Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 97.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt@kub.nl> (56)
Subject: IWCS-5 2nd Call for Papers/Special Event/Invited
Speakers
[2] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (48)
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: CEPE2001 Proceedings on "IT and the Body"
[3] From: Sascha Ossowski <sossowski@escet.urjc.es> (31)
Subject: SAC 2003 Coordination Track: CfP&R
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:49:03 +0100
From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt@kub.nl>
Subject: IWCS-5 2nd Call for Papers/Special Event/Invited Speakers
Fifth International Workshop on
COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
(IWCS-5)
January 15-17, 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Endorsed by
SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics
SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
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| SPECIAL EVENT |
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| On Tuesday January 14, the day before the start of IWCS-5, |
| the first meeting will take place of the SIGSEM Working Group |
| on Multimodal Meaning Representation (see www.sigsem.org). |
| All IWCS-5 participants are invited to attend this meeting. |
| More information about the meeting will soon be available on |
| the SIGSEM and IWCS-5 websites. |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Tilburg University will host the Fifth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), which will take place from 15-17
January 2003. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language, in language-based multimedia objects,
or in multimodal messages.
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Secretariat: Ms Anne Adriaensen
Computational Linguistics and AI
Tilburg University
PO Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Fax: +31-13 466 31 10
Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
Email: computational.semantics@kub.nl
Website: http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm
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IWCS-5 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in
Computational Semantics (see http://www.sigsem.org)
and by SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
(see 3http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html).
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Harry C. Bunt
Chair of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
2653 (office, room R 102)
Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
Harry.Bunt@kub.nl
WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:51:19 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
<tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: CEPE2001 Proceedings on "IT and the Body"
CEPE2001: IT and the Body
Conference Objectives and Key theme
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The aim of CEPE2001 is to establish an international multidisciplinary
forum for the development of innovative debate and dialogue between moral
philosophy and the emerging field of information and communication
technology (ICT). The conference aims to foster and promote philosophical
work, which is intended to make a constructive contribution to the ethical
questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of ICT. The
conference committee welcomes work of high quality regardless of school of
thought or philosophical tradition from which it derives.
The special theme of CEPE2001 is IT and the Body
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Information and Communication Technology is becoming increasingly
pervasive. We use ICT in most human activities. McLuhan describes ICT as
the world's nervous system (others talk of it as an extension of the
senses of human beings). ICT is not just a metaphor of the body (and
vice-versa) or a metaphor for the empowerment of the human body. It can be
viewed as a real extension of the human body. Examples of this are Bionics
(the science studying the possibilities of partly or totally implanting
artificial pieces of human bodies as eyes, arms, legs, brain, etc.) and
the advances in the Human Genome Project (which is, to a large extent, a
bio-informatics research programme). Furthermore, in health care, many of
the medical procedures are computer assisted (for example NMR - Magnetic
Nuclear Resonance).
Important philosophical and ethical questions arise from examples such as
these. Are the inner connections between ICT devices and our nervous
system a loss for our privacy and human dignity? Is it fair to repair
damaged brains with computer-assisted interfaces? Are there limits to
using computer technologies as a support for artificial pieces in the
human body? Should a human be considered a cyborg if most of his body is
artificial? Do they have rights to citizenship? Is there an ethics of the
post-human? Such questions involve many philosophical and ethical concepts
such as: personhood, personal identity, the right to privacy, the right to
health, the right to personal data ownership. Other philosophical
challenges about our body are raised from Virtual Reality and Artificial
Intelligence.
CEPE2001: Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries on *IT and the Body*
List of abstracts and full papers can be read at:
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/cepe/accepted%20papers.htm>
The Conference website is available at:
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/conferences/>
Thanks,
Arun
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk, w.mccarty@btinternet.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:58:37 +0100
From: Sascha Ossowski <sossowski@escet.urjc.es>
Subject: SAC 2003 Coordination Track: CfP&R
CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES
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(Apologies if you receive multiple copies)
18th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003)
Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac2003/
March 9-12, 2003
Melbourne, Florida, USA
SAC 2003
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Over the past seventeen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and
application developers from around the world to interact and present
their work. SAC 2003 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on
Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and is presented in cooperation with other
ACM Special Interest Groups. SAC 2003 is hosted by the Department of
Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology.
Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of
experimental computing and application development for the technical
sessions. There will be a number of special tracks on such issues as
Programming Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Agent
Systems, Multimedia and Visualization, etc.
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Track Home Page
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Further information can be found at the special track home page:
http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/sac03/
Important Dates
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* September 6, 2002: Paper Submission
* October 18, 2002: Author Notification
* November 8, 2002: Camera-Ready Copy
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