IRList Digest Saturday, 30 April 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: Call for Papers - ACM Document Processing Systems Conf.: revised dates COGSCI - Metaphors, Memories and Modalities: Insights from Infants News addresses are Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 88 23:32 5 From: ORBETON%nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: Doc Proc 88 Due Dates Changed Call for Participation ACM CONFERENCE ON DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS Sante Fe, New Mexico December 5 - 9, 1988 *** Revised -- Submission dates now June 10 *** The ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Groups on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 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. 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 the conference. merit, novel and Survey papers should interesting features. provide insightful Courses will cover a approaches to organize wide variety of topics Other criteria are and integrate the associated with enhancement to the knowledge in a document processing courses and technical particular area. techniques, and will program, and overall Papers will be selected complement the feasibility. according to their technical program by Commercial originality, providing more depth in demonstrations methodology, citations, specific topic areas. (marketing or sales) and presentation Selected courses will are unacceptable. quality. educate practitioners. Demonstrations should Technical and survey Course selection will not exceed 30 minutes. papers must be written be based on the Proposal must include a in English. Papers importance of the topic one-page description of must not exceed 15 and on the expertise the demonstration and pages inclusive of and experience of the the demonstrators' illustrations and must instructor(s). names, affiliation, and be doublespaced or role in the development typeset 10/18 on 8.5 x Proposals must include of the system. 11 paper (about 7,000 a brief description of Demonstrators are words). Papers with the course material, a expected to provide multiple authors should detailed outline their own equipment or clearly state the (including the topics, share equipment with primary contact person the proposed speakers other demonstrators. and provide appropriate for each topic, and the For details contact the address information. duration of each Demonstrations chair. 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 proposal to: Rick Beach Gail Rein Manuel Vigil Xerox PARC MCC Software Technology Los Alamos National 3333 Coyote Hill Road Program Laboratory Palo Alto, CA 94304 9390 Research Blvd. Computer Graphics Group 4l5/494-4822 Austin, TX 78759 MS B272 Beach.pa@xerox.com 512/338-3303 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Rein@mcc.com 505/667-7356 MBV@lanl.gov Important Dates: Important Dates: Important Dates: Papers due: June 10, Course proposals due: Demonstration proposals due: 1988 June 10, 1988 June 10, 1988 Acceptance Acceptance Acceptance notification: notification: July 7, notification: July 18, July 18, 1988 1988 1988 Final version due: Final version of September 1, 1988 classroom materials *** revised *** due: September 1, 1988 Conference Committee Program Committee Conference Chair: Robert B. Allen, Bellcore Ann Solem, Los Alamos National Laboratory Richard Beach, Chair, Xerox PARC Program Chair: Heather Brown, University of Richard Beach, Xerox PARC Kent, England Courses Chair: Stavros Christodoulakis, Gail Rein, MCC Software Technology Program University of Waterloo, Demonstrations Chair: Canada Manuel Vigil, Los Alamos National Laboratory Richard Furuta, University of Local Arrangements Chair: Maryland Jan Sander, Los Alamos National Laboratory Simon Gibbs, MCC Publicity Chair: Irene Greif, Lotus Peter Orbeton, Lotus Development Vania Joloboff, Bull/IINRIA, Registration Chair: France Lynne Price, Hewlett-Packard Brian Kernighan, AT&T Bell Labs Treasurer: David Levy, Xerox PARC Ray Elliott, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dario Lucarella, Universita di Milano, Italy Robert Morris, Interleaf Dick Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory Brian Reid, DECWRL Richard Rubinstein,DEC Jan Walker, Symbolics Tom Wright, Computer Associates For other conference information, contact Peter Orbeton at 617/577-8500 or Orbeton.chi@xerox.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 May 1988 11:36 EDT From: Peter de Jong Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed.] Date: Friday, 29 April 1988 08:51-EDT From: Dori Wells Re: Language & Cognition Seminar BBN Science Development Program Language & Cognition Seminar Series METAPHORS, MEMORIES AND MODALITIES: INSIGHTS FROM INFANTS Sheldon H. Wagner Department of Psychology University of Rochester BBN Laboratories Inc. 10 Moulton Street Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor 10:30 a.m., Friday, May 6, 1988 Absract: Human infants are linguistically and experientially immature and yet they show evidence of complex cognitive judgments some of which might be thought solely to be in the province of language users. Examples of these are "metaphorical" recognition of similarities between physically dissimilar events and the recognition of objects presented separately to different modalities. Evidence for these abilities and a putative amodal code that subserves them will be presented along with a model of visual recognition memory that can serve as a useful metric for quantifying the rate of information-processing of infants of varying ages. Concurrrent validity for the model will be examined by comparing performances of infants of varying ages under different experimental conditions and by comparing these results to those obtained from infants born under medically compromising conditions such as birth asphyxia, intraventricular hemorrhage and severe prematurity. ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************