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science.uva.nl>Call for Software Demonstrations ICGI-2002 6th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 23-25th, 2002 CALL The ICGI 2002 Program Committee invites proposals for software demonstrations at the ICGI 2002. We encourage the exhibition of early (research) prototypes, but interesting mature systems may also be demonstrated. SCOPE ICGI-2002 is the sixth in a series of successful biennial international conferences on the area of grammatical inference. Grammatical inference has been extensively addressed by researchers in information theory, automata theory, language acquisition, computational linguistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational learning theory and neural networks. This colloquium aims at bringing together researchers in these fields. Previous editions of this meeting were held in Essex, U.K.; Alicante, Spain; Montpellier, France; Ames, Iowa, USA and Lisbon, Portugal. LOCATION ICGI-2002 will be held in Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands is a city with a rich history. With it historical center and its canals it is also known as the Venice of the North. It has a lot to offer both in terms of history, culture and social life (www.amsterdam.nl/e_tourism/e_tourism.html). Holland's geographical location makes Amsterdam via Schiphol Airport easily accessible for travelers from all corners of the world . The conference will be located in the Institute for Language Logic and Computation (ILLC: www.illc.uva.nl) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (www.uva.nl). The Universiteit van Amsterdam was founded as the Athenaeum Illustre in 1632 and has developed into one of the bigger general universities in Europe. The conference is located in the center of Amsterdam, with easy access to hotels, restaurants and touristic attractions. Amsterdam is well served by air connections to many major European and American cities. Schiphol Airport is located less than 15 minutes away from Amsterdam, accessible by cab or public transportation. AREAS OF INTEREST The conference seeks to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of original research on all aspects of grammatical inference including, but not limited to: * Different models of grammar induction: e.g. learning from examples, learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various distributional assumptions (e.g. simple distributions), impossibility results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and search biases of grammar induction algorithms. * Algorithms for induction of different classes of languages and automata: e.g. regular, context-free, and context-sensitive languages, interesting subsets of the above under additional syntactic constraints, tree and graph grammars, picture grammars, multi-dimensional grammars, attributed grammars, parameterized models, etc. * Theoretical and experimental analysis of different approaches to grammar induction including artificial neural networks, statistical methods, symbolic methods, information-theoretic approaches, minimum description length, and complexity-theoretic approaches, heuristic methods, etc. * Broader perspectives on grammar induction -- e.g. acquisition of grammar in conjunction with language semantics, semantic constraints on grammars, language acquisition by situated agents and robots, acquisition of language constructs that describe objects and events in space and time, developmental and evolutionary constraints on language acquisition, statistical modeling of natural language, etc. * Demonstrated or potential applications of grammar induction in natural language acquisition, computational biology, structural pattern recognition, information retrieval, text processing, adaptive intelligent agents, systems modeling and control, and other domains. FORMAT Demo proposals should consist of the following parts: * An abstract in English of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed three pages, including: * title, * authors and affiliation, * full contact information of the contact author, * references and acknowledgments. * The abstract will be added to the proceedings of ICGI-2002, which will be published by Springer-Verlag as a volume in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, a subserie of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. * Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources *but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power*. Please contact the demo committee for any specific questions. You are encouraged to bring as much of your own equipment as possible! PROCEDURE Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before 1 July 2002 using the submission form which can be found on the ICGI 2002 homepage (http://www.illc.uva.nl/ICGI-2002/). EVALUATION Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to the field of grammar induction, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. DEADLINES Submission of software demo proposals: 1 July 2002 Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2002 Submission of revised proposals: 14 July 2002 Conference dates: 23-25 September 2002 SOFTWARE DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE Pieter Adriaans Institute for Language Logic and Communication (ILLC) Universiteit van Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV AMSTERDAM The Netherlands Phone: +31 6 54234459 Fax: +31 20 525 5206 E-mail: pieteraMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
mac.com>DEAR COLLEAGUES! THE AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY KAZAKH LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CONFERENCE PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS: CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Conference date: September, 18-19, 2003. Place: 480071, Kazakhstan, Almaty -city, al-Farabi - avenue,71, KazNU, philological faculty. THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE OFFERED FOR DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS * LANGUAGE SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE POLICY * SOCIAL AND REGIONAL LANGUAGE VARIATION. * INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES * SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM * LANGUAGES IN CONTACT. * SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOPICS * NATIVE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD BILINGUALISM. * SPEECH PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION * SPEECH PRODUCTION * MENTAL LEXICON * BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM * PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE WORKING LANGUAGES: KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH PLEASE, ADD YOUR THESIS (1-2 PAGES) TO YOUR APPLICATION FORM . THESIS TEXT SHOULD BE PRINTED AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM (IN RTF-FORMAT: FILES SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER YOUR SURNAMES). DEADLINE: NOVEMBER, 30, 2002. E-MAIL: altynMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue