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coglit.soton.ac.uk>CALL FOR PAPERS Pragmatics & Cognition announces a special issue on FACIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE Guest Editors Itiel E. Dror and Sarah V. Stevenage In many senses, faces are at the center of human interaction. At a very basic level, faces indicate identity. However, faces are remarkably rich information carriers. For example, facial gestures may be used as means of conveying intentions. Faces may also permit a direct glimpse into the person's inner self (by unintentionally revealing, for example, aspects of character or mood). Given their salient role, the processing of the information conveyed by faces and its integration with other sources of interactional information raise important issues in cognition and pragmatics. Research on facial information processing has investigated these (and other) issues utilizing a variety of approaches and methodologies, and developments in both computer and cognitive sciences have recently carried this research forward. The emerging picture is that there are cognitive subsystems which specialize in different aspects of facial processing. This has been supported by neuropsychological evidence suggesting that brain damaged patients show dissociations between the different aspects of face processing. In addition, research on the development of facial processing abilities, and on aspects of the face itself which affect these processing abilities, has contributed to our understanding of how facial information is perceived. This special issue of Pragmatics and Cognition is intended to provide a common forum for a variety of the topics currently under investigation. Given the breadth of issues and approaches used to investigate faces, we encourage submissions from a wide range of disciplines. Our aim is that this special issue will tie together the diverse research on faces, and show their links and interdependencies. Deadline for submission: August 1, 1998 Editorial decisions: November 1, 1998 Revised papers due: February 1, 1999 Expected publication: October 1999 Papers should be submitted according to the guidelines of the journal (see WWW URL: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~dror/guideline.html). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Please send five copies of your submission either to: Dr. Itiel Dror (drorMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
wins.uva.nl>PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop FroCoS'98 Frontiers of Combining Systems October 2-4, 1998, Amsterdam In various areas of logic, computation, language processing, and artificial intelligence there is an obvious need for using specialized formalisms and inference mechanisms for special tasks. In order to be usable in practice, these specialized systems must be combined with each other, and they must be integrated into general purpose systems. Recently, the development of general techniques for the combination and integration of special systems has been initiated in many areas. After FroCoS'96, `Frontiers of Combining Systems '98' (FroCoS'98) is the second workshop intended to offer a common forum for these research activities. It also aims to offer the possibbility of presenting results on particular instances of combination and integration, and on their practical use. TOPICS - ---- Suggested, but not exclusive topics of interest for the workshop are: * combination of constraint solving techniques and combination of decision procedures * integration of equational and other theories into deductive systems * integration of data structures into CLP formalisms and deduction processes * combinations of logics and of term rewriting systems * hybrid systems in computational linguistics, knowledge representation, natural language processing, and human computer interaction * logical modeling of multi-agent systems. PROGRAMME COMMITEE - ---------------- Franz Baader, David Basin, Jacques Calmet, Dov Gabbay (co-chair), Natasha Kurtonina, Aart Middeldorp, Istvan Nemeti, Maarten de Rijke (co-chair), Christophe Ringeissen, Klaus Schulz, Amilcar Sernadas, Michael Wooldridge INVITED SPEAKERS - -------------- Names of invited speakers will be released shortly. PAPER SUBMISSIONS - --------------- Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of at most 10 pages to the second programme co-chair, either by e-mail (preferred) or regular mail. Results must be unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. The cover page should include title, authors, and the coordinates of the corresponding author. Following this it should be indicated which of the thematic areas best describes the content of the paper. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than May 15, 1998. All submissions will be thoroughly evaluated. On the basis of the referee reports, papers will be selected for presentation at the workshop and for the proceedings. Authors will be notified by July 15, 1998. We intend to publish the proceedings as a volume of the Kluwer series on ``Applied Logic''. ADDRESSES FOR SUBMISSIONS - ----------------------- Electronic submissions should be sent to frocos98Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue