers
see the conference web site:

http://www-cs.hartford.edu/~d2k/

Program Chairs: Michael Anderson, University of Hartford (USA); Peter
Cheng, University of Nottingham (UK); Volker Haarslev, University of
Hamburg (Germany).

Program Committee: Tom Addis, Gerard Allwein, Nigel Birch (EPSRC),
Alan Blackwell (WWW organization), Jo Calder (Local organiation), B.
Chandrasekaran, Maria Francesca Costabile, Gennaro Costagliola, Max
Egenhofer, George Furnas, Janice Glasgow, David Gooding, Mark D.
Gross, Corin Gurr (Local organization), Pat Hayes, Mary Hegarty,
Mateja Jamnik, Stefano Levialdi, Robert Lindsay, Ric Lowe, Kim
Marriott, Bernd Meyer (Publicity organization), N. Hari Narayanan,
Patrick Olivier, David Barker-Plummer, Clive Richards, Eric Saund,
Barbara Tversky.

Important Dates in 2000:
March 13        Deadline for submission of Papers
May 8           Notification of authors
June 2          Camera ready copies due
July 31         Deadline for early registration
September 1-3   Diagrams 2000 conference

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