Tenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI-98
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany
FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and
Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation.
Courses, both introductory and advanced, workshops and panel discussions
cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic,
Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language,
Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful,
attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has
developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for
students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of
Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-98 is organized under the auspices
of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).
The ESSLLI-98 Programme Committee invites proposals for introductory and
advanced courses, workshops and panels for the 10th annual Summer School on
a wide range of topics in the following fields:
Logic Language Computation
Language and Logic Logic and Computation Language and Computation
In addition to courses, workshops and panels, there will be a Student
Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed
separately.
While the Programme Committee welcomes proposals in all of the above areas,
for advanced courses, workshops and panel discussions it would especially
like to encourage proposals that emphasize cognitive aspects.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to the program chair,
at esslli98@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, in plain ASCII text as soon as possible, but
no later than June 15, 1997. Authors of proposals will be notified of the
committee's decision no later than September 1, 1997. Proposers should
follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals
that deviate substantially will not be considered.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Anyone interested in lecturing, organizing a workshop or chairing a panel
discussion during ESSLLI-98, please read the following information carefully.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of
the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young
researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and
techniques, and to allow experienced researchers from other fields to
acquire the key competences of neighboring disciplines, thus encouraging
the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. The
introductory courses in the three basic disciplines should provide
introductions to the field for non-specialists (an introductory course on
logic, for instance, should address linguists and computer scientists, not
logicians). Introductory courses in the interdisciplinary fields, on the
other hand, can build on knowledge of the respective fields (an
introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience
which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation).
Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course
as compared to standard texts in the area. For ease of reference a list of
standard texts will be made available electronically.
Introductory courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course) each
session lasts 90 minutes.
Timetable for Introductory Course Proposal Submission
Jun 15, 97: Proposal Submission Deadlines
Sep 1, 97: Notification
Nov 15, 97: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
information, course description and prerequisites
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material
ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of
advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should
specify the prerequisites in some detail.
Advanced courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They consist of
five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course) each
session lasts 90 minutes.
Timetable for Advanced Course Proposal Submissions
Jun 15, 97: Proposal Submission Deadline
Sep 1, 97: Notification
Nov 15, 97: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s)
information, course description and prerequisites
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material
WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced
Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work.
A workshop has a theme. At most one organizer is paid. The organizers
should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general
introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the
programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers.
Each workshop organizer will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers
for the workshop by November 15, 1997. The call must make it clear that
the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also
note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School.
A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten
sessions (a two-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 min.
Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions
Jun 15, 97: Proposal Submission Deadline
Sep 1, 97: Notification
Nov 15, 97: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers
Dec 1, 97: Send out Call for Papers
Mar 15, 98: Deadline for Papers (suggested)
May 1, 98: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested)
May 15, 98: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of workshop notes
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme
PANEL DISCUSSIONS: A panel allows three to five people to present their
distinct views on a clearly specified set of issues or questions of general
interest. Panelists must have substantial experience with the topic.
Panel discussions have one chair, who should be a senior researcher in the
field, and who is responsible for the programme. All panelists must
register for the Summer School.
Panel sessions are usually organized as follows: the chair starts the panel by
introducing the topic and by providing appropriate background material;
next, the panelists provide short presentations followed by an exchange
between the panelists and the audience. The chair ends the session with a
summary statement. The discussion with the audience must take precedence!
Panel discussions have max. 5 sessions (no two-week panels!) and each
session normally lasts 90 minutes.
Timetable for Panel Discussion Proposal Submissions
Jun 15, 97: Proposal Submission Deadline
Sep 1, 97: Notification
Nov 15, 97: Deadline for receipt of a statement of the main issues
and questions to be discussed
May 15, 98: Deadline for Provisional Panel Programme
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of a
description of the panel for publication during the
Summer School (normally, this will be an extended version
of the proposal).
Jun 1, 98: Deadline for Final Panel Programme
FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS:
Please submit your proposal in the following format:
Name: --- Name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer/chair.
Address: --- Contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organizer/chair.
Where possible, please include phone and fax numbers.
Title: --- Title of proposed course/workshop/panel.
Type: --- State whether this is a workshop, a panel,
an introductory course, or an advanced course.
Section: --- Which of the six sections (Language, Logic,
Computation, Logic & Computation, Language
& Computation or Language & Logic) does the
proposal belong to? Please just name one.
Description: --- A description of the proposed contents.
Not more than 150 words.
External --- State whether (and if so: how) you will be able to find
funding: external funding to subsidize your travel and
accommodation expenses.
Further --- Any further information that is required by the above
particulars: guidelines should be included here.
FINANCIAL ASPECTS:
Prospective lecturers, workshop organizers and panel chairs should be aware
that all teaching and organizing at the summer schools is done on a
voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible.
Lecturers, organizers, and chairs are not paid for their contribution, but are
reimbursed for travel and accommodation. (However, please note that the
organizers appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers/organizers/chairs
find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.)
Workshop speakers and panelists are required to register for the Summer
School; however, workshop speakers and panelists will be able to register
at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organizing Committee.
Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world
are welcomed, the Summer School can only afford to reimburse travel costs
for travel from destinations within Europe to Saarbruecken.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Maarten de Rijke
Attn: ESSLLI-98
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England
Tel: +44 1203 52 4258
Fax: +44 1203 52 5714
Email: esslli98@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
Steven Abney (Language and Computation)
Peter Gardenfors (Language and Logic)
Manuel Hermenegildo (Computation)
Franco Montagna (Logic)
Joerg Siekmann (Logic and Computation)
Annie Zaenen (Language)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Hans Uszkoreit (chair)
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik
66123 Saarbruecken
Deutschland
Tel: +49 681 302 3418
Fax: +49 681 302 4351
Email: uszkoreit@coli.uni-sb.de
FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
To obtain further information, please visit the web site for ESSLLI-97
(http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97/) or FoLLI's home page on the web
(http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/).
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