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cs.rutgers.edu>The Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies The Computing Research Laboratory and the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) are pleased to announce plans for the Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies (SLPLT-2). The workshop is scheduled to take place Friday, September 14, and Saturday, September 15, 2001, in Jain, Spain, immediately following and as part of the 17th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (September 12-14, 2001). It will precedes the Machine Translation Summit VIII which will be held in Santiago de Compostella, Spain, September 18-21, 2001. The goal of the International Workshops on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies is to promote the creation of an infrastructure for carrying out research and development in the computational processing of spoken and written Spanish. They do this by bringing together researchers and developers from Europe and the Americas to present the most recent advances in the field and to catalog available resources for research and development as well as by promoting cooperative efforts among participants from the different geographical regions. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 80 participants (at least 20 from each region) and the structure of activities emphasizes broad descriptions of research and development activities and infrastructure accompanied by ample discussions. Also integral to their success are a number of social events, which will provide a more informal context for establishing networks of contacts. Program The program consists of morning and afternoon panel sessions each day. In addition, there will be a reception after the first day's activities and a banquet after the second. Friday, September 14 9:30-1:30: Research Activities and Interests Summary reports of the research activities and interests from a number of R&D centers from each of the three regions (including text and dialog analysis, text generation and speech recognition and synthesis). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:30. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Technologies and Applications Summary reports on current or planned R&D efforts related to the development of specific applications (including Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Query and Dialog Systems, Expert and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Text Summarization, Text Processing, Document Handling, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 8:00-9:30: RECEPTION Saturday, September 15 9:30-1:30: Research and Development Infrastructure Summary reports on existing and planned infrastructure resources for supporting Spanish language processing R&D (including corpora; databases--geographical place names, company names, person names; knowledge bases--ontologies, thesauri, dictionaries; processing tools--tokenizers, POS-taggers, syntactic analyzers, lexica, text generators, corpus analysis tools, speech processing tools, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:15. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Funding Opportunities and Future Directions Reports from funding agencies on pending initiatives and position papers on future needs for Spanish language processing technologies and the kinds of research needed to meet those needs. There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 10:00: BANQUET Submissions We are requesting that those interested in participating submit a five page (2000-2500 words) paper addressing one of the above panel topics and a brief two page (800-1000 words) biographical sketch. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee each representing one of the regions. Submissions will be accepted in Spanish or in English and the presentations are expected to be in whichever language is used for the written submission. Both Spanish and English are official languages for the workshop. Submissions will be accepted in either electronic form or hard copy although the former is preferred. Format instructions will follow those for submissions to SEPLN-2001 (refer to: http://sepln2001.ujaen.es). Please send submissions to: David Farwell Computing Research Laboratory Box 30001/3CRL New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA E-mail: davidMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
csd.uwo.ca>Second Call For Paper Workshop on Cognitive Agents and Multi-Agent Interaction A symposium at ICCS 2001 (Aug 27-31, Beijing, China) What's New: - A special issue of Cognitive System Research is planned for the selected papers accepted by the Workshop. - Check http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/ling/Agents.html for updates Background Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate aspects of reactive, deliberative, goal-driven, adaptive, autonomous, learning, communicative, competitive, and collaborative behaviors and multi-agent interaction provide an attractive paradigm for addressing foundational questions in Cognitive Science. Artificial intelligence, in its early days, started out with the goal of designing intelligent agents. However, faced with the enormous complexity of the task, the focus soon shifted to modelling specific aspects of intelligence, often in highly restricted domains. In recent years, some researchers have begun to focus on putting the pieces together with the goal of designing intelligent agents. There is also a growing interest in multi-agent systems that address aspects of coordination and communication among groups of agents. On the other hand, historically, the main focus of research in Cognitive Science has been on specific components of cognition (e.g., perception, memory, learning, language). Recent developments in computational modelling of cognitive agents and multi-agent systems provide new avenues for addressing foundational questions in Cognitive Science Against this background, the workshop seeks to bring together cognitive scientists with diverse backgrounds and expertise to discuss research problems and exchange recent results that have broad implications for understanding cognition in computational terms at the whole systems level. We invite full papers, extended abstracts, or position papers on all aspects of cognitive agents and multi-agent interaction including, but not limited to: - Cognitive Architectures (including alternative formalisms for modelling reactive, deliberative, autonomous, rational, learning, communicating agents) - Ontologies, knowledge representations, and inference for cognitive agents and multi-agent systems (including reasoning about space, time, and behaviors) - Multi-agent organizations (e.g., democracies, economies, societies, and associated coordination structures and mechanisms). - Learning and adaptation in cognition (including learning in dynamic environments consisting of active, distributed information sources). - Language and communication (signs, signals, symbols, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of communication among cognitive agents). - Multi-agent coordination (cooperation, competition etc. in multi-agent societies). - Computational abstractions, languages, and tools for modelling cognitive agents and multi-agent interaction. - Evolution of cognitive behavior . The workshop is open to all members of the Cognitive Science community. However, the number of participants is limited. Consequently, authors of accepted papers will be given priority in terms of attendance. The organizers will make a concerted effort to ensure a good mix of established researchers, graduate students and junior researchers with diverse backgrounds. Important Dates and Deadlines - Deadline for submission of full papers (up to 6 pages) or abstract (1 page): May 15, 2001. - Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2001. - Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers: June 30, 2001 Instructions for Authors Electronic submission (postscript, pdf, or MS Word) is strongly encouraged. Each paper will be refereed for technical soundness, relevance, significance, and clarity of presentation. Organizers Prof. Vasant Honavar Department of Computer Science Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 honavarMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue