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1. , CONFERENCE OF THE POETICS AND LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION
2. Don Walker, ACL-92 Student Session Call for Papers
3. William J. Rapaport, CONFERENCE ON COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION

 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE POETICS AND LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION
 Theme: LITERATURE AND THE ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE (WITH SPECIAL
 ATTENTION TO THE MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT.
 Gent University (Belgium), Wed 9 Sept 1992 - Fri 11 Sept 1992.
1.STATEMENT OF PALA'S AIMS.
Pala's principal aim is to encourage cooperation between scholars
and teachers interested in language and/or literary studies. The
interests of PALA members are wide, and this is reflected in papers
given at PALA conferences.
Interests of members include: stylistics, literary theory, the
teaching of language and literature, critical linguistics,
pragmatics, discourse analysis, textual understanding, rhetoric,
narratology, semiotic approaches to text and performance, socio-
linguistics, cultural studies, post-structuralist theory; in short,
any theme which has relevance to the study of language and
and literature and their role in society.
2. THE 1992 CONFERENCE THEME
To highlight the currently expanding field of discourse studies,
the 1992 conference will have as its core theme 'LITERATURE AND
THE ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE MULTI-
CULTURAL CONTEXT.
With this theme the organizers want to capture interests as wide
as the processes of writing and reading literature, the analysis
of dialogic text, the relationship between literary and non-
literary discourse, oral literary traditions, discourse theory,
literary communcation as social practice, etc.
Papers which deal with the writing and reading of literature in
the multilingual or multicultural context are especially welcome.
3. CALL FOR PAPERS
In keeping with the PALA tradition, papers will not be exclusively
restricted to the core theme, and anyone who is interested in giving
a paper, leading a workshop, presenting a poster session or organizing
some other kind of activity which PALA members will find of interest
is also invited to submit a proposal. This can be done by completing
the proposal form and mailing it to before 15 JANUARY 1992 to
PALA92ENGLLANG.RUG.AC.BE.
4. REGISTRATION & QUERIES
A booking form for registration will be sent out with the second
circular early in the new year, together with details about
accomodation & meals. The final date for registration will be
2 APRIL 1992.
If you would like any other information about any aspect of the
conference, write to one of us at SEMINARIE VOOR ENGELSE TAALKUNDE,
R.U.GENT, ROZIER 44, B-9000 GENT, BELGIUM or mail a message to
PALA92ENGLLANG.RUG.AC.BE (alias SLEMBROUENGLLANG.RUG.AC.BE).
 Jim O'Driscoll (tel: 32 - 91 - 64 37 90)
 Stef Slembrouck (tel: 32 - 91 - 64 37 89)
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 PALA 1992 CONFERENCE, GENT 1992, 9-11 SEPT. 1991.
 PROPOSAL FORM
 When completing this form, do not feel that you are irrevocably
 committing yourself to your provisional title or that your
 estimate of timing needs to be very accurate. We are only asking
 this and other information to help us with our first attempt
 at timetabling what we hope will be a conference with a variety
 of activities.
 Name: ...
 Address: ...
 E-mail address: ...
 Affilition: ...
 I would like to: - give a paper
 - lead a workshop
 - ...
 (tick, delete or fill in as appropriate)
 A provisional title for my presentation is: ...
 I estimate that my presentation will last, very roughly
 (max. 1 hour for papers, 2 hours for workshop): ...
 For my presentation I would like the use of: - an OHP
 - a cassette recorder
 - a video recorder
 - ...
 (tick, delete or add as appropriate)
 Please give some details of your proposal. If this is a paper, give a
 a very brief summary; if a workshop or something else, indicate
 what sort of thing you have in mind and the rationale behind it.
 ...
 Date: ...
 PLEASE RETURN BEFORE 15 JANUARY 1992 TO PALAENGLLANG.RUG.AC.BE
[** END OF MESSAGE **]

			CALL FOR PAPERS
			Student Session
			 at the
30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
		 28 June - 2 July 1992
		 University of Delaware
		 Newark, Delaware, USA
PURPOSE: This session provides a forum in which student members
can present work in progress and receive feedback from other members
of the computational linguistics community, particularly senior
researchers. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of
short paper presentations and discussion.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in
progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Topics
of interest are the same as for the main conference. All authors
must have ACL Student Membership at the time of the conference.
For membership information contact Don Walker at the address below.
Papers submitted to the main conference will not be considered for
the student session. Students may of course submit papers to both.
Note that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing
work in NO way influences the treatment of student-written papers
submitted to the main conference. Rather, the student session will
provide an entirely separate track emphasizing students' ``work in
progress'' rather than completed work.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit four copies of an
extended abstract up to 3 pages long (including title, authors,
references, etc). Submissions should be laid out in the conventional
double-column conference format, with 1 inch margins on all sides,
and a typeface no smaller than 10 pt. In addition, a SEPARATE
``topic area'' page should include the title, name(s) of the
author(s), complete addresses (including e-mail), and one or more
keywords identifying the topic area. Send to:
	Lenhart Schubert (ACL Student Session)
	University of Rochester
	Computer Science Department
	Rochester, NY, 14627-0226 USA
	schubertcs.rochester.edu
EMAIL SUBMISSION: As an experiment, authors are encouraged to submit
an additional copy of their paper via email. LaTeX, Postscript,
or ASCII formats are acceptable. Also, please note the SCHEDULE
information below. Email submissions should be directed to:
	traumcs.rochester.edu (David Traum (+1-716) 275-7230)
SCHEDULE: Submissions must be RECEIVED by 10 FEBRUARY 1992. Authors
submitting email versions must have email versions arrive by this date
and hardcopy versions postmarked by this date; authors not submitting
email versions must have the hardcopy arrive by this date. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by 20 MARCH 1992. Camera ready copies
of final papers must be received by 20 APRIL 1992.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Programs and registration forms will be
mailed in March to ACL members. Nonmembers interested in receiving
copies, dues statements, and other information about the conference
or concerning the ACL generally, should contact Don Walker (ACL),
Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ
07960-1910, USA; (+1-201)829-4312; walkerflash.bellcore.com.
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 SUNY Buffalo Center for Cognitive Science
 CONFERENCE ON COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION
 April 3-5, 1992
 Center for Tomorrow
 State University of New York at Buffalo
			 PROGRAM
Friday, April 3, 1992
Afternoon Session, 1-4:45 pm
PAUL SMOLENSKY, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado:
	"Connectionism, Compositionality, & The Explanation of Productivity"
TIM VAN GELDER, Department of Philosophy, Indiana University:
	"Distributed Representation--An Outline"
DAVID BANACH, Department of Philosophy, St. Anselm College"
	"Representing, Similarity, and the Storage of Information"
ANN ROBYNS, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
	"Primary and Mature Conceptual Structures--Evidence from Child Language"
Reception and Dinner, 5-7:30 pm
Evening Session, 7:30-10 pm
CHARLES FILLMORE, Department of Linguistics,
University of California at Berkeley:
	"Representing Grammatical Knowledge as a Repertory of Constructions"
Panel discussion
Saturday, April 4, 1992
Morning Session, 9-12:15 am
JOHN KOUNIOS and PHILLIPS HOLCOMB, Department of Psychology, Tufts University:
	"Inferring Semantic-Memory Structure from Behavioral and
 Electrophysiological Measures"
VINOD GOEL, Institute for Cognitive Science,
University of California at Berkeley"
	"Specifying and Classifying Representational Systems: A Critique and
 Proposal for Cognitive Science"
STEVEN HORST, Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University:
	"Notions of Representation and the Diverging Interests of Philosophy
 and Empirical Science"
JERRY A. FODOR, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University,
and the Graduate School, City University of New York:
	Title to Be Announced
Lunch, 12:15-1:15 pm.
Afternoon Session, 1:15-5:30 pm
BONNIE WEBBER, Department of Computer and Information Science,
University of Pennsylvania:
 Title to Be Announced
BARBARA L. SPEICHER, Communication Department, DePaul University:
	"Disentangling Conceptual and Linguistic Knowledge"
BARBARA ABBOT, Department of Linguistics,
and LARRY HAUSER, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University:
	"Natural Language and Thought"
Panel discussion
Sunday, April 5, 1992
Morning Session, 9-12:30 am
MICHAEL J. TARR, Department of Psychology, Yale University:
	"Behavioral and Computational Constraints in Human Shape Representation"
K. N. LEIBOVIC, Department of Biophysical Sciences, SUNY Buffalo:
	"Brain Mechanisms for Perceptual Representation"
WHITMAN RICHARDS, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
	"Is Perception for Real?"
Panel discussion
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Futher information may be obtained by writing to:
	The Center for Cognitive Science
	652 Baldy Hall
	State University of New York at Buffalo
	Buffalo, NY 14260
	dcpcs.buffalo.edu
Registration for the conference is $24, which includes lunch on Saturday.
Dinner Friday night is $14.
To register or make a dinner reservation, please send a check made out to
	SUNY Research Foundation/Representation Conference
and send it to the address above.
Funding for this conference is provided by:
The Marvin Farber Memorial Fund,
The Center for Cognitive Science,
The Department of Psychology, and
The Department of Computer Science.
Organizing Committee:
John T. Kearns, Department of Philosophy (dcpcs.buffalo.edu)
William J. Rapaport, Department of Computer Science (rapaportcs.buffalo.edu)
Erwin M. Segal, Department of Psychology (segalcs.buffalo.edu)
Leonard A. Talmy, Department of Linguistics and
 Director, Center for Cognitive Science
 (talmyacsu.buffalo.edu)