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>From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
Subject: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE special issue on non-literal language
Message-ID: <1991Nov14.001927.25772@cs.sfu.ca>
Summary: Please send intention to submit by November 15th
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1991 00:19:27 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, edited by Dan 
Fass, James Martin and Elizabeth Hinkelman. 

Please inform Dan Fass (fass@cs.sfu.ca) by NOVEMBER 15TH if you intend
to submit, giving a tentative title and brief description of your 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. Please 
contact James Martin for further details.


3. Schedule for the Special Issue

	Date 	 		Stage					

	Fri   Nov 15 1991	Notification of intention to submit. 

	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.

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

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


5.  The 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



