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chat.carleton.ca>PHICS: A Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Cognitive Science. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. September 28 to 30, 2001. WHAT IS PHICS? The PHICS Conference (Philosophy and Cognitive Science) is aimed at bringing students from the Philosophy of Mind and the Philosophy of Language together with students in the other cognitive sciences to foster cross-disciplinary discussion and debate. PHICS is organized jointly by graduate students in Carleton's departments of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and will include a number of refereed contributions from graduate (and undergraduate) students in addition to an address by a keynote speaker (TBA) and a mini-symposium on the relevance of Kant to Cognitive Science and contemporary Philosophy of Mind. CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are welcome from all areas of cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy and cognitive science. In particular, we would like to encourage submissions that cross the traditional disciplinary boundaries to report or comment on recent theoretical or experimental results. All submissions will be subject to a blind review process, and the proceedings of the conference will be published in PDF format on the conference web site. The deadline for submissions is May 1, 2001. Although PHICS is primarily intended for graduate students, submissions from undergraduates will also be considered. For more details about the conference, the program, and submission requirements please see the conference web site at: http://www.carleton.ca/iis/PHICS See you in September! The PHICS Conference Committee. (PDF version of this announcement is attached.)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cogsci.ed.ac.uk>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline for submission: March 30, 2001) ESSLLI Workshop on Information Stucture, Discourse Structure and Discourse Semantics http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ivana/esslli01-wsh/ August 20-24, 2001 Helsinki, Finland ESSLLI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli The workshop is endorsed by SIGSEM: http://www.sigsem.org/ and SIGdial: http://www.sigdial.org/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BRIEF MISSION STATEMENT: - ---------------------- This workshop aims to provide a forum for recent research on interactions between information structure (as a component of sentence-level semantics), discourse structure and discourse-level semantics. Both Information Structure (IS) and Discourse Structure (DS) are construed broadly here: - IS, as comprising structural and semantic properties of utterances relating to the discourse status of their content, the actual and attributed attentional states of the discourse participants, and the participants' prior and changing attitudes. - DS, as covering all aspects of the internal organizational structure of a discourse, an essential aspect being the use of explicit and implicit devices signifying links between clause and sentences. Understanding IS in light of DS and vice versa is not only justified on theoreticalgrounds: Experience with applications such as translating telephony and interactive query-answering makes it clear that a theory relating IS and DS is essential for accurate Natural Language Processing. The workshop aims to attract researchers in computational and theoretical linguistics and logic who are investigating IS-sensitive discourse processing and to facilitate contact, exchange of ideas and cooperation between them. We hope that the participants will transcend the difficulties caused by proliferating terminologies, and concentrate instead on investigating the interactions between IS and DS, with the goal of understanding how sentence-level semantic devices that make up IS symbiotically serve the needs of discourse cohesion and coherence. We seek contributions advancing beyond descriptive frameworks towards an explanatory account of how IS and DS, in whatever framework, interact to refer to and update a dynamically evolving representation of discourse context. The submitted papers will be refereed by the PC. See http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ivana/esslli01-wsh/ for more details. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: - -------------------- Full papers addressing the above issues are solicited, not exceeding 5000 words including references. Each paper must contain a 5-10 lines abstract. A postscript or pdf version of the paper should be submitted (zipped) by e-mail to ivanaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue