Csaba Pleh
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305
T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)323-1998
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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:47:40 -0400
From: Shih-Ping Liou <liou(a)scr.siemens.com>
To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Job: research position available
Resent-Date: Thu, 29 May 97 0:34:14 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU
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There is one immediate opening in the department of multimedia/video
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topic or current work experience in information extraction, natural
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Please submit your resume to
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Multimedia and Video technology Department
Siemens Corporate Research
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Csaba Pleh
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305
T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:39:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck(a)kom.auc.dk>
To: elsnet-list(a)let.ruu.nl
Cc: pmck(a)kom.auc.dk
Subject: CFP: AI-97: Ireland (Call For Papers)
Resent-Date: Tue, 20 May 97 21:56:06 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
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Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
in tandem with:
Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
AI IN "CRISIS" ?
Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the
wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts
towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data
collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards
integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating
language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing,
more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise
of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of
AI...
Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This ninth
AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising
presentations of Irish and International original research in all
areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including
Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience
and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and
vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge
representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address
whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its
failures/successes are particularly welcome!
Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on
streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude
Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave
the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial
Intelligence.
Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
THURSDAY 11th - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997
IN TANDEM WITH IMVIP-97:
"Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing"
(WEDNESDAY 10TH - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
FOLLOWING AI-97:
"MIND-II:
Computational Models of Creative Cognition"
MONDAY 15TH - WEDNESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 1997
(Dublin City University)
(www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tonyv/mind.html)
AI-97/IMVIP-97 PLENARY LIVE FEED
It is intended that the main plenary sessions at AI/IMVIP go out on
streaming video and audio, stored and live with the possibility of
phone-in questions (Ted Leath, Magee College)
AI-97 CONFIRMED INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS
*** John McCarthy ***
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
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JOHN MCCARTHY entitled this field "Artificial Intelligence" at
Dartmouth, US in 1956. He works on the formalization of common sense
knowledge and reasoning in mathematical logic. His contributions to
this field include the situation calculus, the circumscription method
of nonmonotonic reasoning and formalization of contexts. Much of the
work is described in his "Formalizing Common Sense", Ablex 1990. He
is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has also
worked in other areas of computer science and computer engineering,
e.g. Lisp, time-sharing and program verification.
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*** Walther Von Hahn ***
Department of Computer Science
University of Hamburg, GERMANY, EU
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WALTHER VON HAHN is the Father of Natural Language Processing
in Germany and has supervised a number of important figures in the field.
Dr. phil. (German linguistics) Univ. of Marburg 1969
1988 - Professor of Computer Science University of Hamburg.
1976 - 87 Professor of Linguistics Univ. of HH,
Research fields: Natural Language, Discourse, Machine Translation,
Artificial Intelligence.
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*** Naoyuki Okada ***
Department of Computer Science
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, JAPAN
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NAOYUKI OKADA is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Kyushu
Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan. His research interest is in
the development of agents with integrated intelligence: language
association with mind, symbol grounding in perception or motion,
fusion of intellect and emotion, and integrated processing of
MultiMedia. He has actively published unique papers in these areas.
He was leader of the working group of systematizing science of
knowledge subordinate to Science Council of Japan. Okada is trustee of
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, member of the editorial
board of Artificial Intelligence Review Journal and president of
PACLING (Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics).
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IMVIP-97 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
*** James Crowley ***
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Grenoble, France, EU
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JAMES L. CROWLEY holds the post of Professor at the Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. He teaches courses in
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Robotics and Signal
Processing at l'Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de
Mathematiques Appliques (ENSIMAG). He is coordinator of the European
Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), an EC "Network of Excellence" as well
as the DG-XII Human Capital and Mobility network SMART whose subject
is the development of techniques for a mobile autonomous surveillance
robot. Professor Crowley served as the technical coordinator of
project ESPRIT basic research project EP 7108, "Vision as Process"
from 1989 to 1995. The VAP Project developed active vision heads,
model architectures for real time continuously operating computer
vision systems, and a theory of control of perception. In the area of
mobile robotics, Professor Crowley has developed systems for world
modeling and navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range
sensors. Versions of these systems are used commercially by Denning
Mobile Robotics, and Helpmate Robotics. Professor Crowley has
published two books, two special issues of journals, and over 100
articles on vision and mobile robotics.
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*** Anil Jain ***
Department of Computer Science
Michigan State University, US
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ANIL JAIN is a University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the
Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University, US. His
research interests include statistical pattern recognition, Markov
random fields, texture analysis, neural networks, fingerprint
matching, document image analysis and 3D object recognition. He was
the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (1991-94) and currently serves as an Associate
Editor of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE
Trans. Neural Networks, Applied Intelligence and J. of Mathematical
Imaging and Vision. He is the co-author of Algorithms for Clustering
Data, Prentice-Hall, 1988, has edited the book Real-Time Object
Measurement and Classification, Springer-Verlag, 1988, and co-edited
the books, Analysis and Interpretation of Range Images,
Springer-Verlag, 1989, Markov Random Fields, Academic Press, 1992,
Artificial Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 1993,
and 3D Object Recognition, Elsevier, 1993. He was elected a Fellow of
the IEEE in 1991 and received a Fulbright research fellowship in 1997.
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*** Jean-Christophe Olivo ***
Cell Biophysics Programme
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany, EU
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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO is currently a staff research scientist in the
Cell Biophysics Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
in Heidelberg, Germany where he is in charge of developing image
processing methods for biological image analysis. He holds a M.Sc.
degree in Optical Science and Signal Processing, and a Ph.D. degree in
Optical Science, both from the Institut d'Optique Theorique et
Appliquee, University of Paris-Orsay, France. He is a member of SPIE
and IEEE. His research interests are in image processing and computer
vision with special emphasis in automatic segmentation,
multiresolution processing and movement.
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AI-97 CHAIRS
Fionn Murtagh
University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland
Paul Mc Kevitt
Aalborg University, Denmark &
University of Sheffield, England
LOCATION
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
HOSTED BY 2
Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI)
and
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
IN COOPERATION WITH
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
British Computer Society (BCS)
The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
British Council
Interactive Systems Centre
N/Irl Industrial Development Board (IDB)
N/Irl Tourist Board
International Fund for Ireland (IFI)
The Cognitive Science Society of Ireland (CSSI)
Irish Computer Society
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Irish Research Scientists Association (IRSA)
Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (STIAC)
Royal Irish Academy
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Irish Linguistics Institute (ILI)
National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
Localisation Resources Centre
National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC)
FORF/AS
Forbairt
Industrial Development Authority (IDA)
Irish Trade Board
Shannon Development
Bord Failte Eireann
WEST
Nua
Telecom Eireann
ESAT Digiphone
The Irish Emigrant
The IE Professional
European Language Observatory
IntelliMedia 2000+
NOKIA
ERICSSON
AI-97 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
W. Brian Arthur (Sante Fe Institute, US)
Afzal Ballim (LITH, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bill Barry (University of Sarbruecken, Germany)
David Bell (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Lynne Bowker (Dublin City University)
Mike Brady (INRIA, Sofia-Antipolis, France &
Oxford University, England)
Derek Bridge (University College Cork)
John Campbell (University College London)
Jon Campbell (University of Ulster, Magee College)
Arthur Cater (University College Dublin)
William J. Clancey (IRL, Menlo Park, US)
Norman Creaney (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast)
James Crowley (INPG, Grenoble, France)
Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US)
Tim Finin (University of Maryland)
James Flanagan (Rutgers University, US)
Peter Fleming (University of Sheffield, England)
Terry Fogarty (Napier University, Scotland)
Eugene Gath (University of Limerick)
Niall Graham (University of Alabama at Huntsville)
Niall Griffith (University of Limerick)
Jerry Harper (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Pat Hayes (University of West Florida, US)
Phil Hayes (Carnegie Group Inc. &
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
Matthew Hennessy (University of Sussex, England)
Victor Johnson (New Mexico State University, US)
John Kinsella (University of Limerick)
John Hughes (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Eoghan Mac Aogain (Irish Linguistics Institute)
Ronan MacLaverty (Nokia Research Centre, Finland)
Mike Manthey (Aalborg University, Denmark)
James Martin (University of Colorado, US)
John McCarthy (Stanford University, US)
John McDermid (University of York, England)
John McDermott (Ellora Software Inc., US)
Jim McDonald (New Mexico State University, US)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, England)
Henry McLaughlin (University College Dublin)
Barry McMullin (Dublin City University & Sante Fe Institute, US)
Mike McTear (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Melanie Mitchell (Sante Fe Institute, US)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Alex Monaghan (Dublin City University)
Noel Murphy (Dublin City University)
MURPHY (University of Sheffield, England)
Paddy Nixon (Trinity College Dublin)
Diarmuid O Donoghue (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin City University)
Sean O Scanlan (University College Dublin)
Douglas O Shaughnessy (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada)
Tim O Shea (The Open University)
J. Ross Quinlan (University of Sydney, Australia)
Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin)
Michael Ryan (Dublin City University)
Ronan Scaife (Dublin City University)
Murray Shanahan (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England)
Noel Sheehy (Queen's University Belfast)
NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England)
SINEAD (University of Sheffield, England)
Jack Smith (Queen's University Belfast)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin)
Humphrey Sorensen (University College Cork)
Alistair Sutherland (Dublin City University)
Richard Sutcliffe (University of Limerick)
Josef Van Genabith (Dublin City University)
Tony Veale (Dublin City University)
David Vernon (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Andy Way (Dublin City University)
Gerry Wrixon (NMRC & University College Cork)
CONFERENCE FORMAT:
Our intention is to have as much interaction as possible during the
conference and to stress panel sessions and discussion as much as
formal paper presentations. A plenary session will integrate attempts
at addressing views on whether or not there is a `crisis' in the field.
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 100-150 people at the conference.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Papers of not more than 8 A4 pages should be submitted by electronic
mail (ASCII plain text + preferably uuencoded compressed postscript)
to Paul Mc Kevitt at pmck(a)cpk.auc.dk. If you cannot submit your paper
by E-mail please submit three copies to Paul Mc Kevitt by snail mail.
**** Submission Deadline: July 1, 1997
**** Notification Date: August 1, 1997
**** Camera ready Copy: August 14, 1997
PUBLICATION:
Conference notes/preprints will be published. If there is sufficient
interest we will publish a book on the conference.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Fionn Murtagh
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL
NORTHERN IRELAND
Email: fd.murtagh(a)ulst.ac.uk
FaX: (+44) 1504 375489 (from Republic of Ireland: 080 1504 etc.)
Phone: (+44) 1504 375453
WWW: http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~fionn
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
Paul Mc Kevitt
Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK)
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7-A2
Institute of Electronic Systems (IES)
Aalborg University
DK- 9220, Aalborg
DENMARK
E-mail: pmck(a)cpk.auc.dk
FaX: (+45) 98 15 15 83
Phone: (+45) 96 35 86 56
WWW: http://www.cpk.auc.dk/CPK/MMUI
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The Department of General Psychology hereby announces that
Dr. Martin PRINZHORN
(Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna)
is giving a brief course on
REPRESENTATIONS IN LINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY
(PS - KK 07.09)
between 20 and 24 May, 1997.
The class will be organised in four lectures, 180 min each.
The first lecture is scheduled on 20 May, Tuesday, 2 PM, at room 316.
(Dept. of General Psychology, ELTE, Izabella u. 46.)
The timing of the further classes is a matter of agreement with the
lecturer.
In case of fulfilling the requirements the course gives a PhD credit in the
cognitive psychology programme of the department.
Further information on the scope of the course can be found on the
Web at the following site:
http://tars5.elte.hu/gyori/97summer/rep97s.html
NOTE: Contrary to the original announcement and the information on
the Web page above the class will be given by Dr. Prinzhorn alone
(and not with Miklos Gyori), due to unexpected problems with timing.
All are cordially welcome.
Tisztelt Olvasonk!
Elnezeset kérjuk, hogy rovid levelunkkel zavarjuk, de engedje meg nekunk a
15. szuletesnapunkon ezt az email-hez meltatlan illetlenseget!
Azt reméljük, hogy az iden 15 eves Europai Nyelvek Studioja nyari
szuperintenziv tanfolyamairol szolo tajekoztatasunk segitseget nyujthat, ha
nyelvismeretet boviteni szeretne.
Beiratkozás: hétköznap 15 és 17 óra között.
Budapest, 1053 Múzeum krt. 39.
Iskolankrol és a sokszinu tanulmanyi lehetosegekrol minden fontos
informaciot megtalalhat mar az interneten is.
http://www.datanet.hu/eurnyelv
udvozlettel:
dr. Pogany Csaba
igazgato
Csaba Pleh
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305
T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641
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Date: Fri, 9 May 97 13:33 BST
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk>
To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject: CFP: * RANLP-97: FINAL CFP * (Deadline: 16 MAY 1997)
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* FINAL CFP: Second International Conference *
* "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING" *
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* 11-13 September 1997 *
* Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria *
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FINAL Call For Papers
The first International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural
Languages Processing (RANLP) was held in 1995. Given the high quality
of the presented papers and the overall success of the event, we now
plan to organise the conference biennially.
Selected papers from the proceedings of the conference are published
as a book by John Benjamins as part of their Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory (CILT) series.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language
Processing and Language Engineering are invited, including but not
limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology, and morphology; text understanding and
generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided
translation, translation aids and tools; corpus-based language
processing; electronic dictionaries; written and spoken natural
language interfaces; knowledge acquisition; terminology; text
summarisation; message routing, text classification; computer-aided
language learning; language resources; evaluation, assessment and
standards in language engineering; and theoretical and
application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind.
The conference also welcomes new results in NLP based on modern
alternative theories and methodologies to the mainstream techniques of
symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connectionist as well
as hybrid and multimedia approaches.
In general, the conference especially welcomes any contribution to the
area of language processing in view of the imminent developments in
information technology.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: RANLP'97
Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino)
Chris Brew (University of Edinburgh)
John Carroll (University of Sussex)
Robert Dale (Microsoft Research Institute, Australia)
Rodolfo Delmonte (Universira Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Steve Finch (Thomson Technology, Rockville)
Guenter Goerz (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Eva Hajicova (Charles University, Prague)
Ed Hovy (ISI/University of Southern California)
Changning Huan (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
Leonid Iomdin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Pierre Isabelle (CITI, Laval)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
Richard Kittredge (University de Montreal)
Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg)
Karen Kukich (Bellcore, Morristown)
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)
Susann LuperFoy (MITRE Corporation, McLean)
Carlos Martin Vide (Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Inst of Science & Technology)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex)
Stephen Pullman (SRI, Cambridge)
James Pustejovsky (University of Brandeis)
Allan Ramsay (UMIST, Manchester)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI, Vienna)
Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo/UMIST)
Atro Voutalainen (University of Helsinki)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Zaharin Yusoff (University of Science Malaysia, Penang)
Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS)
PAPER SUBMISSION
FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
Papers should not exceed 3500 words and should be less than
10 pages. Format specifications and a LaTeX style sheet are
available though the RANLP web site. Authors should send either
hard copies or a PS file to the addresses specified below. In
either case an info mail should be sent too.
HARD COPIES:
Four hard copies should be sent to:
Ruslan Mitkov
School of Languages and European Studies
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford Street
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
UNIX PS files should be sent to:
Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk)
and a copy as an attached file to
Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov(a)wlv.ac.uk)
INFO EMAIL:
Authors should send an info email to Nicolas Nicolov
(nicolas(a)cogs.susx.ac.uk) filling in the form below:
# NAME : Name of first author
# TITLE: Title of the paper
# PAGES: Number of pages
# FILES: Name of file (if also submitted electronically)
# NOTE : Anything you'd like to add
# KEYS : Keywords
# EMAIL: Email of the first author
# ABSTR:
# Abstract of the paper
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IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline 16 May 1997
(Hard Copy/Electronic)
Paper Notification 25 Jun 1997
Camera-Ready Papers Due 15 Jul 1997
RANLP Conference 11-13 Sep 1997
INVITED SPEAKERS
The invited speakers of the conference are outstanding academics
including:
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University)
Others are expected to confirm their participation soon.
LOCATION
Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains
surrounding the Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the
capital of Bulgaria. The local organisers will provide a daily shuttle
bus/conference taxi from Sofia airport to the conference location
at an inexpensive rate.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
GENERAL
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair
Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex) - Vice-Chair
Manfred Kudlek (University of Hamburg)
Michael Zock (LIMSI CNRS)
REGISTRATION, TRAVEL, ON-SITE ARRANGEMENTS
Victoria Arranz (UMIST, Manchester)
Malgorzata Stys (University of Cambridge)
LOCAL ORGANISATION
Nikolai Nikolov (Incoma, Shumen) - Treasurer & Coordinator
Iliana Raeva (Technical University, Russe)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Shefield)
Jordan Tabov (Institute of Mathematics, Sofia)
CONFERENCE INFORMATION
Visit RANLP'97 home page at:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
If you need additional information contact:
Nicolas Nicolov
Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Tel: +44-1273 678408
Fax: +44-1273 671320
Email: nicolas(a)cogs.sussex.ac.uk
RELATED EVENTS
Conference participants are also invited to take part in the
International Summer School "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS", which will take place just before the conference in the
same location. Further information on the summer school can be
obtained from Victoria Arranz (victoria(a)ccl.umist.ac.uk) and
Malgorzata Stys (m.stys(a)cl.cam.ac.uk).
INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPANTS/ PUBLISHING COMPANIES/ DEMOS/EXHIBITS
Industrial participants are invited to demonstrate their NLP-related
products as well as publishing companies to exhibit their new books
on NLP. Company representatives should inform Nicolas Nicolov
(nicolas(a)cogs.sussex.ac.uk) of their intention. Likewise for people
from academia who wish to make demos. Publishers wishing to exhibit/
promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov(a)wlv.ac.uk).
ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM
An alternative program can be arranged for persons accompanying
delegates. Among the places which can be visited is Plovdiv, the
second largest and oldest Bulgarian city, beautifully situated on
7 hills 75 km away from Tzigov Chark.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Call for participation, including the programme of the
conference, more information on invited talks, conference location
and accommodation, registration fees and bank accounts, will come out
at the end of June. The information on the web will be kept updated:
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html
4th International Summer School
in
Cognitive Science
Sofia, July 14 - 26, 1997
Call for Papers and School Brochure
The Summer School features introductory and advanced courses in
Cognitive Science, participant symposia, panel discussions,
student sessions, and intensive informal discussions. Participants
will include university teachers and researchers, graduate and
senior undergraduate students.
International Advisory Board
Elizabeth BATES (University of California at San Diego, USA)
Amedeo CAPPELLI (CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Cristiano CASTELFRANCHI (CNR, Roma, Italy)
Daniel DENNETT (Tufts University, Medford,
Massachusetts, USA)
Ennio De RENZI (University of Modena, Italy)
Charles DE WEERT (University of Nijmegen, Holland )
Christian FREKSA (Hamburg University, Germany)
Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois, USA)
Christopher HABEL (Hamburg University, Germany)
Joachim HOHNSBEIN (Dortmund University, Germany)
Douglas HOFSTADTER (Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, USA)
Keith HOLYOAK (University of California at Los
Angeles, USA)
Mark KEANE (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Alan LESGOLD (University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
USA)
Willem LEVELT (Max-Plank Institute of
Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland)
David RUMELHART (Stanford University, California, USA)
Richard SHIFFRIN (Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, USA)
Paul SMOLENSKY (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Chris THORNTON (University of Sussex, Brighton,
England)
Carlo UMILTA' (University of Padova, Italy)
Eran ZAIDEL (University of California at Los Angeles,
USA)
Courses
Dynamics of Change: Lessons from Human Development - Linda Smith
(Indiana University, USA)
Ecological Approaches to Human Memory - William Hirst (New School
for Social Research, USA)
Cognitive Approaches to Syntax - Robert Van Valin (State
University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Culture and Cognition - Naomi Quinn (Duke University, USA)
Spatial Attention - Carlo Umilta' (University of Padova, Italy)
Cognitive modeling in ACT-R - Werner Tack (University of
Saarlandes, Germany)
Spatial Concepts and Spatial Representation - Emile van der Zee
(Hamburg University)
Brain Imaging Techniques for Cognitive Neurosciences - Joachim
Hohnsbein (University of Dortmund)
Participant Symposia
Participants are invited to submit papers reporting completed
research which will be presented (30 min) at the participant
symposia. Authors should send full papers (8 single spaced pages)
in triplicate or electronically (postscript, RTF, MS Word or plain
ASCII) by May 15. Selected papers will be published in the School's
Proceedings. Only papers presented at the School will be eligible
for publication.
Student Session
Graduate students in Cognitive Science are invited to present
their work at the student session. Research in progress as well as
research plans and proposals for M.Sc. Theses and Ph.D. Theses
will be discussed at the student session. Papers will not be
published in the School's Proceedings.
Panel Discussions
Cognitive Science in the 21st century
Cognition in Context: Social, Cutural, Physical, Developmental
Brain, Body, Environment, and Cognition
Dynamics of Cognition: Short-Term and Long-Term Dynamics
Local Organizers
New Bulgarian University, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian
Cognitive Science Society
Sponsors
TEMPUS SJEP 07272/94
Local Organizing Committee
Boicho Kokinov - School Director, Elena Andonova, Gergana
Yancheva, Iliana Haralanova
Timetable
Registration Form: as soon as possible
Deadline for paper submission: May 15
Notification for acceptance: June 1
Early registration: June 5
Arrival date and on site registration July 13
Summer School July 14-25
Excursion July 20
Departure date July 26
Paper submission to:
Boicho Kokinov
Cognitive Science Department
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
Send your Registration Form to:
e-mail: school(a)cogs.nbu.acad.bg
(If you don't receive an aknowledgement within 3 days, send a
message to kokinov(a)bgearn.acad.bg)
Csaba Pleh
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305
T.: (415)321-2052, Fax: ...1192 Home: (415)947-9641
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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:52:42 +0100
From: Centre for Cognitive Science <info(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: elsnet-list(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Job: MSc in Cognitive Science, Edinburgh
Resent-Date: Fri, 9 May 97 23:42:59 +100
Resent-From: pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu
Resent-To: csaba.pleh(a)casbs.Stanford.EDU
POSTGRADUATE STUDY
IN THE
CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE
AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Cognitive Psychology Neural Computation
Computational Linguistics Formal Logic
Data Intensive Linguistics Logic Programming
Theoretical Linguistics & Knowledge Representation
The Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS) offers a programme of
postgraduate study in cognitive science, centred on language and
cognition. The programme leads to the degrees of MSc in Cognitive
Science and Natural Language, MPhil or PhD. Some MSc places are still
available for the year starting October 1997.
CCS is committed to research and postgraduate teaching in cognitive
science at international level. The work of the Centre is at the heart
of Edinburgh's view of *informatics* -- the study of the structure,
behaviour, and design of computational systems, both natural and
artificial. CCS has a well-developed system of collaboration with
departments within Informatics (Artificial Intelligence, Computer
Science) and beyond (Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology).
The Centre's lecturers and research fellows work with over 60
postgraduates in a rich and varied intellectual and social environment.
Regular interdisciplinary research workshops, in which students actively
participate, focus on current problems in cognitive science. Visiting
researchers contribute to a lively seminar series. Research projects,
many of them collaborative with other European centres of excellence,
have been funded by the UK research councils ESRC, EPSRC and MRC as well
as by the European Union LRE and ESPRIT programmes in such areas as
natural language understanding and computational neuroscience.
Teaching staff: [with associated departments]
Ewan Klein Head of Department
linguistic theory, phonology
Chris Brew [HCRC]
corpora, data intensive linguistics, language technology
Jo Calder [HCRC]
grammar formalisms, computational linguistics
Matthew Crocker [ESRC Fellow]
statistical language processing, computational psycholinguistics
Mark Ellison
computational phonology and morphology, natural computation
Bruce Graham
computational neuroscience, neural networks
Alexander Holt
natural language semantics, computational linguistics
Alex Lascarides [HCRC]
lexical and discourse processing, semantics, pragmatics
Paul Schweizer PhD Organiser
philosophical logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language
Richard Shillcock MSc Course Organiser
psycholinguistics, cognitive modelling, cognitive neuropsychology
Keith Stenning [HCRC]
human memory, inference, connectionism
Associates and Fellows:
Sheila Glasbey EPSRC Fellow
M. Louise Kelly [Linguistics]
Robert Ladd [Linguistics]
John Lee [HCRC]
Chris Mellish [Artificial Intelligence]
Jon Oberlander [HCRC]
Massimo Poesio EPSRC Fellow
David Willshaw [MRC]
Human Communication Research Centre: The HCRC is a centre of excellence
in the interdisciplinary study of cognition and computation in human
communication, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
(UK). Drawing together researchers from Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Durham, HCRC focuses on the psychological aspects of real language
processing. HCRC shares a site with CCS, and the two contribute
towards a joint research environment.
Studying in Edinburgh: Edinburgh contains the largest concentration of
expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
in Europe. Students have access to that expertise, to Edinburgh's
large copyright libraries, and within Cognitive Science, to a
substantial offprint library. The department possesses extensive
computing facilities based on a network of Sun workstations and
Apple Macintoshes; access to Edinburgh's concurrent supercomputer
and other central computing services is easily arranged.
Requirements: Applicants typically have a first degree in one of the
participating areas or an appropriate joint honours degree.
Funding: UK and EU students following the MSc and PhD courses are
eligible to apply for studentships. CCS will advise all students
concerning funding possibilities. CCS attracts studentships from a
variety of UK and non-UK funding bodies. Non-UK applicants with
sufficient background may enroll as non-graduating students.
If you would like more information about the Postgraduate Programme in
Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh, please contact:
Admissions
Centre for Cognitive Science
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
UK
Telephone: +44 131 650 4667
Fax: +44 131 650 6626
Email: info(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:41:12
From: "Dr. Feher Marta Phil. Tsz." <FEHERM(a)TTTK2.TTTK.BME.HU>
To: gk(a)hps.elte.hu
Subject: tud.fil. kor
Kedves Gyuri! A holnapi (apr.24-i) szokasos tudomanyfilozofiai kor
osszejovetel elmarad. Helyette majus utolso csutortokjen (29-en) d.u.
4 orai (!) kezdettel tartja majd meg az eloadasat Kertesz Andras
(KLTE, Germanisztikai intezet) "Tudomanyelmelet es modularitas"
cimmel. Kerlek, ugy tervezd majd a programjaidat, hogy el tudjal
jonni, es hirdes a kollegaknak is. Az eloadas a szokott helyen lesz:
itt a muegyetemen a z oktatoi klubban(K.epulet I.emelet 65.)
Koszonom es udv: Marta.
MEGHIVO
A CEU Popper Project es
az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
kovetkezo kozos szeminariumi eloadasa:
BARRY LOEWER (Rutgers University)
*Quantum Mechanics and Free Will*
Abstract: Some physicists and philosophers (e.g. Compton, Heisenberg,
Popper) have suggested that quantum mechnaics is compatible
with libertarian free will. Recently Robert Nozick and Robert Kane have
actually proposed quantum mechanical models of free action. I discuss
these models and argue that quantum mechanics is no more hospitable
to libertarian free will than classical mechanics.
Az eloadas idopontja: junius 10. (kedd) du. 4:00
Helye: CEU, Popper Room, Bp. Nador u. 9. 1. em.
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