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From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: 9 May 91 10:04 -0700
Subject: <mod-ki 0702> IJCAI-91 Workshop non-lit.Language (new deadline)
Keywords: IJCAI-91, Workshops

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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

 o  New deadline for submissions ...............  Thursday May 30th
 o  New notification of acceptance/rejection ...  Friday   June 7th

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.

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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