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socrates.berkeley.edu>THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY BLS 24 CALL FOR PAPERS The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-16, 1998. The conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a Special Session on Monday. General Session: The main session will cover areas of general linguistic interest. Invited speakers: STEPHEN PINKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LEN TALMY, University at Buffalo ANNA WIERZBICKA, Australian National University Parasession: Phonological Universals and Phonetics. The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the relationship between Phonological Universals and Phonetics, where "universals" can be interpreted broadly. To what extent are phonological universals predicted or motivated by phonetic factors including, but not restricted to; articulatory constraints, aerodynamic properties of sound, or storage mechanisms of phonetic information? Conversely, what do phonological universals predict about synchronic and diachronic phonetics? What might the difference be between phonological and phonetic universals? Invited speakers: PATRICE BEDDOR, University of Michigan BJORN LINDBLOM, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin IAN MADDIESON, University of California at Los Angeles JOHN OHALA, University of California, Berkeley MARIA-JOSEP SOLE, University of Barcelona</ul> Special Session: Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations. The Special Session will feature research on Indo-European subgrouping and internal relations from any framework, including formal, functional, cognitive, sociolinguistic, and historical approaches. In the last twenty years we have come to understand the internal diachrony of Hittite, which has begun to make clear some of the desiderata Anatolian imposes on any theory of PIE. But new archaeological evidence has also been very prominent both for Italic and Celtic, which has generated a lot of new work on the very early (reconstructed) histories of both branches and on their internal linguistic relations, their relation to each other, and their relation to their neighbors (e.g. Germanic). Additionally, there has been an immense amount of work on the prehistory of Tocharian, which has in turn led to some reconsideration of its position in the family tree. All in all, most especially in the analysis of the IE verbal system, but also in other areas, there is a fair amount of recent work which assumes/implies highly divergent subgroupings of the IE family. Invited speakers: JAY JASANOFF, Cornell University CRAIG MELCHERT, University of North Carolina DON RINGE, University of Pennsylvania We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1998. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Send abstracts to: BLS 24 Abstract Committees, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650. Abstracts for the general session, special session, and parasession must be received by 4:00 p.m., November 7, 1997. We may be contacted by e-mail at blsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cogs.susx.ac.uk>______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/call.html The ECAI-98 Programme Committee invites submission of papers for the Technical Programme of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98). IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------- 23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance 15 May1998 Camera-ready copies of papers 26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98 Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited to: Abduction, Temporal, Causal Reasoning, and Diagnosis; Automated Reasoning; Application and Enabling Technologies; Belief Revision and Nonmonotonic Reasoning; Case-Based Reasoning; Cognitive Modelling and Philosophical Foundations; Computational Linguistics; Constraint-Based Reasoning and Constraint Programming; Distributed AI and Multiagent Systems; Fuzzy Logic; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Representation; Logic Programming, and Theorem Proving; Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; Natural Language and Intelligent User Interfaces; Neural Networks in AI; Planning, Scheduling, and Reasoning about Actions; Probabilistic Networks; Qualitative Preferences and Decision in AI; Qualitative and Spatial Reasoning; Reasoning under Uncertainty; Robotics, Vision, and Signal Understanding; Search and Meta-Heuristics for AI; Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-Based Systems. Submission procedure Detailed formatting guidance will be published on the ECAI-98 website in due course. Accepted papers will have 5 A4 pages in 2-column format in the proceedings. 6 copies (hard copy only) of papers should be submitted by post to the ECAI-98 Programme Chair, Henri Prade at the following address: ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION ---------------------- Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair IRIT Universiti Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 France Email: Henri.PradeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue