LINGUIST List 5.1141

Tue 18 Oct 1994

Calls: Linguistic databases, AI, Expert systems

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1. John Nerbonne, CFP Linguistic Databases
2. , EPIA'95 - Conference CFP
3. , EPIA'95 - Expert Systems Worksop CFP

 Call for Papers: Linguistic Databases
 23-24 March 1995
 University of Groningen
 Groningen, The Netherlands

 A database is simply a declarative representation of information
which is designed to make data entry and retrieval easy, but is not
optimized for other processing. Databases have long been standard
repositories in phonetic research, but they are finding increasing use
not only in phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics and
dialectology but also in areas of applied linguistics such as
lexicography and computer-assisted language learning. Normally, they
serve as a repositories for large amounts of data, but they are also
important for the organization they impose, which serves to ease
access for researchers and applications specialists.
 The purpose of a workshop specifically on this topic to provide a
forum for the exchange of information and views on the proper use of
databases within the various subfields of linguistics.
 We hope to include papers addressing the following questions:

 1. Databases vs. annotated corpora, pros and cons.
 2. Needs wrt acoustic data, string data, temporal data.
 Existing facilities.
 3. Developing (maximally) theory-neutral db schemas for annotation
 systems.
 4. Commercially available systems vs. public domain systems.
 What's available?
 5. Uses in grammar checking, replication of results.
 6. Needs of applications such as lexicography.
 7. Making use of CD-ROM technology.
 8. Existing professional expertise: Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), TEI.

Invited Speakers
 Jan Aarts, Prof. of English, Nijmegen, leader of TOSCA,
 Linguistic Database:
 "Annotation of Corpora: General Issues and the Nijmegen Experience"

 Natalie Granger, Prof. of English, Louvain (tentative)
 "Corpora and Computer-Assisted Language Learning"

 Mark Liberman, Prof. of Linguistics & Computer Science, Pennsylvania;
 Director, Ling. Data Consortium
 "The Linguistic Data Consortium" (tentative title)

Abstracts

We solicit papers of 20 min (plus 10 min discussion). Abstracts of not
more than 2 pp. (A4) should be marked "Attention: Ling-DBs" and
submitted by Dec 15 to:

 John Nerbonne, Alfa-Informatica
 Postbus 716
 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
 NL 9700 AS Groningen
 The Netherlands

Email submissions are likewise welcome. They must meet the same length
requirement, must be|either in plain ASCII or in postscript. Include
"Attention: Ling-DBs" in the subject line and send to
 nerbonnelet.rug.nl
Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise
welcome. Please be specific about time and hardware/software requirements.

Publication: We plan no unrefereed publication. Given sufficient
interest, we shall discuss publication at the workshop. Submitting an
abstract is NOT a promise to participate in publication.

Program Committee: Tjeerd de Graaf (Phonetics), Tette Hofstra
(Historical Ling.), John Nerbonne (Computational Ling., Program
Chair), and Herman Wekker (Descriptive Ling.).

Local Arangements: Duco Dokter d.a.dokterlet.rug.nl

 EPIA'95 - CALL FOR PAPERS

 SEVENTH PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE
 ON
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
 October 3-6, 1995
 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI)

The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal,
on October 3-6, 1995. As in previous issues ('89, '91, and
'93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international conference,
English being the official language. The scientific program
encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, demonstrations, and
paper presentations. Five well known researchers will present
invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of
Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and
foundational issues and applications as well. Parallel
workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and Neural
Networks, and Applications of A.I. to Robotics and Vision
Systems will run simultaneously (see below).

 INVITED LECTURERS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following researchers have already confirmed their
participation, as guest speakers:
 Marvin Minsky, MIT (USA)
 Manuela Veloso, CMU (USA)
 Luis Borges de Almeida, IST (Portugal)
 Rodney Brooks, MIT (USA)

 SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors must submit five (5) complete printed copies of their
papers to the "EPIA'95 submission address". Fax or electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Submissions must be printed
on A4 or 8 1/2"x11" paper using 12 point type. Each page must
have a maximum of 38 lines and an average of 75 characters
per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12
point). Double-sided printing is strongly encouraged. The
body of submitted papers must be at most 12 pages, including
title, abstract, figures, tables, and diagrams, but excluding
the title page and bibliography.

 ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should
send to epia95-abstractsinesc.pt a short (200 words)
electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing
process. The electronic abstract must be in plain ASCII text
(no LaTeX)) in the following format:
 TITLE: <title of the paper>
 FIRST AUTHOR: <last name, first name>
 EMAIL: <email of the first author>
 FIRST ADDRESS: <first author address>
 COAUTHORS: <their names, if any>
 KEYWORDS: <keywords separated by commas>
 ABSTRACT: <text of the abstract>
Authors are requested to select 1-3 appropriate keywords from
the list below. Authors are welcome to add additional
keywords descriptors as needed. Applications, agent-oriented
programming, automated reasoning, belief revision, case-based
reasoning, common sense reasoning, constraint satisfaction,
distributed AI, expert systems, genetic algorithms, knowledge
representation, logic programming, machine learning, natural
language understanding, nonmonotonic reasoning, planning,
qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, robotics, spatial
reasoning, theorem proving, theory of computation, tutoring
systems.

 REVIEW OF PAPERS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Submissions will be judged on significance, originality,
quality and clarity. Reviewing will be blind to the
identities of the authors. This requires that authors
exercise some care not to identify themselves in their
papers. Each copy of the paper must have a title page,
separated from the body of the paper, including the title of
the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a list of
content areas (see above) and any acknowledgments. The second
page should include the same title, a short abstract of less
than 200 words, and the exact same contents areas, but not
the names nor affiliations of the authors. This page may
include text of the paper. The references should include all
published literature relevant to the paper, including
previous works of the authors, but should not include
unpublished works of the authors. When referring to one's own
work, use the third person. For example, say "previously,
Peter [17] has shown that ...". Try to avoid including any
information in the body of the paper or references that would
identify the authors or their institutions. Such information
can be added to the final camera-ready version for
publication. Please do not staple the title page to the body
of the paper. Submitted papers must be unpublished.

 PUBLICATION
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (lecture
notes in A.I. series). Authors will be required to transfer
copyright of their paper to Springer-Verlag.

 ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the framework of the conference three workshops will be
organized: Applications of Expert Systems, Fuzzy Logic and
Neural Networks in Engineering, and Applications of
Artificial Intelligence to Robotics and Vision Systems. Real
world applications, running systems, and demos are welcome.

 CONFERENCE & PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Carlos Pinto-Ferreira Nuno Mamede
Instituto Superior Tecnico Instituto Superior Tecnico
ISR, Av. Rovisco Pais INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa, Portugal 1000 Lisboa, Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 8475105 Voice: +351 (1) 310-0234
Fax: +351 (1) 3523014 Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: cpfkappa.ist.utl.pt Email: njminesc.pt

 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Antonio Porto (Portugal) Lauiri Carlson (Finland)
Benjamin Kuipers (USA) Luc Steels (Belgium)
Bernhard Nebel (Germany) Luigia Aiello (Italy)
David Makinson (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal)
Erik Sandewall (Sweden) Luis Monteiro (Portugal)
Ernesto Costa (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA)
Helder Coelho (Portugal) Maria Cravo (Portugal)
Joao Martins (Portugal) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal)
John Self (UK) Yoav Shoham (USA)
Jose Carmo (Portugal) Yves Kodratoff (France)

 DEADLINES
 ~~~~~~~~~
 Papers Submission: ................. March 20, 1995
 Notification of acceptance: ........ May 15, 1995
 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... June 12, 1995

 SUBMISSION & INQUIRIES ADDRESS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EPIA95
INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa, Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325
Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: epia95inesc.pt

 SUPPORTERS
 ~~~~~~~~~~
Banco Nacional Ultramarino Governo Regional da Madeira
Instituto Superior Tecnico INESC
CITMA IBM
TAPair Portugal

 PLANNING TO ATTEND
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the
conference or attend a workshop are asked to complete and
return the following form (by fax or email) to the inquiries
address standing their intention. It will help the conference
organizers to estimate the facilities needed for the
conference and will enable all interested people to receive
updated information.

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 EPIA'95 WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS WORKSHOP
 --------------------------------------------

 Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
 Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
 October 3-6, 1995

 (Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for AI)


 INTRODUCTION
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Seventh Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(EPIA'95) will be held at Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal,
between October 3-6, 1995. As in previous cases ('89, '91,
and '93), EPIA'95 will be run as an international
conference, English being the official language. The
scientific program includes tutorials, invited lectures,
demonstrations, and paper presentations. The Conference will
include three parallel workshops on Expert Systems, Fuzzy
Logic and Neural Networks, and Applications of A.I. to
Robotics and Vision Systems. These workshops will run
simultaneously (see below) and consist of invited talks,
panels, paper presentations and poster sessions.
Applications of Expert Systems Workshop may last for either
1, 2 or 3 days, depending on the quantity and quality of
submissions.

 APPLICATIONS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS WORKSHOP
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Expert Systems are being intensively used in industry,
finance, and other areas, in which systems for supporting
decisions or implementing control strategies are crucial for
improving performance.
This workshop is intended to promote (i) the presentation of
systems which are applications in those areas, (ii) the
discussion of relevant results from ongoing research or user
experience, and (iii) the critical analysis of tools,
techniques, or systems. Expert System applications will be
preferred. Second generation Expert Systems as well as
systems integrating products of other areas as multimedia,
databases or communications are also welcome.
All active members of Expert Systems community as well as
application developers working in related areas are invited
to participate.

 EXHIBITIONS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
In order to illustrate and to support theoretical
presentations the organization will provide adequate
conditions (space and facilities) for exhibitions regarding
the three workshops mentioned. These exhibitions can include
software running systems (several platforms are available),
video presentations (PAL-G VHS system), robotics systems
(such as robotics insects, and autonomous robots), and
posters. On the one hand, this space will allow the
presentation of results and real-world applications of the
research developed by our community and, on the other it
will serve as a source of motivation to students and young
researchers.

 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authors are asked to submit five (5) copies of their papers
to the submissions address by May 2, 95. Notification of
acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first (or
designated) author on June 5, 95, and camera ready copies
for inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be due on
July 3, 95. Each copy of submitted papers should include a
separate title page giving the names, addresses, phone
numbers and email addresses (where available) of all
authors, and a list of keywords identifying the subject area
of the paper. Papers should be a maximum of 16 pages and
printed on A4 paper in 12 point type with a maximum of 38
lines per page and 75 characters per line ( corresponding to
LaTeX article style, 12 pt). Double sided submissions are
preferred. Electronic or faxed submissions will not be
accepted. Further inquiries should be addressed to the
inquiries address.

 ATTENDANCE
 ~~~~~~~~~~
Each workshop will be limited to at most fifty people. In
addition to presenters of papers and posters, there will be
space for a limited number of other participants chosen on
the basis of a one- to two-page research summary which
should include a list of relevant publications, along with
an electronic mail address if possible. A set of working
notes will be available prior to the commencement of the
workshops. Registration information will be available in
June 1995. Please write for registration information to the
inquiries address.

 DEADLINES
 ~~~~~~~~~
 Papers submission: ................. May 2, 1995
 Notification of acceptance: ........ June 5, 1995
 Camera Ready Copies Due: ........... July 3, 1995

 PROGRAM-CHAIR
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Joaquim Filipe (EST, Portugal)

 ORGANIZING-CHAIR
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Luis Antunes (ISEG/INESC, Portugal)


 SUBMISSION AND INQUIRIES ADDRESS
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
EPIA'95
Applications of Expert Systems Workshop
INESC, Apartado 13069
1000 Lisboa Portugal
Voice: +351 (1) 310-0325
Fax: +351 (1) 525843
Email: epia95-AESWorkshopinesc.pt

 PLANNING TO ATTEND
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People planning to submit a paper or/and to attend the
workshop are asked to complete and return the following form
(by fax or email) to the inquiries address standing their
intention. It will help the workshop organizer to estimate
the facilities needed and will enable all interested people
to receive updated information.

+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| REGISTRATION OF INTEREST |
| (Applications of Expert Systems Workshop) |
| |
| Title . . . . . Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Address1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Address2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fax . . . . . . . . . . |
| Email address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I intend to submit a paper (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I intend to participate only (yes/no). . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| I will travel with ... guests |
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