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ESSLLI-98 Second Call for Proposals

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        Tenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                                ESSLLI-98
                 August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany
                 
                        SECOND 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 is being 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/).