LINGUIST List 5.1415

Thu 08 Dec 1994

Confs: Sociolinguistics Symposium, Conf. Listing, ICCS-95

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1. ADAM JAWORSKI, Sociolinguistics Symposium 11
2. Peter White, Conference Listing, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
3. "iccs-95sf.ehu.es", ICCS-95

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

SOCIOLINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM 11
CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION RESEARCH
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, CARDIFF

SEPTEMBER 5-7, 1996

The first circular inviting papers will be mailed in early 1995 and will
include details about themes and plenary speakers.

For further information and to be included in our mailing list, contact

Sociolinguistics Symposium 11
Centre for Language and Communication Research
University of Wales, Cardiff
P.O. Box 94
Cardiff CF1 3XB
UK

Telephone: (+ 44) 01222 874243
Fax: (+ 44) 01222 874242
E-MAIL: SS11CARDIFF.AC.UK

The National Language and Literacy Institute of Australia Ltd

Language and Technology Centre (LATTICE)

Centre for Language Teaching and Research (CLTR)

The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

DECEMBER CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: LINGUISTICS AND RELATED TOPICS

This conference schedule, listing over 150 conferences world-wide, is now
Available at the gopher site outlined below.

At the command line, type

gopher gopher.cltr.uq.oz.au

Go to the following directories:

FTP archive
 The Publically Accessible Archives
 NLLIA
 Conferences

If there are problems, please contact

Peter White
peterwlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au

Xabier Arrazola
Dept. of Logic
Univ. of the Basque Country
Iccs-95sf.ehu.es

 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE
 ICCS-95

ILCLI. Villa Asuncion
Apdo. 220.
20080 Donostia - San Sebastian. Spain.
Tf.: 34- (9)43- 32 09 40
Fax: 34- (9)43- 29 36 77
E-mail: ICCS-95sf.ehu.es

 Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science
 Donostia - San Sebastian, May 3-6, 1995

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

The Colloquium is organized by the Dept. of Logic and Philosophy of Science
and the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI)
of the University of the Basque Country. It will take place in the Faculty
of Philosophy of the University of the Basque Country at DONOSTIA-SAN
SEBASTIAN (address: Campus de Ibaeta, Avenida de Tolosa, s.n.).

MAIN TOPICS:
1. Social Action and Cooperation.
2. Cognitive Approaches in Discourse Processing:
 Grammatical and Semantical Aspects.
3. Models of Information in Communication Systems.
4. Cognitive Simulation: Scope and Limits.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
The following persons have accepted so far to deliver a lecture:

J. Barwise (Bloomington): Local Logics and the Flow of Information
H. Clark (Stanford): On Carrying out Joint Activities.
B. Chaib Draa (Quebec): Communication Between Computational Agents.
J.E. Fenstad (Oslo): Formal Semantics, Geometry and Mind.
J.Y. Halpern (IBM, San Jose): Reasoning About Knowledge.
R.M. Kempson (London): Language Understanding as Labelled Natural Deduction
G. Lakoff (Berkeley): The Metaphor System for Events and Causes in English.
J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastian): Doing Together: Structures for Social Action
F.J. Pelletier (Edmonton): Psychologism, Intuitionism and Nonmonotonic
 Reasoning.
M.E. Pollack (Pittsburgh): How Commitment Leads to Coordination: the Effect of
 Individual Agent Reasoning Strategies on Multi-Agent Interaction.
Z.W. Pylyshyn (Rutgers): Studies in the Architecture of Mind: a Central Theme
 in Cognitive Science Research.
F. Recanati (Paris): Domains of Discourse.
J.S. Rosenschein (Jerusalem): The Role of Representation in Interaction:
 Discovering Focal Points Among Alternative Solutions.
V. Sanchez de Zavala (San Sebastan): Aims and Winds in Pragmatic Theories.
C.L. Sidner (Cambridge, MA): Creating Collaborative Conversational Agents
 for Computer Interface.
S. Silvers (Clemson): Informational Semantics and Epistemic Arrogance?
R. Tuomela (Helsinki): Collective Goals and Cooperation.

There will be several panel discussions and tutorials on specific subjects.

PAPERS:

Contributed papers (25-30 minutes) are invited from all areas of
Cognitive Science. Authors wishing to submit a paper should
send four (4) hardcopies of an extended abstract of 5-6 pages written in
English to Dr. J. EZQUERRO (address below) by January 17th, 1995. A
cover page should be added to the abstract including title,
all authors names and affiliations, corresponding authors address,
Fax number and email address. To facilitate blind review by two or more
referees all indications of authorship should appear on this detachable
cover page only. Papers will be evaluated by the Program Committee on the
basis of originality, clarity, correctness and significance of results.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present them at the Colloquium.

Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 11, 1995.

Best paper award:

A prize will be awarded to the author(s) of the best contributed paper
as judged by a committee drawn from the Program Committee. Submissions
of complete papers (25 pages maximum, 4 hardcopies) of previously accepted
abstracts, with indication of salient keywords, should be sent
to the Organizing Committee by April 6, 1995.

Further information may be obtained by writing to:

Dr. J. Ezquerro
ICCS- 95, Program Committee
ILCLI
Villa Asuncion. Apdo. 220
20080 San Sebastian, Spain.
FAX: 34 43 293677
E. mail: ICCS-95sf.ehu.es

Dr. K. Korta
ICCS-95, Organizing Committee
ILCLI
Villa Asuncion. Apdo. 220
20080 San Sebastian, Spain.
FAX: 34 43 293677
E. mail: ICCS-95sf.ehu.es

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
J. Barwise (Bloomington), J. Ezquerro (Secretary), J.E. Fenstad (Oslo),
R.M. Kempson (London), E. Klein (Edinburgh), K. Korta (San Sebastian),
A. Lopez (Valencia), F. Migura (Vitoria), F.J. Pelletier (Edmonton),
V. Sanchez de Zavala (San Sebasian), C.LSidner (Cambridge, MA),
R. Tuomela (Helsinki), J. Tynan (Vitoria).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
X. Arrazola (Assistant secretary), M. Aurnague (Toulouse), B. Bara (Torino),
S. Garrod (Glasgow), L. Gonzalez (Madrid), K. Korta (Secretary),
J.M. Larrazabal (San Sebastian), C. Martinez (Santiago)
S. Rementeria (Zamudio).