Date: 28 Oct 93 --------------- ====================================================================== TOPICS: CFP - User Modeling Conference UM-94 Announcement - Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism ====================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 18:52:00 EDT From: Diane Litman Subject: CFP - User Modeling Conference UM-94: Call for Papers and SIG Meeting Proposals FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING Hyannis, Cape Cod, MA, U.S.A. August 15-19, 1994 Research in the field of user modeling and user-adapted interaction provides crucial foundations for improving the usability of interactive software systems and technical devices in many application areas. UM-94, the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, will offer a forum for presenting the results of academic and industrial research in this field to an international audience. Whereas UM-86, UM-90 and UM-92 were invitational workshops, UM-94 will be a conference with open participation. Much of the original character will be preserved, however, by holding the meeting in a workshop-like setting, with ample room for presentations, special interest group meetings and system demonstrations. Submissions are invited on original and substantial academic or industrial research on all aspects of user modeling and user-adapted interaction, including (but not limited to) the following topic areas: user model acquisition, plan and intent recognition, user stereotypes, representation of user models, inference, consistency of user models, user modeling shell systems, explanation generation, intelligent/adaptive user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, navigational aids, adaptive hypertext and hypermedia, information retrieval and information filtering, knowledge-based information presentation, natural-language systems, and applications in office machines and consumer electronics. Accepted submissions will be published in a proceedings volume. Extended versions of high-quality papers should be submitted to the international journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction after the conference. General and Local Arrangements Chair: Brad Goodman, The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA, USA Program Chairpersons: Alfred Kobsa, University of Konstanz, Germany Diane Litman, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA Program committee: Doug Appelt, SRI, Stanford, CA, USA Peter Brusilovsky, ICSTI, Moscow, Russia David Chin, University of Hawaii, USA Michael Desmarais, CRIM, Montreal, Canada Mark Elsom-Cook, EBC, Leeds, England Jim Foley, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA A. Jameson, Univ. of Saarbrucken, Germany Andrew Jennings, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Craig Kaplan, IBM, San Jose, CA, USA Bob Kass, EDS, Troy, MI, USA Uwe Malinowski, Siemens, Munich, Germany Cecile Paris, ISI, Marina del Rey, CA, USA Karen Sparck Jones, Univ. of Cambridge, England Carlo Tasso, University of Udine, Italy Junichi Toyoda, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Japan Sherman Tyler, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., CA, USA Gerrit van der Veer, Free University, Netherlands Submission of papers: Submissions should be no longer than 12 pages in length (excluding title page and references), and should use a font no smaller than 12-point. Five (5) hardcopies should be sent to Alfred Kobsa, University of Konstanz, P.O. Box 5560-D73, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany. Papers should include the authors' postal and email addresses as well as their phone and fax numbers. Authors are strongly encouraged to also send an electronic abstract of their papers to um94-abstracts@inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de This will significantly aid the reviewing process by helping direct the papers to the most appropriate reviewers. If possible, authors should additionally transfer a Postscript version of their papers to the directory /incoming on the ftp server ftp.rz.uni-konstanz.de The name of the file should be the first author's last and first name, as: ..ps. The directory /incoming is unreadable for anonymous ftp users. Submission of proposals for special interest group meetings: Proposals of not more than one page should be submitted to Diane Litman, Room 2B-412, ATT Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA, diane@research.att.com. Electronic submissions are preferred. The proposals should include the proposed topic, an abstract, reasons for the usefulness of the meeting, and the names of several other participants who have agreed to participate in the proposed meeting. Registration of system demonstrations: Various platforms will be available for unrefereed system demonstrations. Prospective presenters should contact Brad Goodman (bgoodman@mitre.org) and specify their hardware and software requirements. Important deadlines: Feb. 28, 1994: hardcopy submissions to be received by Alfred Kobsa March 31, 1994: proposals for special interest group meetings to be received by Diane Litman May 1, 1994: notification of authors about acceptance or rejection June 15, 1994: final copies to be received by Brad Goodman June 30, 1994: system demonstrations to be registered with Brad Goodman Best paper award: A cash prize donated by Kluwer Academic Publishers will be awarded to the author(s) of the best paper presented at the conference. Financial support: Limited financial support will be available for students and for participants from Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Persons who wish to apply for such a grant should indicate so upon the submission of their paper. Further information: Further information on the conference, including hotel reservation and travel directions, can be obtained from the automatic mail agent um94@linus.mitre.org in due course. ====================================================================== Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 15:04:24 T Subject: Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism - Announcement *********************************************************************** Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura Mitteleuropisches Kulturinstitut NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND MULTILINGUALISM The Perspectives of North-American Immigrants Bolzano, Italy, December 6-10, 1993 Sponsored by ECCAI European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence School directed by Oliviero Stock Bolzano Internazional Schools in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence Coordinated by Roberto Poli Lecturers: ---------- Ed Hovy Information Science Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, USA Martin Kay Stanford University and Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA, USA Richard Kittredge Universite` de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Sergei Nirenburg Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Each speaker will give five lectures, with ample time for discussion. General Information: -------------------- Participation will be limited to 30 people. People wishing to participate should submit a short curriculum vitae and a statement of interest (about 1 page) to the address below. Please include e-mail address and/or fax number, if available. Applications should arrive by November 4th, 1993. Notification of acceptance and detailed program will be provided in due course. The registration fee for the entire school is 200,000 Italian Liras. Payment will be required upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 180,000 Italian Liras per day, half pension. People wishing to participate should write to Oliviero Stock, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST), I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy, Fax (+39) 461 314591, or send an e-mail message to: stock@irst.it.