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csun.edu>SYMPOSIUM ON METAPHOR, AI AND COGNITION ======================================= at the AISB'99 Convention, 6th-9th April 1999 Edinburgh College of Art & Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh U.K. CONVENTION URL: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/CFP URL FOR THIS SYMPOSIUM: ...same as above.../08-Metaphor CALL FOR PAPERS The Convention - ------------ The AISB'99 Convention will be held in Edinburgh in April 1999. It will consist of 13 workshops and symposia on a wide range of themes in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. An underlying theme of the Convention this year is the study of creativity, though not all of the events include a creative element. Further details of AISB'99 will be found at the conference web site, listed above. The Metaphor Symposium - -------------------- Paper submissions are invited for the Symposium on Metaphor, AI and Cognition. Metaphor has been shown to arise frequently and systematically in everyday text and speech, and in specific types of discourse such as educational interchange. It is also of great practical importance in various other areas of life, including graphical representation, music, visual art and computer interface usage. It is therefore an important concern for AI (and Cognitive Science generally). With the increasing use of computers in society, and the increasing relevance of AI to the development of people-friendly systems, the topic of metaphor must be given much more computational attention than it has been if such systems are truly to succeed. The symposium welcomes contributions on metaphor that seek to illuminate how people or AI systems do or could process metaphor, in whatever medium or form of life it appears. Field studies, corpus-based studies and linguistic or philosophical analyses are also welcome, especially if they illuminate difficult processing problems that must be faced. The more computationally, processually, representationally or mathematically specific a contribution to the workshop is, the better; but contributions that are not specific in these regards will be considered. The areas of interest of the Symposium on Metaphor, AI and Cognition will include, but are not limited to, the following: o handling familiar (conventional) metaphor o handling novel metaphor o detecting metaphor in utterances, pictures, diagrams, etc. o extracting metaphorical meaning or connotations o metaphor-based reasoning o generating metaphorical utterances, diagrams, etc. o translation of metaphorical utterances o relationship of metaphor to analogy o relationship of metaphor to literal meaning o frequency of metaphor in discourse o relationship of metaphor to lexicons o effect of metaphor on comprehension, learning, etc. o effect of metaphorical views of computation, intelligence, etc. on the conduct of AI and cognitive science o relationship of metaphor to other non-literal forms of expression or cognition. Papers will be selected by anonymous peer review of extended abstracts of not more than 4 A4 pages. A cover page should be supplied listing the Title, and the Author's name and affiliation, but the extended abstract itself should not identify the author. Deadlines are listed in the timetable, below. PROGRAMME CHAIR: John Barnden School of Computer Science University of Birmingham U.K. J.A.BarndenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
mail.biu.ac.il>LANGUAGE POLICY AT THE MILLENIUM CALL for RESEARCH REPORTS, CASE STUDIES, PROBLEM STATEMENTS in LANGUAGE PLANNING and POLICY The Language Policy Research Center in cooperation with the Lechter Institute and the Lewis Family Fund for International Conferences in the Humanities are now planning the Second International Symposium on Language Policy, Language Policy at the Millennium, to be held at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, from November 23-25, 1999. Our goal for the Symposium is to provide an opportunity to reassess the current status of language policy studies at the end of the century and to clarify theory and methods of the field. We hope to identify questions and define guidelines for the next decade of research. Six invited papers will serve as conceptual and theoretical jumping off points for the shorter research reports and case studies requested in this call. The focal papers will be given by Joshua A. Fishman, Joseph Lo Bianco, Lachman Khubchandani, Peter Nelde, Carol Myers-Scotton, and Bernard Spolsky. In order to offer data-based challenges to the discussion, we invite abstracts of research reports, case studies or statements of a problem in the field of language policy and planning, from which we will select a small number for presentation, each to be juxtaposed with one of the focal papers. In addition, there will be a poster session for presentation of individual research. Please submit your abstract of a proposal for a short research report, case study, or statement of a problem in an area of language policy by March 1, 1999 to Joel Walters at the address below. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 15, 1999. If you have questions, feel free to contact us. Sincerely, Organizing Committee: Muhammad Amara, Bar-Ilan University Ellen Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Joel Walters, Bar-Ilan University Elana Shohamy, Tel-Aviv University Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Language Policy Research Center Faculty of Humanities Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel 52900 Tel. 972-3-531-8125 Fax 972-3-535-4062 Email: waltejMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue