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frank.mtsu.edu>The Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group ofthe MLA sponsors a session each year on Romance linguistics. The next meeting of the MLA will be Dec. 27-30, 1996 in Washington D.C. If you are interested in presenting a 20 minute paper on a topic in Romance Linguistics please send a one page abstract to: David Eddington deddingtonMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cpk.auc.dk>======================================================================= *LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VI* *LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VISION LANGUAGE + VI* ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- * * * * * ECAI-96 Workshop * * on the * * * * REPRESENTATIONS AND PROCESSES BETWEEN * * NATURAL LANGUAGE AND VISION * * * * ECAI-96 * * Budapest, Hungary * * * * (August 12/13 1996) * * * * (http://zaphod.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass/ecai96-ws-v-nl.html) * --------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop organisers: ------------------- Wolfgang Maass Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Universitaet des Saarlandes University of Sheffield, England Germany and CPK, Aalborg University, Denmark Workshop committee: ------------------ Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England) Prof. Paul Dalsgaard (CPK, Aalborg, Denmark) Prof. Max Egenhofer (NCGIA, Maine, USA) Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. Christian Freksa (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Benjamin Kuipers (U T Austin, USA) Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA) Prof. Eoghan MacAogain (Irish Linguistics Institute, Ireland) Prof. David Mark (NCGIA, Buffalo, USA) Prof. Daniel Montello (UC Santa Barbara, NCGIA, USA) Prof. Mike McTear (University of Ulster, n.Ireland) Prof. Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany) Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan) Prof. Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu, Japan) Dr. Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin, Ireland and NRC, CANADA) Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. Ronan Reilly (University College, Dublin, Ireland) Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Jeffrey Siskind (Toronto, Canada) Prof. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy) Prof. Jun-Ichi Tsujii (UMIST, England and Tokyo, Japan) Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: There has been a move towards considering how spatial information can be obtained and used by Vision Processing (VP) and Natural Language Processing systems (NLP) (generation and understanding). New research directions, such as multimodal interfaces, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), navigation tools, but also robotics, multi-agent models and other 'core' AI areas depend much on the use of spatial knowledge. Vision, spatial information processing, and natural language are used in an integrated fashion by cognitive and computational systems in many ways when interacting with environments. Environments pose strong resource limitations on information-processing systems, both human and artificial. How these systems locally and globally adapt to resources does not only provide a direction for more efficient and flexible models but also gives insights into the cognitive processes and representations in general. We can learn a lot about efficient and flexible processing of spatial information by looking at the human being as a good example of an adaptive system. Research efforts in different fields, such as Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Neurobiology have gained a lot of understanding in how humans adapt visual and natural language capabilities to environments. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from various disciplines who are interested in processes and representations related to visual data, spatial knowledge and natural language processing. Some topics of this workshop will be: - interdisciplinary dialogue to find a common ground and terminology - discussion of current research initiatives into the use of spatial knowledge from various perspectives - acquisition and processing of spatial knowledge by VP and NLP - verbalization of spatial knowledge - conceptualization and representation of spatial knowledge - grounding of representations Contributions are encouraged which focus on areas such as: adaptive acquisition, representation, and processing of spatial knowledge in visual processing and natural language systems; integration of spatial knowledge in language descriptions; imagery; cognitive mapping; adaptive temporal reasoning; synthetic and physical navigation systems; cognitive models of adaptive behavior in large and small scale space. WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have panel sessions with presentations of survey and technical contributions. Each session shall be introduced by a survey contribution (20-30 min.) followed by several technical presentations (15-20 min). After each presentation and each session there will be time for discussions (10-15 min.) The speakers are encouraged to present video or real demonstrations of their computational models. On the second day we will have discussions in smaller groups. Results will be discussed with all participants. There may be a number of invited speakers. Speakers are encouraged to make precise claims in their talks which could be discussed in the general context. Accepted papers will be made accessible via a WWW-page (http://zaphod.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass/ecai96-ws-v-nl.html) or are send by request to registered participants by snail mail. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance of 20-30 people at the workshop. Registered participants should drop us a short e-mail so that we can inform them about accessibility of accepted papers, the schedule, etc. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted in both Postscript (larger papers should be compressed and uuencoded) and ASCII format by electronic mail to maassMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue