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ling.ohio-state.edu>GLiP-2 GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS IN POLAND 2 (syntax and morphology) Dates: 8-9 December 2000 Location: Warszawa (Warsaw) Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw INVITED SPEAKERS (both to be confirmed): - -------------- Steven FRANKS Indiana University Gilbert C. RAPPAPORT University of Texas at Austin 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------- The primary aim of GLiP meetings is to bring together (i) Polish generative linguists, (ii) generative linguists working in Poland, as well as (iii) generative linguists working on Polish. We invite abstracts on any aspect of generative syntax and/or morphology in any generative approach: P&P (Minimalism, GB), HPSG, LFG, OT, etc. Talks will be organized around major syntactic topics, depending on the content of the submissions. We are also planning a separate session on Polish generative terminology, continued from GLiP-1 (details to be found on our web pages). The format of the conference is 30 min for presentation + 15 min question time. Languages of the conference are English and Polish. The GLiP-1 meeting, which took place in November 1999 in Warsaw, resulted in a volume of proceedings, and we are also planning to publish proceedings of GLiP-2. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - ------------------ Piotr Banski, Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw Adam Przepiorkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: - ----------------- Piotr BANSKI University of Warsaw Robert D. BORSLEY University of Essex Steven FRANKS Indiana University Adam PRZEPIORKOWSKI Polish Academy of Sciences Gilbert C. RAPPAPORT University of Texas at Austin Andrew J. SPENCER University of Essex Ewa WILLIM (tbc) Jagiellonian University Jacek WITKOS Adam Mickiewicz University ACCOMODATION: - ---------- Accommodation will be provided at the university hotel. For details please see our web page (address below). CONFERENCE FEES (estimated): - ------------- Regular: 60 PLN Student: 30 PLN DATES: - --- - DEADLINE for receipt of abstracts: 30 September 2000 - Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2000 - Meeting: 9-10 December 2000 - Deadline for submissions of papers for the proceedings volume: 28 February 2001 ABSTRACTS: - ------- Should be *anonymous* and consist of up to 700 words, together with examples and references. We accept abstracts *EXCLUSIVELY* in ASCII format. If data involving diacritics are quoted, please omit the diacritics unless they are essential for the proper interpretation of the proposal -- in such cases, use the ASCII characters to mark them in some consistent way. Only one submission per person and one joint submission will be considered. IMPORTANT: At the beginning of your e-mail, please supply the following information: - name, title, - title of the paper, - affiliation, - email address, - snail mail address. Unless you send the abstract as attachment, we request that you add several blank lines between the personal information and the abstract proper, to facilitate anonymous review. ADDRESSES: - ------- PLEASE NOTE: ONLY *E-MAIL* SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED Please send your abstracts to: GLiP-2 Organizing Committee <glipMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dfki.de>*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION (An International Journal published by Kluwer) Special Issue on USER MODELING AND INTELLIGENT AGENTS Deadline: September 30th 2000 *************************************************************************** BACKGROUND Recent work on Intelligent Agents has shown a strong paradigm change in Human-computer Interaction: "direct manipulation" was challenged by "delegation". Such paradigm change has given rise to several metaphors for human/computer interaction in particular the personal assistant metaphor, the intelligent companion, the receptionist, etc. However, to perform tasks on behalf of the user, an agent has to be familiar with his or her habits and preferences and adapt its behavior accordingly. Furthermore, building embodied life-like characters animated with a set of rich behaviors is an area of research that has grown significantly for the last few years. The impact of these characters is strengthened by the fact that people in general tend to anthropormophize computers (Nass & Reeves) as well as by the richer communication styles that such characters can convey. The agent metaphor poses a major challenge to research on user modeling since it drastically changes the way humans perceive and interact with a computer. For instance, how to build up a relationship of understanding and trust with the user? How to avoid wrong expectations concerning the competence of human-like agents? And how to design agents that care about the user's experience with a system and are sensitive to his or her needs? To handle these problems, we have to continuously monitor the user's behavior and to use this knowledge to adjust. In organizing this Special Issue, we wish to collect substantiated work in which user modeling is used as a means of achieving more effective Human-Agent interaction. OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Papers presenting original contributions pertinent to the mentioned subject area are sought for this special issue. The following is a (non exhaustive) list of the topics of potential interest: * User modeling techniques for agent-based interfaces * User modeling techniques for collaborative environments frequented by human and artificial agents * Modeling social and psychological aspects of the user, such as personality and social relationships * Personalized life-like characters that adapt to the user * Exploitation of user modeling techniques to overcome typical problems of agent-based interaction, such as loss of control and missing trust * Empirical studies investigating the potential benefits of user modeling techniques for the interaction between agents and users * Applications relying on the agent metaphor and user modeling techniques, such as information retrieval, mail management, training and electronic commerce HOW TO SUBMIT: Potential authors are encouraged to contact the guest editors (Elisabeth Andre, email: Elisabeth.AndreMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue