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violet.berkeley.edu>ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS SEVENTH ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE Program in Indo-European Studies, University of California, Los Angeles The Seventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference will be held on 26-27 May 1995 at the UCLA campus. As in the past, we invite papers on any aspect of Indo-European Studies: linguistics, archaeology, comparative mythology and culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, the relation of Indo-European to other language groups, the interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome. Abstracts should be approximately two typewritten pages (double-spaced) and must be received by 10 March 1995. A period of twenty minutes will be allotted for each paper, followed by a ten-minute discussion period. Through the generosity of its donors, the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies (FAIES) will offer two prizes for the best papers by a current student or recent Ph.D. (received 1990 or later): one prize for a paper in linguistics, and one for a paper in either archaeology or mythology. Please indicate your current status and year of Ph.D. if you qualify. No previous winners please. Address all abstracts and inquiries to: IE Conference Committee Classics Department 7349 Bunche Hall, UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90024-1475 e-mail: iep0rmrMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
rullet.LeidenUniv.nl>FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS 28th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA LEIDEN, 31 AUGUST, 1-2 SEPTEMBER, 1995 The University of Leiden has the pleasure of inviting the members of the Societas Linguistica Europaea to the 28th Annual Meeting, to be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from Thursday 31 August to Saturday 2 September 1995. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Leiden. The general theme of the conference is: Descriptive and theoretical perspectives on comparative linguistics 1. Submission of abstracts and programme Members are invited to submit abstracts for 30 minute papers, including 10 minutes of discussion. Papers can be presented in separate sections, workshops, or round tables. Abstracts which are intended for section presentation will be refereed by a selection committee; abstracts intended for workshops or round tables will be assessed by workshop organizers or round table conveners. Proposals for workshops or round tables are eagerly invited by the organizing committee; they should adhere to the general theme of the conference as much as possible. Abstracts submitted should not exceed one page, and should be in at least 12-point type with one- inch margins all round. Since abstracts are to be reproduced in the meeting handbook, they should be printed in clear type. If using a typewriter, make sure to use a new ribbon. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 January 1995. Abstracts should be sent to: SLE 1995 Selection Committee Department of English University of Leiden P.O Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands The programme will include four keynote addresses, to be given by Erica Garcia (Leiden), Pieter Muysken (Amsterdam), Johanna Nichols (UCLA), and Ianthi Tsimpli & Neil Smith (UCL). 2. Conference fee For regular SLE members, the conference fee is Dfl. 125, which includes the conference folder, the meeting handbook, refreshments, three lunches, and a buffet reception. For students and research assistants, the fee will be Dfl. 75. Non-members wishing to attend the conference will be charged an additional Dfl. 50. Payment will only be accepted in Dutch currency. The conference fee should be paid into postal giro account 5855626, Department of English, University of Leiden, mentioning SLE 1995. If payment by cheque is preferred, cheques should be made payable to "Department of English, University of Leiden", mentioning SLE 1995. Please note that payment by cheque involves bank transfer costs, which currently amount to Dfl. 20. If this method of payment is preferred, Dfl. 20 should be added to the conference fee. Payment should be made simultaneously with the return of the pre-registration form. Payment of the conference fee in August 1995 involves an additional cost of Dfl. 25. Colleagues from Eastern European countries in need of financial assistance are requested to contact the organizing committee as soon as possible, in view of the limited funds available for financial support. 3. Preliminary registration and accommodation All participants should fill in the enclosed preliminary registration form and return it by 31 January 1995. Hotel accommodation can be arranged in two ways: either by directly contacting the hotel selected from the enclosed list of hotels, or by returning the enclosed card to the NRC reservations centre at Leidschendam, who will attempt to find accommodation, at no extra charge. The organization committee will not be in a position to assist with hotel accommodation. The hotel situation in Leiden is extremely tight, so members are urgently advised to make early reservations. A second circular, with the provisional programme and further particulars, will be sent out by 31 March 1995. Organizing committee of the 1995 SLE Annual Meeting Frits Beukema, Peter Lange, Johan Rooryck, Rieks Smeets, Wim van der Wurff Postal and E-mail addresses SLE Department of English P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands E-mail: sleMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
lrc.irit.fr>SECOND CALL (<< SECOND CALL <<< SECOND CALL <<< SECOND CALL <<< SECOND CALL 5th Toulouse International Workshop TIME, SPACE and MOVEMENT ----- Meaning and Knowledge in the Sensible World Organized by the ``Langue, Raisonnement, Calcul'' Group IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse ERSS, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail CNRS URA 1399, URA 1033 Chateau de Bonas in Gascony, France 23-27 June, 1995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This workshop will be the fifth one in a series which began in 1989. Like previous editions, it aims at gathering researchers from a variety of fields around the themes of the semantics of Time, Space and Movement, in a castle in the middle of the beautiful landscape of Gascony. Unlike previous ones, though, next year's workshop will not gather only invited researchers, but will be open to participants submitting a contribution. Wishing to preserve the friendly and cheerful atmosphere that characterized the series, we will limit the number of participants to 50, and will achieve a balance between invited talks and submitted contributions. MOTIVATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ When natural language utterances are about sensible world, the computation of the spatial and spatio-temporal reference plays a major part in the construction of their formal representation. If the understanding of a discourse is the ability to infer adequate answers to questions about its informational content, the ability to deduce properties of the discourse objects (like their localisation, their structure or their shape) from the discourse representation, allows the cognitive validation of these representations. The most recent works in discourse theory (DRT, SDRT) clearly show the necessity to take into account, in addition to linguistic and pragmatic information, common knowledge about the universe of discourse. In its whole generality, the formal representation of this component of the meaning can very well be hopeless. We propose to focus the attention on a specific category of discourses, namely discourses which refer to the sensible world. In this case, common knowledge reflects the structure and the properties of mental representations of space, movement and time, these representations being available not only through the analysis of linguistic expressions but also through the analysis of different forms of reasoning and decision-taking associated with perception. TOPICS OF INTEREST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We propose to discuss the possible contributions of spatial and spatio-temporal knowledge representation and reasoning to discourse interpretation; as well as the possible contributions of the analysis of time, space and movement in language to the comprehension of the organization of the perceived objects, and to the identification of their cognitively relevant properties. Contributions are invited on substantial and original research on various aspects of time, space and movement, including, but not limited to, the following. A. Semantics of time, space and movement in natural language - Lexical semantics : from linguistic and conceptual description to formalisation - From lexicon to sentence and discourse: role of the spatial and spatio-temporal (S & ST) common-sense knowledge in discourse interpretation - Logics and deductive mechanisms: * for the computation of the S & ST reference * for the cognitive validation of discourse representations B. Knowledge representation and S & ST reasoning - Ontology of S & ST entities : philosophical analysis and formalisation - Mental representations of space, time and movement - Mathematics of the sensible world - Naive physics, qualitative S & ST reasoning - Logics and visual reasoning - Contributions to discourse representation C. Relations between language and perception - Imaginal and/or propositional structures of mental representations - From language to visual perception: from propositional to numerical structures (image synthesis) - From visual perception to language: from numerical to propositional structures (image interpretation) - Mathematical and logical problems of hybrid reasoning INVITED SPEAKERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nicholas Asher, Linguistics and Philosophy, Austin Patrick Blackburn, Logic and Computational Linguistics, Saarbruecken Mimo Caenepeel*, Linguistics, Edinburgh Anthony Cohn, Artificial Intelligence, Leeds John Etchemendy, Philosophy, Stanford Luis Farinas del Cerro, Logics and Computer Science, Toulouse Christian Freksa*, Cognitive Science, Hamburg Christopher Habel*, Cognitive Science, Hamburg Patrick Hayes*, Artificial Intelligence, Urbana Gerd Herzog, Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken Hans Kamp*, Linguistics and Philosophy, Stuttgart Manfred Krifka, Linguistics, Austin Carlota Smith, Linguistics, Austin Barbara Tversky*, Psychology, Stanford Claude Vandeloise, Linguistics, Baton-Rouge Achille Varzi, Philosophy, Trento Henk Verkuyl, Linguistics, Utrecht Co Vet, Linguistics, Groningen (*) to be confirmed PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chair : Mario Borillo, Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse Nicholas Asher, Linguistics and Philosophy, Austin Patrick Blackburn, Logics and Computational Linguistics, Saarbruecken Andree Borillo, Linguistics, Toulouse Anthony Cohn, Artificial Intelligence, Leeds John Etchemendy, Philosophy, Stanford Patrick Hayes, Artificial Intelligence, Urbana Carlota Smith, Linguistics, Austin Barbara Tversky, Psychology, Stanford Achille Varzi, Philosophy, Trento Co Vet, Linguistics, Groningen Laure Vieu, Artificial Intelligence, Toulouse FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Submitted papers should be at most 12 pages in length and be produced in 12pt (default LaTeX article style is OK). Submissions should provide the affiliation, full postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if any) of the author(s). A few words stating the position of the paper with respect to the topics of interest would be useful, as well as a 100-200 word abstract. Electronic submission (plain ASCII, LaTeX, uuencoded PostScript, or BinHex Mac Word files) is recommended. They should be sent to tsmMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue