LINGUIST List 8.1801

Wed Dec 17 1997

Calls: ECAI-98, NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS

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1. ecai98, ECAI-98: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
2. Richard Zuber, NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS

				 ECAI'98
 	 AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK 


 EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
 http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/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
 --------------------------------
 20 Jan 1998 Deadline for abstracts
 23 Jan 1998 Deadline for papers
 15 Apr 1998 Notification of acceptance
 15 May 1998 Camera-ready copies of papers
 26-28 Aug 1998 Technical programme at ECAI-98


An extended call for papers is attached. See the ECAI'98 website
(http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98) for full details. Recent additions
to the site include:

+ finalised programme committee listing
+ detailed formatting and paper submission information
+ form-based submission of abstracts
+ call for exhibitors


 CALL FOR PAPERS
 http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/call.html

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unpublished research in all aspects of AI, including, but not limited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.

Formatting guidelines

Submissions must not exceed 6000 words. Submissions which exceed this
length will be rejected without review. This is the only strict
formatting requirement for paper submissions. (But note that a five
page limit will be imposed on the final camera-ready papers - for some
papers this may be considerably less than 6000 words in practice.)

Additional guidelines on the format of submissions are available on
the ECAI-98 Style Guide page. We hope to make available soon a latex
style file supporting these guidelines.

Accepted papers will be required to conform more strictly to the
publishers' formatting requirements, which will be broadly in line
with the present formatting guidelines.

Submission procedure

Submission is a two-stage process. Authors are asked to submit a brief
summary of their paper by email to ecai98irit.fr by 20 January
1998. This summary should include the title, authors, contact address
and abstract for the paper, plus keywords drawn from the above list
(plus other keywords if appropriate). A web-based summary submission
form is available to make this easier. This summary information should
also be included with the paper itself, on a separate sheet of paper.

Submission of the paper is in hard copy form only, electronic
submissions will not be accepted. Six copies of the paper (each
including the summary sheet), should be sent by post to the ECAI-98
Programme Chair, Henri Prade, at the address below. The deadline for
receipt of papers is 23 January 1998. Papers received after this date
will not be reviewed.


 ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION
 ----------------------
 Henri Prade, ECAI-98 Programme Chair
 IRIT
 Universiti Paul Sabatier
 118 route de Narbonne
 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4
 France

 Email: Henri.Pradeirit.fr
 Tel: +33(0)561 55 65 79
 Fax: +33(0)561 55 62 39


Multiple submissions policy

ECAI-98 will not accept any paper which at the time of submission is
under review for, or has already been published or accepted for
publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also
expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during the review
period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences and
not to workshops or similar specialized meetings with limited
audiences. The title page should include a statement that the paper is
not under review or accepted for publication in another conference or
journal.

The review process

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by the ECAI-98
Programme Committee under the chairmanship of the ECAI-98 Programme
Chair. The ECAI-98 Programme Chair has final authority over the
review process and all decisions relating to acceptance of papers.

Conference proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published and distributed by John
Wiley and Sons Ltd. The authors will be responsible for producing
camera-ready copies of papers, conforming to the formatting guidelines
specified by the publisher, for inclusion in the proceedings. The
deadline for receipt of camara-ready copy is 15 May 1998. Note that at
least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the
conference to present the paper.

Programme Committee

The final membership of the programme committee for ECAI-98 is as
follows.


A. Aamodt Norway		 F. Giunchiglia Italy
J.J.A. Alferes Portugal W. Horn Austria
E. Andri Germany F. Jensen Denmark
N. Asher USA A. Kakas Cyprus
F. Bergadano Italy R. Kruse Germany
H. Bersini Belgium N. Lavrac Slovenia
C. Bessihre France D. Lehmann Israel
S. Biundo Germany M. Lenzerini Italy
M. Brady United Kingdom M. McTear UK
P. Brazdil Portugal S. Moral Spain
J. Breuker The Netherlands J.P. M|ller Switzerland
G. Brewka Germany E. Orlowska Poland
H. Bunt The Netherlands U. Reyle Germany
H.T. Christensen Sweden K. Satoh Japan
M.O. Cordier France T. Schaub Germany
P. Cunningham Irish Republic D. Scott United Kingdom
A. Del Val Spain B. Selman USA
P. Doherty Sweden M. Shanahan United Kingdom
B. Faltings Switzerland P. Siegel France
L. Fariqas C. Sierra Spain
 del Cerro France O. Stepankova Czech Republic
R. Feldman Israel Y-H. Tan The Netherlands
R. Fisher United Kingdom P. Torasso Italy
J. Fox United Kingdom P. van Beek Canada
C. Freksa Germany W. van de Velde Belgium
D. Gabbay United Kingdom G. Widmer Austria
A. Galton United Kingdom M-A. Williams Australia
O. Gascuel France A. Zaenen France
M. Ghallab France

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ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448
Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320
University of Sussex Email: ecai98cogs.susx.ac.uk
Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98

ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for
Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of
Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB.

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 Call for papers for the second conference on

 (PREFERABLY) NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS


The conference will be hosted by the University of Paris 7 (France),
and will take place in May 28-30, 1998

There will be three one hour talks by invited speakers and the rest of
the talks will be contributed papers chosen by the program committee
on selection basis. Submissions of abstracts (in English or in French)
for 30-minute contributed talks (with 10 additional minutes for
discussion) on any topic in the semantic analysis of natural
languages, with strong preference for non-lexical semantics, are
welcome. Authors should submit 5 copies of (so called "anonymous")
abstracts, no more than two pages (but not significantly less than 2
pages) long. Data allowing us to identify and contact the author (or
authors) should be given separately.

E-mail submissions will be accepted (only when in LaTex or Word). In
this case authors shoud send a title page with authors' name, etc. in
addition to the anonymous two page abstract.

Abstract deadline: March 17, 1998.

Send abstract to:

Conference de Semantique
 c/o R. Zuber

Universite Paris 7
UFR LINGUISTIQUE
 Case 7003
2 Place Jussieu
75251 Paris Cedex 05,
France

The e-mail address to which the abstracts should be sent:
rzccr.jussieu.fr. This is also the e-mail address for inquiries.

The program of the conference will be completed around the 17th of
April at which time conference information will be made available. For
organizational reasons we would like to be able to estimate the number
of submissions and possible participants well in advance. For this
reason we invite any person which would like to submit an abstract or
to attend the conference to let us know as soon as possible (by
e-mail).

Program Committee:

R. Zuber - chair (CNRS, Paris), F. Corblin (University of Rennes),
B. Laca (University of Strasbourg), D. Lacombe, (University of Paris
7), F. Recanati (CNRS, Paris), D. Wilson (CREA, Paris and University
College, London)