IRList Digest Thursday, 7 April 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 19 Today's Topics: Call for Papers - ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems COGSCI - Cognition and metaphor News addresses are Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 88 23:29 5 From: ORBETON%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: Doc Proc 88 Call ACM CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Sante Fe, New Mexico December 5 - 9, 1988 The ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Groups on Graphics (SIGRAPH), Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), and Office Information Systems (SIGOIS), in cooperation with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval). This inaugural, international conference examines the theory, development, and application of document processing systems for generating, disseminating, searching, and viewing information. It will bring together researchers, developers, and users in the hopes that the field's broad reaching interdisciplinary diversity will foster a rich exchange of ideas and information that will help define the state-of-the-art and future directions in document processing systems. One full day of courses will precede the conference, and technical tours will follow. Document processing is more than electronic publishing or desktop publishing although it encompasses both. We are certainly interested in the dissemination of information in documents by electronic means, including ephemeral displays to printed pages to archival storage. However, we are also interested in the accumulation, organization and presentation of information for human perception primarily via visual and aural senses. To accomplish this, a document processing system must incorporate a variety of technologies into an integrated architecture. Without the following key concepts and technologies, document processing would be very different: distributed computing systems including workstation, bitmapped displays and pointing devices; document preparation systems including digital typography, electronic printing, laser printers and page description languages; hypertext and hypermedia systems; social adaptation of and to electronic media; document bases; and linguistic tools. Document processing also encompasses the support for and management of the document production process, through collaborative systems, shared information spaces, multimedia documents, document release management tools, and distribution through electronic networks and various storage media such as bar codes, floppy and CD-ROM disks. You are invited to submit a paper, a proposal for a course, or a panel on Document Processing, which might be represented by these phases: * Document creation, either by writing and editing at workstations or by scanning and recognizing existing documents * Document production, where editors, reviewers, designers, typesetters, and others contribute to the presentation of the document * Document dissemination, where readers access or retrieve documents in either printed hardcopy or online electronic form. Technical papers, courses, and demonstrations are encouraged to address the following: * Foundations, formalisms, languages and grammars for document representation * Collaborative writing and document production process, social issues of document systems * System architectures, standards, and document interchange issues * Hypertext and hypermedia, document structure, multimedia audio-visual documents * Document filing, document bases, indexing, retrieval, archiving * Illustration, graphic design and typography for electronic documents * Electronic publishing, CD-ROM publishing, electronic printing, desktop publishing * What's next? Papers -- Courses -- Demonstrations -- Information for Authors Information for Instructions for Instructors Demonstrators Technical and survey Proposals for courses Proposals for live papers are invited in are invited. Courses demonstrations of all areas relevant to will be presented on experimental or document processing Monday of the commercials systems are systems. Technical conference week, and invited. papers should describe may be for a half day Demonstrations are recent work relating to (3 course hours) or for intended to showcase significant problems, a full day (6 course systems, with the including either hours). Course notes presence of the research results or the will be distributed to system's author(s) most innovative application each course attendee, desirable. of document processing and will also be Demonstrations will be technology or both. available for sale at accepted based on Survey papers should the conference. merit, novel and provide insightful Courses will cover a interesting features, approaches to organize wide variety of topics enhancement to the and integrate the associated with courses and technical knowledge in a document processing program, and overall particular area. techniques, and will feasibility. Papers will be selected complement the Commercial according to their technical program by demonstrations originality, providing more depth in (marketing or sales) methodology, citations, specific topic areas. are unacceptable. and presentation Selected courses will quality. educate practitioners. Demonstrations should not exceed 30 minutes. Technical and survey Course selection will Proposal must include a papers must be written be based on the one-page description of in English. Papers importance of the topic the demonstration and must not exceed 15 and on the expertise the demonstrators' pages inclusive of and experience of the names, affiliation, and illustrations and must instructor(s). role in the development be doublespaced or of the system. typeset 10/18 on 8.5 x Proposals must include Demonstrators are 11 paper (about 7,000 a brief description of expected to provide words). Papers with the course material, a their own equipment or multiple authors should detailed outline share equipment with clearly state the (including the topics, other demonstrators. primary contact person the proposed speakers For details contact the and provide appropriate for each topic, and the Demonstrations chair. address information. duration of each All accepted papers topic), biographical will be published in information on all the conference proposed speakers, and proceedings, and the prerequisites for the authors will be course. If the course required to sign an ACM material has been copyright form. presented in the past, please explain and include on copy of the course material used. Submit three copies of Submit three copies of Submit three copies of each paper to: the course proposal to: the demonstration Rick Beach Gail Rein proposal to: Xerox PARC MCC Software Manuel Vigil 3333 Coyote Hill Road Technology Program Los Alamos National Palo Alto, CA 94304 9390 Research Blvd. Laboratory 4l5/494-4822 Austin, TX 78759 Computer Graphics Beach.pa@xerox.com 512/338-3303 Group, MS B272 Rein@mcc.com Los Alamos, NM 87545 505/667-7356 MBV@lanl.gov Important Dates: Important Dates: Important Dates: Papers due: May 10, Course proposals due: Demonstration proposals due: 1988 May 10, 1988 May 10, 1988 Acceptance Acceptance Acceptance notification: notification: July 7, notification: July 18, July 18, 1988 1988 1988 Final version due: Final version of September 30, 1988 classroom materials due: September 1, 1988 Conference Committee Program Committee Conference Chair: Robert Allen, AT&T Bell Labs Ann Solem, Los Alamos National Laboratory Richard Beach, Chair, Xerox PARC Heather Brown, University of Program Chair: Kent, England Richard Beach, Xerox PARC Stavros Christodoulakis, University of Waterloo, Courses Chair: Canada Gail Rein, MCC Software Technology Program Richard Futurta, University of Maryland Demonstrations Chair: Simon Gibbs, MCC Manuel Vigil, Los Alamos National Laboratory Irene Greif, Lotus Vania Joloboff, Bull/IINRIA, Local Arrangements Chair: France Jan Sander, Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell Labs David Levy, Xerox PARC Publicity Chair: Dario Lucarella, Universita di Peter Orbeton, Lotus Development Milano, Italy Robert Morris, Interleaf Registration Chair: Dick Phillips, Los Alamos Lynne Price, Hewlett-Packard National Laboratory Brian Reid, DECWRL Treasurer: Richard Rubinstein,DEC Ray Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory Jan Walker, Symbolics Tom Wright, Computer Associates ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1988 12:47 EST From: Peter de Jong Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed.] Date: Monday, 29 February 1988 08:41-EST From: Dori Wells Re: BBN Lang. & Cognition Seminar BBN Science Development Program Language & Cognition Seminar Series COGNITION AND METAPHOR Professor Bipin Indurkhya Computer Science Department Boston University BBN Laboratories Inc. 10 Moulton Street Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 9, 1988 Abstract: In past years a view of cognition has been emerging in which metaphors play a key role. However, a satisfactory explanation of the mechanisms underlying metaphors and how they aid cognition is far from complete. In particular, earlier theories of metaphors have been unable to account for how metaphors can "create" new, and sometimes contradictory, perspectives on the target domain. In this talk I will address some of the issues related to the role metaphors play in cognition. I will first lay an algebraic framework for cognition, and then in this context I will pose the problem of metaphor. Two mechanisms will be proposed to explain the workings of metaphors. One of these mechanisms gives rise to what we call "projective metaphors", and it is shown how projective metaphors can "create" new perspectives and new ontologies on the target domain. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of some further implications of the theory on "Direct Reference vs. Descriptive Reference", "Is all knowledge metaphorical?", and "Induction and Analogies", among other things. ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************