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kub.nl>Fifth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS-5) January 15-17, 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands ------------- Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ | SPECIAL EVENT | | | | On Tuesday January 14, the day before the start of IWCS-5, | | the first meeting will take place of the SIGSEM Working Group | | on Multimodal Meaning Representation (see www.sigsem.org). | | All IWCS-5 participants are invited to attend this meeting. | | More information about the meeting will soon be available on | | the SIGSEM and IWCS-5 websites. | ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Tilburg University will host the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), which will take place from 15-17 January 2003. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language, in language-based multimedia objects, or in multimodal messages. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects of semantic theories and theoretical issues in building natural language understanding systems. Papers are invited in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following: * construction and use of natural language semantic representations * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation * learning lexical semantics from corpora * meaning representation in multimodal interaction * the semantic web, ontologies and natural language semantics * meaning in multimedia objects * the computational semantics-pragmatics interface * modelling and using context for semantic interpretation * computational semantics of speech acts * logic and use of underspecified representations of meaning * monotonicity and shallow reasoning in interpretation * dynamic interpretation in text, speech and dialogue * inductive logic programming and computational semantics * semantic aspects of language generation * shallow processing and formal semantics -------------------------------- | INVITED SPEAKERS | | | | Pat Hayes | | Adam Kilgariff | | Michiel van Lambalgen | | Matthew Stone | -------------------------------- PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Patrick Blackburn Emiel Krahmer Johan Bos Alex Lascarides Harry Bunt (chair) Reinhard Muskens Nicoletta Calzolari Martha Palmer Robin Cooper Manfred Pinkal Kees van Deemter Steve Pulman Jan van Eijck James Pustejovsky Frank van Harmelen Allan Ramsay Pat Hayes Laurent Romary Jerry Hobbs Patrick Saint Dizier Daniel Kayser Mark Steedman Paul Mc Kevitt Enric Vallduvi Adam Kilgariff Bonnie Webber ORGANISING COMMITTEE Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Yann Girard Ielka van der Sluis Emiel Krahmer Elias Thijsse Roser Morante SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Submission of full papers - ----------------------- Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 14 pages by September 15, 2002. Files should be prepared with LaTeX and initial submissions should be in postscript format. (For accepted papers we will need the LaTeX source code to prepare the proceedings.) The page limit presupposes the standard 11 point Computer Modern font and default LaTeX formatting. All papers will be refereed by the programme committee. We aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book form after the workshop. Email your postscript file to: computational.semanticsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
nt-tech.com.au>M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture <http://www.media-culture.org.au>; Published by School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia 4072 CALL FOR PAPERS: 'SELF' Me? "I" am everywhere. Philosophers, social scientists, behavioural and medical scientists have been investigating the existence and significance of individual consciousness, self-perception, self-promotion and other notions of "the self" for centuries. The 'self' permeates contemporary culture. Through capitalist individualism and conservative politics 'self' must be considered first above the needs of the group - "looking after no. 1". In therapeutic, religious and consumerist discourses of self-improvement, self-help or self-actualisation, 'self' is obscured; an entity which needs to be sought and found, changed or accommodated, an entity which one needs to become "in touch with". Within these permutations "self" carries the assumption of its own existence, as either a stable, unchanging entity or as a contextually sensitive and dynamic identity. Either way, self is individuality - one's own interests. 'Self' is commonly a prefix which expresses an action done to one's self (self-hatred, self-discipline) or which describes an attribute of an entity (self-concerned, self-contained). It can also be a suffix, which carries a level of self-reflexivity (myself, yourself). The editors of M/C invite submissions of no more than 2000 words on the subject of "self", and welcome various interpretations of the term. Possible topics include, but should not be limited to "the first person era", first person media and Reality TV, 'factual' depictions of self in various media; notions of "true selves" within auto/biographical acts such as in writing, personal Webpages or documentary, the cultural celebration of self-awareness and autonomy, ideas relating to subjectivity and identity politics, social language behaviour such as im/politeness and its effects on 'self'; identity play in different media, the contextual variability and multiplicity of 'self', conflicting identities - for instance "immigrants against further immigration" groups. issue editors: Kate Douglas (jk.douglasMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue