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Message 1: AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium: Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and DesignDate: 19-Sep-2004From: Shlomo Argamon <argamon iit.edu>Subject: AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium: Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2004 Fall Symposium: Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design Date: 22-Oct-2004 - 24-Oct-2004 Location: Washington, DC, United States of America Contact: Shlomo Argamon Contact Email: argamon iit.edu
Meeting URL: http://music.ucsd.edu/~sdubnov/style2004.htm ; Linguistic Sub-Fields(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Forensic Linguistics Meeting Description: In recent years a growing number of researchers working in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer graphics, computer music, and multimedia have begun to explicitly address issues of 'style' or connotative semantics in their work. While it is still difficult to precisely characterize these concepts satisfactorily (we know it when we see it), common denominators are: an emphasis on manner rather than topic, a focus on affective aspects of expression and understanding, and a search for 'dense' representations of meaning in which elements simultaneously symbolize multiple layers of meaning at once. Recent work has included forensic authorship attribution, information retrieval based on document genre or affect, composition of new music in a given composer's style, rendering animation in different motion styles, analyzing architectural styles for function and affect, and much more. Work in all media shares the complex problem of formalizing a notion of style, and developing a modeling language that supports the representation of differing styles. The goal of this symposium is to bring style researchers together to seek out common frameworks for discussion. It will provide a unique meeting ground for researchers and practitioners in all media that share the problem of formalizing a notion of style, generating discourse between diverse forms and approaches. We thus hope to move towards better understanding style in all its manifestations, with an eye to developing computational models and tools for dealing with it. To facilitate interaction among participants, the symposium will include, in addition to a number of ''traditional'' research paper presentations: (a) invited talks by leading figures in style research, (b) brief tutorials on work in individual media, and (c) panel discussions discussing various practical issues in research on style. INVITED SPEAKERS: Sheldon Brown, UCSD (New Media Art) Harold Cohen, Artist (Visual Arts) Eduard Hovy, USC ISI (Natural Language) Christopher Raphael, Indiana U. (Computer Music) George Stiny, MIT (Architecture) TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Cognitive Linguistics: Joseph Goguen, UCSD Computer Music: Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon Computers and Architecture: Terry Knight, MIT REGISTRATION INFORMATION: To register, please download the registration brochure at: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/2004/fssregistration-04.pdf Registration is also available on-line: http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fssregform.html Reduced hotel rates are available until September 27 at: http://crystalcity.hyatt.com/groupbooking/arti Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue |