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Date: 02-Sep-2010
From: Ismail Biskri < ismail.biskri at uqtr.ca >
Subject: AI, Cognitive Semantic, Computational Linguistic & Logics
 

	
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From: Ismail Biskri [ismail.biskri at uqtr.ca]
Subject: AI, Cognitive Semantic, Computational Linguistic & Logics

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Full Title: AI, Cognitive Semantic, Computational Linguistic & Logics 

Date: 18-May-2011 - 20-May-2011
Location: Palm Beach / Florida, USA 
Contact Person: Ismail Biskri
Meeting Email: ismail.biskri at uqtr.ca
Web Site: http://www.uqtr.ca/~biskri/Personnel/ST-2011-ai-cog-sem-
PROPOSITION.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; 
Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

This special track is part of the International FLAIRS 2011 conference.
Its aim is to provide an international forum for discussing the latest
approaches in subfields of computational linguistics related to cognitive
semantics and to artificial intelligence. Its aim is also to exchange ideas
concerning the way of building efficient systems of language analysis based 
on cognitive semantic models.

Its mission is to prove the increase of interaction between modeling in
cognitive semantics and computer implementation: a good system analysis 
requires a good semantic model as framework. On the other hand, the need 
for semantic models other than those based on statistical methods has to be 
proved. 

Call for Papers

Traditionally, the study of computational linguistics has been performed by
computer scientists, specializing in the application of computers to the
processing of a natural language.

Today, computational linguists often work as members of interdisciplinary 
teams, including linguists (specifically trained in linguistics), language 
experts (persons with some level of ability in the languages relevant to a 
given project), and computer scientists. In general, computational linguistics 
draws upon the involvement of linguists, computer scientists, experts in 
artificial intelligence, mathematicians, logicians, cognitive scientists, 
cognitive psychologists, psycholinguists, anthropologists and 
neuroscientists, among others.

Computational linguistics must become more connected to the cognitive 
sciences through the development of cognitive semantic theories. 
Computational linguistics is connected to artificial intelligence through the 
development of methods and algorithms for all aspects of language analysis 
and their computer implementation. We can see language analysis divided 
into two parts: theoretical analysis and application. The theoretical aspect 
includes standard areas studied in linguistics: semantics, syntax, and 
morphology. Semantic theories guide the development of syntactic theories 
and morphology. Semantic theories can be based on some specific features 
of computation, but at the present stage of research, there is a gap 
between linguistic analysis and computer applications in two senses: there 
are many computer applications without linguistic theoretical support and, 
conversely, there are a number of theoretical methods with no computer 
implementation. Another epistemological feature of the present stage of 
research is that most computational linguistic methods are focused on 
statistical approaches. The advantage of these methods is that they are 
easy to apply but the drawback is that they distort the qualitative and 
genuine cognitive features of language.

The goal of this track is to provide an international forum for discussing the
latest approaches in subfields of computational linguistics related to 
cognitive semantics and to artificial intelligence. Its aim is also to exchange 
ideas concerning the way of building efficient systems of language analysis 
based on cognitive semantic models.

Its mission is to prove the increase of interaction between modeling in
cognitive semantics and computer implementation: a good system analysis 
requires a good semantic model as framework. On the other hand, the need 
for semantic models other than those based on statistical methods has to be 
proved. 

This track is intended to present works ranking from logical and 
mathematical models in syntax and semantics (logic of objects, topological 
theories of time and space etc.) as foundations of the design and analysis 
to natural language processing systems.

Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work relating to AI, 
Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics and Logics. Topics of 
interest may include (but are in no way limited to)

1. Cognitive semantics,

2. Logics of language,

3. Language modeling,

4. Computational linguistics (lexicology; morphology; syntax; semantics).

Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted, in
submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the reviewing 
process).

Invited Speakers

Professor Daniel Vanderveken, Department of Philosophy, Université du 
Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada

Submission Guidelines

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting
guidelines. The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in
submission, or submitted to another conference while in review). Papers 
should not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for a poster) and are due by 
November 22nd, 2010. For FLAIRS-24, the 2011 conference, the reviewing 
is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used 
on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be 
submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system, which can be 
accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-24.info/). 
Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair 
account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the 
AI, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics and Logics special track 
for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published by the AAAI. 
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a form transferring 
copyright of their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that there be at 
least one full author registration per paper.

Special Tracks Organizers

Please, check the website http://www.flairs-24.info/ for further information.

Important Dates

Conference: May 18th - 20th, 2011

Paper submission deadline: November 22nd, 2010.

Notifications: January 21st, 2011.

Camera ready version due: February 21st, 2011

Conference Proceedings

Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the 
conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.  

Organizing Committee

Ismail Biskri, Universite de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada, 
Ismail.Biskri at uqtr.ca

Florence Le Priol, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France, 
flepriol at paris4.sorbonne.fr

Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, 
nkambou.roger at uqam.ca

Anca Pascu, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France,
Anca.Pascu at univ-brest.fr

Program Committee

Maryvonne Abraham, Institut TELECOM, TELECOM-Bretagne, France,
Maryvonne.Abraham at enst-bretagne.fr

David Banks, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France,
David.Banks at univ-brest.fr

Ismail Biskri (co-chair), Universite de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada,
Ismail.Biskri at uqtr.ca

Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, borgida at cs.rutgers.edu

Walter Carnielli, University of Campinas, Brazil, carniell at cle.unicamp.br

Fintan Costello, University College Dublin, Ireland, . fintan.costello at ucd.ie

Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania, dcristea at info.uaic.ro

Richard Dapoigny, Université de Savoie, France, richard.dapoigny at univ-
savoie.fr

Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France,
Jean-pierre.Descles at paris-sorbonne.fr

Brahim Djioua, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France, Brahim.Djioua at paris-
sorbonne.fr

Kathelijne Denturck, Ecole de Traduction et d'Interprétation, Haute Ecole de
Gand, Belgium, kathelijne.denturck at hogent.be

Rim Faiz, IHEC de Carthage, Université du 7 novembre à Carthage, 
Tunisia, Rim.Faiz at ihec.mu.tn

Boris Galitsky, Knowledge Trail, MA, USA, bgalitsky at hotmail.com

Vera Goodacre, George Mason University, USA, VeraGooda at juno.com

Zlatka Guentchéva, CNRS, France, guentche at vjf.cnrs.fr

Ewa Gwiazdecka, Universiy of Warsawa, Poland, 
ewa.gwiazdecka at gmail.com

Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin, USA, hallersm at potsdam.edu

Eva Hajiova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 
hajicova at ufal.mff.cuni.cz

Adel Jebali, University Concordia, Montreal, Canada, jebali.adel at gmail.com

Klara Ladji, University of Tirana, Albania, klagji at hotmail.com

Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal, Canada, lapalme at iro.umontreal.ca

Peter Lazarov, Université de Sofia, Bulgaria, Petar.Lazarov at ec.europa.eu

Florence Le Priol (co-chair), Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France,
florence.le_priol at paris-sorbonne.fr

Jean-Guy Meunier, Université de Québec à Montréal,Canada, 
meunier.jean-guy at uqam.ca

Ghassan Mourad, Université de Beyrouth, Lebanon, 
Ghassan.Mourad at paris-sorbonne.fr

Roger Nkambou (co-chair), Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada,
nkambou.roger at uqam.ca

Anca Pascu (co-chair), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France,
Anca.Pascu at univ-brest.fr

Patrice Pognan, INALCO, Paris, France, mcertal at wanadoo.fr

James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA, jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu

Gilles Richard, British Institute of Technology & E-commerce, London, UK,
richard at irit.fr

Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, France, Christophe.Roche at univ-
savoie.fr

Benoît Sauzay, France TELECOM, benoit.sauzay at orange-ftgroup.com

Jong-Seok Soh, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea,
sjs_cog at yahoo.co.kr

Jungyeon Suh, Seoul Women's University, Seoul, Korea, 
alasseur13 at yahoo.fr

Jana Sukkariek, ETS, USA, JSukkarieh at ETS.ORG

Geoffrey Williams, Université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France,
geoffrey.williams at univ-ubs.fr

Further Information

Questions regarding the AI, Cognitive Semantics , Computational
Linguistics and Logics Special Track should be addressed to the track co-
chairs:

Ismail Biskri, Université de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada.

Florence Le Priol, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France.

Roger Nkambou, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.

Anca Pascu, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.

Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to Chutima
Boonthum, chutima.boonthum at gmail.com

Conference Chair:

Hans Guesgen, Massey University, New Zealand

Local Arrangements Chair:

Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

Philip McCarthy, The University of Memphis, USA

Chas Murray, Carnegie Learning, USA

Special Tracks Coordinator:

Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA





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