PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ECAI-96 Workshop on
Representations and Processes between Vision and Natural Language
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96)
Budapest University of Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Monday, August 12th, 1996
Chairs:
Wolfgang Maass Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science Center for PersonKommunikation
University of the Saarland, GERMANY Aalborg University, DENMARK, EU
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Prof. Mike Brady (Oxford, England)
Prof. Harry Bunt (ITK, Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Prof. Paul Dalsgaard (CPK, Aalborg, Denmark)
Prof. Max Egenhofer (NCGIA, Maine, USA)
Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Prof. Christian Freksa (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Benjamin Kuipers (U T Austin, USA)
Prof. Eoghan Mac Aogain (ILI, Dublin, Ireland)
Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA)
Prof. David Mark (NCGIA, Buffalo, USA)
Prof. Mike McTear (University of Ulster, n.Ireland)
Prof. Daniel Montello (UC Santa Barbara, NCGIA, USA)
Prof. Bernd Neumann (Hamburg, Germany)
Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Prof. Naoyuki Okada (Kyushu, Japan)
Dr. Se/an O Nuall/ain (DCU, Ireland and NRC, Canada)
Dr. Terry Regier (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
Dr. Ronan Reilly (UCD, Ireland & NIAS, The Netherlands)
Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA)
Prof. Noel Sharkey (Sheffield, England)
Dr. Jeoffrey Siskind (Technion, Israel)
Prof. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy)
Prof. Jun-Ichi Tsujii (UMIST, England and Tokyo, Japan)
Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn (Hamburg, Germany)
Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
There has been a move towards considering how spatial information can
be obtained and used by Vision Processing (VP) and Natural Language
Processing systems (NLP) (generation and understanding). New research
directions, such as multimodal interfaces, Geographical Information
Systems (GIS), navigation tools, but also robotics, multi-agent models
and other 'core' AI areas depend much on the use of spatial
knowledge. Vision, spatial information processing, and natural
language are used in an integrated fashion by cognitive and
computational systems in many ways when interacting with
environments. Environments pose strong resource limitations on
information-processing systems, either human and artificial. How these
systems locally and globally adapt to resources does not only provide
a direction for more efficient and flexible models but also gives
insights into cognitive processes and representations in general.
We can learn much about efficient and flexible processing of spatial
information by looking at the human being as a good example of an
adaptive system. Research efforts in different fields, such as
Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Neurobiology have
gained much understanding in how humans adapt visual and natural
language capabilities to environments.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from various
disciplines who are interested in processes and representations
related to visual data, spatial knowledge and natural language
processing.
* interdisciplinary dialogue to find a common ground and terminology
* discussion of current research initiatives into the use of spatial
knowledge from various perspectives
* acquisition and processing of spatial knowledge by VP and NLP
* conceptualization and representation of spatial knowledge
* verbalization of spatial knowledge
* grounding of representations
Contributions are encouraged which focus on areas such as:
acquisition, representation, and processing of spatial knowledge in
visual data processing and natural language systems; integration of
spatial knowledge in language descriptions; imagery; cognitive
mapping; temporal and spatial reasoning; synthetic and physical
navigation systems; cognitive models of adaptive behavior in large and
small scale space.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (the time points are not set yet):
Monday, August 12th, 1996
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8:15 `Introduction'
Wolfgang Maass
8:30 - 10:00: Spatial Language
* 8:30 A. Goy (University of Torino, Italy):
`Referential adjectives: the case of alto (high/tall)'
* 9:00 J. Broschart (University of Cologne, Germany):
`On Turning Language into Vision Towards a Geometry of Interaction'
* 9:30 K. Holmqvist (Lund University, Sweden):
`Construction of Images from Spoken Discourse'
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:00: Diagrams and Metaphors
* 10:30 T. Barkowksy, R. Roehrig & C. Freksa (University of Hamburg, Germany):
`Operationalizing diagrammatically'
* 11:00 Y. Watanabe and M. Nagao (Ryukoku and Kyoto University, Japan):
`Diagram understanding for pictorial book of flora
using integration of pattern information and
natural language information'
* 11:30 A. Smith, B. Farley & S. /O Nuall/ain (NRC, Canada and DCU, Ireland):
`Visualized models for language understanding'
12:00 LUNCH BREAK
2:00 - 3:30: Integration of Vision and Natural Language
* 2:00 P. Muller (Inst. de Rech. en Informatique, France):
`Representing route networks for some cases of motion description'
* 2:30 X. Briffault, L. Fraczak and M.-R. Goncalves (LIMSI-CNRS, France):
`Integraton of verbal and visual communication modalities
in a navigational aid system'
* 3:00 I. Duwe, K. Kessler & H. Strohner (University of Bielefeld, Germany):
`Resolving Ambiguous Descriptions through Visual Information'
3:30 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 6:00: Presentation of Posters, Small Group Discussions, and
General Discussions
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop.
If you are interested in attending then please send a message to
Wolfgang Maass (maass@cs.uni-sb.de) and please register for ECAI-96
(see below) as soon as possible.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
Wolfgang Maass Paul Mc Kevitt
Department of Computer Science Center for PersonKommunikation
University of the Saarland Fredrik Bajers Vej 7A,
Im Stadtwald 15 Institute of Electronic Systems
66041 Saarbruecken, Germany Aalborg University
E-mail: maass@cs.uni-sb.de DK- 9220, Aalborg
Phone: +49-681-302-3393 (Office) DENMARK, EU.
Phone: +49-681-302-2363 (Secretary) E-mail: pmck@kom.auc.dk
Fax: +49-681-302-4421 Phone: (+45) 98 15 85 22
http://zaphod.cs.uni-sb.de/~maass/maass.html FaX: (+45) 98 15 15 83
PUBLICATION:
Workshop notes/preprints will be published by ECAI. If there is
sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with ECAI
Press.
ECAI-96 TECHNICAL PROGRAM REGISTRATION:
Your ECAI-96 program registration includes admission to all
technical paper sessions, invited talks and panels, the ECAI-96
Exhibition, the ECAI-96 opening ceremony and reception, and the
ECAI-96 Conference Proceedings.
Fee Structure
Early Registration Late Registration
Onsite Registration
Deadline: June 1, Deadline: July 15,
1996 1996
ECCAI member 350 ECU 400 ECU 460 ECU
Non-member 400 ECU 460 ECU 500 ECU
Student 140 ECU 170 ECU 200 ECU
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ECAI-96 Workshop program Registration:
Workshop registration is limited to those active participants
determined by the organizer prior to the conference. Your workshop
registration includes admission to one workshop, the workshop notes
and refreshments. Note: Individuals must pay the ECAI-96 technical
program registration fee in addition to the workshop fee of 50 ECU.
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John von Neumann Computer Society, NJSZT
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H-1054 Budapest, Hungary
email: ecai-96@neumann.hu
fax: +36 1 131 8140
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