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From: fass@cs.sfu.ca
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: 16 Oct 91 20:09 -0700
Subject: <mod-ki 0775> COMP.INT. special issue on non-literal language
Keywords: Publications, Natural Language, Human-Machine Interaction

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              Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language
                          COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
                               Special Issue
                              CALL FOR PAPERS

You are invited to submit a paper to a Special  Issue  of  COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE  Journal  on  Computational   Approaches   to   Non-Literal
Language, edited  by  Dan Fass,  James Martin  and  Elizabeth Hinkelman.

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE has been publishing regularly four  issues  a
year  since  1984  with  an  international   editorial   board   of   48
distinguished researchers  covering  all  areas  of  AI.  The  executive
editors are Nick Cercone and Gord McCalla. From 1992  on,  COMPUTATIONAL
INTELLIGENCE will be published by Basil Blackwell Inc.

The Special Issue is to appear in .......................... August 1992
Submission deadline is ............................... February 6th 1991
Please let Dan Fass know by e-mail or letter by ..... November 15th 1991
if you intend to submit, giving a tentative title and brief  description
of the contents of your paper.

1. Focus of the Special Issue
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. Papers are  invited  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. Impetus for the Special Issue
The editors of the  Special  Issue  recently  organized  a  workshop  on
non-literal language at IJCAI-91.  Attendees,  besides  the  organizers,
were  John Barnden,   Ted Briscoe,   Jerry Hobbs,   Eric van der Linden,
Hiroshi  Motoda,    Yamagami  Matsumoto,    David  Powers,    Lisa  Rau,
Cameron Shelley,  Raoul Smith,  Susan Weber,  Sylvia Weber Russell,  and
Janet Wiles.

The 169 page  workshop  proceedings  will  be  available  shortly  as  a
technical report from the University of Colorado at Boulder. There  will
be a charge, to be determined. Please contact James Martin  for  further
details.

3. Schedule for the Special Issue
Notification of intention to submit .................. Thurs Nov 14 1991
Submission deadline .................................. Thurs Feb  6 1992 
Reviews returned ..................................... Thurs Mar 19 1992  
Revised, accepted papers received .................... Thurs Apr 23 1992  

4. Manuscript Preparation and Review
Typical submissions should be 25-50 pages  in  manuscript  form,  though
exceptions may be made. The manuscript should be double spaced and typed
on one side of the page only. Each page  of  the  manuscript  should  be
numbered, beginning with the title page.

The title page should include the  title,  authors'  names,  institution
of origin, and its  address  (including  postal  code).  Please  include
telephone number(s) and e-mail address.

An abstract should be not more than 200 words, and on a  separate  page.
References should not be cited in the manuscript.

More detailed Instructions to Authors will be sent to those intending to
submit a paper.

Please note that for an author's submission to be reviewed,  the  author
must review three other submissions to the Special Issue.

5. The Editors

   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
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