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informatik.uni-freiburg.de>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS LABELLED DEDUCTION (An edited volume intended for the Applied Logic Series of Kluwer Academic Publishers) http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ld98/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Background In September 1998, the University of Freiburg (Germany) hosted LD'98 The First International Workshop on Labelled Deduction. The participants of LD'98 reported on research, related to or based on Labelled Deduction, in many areas of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematical logic, cognitive science, philosophy, and computational linguistics. More information on LD'98 is available at the URL of the workshop http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~ld98/WS/ Motivated by the success of the workshop, the members of the program committee of LD'98 will edit a volume collecting original papers on this topic and titled LABELLED DEDUCTION (An edited volume intended for the Applied Logic Series of Kluwer Academic Publishers) Topics of interest The title reflects the planned contents of this book: We welcome original contributions on all theoretical and practical aspects of Labelled Deduction, including but not limited to: * Logical modeling based on Labelled Deduction * Formal metatheory for, or based on, Labelled Deduction * Hybrid reasoners and combinations of logics based on labelling * Automated reasoning, implementation, and system support * Annotated logic programming * Applications Submissions * Authors are invited to submit full papers of at most 18 pages (formatted as described below) to be received by January 31st, 1999. Notification of acceptance or rejection of the papers will be sent by April 30th, 1999, and final versions of accepted papers will be due by June 15th, 1999. * Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. * The primary means of submission is electronic, in PostScript format. Papers should be e-mailed to ld98Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
lili.uni-bielefeld.de>ESSLLI-workshop on DEIXIS, DEMONSTRATION and DEICTIC BELIEF in MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS ================================================================ Workshop held in the section 'Language and Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information' ESSLLI-99 August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION ORGANISERS: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken) Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh) Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360) Questions concerning the workshop may be addressed to any of the organisers. BACKGROUND: Deixis has always been at the heart of reference research as widely known literature in semantics and pragmatics (H.H. Clark, S.C. Levinson, H. Kamp, D. Kaplan, W.V. Quine) demonstrates. Being fundamental, it is in the common focus of several disciplines: Cognitive science, linguistics, philosophical logics, AI, and psychology. Until recently, little was known about the role of pointing and demonstration in deixis, especially about the coordination of speech and gesture in deictic contexts. The situation has now changed due to research in linguistics, ethnomethodology, vision, neuro-computation, gesture analysis, psychology, and computer simulation. At present, research is going on at various places, aimed at the integration of deixis information from e.g. the visual and the auditory channel. Relevant topics in this new field are e.g. saliency, focus-monitoring, types of gestures and demonstrations, and especially the emergence and structure of composite signals but it also has intimate connections with problems of long standing such as grounding, mutuality or agents' coordination in discourse. The workshop will integrate different methodologies, experimental paradigms, computer simulation including virtual reality approaches and formal modelling alike. It is addressed to Master-students, PhD-students and scholars working on philosophical, linguistic or computational aspects of deixis including gesture. The following publications might be of help to students looking for information concerning reference, deixis, gesture recognition and similar topics: Clark, H.H.: 1995, Using Language. Cambridge: CUP Davis, St. (ed.): 1991, Pragmatics. A Reader. New York, Oxford: OUP. Chs II and III Levinson, St.C.: Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP . Ch. 2 McNeill, D.: 1992, Hand and Mind. Univ. of Chicago Press Recanati, F.: 1993, Direct Reference. From Language to Thought. Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell Wachsmuth, I. and Froehlich, M. (eds): 1998, Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANISED: The workshop will consist of ten sessions (90 min. each) of presentation and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place during the ESSLLI-Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI- community. SUBMISSIONS: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copy or e-mail (plain ASCII or (La)TeX) to the following address: deixisMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue