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di.fct.unl.pt>Dear Colleague: Please find enclosed below the Call for Workshop Proposals for the 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. I would also appreciate if you could distribute it to your colleagues who might be interested. Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Workshop Proposals: it was sent to several mailing-lists. Sincerely, Amilcar - -------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS EPIA'97 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Coimbra, Portugal October 6-9, 1997 Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence The EPIA'97 Program Committee invites proposals for the Workshop Program as part of the 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Each EPIA'97 workshop will provide an informal setting where researchers and practitioners will have the oportunity to meet and discuss currently relevant specific topics of AI research and applications. Members from all segments of the AI community and related fields are invited to submit proposals for review. The workshops will be held in the period of October 7-8 and will run in paralell with the main conference. To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, under 30 participants. Attendance should be preferably limited to active participants only. Workshops are intended to be genuinely interactive events, so ample time must be allowed for general discussion, although the format of workshop presentations will be determined by the organizing comitee of the workshop. Workshops will typically be one full day in legth, although half-day and two-day proposals will be considered. Attendees at workshops will be required to register for the main EPIA'97 conference. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Proposals for workshops should be about two (2) pages in length, and should contain: - A workshop title. - A brief technical description of the workshop, identifying the specific issues on wich the workshop will focus. - A brief explanation of why the workshop is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of the workshop format, regarding the mix of paper presentations, invited talks, and/or panels. - The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the Organizing Comitee. This comitee should consist of at least two people knowledgeable in the technical issues to be addressed by the workshop. - An indication of a likely schedule and time involved and, if possible, a list of potential attendees. Workshop proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the EPIA'97-Workshops Submission Address (see below) in plain ASCII text as soon as possible, but no later than December 9, 1996. Organizers will be notified of the comitee's decision no later than January 13, 1997. Organizers of accepted workshops will be responsible for: - Producing a Call for Participation in the workshop by January 20, 1997. The call must make it clear that the workshop is part of the EPIA'97 conference. It should also note that all workshop participants must register for the EPIA'97 conference and that the number of participants is strictly limited. Finnaly, it should also make clear the process by wich the Organizing Comitee will select the participants. - Selecting participants. Organizers decide workshop attendance on the basis of submissions due April 28, 1997. Authors of accepted submissions must be notified by May 30, 1997. - Coordinating the production of the workshop working notes. EPIA can reproduce copies of the working notes, up to a total of 200 pages by participant, if materials are received by July 14, 1997. All workshop participants must register for the EPIA'97 conference. To cover costs, there will be an extra fee for attending each workshop. The Workshop Chair will provide logistical support and a meeting place for each workshop. Workshop date and time will be determined in conjunction with the organizers. - ------------------------------------------------------ More detailed informations on the EPIA'97 Workshops and the conference may be found at the EPIA'97 Web site. - ------------------------------------------------------ TIMETABLE Submission of workshop proposals: December 9, 1996 Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 13, 1997 Submission of the Call for Participation: January 20, 1997 Submission of workshop contributions: April 28, 1997 Notification of acceptance or rejection of workshop contributions: May 30, 1997 WORKSHOP CHAIR Jose Luis Ferreira (jlfMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
gizmo.usc.edu>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 10th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Including a Special Session on Acquisition and Adult Performance Hosted by the University of Southern California The 10th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing is soliciting abstracts for papers and posters presenting theoretical, empirical and/or computational research on human sentence processing. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously and will be considered for both the general conference sessions and for a special session on the Relationship between Child Language Acquisition and Adult Language Comprehension. Submission details are below and are also included on our website: http://siva.usc.edu/~cuny97/ SPECIAL SESSION: The special session on The Relationship between Child Language Acquisition and Adult Language Comprehension will include presentations by several invited speakers. Submitted abstracts will also be considered for the session and will be evaluated both for the quality of the research and the fit between the submitted abstract and the invited papers. Special session abstracts that are not chosen for the spoken session will be considered for a poster session held on the same day as the special session talks. Special Session invited speakers: Tom Bever, University of Arizona Gerry Altmann, University of Sussex Jeff Elman, University of California San Diego Michael Kelly, University of Pennsylvania WHAT TO SUBMIT: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length, excluding references. At the top of the abstract, please include your name, affiliation, email address, and indicate whether your abstract is to be considered for the general session or the special session. Also indicate whether your abstract is submitted for consideration as a PAPER ONLY, POSTER ONLY, or PAPER OR POSTER. The last category means that you would be willing to present a poster if your abstract is not included in the spoken sessions but is accepted for one of the poster sessions. Please leave several blank lines between this information and your title and abstract, so that we may remove this information for anonymous abstract review. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: For consideration in the spoken paper sessions: November 1, 1996 For consideration as a poster only: January 15, 1997 Abstracts submitted but not accepted for the paper sessions will automatically be included in the submissions for poster sessions, unless the abstract is marked PAPER ONLY. WHERE TO SUBMIT: We STRONGLY prefer email submissions. Email your submissions to cuny97Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue