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cpk.auc.dk>**** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE *** PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ECAI-96 Workshop on Representations and Processes between Vision and Natural Language European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96) Budapest University of Economics Budapest, Hungary Monday, August 12th, 1996 Chairs: Wolfgang Maass Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Center for PersonKommunikation University of the Saarland, GERMANY Aalborg University, DENMARK, EU WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England) Prof. Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg, The Netherlands) 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) Prof. Eoghan Mac Aogain (ILI, Dublin, Ireland) Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA) Prof. David Mark (NCGIA, Buffalo, USA) Prof. Mike McTear (University of Ulster, n.Ireland) Prof. Daniel Montello (UC Santa Barbara, NCGIA, USA) Prof. Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany) Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan) Prof. Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu, Japan) Dr. Se/an O Nuall/ain (DCU, Ireland and NRC, Canada) Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Dr. Ronan Reilly (UCD, Ireland & NIAS, The Netherlands) Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA) Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England) Dr. Jeoffrey Siskind (Technion, Israel) 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, either 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 cognitive processes and representations in general. We can learn much 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 much 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. * 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 * conceptualization and representation of spatial knowledge * verbalization of spatial knowledge * grounding of representations Contributions are encouraged which focus on areas such as: acquisition, representation, and processing of spatial knowledge in visual data processing and natural language systems; integration of spatial knowledge in language descriptions; imagery; cognitive mapping; temporal and spatial reasoning; synthetic and physical navigation systems; cognitive models of adaptive behavior in large and small scale space. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (the time points are not set yet): Monday, August 12th, 1996 ************************** 8:15 `Introduction' Wolfgang Maass 8:30 - 10:00: Spatial Language * 8:30 A. Goy (University of Torino, Italy): `Referential adjectives: the case of alto (high/tall)' * 9:00 J. Broschart (University of Cologne, Germany): `On Turning Language into Vision Towards a Geometry of Interaction' * 9:30 K. Holmqvist (Lund University, Sweden): `Construction of Images from Spoken Discourse' 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 10:30 - 12:00: Diagrams and Metaphors * 10:30 T. Barkowksy, R. Roehrig & C. Freksa (University of Hamburg, Germany): `Operationalizing diagrammatically' * 11:00 Y. Watanabe and M. Nagao (Ryukoku and Kyoto University, Japan): `Diagram understanding for pictorial book of flora using integration of pattern information and natural language information' * 11:30 A. Smith, B. Farley & S. /O Nuall/ain (NRC, Canada and DCU, Ireland): `Visualized models for language understanding' 12:00 LUNCH BREAK 2:00 - 3:30: Integration of Vision and Natural Language * 2:00 P. Muller (Inst. de Rech. en Informatique, France): `Representing route networks for some cases of motion description' * 2:30 X. Briffault, L. Fraczak and M.-R. Goncalves (LIMSI-CNRS, France): `Integraton of verbal and visual communication modalities in a navigational aid system' * 3:00 I. Duwe, K. Kessler & H. Strohner (University of Bielefeld, Germany): `Resolving Ambiguous Descriptions through Visual Information' 3:30 COFFEE BREAK 4:00 - 6:00: Presentation of Posters, Small Group Discussions, and General Discussions ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. If you are interested in attending then please send a message to Wolfgang Maass (maassMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
comp.lancs.ac.uk>FINAL NOTIFICATION and Last Call for Participants DAARC96 - Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, UK, 17-18th July, 1996 IndiAna Workshop - Lancaster University, UK, 19th July 1996. VENUE DAARC96 and IndiAna are taking place on the Bailrigg Campus of Lancaster University, situated in one of the most beautiful and picturesque areas of North-West England. Lancaster is close to the Lake District and the Fylde Coast, and is one of Great Britain's oldest cities, with a rich historical and cultural heritage. DAARC96 and the IndiAna Workshop are taking place in the Faraday lecture and seminar room complex, situated in the centre of the campus. A full campus map will be sent to all registered delegates via surface mail along with a copy of this Notification, a parking permit and other helpful information. Receipts will be issued on arrival at the conference to registered delegates who have already paid their conference fees. REACHING THE UNIVERSITY By road: Lancaster University lies close to the M6 motorway, about 15 miles north of Preston. Whether you are approaching from the North or the South, we recommend that you use Junction 33, which lies South of the City of Lancaster. At the roundabout, take the right-hand exit towards Lancaster. After about half a mile, you will pass through the village of Galgate. Continue along this road (A6) for another mile and you will come to a set of traffic lights at the beginning of a short stretch of dual carriageway. Turn right at these lights, and you will find yourself entering the University grounds. Parking instructions are given below in the section "On Arrival at the Conference". By rail: Lancaster lies on the West Coast line, linking Glasgow and London. Most InterCity trains stop at Lancaster, but some do not, and it may be necessary to change at Preston to a local train. There are also direct connections from Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and cities in the South West. A taxi from the station to the University will cost about #4.50 (more at night and on weekends) Buses to the University are plentiful, but you will have to walk 500 metres or so from the Station to the bus-stop on Common Garden Street (in front of the market entrance). Buses may be numbered 1, 2 or sometimes 2A. Make sure that the bus is also marked "University", as some take a different route. To get to the bus-stop, come out of the main entrance of the British Rail station, and turn left onto Meeting House Lane. At the end there is a T-junction with Waterstone's bookshop on the right-hand corner. Turn right. Common Garden Street is the first major road that you come to on your left. When purchasing your rail ticket, try to buy a "saver", rather than the much more expensive standard return. Make sure that you give your journey dates and times, as there are certain restrictions on the use of a saver. Note: We will arrange taxis to the railway station to enable people to get away quickly after the conference ends. By air: There are rail connections from Lancaster to Manchester and London airports, which lie about 60 and 250 miles from Lancaster, respectively. Leeds-Bradford airport is also not far away, but prospective passengers might want to take into account that trains connecting Leeds and Lancaster are now all of the "local" variety - which is to say that you should reckon on a 2-hour journey with plenty of stops and not much leg-room! A return taxi fare from Manchester Airport to Lancaster will cost about 40 pounds if booked in advance. Some numbers to try are: Transair (0524-411097), Airlink (0524-417234) and Aircar (0524-845845). Taxis hired from a rank at the airport may cost a lot more. ON ARRIVAL AT THE CONFERENCE Parking Those arriving by car may park anywhere on the perimeter road. We recommend that you park near Cartmel College, or County College. To do this, follow the main University access road to the top of the hill, and take the second exit off the first roundabout, which takes you down through an underpass. As you emerge from the underpass, turn left at the next roundabout, continue for 50 yards or so and park in the vicinity of Cartmel Avenue. CONFERENCE PARKING IS RESTRICTED TO THE PERIMETER ROAD. Please do not park on any of the avenues. A parking permit will be included with the surface mailing which will shortly be sent to registered delegates, and parking permits must be displayed on the windscreen. Arriving by bus, coach or taxi If arriving by taxi, bus or coach, you will probably be set down in the underpass, or near the University reception. From here you should make your way to the nearby Alexandra Square, which is the central locus of the University, and look for the "North Spine", which leads (after 60 metres or so) to the Faraday complex which will be on your right. Registration. The Registration Desk is situated inside the entrance of the Faraday Building, in the Foyer. Here, registered delegates will be issued with their conference pack, and receipt. The Registration Desk will be staffed throughout the conference by a team of volunteer helpers, who will be on hand to assist delegates with any problems or queries they may have. Accommodation This will be in Cartmel and Lonsdale Colleges, in single study-bedrooms unless delegates have requested double rooms. Ensuite accommodation will be allocated on a limited basis. DAARC96 - Conference Programme. Evening of 16th July (pre-Session) Conference Welcome and Registration. Faraday Foyer ============================================================================== Day One (17th July): 8 am - 10.00 am: Registration - Faraday Foyer 9 am - 9.30 am: Welcoming Remarks: Simon Botley and Tony McEnery, Lancaster University Keynote Speech - Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University). - Frankland Colloquium Room. 9.30 - 11.00: - Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms A. Corpus-Based Approaches I B. Pragmatic/Formal Approaches Chair: Tony McEnery Chair: Jenny Thomas, Lancaster 1. A Bender, G Dogil & J Mayer: 1. A Carvalho: Prosodic Disambiguation of Anaphoric Logic Grammars and pronominal Pronouns in German Discourses anaphora. 2. O. Ravnholt: 2. B Geurts: Grammatical cues and "referential Presuppositions and attitudes distance" in retrieval of antecedents in discourse 3. Y Huang: 3. R Mitkov: Anaphora in sentence and in Pronoun resolution: the practical discourse: a neo-Gricean alternative pragmatic approach. 11.00 - 11.30: Refreshments - Faraday Foyer 11.30 - 13.00: - Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms C. Discoursal Approaches I D. Cognitive Approaches I Chair: Simon Botley Chair: To be announced 1. B Hamp: 1. R Smyth & C Chambers: Nonanaphoric future tense Paralellism effects on pronoun resolution in discourse contexts 2. I Korbayova & G-J Kruiff: 2. A Cooreman & A Sanford: Identification of Topic-Focus Chains Focus phenomena with temporal connectives 3. K Pitkenen: 3. T Fretheim & K Borthen: A model for retrieving and describing Some unexpected determinants of spatiotemporal references local referential (dis)continuity 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch - Cartmel Restaurant 14.00-15.30: Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms E. Discoursal Approaches II F. Cognitive Approaches II Chair: Tony McEnery Chair: To be announced 1. S Menuzzi: 1. C Gallaway: 3rd person possessives in Brazilian Children's and adults' use of Portuguese: on the syntax-discourse 'the' - how anaphoric is it? relation 2. Ming-Ming Pu: 2. S A Hirschmann & A Traversa: Cognitive constraints, discourse How do argumentative texts in a structure and anaphora foreign language become coherent? 3. E Not & M Zancanaro: 3. K Paterson & R Edden: Exploiting the discourse structure Anaphoric reference and quantifier for anaphora generation scope ambiguity 15.30-16.00: Refreshments - Faraday 16.00-17.30: Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms G. Discoursal Approaches III H. Cognitive Approaches III Chair: Kari Fraurud Chair: Sebastian Loebner 1. M Durrant-Peatfield & W Marslen-Wilson: Pragmatic effects on 1. I Fischer, B Geisert & G Goerz: zero-anaphor assignment Chart-based incremental semantics construction with anaphor resolution using lambda-DRT 2. H Saggion & A Carvalho: 2. Y Q Lin & R P Fawcett: Definite anaphora in Portuguese Anaphoric reference and abstracts logical form 3. E Yoshida: 3. K Paterson, A Sanford & L Moxey Observing demonstratives in discourse Pronominal reference to a quantified noun phrase 19.00 approx: Dinner - Cartmel Restaurant Our Conference Bar will be open for after-dinner drinks! Day Two (18th July): 8 am - 10.00 am: Late Registration - Faraday Foyer 9 am - 9.30 am: - Frankland Colloquium Room Keynote Speech: Anaphor resolution in natural language processing and machine translation - Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton). 9.30 - 11.00: Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms I. Intrasentential Approaches I J. Corpus-Based Approaches II Chair: To be announced Chair: Tony McEnery 1. Y Miyamoto: 1. D Balthazart & L Kister: Otagai and the absence of the Is it possible to predetermine a mass/count distinction of nouns referent included in a French in Japanese N de N structure? 2. R Stuckardt: 2. E Lindstrom: An interdependency-sensitive Some uses of demonstratives in approach to anaphor resolution spoken Swedish 3. T Tsurusaki: 3. S Uehara: Bach-Peters paradox and two modes Anaphoric pronouns in English of pronominal anaphora and their counterparts in Japanese. 11.00 - 11.30: Refreshments - Faraday Foyer 11.30 - 13.00: Faraday Foyer Posters and Demonstrations J Chur: Generic anaphora in German texts A Fatholahzadeh: "Who is Who?" B Dunin-Keplicz: A formal treatment of referential relations G-J M Kruiff & I Korbayova: Resolution of direct anaphora in CYAN M Masuko: Representation and interpretation: a case of anaphora resolution G Morgan: Spatial anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign Language S Williams: Anaphoric reference resolution in a telephone-based spoken language system for accessing email A Kawtrakul & Y Inagaki: Anaphora Resolution Based on Dynamic Context Model in Database-Oriented Discourse I Tanaka: Using annotated corpora to investigate pronoun resolution P Rayson & A Wilson: Anaphora in Market Research Interview Transcipts P Mouret: Referring to the context in a guided composition system Y Obana: Inferential Ellipsis in Japanese - Cases without antecedent elements. 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch - Cartmel Restaurant 14.00-15.30: Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms K. Corpus-Based Approaches III L. Intrasentential Approaches II Chair: Roger Garside, Lancaster Chair: Christina Hellman 1. H Shokouhi: 1. O Percus: Anaphoric relations in conversation Anaphora and Autophagy in Persian and English 2. S Petch-Tyson: 2. C Potier: Demonstrative expressions in Gerundive nominal phrases and argumentative discourse - a computer their translation from English corpus-based comparison of non-native to French and native English 3. R Vieira & M Poesio: 3. M Murata & M Nagao: Processing definite descriptions in Indirect reference in Japanese corpora sentences. 15.30-16.00: Refreshments - Faraday Foyer 16.00-17.30: Parallel Sessions in Frankland and Cavendish Colloquium Rooms M. Corpus-Based Approaches IV N. Computational Approaches Chair: Geoffrey Leech Chair: Chris Paice, Lancaster 1. M Rocha: 1. R Gaizauskas & K Humpreys: A corpus-based study of anaphora in Quantitative evaluation of English and Portuguese coreference algorithms in an information extraction system 2. R Mitkov: 2. S Williams, K Preston & M Anaphor resolution: a combination of Harvey: linguistic and statistical approaches Rule-based reference resolution using part-of-speech tagging and anaphor/antecedent noun-phrase parsing 3. S Botley: 3. A Tutin & E Viegas: Demonstrative features in three The resolution and generation of corpora of written English anaphoric definite expressions 18.00 Hours: - Frankland Colloquium Room Plenary Session - Closing Remarks and Comments 19.30: Dinner - Cartmel Restaurant Our Conference Bar will be open for after-dinner drinks! PLEASE NOTE: Speaker time is 20 minutes, with 10 minutes allotted to questions and change of session. IndiAna Workshop Lancaster, July 19th, 1996 PROGRAM 09.00-9.30 Kari Fraurud & Christina Hellman: OPENING REMARKS - Frankland Colloquium Room PARALLEL SESSION I - Frankland Colloquium Room (Chairman: Sebastian Loebner) 09.30-10.00 Jeanette Gundel, Nancy Hedberg & Ron Zacharski: COGNITIVE STATUS, CONCRETENESS AND THE FORM OF INDIRECT ANAPHORS 10.00-10.30 Kjetil Strand: A TAXONOMY OF LINKING RELATIONS 10.30-11.00 Monika Schwarz: INDIRECT ANAPHORA IN TEXT: LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE CONSTRAINTS - --------- 11.00-11.30 Coffee break - Faraday Foyer - --------- (Chairman: Alfons Maes) 11.30-12.00 Ole Ravnholt: THE ROLE OF LEXICAL SPECIFICATIONS IN THE RETRIEVAL OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT ANTECEDENTS 12.00-12.30 Sebastian Loebner: INDIRECT ANAPHORA, TYPES OF NOUNS AND COGNITVE SCHEMATA 12.30-13.00 Michel Cosse: INDEFINITE ASSOCIATIVE ANAPHORA IN FRENCH - --------- 13.00-14.00 Lunch break - Cartmel Restaurant - --------- (Chairman: Thorstein Fretheim) 14.00-14.30 Yael Ziv: INFERRED ANTECEDENTS AND EPITHETS: CLUES IN ANAPHOR RESOLUTION 14.30-15.00 Gabriele Bersani Berselli: NOMINAL AMBIGUITY AND DISAMBIGUATION BY ANAPHORIC DEVICES 15.00-15.30 Antonio Branco: IRREFLEXIVE ZOOMING: RECIPROCALS PROCESSING AS INDIRECT ANAPHOR RESOLUTION - --------- 15.30-16.00 Coffee break - Faraday Foyer - --------- (Chairman: Yael Ziv ) 16.00-16.30 Kari Fraurud: INDIRECT ANAPHORA IN A CROSS-LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 16.30-17.00 To be confirmed - --------- 17.00-18.00 Plenary discussion (I & II) - Frankland Colloquium Room PARALLEL SESSION II - Cavendish Colloquium Room (Chairman: Susann LuperFoy) 09.30-10.00 Sonoko Sakakibara: PRAGMATICS OR SYNTAX? THE CASE OF JAPANESE REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS 10.00-10.30 Paul R. Bowden, Peter Halstead & Tony G. Rose: ENDOPHOR RESOLUTION IN A PATTERN-MATCHING KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION SYSTEM 10.30-11.00 Sergio Freitas & Jose G.P. Lopes: SOLVING THE REFERENCE TO MIXABLE ENTITIES - --------- 11.00-11.30 Coffee break - Faraday Foyer - --------- (Chairman: Paul R. Bowden) 11.30-12.00 Susann LuperFoy: A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO INDIRECT ANAPHORA PROCESSING 12.00-12.30 Robert J. Jarvella, Lita Lundquist & Suzie Mathieu: TOPOS-BASED INFERENCE-MAKING DURING READING 12.30-13.00 Chung-yin Chang: DISCOURSE DEIXIS: THE USE OF DEMONSTRATIVES IN CHINESE CONVERSATIONAL DISCOURSE - --------- 13.00-14.00 Lunch break - Cartmel Restaurant - --------- (Chairman: Jeanette Gundel) 14.00-14.30 Marco A. E. Rocha: ANAPHORIC NOUN PHRASES OF LOW SEMANTIC CONTENT AND THEIR DISCOURSE-CONSTRUCTED ANTECEDENTS 14.30-15.00 Maria-Elisabeth Conte: FACTS, EVENTS, PROPOSITIONS IN ANAPHORIC ENCAPSULATION 15.00-15.30 Alfons Maes: PROCESSING ABSTRACT ANAPHORA IN DISCOURSE - --------- 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break - Faraday Foyer - --------- (Chairman: Robert Jarvella ) 16.00-16.30 Thorstein Fretheim: INDIRECT ANAPHORS AND PRO-VERBS OF THE 'HAPPEN' TYPE 16.30-17.00 Christina Hellman: WHAT DOES 'ALL THIS' MEAN? - --------- 17.00-18.00 Plenary discussion (I & II) - Frankland Colloquium Room Speaker time is 20 minutes, with 10 minutes allotted to questions and change of session. There are two events common to both sessions: Opening remarks 9.00-9.30 and Plenary discussion 17.00-18.00. For further information on the IndiAna Workshop, contact: Kari Fraurud Department of Linguistics Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Email: kariMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue