THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS !!!! NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 DECEMBER !!! Third International Conference on Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language, and Computation Hsi-tou, Taiwan 16-19 June, 1998 This conference aims to bring together researchers who use information-theoretic tools to address issues in the cognitive sciences, broadly conceived to include Computer Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. It will be the third of a series of conferences on information-theoretic approaches, and the sixth of a series of conferences on situation theory and its applications. 1998 is the 50th anniversary of Shannon's pioneering work. The intervening years have seen classical information theory become a mature subject, and the birth of other approaches to the study of information, such as situation theory and dynamic logic. This conference welcomes submissions from all traditions in the study of information. The conference will take place in a lodge in Hsi-tou, a bamboo forest in the central mountains of Taiwan. The location offers both excellent facilities and relative isolation. It is one of the most beautiful parts of Taiwan, close to Sun-Moon lake, one of Taiwan's aboriginal villages, and the peaks of the Central Mountain Range, which at 14,000 feet are some of the highest mountains in Asia outside the Himalayas. INVITED SPEAKERS: David Beaver (Linguistics, Stanford) Nick Chater (Psychology, Warwick) David Israel (AI Center, SRI and CSLI, Stanford) Michiel van Lambalgen (Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam) Greg Mulhauser (British Telecom Laboratories) (Further invited speakers are expected to be announced.) TOPICS: We solicit papers on the following topics: * Foundations and applications of various approaches to the study of information, for example: -Shannon-Weaver communication theory -Barwise-Seligman Channel theory -Situation Theory -Dynamic Semantics -Dretske's semantic theory of information * Information-based approaches to the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of natural language * Information-based approaches to philosophy of mind, consciousness studies, and epistemology * Information-theoretic approaches to cognitive psychology * Information-theoretic approaches to induction and learning * Probabilistic methods in epistemology and logic * Theory change, including Belief Revision and Bayesian approaches Papers on related subjects will also be considered. Papers of interest to an interdisciplinary audience are particularly welcome. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of at most 10 pages by e-mail to ITALLC98@coli.uni-sb.de (using `ITALLC98 Submission' as the subject line). The cover page should include title, authors and contact details of the corresponding author. Submission of postscript files is strongly encouraged. Although we prefer email submissions, we will also accept abstracts sent by regular mail. Please send such 6 copies of such submissions to: Patrick Blackburn Computerlinguistik University of Saarland D-66041 Saarbruecken Germany The DEADLINE for submissions is December 15, 1997. The date of NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE is February 15, 1998. The accepted abstracts will appear on a World Wide Web server. The revised proceedings of previous meetings have been published as volumes in CSLI's Lecture Notes series. We anticipate publishing a similar volume from the proceedings of this conference. The ITALLC98 website is http://www.phil.ccu.edu.tw/~itallc98/home.html This site is mirrored at: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/itallc98/home.html http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~ashimoji/ITALLC98/home.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Patrick Blackburn (Chair), Nick Braisby, Lawrence Cavedon, Sheila Glasbey, Atsushi Shimojima. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jerry Seligman (Chair), Allen Houng, Kuo-Wei Lee, Cheng-Houng Lin, Jim Tai, Ovid Zheng, Patrick Blackburn (Program Liaison) please post - please post - please post - please post - please post