LINGUIST List 6.1315

Tue Sep 26 1995

Confs: Functional grammar, AAAI Fall Symp

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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1. Kees Hengeveld, Conference on Functional Grammar
2. Rohini Srihari, AAAI Fall Symp

 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
 CORDOBA (SPAIN), SEPTEMBER 23-27, 1996
 (first announcement/call for papers)



The 7th International Conference on Functional Grammar will be
held in the last week of September 1996 and will be hosted by the
University of Cordoba, Spain. Linguists working within the
framework of the theory of Functional Grammar as set out in Dik
(1989) or interested in comparing Functional Grammar with other
frameworks are invited to participate in this conference.

In view of the sudden and much regretted death of Leocadio Martin
Mingorance, president of the local organizing committee, an
international program committee consisting of Luis Costa
Palacios, Chantal Perez Hernandez, and Jesus Sanchez Garcia
(Cordoba), Machtelt Bolkestein and Kees Hengeveld (Amsterdam) has
been formed.

Those intending to present a paper are invited to send an
abstract (one page A4 maximally), to the international program
committee at the address below by January 15th, 1996. There is
no limitation as to topic, but especially welcomed are papers on
Natural Language Processing, on Lexicology and Lexicography, and on
Pragmatics and Discourse in Functional Grammar. The time allotted
to papers is 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes discussion time.
Submission by e-mail would be preferred.

In addition to papers in the usual format, there will be poster
sessions for those who wish to display work for discussion with
colleagues in an informal way.

Those interested in receiving the second circular are requested
to return the registration form by January 15th, 1996.

Further information concerning the conference can be obtained
from the international program committee, c/o Kees Hengeveld,
Department of Spanish, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134,
NL-1012 VB Amsterdam, E-mail: kees.hengeveldlet.uva.nl, or from
the local organizers, c/o Ms. Chantal Perez Hernandez,
Universidad de Cordoba, Departamento de Filologia Francesa e
Inglesa, Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, 3. E-14071 Cordoba. E-mail:
ff1pehemlucano.uco.es



_________________________________________________________________
 REGISTRATION FORM
Name ..................................................
Affiliation ..................................................
Address ..................................................
 ..................................................
 ..................................................
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Telephone ..................................................
Fax ..................................................
E-mail ..................................................
I intend to submit a paper (yes/no)
I intend to participate in a poster session (yes/no)
_________________________________________________________________
Return before January 15th, 1996 to: Kees Hengeveld, Department
of Spanish, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, NL-1012 VB
Amsterdam, E-mail: kees.hengeveldlet.uva.nl

 Schedule

 AAAI 1995 Fall Symposium Series
 Computational Models for Integrating Language and Vision

 Nov 10-12, MIT, Cambridge, MA


Note: Registration closes on Oct 15, 1995.
For registration information, see
 http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/1995/fssregistration-95.html.
For more information on this symposium, see
 http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/Piction/FSS95/CFP.html.



Friday, Nov 10
______________



9:00--10:30 Opening Session: Methods and Issues
 Welcome
 Survey of Topic -- Rohini Srihari, CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo
 Survey, Part 2 -- To be announced


10:30--11:00 Break

11:00--12:30 Paper Session: Event Perception/Description
 Session Chair: Jeff Siskind

 The Association of Situation Graphs with Temporal
 Variations in Image Sequences
 --- H.H. Nagel, H. Kollnig, M. Haag, H. Damm
 Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany

 From Visual Input to Verbal Output in the Visual Translator
 --- Gerd Herzog, Univ of Saarbrucken, Germany

 Visual Grounding of Route Descriptions in Dynamic
 Environments
 --- Wofgang Maass, Jorg Baus, Joachim Paul
 Univ of Saarbrucken, Germany

12:30--2:00 Lunch

2:00--3:30 Paper Session: Gesture Understanding
 Session Chair:

 Causal Analysis for Visual Gesture Understanding
 --- Matthew Brand and Irfan Essa, MIT

 Intuitive Graphic Representation of Mental Images in a
 Virtual Environment through Natural Language
 --- Yuri Tijerino, Shinji Abe, Fumio Kishino
 ATR Media Lab, Japan

 Discussion (Moderator: previous 2 session chairs)


3:30--4:00 Break

4:00--5:30 Session: Knowledge Representation for Language, Vision
 Session Chair: Candace Sidner

 Naming Observed Objects
 --- Anthony Maida, Steve Giambrone, Zhou Heng
 Univ of Southwestern Louisiana

 Integrating Speech and Selective Visual Perception Using a
 Semantic Network
 --- R. Moratz, H-J. Eikmeyer, B. Hildebrandt, F. Kummert,
 G. Rickheit, G. Sagerer, Univ of Bielfeld, Germany

 Discussion (Moderator: Candace Sidner)

6:00--7:00 Reception


Saturday, Nov 11
________________

9:00--10:30 Session: Spatial Reasoning
 Session Chair: Annette Herskovits

 Processing Spatial Relations in Object Localization Tasks
 --- Klaus-Peter Gapp, Univ of Saarbrucken

 A Unified Spatial Model for Vision and Language
 --- Janice Glasgow, Queen's University

 Deducing Visual Relationships from Attentional
 Representations --- Sourabh A. Niyogi, MIT

10:30--11:00 Break

11:00--12:30 Invited Talk: Joe Mundy, GE Corporate Research Division
 Image Observation Events: A Link to Linguistic Context

12:30--2:00 Lunch
2:00--3:30 Session: Image/Diagram Understanding
 Session Chair: Gordon Novak

 Understanding Illustrations of Physical Laws by
 Integrating Differences in Visual and Textual Representations
 --- R. Ferguson and K. Forbus, Northwestern University

 Linguistic Context in Image Understanding
 --- Rohini K. Srihari, CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo

 Discussion (Moderator: )

3:30--4:00 Break


4:00--5:30 Panel: Hard problems, where to focus research, impact of
 technology
 Panel: To be announced
 Moderator:

7:30--9:00 Public Forum (10 min overview of each symposium)
 Speaker: Ken Forbus

Sunday, Nov 12

9:00--10:30 Session: Image/Video Indexing
 Session Chair:

 Text, Speech and Vision for Video Segmentation:
 The Informedia (TM) Project
 --- A. Hauptmann and M. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

 Scripts in Machine Understanding of Image Sequences
 --- Claudio Pinhanez and Aaron Bobick, MIT

 Redundant Processing as a Solution to the Mismatch
 between Natural Language and Vision
 --- Neil Rowe, Naval Postgraduate School

10:30--11:00 Break

11:00--12:30 Wrapup and Discussion
 Summary of issues --
 Final discussion (Moderator: Rohini Srihari)