Appel: FLAIRS 2011, Special Track "AI, Cognitive Semantics , Computational Linguistics and Logics"

Thu Sep 2 20:26:32 UTC 2010

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:56:10 +0200
From: Florence Le Priol <florence.le_priol at paris-sorbonne.fr>
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*AI, Cognitive Semantics , Computational Linguistics and Logics*

Special Track at The 24^th International FLAIRS Conference

In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence

Palm Beach, Florida, USA

http://www.uqtr.ca/~biskri/Personnel/ST-2011-ai-cog-sem-PROPOSITION.htm

*Co-chairs:*

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

*Florence Le Priol*, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France, 
florence.le_priol at paris-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

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*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).

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*Invited Speakers***

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

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*Submission Guidelines** ***

Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI
formatting guidelines
http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php. 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 22^nd , 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*.

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*Special Tracks Organizers *

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

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*Important Dates** *

Conference: May 18^th -- 20^th , 2011

Paper submission deadline: November 22^nd , 2010.

Notifications: January 21^st , 2011.

Camera ready version due: February 21^st , 2011

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*Conference Proceedings***

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

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*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

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*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 <mailto: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 <mailto:Ismail.Biskri at uqtr.ca>, 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 http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/hwguesgen/, Massey
University, New Zealand

Local Arrangements Chair:

Geoff Sutcliffe http://www.cs.miami.edu/%7Egeoff/, University of
Miami, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

Philip McCarthy http://home.autotutor.org/pmccarthy/index.htm, The 
University of Memphis, USA

Chas Murray
http://www.carnegielearning.com/staff/chasmurray/index.html, Carnegie
Learning, USA

Special Tracks Coordinator:

Chutima Boonthum 
http://www.hamptonu.edu/academics/schools/science/comp_sci/faculty/boonthum_chutima.htm, 
Hampton University, USA

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