LINGUIST List 8.813

Mon Jun 2 1997

Calls: PACLIC 12, ITALLC-3

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Guo Jin, PACLIC 12 -- LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION
2. dib, ITALLC-3: Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic

PACLIC 12 -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPER

THE 12TH PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON
LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION


The Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing
Society (COLIPS -- http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~colips/) is pleased
to announce that the 12th Pacific Asia Conference on Language,
Information and Computation (PACLIC 12) will be held in
Singapore on February 18-20, 1998.

The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars with a wide
range of interest in theoretical and computational
linguistics. The Conference solicits papers treating any field
in theoretical and computational linguistics, including
syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics,
discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, formal grammar theory,
natural language processing, and computer applications. We
plan to give each paper 30 minutes for presentation and
discussion.

Full paper submission is required. Please mail 4 hard copies
of the paper with the title, the author's name, affiliation,
mailing address, FAX number (if any) and e-mail address on a
separate page to the address shown below. Submission by e-mail
is encouraged (but no FAX submissions). Accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

	Deadline for paper submission:	October 1, 1997
	Notification of acceptance:	November, 15, 1997
	Submission of camera-ready due:	January 1, 1998
	Conference:			February 18-20, 1998


CONTACT

Please email your paper submission to:
	paclic12iss.nus.sg

We only accept (1) Microsoft Word Rich Text Format (.rtf); (2)
Plain text (.txt); and (3) Postscript (.ps)). Otherwise,
please send three hard copies to:

	PACLIC 12
	Institute of Systems Science
	National University of Singapore
	Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
	Singapore 119597

For up-to-date information on the conference, please check our
web page
	http://www.iscs.nus.sg/~colips/paclic92.html
or write to the addresses above.


CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Kim Teng Lua 						Chairman
	National University of Singapore, and
	President of the Chinese and Oriental Language Information
	Processing Society (COLIPS)
Benjamin K. T'sou 					Co-chairman
	City University of Hong Kong
Chu-Ren Huang 						Co-chairman
	Taiwan Academia Sinica
Young-Hern Lee	 					Co-chairman
	Korea Chosun University, and
	President of the Korean Society for Language and
	Information (KSLI)
Akira Ikeya						Co-Chairman
	Tokyo Gakuen University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jin Guo			National University of Singapore (Chairman)
Akira Ishikawa		Sophia University
Baosheng Yuan		National University of Singapore
Byung-Soo 		Park Kyung Hee University Korea
Changning Huang		Tsinghua University
Chris Tancredi		The Yokohama National University
Chungmin Lee		Seoul National University
Haizhou Li		National University of Singapore
Hongyin Tao		National University of Singapore
Ik-Hwan Lee		Yonsei University
Jerry Seligman		National Chung Cheng University
Jie Xu			National University of Singapore
Kathleen Ahrens		National Taiwan University
Jian Su			National University of Singapore
Keh-Jiann Chen		Academia Sinica
Kevin Knight		University of Southern California
Kiyoshi Ishikawa	Hosei University
Ling Cao		National University of Singapore
Maosong Sun 		Tsinghua University
Masato Ishizaki 	ATR
Martha Palmer		University of Pennsylvania
Paul Horng Jyh Wu	National University of Singapore
Richard Sproat		AT&T Bell Labs
Shiwen Yu		Beijing University
Shuichi Yatabe		University of Tokyo
Taiyi Huang		Institute of Automation, Academia Sinica
Von-Wun Soo		National Tsing Hua University


RELATED LINKS
	PACLIC11 -- know more about the last conference.
	COLIPS -- the organizer of PACLIC12.

 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

 Third International Conference on
 Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic,
 Language, and Computation

 Hsi-tou, Taiwan

 16-19 June, 1998


This conference aims to bring together researchers who use
information-theoretic tools to address issues in the cognitive
sciences, broadly conceived to include Computer Science, Linguistics,
Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. It will be the third of
a series of conferences on information-theoretic approaches, and the
sixth of a series of conferences on situation theory and its
applications.

1998 is the 50th anniversary of Shannon's pioneering work. The
intervening years have seen classical information theory become a
mature subject, and the birth of other approaches to the study of
information, such as situation theory and dynamic logic. This
conference welcomes submissions from all traditions in the study of
information.

The conference will take place in a lodge in Hsi-tou, a bamboo forest
in the central mountains of Taiwan. The location offers both excellent
facilities and relative isolation. It is one of the most beautiful
parts of Taiwan, close to Sun-Moon lake, one of Taiwan's aboriginal
villages, and the peaks of the Central Mountain Range, which at 14,000
feet are some of the highest mountains in Asia outside the Himalayas.


INVITED SPEAKERS:

	David Beaver (Linguistics, Stanford)
 David Chalmers (Philosophy, Santa Cruz) (Unconfirmed)
 Nick Chater (Psychology, Warwick)
 David Israel (AI Center, SRI and CSLI, Stanford)
 Michiel van Lambalgen (Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam)

 (Further invited speakers are expected to be announced.)

TOPICS:

 We solicit papers on the following topics:

 * Foundations and applications of various approaches
 to the study of information, for example:
 -Shannon-Weaver communication theory
 -Barwise-Seligman Channel theory
 -Situation Theory
 -Dynamic Semantics
 -Dretske's semantic theory of information
 * Information-based approaches to the syntax, semantics and
 pragmatics of natural language
 * Information-based approaches to philosophy of mind, consciousness
 studies, and epistemology
 * Information-theoretic approaches to cognitive psychology
 * Information-theoretic approaches to induction and learning
 * Probabilistic methods in epistemology and logic
 * Theory change, including Belief Revision and Bayesian approaches

 Papers on related subjects will also be considered. Papers of
interest to an interdisciplinary audience are particularly welcome.

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of
at most 10 pages by e-mail to

 ITALLC98coli.uni-sb.de

(using `ITALLC98 Submission' as the subject line). The cover page
should include title, authors and contact details of the corresponding
author. Submission of postscript files is strongly encouraged.

Although we prefer email submissions, we will also accept abstracts
sent by regular mail. Please send such submissions to:
 Patrick Blackburn
 Computerlinguistik
 University of Saarland
 D-66041 Saarbruecken
 Germany

The DEADLINE for submissions is

 November 15, 1997.

The date of NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE is

 February 15, 1998.

The accepted abstracts will appear on a World Wide Web server. The
revised proceedings of previous meetings have been published as
volumes in CSLI's Lecture Notes series. We anticipate publishing a
similar volume from the proceedings of this conference.

The ITALLC98 website is

 http://www.phil.ccu.edu.tw/~itallc98/home.html


PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Patrick Blackburn (Chair), Nick Braisby,
 Lawrence Cavedon, Sheila Glasbey, Atsushi Shimojima.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jerry Seligman (Chair), Allen Houng, Kuo-Wei Lee,
		 Cheng-Houng Lin, Jim Tai, Ovid Zheng,
 Patrick Blackburn (Program Liaison)