[1] From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck@kom.auc.dk> (237)
Subject: AI-97 (Ireland) (Call For Papers)
[2] From: Geert-Jan Kruijff <gj@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (73)
Subject: VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES (Nov.'97 and Mar.'98 in
Prague)
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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Mc Kevitt <pmck@kom.auc.dk>
Subject: AI-97 (Ireland) (Call For Papers)
AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"?
<<CALL FOR PAPERS>> <<CALL FOR PAPERS>> <<CALL FOR PAPERS>>
Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
in tandem with:
Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
AI IN "CRISIS" ?
Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the
wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts
towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data
collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards
integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating
language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing,
more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise
of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of
AI...
Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This ninth
AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising
presentations of Irish and International original research in all
areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 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 which address
whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its
failures/successes are particularly welcome!
Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on
streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude
Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave
the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial
Intelligence.
Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
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Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geert-Jan Kruijff <gj@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES (Nov.'97 and Mar.'98 in Prague)
ANNOUNCEMENT
VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES 11 and 12
Prague, Czech Republic,
November 1997 and March 1998
The Vilem Mathesius Teaching and Research Center in Linguistics and
Semiotics (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague), will
organize its eleventh Lecture Series in November 1997, and its twelfth
Lecture Series in March 1998. Below you will find more detailed
information on the programmes of these series, and on how to contact us.
LECTURE SERIES 11
The eleventh lecture series will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from
*November 10 until 21*, 1997. The venue will be the Krystal hotel.
The following prominent scholars will lecture at the eleventh series
(usually three 90 minutes lectures):
* Sue Atkins, Great Britain: Frame-based lexicography
* Charles J. Fillmore, USA (Berkeley): Frame semantics and the lexicon
* Barbara Grosz, USA (Boston): Issues of discourse analysis
* Aravind Joshi, USA (Philadelphia): Lexicalized grammars:
Linguistic, logical, computational and processing issues
* Jacob Mey, Denmark (Odense): Pragmatic acts
* Paolo Ramat, Italy: Linguistic categories and linguists' categorizations
* John R. Ross (Canada): Poetics and the grammar of space
* Helmut Schnelle (Germany): to be announced
* Arnim von Stechow (Germany): to be announced
* Mark Steedman, USA (Philadelphia): to be announced
* Dean Worth, USA (Los Angeles): Diachronic interaction of
related languages: Diglossia, bilingualism, or?
Among the invited Czech teachers there are Frantisek Cermak, Jan Hajic,
Eva Hajicova, Oldrich Leska, Jarmila Panevova, Jaroslav Peregrin, Vladimir
Petkevic, Petr Sgall.
There is a limited number of grants available for students from CEE
countries. These grants cover accommodation, breakfast, and lunches for
the duration of the series. Normal registration is US$ 350, covering the
tuition fee, acommodation, breakfast, and lunches.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION:
July 15, 1997
For applications for grants, see below.
LECTURE SERIES 12
The Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 12 will be held from March 9 until
20, 1998, in Prague. The venue will be the Krystal hotel, as for the
lectures; the special conference "Bridges and Interfaces" (see below)
will take place in the old centre of Prague.
The invitation to lecture at the Lecture Series 12 has already been
accepted by V. Borschev, W. Dressler, C.J. Fillmore, K. von Fintel, L.
Karttunen, F. Kiefer, J.D. McCawley, W. Noth, B.H. Partee, J.
Pierrehumbert, H. Riemsdijk, I. Sag, H. Schnelle, J. Toman, and A. Zaenen.
In connection with the twelfth lecture series there will be the
international linguistic conference "Bridges and Interfaces: Form,
Meaning, and Function" held at the occasion of the 650th Anniversary of
Charles University. The conference will take place on March 12 until 14,
1998, and it will focus on the relationships between form, meaning and
function of linguistic items from the perspective of different theoretical
approaches providing thus a fruitful basis for a discussion of bridges and
interfaces between different linguistic theories.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION:
November 30, 1997
GRANTS
Applications for grants for students from CEE countries should be
accompanied by a recommendation of the student's professor from his home
university or country.
DEADLINES for applying for grants are as follows:
- Lecture Series 11: May 31, 1997
- Lecture Series 12: November 30, 1997
Applications should be sent to the address below.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Vilem Mathesius Center
MFF UK - Linguistics e-mail: brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Malostranske nam. 25 (cc: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz)
118 00 Praha 1 fax: +420-2-2191 4309
Czech Republic tel.:+420-2-2191 4278