paul@nmsu.edu (Paul McKevitt) (11/15/89)
PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATICS AI PRAGMATI TO: Newsgroups: ar.ailist comp.ai.digest comp.ai.edu comp.ai.neural-nets comp.ai.nlang-know-rep comp.ai.shells comp.ai.vision news.announce.conferences news.announce.important sci.lang soc.celtic.culture Networks: AI List AI-NL NL-KR IRL-NET The Emigrant psy-net con-net nl-kr Local: NMSU CS NMSU CRL Journals: SIGART AISB Ack: SIGART RMSAI U S WEST CC: RMCAI-90 Program Committee RMCAI-90 Program Chairperson RMCAI-90 Local Arrangements Chairperson RMCAI-90 Organizing Committee RMCAI-90 Invited Speakers FROM: Organizing Committee RMCAI-90: Paul Mc Kevitt Yorick Wilks Research Scientist Director CRL CRL SUBJECT: Please post the following in your Laboratory/Department/Journal: Cut--------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT: Please post the following in your Laboratory/Department/Journal: CALL FOR PAPERS Pragmatics in Artificial Intelligence 5th Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence (RMCAI-90) Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, June 28-30, 1990 PRAGMATICS PROBLEM: The problem of pragmatics in AI is one of developing theories, models, and implementations of systems that make effective use of contextual information to solve problems in changing environments. CONFERENCE GOAL: This conference will provide a forum for researchers from all subfields of AI to discuss the problem of pragmatics in AI. The implications that each area has for the others in tackling this problem are of particular interest. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: In cooperation with: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (pending approval) Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) (pending approval) U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI) With grants from: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGART) U S WEST Advanced Technologies and the Rocky Mountain Society for Artificial Intelligence (RMSAI) THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT: Las Cruces, lies in THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT (New Mexico), USA and is situated in the Rio Grande Corridor with the scenic Organ Mountains overlooking the city. The city is close to Mexico, Carlsbad Caverns, and White Sands National Monument. There are a number of Indian Reservations and Pueblos in the Land Of Enchantment and the cultural and scenic cities of Taos and Santa Fe lie to the north. New Mexico has an interesting mixture of Indian, Mexican and Spanish culture. There is quite a variation of Mexican and New Mexican food to be found here too. GENERAL INFORMATION: The Rocky Mountain Conference on Artificial Intelligence is a major regional forum in the USA for scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The conference emphasizes discussion and informal interaction as well as presentations. The conference encourages the presentation of completed research, ongoing research, and preliminary investigations. Researchers from both within and outside the region are invited to participate. Some travel awards will be available for qualified applicants. FORMAT FOR PAPERS: Submitted papers should be double spaced and no more than 5 pages long. E-mail versions will not be accepted. Send 3 copies of your paper to: Paul Mc Kevitt, Program Chairperson, RMCAI-90, Computing Research Laboratory (CRL), Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. DEADLINES: Paper submission: March 1st, 1990 Pre-registration: April 1st, 1990 Notice of acceptance: May 1st, 1990 Final papers due: June 1st, 1990 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Jennifer Griffiths, Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90. (same postal address as above). INQUIRIES: Inquiries regarding conference brochure and registration form should be addressed to the Local Arrangements Chairperson. Inquiries regarding the conference program should be addressed to the program Chairperson. Local Arrangements Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: rmcai@nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5466 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. Program Chairperson: E-mail: INTERNET: paul@nmsu.edu Phone: (+ 1 505)-646-5109 Fax: (+ 1 505)-646-6218. TOPICS OF INTEREST: You are invited to submit a research paper addressing Pragmatics in AI , with any of the following orientations: Philosophy, Foundations and Methodology Knowledge Representation Neural Networks and Connectionism Genetic Algorithms, Emergent Computation, Nonlinear Systems Natural Language and Speech Understanding Problem Solving, Planning, Reasoning Machine Learning Vision and Robotics Applications INVITED SPEAKERS: The following researchers have agreed to speak at the conference (a number of others have been invited): Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory USA (Dynamical systems, Artificial neural nets, Applications) Arthur Cater, University College Dublin IRELAND (Robust Parsing) James Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder USA (Metaphor and Context) Derek Partridge, University of Exeter UK (Connectionism, Learning) Philip Stenton, Hewlett Packard UK (Natural Language Interfaces) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: John Barnden, New Mexico State University (Connectionism, Beliefs, Metaphor processing) Hans Brunner, U S WEST Advanced Technologies (Natural language interfaces, Dialogue interfaces) Martin Casdagli, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Dynamical systems, Artificial neural nets, Applications) Mike Coombs, New Mexico State University (Problem solving, Adaptive systems, Planning) Thomas Eskridge, Lockheed Missile and Space Co. (Analogy, Problem solving) Chris Fields, New Mexico State University (Neural networks, Nonlinear systems, Applications) Roger Hartley, New Mexico State University (Knowledge Representation, Planning, Problem Solving) Paul Mc Kevitt, New Mexico State University (Natural language interfaces, Dialogue modeling) Joe Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University (Computer Vision, Parallel architectures) Keith Phillips, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (Computer vision, Mathematical modeling) Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University (Natural language processing, Knowledge representation) Scott Wolff, U S WEST Advanced Technologies (Intelligent tutoring, User interface design, Cognitive modeling) REGISTRATION: Pre-Registration: Professionals $50.00; Students $30.00 (Pre-Registration cutoff date is April 1st 1990) Registration: Professionals $70.00; Students $50.00 (Copied proof of student status is required). Registration form (IN BLOCK CAPITALS). Enclose payment (ONLY checks in dollars and drawn on a US bank accepted). Send to the following address (MARKED REGISTRATION): Jennifer Griffiths, Local Arrangements Chairperson, RMCAI-90 Computing Research Laboratory Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, NMSU Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. Name:_______________________________ E-mail_____________________________ Phone__________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________ Fax: ____________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ COUNTRY__________________________________________ Organizing Committee RMCAI-90: Paul Mc Kevitt Yorick Wilks Research Scientist Director CRL CRL cut------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ********************************************** Paul Mc Kevitt, Computing Research Laboratory, Dept. 3CRL, Box 30001, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001, USA. 505-646-5109/5466 CSNET: paul@nmsu.edu **********************************************