LINGUIST List 7.1715

Thu Dec 5 1996

Calls: Cognitive Science Conference, Mathematics of Language

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <robinsonemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Pat Langley, 1997 Cognitive Science Conference
2. Susan Deysher, CALL FOR PAPERS - Mathematics of Language 5 (MOL5)

 Preliminary Call for Papers

 Nineteenth Annual Conference
 of the Cognitive Science Society

 August 7-10, 1997
 Stanford University


The annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society brings together
researchers from many fields -- including artificial intelligence,
education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology -- who hold a
common goal: understanding the nature of the mind.

The Society's Nineteenth Annual Conference will take place at Stanford
University from August 7 to 10, 1997. The meeting will incorporate two
features designed to attract participants from a broader range of
fields than in previous years.

 - The conference will include eight half-day symposia on topics
 that hold general interest to the cognitive science community
 but that include areas not well represented at the annual meeting.
 Each symposium will include two survey talks by senior scientists
 in the area and two invited research talks describing recent advances.

 - Society members may each submit a single, one-page abstract that is
 guaranteed to appear in the proceedings. Authors of such abstracts can
 present posters at the conference, although the program committee may
 upgrade some to talks. Moreover, the deadline for abstracts will be one
 month later than that for full papers, and nonmembers may join the
 Society at the time of submission.

Another difference is that submissions to the 1997 conference will
have the same format as published papers. Thus, both full papers and
abstracts should use two-column format with 10 point type, 1 inch
top margin, and 3/4 margins elsewhere. Authors can find templates
that fit these specifications for LaTeX, Framemaker, Word, Word Perfect,
and MacWrite on the World Wide Web in

 ftp://ftp-csli.stanford.edu:/pub/cogsci97/formats/

or through anonymous ftp to ftp-csli.stanford.edu in

 pub/cogsci97/formats

Submissions should include the authors' names, physical addresses,
and email addresses. Authors should send five hard copies of their
submission to:

 Cognitive Science 1997
 CSLI / Computational Learning Laboratory
 Ventura Hall, Stanford University
 Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Full papers must be no longer than six pages, including figures and
references, and should arrive by February 4, 1997; abstracts must be
no longer than one page and should arrive by March 4, 1997. We will
return submissions that exceed these lengths to their authors. For
express mailing purposes, specify the phone number (415) 723-1224.

We hope you will join us for an exciting conference that will bring
together researchers with a variety of backgrounds yet with a common
interest in the maturing field of cognitive science. If you have
questions or suggestions about the 1997 meeting, please send email
to cogsci97csli.stanford.edu or contact a member of the organizing
committee:

 Jeff Elman (elmancogsci.ucsd.edu)
 James Greeno (greenocsli.stanford.edu)
 Keith Holyoak (holyoakpsych.ucla.edu)
 Pat Langley (langleyrtna.daimlerbenz.com)
 Michael Shafto (mshaftomail.arc.nasa.gov)
 Paul Smolensky (paulvonneumann.cog.jhu.edu)

The Nineteenth Annual Conference has received support from Daimler-Benz
Research and Technology, Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and
Information (CSLI), and the Institute for the Study of Learning and
Expertise (ISLE).

Note: This year the Cognitive Science Conference will be followed by a
new meeting on computational psycholinguistics. For details about this
gathering, please see http://www.ccp.uchicago.edu/cpl.

 FIFTH MEETING ON THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE (MOL5)
 Call for Papers

Sponsored by the Association for the Mathematics of Language (a special
interest group of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

DATES: 25-27 August 1997

LOCATION: Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarbruecken, Germany

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31,1997

SUBMISSION ADDRESS: djohnswatson.ibm.com

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Submissions are invited from all areas of
study that deal with the mathematical properties of natural language.
These areas include, but are not limited to, mathematical models of
syntax, semantics and phonology; computational complexity of
linguistic frameworks/theories and models of natural language
processing; mathematical theories of language learning; parsing theory;
and quantitative models of language.

If the co-chairs feel the area of a submitted paper cannot be adequately
reviewed by the program committee, an attempt will be made to get
outside reviews.

SUBMISSION FORMATS: All contributions to MOL5 are to be made electronically
as either an unformatted (plain text) ASCII file or LaTex file.
Authors are responsible for their submissions printing without special
actions by the program committee. Submissions should consist of an abstract
of original, previously unpublished work. Abstract length should be no
more than five (5) pages.

PROCEEDINGS: No unrefereed proceedings are planned. It is anticipated
that selected papers will be published after peer review as a special
issue or collection.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Patrick Blackburn (Saarlandes), Christophere Fouquere (Paris),
David Johnson, co-chair (IBM), Aravind Joshi, co-chair (Penn),
Larry Moss (Indiana), Walt Savitch (UCSD), Andras Kornai (IBM),
Uli Kreiger (DFKI), M. J.Nederhoff (Groningen), Giorgio Satta (Padua)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Tilman Becker (DFKI), Hans-Ulrich Krieger (DFKI)
Send queries about local arrangements to: kireigerdfki.uni-sb.de

SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL INFORMATION: http://www.dag.uni-sb.de
They have reserved 30--40 single rooms (with shower) from Aug. 25
to 27. Price per room incl. full catering: 135 German Marks