<mod-ki 0775> COMP.INT. special issue on non-literal language
Hans-Werner Hein
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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: fa...@cs.sfu.ca Fax: (303) 492-2844
E-mail: mar...@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: el...@tira.uchicago.edu
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