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>From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
Subject: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE special issue on non-literal language
Message-ID: <1991Dec4.205533.4294@cs.sfu.ca>
Summary: Not too late to send intention to submit
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1991 20:55:33 GMT

 			          CALL FOR PAPERS
         	Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language    
		            COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE 
			      Special Journal Issue 
				   August 1992 


Submissions are invited to a Special Issue of COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE 
Journal on Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language. Guest editors
are Dan Fass, James Martin and Elizabeth Hinkelman. 

Response to earlier calls for papers, asking people to notify of us of an
intention to submit a paper, has been good. Intended papers cover a wide 
variety of topics related to processing non-literal language. There is a 
possibility that a research monograph may be published containing papers from 
the special issue.

Please inform Dan Fass if you intend to submit a paper but have not yet done 
so, giving a tentative title and brief description of your intended paper.


1. Focus of the Special Issue

Non-literal language includes metaphor, idiom, "indirect" speech acts, 
implicature, hyperbole, metonymy, irony, simile, sarcasm, and other devices 
whose meaning cannot be obtained by direct composition of their constituent 
words.
Papers are invited on topics including (but not limited to) the computer 
recognition, interpretation, acquisition, generation, and robust parsing of 
non-literal language. Issues of interest include:

o   the relationship of non-literal to literal language,
o   the adequacy of various forms of knowledge representation (symbolic vs 
    connectionist vs statistical),
o   static vs dynamic mechanisms,
o   general vs idiosyncratic treatment of instances,
o   instances as novel vs conventional forms,
o   comparison and contrast of models of the various forms of non-literal
    language,
o   broader implications for AI.


2.  Impetus for the Special Issue

The editors of the Special Issue recently organized a workshop on non-literal
language at IJCAI-91. Attendees, besides the organizers, were John Barnden, 
Ted Briscoe, Jerry Hobbs, Eric van der Linden, Hiroshi Motoda, Yamagami 
Matsumoto, David Powers, Lisa Rau, Cameron Shelley, Raoul Smith, Susan Weber, 
Sylvia Weber Russell, and Janet Wiles.

The 169 page workshop proceedings is available as technical report CU-CS-550-91
from the University of Colorado at Boulder. It costs $5 per copy (including
postage). Please contact James Martin for further details.


3. Schedule for the Special Issue

	Date 	 		Stage					

	Thurs Feb  6 1992	Submission deadline.

	Thurs Mar 19 1992	Reviews returned.

	Thurs Apr 23 1992       Revised, accepted papers received.


4.  Manuscript Preparation and Review

Typical submissions should be 25-50 pages in manuscript form, though exceptions
may be made. The manuscript should be double spaced and typed on one side of 
the page only. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, beginning with 
the title page. 

The title page should include the title, authors' names, institution of origin,
and its address (including postal code). Please include telephone number(s) and
e-mail address. 

An abstract should be not more than 200 words, and on a separate page.
References should not be cited in the abstract.

Please note that for an author's submission to be reviewed, the author must 
review three other submissions to the Special Issue.

More detailed Instructions to Authors will be sent to those intending to 
submit a paper.


5.  The Guest Editors

   Dan Fass			     James Martin
   Centre for Systems Science,	     Computer Science Department and 
   Simon Fraser University,          Institute of Cognitive Science,
   Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.	     University of Colorado at Boulder, 
   Tel:    (604) 291-3208            Box 430, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, USA.
   Fax:    (604) 291-4951	     Tel:    (303) 492-3552	
   E-mail: fass@cs.sfu.ca	     Fax:    (303) 492-2844
	     			     E-mail: martin@boulder.colorado.edu

   Elizabeth Hinkelman
   Center for Information and Language Studies,
   University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street,
   Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
   Tel:    (312) 702-8887
   Fax:    (312) 702-0775
   E-mail: eliz@tira.uchicago.edu



