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>Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 10:46:00 PDT
>Reply-To: "Gessler, Nicholas (G) ANTHRO" <gessler(a)ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU>
>Sender: General Anthropology Bulletin Board <ANTHRO-L(a)UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
>From: "Gessler, Nicholas (G) ANTHRO" <gessler(a)ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU>
>Subject: Emergent Properties
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ANTHRO-L <ANTHRO-L(a)UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
>
>To continue a periodic discussion on Darwin-L and Anthro-L on the notion of
>EMERGENCE as it is being used in the Artificial Life community, I am
>forwarding the following article that was posted on the "Emergence" bulletin
>board at alife.santafe.edu. In our own Artificial Life group at UCLA the
>subject of emergence has come up numerous times, and although David Tinker
>was not present he has captured much of what was said. What we
>arrived at as a definition follows Luc Steels' formalization which
>goes something like this: "Given a system with a global behavior
>completely determined by the local behaviors of its components, a
>global behavior can be said to be EMERGENT if it requires a set of
>descriptors which is different from the set required to describe the
>local behaviors."
>
>Someone on Darwin-L asked rhetorically whether anyone in evolution still
>believed in Teleology. It would be interesting to rephrase that question to
>ask whether any phenomena explained as teleological in a non-computational
>paradigm could be subsumed under the the computational paradigm of emergence?
>I suspect so. I also have a nagging suspicion that emergence is central to
>biological evolution and possibly also to cultural evolution, if not the
>entire range of natural phenomena. I've breached the subject with Gould,
>Rapoport, and Mayer who have all commented that the field of Alife is "rich."
>
>To obviate any misunderstandings, in my view evolution is a change in gene
>(or trait) frequency in a population over time (I will not use the word
>"progress)." And cultural evolution can come about through both Darwinian
>and Lamarckian mechanisms {appeal to authority: Mayer}.
>
>I must admit I'm having difficulty keeping up with this thread on several
>bulleting boards, but even though the postings are sporadic, they are
>fruitful.
>
>Nick Gessler
>gessler(a)anthro.sscnet.ucla.edu
>gessler(a)alife.santafe.edu
>
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>To: gessler(a)anthro.sscnet.ucla.edu (dtinker(a)alife.santafe.ed)
>Subject: Re: Emergent Properties
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>In article <2qul6k$e8r(a)tierra.santafe.ede> you wrote:
>
>: To try and start a little discussion in this fascinating area, I'm
>: reposting an article I put in "talk.origins" some time ago. Much
>: of what I said then is probably old hat to readers here, but I'd be
>: interested in reactions and other ideas. (By the way if anyone is
>: interested in the bibliography mentioned in this posting, I still have
>: it - let me know if you'd like a copy via E-mail).
>
>: ========================
>: Newsgroups: talk.origins
>: From: dtinker(a)gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (David Tinker)
>: Subject: Emergent Properties. I. Introduction
>: Organization: University of Toronto, Biochemistry
>: Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:50:22 GMT
>
>: The recent spate of articles in talk.origins on "emergent properties"
>: generated some heat, but not much light! My colleague, Larry Moran,
>: objects to the term because he suspects (wrongly) that it is based on
>: non-mechanistic or vitalistic superstition, and (rightly) that the term
>: implies there is an obstacle to the reductionist agenda in biology.
>: Other postings imply that the term "emergent properties" is tautologous,
>: and not unique to biology; it has been claimed that everything has emergent
>: properties, so the adjective "emergent" is meaningless.
>
>: I think the topic is worth further exploration, and submit this article to
>: stimulate discussion. I hope that we have not seen the last word on this
>: topic.
>
>: First, I do not think there is a satisfactory closed definition of the term
>: "emergent", nor is it universally used by the research school most concerned
>: with such properties, the 'Artificial Life' community. Nevertheless I
>: believe the concept is so well accepted in this community that the term can
>: be used casually with the assurance that it is understood. I turned to my
>: well-thumbed copy of "Artifical Life I" and searched in the annotated
>: bibliography and in the index for terms like "emergent" - see below for the
>: results. Nowhere did I find a definition that would satisfy Larry Moran,
>but
>: in re-reading the articles I found many clues to a definition. So, being
>: willing to be called a fool, I will essay a definition:
>
>:
>=============================================================================
>: A system may be said to possess "emergent properties" when (a) it is
>composed
>: of a collection of entities, (b) it has global properties, obeying well-
>: characterised rules that may be used for predictive purposes, that arise
>from
>: non-linear combinations of local interactions among the entities, and (c)
>the
>: rules do not depend specifically on the chemical nature of the entities."
>:
>=============================================================================
>
>: Glosses:
>: By "entities" I mean systems which may exist independently, and which
>: make up the system by simple addition to it. Thus the protein molecules
>: in a crystal are entities in this sense, but the atoms in a molecule are
>: not "entities" composing the molecule.
>
>: By "non-linear" I simply mean the mathematical connotation, as in
>"non-linear
>: function". I wished to use this term in the definition rather than the
>: less general adjective "non-additive".
>: ===========================================================================
>
>: Now some questions and tentative answers.
>
>: 1. Do such systems exist?
>:
>: Yes they do. Three systems with emergent properties that have been
>: well examined are (a) artificial neural networks, (b) organisms that
>: exhibit schooling or flocking behaviour, and (c) cellular automata.
>
>: 2. You say that the properties are independent of chemical nature of the
>: entities. Does this mean you espouse a non-mechanistic view?
>:
>: Not at all. Let's take flocking behaviour as an example. It appears
>: to arise when entities have a mechanism for detecting spatial proximity
>: of identical entities and a feedback mechanism for maintaining a range
>: of postions relative to their neighbours. Essentially identical
>: behaviour can arise in organism as diverse as fish, insects and birds.
>: It could also arise in collections of robots made out of Lego (tm) - all
>: that is required is there be physical mechanisms for _instantiating_
>: the local interactions. If I were studying sandpipers, say, I would
>: certainly hope to elucidate the physiological and biochemical mechanisms
>: of recognition and feedback, and to learn how the relevant genes have
>: evolved to optimise these interactions for efficient flocking behaviour.
>: The _instantiation_ of the behaviour does depend on mechanisms which
>: obey the laws of physics and chemistry, but the behaviour itself trans-
>: cends these laws.
>
>: 3. Aren't these rules merely empirical inventions that will be unnecessary
>: when we understand the mechanisms fully?
>:
>: I don't think so. The work in this area indicates many of the "rules"
>: governing such properties are universal, and have a formal logical
>: structure and grammar. In the sense that thermodynamics is a formal
>: system independent of any specific physical system, so are the laws
>: governing emergent properties. However, it is true that like
>: thermodynamics, "emergo-dynamics" will be ultimately related to
>: lower-level physical theories.
>
>: 4. Aren't all properties of matter "emergent" - e.g. the properties of
>: water?
>:
>: Not in the sense I have defined. The properties of water depend
>: absolutely on the specific interactions of water molecules, whereas
>: the properties I have called "emergent" would arise no matter what
>: entities are involved.
>
>: 5. Simple things like flocks and cellular automata don't convince me -
>: these are just computer games. Is there any evidence that *real*
>: biological behaviour can be 'explained' by such notions?
>:
>: I'm glad you asked. See the amazing chapter by P. Hogeweg (cited below)
>: in which he models such high-level behaviours as bumblebee sociology.
>: The fact that successful models of living systems can be constructed
>: out of computer instructions or Lego indicates that the properties being
>: modelled are 'real' ones.
>
>: 6. Wait a minute! I'm beginning to think you are a Moravecian (see Hans
>: Moravec, "Mind Children"). Do you really think biological properties
>: including (choke) consciousness could arise in machines? Is Data (in
>: Star Trek) really human after all? Do you think human beings are
>: machines?
>:
>: Yes. In fact, my conviction that my humanity has "emerged" from the
>: properties of molecules contributes mightily to that emergent property
>: of me, that I call a "religious world-view".
>
>: 7. How can I learn more about such area so that I can critically discuss
>: this topic on talk.origins?
>:
>: Start with the "Artificial Life" volumes from the Santa Fe insitute,
>: published by Addison Wesley. In my next posting, I'll re-post a
>: *long* annotated bibliography that was prepared by G. Miller and P. Todd,
>: and posted in sci.bio a year ago.
>
>: -----
>: Bibliography and Footnotes:
>: ==========================
>
>: >From the annotated bibliography, in C.G. Langton, editor, "Artificial
>: Life I", pp 527-625, Addison Wesley, 1989.
>
>: (a) Titles containing the word "_emergent_" or "_emergence_".
>: =============================================================
>: J.H. Holland. "Studies of the Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating
>: Systems using Cellular Automata and Formal Grammars." In A. Lindenmayer
>: and G. Rozenberg, editors, "Automata, Languages, Development", pp 385-404,
>: North Holland, 1976.
>
>: J.J. Hopfield. "Neural Networks and Physical Systems with Emergent
>: Collective Computational Abilities." Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 79:2554-2558,
>: 1982.
>
>: S.A. Kauffman. "Emergent Properties in Random Complex Automata."
>: Physica D, 10, 1984.
>
>
>: (b) Titles that are germane to this posting.
>: ============================================
>: C.W. Reynolds. "Flocks, Herds and Schools: A Distributed Behavioural
>: Model". Computer Graphics: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '87, 21(4):25-34,
>: July 1987.
>
>: S. Wolfram, editor. "Theory and Applications of Cellular Automata."
>: World Scientific, Singapore, 1986.
>
>: P. Hogeweg. "MIRROR beyond MIRROR, Puddles of LIFE". In C.G. Langton,
>: editor, "Artificial Life I", pp 297-316, Addison Wesley, 1979.
>
>
>
>: Towards a legitimisation of emergent behaviour?
>: ===============================================
>: >From C.G. Langton, in "Artificial Life I" page 3:
>: " The "key" concept in AL is _emergent behaviour_. Natural life emerges
>: out of the organized interactions of a great number of nonliving
>molecules,
>: with no global controller responsible for the behaviour of every part.
>: Rather, every part is a behav_or_ itself, and life is the behav_ior_ that
>: emerges out of all the local interactions among individual behav_ors_. It
>: is this bottom-up, distributed, local determination of behaviour that AL
>: employs in its primary methodological approach to the generation of
>: lifelike behaviors. "
>
>: >From R. Dawkins, _ibib._ page 209 (discussing the biomorphs produced by his
>: 'Blind Watchmaker' program):
>: " ... Our watchword is that as much as possible must emerge rather than
>being
>: designed. But having seen the range of phenotypes that emerge from the
>: basic program, can we think of any modifications to the basic program that
>: seem likely to unleash opulent flowerings of new emergent properties? ...
>"
>
>: --
>
>: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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>: : University of Toronto FAX: (416)978-8548 :
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>
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Palyazati felhivas a kognitiv pszihologia es mesterseges intelligencia
hatarteruletein vegzendo doktori osztondijasi (Ph.D. hallgato) feladatokra.
A mesterseges intelligencia szamitastechnikai jellegu kutatasainak ma
talan legfontosabb kerdese azoknak az ember-gep kapcsolatoknak a
megteremtese, amelyek az emberi gondolkodas es a gepi lehetosegek kozotti
hidakat letrehozzak. Ezen belul kulonosen erdekes azoknak a folyamatoknak
a feltarasa, amelyek egy-egy alkalmazasi terulet meghatarozo szakembereinek
es felhasznaloinak kapcsolataban szerepet jatszanak, hogyan idezik fel
kulonos tudasukat ezek a szakertok egy-egy problema, eset kapcsan, mivel
valik gondolkodasi modszeruk a terulet szempontjabol jellegzetesse. Ebben
valoszinuleg szerepet jatszanak azok a gondolati, asszociacios kapaszkodo
jellegu felidezesi mechanizmusok, amelyek ma a kognitiv pszihologiaban a
kutatas egyik erdekes csomopontjai. Hasonlokepen erdekesek a felhasznaloi
gondolkodasi jellegzetessegek, hogyan lehet rekonstrualni ezekbol az
ismerethianybol, tartozkodasbol, szandekos, vagy osztonos felrevezetesbol
szarmazo kozles-torzitasokbol a valodi informaciot, a felhasznalo-kozlo
szemely tipusabol, hogyan lehet a szakerto tudasat kiegesziteni a
tipusismerettel es az ebbol levezetheto informacio javito modszerekkel.
A kutatas nem igenyel semmifele kulonos szamitogepes ismeretet, a kesz
eszkozoket
a szamitastechnikai szakemberek rendelkezesre bocsatjak, azok hasznalata
igen egyszeru.
A kutatas a kerdes nemzetkozi ismeretanyaganak feltarasaval kezdodne es
elsosorban kiserleti munkaval folytatodna, egyes szakerto es felhasznalo
csoportok tudasanak es magatartas-formainak elemzesevel. A kivalasztando
csoportok tetszes szerintiek, a kutato erdeklodesi korenek es szemelyes
kapcsolatainak megfeleloen. Az eddigi munkak ujszulott-neurologiai,
jogi-szociologiai es kozgazdasagi teruleten folytak, de ezek mellett is
elkepzelheto barmi mas terulet, akar a kereskedelem, a kozigazgatas, vagy
ezektol eltero kapcsolatrendszer.
A kutatas elofeltetelezese, hogy ezek a szereplo- es gondolkodasi,
cselekvesi tipusok alakzatokkal irhatok le, azaz olyan adatok, informaciok
halmazaval, amelyek altalaban meg nem rendezhetok jol logikai strukturakba,
hanem a jelensegek valamilyan osszessege ad kepet a hasonlosagokrol es
kulonbozosegekrol, ezen keresztul a kovetkeztetesek lehetseges iranyairol.
Az alakzat fogalom hasonlo a pszihologia Gestalt es sema fogalmaihoz.
Az ilyen alakzatok feldolgozasara kesz szamitastechnikai eszkozok es
eljarasok allnak rendelkezesre. A kutatas eredmenye ezen alakzatok
megismeresi modszereinek (tudasszerzes) a javitasa, a gondolkodas,
megismeres jellegzetessegeinek tovabbi feltarasa lenne.
A kutatas az ELTE pszihologiai szakagazatanak az MTA Szamitastechnikai es
Automatizalasi Intezetevel torteno egyuttmukodesenek kereteben folyna.
A jelentkezok osztondijanak elbiralasa a doktori osztondijpalyazatok
altalanos kereteben es feltetelei kozott tortenik.
Felhivas gyakorlatok, mestermunkak egyeni es csoportos vegzesere a kognitiv
pszihologia es mesterseges intelligencia hatarteruletein
A mesterseges intelligencia szamitastechnikai jellegu kutatasainak ma
talan legfontosabb kerdese azoknak az ember-gep kapcsolatoknak a
megteremtese, amelyek az emberi gondolkodas es a gepi lehetosegek kozotti
hidakat letrehozzak. Ezen belul kulonosen erdekes azoknak a folyamatoknak a
feltarasa, amelyek egy-egy alkalmazasi terulet meghatarozo szakembereinek
es felhasznaloinak kapcsolataban szerepet jatszanak, hogyan idezik fel
kulonos tudasukat ezek a szakertok egy-egy problema, eset kapcsan, mivel
valik gondolkodasi modszeruk a terulet szempontjabol jellegzetesse. Ebben
valoszinuleg szerepet jatszanak azok a gondolati, asszociacios kapaszkodo
jellegu felidezesi mechanizmusok, amelyek ma a kognitiv pszihologiaban
a kutatas egyik erdekes csomopontjai. Hasonlokepen erdekesek a
felhasznaloi gondolkodasi jellegzetessegek, hogyan lehet rekonstrualni
ezekbol az ismerethianybol, tartozkodasbol, szandekos, vagy osztonos
felrevezetesbol szarmazo kozles-torzitasokbol a valodi informaciot,
a felhasznalo-kozlo szemely tipusabol, hogyan lehet a szakerto tudasat
kiegesziteni a tipusismerettel es az ebbol levezetheto informacio
javito modszerekkel.
A munka nem igenyel semmifele kulonos szamitogepes ismeretet, a kesz
eszkozoket a szamitastechnikai szakemberek rendelkezesre bocsatjak,
azok hasznalata igen egyszeru. A feladat elsosorban kiserleti munka,
egyes szakerto es felhasznalo csoportok tudasanak es magatartas-
formainak elemzese. A kivalasztando csoportok tetszes szerintiek,
a resztvevok erdeklodesi korenek es szemelyes kapcsolatainak
megfeleloen. Az eddigi munkak ujszulott-neurologiai, jogi-szociologiai
es kozgazdasagi teruleten folytak, de ezek mellett is elkepzelheto
barmi mas terulet, akar a kereskedelem, a kozigazgatas, vagy ezektol
eltero kapcsolatrendszer.
A kutatas -amelynek kereteben ez a gyakorlat folyna - feltetelezi,
hogy ezek a szereplo- es gondolkodasi, cselekvesi tipusok alakzatokkal
irhatok le, azaz olyan adatok, informaciok halmazaval, amelyek
altalaban meg nem rendezhetok jol logikai strukturakba, hanem a
jelensegek valamilyan osszessege ad kepet a hasonlosagokrol es
kulonbozosegekrol, ezen keresztul a kovetkeztetesek lehetseges
iranyairol. Az alakzat fogalom hasonlo a pszihologia Gestalt es
sema fogalmaihoz. Az ilyen alakzatok feldolgozasara kesz
szamitastechnikai eszkozok es eljarasok allnak rendelkezesre.
A munka eredmenye ezen alakzatok megismeresi modszereinek
(tudasszerzes) a javitasa, a gondolkodas, megismeres
jellegzetessegeinek tovabbi feltarasa lenne.
A feladat kivitelezese az ELTE pszihologiai szakagazatanak az MTA
Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Intezetevel torteno
egyuttmukodesenek kereteben folyna.
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PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
AAAI-94 Workshop on
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94)
Seattle, Washington, USA
Tuesday/Wednesday, August 2nd/3rd, 1994
Chair:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND, EU
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England)
Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. John Frisby (Sheffield, England)
Prof. Frank Harary (CRL, New Mexico, USA)
Dr. Eduard Hovy (USC ISI, Los Angeles, USA)
Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA)
Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Derek Partridge (Exeter, England)
Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of
perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991
and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research
involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Vision Processing (VP).
Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models
and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress
on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It
is not clear why there has not already been much activity in
integrating these two areas. Is it because of the long-time reductionist
trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory,
nonlinear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the
people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments,
or of a different ilk, from those who have worked on VP?
We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we
have advertised a call for papers for a special volume of the Journal
of AI Review to focus on their integration and we have had
a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing
on theory and applications of NLP and VP and intelligent multimedia
systems.
The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research
in NLP and VP has advanced to the stage that they can each benefit
from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as
people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work.
References
Dennett, Daniel (1991)
Consciousness explained
Harmondsworth: Penguin
Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor)
Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing
Special Volume 8(1,2,3) of AI Review Journal
Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming)
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
The workshop will focus on these themes:
* Multimedia retrieval
* Multimedia document processing
* Speech, gesture and gaze
* Theory
* Multimedia presentation
* Spatial relations
* Multimedia interfaces
* Reference
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday, August 2nd, 1994
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INTRODUCTION I:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL:
(Chair: Neil C. Rowe)
9.00 `Domain-independent rules relating captions and pictures'
Neil C. Rowe
Computer Science, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA
9.30 `An image retrieval system that accepts natural language'
Hiromasa NAKATANI and Yukihiro ITOH
Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering,
Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan
10.00 Break
MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT PROCESSING:
(Chair: Rohini Srihari)
10.30 `Integrating text and graphical input to a knowledge base'
Raman Rajagopalan
Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA
11.00 `Photo understanding using visual constraints generated'
from accompanying text
Rohini Srihari
Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR),
SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
11.30 Discussion
SPEECH, GESTURE AND GAZE:
(Chair: Jordi Robert-Ribes)
12.00 `Audiovisual recognition of speech units: a tentative functional
model compatible with psychological data'
Jordi Robert-Ribes, Michel Piquemal, Jean-Luc Schwartz &
Pierre Escudier
Institut de la Communication Parlee (ICP)
Grenoble, France, EU
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
SITE DESCRIPTION (VIDEO):
(Chair: Arnold G. Smith)
2.00 `The spoken image system: on the visual interpretation of verbal
scene descriptions'
Sean O Nuallain, Benoit Farley & Arnold G. Smith
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, EU &
NRC, Ottawa, Canada
THEORY:
2.20 `Behavioural descriptions from image sequences'
Hilary Buxton and Richard Howarth
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex &
Department of Computing Science, QMW, University of London
2.50 `Visions of language'
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, England, EU
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Break
4.00 `Language animation'
A. Narayanan, L. Ford, D. Manuel, D. Tallis, and M. Yazdani
Media Laboratory, Department of Computer Science,
University of Exeter, England, EU
4.30 Discussion
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION:
(Chair: Arnold G. Smith)
4.45 `Assembly plan generation by integrating pictorial and textual
information in an assembly illustration'
Shoujie He, Norihiro Abe and Tadahiro Kitahashi
Dept of Information Systems and Computer Science,
National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore,
Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, Japan &
The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
5.15 `Multimedia presentation of interpreted visual data'
Elisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog & Thomas Rist
DFKI & Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU
5.45 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
Wednesday, August 3rd, 1994
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INTRODUCTION:
8.45 `Introduction'
Paul Mc Kevitt
SPATIAL RELATIONS I:
(Chair: Jeffrey Mark Siskind)
9.00 `Propositional semantics in the WIP system'
Patrick Olivier & Jun-ichi Tsujii
Centre for Intelligent Systems
University of Wales at Aberystwyth, Penglais, Wales, EU &
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU
9.30 `Spatial layout identification and incremental descriptions'
Klaus-Peter Gapp & Wolfgang Maass
Cognitive Science Program, Saarbruecken, Germany, EU
10.00 Break
10.30 `Axiomatic support for event perception'
Jeffrey Mark Siskind
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada
11.00 Discussion
SPATIAL RELATIONS II:
(Chair: Stephan Kerpedjiev)
11.30 `A cognitive approach to an interlingua representation of
spatial descriptions'
Irina Reyero-Sans & Jun-ichi Tsujii
Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester, England, EU
12.00 `Describing spatial relations in weather reports through prepositions'
Stephan Kerpedjiev,
NOAA/ERL/Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
12.30 Discussion
12.45 LUNCH
MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES:
(Chair: Yuri A. TIJERINO)
2.00 `Talking pictures: an empirical study into the usefulness of
natural language output in a graphical interface'
Carla Huls, Edwin Bos & Alice Dijkstra
NICI, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands &
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University,
The Netherlands
2.30 `From verbal and gestural input to 3-D visual feedback'
Yuri A. TIJERINO, Tsutomu MIYASATO & Fumio KISHINO
ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
3.00 Discussion
3.30 Break
4.00 `An integration of natural language and vision processing
towards an agent-based future TV system'
Yeun-Bae Kim, Masahiro Shibata & Masaki Hayashi
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
4.30 Discussion
REFERENCE:
(Chair: Lawrence D. Roberts)
4.45 `An AI module for reference based on perception'
John Moulton, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. USA
and Lawrence D. Roberts, SUNY, Binghamton, N.Y. USA
5.15 `Instruction use by a vision-based mobile robot'
Tomohiro Shibata, M. Inaba, & H. Inoue
Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
5.45 Discussion
6.00 OICHE MHAITH
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is
sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI
Press.
WORKSHOP CHAIR:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street
GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield
England, UK, EU.
e-mail: p.mckevitt(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk
fax: +44 742 780972
phone: +44 742 825572 (office)
825590 (secretary)
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 30-50 people at the workshop.
If you are interested in attending then please send the following
form to p.mckevitt(a)dcs.shef.ac.uk as soon as possible:
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Call for cognitive psychology and cognitive science PhD applicants
The Department of General Psychology at Eoetvoes University calls for
applicants for a three year long PhD program on cognitive
psycholopgy and cognitive science. This is the second year of the
program.
Applicants are kindly asked to submit (either in Hungarian or
English):
-- a CV
-- copies of diplome and university records
-- publication list (if any)
-- a study plan and a research plan
-- two letters of recommendation
-- documents proving proficiency in English
-- one or two papers or manuscripts of the applicant, preferably in
English.
The program involves organized classes (with exams), participation
in research (beside the individual research), and teaching
activities. PhD students will have a student status and those who
do not have a scholarship or a job will get a relatively
substantial scholarship.
The language of instruction will be English partly to
accomodate our foreign host teachers, partly because we are
encouraging our students to apply for scholarships abroad, too.
Applications forms are available at the PhD office of the
Humanities Faculty of ELTE from Alice Csoba (Piarista koez 1,
Budapest, I. e. 44). She would also give technical advice (T: 266-
83-04). Substantial information can be obtained from Csaba Pleh,
pleh(a)izabell.elte.hu, 1-423-130. Budapest, Izabella 46.
We encourage graduates in psychology, linguistics, philosophy,
biology, computing science, math and engineering to apply.
Deadline for application: June 10th.
Probable oral exam times: June 20th to 30th.
