[1] From: Nancy Ide <ide@univ-aix.fr> (161)
Subject: EURALEX'96
[2] From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk> (97)
Subject: NEW BOOK: "THE SEARCH FOR MIND"
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 12:21:27 +0000
From: Nancy Ide <ide@univ-aix.fr>
Subject: EURALEX'96
From: <imeyer@aix1.uottawa.ca>
The deadline for submitting papers to EURALEX 96 has been extended to
October 15.
General information below:
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SEVENTH EURALEX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR LEXICOGRAPHY
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
August 13-18, 1996
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Congress organizers
Martin Gellerstam
Jerker Jdrborg
Sven-Gvran Malmgren
Kerstin Norin
Lena Rogstrvm
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FIRST CIRCULAR & CALL FOR PAPERS
Time and venue
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The congress starts on the evening of Tuesday, August 13, 1996, and ends on
the morning of Sunday, August 18.
The congress will be held in the Faculty of Arts building ("Humanisten"),
situated in park surroundings in the southern part of central Gothenburg.
The plenary sessions will be held at the Musicology building just across
the park.
The bus from Landvetter airport (twenty minutes from the centre of Gothenburg)
stops at Korsvdgen, a few minutes walk from the faculty building.
Contact addresses
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The following addresses should be used for all information:
Congress Organizers
EURALEX96
University of Gothenburg
Department of Swedish
Section of lexicology
412 98 Gothenburg
Sweden
Fax: +46-31773 44 55 ("Att. EURALEX")
E-mail: gellerstam@svenska.gu.se
Phone: +46-317734544 (Gellerstam)
+46-317734467 (Malmgren)
+46-317734468 (Norin)
Programme
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The EURALEX Congresses bring together scholars, professional lexicographers,
publishers and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme
will include a workshop, plenary lectures, parallel sections of individual
papers, computer demonstrations, a poster session, and social events for
participants and their guests. The opening address will be given by Sture Allin,
former professor of Natural Language Processing at Gvteborg University and
permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
Topics
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Papers are invited on all aspects of lexicography but the principal topics
of the Congress are:
1. Computational Lexicology & Lexicography
2. Lexical combinatorics
3. The Dictionary-making Process
4. Bilingual lexicography
5. Lexicographical and lexicological projects
6. Terminology and dictionaries for special purposes
Submission
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Submissions will be refereed by a panel of referees for each major topic
(see above), and the programme will be selected by the Programme Committee.
Individual presentations should be timed to last 20 minutes, followed by
a ten-minute discussion period. There are no restrictions on the language
of presentation, but it is not possible to offer interpretation.
Authors should send five copies of a six- to eight-page double-spaced
preliminary version of their paper by **OCTOBER 15, 1995** to the Congress
Organizers at the address above.
The first page should contain the title of the paper, name(s), affiliation(s)
and complete address(es of author(s), a 10-line abstract of the paper,
and (in the top right corner) the title of the topic panel to which the paper
is submitted.
Authors whose papers are accepted will receive a style guide for the preparation
of a camera-ready copy for the Proceedings to be published immediately before
the Congress.
Important dates
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1 October 1995 Deadline for receipt of abstracts by Congress Organizers
15 February 1996 Despatch of notification of acceptance/rejection
15 April 1996 Deadline for receipt of paper for inclusion in the
Proceedings
Demonstrations and Exhibitions
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Computer facilities will be available and presenters are encouraged to offer
software demonstrations.
There will be an exhibition of dictionaries and other reference books. Intending
exhibitors should contact the Congress Organizers.
Pre-EURALEX tutorial
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There will be a pre-Euralex tutorial on Special field vocabulary. Details
will be announced later.
Referees panel (= the Euralex Board, the LexicoNordica Editorial Committee
and the local organizers)
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B.T.S. Atkins, H. Bergenholtz, H. Bijoint, T. Fontenelle, M. Gellerstam,
D. Gundersen, R. Hartmann, U. Heid, Jsn Hilmar Jsnsson, J. Jdrborg,
F. Knowles, S.-G. Malmgren, C. Marello, W. Martin, I. Meyer, K. Norin,
O. Norling-Christensen, K. Varantola
Programme Committee
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Henri Bejoint (University of Lyon, France), Ole Norling-Christensen
(The Society for Danish Language and Literature, Denmark), Martin Gellerstam
(University of Gothenburg, Sweden).
Registration
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The Registration fee is expected to be SEK 2000 (275 dollars at the present
rate of exchange) for Euralex members and SEK 2200 for non-members. The
Registration fee covers the academic programme, all documentation, including
the Proceedings, lunches and coffee break refreshments, the Congress excursion
and all receptions. The Congress dinner is not included. The guest fee, payable
by guests of the Congress participants is SEK 800. It covers the excursion and
other other social and cultural events which form part of the programme. The
fee for the Pre-Euralex Tutorial is SEK 500.
Accommodation
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Rooms have been reserved for Congress participants in the following hotel
categories:
First class hotel: single room per night SEK 620
Tourist class hotel: single room per night SEK 400
Student rooms: single room per night SEK 250
Student rooms have bathroom (shower) and shared kitchen facilities. The price is
calculated on accomodation for five nights.
All accomodations are within 15 minutes' walk from the Congress venue.
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TO RECEIVE THE SECOND CIRCULAR IN AUGUST 1995, PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE
ENCLOSED FORM TO THE CONGRESS ORGANIZERS (SEE ADDRESS ABOVE) BEFORE 31
JULY, 1995
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PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM FOR SEVENTH EURALEX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
AUGUST 13-18 1996
To receive the second circular in August 1995, please complete and return this
form before 31 July, 1995, to
EURALEX 96
University of Gothenburg
Department of Swedish
412 98 Gothenburg
Sweden
NAME ........................................
ADDRESS ....................................
COUNTRY ....................................
TELEFAX ....................................
TELEPHONE ...................................
INSTITUTION ................................
PLEASE, TICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVES
O I wish to present a paper at the congress
O I wish to present a poster at the congress
O I do not intend to present a paper/poster at the congress
ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES
O First class hotel
O Tourist class
O Student's room
Information about the SEVENTH EURALEX INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
can also be obtained via WWW:
http://logos.svenska.gu.se/euralex/euralex.html
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 13:15:44 +0000
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <P.McKevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: NEW BOOK: "THE SEARCH FOR MIND"
THE SEARCH FOR MIND
by
Se/an /O Nuall/ain
USA: Ablex, 1995
Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland, EU &
National Research Council (NRC), Ottawa, Canada
PRICE:
Book costs ISBN
US$ 49-50 (cloth) 1-56750-138-9
US$ 24-50 (paper) 1-56750-138-7
CONTACT:
Publisher; USA: Ablex, 1995.
Inquiries USA: 1-201-767-8450
"New Book giving comprehensive introduction to Cognitive Science"
Author's Summary:
The degree to which Cognitive Science as currently
conceived can aspire to be the science of mind is a difficult
issue. "The Search for Mind" proposes a radical new integrated
approach to Cognitive Science. Re-constructing Cognitive Science
in a presuppositionless way, the first part of the book comprises
clear introductions to the disciplines which traditionally are seen
to constitute Cognitive Science. From this analysis,a framework
emerges in which such issues as the relation between symbolic and
subsymbolic cognition,the role of embodiment,the interrelation of
context,situated cognition and the structure of language,and the
real causative role of affect in cognition are resolved. Part 2
first focusses on the nature of symbol systems,considered
generically,before going on to detail a theory of consciousness
and selfhood. Finally,these strands are woven together in a new
theory of cognition and its development. It is concluded that a
science which attempts fully to treat cognition must remain au fait
with the findings from all other approaches to the study of mind,
ranging from the purely behaviorist to the purely experiential. In
short, Cognitive Science has no choice but to aspire higher than
it often seems to at present.
"An impressive personal synthesis of a diverse field"
"I hope it will successfully inspire and influence discussion on
a number of important foundational issues for cognitive science".
NILS DAHLBACK, Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Linkoping, Sweden
"The emerging science of Consciousness needs to pay attention to
this voice in order to keep alive the hope of humanizing modern
science"
JACOB NEEDLEMAN, San Francisco State University
"Witty and Erudite"
ANN STUART LAUBSTEIN, Dept of Linguistics,
Carleton University, Canada
"Dr. O Nuallain is a very talented researcher. He is extremely widely
read and has the ability to draw together strands from many
different disciplines. A good example of this would be his
forthcoming book on Cognitive Science in which he
displays in depth understanding of current themes in linguistics,
philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The book is
particularly interesting as it brings a fresh, innovative and
questioning approach to these themes".
MICHAEL McTEAR, Professor of Knowledge Engineering,University of
Ulster
"The book is divided in two parts: the constituent disciplines of
Cognitive Science, encompassing philosophy, psychology,
linguistics, neuroscience, AI and less expectedly ethnoscience and
ethology. Part 2, A new foundation for Cognitive Science, deals in
turn with Symbol systems, Consciousness and Selfhood, Cognitive
Science and the search for mind.
Knowledge on the field is presented in a very synthetic way, with
a very firm grasp on what the reader should remember. This
well-balanced guidance implies freedom of judgement and courage,
while offering an impressive number of alternative choices, through
references and brief presentations of current lines of thought.
There is much to chew, and a good lot of humour to ease the process
(including drawings).Difficult questions are put in plain language,
but accuracy and correct methodology are never lost in the process.
Thanks to this book, much has been done to delimitate the space
where cognitive science should be developing. We will surely argue
on many issues, but this presentation is humanist and passionate
enough to precisely foster more effort to define what cognitive
science should be about".
(From a review in the JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW,
Vol. 8(5-6), Special Volume on LANGUAGE + VISION integration)
NADINE LUCAS and JEAN-BAPTISTE BERTHELIN, LIMSI,
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France
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Dr. Se/an /O Nuall/ain will visit the Computer Science Department at
the University of Sheffield from October for 3 months to cooperate on
the Human Capital and Mobility (HCM) "Dialogue and Discourse" project
(re: Sheila Williams). Se/an will present a series of seminars at
Sheffield on his recent work on "Language and Vision integration" and
his book with Ablex: "The Search for Mind".
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Se/an /O Nuall/ain holds an M.Sc. in Psychology from University
College, Dublin, Ireland and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Trinity
College, Dublin, Ireland. He is currently on sabbatical leave at the
National Research Council (NRC), Canada from his lecturing post at
Dublin City University, Ireland where he initiated and directed the
B.Sc. in Applied Computational Linguistics. He is the author of a
book on the foundations of Cognitive Science: "The Search for Mind"
(Ablex, 1995). He has run the first international workshop on
REACHING FOR MIND with Paul Mc Kevitt at Sheffield in April, 1995.
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