For work on this project, partner Technische Universität München (Germany) is offering a position for a Computational Linguist / Computer Scientist The tasks to be worked on include the integration of speech recognition and language processing with image processing, intelligent agent architectures, and system integration. Details sind in dem angehängten PDF Text zu finden. =========================================================================== Dear Colleague, below you will find the Mind&Brain Prize 2006 announcement. The cerimony will be held in Turin, Italy; this year the prize winners are John Searle, Giovanni Liotti and Andra Comba. Please forward this message to your colleagues and to anyone interested. Best regards Valeria Manera MIND & BRAIN PRIZE – 2006 EDITION TURIN – MAY 24, 2006 The Center for Cognitive Science of Torino will award the 2006 M&B Prize to: - John R. Searle, University of Berkeley: for the significant insights and the remarkable theoretical and technical advancements in the study of the mind and of the nature and structure of language in its social reality. - Giovanni Liotti, president of the Italian Society for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (SITCC): for the outstanding theoretical advancements in the field of Attachment Theory, and for the clinical implications of his studies on the aetiopathogenesis and treatment of dissociative and borderline states. - Andrea Comba, president of the CRT Foundation: for the active involvement in supporting and sponsoring scientific research in cognitive sciences. The award ceremony will be held in Turin on May 24, 2006. The Mind & Brain Prize was established in 2003 and aims at honoring the most relevant researchers in the field of Cognitive Science, as well as persons whose generous support and sponsorship has contributed to the growth and development of the discipline. In previous editions the Center for Cognitive Science awarded the prize to Jerry A. Fodor, James L. McClelland, Philip Johnson-Laird, Domenico Parisi, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Carlo Umiltà. Every useful information about the present and the past editions of the Mind & Brain Prize can be found at the following web site: http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/mindbrain/default.html On May 25 John Searle will held a public conference at Torino Incontra Cenference Centre. For more information please contact Valeria Manera: valeria.manera@unito.it -- Valeria Manera PhD Student Center for Cognitive Science University and Polytechnic of Torino via Po, 14 10123 TORINO =========================================================================== 2nd Call for Papers Please apologize cross-postings Workshop on Constraints in Discourse ======================== http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid06 This is the second in a series of workshops entitled "Constraints in Discourse". For a many years, the development of precise frameworks of discourse interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding of the dependencies between different discourse units. The past 15 years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the interpretation of their interrelations. Last year's workshop CID2005 in Dortmund revealed a number of issues that still have to be clarified and worked upon. Most relevant topics turned out to be: - the necessity to have a look at intonation and discourse structure more closely; - the question of formal properties of discourse structure (tree-like or graph-like etc.); - the question of (psychological, social or linguistic) reality of constraints; - the interface between utterance-level and discourse-level analysis; - and the empirical foundation and availability of corpus annotation of constraints. The goal of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presenting recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal approaches, including but not limited to: - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) - Tree Adjoining Grammars - Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - The QUD Modell - Plan Based Reasoning - Abductive Reasoning - Gricean Pragmatics - Speech Act Theory We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to - Anaphora Resolution - Co-reference - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse - Questions and Answers - Lexicon and Discourse Relations - Cognitive Modeling - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences etc. The organisers are planning to publish a selection of the results of the workshop either as a special issue of a journal or as a book. Publication (and workshop) language is English The workshop is endorsed by SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, and SIGsem, the Special Interest Group on Semantics, of ACL. Invited Speakers ================ Barbara Kaup, Technical University Berlin Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California Candace Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Paper Submission ================ Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography) using the form at the workshop website ( http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid06 ). Reviews will be done blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we show that"). Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submissions: 1 May, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: 1 June, 2006 Final Abstracts due: 22 June, 2006 Conference: 7-9 July, 2006 Program Committee ================= Anton Benz, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding Markus Egg, Rijksuniversiteit. Groningen, Netherlands John Harpur, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California Peter Kuehnlein, University of Bielefeld, Germany Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK Barbara Kaup, Technical University Berlin, Germany Gisela Redeker, Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, Netherlands Ivan Sag, Stanford University, USA Candace Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA Organisation ============ Organisation Committee: Candace Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA (Chair) Anton Benz, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding John Harpur, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Peter Kuehnlein, University of Bielefeld, Germany Local Organisation: John Harpur, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Coordinates =========== The workshop will take place from 7-9 July, 2006. It will be hosted by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM). Maynooth is situated 15 miles from Dublin in the heart of the Kildare countryside, and is well served by motorway, rail and bus links. County Kildare is on Dublin's doorstep and is in close proximity to Dublin Airport and Seaport as well as Dun Laoghaire Harbour. It is also only a couple of hours drive from most parts of Ireland. Fees ==== Fees (including coffee breaks and lunch) are Participants from Academia: EUR 100 Participants from commercial enterprises: EUR 200 -- http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net "To face an event and solve it lightly is difficult if you are not resolved beforehand, and there will always be uncertainty in hitting your mark." (Hagakure) Upcoming events: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mmc06 http://www.constraints-in-discourse.org/cid06 --- CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - CALL FOR TUTORIALS The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition invites you to submit a paper, workshop or tutorial proposal to the international conference *** Spatial Cognition 2006 *** 24 - 28 September 2006 Universität Bremen, Germany www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de Important Dates: 31 March 2006 - deadline for submitting workshop or tutorial proposals 30 April 2006 - deadline for submitting full papers 15 May 2006 - notification of acceptance for workshops / tutorials 03 July 2006 - notification of acceptance for papers 30 July 2006 - deadline for submitting revised papers 24 - 28 September 2006 - Spatial Cognition 2006 conference Program Committee: Thomas Barkowsky (Universität Bremen) Christian Freksa (Universität Bremen) Markus Knauff (Universität Freiburg) Bernd Krieg-Brückner (Universität Bremen) Bernhard Nebel (Universität Freiburg) Tutorial & Workshop Organization: Christoph Hölscher (Universität Freiburg) Spatial Cognition 2006 continues a series of international spatial cognition conferences published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence since 1998. Details about Spatial Cognition 2006 are found at www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/SC06/. Paper Submissions: The conference organizers request full paper submissions on original spatial cognition research and particularly encourage contributions from interdisciplinary / international collaboration. The target length of paper contributions is 15-20 pages including abstracts in the Springer LNCS format (see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Selected papers will be given 30 minutes for presentation and discussion at the conference. We request electronic submissions in pdf format. For details please refer to www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/SC06/. Workshop & Tutorial Proposals: Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted on 1-2 pages. We are soliciting workshops and tutorials related to all spatial cognition topics and related aspects. Workshops and tutorials can be planned as half-day or full-day events. Please include the target audience, the goals and expected results of the event as well as an outline of its structure (e.g., paper presentations, panel or group discussions, hands-on work / exercises). Please submit your workshop or tutorial proposal (preferably in pdf format) to Christoph Hölscher (hoelsch@cognition.uni-freiburg.de). If you would like to discuss a workshop or tutorial idea with the conference organizers beforehand or if you have further questions concerning format or content, please contact hoelsch@cognition.uni-freiburg.de. ===================================================================== Dear Colleague I am writing today to let know of the upcoming Complexity and Organizational Robustness workshop to be help in Pohnpei, Micronesia in May 2007. To learning more about this event please visit: http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Pohnpei_2007.html Other notices that might be of interest include: 3rd International Workshop on Complexity and Philosophy, Stellenbosch, South Africa, February, 2007 (paper proposal deadline - end of May, 2006): http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Stellenbosch_2007.html Call for chapter proposals for Volume 4 of the Managing the Complex book series: Complexity and Knowledge Management (deadline for chapter proposals - end of March, 2006). http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Publishing/MtC_V4.html I hope you choose to participate in one or all of these events/projects. Kind regards Kurt Richardson