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  • Roberta Ferrario, Context 2003

    Message 1: Context 2003

     Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:22:01 +0200
    From: Roberta Ferrario <roberta.ferrarioeconomia.unitn.it>
    Subject: Context 2003


    ****************************************************************** ****************** Call for participation ****************** ******************************************************************

    +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

    We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online. Please, follow this link to formalize your registration:

    http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/

    You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips.

    TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION

    Monday June 23, 2003 - ------------------ 9:00-9:15 Welcome

    9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake (Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA)

    10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

    10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I

    * Robert Porzel Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and Situational Coherence

    * Hugo Liu Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design

    * Martin Trautwein Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts

    * Mark Whitsey Discourse Context and Indexicality

    12:30-14:15 Lunch

    14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning

    * Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy Varieties of Contexts

    * John Bell A Common Sense Theory of Causation

    15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I

    * Rolf Nossum A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction

    * Luciano Serafini Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database Coordination

    16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

    16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling

    * Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus Explanation as Contextual Categorization

    * Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties

    * Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context

    18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden.

    Tuesday June 24, 2003 - -------------------

    9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford University, USA)

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

    11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations

    * Claudia Bianchi How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context

    * Roger Young Demonstratives, Reference and Perception

    * Horacio Arlo-Costa A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives

    * Isidora Stojanovic What to Say on What Is Said

    12:40-14:15 Lunch

    14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II

    * Richmond Thomason Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an Application

    * Sasa Buvac A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic

    * Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms

    * Valeria de Paiva Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality

    16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

    16:30:-18:30 Poster Session

    20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees).

    Wednesday June 25, 2003 - ---------------------

    9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon (LIP 6, University Paris 6, France)

    10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

    11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications

    * Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations

    * Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network

    * Lucas Paletta Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection

    * Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model

    12:40-14:15 Lunch

    14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II

    * Nobo Komagata Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory

    * Kavita Thomas Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue

    * David Ahn Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification

    15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

    16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III

    * Dominic Widdows A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning

    * Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching

    16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks

    CONFERENCE CHAIR

    Fausto Giunchiglia (Universit� degli Studi di Trento, Italy)

    PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

    Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France) Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK) Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA)

    LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

    Dikran Karagueuzian (dikranroslin.stanford.edu) Michele King (mkingcsli.stanford.edu) John Perry (johncsli.stanford.edu) Keith Devlin (devlincsli.stanford.edu) Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibettipsych.stanford.edu)