11.2738, Calls: Modeling/Using Context, Himalayan Languages

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Subject: 11.2738, Calls: Modeling/Using Context, Himalayan Languages

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1)
Date:  Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:40:04 -0500
From:  context-owner at umcs.maine.edu
Subject:  Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Context

2)
Date:    Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:21:49 +0100
From:    Anju Saxena <Anju.Saxena at ling.uu.se>
Subject:  7th Himalayan Languages Symposium

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

Date:  Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:40:04 -0500
From:  context-owner at umcs.maine.edu
Subject:  Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Context

               CONTEXT'01: Third International Conference on
                         Modeling and Using Context

                              Dundee, Scotland
                              July 27-30, 2001

                http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-01
              (mirrored at http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/context-01)

The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and
Using Context (CONTEXT'01) aims at providing a high quality forum for
discussions on context among researchers active in Artificial Intelligence,
Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Organizational Sciences,
Philosophy, and Psychology.

The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, as evidenced
by the numerous workshops, symposia, and seminars on context held recently
(see the Context Web Site). The CONTEXT series of conferences has a unique
place among these due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research.
The first conference in this series (CONTEXT'97) was held in Rio de Janeiro
in 1997. The second conference (CONTEXT'99) was held in Trento in 1999; see
http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99 for details.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The following topics, in which contexts can be studied and/or applied, are
indicative of the scope of the conference:

   * Case-Based Reasoning
   * Cognitive Modeling
   * Commonsense Reasoning
   * (Active) Databases
   * Decision Support Systems
   * Distributed Information Systems
   * Formal Theories of Context
   * Heterogeneous Information Integration
   * Human-Computer Interaction
   * Information Management
   * Intelligent Internet Systems
   * Intelligent Tutoring Systems
   * Knowledge Engineering
   * Knowledge Management
   * Knowledge Representation
   * Machine Learning
   * Multi-Agent Systems
   * Natural Language Processing
   * Natural Language Semantics
   * Organizational Contexts
   * Philosophical Foundations
   * Pragmatics

This is not an exhaustive list; other contributions on context are welcome.

PUBLICATION PLANS

As was the case with CONTEXT'99, the proceedings of CONTEXT'01 will be
published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their series Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS). Copies of the volume will be distributed to registered
participants at the conference. Publication of an accepted paper in the
proceedings will be conditional upon two things: presentation of the paper
during the conference and registration of at least one of its authors at the
conference.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

CONTEXT'01 is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum. All submissions,
in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit,
will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary community.
Accordingly, works that transcend their disciplinary boundaries are
especially encouraged.

Each submission will be evaluated by three referees.

Submissions must include in their first page: title, author's name,
affiliation, complete mailing address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address,
and an abstract. Prospective authors are strongly advised to see the sample
paper at:

   * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf or
   * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps

for the formatting requirements. It is crucial to note that papers cannot be
longer than 14 pages. Detailed information for authors is available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Only electronic submissions (PostScript or PDF file only, named with the
first author's name and last name, e.g. John-Doe.ps or John-Doe.pdf) are
acceptable. It would be wise to use a well-known compression utility (e.g.
compress or gzip) before a paper is e-mailed. If one foresees problems in
submitting his/her paper in one of the allowed electronic formats and would
like to send hardcopy instead, then he/she should send e-mail to one of the
Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline and seek
advice. LNCS is now published both in print and in a full-text electronic
version; therefore, the electronic files are indispensable.

Submitted papers should be received by the Conference Chair no later than
February 2, 2001:

     Paolo Bouquet
     CONTEXT'01 Conference Chair
     Department of Computer Science
     University of Trento
     Via Inama, 5
     I-38100 Trento, Italy
     tel: +39 461 882135
     fax: +39 461 882124
     bouquet at cs.unitn.it
     http://www.cs.unitn.it/~bouquet

SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS

CONTEXT'01 expands the format of CONTEXT'97 and CONTEXT'99 in that
specialized workshops are planned to let participants discuss emerging,
narrow, and technical issues related to context. Proposals for specialized
workshops should be sent to the Workshops Chair by March 2, 2001:

     Massimo Benerecetti
     CONTEXT'01 Workshops Chair
     Department of Physical Sciences
     University of Naples "Federico II"
     Complesso Monte Santangelo
     via Cinthia
     80126 Napoli, Italy
     Massimo.Benerecetti at na.infn.it

A proposal should consist of the following items: workshop title, address
and short bio of the workshop director, one-page synopsis of the workshop,
addresses of workshop speakers who have already committed to making
presentations, and tentative titles of the presentations.

It is up to the workshop director to decide whether the workshop speakers
also prepare written versions of their presentations. In any case, there
will not be a formal written record of the workshops. A workshop director is
free to prepare an informal report or a collection of handouts incorporating
the material discussed in his/her workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

 Paper submission deadline                                 February 2, 2001

 Workshop proposal submission deadline                        March 2, 2001

 Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions     April 2, 2001

 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers (in LNAI        May 4, 2001
 format)

 Conference                                                July 27-30, 2001

INVITED SPEAKERS

     Patrick Blackburn, Computerlinguistick, University of Saarland,
     Germany
     Herbert Clark, Psychology Department, Stanford University
     Jerry Hobbs, SRI International, Menlo Park, California
     Alex Lascarides, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
     Scotland
     John Perry, Philosophy Department, Stanford University, California

CONFERENCE CHAIR

     Paolo Bouquet (bouquet at cs.unitn.it)

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS

     Rich Thomason (rich at thomason.org)
     Varol Akman (akman at cs.bilkent.edu.tr)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR

     Massimo Benerecetti (Massimo.Benerecetti at na.infn.it)

PUBLICITY CHAIR

     Roy Turner (rmt at umcs.maine.edu)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR

     Roger Young (r.a.young at dundee.ac.uk)

STEERING COMMITTEE

     Paolo Bouquet (bouquet at cs.unitn.it)
     Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon at lip6.fr)
     Rich Thomason (rich at thomason.org)
     Varol Akman (akman at cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
     Roger Young (r.a.young at dundee.ac.uk)
     Gilles Fauconnier (faucon at cogsci.ucsd.edu)
     Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto at cs.unitn.it)
     Carlo Penco (penco at nous.unige.it)
     Francois Recanati (recanati at poly.polytechnique.fr)
     Luciano Serafini (serafini at itc.it)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

     Paolo Bouquet (bouquet at cs.unitn.it)
     Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon at lip6.fr)
     Rich Thomason (rich at thomason.org)
     Varol Akman (akman at cs.bilkent.edu.tr)
     Roy Turner (rmt at umcs.maine.edu)
     Massimo Benerecetti (Massimo.Benerecetti at na.infn.it)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

     Roger Young (r.a.young at dundee.ac.uk)
     Neil Cooper (n.l.cooper at dundee.ac.uk)
     Roy Dyckhoff (rd at dcs.st-and.ac.uk)
     Alex Lascarides (alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
     Wayne Murray (w.s.murray at dundee.ac.uk)
     Nick Taylor (nick at cee.hw.ac.uk)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

      Daniel Andler           Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV),
                              France
      Horacio Arlo Costa      Carnegie Mellon University, USA
      Kent Bach               San Francisco State University, USA
      Carla Bazzanella        Universitè di Torino, Italy
      David Beaver            Stanford University, USA
      Matteo Bonifacio        Arthur Andersen Italia, Italy
      Cristiano Castelfranchi National Research Council, Italy
      Jean-Charles Pomerol    DRITT, UPMC, France
      Herbert Clark           Stanford University, USA
      Christo Dichev          North Carolina A&M State University
      Bruce Edmonds           Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
      Paul Feltovich          Southern Illinois University School of
                              Medicine, USA
      Tim Fernando            Trinity College, Ireland
      Anita Fetzer            Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
      Michael Fisher          Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
      Claude Frasson          University of Montreal, Canada
      Chiara Ghidini          Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
      Alain Giboin            Unite de Recherche Sophia-Antipolis,
                              France
      Pat Hayes               The University of West Florida, USA
      Jerry Hobbs             SRI International, USA
      Lucja Iwanska           Wayne State University, USA
      Ruth Kempson            King's College, UK
      Ewan Klein              University of Edinburgh, UK
      Yves Kodratoff          Université Paris-Sud, France
      Boicho Kokinov          New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria
      Jose Luis Bermudez      University of Stirling, UK
      Mark Maybury            MITRE Corporation, USA
      Bernard Moulin          Université Laval, Canada
      John Mylopoulos         University of Toronto, Canada
      Rolf Nossum             Agder University College, Norway
      John Perry              Stanford University, USA
      Stefano Predelli        Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
      Marina Sbisa            Universitè di Trieste, Italy
      Carles Sierra           CSIC-Spanish Scientific Research
                              Council, Spain
      Munindar Singh          North Carolina State University, USA
      Steffen Staab           University of Karlsruhe, Germany
      Robert Stalnaker        MIT, USA
      Jason Stanley           Cornell University, USA
      Mike Tanenhaus          University of Rochester, USA

SPONSORS

   Dundee City Council


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Date:    Sun, 17 Dec 2000 12:21:49 +0100
From:    Anju Saxena <Anju.Saxena at ling.uu.se>
Subject:  7th Himalayan Languages Symposium

***** Call for Papers *****

SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM

Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
September 7-9, 2001

Plenary Speaker: Professor Bernd Heine, University of Cologne


Workshop: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area
Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley)
Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of  Mannheim, Germany)


The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on
languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region:
north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan
Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the
Burushaski-speaking area in the west.

We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:

-	Descriptions of lesser-known languages
-	Language change and variation
-	Multilingualism and language contact
-	Historical-comparative studies
-	Typological studies
-	Field reports
-	Corpus-based analysis
-	Language death and language preservation
-	Language policy and language planning
-	Ethnology and folklore
-	Himalayan languages and new technologies

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Abstracts should be no longer than one page with one-inch margins using at
least an 11-point font. Along with the abstract, please enclose a separate
page specifying the authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address.
Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF,
postscript, PDF or MS Word format).

IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract due: 1 February, 2001
* Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001
* Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001

REGISTRATION
Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students)
Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Östen Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Department of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala
University
Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University

CONTACT INFORMATION
For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact:
Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala
Sweden

phone: +46-18-471 14 57
fax: +46-18-471 14 16
email: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se

Workshop organization and contact information:
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Faculty of Philosophy, Slavic Dept., University of Mannheim,
Schloss EW 327, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany, Europe.
email: jadranka at rumms.uni-mannheim.de
fax: +49 621 181 2291
phone: +49 621 181 2402.

The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden
University in the Netherlands.

***************************************************************************
News about the symposium will also be posted on the symposium's Web page at
http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html

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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium
Uppsala University
7-9 September, 2001

Name:	

Title:	

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Mailing address:	
	
	


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Please send this form to:
Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
e-mail: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se

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