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The Eighth International Workshop on the
Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8)
(http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/)
"LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
GALWAY, IRELAND
Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999
in association with:
"Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"
(Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August, 1999)
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
(http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html)
"LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"
What common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these
disparate modes of thought?? Language (natural & formal), vision and
music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical
organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility
of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the
existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these
three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of
such entities as cerebral columnar automna?? Also, we invite papers
which examine cross-cultural experience of these modalities.
What can Engineering of software platforms for integrated Intelligent
MultiModal & MultiMedia processing of language/vision/music/etc. tell
us??
TOPICS INCLUDE:
o combinations: language and music; language and vision; music and vision.
o What can Engineering of software platforms
(e.g. AAU CHAMELEON; c.f. http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm) for
integrated Intelligent MultiMedia processing of language/vision/etc.
tell us??
o Metaphor: For example: the use of terms like "interval"
and "range" in music.
o Rhythm: How is Rhythm important for language, vision and music??
o Acoustics: What role does it play in the three modalities??
o The roles of embodiment and culture in the formation of symbolic
apparati; For example: the use of gesture in face-to-face
communication.
o Emotions: what role do they play in the three modalities??
o Synesthesia
o What the visual, musical and linguistic arts can tell us.
o What is the developmental relationship between prosody and music??
What is the cognitive evidence for the dependence of music on
language??
o Can we speak meaningfully about a semantics of music??
o Architectures for integration of language, vision and music;
what aspects are conscious and what automatic?? What aspects are
common and what are specific to each??
o What is the role of modelling creativity??
Are the creative processes similar or in what way are they different??
SPECIAL SESSION ON CREATIVITY:
In AI we have failed to get much handle on creativity.
Conn Mulvihill will Chair a special session on creativity
looking at writing, poetry, painting, and music composition.
Irish Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney is
composing a translation of Beowulf at present with special attention to
the sound - reminiscent of movement in a longship type craft and there
are those that claim that music is central to any hope of understanding
Joyce. We think also of the likes of Kandinsky here.
Is Joyce prose or music? Is Kandinsky art or music??
What is Picasso? What are the links between language, vision and music??
Is creativity the same for each? and by the way, What is creativity??
It is intended to involve Writers in Residence at NUI, Galway
Pat McCabe ("The Butcher Boy") & Paula Meehan (Poet).
o Are recent trends towards integrating ideas in the
Arts/Humanities and Sciences/Engineering important here??
o Why are there many arts and not just one??
CSNLP:
The International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural
Language Processing (CSNLP) has been run in IRELAND since 1992. The
CSNLP-8 workshop will continue the tradition of emphasising
presentations of Ireland's and International original research in all
areas of the Cognitive Science of NLP including Computer Science,
Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience and related
disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and vision
processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge representation
and mobile/remote computing. Papers addressing this year's theme are
particularly welcome.
CSNLP-8 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKER
*** Mark Steedman ***
Division of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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MARK STEEDMAN has recently become Professor of Cognitive Science in
the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
after a move from the University of Pennsylvania, US where he was a
Professor of Computer and Infomation Science. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence. His research spans
a wide range of issues in lingusitcs and computational linguistics,
artificial intelligence, computer science and cognitive science,
including syntax and semantics of natural languages and programming
languages, parsing and comprehension of natural language discourse by
humans and by machine, natural language generation, and spoken
discourse, as well as the analysis of music by humans and machines.
He has published widely in linguistic, computational, and
psychological arenas. Much of his current NLP research is addressed
to issues in spoken discourse and dialogue, especially the meaning of
intonation and prosody, using the framework of Combinatory Categorial
Grammar (CCG) which he helped to develop.
(http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~steedman/)
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We may have other invited speakers and these will be announced in the
call for participation.
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HOSTED BY:
THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI)
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Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI)
and
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
GALWAY, IRELAND
CHAIRS:
Paul Mc Kevitt
(Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Sheffield, England)
Conn Mulvihill
(National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
CSNLP-8 (LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Liam Bannon (University of Limerick & Xerox PARC, Stanford, US)
John Barnden (University of Birmingham, England)
Bill Barry (University of Sarbruecken, Germany)
David Bell (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Niels Ole Bernsen (Odense University, Denmark)
Mike Brady (Oxford University, England)
Derek Bridge (University College Cork)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Jon Campbell (University of Ulster, Magee)
Norman Creaney (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Michel Denis (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)
Daniel Dennett (Tufts University, US)
Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Mikael Fernstrom (University of Limerick)
John Fitch (University of Bath, England)
James Flanagan (Rutgers University, US)
John Gammack (Murdoch University, Perth, Australia)
Erik Granum (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Niall Griffith (University of Limerick)
ChengMing Guo (University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Steven Harnad (University of Southampton, England)
Jerry Harper (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Douglas Hofstadter (Indiana University, US)
Brian Karlsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Mark Keane (University College Dublin)
Shalom Lappin (King's College London, England)
Margaret Leahy (Trinity College Dublin)
Chin-Hui Lee (Lucent Technologies, US)
Bernard Levrat (LERIA, University of Angers, France)
James Martin (University of Colorado, US)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, Massachusetts, US)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, England)
Paul Mc Kevitt (Aalborg University & University of Sheffield)
Peadar Mc Kevitt (Global Information Partnership (GIP) Ltd., Dublin)
Barry McMullin (Dublin City University)
Alex Monaghan (Dublin City University)
Andrew Morris (IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland)
Conn Mulvihill (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Fergal Murray (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Fionn Murtagh (Queen's University Belfast)
Stephen Nachmanovitch (Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US)
Yoshiki Niwa (Hitachi Limited, Tokyo, Japan)
John Nolan (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Diarmuid O Donoghue (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Greg O Hare (University College Dublin)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin City University)
Melanie O Reilly (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Padraig /O Seaghdha (Lehigh University, US)
Douglas O Shaughnessy (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada)
Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu University, Japan)
Derek Partridge (University of Exeter, England)
Gert Rickheit (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Jonathan Rowe (De Montford University, England)
Gerard Sabah (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England)
Noel Sheehy (Queen's University Belfast)
Arnold Smith (NRC, Ottawa, Canada)
Humphrey Sorensen (University College Cork)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Keith Stenning (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Kris Th/orisson (MIT Media Lab., Cambridge, US)
Peter Todd (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan & UMIST, England)
David Vernon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Walther von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Ipke Wachsmuth (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Paul Whelan (Dublin City University)
Mary McGee-Wood (University of Manchester, England)
Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI):
The aim of the CSSI is the promotion of cognitive science teaching
and research in the island of Ireland. Membership is open to anyone
anywhere who supports the goals of the organization. We are open to
further nominations for the steering committee. Membership is
IR £20 (IEP) (US DOLLARS $30) (STERLING £19).
Two already-established conferences will be run in Ireland by CSSI:
"The Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP)", and
"Mind". Members will receive free electronic
copies of proceedings of both conferences, an annual newsletter, and
proceedings of the AGM. It is planned to establish a web page
which, over time, will offer an increasing range of services.
Initially, conference information, a membership form, and links to
other relevant web sites will be provided.
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~jkellehe/CSSI/cssi.html
http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci/latest/cssi.html
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
Our intention is to have as much interaction as possible during the
workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion as much as formal
paper presentations. Plenary session will attempt to integrate themes
and topics of CSNLP-8.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Papers of not more than 8 A4 pages should be submitted by electronic
mail (ASCII plain text + preferably uuencoded compressed postscript)
to Paul Mc Kevitt at pmck@cpk.auc.dk. If you cannot submit your paper
by E-mail please submit three copies to Paul Mc Kevitt by snail mail.
**** Submission Deadline: March 17, 1999
**** Notification Date: May 1, 1999
**** Camera ready Copy: June 1, 1999
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published. If there is sufficient
interest we will publish a book on the workshop.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
Paul Mc Kevitt
Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK)
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7-A5
Institute of Electronic Systems (IES)
Aalborg University
DK- 9220, Aalborg
DENMARK.
E-mail: pmck@cpk.auc.dk
FaX: (+45) 98 15 15 83
Phone: (+45) 96 35 86 56
WWW: http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm
Conn Mulvihill
Information Technology (IT) Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
IRL- Galway, Co. Galway
IRELAND.
E-mail: conn@it.ucg.ie
FaX: (+353) -91-750501
Phone: (+353) -91-524411
WWW: http://www.it.ucg.ie/
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
School of Computer Applications
Dublin City University
IRL- Dublin 9, Dublin
IRELAND.
E-mail: sean.onuallain@compapp.dcu.ie
FaX: (+353) -1-7045442
Phone: (+353) -1-7045073
WWW: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/
SOCIAL:
This meeting will have a surplus of social events and a
planned conference tour is a boat trip of the Aran Islands.
CEILI:
It is intended that we organise at least one
Ceili during the Workshop and all participants are
invited to bring their musical instruments to participate.
GALWAY, IRELAND:
http://www.galway.net
http://www.galway.local.ie
http://www.galwayonline.ie
GALWAY, IRELAND is a twin-city of AALBORG, DENMARK
""CITY OF THE TRIBES "To hell or to Connaught" ordered Cromwell as the
dispossessed flocked west in their droves. The land may still be poor
but no-one these days would equate Connaught with hell. As anyone who
ever watched the sun go down on the famously beautiful Galway bay will
tell you, it's definitely more on the heavenly end of the spectrum. A
friendly sprawling city, Galway has all the amenities of a much larger
place yet maintains its laid-back vibe. As a University town, it is
incredibly youthful, culturally vibrant and undeniably
cosmopolitan. You can lose your shirt at the races or your inhibitions
at the oyster festival. A light mist will enhance your complexion as
you cycle over the salmon weir, along by the cathedral. Bring your
umbrella and prepare to have lots of fun....""
(see http://www.galway.local.ie)
EVENTS IRELAND:
http://www.emigrant.ie/calendar.htm
VISIT IRELAND:
http://www.ireland.travel.ie
http://www.iol.ie/~discover
http://www.local.ie
related meetings:
IJCAI-99
JULY 31 - AUGUST 6, 1999
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
The above meetings will follow the Sixteenth International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99)
to be held in Stockholm, Sweden
(see http://www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/)
7TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON LANGUAGE AND SPEECH COMMUNICATION
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MULTIMODALITY IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH SYSTEMS (MiLaSS)
12-23 July 1999
Stockholm, Sweden
(http://www.speech.kth.se/milass)
INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE IN MULTI-MODAL SYSTEMS
JUNE 22 - JUNE 25, 1999
Kloster Irsee, Germany
(http://www.cpk.auc.dk/ids99/)
also soon:
Tenth Irish Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-99)
(Wednesday 1st - Friday 3rd September, 1999)
(University College Cork, Ireland)
(http://www.cs.ucc.ie/aics99)
Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP-99)
8th - 9th September, 1999
(Dublin City University, Ireland)
(http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~imvip99/imvip99.html)
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