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umcs.maine.edu>CONTEXT'01: Third International Conference on Modeling and Using Context Dundee, Scotland July 27-30, 2001 http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-01 (mirrored at http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/context-01) The Third International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'01) aims at providing a high quality forum for discussions on context among researchers active in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, Organizational Sciences, Philosophy, and Psychology. The importance of the notion of context is widely acknowledged, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, and seminars on context held recently (see the Context Web Site). The CONTEXT series of conferences has a unique place among these due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. The first conference in this series (CONTEXT'97) was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1997. The second conference (CONTEXT'99) was held in Trento in 1999; see http://www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99 for details. TOPICS OF INTEREST The following topics, in which contexts can be studied and/or applied, are indicative of the scope of the conference: * Case-Based Reasoning * Cognitive Modeling * Commonsense Reasoning * (Active) Databases * Decision Support Systems * Distributed Information Systems * Formal Theories of Context * Heterogeneous Information Integration * Human-Computer Interaction * Information Management * Intelligent Internet Systems * Intelligent Tutoring Systems * Knowledge Engineering * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Representation * Machine Learning * Multi-Agent Systems * Natural Language Processing * Natural Language Semantics * Organizational Contexts * Philosophical Foundations * Pragmatics This is not an exhaustive list; other contributions on context are welcome. PUBLICATION PLANS As was the case with CONTEXT'99, the proceedings of CONTEXT'01 will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), a subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Copies of the volume will be distributed to registered participants at the conference. Publication of an accepted paper in the proceedings will be conditional upon two things: presentation of the paper during the conference and registration of at least one of its authors at the conference. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS CONTEXT'01 is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum. All submissions, in addition to being evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit, will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary community. Accordingly, works that transcend their disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged. Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Submissions must include in their first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone/fax numbers, e-mail address, and an abstract. Prospective authors are strongly advised to see the sample paper at: * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf or * http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.ps for the formatting requirements. It is crucial to note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Detailed information for authors is available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Only electronic submissions (PostScript or PDF file only, named with the first author's name and last name, e.g. John-Doe.ps or John-Doe.pdf) are acceptable. It would be wise to use a well-known compression utility (e.g. compress or gzip) before a paper is e-mailed. If one foresees problems in submitting his/her paper in one of the allowed electronic formats and would like to send hardcopy instead, then he/she should send e-mail to one of the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline and seek advice. LNCS is now published both in print and in a full-text electronic version; therefore, the electronic files are indispensable. Submitted papers should be received by the Conference Chair no later than February 2, 2001: Paolo Bouquet CONTEXT'01 Conference Chair Department of Computer Science University of Trento Via Inama, 5 I-38100 Trento, Italy tel: +39 461 882135 fax: +39 461 882124 bouquetMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ling.uu.se>***** Call for Papers ***** SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden September 7-9, 2001 Plenary Speaker: Professor Bernd Heine, University of Cologne Workshop: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley) Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of Mannheim, Germany) The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to: - Descriptions of lesser-known languages - Language change and variation - Multilingualism and language contact - Historical-comparative studies - Typological studies - Field reports - Corpus-based analysis - Language death and language preservation - Language policy and language planning - Ethnology and folklore - Himalayan languages and new technologies SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Abstracts should be no longer than one page with one-inch margins using at least an 11-point font. Along with the abstract, please enclose a separate page specifying the authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address. Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format). IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract due: 1 February, 2001 * Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001 * Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001 REGISTRATION Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students) Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students) LOCAL ORGANIZATION �sten Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Department of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University CONTACT INFORMATION For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact: Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics Uppsala University Box 527 SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden phone: +46-18-471 14 57 fax: +46-18-471 14 16 email: anju.saxenaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue