University of St Andrews, School of Psychology
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Computational Neuroscience
A one-year research assistantship is available for research
on a novel application of computational methods to the
neurophysiology of the primate visual system with
Dr Peter Foldiak, in collaboration with Dr David Perrett.
The assistant will be involved in the development of software and
experimental procedures. Training in computer programming (C, UNIX),
and preferably in some of the following areas is preferred:
mathematics (optimisation), neural networks, genetic algorithms,
computer graphics (on SGI), vision- or neuroscience.
Salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1B scale for
Research Staff (GBP 13941-17813).
Application forms and further particulars are available from
Personnel Services, University of St Andrews, KY16 9AJ, U.K.
tel: +44 334 462567, (out of hours +44 334 462571) or by fax:
+44 334 462570, to whom completed forms accompanied by a letter
of application should be returned to arrive not later than
Monday, 30 January 1995. Please quote reference number: SH/APS0838.
The University operates an Equal Opportunities Policy.
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CHAIR IN PSYCHOLOGY AND HEALTH
The Department of Psychology at Southampton is currently experiencing a
period of rapid growth and change. The newly established Chair in
Psychology and Health is a key element in this restructuring process.
The appointee will provide professorial leadership for one of the three
key research groupings in the Department [the other two being (2)
Learning and Development and (3) Cognitive Psychology] contributing to
its overall research as well as its teaching programmes, particularly
at the postgraduate level. The appointment will also facilitate
interdisciplinary research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the
new Faculty of Medicine, Health, and Biological Sciences.
The Department seeks a person whose record of research, publication,
and achievement in psychology is of international standing. In addition
to an exemplary track record of personal research, an essential
requirement is the capacity to facilitate the research of others.
The relationship between psychology and health is to be interpreted
broadly, including, inter alia: mental health, occupational health,
health behaviours, child health, impact of illness on cognitive and
emotional function.
Informal enquiries to Prof. Bob Remington (HoD) Email: RER(a)psy.soton.ac.uk
Tel: 44-703-592612; Fax: 44-703-594597;
Closing date for applications: 17th February 1995.
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From: plo(a)aber.ac.uk (PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER)
Subject: CFP: Spatial Expressions
Date: 14 Dec 1994 18:42:31 GMT
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IJCAI-95 Workshop on the
Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions
Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95)
Montreal, Canada
1 day during 19th-21st August 1995
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Klaus-Peter Gapp (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Jugal Kalita (Colorado, USA)
Paul Mc Kevitt (Sheffield, UK)
Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT, Kanpur, India)
Patrick Olivier (Aberystwyth, UK)
Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Laure Vieu (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
People constantly relate their spatial perceptual (eg. visual) experiences to
one another, conveying the size, shape, orientation and position of objects
using a wide range of spatial expressions. The semantic treatment of such
expressions presents particular challenges for natural language processing.
The meaning representation used must be capable of distinguishing between
fine-grained sense differences and ambiguities grounded in our experiential
and perceptual structure.
On-going research projects that in part address the problem of representing
and processing spatial expressions include:
o Dialogue understanding using "mental images".
o Interfaces to multi-media systems, for example, natural language querying
of photographic databases.
o Machine translation systems, finding a systematic approach for translating
spatial expressions correctly is notoriously difficult.
o Natural language instruction of animated and virtual agents.
o Spatial queries for Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Implicit in current interest in integrating vision and natural language
processing (AAAI-94 Workshop and AAAI-95 Fall Symposium on Integrating
Natural Language and Vision Processing) is the issue of how to understand
and generate spatial expressions. While a distinctive body of work has
addressed this particular issue, the treatment of spatial language in its own
right has typically not been fully documented. This workshop will provide a
forum for more focussed expositions both on current and past research into
the representation and processing of spatial expressions.
WORKSHOP ISSUES:
There are been many different approaches to the representation and processing
of spatial expressions including geometric schemas, semantic nets, fuzzy sets
and predicate logic. Yet most existing computational characterisations have
so far been restricted to particularly narrow problem domains, that is,
specific spatial contexts determined by overall system goals.
To date, artificial intelligence research in this field has rarely taken
advantage of studies of language and spatial cognition carried out by the
cognitive science community. One of the intentions of this workshop is to
bring together researchers from both disciplines in the belief that
artificial intelligence has much to gain from an appreciation of cognitive
theories.
In addition to presenting original research participants will be asked where
possible to address the following questions:
o How does your work draw upon, differ from, refine or extend existing
linguistic, cognitive and artificial intelligence approaches? What are the
limitations and assumptions of your approach?
o How should knowledge about space be represented? What is your underlying
knowledge representation and reasoning formalism and what issues have
motivated your choice?
o How important is the issue of cognitive plausibility?
o How should the lexicon be organised with respect to spatial prepositions
and spatially relevant words? How can multiple meanings for such words be
accommodated?
o The meaning of spatial expressions cannot be addressed in isolation. Indeed
spatial expressions are used in many different physical contexts and
environments. How should the meanings of individual spatially relevant
words be composed during processing to obtain meanings of complex spatial
expressions?
o Object knowledge is generally thought to play an important role in the
interpretation of spatial words especially spatial prepositions. How can
this be realised and are there any other factors which affect the
interpretation of spatially relevant words?
o How language dependent is your approach?
o What are the open questions?
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
o Formal presentations. These will be short to short discussion. Presenters
will be asked not only to give an account of their own research but also
include responses to questions supplied the reviewing committee.
o Small group sessions. Groups of four or five participants will address
particular problems and/or approaches and make a brief presentations back
to the workshop.
o Panel session.
o Applications session. An applications session will provide participants
with an opportunity to give demonstrations their systems (both complete
systems and systems under development).
ATTENDANCE:
It is intended that between 30 and 40 people will attend the workshop. All
workshop participant are expected to register for the main IJCAI conference.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Electronic submission is strongly encouraged (preferably self-contained
LaTeX). Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. They must be a maximum
of 15 pages, each page having no more than 43 lines, lines being at most
140mm long and with 12 point type. Title, abstract, figures and references
must be included within this length limit. Four copies should be mailed to
the address below. Double sided printing is encouraged.
Patrick Olivier E-mail: plo(a)aber.ac.uk
Centre for Intelligent Systems Tel: +44 970622447
University of Wales Fax: +44 970622455
Aberystwyth
Dyfed, SY23 3DB, UK
DEADLINES:
Submission deadline: 13th March 1995
Notification of acceptance: 13th April 1995
Camera ready copy due: 27th April 1995
PUBLICATION:
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop notes/preprints by IJCAI. If
there is sufficient interest it is intended that a book will be published based
on the workshop notes.
