Csaba Pleh
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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Subject: CFP: Evolution of Language Conference
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998
ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor
Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London).
This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the
evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we
seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives
with those of modern Darwinism.
FOCUSED THEMES:
- From Proto-Language to Language
- Modelling Language Evolution
SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona),
Luigi Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk
(New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John
Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna
Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs).
PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO:
Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London,
Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK,
OR BY EMAIL TO:
C.Knight(a)uel.ac.uk
Subject: Evolution of Speech Production: BBS Call for Commentators
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on:
The Frame/Content Theory of Evolution of Speech Production
by Peter F. MacNeilage
This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing
Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in
the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences.
Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To
be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other
appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS
Associate, please send EMAIL to:
bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk
or write to:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a
BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is
familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators
are eligible to become BBS Associates.
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give
some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring
your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator.
An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection
with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the
instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________
The Frame/Content Theory of Evolution of Speech Production
Peter F. MacNeilage
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX 78712
USA
macneilage(a)mail.utexas.edu
KEYWORDS: speech, language, evolution, communication,
neuropsychology
ABSTRACT: The species-specific organizational property of speech is a
continual mouth open-close alternation, the two phases of which are
subject to continual articulatory modulation. The cycle constitutes the
syllable and the open and closed phases are segments - vowels and
consonants respectively. The fact that segmental serial ordering
errors in normal adults obey syllable structure constraints suggests
that syllabic "Frames" and segmental "Content" elements are separately
controlled in the speech production process. The frames may derive
from cycles of mandibular oscillation, present in humans from babbling
onset, which are responsible for the open-close alternation. These
communication-related frames perhaps first evolved when the
ingestion-related cyclicities of mandibular oscillation (associated
with mastication (chewing) sucking and licking) took on communicative
significance as lipsmacks, tonguesmacks and teeth chatters - displays
which are prominent in many nonhuman primates. The new role of Broca's
area and its surround in human vocal communication may have derived
from its evolutionary history as the main cortical center for the
control of ingestive processes. The frame and content components of
speech may have subsequently evolved separate realizations within two
general-purpose primate motor control systems: (1) A motivation-related
medial "intrinsic" system, including anterior cingulate cortex and the
supplementary motor area, for self-generated behavior, formerly
responsible for ancestral vocalization control and now also responsible
for frames, and (2) a lateral "extrinsic" system, including Broca's
area and surround, and Wernicke's area, specialized for response to
external input (and therefore the emergent vocal learning capacity) and
more responsible for Content.
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide
Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive.
Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on
this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant
expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the
article.
The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive:
http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.macneilage.htmlftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.macneilage
ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.macneilage
gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals
To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either:
ftp ftp.princeton.edu
or
ftp 128.112.128.1
When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid:
yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@")
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
ls
Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.macneilage
When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit
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Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 14:28:27 -0100
From: Gruppo Neurosistemi <neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it>
Subject: Consciousness Program
PLEASE CIRCULATE
ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER GLI STUDI FILOSOFICI
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOCYBERNETICS
"NEURONAL BASES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
Isle of Ischia (Naples), Italy
October 13-18, 1997
OPENING CEREMONY AND INTRODUCTORY LECTURE:
Naples, morning of October 13, 1997
ADVISORY BOARD:
Bisiach (I), Desimone (USA), Gray (UK), Hameroff (USA), Rakover (IL),
Revonsuo (FIN), Rose (UK)
TOPICS:
[1] Neuronal Bases of Consciousness
[2] Perceptive, Cognitive, Volitive and Emotional Aspects of Consciousness
[3] Consciousness and Theories of Mind
SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Cloe Taddei-Ferretti
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
CO-DIRECTOR
Carlo Musio
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Antonio Cotugno
Silvia Santillo
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
ADMINISTRATIVE ADVISOR
Nunzia Aprile
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici
MAILING ADDRESS
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
Via Toiano, 6
I-80072 Arco Felice (Napoli), Italy
Tel: +39-81-8534113/131
Fax: +39-81-5267654
e-mail: neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it
WITH THE COLLABORATION OF
Istituto di Cibernetica, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
National Committee for the Physics, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
National Group of Cybernetics and Biophysics, Italian National Research
Council (CNR)
Promosud, Napoli, Italy
INVITED LECTURERS AMONG OTHERS
SESSION I - Neuronal Bases of Consciousness
Harth (USA) 1. Neuronal mechanisms of cognition
Tassinari (I) 1. Parallel pathways in the visual system: Selective effects
of pre-geniculate damage
SESSION II - Perceptive, Cognitive, Volitive and Emotional Aspects of
Consciousness
Alexandrov (Russia) 1. Psychophysiological regularities of the dynamics of
individual experience and "stream of
consciousness"
2. Comparative description of consciousness and emotion in the framework of
systemic understanding of
behavioral continuum and individual development
Calabrese (D) 1. Nonconscious information processing by the brain: Lessons
from clinical neuropsychology
Davies (UK) 1. Phenomenal consciousness, access consciousness, and
information processing psychology
2. Conscious thought
Gray (UK) 1. A possible neuropsychology for aberrations of conscious
experience in schizophrenia
Hameroff (USA) 1. Toward a science of consciousness: An overview of various
approaches to the understanding
of conscious experience
Radil (CZK) 1. Conscious and unconscious perceptual-cognitive phenomena
Rakover (IL) 1. A coherent account of human behavior: The
multiexplanation-model theory
Rose (UK) 1. Can there be a biology of memory
Tassinari (I) 2. Attentional and semantic processing in the split-brain
Velmans (UK) 1. Perception, attention, and consciousness
Wolfe (USA) 1. Guiding visual attention
2. Inattentional amnesia. A theory of post-attentive vision
SESSION III - Consciousness and Theories of Mind
Erdi (Hungary) 1. Neural and mental development: Selectionism,
constructivism and hermeneutics
2. Computational approach to the functional organization of the hippocampus
Gray (UK) 2. The hard question of consciousness: Information processing vs
hard wiring
Hameroff (USA) 2. The Penrose-Hameroff model of consciousness: Orch OR
(orchestrated objective reduction)
Harth (USA) 2. Selfreference, consciousness, and language
Rakover (IL) 2. Simulating John Searle in the Chinese room
Rose (UK) 2. What's wrong with reductionist explanations of human behaviour
Velmans (UK) 2. Understanding consciousness: Beyond dualism and reductionism
Ventriglia (I) 1. Attention in memory and consciousness
AIM OF THE SCHOOL
The School is foreseen as training for young
researchers while bringing up to date the
experienced ones, by means of both lectures and
discussions.
SCHOOL FEE
The fee for the School is Lit (Italian Lire) 850,000.
The fee includes full board and lodging in Ischia
(arranged by the School Organization) from the
dinner of Monday 13 to the lunch of Saturday 18
October, the lunch of Monday in Naples after the
Introductory lecture, the coffee breaks, a social
dinner, a touristic excursion, the programme, the
abstract booklet, and the proceedings' volume.
The fee must be payed by bank transfer to:
"Consciousness", account no. 8059003, Banca
Commerciale Italiana, Filiale Fuorigrotta, SWIFT
BCIT IT MM 514, ABI 2002, CAB 3412, Piazza
San Vitale 13, Napoli, Italy.
GRANTS
A limited support can be granted at the end of the
School to few deserving students who need financial
help.
Those wishing to apply for a grant should submit a
request to the School Directors, together with the
Registration Form, and with a letter of the Head of
the Department of affiliation confirming the
impossibility to provide a total support.
LODGING
The School is residential; both the invited lecturers
and the other participants are grouped in the same
location (a few minutes walk distance from the sea),
in order to promote discussions also after the lecture
time.
The single rooms will be reserved for the early
registrations.
The instructions to reach the hotel will be sent to
regularly registered participants.
Full board and lodging for extra days and/or for
accompanying person(s) at the site of the School is
Lit 105,000 per day and per person.
For those wishing to stay some more days, one can
add that the isle of Ischia is close to Naples, Capri,
Sorrento, Vesuvio, Pompei, Paestum, Cuma.
ABSTRACT AND PAPER
Participants may offer an oral presentation (5-15
min) of the results of their own current researches.
Applicants should submit to the Directors of the
School a one A4 page abstract, in order to be
included among the lecturers' abstracts, which will
be distributed at the School. They should submit also
a short paper (max four A4 pages, prepared
according to the instructions that will be sent to the
applicants), in order to be published by World
Scientific in the proceedings' volume with the
lecturers' papers. The paper will be placed under the
judgment of the Advisory Board, which reserves the
right to reject papers not suitable for publication.
DEADLINES
Registration: June 27, 1997.
Accommodation: June 27, 1997.
Abstract submission: June 27, 1997.
Paper submission: July 18, 1997.
A copy of the Bank Receipt of the Fee Payment, as
well as the Registration and Accommodation
Forms must be returned within June 27, 1997, to:
Antonio Cotugno or Silvia Santillo
Local Organizing Committee
Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
Via Toiano 6
I-80072 Arco Felice (Napoli), Italy
Tel.: ++39-81-8534113/8534131
Fax: ++39-81-5267654
E-mail: neuros(a)mail.irtemp.na.cnr.it
ISTITUTO ITALIANO PER GLI STUDI FILOSOFICI
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BIOCYBERNETICS
"NEURONAL BASES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
October 13-18, 1997
REGISTRATION FORM
I wish to attend the Bicybernetics School.
Family Name___________________________________________________________________
First Name_____________________________________________________________________
Male__________________________________Female__________________________________
Position or
Title__________________________________________________________________
Company_______________________________________________________________________
Address________________________________________________________________________
Tel____________________________________________________________________________
Fax___________________________________________________________________________
E-mail_________________________________________________________________________
I enclose/do not enclose [circle the desired item] an abstract (the related
paper of which will follow) with the
title_____________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________.
I payed the sum of Lit 850,000 (bank tax excluded) for the School
registration: a copy of the payment
document is enclosed.
Signature____________________________
ACCOMMODATION FORM
Please reserve/do not reserve [circle the desired item] for me no.____extra
days before the School,
no.____extra days after the School at the same site of the School.
Please reserve/do not reserve [circle the desired item] no.____days for
no.____ accompanying person(s);
arrival________, departure________.
I will pay the bill for all the extra days directly to the Hotel.
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Istituto di Cibernetica, CNR
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* * * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * *
SEVENTH MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM EVALUATION
AND MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCE (MUC-7)
Evaluation: 2-6 March 1998
Conference: April 1998
Washington, D.C. area
Sponsored by:
The Human Language Systems Tipster Text Program of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Information Technology Office
(DARPA/ITO)
The Message Understanding Conferences have provided on ongoing
forum for assessing the state of the art and practice in text analysis
technology and for exchanging information on innovative computational
techniques in the context of fully implemented systems that perform
realistic tasks. The evaluations have provided researchers and
potential sponsors and customers with a quantitative means to
appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the technologies, and the
results reported on at the conferences have sparked customer interest
in the potential utility of the technologies.
The Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7) will provide
an opportunity for both new and experienced MUC participants to
participate in a flexible evaluation, suited to development needs and
abilities. It will provide:
* Opportunity to select among a variety of tasks: Named Entity
(NE), Coreference (CO), Template Element (TE), Template
Relationship (TR) and Scenario Template (ST).
* Two tasks for evaluating component technologies (NE and
CO), which use Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
as output format
* Redesigned Information Extraction (IE) task, with two
domain-independent subtasks (TE and TR) separated from
domain-dependent subtask (ST).
* Emphases of ST task on portability and on minimizing
human resources required to participate in the evaluation.
* Three experimental tracks to explore new data sets and tasks.
Participation in MUC-7 is actively sought from both new and
veteran organizations. With the new and redesigned evaluation tasks,
MUC-7 offers a good opportunity for organizations to try out new ideas
for handling NLP problems that are of both scientific and practical
interest without having to participate in the entire range of tasks.
The conference itself will consist primarily of presentations and
discussions of innovative techniques, system design, and test results.
There will also be an opportunity for participants to demo their
evaluation systems. Attendance at the conference is limited to
evaluation participants and to guests invited by the DARPA Tipster Text
Program. A conference proceedings, including test results, will be
published.
SCHEDULE:
1 July 97: Application deadline for participation
15 July 97: Release of NE, CO, TE, TR, and example ST training
data and scorer
8 September 97: Release of Dry Run ST task definition,
training data, and scorer
29 Sept - 3 Oct 97: MUC-7 Dry Run (all participants)
6 February 98: Release of formal test ST task definition,
training data, and scorer
2-6 March 98: MUC-7 Formal Run
7-9 April 98: 7th Message Understanding Conference (tentative
dates)
DATA AND TASK DESCRIPTION:
The texts to be used for system development and testing are news
service articles from the New York Times News Service, supplied by the
Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) [ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu]. Training, dry
run, and test data for all the tasks are extracted from a corpus of
approximately 158,000 articles. Sets of articles to be used in the
MUC-7 evaluation will be distributed via ftp upon payment of a one
time fee of $100 and upon signing of a user agreement for the use of
these texts. The user agreement can be retrieved from the LDC catalog
(Evaluation Agreements). The URL for the LDC home page is:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu.
Five separate evaluations will be conducted as part of MUC-7.
The definition of these evaluations has been worked out since late
1996 by members of the MUC-7 Planning Committee. The evaluations
may be viewed as capturing the results of text analysis at various
levels of aggregation of information:
* Named Entity (NE) requires only that the system under
evaluation identify each bit of pertinent information in
isolation from all others.
* Coreference (CO) requires connecting all references to
"identical" entities.
* Template Element (TE) requires grouping entity attributes
together into entity "objects."
* Template Relationship (TR) requires identifying relationships
between template elements.
* Scenario Template (ST) requires identifying instances of a
task-specific event and identifying event attributes,
including entities that fill some role in the event; the
overall information content is captured via interlinked
"objects."
* Experimental tracks using new data sets are variants
of the NE task. The task definition is the same as for the
basic NE task, but the texts are different.
* Experimental track involving a new task is a simplified
version of the TE task.
Key things to note about each evaluation task:
* NE covers named organizations, people, and locations, along
with date/time expressions and monetary and percentage
expressions; it requires production of SGML tags as output.
* CO covers noun phrases (common and proper) and personal
pronouns that are "identical" in their reference; it requires
production of SGML tags as output; the tags for coreferring
strings form "equivalance" classes, which are used for
scoring.
* TE covers organizations, persons, and artifacts, which are
captured in the form of template "objects" consisting of a
predefined set of attributes.
* TR covers relationships among template elements, including
location and time relationships, which are captured in the
form of template "relations" consisting of a relationship
and the template elements participating in that
relationship. TR is a new task for MUC-7.
* ST covers a particular scenario, which is kept secret until
one month prior to testing in order to focus on system
portability; however, the generalized structure of a
scenario template is predefined, and example scenarios are
available for participants to examine. This task is domain
dependent.
* Tasks for the experimental tracks are derived from NE and TE.
There is a World Wide Web site that allows automated testing
following the rules of MUC-6. It will be of particular value
to new participants. The website is password protected and you need to
be licensed to access the ACL/DCI disk from the LDC to obtain a
password from chinchor(a)gso.saic.com. MUC-6 articles were taken from the
ACL/DCI disk.
An anonymous ftp site will be available for downloading MUC-7
related material. This CFP and the MUC-7 Participant Agreement are
available to the public from the ftp site. Each participant (after
signing the LDC User Agreement and a MUC-7 participation agreement)
will receive a password to download the MUC-7 data, definitions, and
scoring software at the release times noted above.
The URL of the website is http://muc.saic.com. The ftp site is
ftp.muc.saic.com.
TEST PROTOCOL AND EVALUATION CRITERIA:
MUC-7 participants may elect to do one or any combination of
tasks and experimental tracks. Participants will have access to
shared resources such as the training texts and annotations/templates,
task documentation, and scoring software.
All MUC-7 participants are encouraged to participate in the dry
run and take advantage of material available.
The formal test will be conducted during the first week in March.
It will be carried out by the participants at their own sites in
accordance with a prepared test procedure and the results submitted to
the ftp site for official scoring with the software prepared by SAIC
for MUC-7.
Test sets used for the evaluations will consist of 100 texts,
with subsets for some of the tasks. There will be different data sets
for the dry run and the formal test.
Systems will be evaluated using recall and precision metrics (all
tasks), F-measure (all tasks), and error-based metrics (all tasks
except CO). The computation of these metrics is based on the scoring
categories of correct, partial, incorrect, spurious, missing, and
noncommittal. MUC-7 participants will be able to familiarize
themselves with the evaluation criteria through usage of the
evaluation software, which will be released along with the training
data.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR RESPONDING TO THE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
Organizations within and outside the U.S. are invited to respond
to this call for participation. By the time of the actual testing
phase of the evaluation, systems must be able to accept texts without
manual preprocessing, process them without human intervention, and
output annotations (NE, CO) or templates (TE, TR, ST) in the expected
format.
Organizations should plan on allocating approximately two
person-months of effort for participation in the evaluation and
conference. It is understood that organizations will vary with
respect to experience with SGML text annotation, information
extraction, domain expertise/engineering, resources, contractual
demands/expectations, etc. Recognition of such factors will be made
in any analyses of the results.
Organizations wishing to participate in the evaluation and
conference must respond by July 1, 1997 by submitting a short
statement of interest via email and a signed copy of the MUC-7
participation agreement via surface mail.
1. The statement of interest should be submitted via email
to marsh(a)aic.nrl.navy.mil and should include the following:
a. Evaluation task(s) (choose one or more)
* Named Entity
* Coreference
* Template Element
* Template Relationship
* Scenario Template
b. Primary point of contact. Please include name, surface
and email addresses, and phone and fax numbers.
c. Does your site have a copy of the MUC-6 proceedings?
2. The participation agreement can be downloaded from the
anonymous ftp site (ftp.muc.saic.com). A signed copy should be sent by
surface mail to Elaine Marsh, NRL - Code 5512, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW,
Washington, D.C. 20375-5337, USA.
If some questions cannot be deferred until the deadline for
responding to this call for participation has passed, you may send
them by email to Elaine Marsh (marsh(a)aic.nrl.navy.mil), WITH COPIES TO
Ralph Grishman (grishman(a)cs.nyu.edu) and Nancy Chinchor
(chinchor(a)gso.saic.com) to ensure that your message receives a timely
response from one of us.
MUC-7 PLANNING COMMITTEE:
Ralph Grishman, New York University, program co-chair
Elaine Marsh, Naval Research Laboratory, program co-chair
Chinatsu Aone, Systems Research and Applications
Lois Childs, Lockheed Martin
Nancy Chinchor, Science Applications International
Jim Cowie, New Mexico State University
Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield
Megumi Kameyama, SRI International
Tom Keenan, U.S. Department of Defense
Boyan Onyshkevych, U.S. Department of Defense
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Beth Sundheim, NCCOSC NRaD
Marc Vilain, MITRE
Ralph Weischedel, BBN Systems and Technologies
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
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. (SCR), a subsidiary of Siemens AG
with over $60 billion world-wide in sales, conducts applied and
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of technology both in the United States and worldwide. The company has
global responsibility for research in the key areas of software
engineering, adaptive information and signal processing, imaging and
visualization, and multimedia/video technology.
There is one immediate opening in the department of multimedia/video
technology. Candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in computer science,
information systems, or computational linguistics with dissertation
topic or current work experience in information extraction, natural
language generation/interface, story/sentence analysis, or question
answering. Must have excellent communication skills, related
publications, strong programming experiences in UNIX and/or PCs. Other
pluses: strong background in information retrieval, data base
management systems, multimedia systems, and proficiency in
C/C++/X-windows/Motif.
Please submit your resume to
Dr. Shih-Ping Liou
Multimedia and Video technology Department
Siemens Corporate Research
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ 08540
E-Mail: liou(a)scr.siemens.com (ASCII or Postscript)
FAX: (609) 734-6565
We are an equal opportunity employer.
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
202 Junipero Serra Blvd Stanford, Ca. 94305
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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.
