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cs.utwente.nl <anijholtcs.utwente.nl>============================================================ Symposium on Computational Humor Workshop on Interpretation and Generation of Verbal Humor Seminar on Analysis of Long Humorous Texts Essay Contest University of Twente Enschede, the Netherlands September 11, 1996 FINAL PROGRAM & Important Notices Symposium: Computational Humor - ---------------------------- Wednesday, September 11, 1996 CollegezalenComplex, Universiteit Twente, Enschede For registration of the Symposium only (Dfl. 50), please contact the IWCH-secretariat, see below. 12.30 Information stand open 13.45 Anton Nijholt: Introduction 14.00 Hugo Brandt Corstius (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 14.30 Gerrit Krol (Netherlands): Berekende Humor; Essay-wedstrijd 15.00 Break, coffee 15.15 Oliviero Stock (Trento, Italy): 'Password Swordfish': Verbal Humor in the Interface 15.45 Marvin Minsky (Boston, USA): Computational Humor 16.30 Discussion 16.45 Break 17.15 Douglas Hofstadter (Bloomington, USA): Real Creativity, 17.45 Discussion 18.00 Panel Discussion: Future Directions in Computational Humor Chair: Graeme Ritchie (Edinburgh, UK) Members (to be confirmed): Victor Raskin (USA), Marvin Minsky (USA), Oliviero Stock (Italy) and Bruce Karz (UK) 19.00 Closing Note: Unfortunately, for private reasons Douglas Hofstadter had to withdraw his promise to be at the symposium. In Bloomington and in Twente the computer support groups of the Cognitive Science Laboratory and the Department of Computer Science have set up an audio-visual link which should make a remote participation (talk, discussion and maybe panel discussion) possible. Workshop: Interpretation and Generation of Verbal Humor - ----------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 12 and Friday September 13, 1996 Vrijhof, Campus, University of Twente For registration of the Workshop (and Seminar), please contact the IWCH-secretariat, see below. Thursday, September 12 Opening: Anton Nijholt 09.30 Victor Raskin (W.Lafayette, USA): Computer Implementation of the General Theory of Verbal Humor 10.15 Break 10.30 Akira Ito et al. (Kobe, Japan): Why do People use Irony? 11.00 Rachel Giora & Ofer Fein (Tel Aviv, Israel): Irony Comprehension: The Graded Salience Hypothesis 11.30 Akira Utsumi (Yokohama, Japan): Implicit Display Theory of Verbal Irony 12.00 Lunch 13.45 Osamu Takizawa et al. (Kobe, Japan): On Computational Processing of Rhetorical Expressions 14.15 Carmen Curco (London, UK): Relevance Theory and Humorous Interpretation 14.45 Break/Demos/Posters 15.15 Panel Discussion 16.00 Ephraim Nissan (London, UK): From ALIBI to COLOMBUS: The Long March to Self-aware Computational Models of Humor 16.30 Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown, USA): Humor Theory beyond Jokes: The Treatment of Humorous Texts at Large 17.15 Closing Friday, September 13 09.30 Bruce Katz (Sussex, UK): A Neural Invariant of Humour 10.00 Judith Weiner (Temple, USA): Why is a Riddle not Like a Metaphor? 10.30 Break 11.00 Tony Veale & Mark Keane (Dublin, Ireland): The Cognitive Structure of Humour, Metaphor and Creativity 11.30 Tony Veale & Mark Keane (Dublin, Ireland): Bad Vibes: Polarised Marker Passing 12.00 Lunch 13.45 Kim Binsted & Graeme Ritchie (Edinburgh, UK): Speculations on Story Puns 14.30 Dan Loehr (Georgetown, USA): An Integration of a Pun Generator with a Natural Language Robot 15.00 Break/Demos/Poster 15.15 Cameron Shelley et al. (Waterloo, Canada): Analogy and Creative Humor 15.45 Michael Ephratt (Haifa, Israel): More on Humor Act: What Sort of Speech Act is the Joke? 16.15 Break 16.30 Closing Lecture John Allen Paulos (Temple, USA): Humor and Cognition: Is there a Difference? 17.15 Closing of the Workshop Seminar: The Analysis of Longer Humorous Texts - -------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 14 Collegezalen Complex, University of Twente 09.00 - 12.00 Salvatore Attardo (Youngstown State University, USA) & Wladyslaw Chlopicki (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) The seminar revolves around the analysis of three humorous texts with which the participants are expected to have familiarized themselves in advance. During the seminar, different approaches to the humorous material in the texts will be demonstrated and discussed. The texts will include examples of irony and complex intertextual references. The emphasis will be primarily on the processing of the humorous materials and only secondarily on the textual processing per se. Practical presentations by the participants during the seminar are encouraged but not required for participation. Essay Contest for Students - ------------------------ Computational Humor (Berekende Humor) is also the topic of an essay contest for Dutch computer science students. Students have been asked to write an essay of four to eight pages (4000 - 8000 words) in which computational modeling of humor and possible applications or implications of this modeling is considered. The members of the jury are Gerrit Krol (chairman; essayist), Peter Wesly (philosopher), Michael Steehouder (linguist), Anton Nijholt (computer scientist) and Joris Hulstijn (secretary of the jury; computer scientist). During the symposium on September 11 the jury will present her report on the results of the contest and the prize of thousand guilders will be handed to the winner. Symposium and Workshop Secretariat - -------------------------------- Mrs A. Hoogvliet and Mrs C. Bijron Department of Computer Science University of Twente, P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands e-mail hoogvlieMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
epunix.susx.ac.uk>*****CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT***** STRUCTURE AND CONTEXT IN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: A psycholinguistic conference in honor of Donald J. Foss A conference entitled "Structure and context in language processing: A psycholinguistic conference in honor of Donald J. Foss" will be held October 11-12, 1996 in Austin, Texas at the Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas. This conference is cosponsored by The Psychology Department of The University of Texas at Austin, The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association, and friends of Donald J. Foss. 'Structure and context in language processing' is an important theme for many areas of psycholinguistics -- parsing, speech perception, language acquisition, language evolution, and others. At the conference psycholinguists from a variety of areas will come together to share their theoretical insights and empirical evidence on this topic. Individually, they focus on different parts of the processing picture; collectively, they provide insights into processing of a number of linguistic structures (syntactic, morphological, prosodic, etc.), in a number of contexts (which involve factors that go beyond linguistic structure). Invited speakers include: Thomas G. Bever, Helen Smith Cairns, Charles Clifton, Anne Cutler, Randy L. Diehl, Catharine H. Echols, David Fay, Kenneth Forster, Merrill F. Garrett, Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Philip Gough, James J. Jenkins, Beth L. Losiewicz, Peter F. MacNeilage, Richard P. Meier, Robert E. Shaw, Shari R. Speer, David Swinney, and Kathy Y. van Nice. The registration fee is $75.00 ($40.00 for students), which includes breaks, lunches, and a reception on Friday, October 11. There is an additional fee of $30.00 for those attending the banquet in honor of Don Foss on Saturday, October 12. Participants must register by the deadline; there will be NO on-site registration. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 1996 OMNI AUSTIN HOTEL DEADLINE for booking discounted rooms: SEPTEMBER 19, 1996 Please send requests for registration forms (email or hardcopy) or further information about the conference to: Joey Walker, Department of Psychology, Mezes 330, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, Tel: (512)471-5985, Fax: (512)471-6175, email: WalkerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue