Context 2003 - Call for partecipation

[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ****************************************************************** ****************** Call for participation ****************** ****************************************************************** +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online. Please, follow this link to formalize your registration: http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/ You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips. TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION Monday June 23, 2003 -------------------- 9:00-9:15 Welcome 9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake (Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA) 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I * Robert Porzel Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and Situational Coherence * Hugo Liu Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design * Martin Trautwein Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts * Mark Whitsey Discourse Context and Indexicality 12:30-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning * Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy Varieties of Contexts * John Bell A Common Sense Theory of Causation 15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I * Rolf Nossum A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction * Luciano Serafini Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database Coordination 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling * Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus Explanation as Contextual Categorization * Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties * Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context 18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden. Tuesday June 24, 2003 --------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford University, USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations * Claudia Bianchi How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context * Roger Young Demonstratives, Reference and Perception * Horacio Arlo-Costa A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives * Isidora Stojanovic What to Say on What Is Said 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II * Richmond Thomason Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an Application * Sasa Buvac A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic * Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms * Valeria de Paiva Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30:-18:30 Poster Session 20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees). Wednesday June 25, 2003 ----------------------- 9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon (LIP 6, University Paris 6, France) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications * Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations * Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network * Lucas Paletta Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection * Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model 12:40-14:15 Lunch 14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II * Nobo Komagata Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory * Kavita Thomas Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue * David Ahn Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III * Dominic Widdows A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning * Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching 16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks CONFERENCE CHAIR Fausto Giunchiglia (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK) Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dikran Karagueuzian (dikran(a)roslin.stanford.edu) Michele King (mking(a)csli.stanford.edu) John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Keith Devlin (devlin(a)csli.stanford.edu) Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti(a)psych.stanford.edu)