LINGUIST List 5.563

Thu 19 May 1994

Calls: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE, AI'94

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1. Richard Epstein, CFP (AI'94) POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION
2. Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994, CFP (AI'94) POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION

************CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE******************
*****************************CONFERENCE*********************************
 November 11-13, 1994
 University of California, San Diego
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JUNE 10, 1994
We will be hosting a conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and
Language here at UCSD November 11-13, 1994. The Organizing Committee
welcomes abstracts for papers on conceptual structure, discourse,
metaphor, lexical semantics, pragmatics, theoretical foundations,
grammaticalization, constructions, psycholinguistics, and
acquisition.
Abstract submissions should include:
Seven (7) copies of a ONE-page abstract of the paper,
in 12 point font, with a title. Longer abstracts will NOT
be accepted.
Specify, in the upper right hand corner of the abstract, one or two
primary topics (from the list in the paragraph above). If none
of the topics applies, please specify "other", and provide
a different suggested category.
OMIT name and affiliation.
A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper and the name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, address and e-mail address.
Only original, unpublished research will be accepted.
No more than one abstract as single author and one abstract as co-author may
be submitted.
A selection of the papers from the conference will be published by CSLI.
PREREGISTRATION: Please send name, e-mail address, and affiliation on
a 3" by 5" card, with a check (payable to CSDL) postmarked no
later than Sept 30, 1994:
$10 student (walk-in registration $15)
$20 non-student (walk-in registration $30)
Send abstracts and/or preregistration to:
 CSDL
 Department of Linguistics 0108
 9500 Gilman Drive
 UCSD
 La Jolla, CA 92093
E-mail correspondence: csdlbend.ucsd.edu
Steering Committee:
 Gilles Fauconnier
 Adele Goldberg
 Ron Langacker

 Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'94)
 "Sowing the Seeds for the Future"
 POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION
 A unique opportunity for post-graduate students in AI
 to discuss their research with eminent scientists.
 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 Conference dates: 21 - 25 November 1994
 Proudly sponsored by
 Microsoft Institute (principal sponsor), IBM,
 Sun Microsystems, Australian Computer Society, and Department of
 Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science (UNE).
 Hosted by
 Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing Science
 The University of New England
 Armidale, N.S.W., 2351
 AUSTRALIA
The Conference
**************
AI'94 is the Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. AI'94 is conducted under the auspices of the Australian
Computer Society's National Committee for Artificial Intelligence and
Expert Systems. The theme of the conference is "Sowing the Seeds for the
Future". AI'94 will be hosted by The Department of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computing Science at The University of New England, between Monday 21st
November and Friday 25th November 1994.
The Post-Graduate Students Session
***********************************
A pre-conference Post-Graduate Students Session is scheduled on the 22nd
November 1994. This session is specifically organised for all the
Post-Graduate Research Students in Australian Universities, who are doing
research in Artificial Intelligence.
The AI'94 Organising Committee has secured three world renowned scientists
in Artificial Intelligence, as keynote speakers. We have also arranged for
them to participate on panel sessions in the Post-Graduate Students
Session. All participating students will get the opportunity to discuss
various aspects of their research and find out the latest developments in
Artificial Intelligence, in an informal atmosphere with these three
keynote speakers. This will provide a unique opportunity for research
students to discuss their work with internationally renowned scientists.
The Keynote Speakers
********************
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbruecken, Germany.
Professor Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany
where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Since 1975 he has been working
in the field as a principal investigator in various language projects,
including HAM-ANS, WISBER, SC, XTRA, VITRA and WIP. He has published more
than 100 technical papers on natural language processing. His current
research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural
language scene description, intelligent help systems, and deductive plan
recognition and generation. Prof. Wahlster is on the editorial boards of
various international journals and book series such as Artificial
Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, User Modeling and
User-adapted Interaction, Symbolic Computation and the MIT-ACL series. He
is a AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most
prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany, for his research on
cooperative user interfaces. Prof. Wahlster served as the Conference Chair
for IJCAI-93 in Chambery and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII
from 1991 -1993.
Professor Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Professor Sycara is a Research Scientist in the School of Computer Science
at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also Director of the Enterprise
Integration Laboratory. She is directing and conducting research aimed at
developing decision support systems for integrating organisational decision
making. Her doctoral research contributed to the definition of the
case-based reasoning paradigm. She has been Principal Investigator of
various government and industry funded research (e.g. distributed
scheduling, concurrent engineering, enterprise integration, case-based
engineering design, crisis action planning). Prof. Sycara is the author of
a book on manufacturing and over 70 technical papers dealing with
negotiation, distributed problem solving, case-based reasoning,
integration of case-based reasoning with other problem solving methods,
and constraint-based reasoning. She is the Area Editor for AI and
Management Science for the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation" and on
the editorial board of "AI in Engineering" and "Concurrent Engineering:
Research and Applications". She is a member of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the
Institute for Management Science (TIMS).
Professor John F. Sowa, State University of New York, USA.
Professor Sowa is the author of the book Conceptual Structures, which in
the past ten years has led to a world-wide movement of people who are
using, implementing, and extending the theory of conceptual graphs. He had
been working at IBM for 30 years on various aspects of computer systems
design and development, especially artificial intelligence and
computational linguistics. Now, he is teaching, writing, and working on
standards for conceptual schemas with the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) and the International Standards Organization (ISO).
Invitation to Participate
*************************
Only Post-Graduate students attending the conference are invited to this
special session. If you would like to participate in this session, please
email an one-page abstract which:
 * describes your research in Artificial Intelligence and
 * lists the issues you would like to raise
to the following electronic mail address, not later than 1st October 1994:
 debenhamsocs.uts.edu.au
All abstracts received will be forwarded to those who respond.
Correspondence
**************
All enquires regarding Post-Graduate Student Session (AI'94) should be
address to:
 Professor John Debenham
 School of Computing Sciences
 University of Technology
 Sydney, N.S.W., 2007
 AUSTRALIA
 E-mail: debenhamsocs.uts.edu.au
 Fax: +61-2-330 1807