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From: fass@cs.sfu.ca
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:52 -0800
Subject: <mod-ki 0670> CFP: IJCAI-WS comp.appr. to non-literal language
Keywords: Workshops, natural language

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

                           IJCAI-91 WORKSHOP

            COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO NON-LITERAL LANGUAGE:
           METAPHOR, METONYMY, IDIOM, SPEECH ACTS, IMPLICATURE

               Dan Fass, James Martin, Elizabeth Hinkelman

                   Sydney, Australia, 24th August 1991

1. Focus of the Workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to stimulate exchange and discussion of
theoretical issues and practical problems of artificial intelligence
(AI) models of non-literal language. Non-literal language includes
metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, implicature, hyperbole,
metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices whose meaning
cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent words.
Non-literal language is increasingly acknowledged as pervasive in
natural language and is important to subfields of natural language
processing like machine translation and parsing ill-formed input.
Non-literal language has also attracted interest from researchers in
knowledge representation, planning and plan recognition, learning,
belief modeling, and other subfields of AI.

Researchers are invited to submit papers on topics including (but not
limited to) the computer recognition, interpretation, acquisition,
generation, and robust parsing of non-literal language. Issues of
interest include:

o  the relationship of non-literal to literal language,
o  the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation
   (symbolic vs connectionist vs statistical),
o  static vs dynamic mechanisms,
o  general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances,
o  instances as novel vs conventional forms,
o  comparison and contrast of models of the various forms
   of non-literal language,
o  broader implications for AI.

2. Organizing Committee
   Dan Fass                         James Martin
   Centre for Systems Science,      Computer Science Department and
   Simon Fraser University,         Institute of Cognitive Science,
   Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.     University of Colorado at Boulder,
   Tel:    (604) 291-3208           Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA
   Fax:    (604) 291-4951           Tel:    (303) 492-3552
   E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca           Fax:    (303) 492-2844
                                    E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu
   Elizabeth Hinkelman
   Center for Information and Language Studies,
   University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street,
   Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
   Tel:    (312) 702-8887
   Fax:    (312) 702-0775
   E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu

3.  Submission Details
Authors should mail three (3) copies of a submission in hard copy form.
Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (excluding title page);
have 1 inch margins on the top, sides and bottom; and use no smaller
than 10 point type. The title page, separate from the body of the paper,
should contain title, names of authors, their affiliation, address,
phone, e-mail address, and an abstract of 100-200 words. Papers that do
not conform to this format will not be reviewed. Send submissions to
Dan Fass at his address, given above. Please do not send submissions to
James Martin or Elizabeth Hinkelman.

o  Deadline for submissions                Thu. May 2
o  Notification of acceptance/rejection    Fri. May 31

4.  Workshop Details
Attendance at the workshop will be limited to 30 participants. Only
one invitation will be issued per accepted submission. To cover costs,
it will be necessary to charge a fee of $US65 for each participant.
Participants will be given further instructions on preparation of camera
ready copy and session format when they receive notification of
acceptance. Final papers will be collected into a set of proceedings and
circulated to participants at the workshop.

Arrangements (yet to be confirmed) are being made for a Special Edition
of Computational Intelligence journal, edited by Fass, Martin and
Hinkelman, in which selected papers from the workshop will appear.
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