About ICoS
Traditional
inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are
reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily
available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic
methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be
increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of
all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the
exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing
tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes
inferential issues seriously.
The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to
bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,and Logics together, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural
language semantics.
ICoS-1 took place
in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendence of over 50
researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1 will be
published in the Journal of Language and Computation.
ICoS-2 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics
(ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.
Dates
- Submission Deadline: April 15, 2000.
- Notification: June 1, 2000.
- Final Versions: July 10. 2000.
- Early Registration until: July 1., 2000.
- ICoS-2: July 29-30, 2000.
- COLING: July 31 - August 4, 2000.
Location
ICoS-2 will be held the International Conference And Research Center
for Computer Science SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated
in the Saarland (Germany), allowing participants to reach the COLING
conference in Saarbrücken conveniently. Transport from Dagstuhl
to Saarbrücken will be organized on sunday evening or monday
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Schloß Dagstuhl
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group photo (another one)
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Invited Speakers
- James Allen, University of Rochester: Towards Practical Dialogue Systems
- Christof Monz, University of Amsterdam: Computational Semantics
in Information Retrieval
- Bonnie Webber, The University of Edinburgh: Computing Anaphora
Program
Information about contributed talks and demo's will be made available in
due course.
The program committee for ICoS-2 consists of the following people:
- Nicholas Asher - University of Texas at Austin
- Peter Baumgartner - University of Koblenz
- Johan Bos - University of the Saarland (Chair)
- Dick Crouch - Xerox Parc
- Nissim Francez - Technion, Haifa
- Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg
- Ewan Klein, The University of Edinburgh
- Michael Kohlhase - University of the Saarland (Chair)
- Alex Lascarides - The University of Edinburgh
- Dale Miller - Pennsylvania State University
- Joachim Niehren - University of the Saarland
- Stephen Pulman - Cambridge University/ SRI
- Allan Ramsay - UMIST
- Maarten de Rijke - University of Amsterdam
- Michael Schiehlen - IMS Stuttgart
- Matthew Stone - Rutgers
Submissions (now: System
Demos)
- We have received 15 submissions of research papers, they are currently under
review. We ask you to limit the final version of your research paper to
15 pages at most, 11pt, one column, a4paper (not a4wide.sty).
To yield a uniform layout for the workshop proceedings, we encourage you to
use LaTeX and use \bibiographystyle{alpha} for citations.
- we are soliciting system demos: People who would like demonstrate
systems that address inference in computational semantics should send
two-page abstracts (DVI, Postscript, or PDF) to icos2@ags.uni-sb.de
SUBMSISSION DEADLINE June 12, 2000.
Notification will be June 15, 2000.
In addition to the workshop proceedings, we plan to publish a special issue of
the Journal of Language
and Computation devoted to ICoS-2. Shortly after the workshop, authors
will be contacted by the editors for special issue, inviting them to contribute;
we may ask you to incorporate comments/discussions/.. arising during ICoS-2
into your paper. Details on the publication schedule for the special issue
as well as formatting instructions will be announced at the workshop.
Registration and Further Information
Registration for ICoS-2 is. closed
Workshop fees will be EURO 50 (early) and EURO 75 (late), there is a reduced rate
for students of EURO 25 (early) and EURO 50 (late). Early registration ends July
1.
Accomodation for ICoS is in Dagstuhl Castle exclusively (we have about 80
beds). The price for full board (arriving Friday afternoon and leaving for
COLING Monday morning) is approximately EURO 200. Depending on sponsorship and
attendence, there may be reduced prices for students.
If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers at icos2@ags.uni-sb.de.
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