FLAIRS-98 Special Track on NLP and HCI CALL FOR PAPERS Special Track on Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction FLAIRS-98 The 11th International FLAIRS Conference Sundial Beach Resort Sanibel Island, Florida May 17-20, 1998 Sponsored by the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society The annual International FLAIRS Conference is an international forum for the exchange of ideas relating to various aspects of Artificial Intelligence. It attracts attendees from academia, industry and government. Due to the significance of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), a conference track has been dedicated to this topic. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and selected authors will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence or the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Empirical studies in specifying, designing, implementing, and/or evaluating Natural Language Interfaces * Multimodal Interfaces with Natural Language modalities * Natural Language Processing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Natural Language/Human-Computer Interfaces and Cooperative Work systems * Symbolic, connectionist, statistical, and hybrid architectures for Natural Language/Human-Computer Interfaces * Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis in Human-Computer Interfaces * Demonstrations of implemented NLP/HCI systems (video, on-site, or Internet). AUTHOR INFORMATION: Authors must submit 6 copies of an extended abstract of 1200 to 1600 words (in English). The extended abstract should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Please include one separate cover page containing the author name(s), address, phone number, affiliation, paper title, and topic area. In cases of multiple authors all correspondence will be sent to the first author unless otherwise requested. Electronic submissions are encouraged. Abstracts must be received by October 20, 1997. Abstracts received after this date will not be considered. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by December 15, 1997. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final camera-ready copy of their full papers by February 23, 1998. Final papers will consist of at most 5 galley pages (approximately 10 double spaced pages). For information concerning submissions or to submit an abstract contact: Track Chairs Dr. Susan Haller Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Bill Manaris Department Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin - University of Southwestern Parkside Louisiana 241 Molinaro Hall 2 Rex St., P.O. Box 41771 Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000, Lafayette, LA 70504-1771, USA USA Tel: 414-595-2343 Tel: (318) 482-6638 Fax: 414-595-2114 Fax: (318) 482-5791 E-mail: haller@cs.uwp.edu E-mail: manaris@usl.edu WWW: WWW: http://cs.uwp.edu/staff/haller/ http://www.usl.edu/~manaris