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IRList Digest Thursday, 7 April 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 19
Today's Topics:
Call for Papers - ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems
COGSCI - Cognition and metaphor
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 23:29 5
From: ORBETON%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Doc Proc 88 Call
ACM CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Sante Fe, New Mexico
December 5 - 9, 1988
The ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems is sponsored by the
Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Groups on Graphics
(SIGRAPH), Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), and Office Information Systems
(SIGOIS), in cooperation with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and SIGIR
(Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval).
This inaugural, international conference examines the theory, development, and
application of document processing systems for generating, disseminating,
searching, and viewing information.
It will bring together researchers, developers, and users in the hopes that the
field's broad reaching interdisciplinary diversity will foster a rich exchange
of ideas and information that will help define the state-of-the-art and future
directions in document processing systems. One full day of courses will
precede the conference, and technical tours will follow.
Document processing is more than electronic publishing or desktop publishing
although it encompasses both. We are certainly interested in the dissemination
of information in documents by electronic means, including ephemeral displays
to printed pages to archival storage. However, we are also interested in the
accumulation, organization and presentation of information for human perception
primarily via visual and aural senses. To accomplish this, a document
processing system must incorporate a variety of technologies into an integrated
architecture.
Without the following key concepts and technologies, document processing would
be very different: distributed computing systems including workstation,
bitmapped displays and pointing devices; document preparation systems including
digital typography, electronic printing, laser printers and page description
languages; hypertext and hypermedia systems; social adaptation of and to
electronic media; document bases; and linguistic tools.
Document processing also encompasses the support for and management of the
document production process, through collaborative systems, shared information
spaces, multimedia documents, document release management tools, and
distribution through electronic networks and various storage media such as bar
codes, floppy and CD-ROM disks.
You are invited to submit a paper, a proposal for a course, or a panel on
Document Processing, which might be represented by these phases:
* Document creation, either by writing and editing at workstations or by
scanning and recognizing existing documents
* Document production, where editors, reviewers, designers, typesetters, and
others contribute to the presentation of the document
* Document dissemination, where readers access or retrieve documents in
either printed hardcopy or online electronic form.
Technical papers, courses, and demonstrations are encouraged to address the
following:
* Foundations, formalisms, languages and grammars for document
representation
* Collaborative writing and document production process, social issues of
document systems
* System architectures, standards, and document interchange issues
* Hypertext and hypermedia, document structure, multimedia audio-visual
documents
* Document filing, document bases, indexing, retrieval, archiving
* Illustration, graphic design and typography for electronic documents
* Electronic publishing, CD-ROM publishing, electronic printing, desktop
publishing
* What's next?
Papers -- Courses -- Demonstrations --
Information for Authors Information for Instructions for
Instructors Demonstrators
Technical and survey Proposals for courses Proposals for live
papers are invited in are invited. Courses demonstrations of
all areas relevant to will be presented on experimental or
document processing Monday of the commercials systems are
systems. Technical conference week, and invited.
papers should describe may be for a half day Demonstrations are
recent work relating to (3 course hours) or for intended to showcase
significant problems, a full day (6 course systems, with the
including either hours). Course notes presence of the
research results or the will be distributed to system's author(s) most
innovative application each course attendee, desirable.
of document processing and will also be Demonstrations will be
technology or both. available for sale at accepted based on
Survey papers should the conference. merit, novel and
provide insightful Courses will cover a interesting features,
approaches to organize wide variety of topics enhancement to the
and integrate the associated with courses and technical
knowledge in a document processing program, and overall
particular area. techniques, and will feasibility.
Papers will be selected complement the Commercial
according to their technical program by demonstrations
originality, providing more depth in (marketing or sales)
methodology, citations, specific topic areas. are unacceptable.
and presentation Selected courses will
quality. educate practitioners. Demonstrations should
not exceed 30 minutes.
Technical and survey Course selection will Proposal must include a
papers must be written be based on the one-page description of
in English. Papers importance of the topic the demonstration and
must not exceed 15 and on the expertise the demonstrators'
pages inclusive of and experience of the names, affiliation, and
illustrations and must instructor(s). role in the development
be doublespaced or of the system.
typeset 10/18 on 8.5 x Proposals must include Demonstrators are
11 paper (about 7,000 a brief description of expected to provide
words). Papers with the course material, a their own equipment or
multiple authors should detailed outline share equipment with
clearly state the (including the topics, other demonstrators.
primary contact person the proposed speakers For details contact the
and provide appropriate for each topic, and the Demonstrations chair.
address information. duration of each
All accepted papers topic), biographical
will be published in information on all
the conference proposed speakers, and
proceedings, and the prerequisites for the
authors will be course. If the course
required to sign an ACM material has been
copyright form. presented in the past,
please explain and
include on copy of the
course material used.
Submit three copies of Submit three copies of Submit three copies of
each paper to: the course proposal to: the demonstration
Rick Beach Gail Rein proposal to:
Xerox PARC MCC Software Manuel Vigil
3333 Coyote Hill Road Technology Program Los Alamos National
Palo Alto, CA 94304 9390 Research Blvd. Laboratory
4l5/494-4822 Austin, TX 78759 Computer Graphics
Beach.pa@xerox.com 512/338-3303 Group, MS B272
Rein@mcc.com Los Alamos, NM 87545
505/667-7356
MBV@lanl.gov
Important Dates: Important Dates: Important Dates:
Papers due: May 10, Course proposals due: Demonstration proposals due:
1988 May 10, 1988 May 10, 1988
Acceptance Acceptance Acceptance notification:
notification: July 7, notification: July 18, July 18, 1988
1988 1988
Final version due: Final version of
September 30, 1988 classroom materials
due: September 1, 1988
Conference Committee Program Committee
Conference Chair: Robert Allen, AT&T Bell Labs
Ann Solem, Los Alamos National Laboratory Richard Beach, Chair, Xerox PARC
Heather Brown, University of
Program Chair: Kent, England
Richard Beach, Xerox PARC Stavros Christodoulakis,
University of Waterloo,
Courses Chair: Canada
Gail Rein, MCC Software Technology Program Richard Futurta, University of
Maryland
Demonstrations Chair: Simon Gibbs, MCC
Manuel Vigil, Los Alamos National Laboratory Irene Greif, Lotus
Vania Joloboff, Bull/IINRIA,
Local Arrangements Chair: France
Jan Sander, Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell Labs
David Levy, Xerox PARC
Publicity Chair: Dario Lucarella, Universita di
Peter Orbeton, Lotus Development Milano, Italy
Robert Morris, Interleaf
Registration Chair: Dick Phillips, Los Alamos
Lynne Price, Hewlett-Packard National Laboratory
Brian Reid, DECWRL
Treasurer: Richard Rubinstein,DEC
Ray Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory Jan Walker, Symbolics
Tom Wright, Computer Associates
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1988 12:47 EST
From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed.]
Date: Monday, 29 February 1988 08:41-EST
From: Dori Wells <DWELLS at G.BBN.COM>
Re: BBN Lang. & Cognition Seminar
BBN Science Development Program
Language & Cognition Seminar Series
COGNITION AND METAPHOR
Professor Bipin Indurkhya
Computer Science Department
Boston University
BBN Laboratories Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor
10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 9, 1988
Abstract: In past years a view of cognition has been emerging in which
metaphors play a key role. However, a satisfactory explanation of the
mechanisms underlying metaphors and how they aid cognition is far from
complete.
In particular, earlier theories of metaphors have been unable to account
for how metaphors can "create" new, and sometimes contradictory, perspectives
on the target domain.
In this talk I will address some of the issues related to the role metaphors
play in cognition. I will first lay an algebraic framework for cognition,
and then in this context I will pose the problem of metaphor. Two mechanisms
will be proposed to explain the workings of metaphors. One of these
mechanisms gives rise to what we call "projective metaphors", and it is
shown how projective metaphors can "create" new perspectives and new
ontologies on the target domain. The talk will conclude with a brief
discussion of some further implications of the theory on "Direct Reference
vs. Descriptive Reference", "Is all knowledge metaphorical?", and
"Induction and Analogies", among other things.
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