CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DEADLINE: November 7, 1997
11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Hosted by Rutgers University
March 19-21, 1998
Featuring a Special Session on
The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing:
Formal and Computational Issues
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
Beth Levin, Northwestern University
Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Fodor, Rutgers University
DISCUSSANTS:
Mark Johnson, Brown University
Amy Weinberg, University of Maryland
Maryellen MacDonald, University of Southern California
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: November 7, 1997
The 11th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is
soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical,
experimental, and/or computational research on human sentence
processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and will be
considered for both the general conference sessions and for a special
session on The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal and
Computational Issues.
SPECIAL SESSION:
Lexical influences on processing are currently a major focus of
attention in research on sentence comprehension, yet much of the work
remains isolated from investigations of the lexicon in other
disciplines. The special session, The Lexical Basis of Syntactic
Processing: Formal and Computational Issues, will examine current
theories of lexical representation from a multidisciplinary
perspective, relating the issues raised to current work on sentence
comprehension. The focus of the session will be presentations by
invited speakers from linguistics, computer science, and philosophy,
with critical commentary and discussion from researchers within the
sentence processing community.
The special session will also include submitted papers and posters on
the topic of the role of the lexicon in sentence processing.
Abstracts that are considered for the special session will be
evaluated both for the quality of the research and for the fit between
the submitted abstract and the invited papers.
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
For consideration in the spoken paper sessions: November 7, 1997.
For consideration as a poster only: January 12, 1998
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Abstracts must be no more than 400 words in length, excluding
references. At the top of the abstract, please include your name,
email address, and indicate whether your abstract is to be considered
for PAPER ONLY, POSTER ONLY, or PAPER OR POSTER. The last category
means that you would be willing to present a poster if your abstract
is not included in the spoken sessions but is accepted for one of the
poster sessions. Please leave several blank lines between this
information and your title and abstract, so that we may remove this
information for anonymous abstract review.
Abstracts submitted but not accepted for the paper sessions will
automatically be included in the submissions for poster sessions,
unless the abstract is marked PAPER ONLY.
WHERE TO SUBMIT:
We will accept email submissions only. Email your submissions to
cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu
Please use "Abstract" as your subject header. If you are submitting
more than one abstract, each must be separately emailed. You will
receive an email acknowledgment for each abstract you submit.
If you are unable to use email to submit your abstract, you must
contact the organizers for instructions on submitting a PC-readable
disk with the required information and abstract.
CONFERENCE DATES AND LOCATION:
The conference will be held on March 19-21, 1998, at the Hyatt
Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey, adjacent to the Rutgers University
campus. The conference site is easily accessible by shuttle from the
Newark airport, and by train from New York or Philadelphia. Detailed
hotel reservation and travel information is available on the
conference web site; please check out the Accommodations and
Transportation links.
For more information, see: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/cuny98
E-mail questions to: cuny(a)ruccs.rutgers.edu
Suzanne Stevenson
CUNY98 Conference Organizer
Dept of Computer Science, and
Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers University
Reply-to: g.peli(a)bdk.rug.nl
"A logika alkalmazasa a
tarsadalomtudomanyi elmeletepitesben"
cimu - vitaval egybekotott -
eloadasunkra. A tema rovid ismerteteset a levelhez csatolva kuldjuk.
Idopont: 1997. oktober 17. (pentek) de. 10 ora.
Hely: ELTE Szociologiai Intezet, Bp. Pollack Mihaly ter 10.
(Mivel a teremfoglalas meg folyamatban van, az epuleten beluli helyet
a helyszinen kiirjuk, illetve Fokasz Nikosztol hamarosan megtudhato
lesz: fokasz(a)ludens.elte.hu )
Udvozol::
Pe'li Ga'bor es Po'los La'szlo'
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"A logika alkalmazasa a tarsadalomtudomanyi elmeletepitesben"
Pe'li Ga'bor e's Po'los La'szlo'
(Groningeni Egyetem) (Amszterdami Egyetem)
Egy kvalitativ elmelet elemzesi eszkozt, a logikai formalizalast
szeretnenk a beszelgetes soran bemutatni. Amennyiben egy elmelet
fogalomleirasai, fobb feltevesei logikai formulak segitsegevel
eloallnak, ugy felteheto a kerdes: az elmelet kovetkeztetesei
levezethetok-e az elobbi formula halmazbol, mint premisszakbol? Milyen
tovabbi kovetkezmenyek - tetelek - vezethetok meg le az adott
informaciobol? Amennyiben a premisszakbol nem kovetkeznek a megcelzott
allitasok, ugy a formula halmaz modositasra szorul. Az elmeletet kell
ilyenkor kiegesziteni, peldaul ki nem mondott elofelteveseket
explikalva, vagy pusztan a formalizalas volt ugyetlen? A logikai
formalizalas, kello elmeleti intuicioval parosulva, egy sor uj dolgot
elmond a szoban forgo elmelet szerkezeterol, hatokorerol. Egy tovabbi
elemzesi lepeskent megfeleles letesitheto az analizis soran feltarulo
argumentacios struktura es bizonyos tipusu logikak kozott: ez esetben
a valasztott logika meta-tulajdonsagai is informacioval szolgalnak a
vizsgalt elmeletrol. A targy rovid ismertetese es nehany vita tezis
kimondasa utan a resztvevok felvetesei, meglatasai, otletei es
aggalyai megvitatasaval folyna a beszelgetes. A logikai formalizalast
egy szervezetszociologiai elmelet, az "organizational ecology"
peldajan mutatjuk be (M. Hannan, J. Freeman, G. Carroll).
Alkalmazhato-e a logikai reprezentacio mas szociologiai agazatok
elmeleteinel is?
Nehany, a targyra vonatkozo publikacio:
Hannan, M. and J Freeman. 1989. Organizational Ecology. Harvard
University Press.
Peli, G., J. Bruggeman, M. Masuch and B. O
Nuallain. 1994. " A Logical Approach to Formalizing Organization
Ecology." American Sociological Review. 59 (4):571-593.
Peli, G. 1997. "The Niche Hiker's Guide to Population Ecology: A
Logical Reconstruction of Organization Ecology's Niche Theory."
Sociological Methodology, 27: 1-46.
Peli, G. and M. Masuch. 1997. "The Logic of Propagation
Strategies: Axiomatizing a Fragment of Organizational Ecology in
First-Order Logic." Organization Science May-June, 8 (3):310-331.
Polos, L. and J. Kamps. 1997. "Towards a Formal Theory of
Organizations in Action." (under submission) CCSOM-report, University
of Amsterdam. (Fokasz Nikosznal, illetve a helyszinen a szerzonel
elerheto.)
SZEMINARIUMI ELOADAS
Az ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeken (1088
Bp., Rakoczi ut 5.)
Zemplen Gabor
"GOETHE ES A TUDOMANYOK"
cimmel tart eloadast
ELOADASKIVONAT
Rovid ismeretetes a kor tudomanyarol es Goethe tudomanyos eredmenyeirol,
majd a Goethei vilagkep kialakulasaban meghatarozo szerepet jatszo
filozofiai iranyzatokrol es szemelyekrol. Ezt kovetoen megprobalunk nehany,
Goethe altal gyakran hasznalt fogalmat (mint pl. a "Typus", az "osnoveny",
"osjelenseg") a leheto legpontosabban korulirni, majd ezen fogalmak
magyarazataval es Goethe tudomanyfilozofiai gondolatai segitsegevel (fokent
a Newtont biralo szinelmeleti munkak kapcsan) megvilagitani a goethei
episztemologia nehany sajatossagat.
Idopontja: 1997 oktober 16., csutortok, 16 ora.
Helye: Rakoczi ut 5., II. em. 229.
Az eloadas idotartama 50-60 perc, amelyet rovid szunet utan kb.
30-60 perc vita kovet.
Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk.
Udvozlettel, Kampis Gyorgy
Meghivo
Redei Miklos
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
habilitacios eloadasara
"A kvantumlogika Birkhoff-Neumann felfogasanak filozofiai problemai"
Ido: 1997 oktober 10, 11.00 ora
Hely: ELTE Bolcseszettudomanyi Kar
Kari Tanacsterem
Pesti Barnabas U. 1 I. emelet
Meghivo az ELTE BTK Logika Tanszek szeminariumara
Redei Miklos
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek
"Reichenbach kozos ok fogalma es kvantum-korrelaciok"
Abstract
A szeminarium elso resze feleleveniti esemenyek statisztikus
korrelacioja valoszinusegi kozos okanak Reichenbachtol szarmazo
fogalmat. A masodik resz ismerteti a kvantumterelmeletnek terszeruen
szeparalt esemenyek kozotti statisztikus korrelaciok letezesere
vonatkozo allitasait, majd megfogalmazza azt a problemat, hogy ezen
korrelacioknak letezik-e kozos oka Reichenbach-i ertelemben. A
problema megoldatlan marad, be lehet latni azonban azt, hogy ha minden
vakuum korrelacionak letezik statisztikus kozos oka, akkor a
terszeruen szeparalt teridotartomanyokhoz tartozo lokalis algebraknak
statisztikusan fuggetleneknek kell lenniuk.
A szeminarium ideje: Oktober 9. (csutortok), du. 6.
helye: ELTE BTK Logika tanszek
BP. V. Pest B. u. 1., A. ep. felem. 23.
Az eloadas alapjaul szolgalo cikket LaTeX formatumban keresre megkuldom, vagy
a Logika tanszeken lemasolhato.
Mate Andras (mate(a)isis.elte.hu)
Kedves Csaba!
Mar megint valami, amin sajnos nem tudok ott lenni. ELUP-os oram van
ekkor.
Holnap 10:30-ra ott vagyok Nalad.
Udv,
Vali
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Dr. Valeria Csepe
Institute for Psychology of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Department of Psychophysiology
H-1394 Budapest, Szondi u. 83-85.
Hungary
Phone: (+36/1) 153-3244
Fax: (+36/1) 269-2972
E-mail: csepe(a)cogpsyphy.hu
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Tisztelt Kollegak !
Habilitacios eloadosomat 1997. oktober 8-an, szerdan 13 orakor
tartom az ELTE Pesti Barnabas utca 1. I emeleti tanacstermeben.
Az eloadas temaja:
Az intencionalitas, mint a kognitivzmus alapkategoriaja
Az eloadasra Ont es munkatarsait szeretettel varom.
Budapest, 1997. szeptember 30. Pleh Csaba
nos, ilyen is van, kgy
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:07:35 +0100
From: Stephen Clark <srlclark(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
To: PHILOS-L(a)LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK
Subject: God and Computers (fwd)
> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:13:44 +0100 (BST)
> To: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist(a)lists.Princeton.EDU>
> From: Anne Foerst <annef(a)ai.mit.edu>
>
>
> GOD AND COMPUTERS
> Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics
>
> Public Lecture Series
> ---------------------
>
> Wednesdays, MIT 34-101, 50 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
> Refreshments 4:15 p.m., talk 4:30-5:30 p.m.
>
>
> SCHEDULE:
>
> Oct 1: "GOD, THE SCIENTIST", Paul Penfield, head of the MIT
> Department for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
>
> Oct 8: "HOW HUMANS EVOLVED A SENSE OF SELF AND AN UNDERSTANDING
> OF THEIR MORTALITY", Marc Hauser, Associate Professor,
> Departments of Anthropology & Psychology, Program in
> Neurosciences, Harvard University
>
> Oct 15: "BRAIN, MIND AND SPIRITUALITY", Ming Tsuang, head Harvard
> Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental
> Health Center; director Harvard Institute of Psychiatric
> Epidemiology and Genetics
>
> Oct 22: "ARTIFICIAL HUMANITY", Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT
> Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
>
> Oct 29: "SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IN STUDYING SCIENCE", Federico
> Girosi, Principal Research Scientist, Associate Director of the
> Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT
>
> Nov 5: "WHY A SCIENCE OF MIND IMPLIES THE TRANSCENDENCE OF
> NATURE", Francisco Varela, Director of Research, Laboratory of
> Cognitive Neuroscience, National Center for Scientific Research,
> Paris, France
>
> Nov 12: "ALL IS FOREKNOWN, BUT FREE WILL IS GIVEN", Lynn Andrea
> Stein, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
> Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for
> Computer Science, MIT.
>
> Nov 19: "INTELLIGENCE AND GOD: SHANKARA'S VIEW OF THE WORLD AND
> ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE", Bijoy Misra, Faculty in
> Computer Science, Harvard Extension School; Consultant in
> Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham
> Women's Hospital
>
> Dec 3: "THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES", Ray Kurzweil, Chairman
> and CEO of Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc.
>
> Dec 10: "TOWARD MACHINES THAT CAN DENY THEIR MAKER", Rosalind
> W. Picard, NEC Development Professor of Media Technology, MIT
> Media Lab
>
>
> Abstracts will be published one week before the talk on the
> website http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/god-and-computers.html.
>
> For information please contact Anne Foerst, annef(a)ai.mit.edu,
> Tel: (617) 253-7891 or the Boston Theological Institute,
> bti(a)world.std.com, Tel: (617) 527-4880.
>
> --
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>
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> Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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>
DETERMINISM, CHANCE, AND UNCERTAINTY
a CEU - ELTE HPS Department Workshop
Budapest, Hungary, November 20-25
========================================================================
Topics
Does necessity exist in nature, or is it merely a product of our
theories? Does science require it, or does empirical correlation work
just as well? Are determinism and chance mutually exclusive
alternatives, or is there something in between? Is evolution causal,
and if so, what causes it? Is the hypothesis of a self compatible with
determinism, and if not, which of the two should be rejected? Does
determinism mean that there is, at any given time, only one possible
future? Is indeterminism a fact about the world, or about our own
uncertainty? Has free will anything to do with it? Can science
determine whether or not the world is deterministic, or is this a
metaphysical problem?
========================================================================
Organizers
The CEU Popper Project, in conjunction with the CEU Curriculum
Resource Center and the History and Philosophy of Science Department
of the Eotvos University, will host a workshop on Determinism, Chance,
and Uncertainty at the CEU campus in Budapest from 20-25 November
1997. Participants will discuss philosophical and scientific problems
related to determinism, chance, and uncertainty in a series of
round-table seminar discussions.
Philosophers and scientists with interests in these areas are
encouraged to apply.
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Sponsors
Determinism, Chance, and Uncertainty is sponsored by the Higher
Education Support Program (HESP). Grants for travel and accomodations
are available to participants from Eastern and Central Europe.
========================================================================
Those interested in participating should send a cover letter and
curriculum vitae to Ms Komjathy Zsuzsa (Komjathy(a)CEU.HU; tel:
36-1-327-3000 ext. 2142; fax: 36-1-327-3072).
========================================================================
Deadline for applications is 1 October 1997.
========================================================================
Felhivas
Palyazat a matematika filozofiaja teruleten
Az ELTE Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszeke palyazatot
hirdet 27 evesnel nem idosebbek szamara a matematika filozofiaja
teruleten.
Palyazni lehet a matematika filozofiajat, a matematika es a filo-
zofia hatarteruleteit, illetve a matematikat es a filozofiat
egyuttesen erinto barmely torteneti vagy modern temaban, maximum
25 oldalas, erre az alkalomra irt es mashova meg be nem nyujtott
onallo dolgozattal (ez lehet pl. atdolgozott szakdolgozatreszlet
is). A palyazat magyar nyelvu, de a magyar allampolgarsag nem
feltetel. A legjobb dolgozatok kesobbi megjelenteteset aktivan
tamogatjuk.
Elso dij: 30 000 Ft
(a tovabbi helyezettek oklevelet kapnak)
Palyazati hatarido: 1998. januar 31.
A palyazat teljesen nyilt. A palyamunkakat erre az alkalomra
felkert fuggetlen biralo bizottsag rangsorolja. Elsosorban ma-
tematika es/vagy filozofia szakos egyetemi hallgatok, friss di-
plomasok, doktori oszdondijasok jelentkezesere szamitunk, de
palyazhat mindaz, aki az eletkori feltetelnek megfelel.
A dolgozatokat az alabbi cimre kell bekuldeni:
ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek,
1088 Budapest, Rakoczi ut 5.
Tovabbi felvilagositas Kampis Gyorgytol kaphato a gk(a)hps.elte.hu
alatt, vagy napkozben a 266 4954-es telefonon.
Budapest, 1997. szeptember 18.
