---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE *** **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE *** 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 ************************** 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further information about ECAI-96 registration process can be obtained from the Local Arrangements Chair: Ms. Maria Toth John von Neumann Computer Society, NJSZT Bathori u. 16 H-1054 Budapest, Hungary email: ecai-96@neumann.hu fax: +36 1 131 8140 phone: +36 1 132 9349 **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** **** VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE AND VISION AND LANGUAGE **** -----------------------------------------------------------------------------