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IJCAI-95 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions 
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Montreal, Canada, 19th August 1995
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Klaus-Peter Gapp (Saarbruecken, Germany) 
Jugal Kalita (Colorado, USA) 
Paul Mc Kevitt (Sheffield, UK) 
Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT, Kanpur, India) 
Patrick Olivier (Aberystwyth, UK) 
Junichi Tsujii (UMIST, Manchester, UK) 
Laure Vieu (IRIT, Toulouse, France) 
Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) 
Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK) 

PROGRAMME
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08.30 SESSION 1

08.30 David J. Bryant, Northeastern University, USA
      "Human Spatial Concepts Reflect Regularities of the Physical World 
       and Human Body"

09.00 Michael F. Schober, New School for Social Research, USA
      "How Addressees Affect Spatial Perspective Choice in Dialogue"

09.30 Annette Herskovits
      INVITED TALK

10.00 COFFEE BREAK

10.30 SESSION 2
      
10.30 Lidia Fraczak, LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
      "Generating "mental maps" from route descriptions"

11.00 Michael Spivey-Knowlton, Michael Tanenhaus, Kathleen Eberhard & 
      Julie Sedivy, University of Rochester, USA
      "Integration of Visuospatial and Linguistic lnformation:
       Language Comprehension in Real-Time and Real-Space"

11.30 Xavier Briffault, CNRS-LIMSI, FRANCE
      "On the use of mental imagery in spatial dialogues"

11.50 Kenny R. Coventry, University of Plymouth, UK
      "Spatial Prepositions, Functional Relations and Lexical Specification"

12.10 Richard Howarth, University of Sussex, UK
      "On seeing spatial expressions"

12.30 LUNCH

13.30 SESSION 3

13.30 Barbara Landau
      INVITED TALK

14.00 Thomas Fuhr, Gudrun Socher, Christian Scheering, Gerhard Sagerer
      Universitaet Bielefeld, GERMANY
      "A three-dimensional spatial model for the interpretation of image data"

14.30 Vittorio Di Tomaso, Vincenzo Lombardo, Leonardo Lesmo
      Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa / Universita' di Torino, ITALY
      "A Computational Model for the Interpretation of Static Locative
       Expressions"

15.00 Carla Huls & Edwin Bos, NICI, THE NETHERLANDS
      "The representation and processing of spatial expressions in the 
       multimodal user interface EDWARD"

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

16.00 SESSION 4

16.00 P. Bryan Heidorn, University of Pittsburgh,USA
      "Shapes from Natural Language in VerbalImage"

16.20 Debra T. Burhans, Rajiv Chopra and Rohini K. Srihari
      State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
      "Domain Specific Understanding of Spatial Expressions"

16.40 Shouji Harada, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiromasa Nakatani and Yukihiro Itoh
      Shizuoka University, JAPAN
      "On Constructing Pictorial Feature Space For Image Retrieval"

17.00 Short Break

17.20 FINAL SESSION

17.20 Geoffrey Edwards & Bernard Moulin, Universite Laval, CANADA
      "Towards the Simulation of Spatial Mental Images Using the Voronoi Model"

17.40 Clare R. Voss, Bonnie J. Dorr and M. Ulku Sencan
      University of Maryland, USA
      "Lexical Allocation in Interlingua-based Machine Translation
       of Spatial Expressions"

18.00 Anselm Blocher and Eva Stopp, University of the Saarland, GERMANY
      "Time-dependent Generation of Minimal Sets of Spatial Descriptions"

18.20 Closing Discussion

20.00 Workshop Social

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