LINGUIST List 16.181: Cognitive Sci/India; Historical Ling/Indo-European

LINGUIST List 16.181

Thu Jan 20 2005

Calls: Cognitive Sci/India; Historical Ling/Indo-European

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <meganlinguistlist.org>

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1. Achla Raina, Spatial Issues in Language and Vision
2. Angelo Mercado, 17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Message 1: Spatial Issues in Language and Vision

Date: 18-Jan-2005
From: Achla Raina <achlaiitk.ac.in>
Subject: Spatial Issues in Language and Vision

Full Title: Spatial Issues in Language and Vision
Short Title: SILV

Date: 24-Mar-2005 - 25-Mar-2005
Location: Kanpur, U.P., India
Contact Person: Amitabha Mukerjee
Meeting Email: amitiitk.ac.in
Web Site: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/silv/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2005

Meeting Description:

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPATIAL ISSUES IN LANGUAGE AND VISION

     March 24-25, 2005
     IIT Kanpur, India

     Overview
     The underlying models of space affects language in a profound
     way, as it does the modalities for sensory interpretation such
     as Vision. While there are a number of separate forums dealing
     with Spatial Cognition, Computer Vision, or Natural Language,
     there is a need for a venue where researchers working on space
     as it relates to vision and language can interact. The SILV
     workshop intends to fill this gap, and is the outcome of
     preliminary discussions held at the International Spatial
     Cognition Summer Institute at Bad Zwischenhahn in September
     2003.

     SILV is conceived as a two-day workshop with many
     opportunities for researchers to interact freely.  The main
     areas of emphasis are:

     * Modeling Visual Space with respect Shape Models,
         Language Acquisition,

         Attentive Mechanisms for Task Execution,
         Scene Analysis, Motion and Video Analysis, etc.
         Statistical and Morphological Approaches in IP

     * Spatial and Language Issues - Topological and Distance Models
         Spatio-Temporal reasoning, Semantic Lexicon building, Concept
         Formation, Evolution of Conceptual Structures, Motion Planning
         etc.

     * Cognitive Processes in Space, Sensing, and Communication. Cognitive
         Experiments relating space, language, navigation, positioning,
         perceptual differences, formation of spatial concepts, etc.

     The workshop format would be a single track meeting, with
     several opportunities for breakout discussions and
     interactions.

     About IIT Kanpur

     The city of Kanpur is in North India, about 400 km east of
     Delhi.  The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur is
     located on a green campus not very far from the river Ganges,
     which flows through Kanpur.  The city was founded as a
     cantonment town in the early years of British presence in
     India, and is today a busy commercial hub with a number of
     monuments from the British era.  Lucknow, Agra, and Varanasi
     are other towns within easy reach of Kanpur.  The city is
     served by the Lucknow-Kanpur International Airport, as well as
     a frequent train service from Delhi.

     March 24-25 is just before the Indian Festival of colours
     called Holi, so participants are encouraged to experience the
     extremely colourful (literally) activities of Holi on March 26
     should they wish. This is one of the major festivals of North
     India and recounts the love story between the Lor Krishna and
     the milkmaid Radha.

     PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

     Submit papers electronically (no more than 8 pages in the IEEE
     two-column, single spaced, 10pt, format available at
     http://www.ieee.org), PDF files strongly preferred, to
                 silvcse.iitk.ac.in.

     DEADLINES

     * Full Paper submission  31 January 2005
     * Notification re acceptance  25 February 2005
     * Camera-ready version due  15 March 2005
     * Workshop dates  24-25 March 2005

     ORGANIZERS

     Pabitra Mitra (IIT Kanpur)
     Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT Kanpur)
     K S Venkatesh (IIT Kanpur)

     Program Committee

     Barbara Tversky (Stanford University)
     Dana Ballard (U. of Rochester)
     Subhashis Banerjee (IIT Delhi)
     B.B. Chaudhuri (ISI Calcutta)
     Tony Cohn (U. Leeds)
     Christian Freksa (U. Bremen)
     David Hogg (U. Leeds)
     Harish Karnick (IIT Kanpur)
     Daniel Montello (U. Santa Barbara)
     Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT Kanpur)
     PJ Narayanan (IIIT Hyderabad)
     Achla Raina (IIT Kanpur)
     Vishwanathan Ramesh (SCR Siemens)

     Additional information
     URL:  http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/silv/

Message 2: 17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Date: 18-Jan-2005
From: Angelo Mercado <maomucla.edu>
Subject: 17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

Full Title: 17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference
Short Title: WeCIEC 17

Date: 28-Oct-2005 - 29-Oct-2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Contact Person: Stephanie Jamison
Meeting Email: jamisonhumnet.ucla.edu
Web Site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IEC.html

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature

Language Family(ies): Indo-European

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2005

Meeting Description:

17th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (28-29 October 2005), an
international and interdisciplinary conference on Indo-European
linguistics, philology, and archaeology.

The Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference will be held on
Friday-Saturday,  28-29* October 2005, on the campus of the University of
California, Los Angeles.

We invite papers on any aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics,
archaeology, comparative mythology, culture. Papers on both
interdisciplinary and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology,
reconstruction, the relation of Indo-European to other language groups, the
interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome. A period of twenty
minutes will be allotted for each paper, followed by a ten-minute
discussion period. Abstracts** must be received by 1 June 2005. Please
note the earlier dates and deadlines for the upcoming conference.

* Depending upon the number of abstracts received and topics treated, the
conference may be extended to Sunday, 30 October.
** We ask that those contemplating submission of an abstract  please pay
careful attention to the following guidelines:

- Abstracts should be no more than 1-2 pages typewritten  (about 700 words
maximum).
- Please attach a cover sheet, with your name, institutional affiliation,
and accurate contact information (mailing  address and e-mail address) for
the summer and fall of 2005.
- Abstracts should indicate the precise topic to be treated,  the author's
contribution to the problem, the relationship of  the work to previous
scholarship on the topic, and the author's specific conclusions and their
relevance for the field of Indo-European Studies.
- Only one abstract may be submitted per person.
- If an abstract is accepted:
-- the author is invited to submit a revised  abstract in an electronic
format (in addition  to the preliminary abstract), e.g. Microsoft® Word
document (DOC; please include any special fonts used),  Rich Text Format
(RTF), Postscript (PS), or Portable Document  Format (PDF; most preferred),
etc., by 1 October  2005 for publication on line;
-- the final version of the paper must be read at the conference  by the
author of the abstract. (In the case of a co-authored  abstract, the final
version must be presented by one or more  of the co-authors.)

Address all abstracts and inquiries to:

     Indo-European Conference Committee
     UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies
     100 Dodd Hall
     405 Hilgard Avenue
     Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
     USA

Preliminary abstracts can also be sent via e-mail as an attached file (see
instructions on submitting revised  electronic abstracts at
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/IECeAbstracts.html) to Prof. Stephanie
Jamison (jamisonucla.edu).

For further information, please contact the Program's main office by
telephone at 1 (310) 825-4171 (weekdays, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. US Pacific
Time) or by fax at 1 (310) 206-1903.

ATTENTION: JUNIOR SCHOLARS!

Through the generosity of its donors, the Friends and Alumni of
Indo-European Studies (FAIES) will offer a prize for the  best paper by a
current student or recent Ph.D. (received  2000 or later). Please indicate
your current status and year of Ph.D. with your abstract if you qualify. At
least one week prior to the conference, eligible presenters should contact
Dr. Karlene Jones-Bley:

     2143 Kelton Avenue
     Los Angeles, CA 90025-5705
     USA
     KJonesBleyaol.com

The most up-to-date information on the conference and the UCLA Program in
Indo-European Studies can be found on the program's website at
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/.
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