Artificial Intelligence/ Cognitive Science - AICS-98 University College Dublin 19-21 August, 1998 http://www.cs.ucd.ie/aics-98 CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE STRUCTURE AICS is the premier annual Irish conference in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This year it will be held on the Belfield campus of University College, Dublin. It will comprise two parallel tracks of paper presentations, a number of poster sessions, and plenary sessions for invited talks. INVITED SPEAKERS George Lakoff Mark Seidenberg Paul Smolensky (more invited speakers will be announced later) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE The theme of the artificial intelligence strand of AICS-98 is Agents and Media: Intelligent Access, Navigation and Presentation. With the current information explosion that we are witnessing, the demand for systems incorporating personal assistants that support intelligent filtering, navigation, retrieval, and information presentation is ever increasing. This necessitates the use of techniques such as, planning, learning, natural language processing, and user modelling. Papers addressing these and other key enabling technologies are invited. Submissions supported by application descriptions and case studies are particularly welcome. COGNITIVE SCIENCE This year's cognitive science strand of AICS-98 incorporates the 7th international workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-7). The theme this year is Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of Language. Is language best treated as a patchwork of different hues and knits reflecting its different contexts and uses? As Wittgenstein memorably put it, is it better to speak of a city of language, replete with different architectural styles and street layouts? Alternatively, if GUTs of language can coherently be asserted, what form can they take? The alternatives here include a purely symbolic approach, non-symbolic approaches couched in connectionist notions, or ones based on the facts of our necessary physical interaction with the world. Papers are invited which take any or none of these views. Submissions that are supported by implemented systems will be looked upon favourably. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should comprise full papers of not more than six pages in length (3,000 words approx.) including figures, tables and references. Text should be printed in a Times Roman font, and pages should have margins of 2 cm all round. We strongly encourage submissions by e-mail as (compressed) postscript attachments. Hardcopy submissions should include three copies of the paper. All communications regarding submissions will be by e-mail, so provision of an e-mail address is essential. Further submission details can be found on the conference web site. It is intended to publish a selection of accepted papers after the conference. DATES The deadline for submission is 30 April, 1998. Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed by 30 May. Camera-ready copy of accepted papers will be required by 31 July. REGISTRATION Registration and accommodation details can be obtained from the conference web site at: http://www.cs.ucd.ie/aics-98. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE John Dunnion UCD Gregory O'Hare UCD Sean O Nuallain DCU Ronan Reilly UCD Barry Smyth UCD MEMBERS David Bell UUJ Dan Jurawski UC Boulder Padraig O Seaghdha Lehigh U Derek Bridge UCC Mark Keane UCD Alan Smeaton DCU Ruth Byrne TCD Gemma Lyons UCD Humphrey Sorensen UCC Arthur Cater UCD Eoghan MacAogain ITE Mike Spivy, Cornell U Roddy Cowie QUB Paul McKevitt U Sheff. Richard Sutcliffe UL Padraig Cunnigham TCD Mike McTear UUJ Tony Veale DCU Jerome Feldman ICSI Alex Monaghan DCU David Vernon NUIM Mike Gasser U Indiana Fionn Murtagh UUM Niall Griffith UL Terry Regier U Chicago Walter Daelemans KUL ---------------------------------------------