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                  The Eighth International Workshop on the
        Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8)
                        (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/)

                          "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"

                   Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999

             National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
                               GALWAY, IRELAND

                              in association with:
                         "Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND"
                 (Monday 16th  - Thursday 19th August, 1999)
                       (Dublin City University, Ireland)
                (http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html)


                          "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC"

What common   cognitive   patterns underlie our  competence   in these
disparate modes of  thought?  Language (natural  & formal), vision and
music seem to share at least  the following attributes: a hierarchical
organisation of  constituents, recursivity,  metaphor, the possibility
of  self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity.   Can we propose the
existence of a  general  symbol system  with  instantiations in  these
three  modes or is  the only commonality to  be found at  the level of
such entities  as cerebral columnar automata?   Also, we invite papers
which examine cross-cultural experience of these modalities.

What can Engineering  of software platforms for integrated Intelligent
MultiModal & MultiMedia processing of language/vision/music/etc.  tell
us?

TOPICS INCLUDE:
o  combinations: language and music; language and vision; music and vision.
o  What can Engineering of software platforms
   (e.g. AAU CHAMELEON; cf. http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm) for
   integrated Intelligent MultiMedia processing of language/vision/etc.
   tell us?
o  Metaphor: For example: the use of terms like "interval"
   and "range" in music.
o  Rhythm: How is Rhythm important for language, vision and music?
o  Acoustics: What role does it play in the three modalities?
o  The roles of embodiment  and culture in  the formation of symbolic
   apparatus;  For example:   the   use   of  gesture  in     face-to-face
   communication.
o  Emotions: what role do they play in the three modalities?
o  Synesthesia
o  What the visual, musical and linguistic arts can tell us.
o  What is the developmental  relationship between prosody and music?
   What  is the  cognitive  evidence  for   the  dependence of music   on
   language?
o  Can we speak meaningfully about a semantics of music?
o  Architectures for integration of language, vision and music;
   what aspects are conscious and what automatic? What aspects are
   common and what are specific to each?
o  What is the role of modelling creativity?
   Are the creative processes similar or in what way are they different?

   SPECIAL SESSION ON CREATIVITY:
   In AI we have failed to get much handle on creativity.
   Conn Mulvihill will Chair a special session on creativity
   looking at writing, poetry, painting, and music composition.
   Irish Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney is
   composing a translation of Beowulf at present with special attention to
   the sound - reminiscent of movement in a longship type craft and there
   are those that claim that music is central to any hope of understanding
   Joyce. We think also of the likes of Kandinsky here.
   Is Joyce prose or music? Is Kandinsky art or music?
   What is Picasso? What are the links between language, vision and music?
   Is creativity the same for each? and by the way, What is creativity?
   It is intended to involve Writers-in-Residence at NUI, Galway
   Pat McCabe ("The Butcher Boy") & Paula Meehan (Poet).

o  Are recent trends towards integrating ideas in the
   Arts/Humanities and Sciences/Engineering important here?
   (cf. http://www.futurehum.uib.no/
       & http://tn-speech.essex.ac.uk/tn-speech/
       & http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm)
o  Why are there many arts and not just one?

CSNLP:
The International   Workshop   on the Cognitive  Science   of  Natural
Language Processing (CSNLP) has  been run in IRELAND  since 1992.  The
CSNLP-8 workshop   will    continue  the tradition    of   emphasising
presentations of Ireland's and International  original research in all
areas of the   Cognitive Science of  NLP including   Computer Science,
Psychology,     Linguistics, Philosophy,   Neuroscience  and   related
disciplines  on the  obvious problems   of   speech, NLP,  and  vision
processing,  robotics, learning,  reasoning,  knowledge representation
and mobile/remote computing.  Papers addressing  this year's theme are
particularly welcome.


                 CSNLP-8 CONFIRMED INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS

                             *** Sheldon Klein ***
            Computer Sciences Department & Linguistics Department
                     University of Wisconsin, Madison, US

                        *** Stephen Nachmanovitch ***
                            Free Play Productions
                               Los Angeles, US

                            *** G/erard Sabah ***
                                  LIMSI-CNRS
                                Orsay, FRANCE

                            *** Ipke Wachsmuth ***
                             Faculty of Technology
                       University of Bielefeld, GERMANY

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SHELDON  KLEIN is  a Professor  of  Computer Sciences & Linguistics at
U. of Wisconsin, Madison, US and is currently teaching courses titled,
"Natural Language & Multimedia"  and "Analogy  in Language, Culture  &
Cognition." His background includes  a Ph.D. Linguistics, UC-Berkeley,
US, 1963.; AI Research Group, System Development Corp.  1961-64; Asst.
Prof.  of  Linguistics & Comp Sci,  Carnegie-Mellon (CIT), US 1964-66;
Assoc.   Prof.  Comp.  Sci, &  Linguistics, U. Wisconsin, US, 1966-73;
IREX Sr.  Scholar, Machine  Translation Laboratory, Foreign  Languages
Institute, Moscow,   1973; Visiting Director   of Studies, L'Ecole des
hautes etudes en  sciences  sociales, Paris, France  1976-77; Visiting
Prof., Faculty for  Linguistics and Literary  Studies, U.   Bielefeld,
Germany, 1977-78; Visiting  Fellow,  Clare Hall  &  Archaeology Dept.,
Cambridge U., England 1988; Visiting  Life Member in Residence,  Clare
Hall,  Cambridge    U., England 1995;   Fellow,  Royal Anthropological
Institute  of    Great   Britain   and    Ireland; Fellow,    American
Anthropological   Association;     American Assoc.     for  Artificial
Intelligence,  Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science
Society,   Linguistic   Society of  America,   Society  for Linguistic
Anthropology, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas, & Sigma Xi.
For related details: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sklein/sklein.html
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STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH is   an author, musician,   computer artist, and
educator.  Born in 1950, he studied  at Harvard, US and the University
of  California, US   where  he  earned a  Ph.D.    in the  History  of
Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake.  His mentor was the
anthropologist and philosopher   Gregory Bateson.  He  has taught  and
lectured widely in the United States  and abroad on creativity and the
spiritual  underpinnings   of  art.   Since 1976 he     has given solo
improvisation concerts on violin, viola,  and electric violin, and has
presented  workshops at many  conservatories  and universities. He has
performed internationally, and  has had numerous appearances on radio,
television, and  at music and  theater  festivals. He has collaborated
with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film,
and  has  developed   programs  melding art,    music, literature, and
computer technology.  He has published articles in a variety of fields
since 1966,  and is the author of  ``Free Play: Improvisation  in Life
and  Art'' (Putnam,  1990).  In recent  years he  has created computer
software including The World Music Menu and Visual Music Tone Painter.
He is  currently working on a  new book on  creativity called Genius &
Magic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Los Angeles, US.
see: http://www.freeplay.com
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G/ERARD  SABAH  graduated from the  `Ecole  Polytechnique' in 1971 and
entered the CNRS in the same year. Besides his engineering degree from
the  Polytechnique,  further  degrees   include  a  'Diplome  d'etudes
Approfondies' (DEA) in  1972, then a 'Doctorat  de  3eme cycle' (1975)
(subject: automatic learning  of pattern recognition operators)  and a
'Doctorat d'etat es Sciences' (1978) on Natural Language Understanding
by Computers.  He  is currently a Research Director  at  CNRS, and the
head   of  the Language  and   Cognition  group at LIMSI  (Laboratoire
d'Informatique  et de  Mecanique   pour les Sciences de   l'Ingenieur:
Computer Sciences and Mechanics for Engineering Laboratory). He is the
author of the two volumes 'L'intelligence  artificielle et le langage'
(vol.  1: Knowledge Representation;  vol. 2: Understanding Processes),
published by Hermes, Paris.  His present interest  is the study of the
cognitive processes in natural language understanding, acquisition and
generation.   The  main activities of his   group  (currently about 25
people) concern  multi-agent  architectures   for  text  analysis  and
understanding,    flexible  parsing,  dialogue  processing,  reasoning
mechanisms,   generation  and   learning.   Until   recently   he  was
responsible   of  the   natural    language pole of   the  Man-Machine
Communication  PRC (National Programme   of Co-ordinated Research) and
responsible for  the Cognitive  Science  Network in southern Paris,  a
network of universities and research laboratories working in Cognitive
Science. He has also been the  president of the French Association for
Cognitive Research.  He   is  presently  member of  the   AFIA (French
Association   for  Artificial   Intelligence -  member   of  the ECCAI
federation) bureau and editor in chief of its journal.
see: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/gs/
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IPKE WACHSMUTH   has   held the  chair  of   Knowledge-Based  Systems/
Artificial Intelligence in the Faculty of Technology at the University
of Bielefeld, Germany  for the past ten   years.  He holds  a Master's
degree    in  mathematics (Dipl.-Math.),  obtained  in   1975 from the
Technical University of  Hanover, Germany, where  he also obtained his
Ph.D.   (Dr.rer.nat)   in  1980  for   research in  cellular  automata
synchronization, and a Habilitation  degree in Computer Science  which
he obtained from  the University of  Osnabrueck, Germany, in 1989, for
research on knowledge base organization.   Before coming to Bielefeld,
he   held faculty and  project  leader positions in  the Department of
Mathematics/Computer  Science  and the Linguistics   Department at the
University of Osnabrueck, Germany.  He was also assistant professor in
the     Department of  Mathematical    Sciences  at Northern  Illinois
University in 1981-83  and research fellow  in the LILOG group at  IBM
Germany in 1986- 88.  Prof.   Wachsmuth has a strong multidisciplinary
commitment   and  has published in  the   fields of cellular automata,
cognitive   learning research,  intelligent tutoring  systems, natural
language  understanding, AI  technology  assessment,  expert and agent
systems, large   knowledge  bases,   virtual reality,    and  gestural
interaction.    His  current   research    activities   cover  virtual
environments, dynamic    knowledge   representations  and  multi-agent
techniques    in    the      context    of    multimodal human-machine
communication. Among many other  professional services, Ipke Wachsmuth
chaired the 1995  German AI Conference and  is  the chair for the  4th
Conference  of the German Cognitive Science   Society to take place in
Bielefeld, 1999.
see: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~ipke/
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                                  HOSTED BY:
              THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI)
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             Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI)
                                     and
             National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
                               GALWAY, IRELAND

                                   CHAIRS:
                                Paul Mc Kevitt
        (Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Sheffield, England)
                                Conn Mulvihill
         (National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland)
                              Se/an /O Nuall/ain
                       (Dublin City University, Ireland)

CSNLP-8 (LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Elisabeth Andr/e       (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
Tom Broendsted         (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Liam Bannon            (University of Limerick & Xerox PARC, Stanford, US)
John Barnden           (University of Birmingham, England)
Bill Barry             (University of Sarbruecken, Germany)
David Bell             (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Niels Ole Bernsen      (Odense University, Denmark)
Mike Brady             (Oxford University, England)
Derek Bridge           (University College Cork)
Harry Bunt             (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Jon Campbell           (University of Ulster, Magee)
Norman Creaney         (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Michel Denis           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
Koenraad de Smedt      (University of Bergen, Norway)
Daniel Dennett         (Tufts University, US)
Charles Fillmore       (University of California, Berkeley, US)
Mikael Fernstrom       (University of Limerick)
John Fitch             (University of Bath, England)
James Flanagan         (Rutgers University, US)
John Gammack           (Murdoch University, Perth, Australia)
Erik Granum            (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Niall Griffith         (University of Limerick)
ChengMing Guo          (University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Steven Harnad          (University of Southampton, England)
Jerry Harper           (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Douglas Hofstadter     (Indiana University, US)
Mike Holcombe          (University of Sheffield, England)
Stephen Isard          (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Brian Karlsen          (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Mark Keane             (University College Dublin)
Shalom Lappin          (King's College London, England)
Margaret Leahy         (Trinity College Dublin)
Chin-Hui Lee           (Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories, US)
Bernard Levrat         (LERIA, University of Angers, France)
James Martin           (University of Colorado, US)
Mark Maybury           (MITRE, Massachusetts, US)
Tony McEnery           (Lancaster University, England)
Paul Mc Kevitt         (Aalborg University, Denmark &
                        University of Sheffield, England)
Peadar Mc Kevitt       (Global Information Partnership (GIP) Ltd., Dublin)
Barry McMullin         (Dublin City University)
MURPHY (ANDROID [M])   (University of Sheffield, England)
Alex Monaghan          (Dublin City University)
Andrew Morris          (IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland)
Conn Mulvihill         (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Fergal Murray          (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Fionn Murtagh          (Queen's University Belfast)
Stephen Nachmanovitch  (Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US)
Yoshiki Niwa           (Hitachi Limited, Tokyo, Japan)
John Nolan             (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Diarmuid O Donoghue    (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Greg O Hare            (University College Dublin)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain     (Dublin City University)
Melanie O Reilly       (The Melanie O Reilly Band, Dublin)
Padraig /O Seaghdha    (Lehigh University, US)
Douglas O Shaughnessy  (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada)
Ryuichi Oka            (RWC P, Tsukuba, Japan)
Naoyuki Okada          (Kyushu University, Japan)
Derek Partridge        (University of Exeter, England)
Gert Rickheit          (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Jonathan Rowe          (De Montford University, England)
Gerard Sabah           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)
NNoel Sharkey          (University of Sheffield, England)
Noel Sheehy            (Queen's University Belfast)
SINEAD (ANDROID [F])   (University of Sheffield, England)
Arnold Smith           (NRC, Ottawa, Canada)
Humphrey Sorensen      (University College Cork)
Mark Steedman          (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Keith Stenning         (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Oliviero Stock         (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Mark Tatham            (University of Essex, England)
Kris Th/orisson        (MIT Media Lab., Cambridge, US)
Peter Todd             (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Jun-Ichi Tsujii        (University of Tokyo, Japan & UMIST, England)
David Vernon           (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Walther von Hahn       (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Ipke Wachsmuth         (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Paul Whelan            (Dublin City University)
Mary McGee-Wood        (University of Manchester, England)
Michael Zock           (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France)

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                        LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

                   Micheal Colhoun (NUI Galway, Ireland)
                   Conn Mulvihill (NUI Galway, Ireland)
                   Colm O Riordan (NUI Galway, Ireland)

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                             CSNLP-8 DRAFT PROGRAMME
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CSNLP-8 Draft Programme

Sunday, August 8th, 1999

*** REGISTRATION DESK: SAINT ANTHONY'S COLLEGE BUILDING ***
*** OPEN: 7.00 - 9.00 PM ***


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*** REGISTRATION DESK: SAINT ANTHONY'S COLLEGE BUILDING ***
*** OPEN: 8.00 - 11.00 AM ***

Monday, August 9th, 1999

INTRODUCTION:
(Chair: Conn Mulvihill)
  8.45  `Official Opening'
         Ian O Muircheartaigh, Registrar & Deputy-President, NUI Galway
         Conn Mulvihill, IT Centre, NUI Galway

SESSION I: MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION INTERFACES
(Chair: John Gurney)
  9.00  `Gaze and its meanings in animated faces'
         Isabella Poggi*, Catherine Pelachaud**, and Nicoletta Pezzato*
         *Dipartimento di Linguistics,
          Universita' di Roma Tre, Rome, ITALY &
         **Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica,
           Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, ITALY
  9.30  `Look where you're going'
         John Gurney and Elizabeth Klipple
         ARL, Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland, US
 10.00  `Aesthetic forms of expression as information delivery units'
         Paul Nemirovsky and Glorianna Davenport
         Interactive Cinema Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, US

 10.30   Refreshments Break

SESSION II: MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION & MUSIC
(Chair: Alain Bonardi)
 11.00  `Multimodal communication and the conductor's face'
         Isabella Poggi and Mara Mastropasqua
         Dipartimento di Linguistics,
         Universite di Roma Tre, Rome, ITALY
 11.30  `How do interactive virtual operas shift relationships
         between music, text and image?'
         Alain Bonardi and Francis Rousseaux
         Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne, Versailles, FRANCE &
         Universite de Reims, Paris, FRANCE

 12.00   LUNCH

INVITED TALK I:
(Chair: Micheal Colhoun)
  2.00  `The respective roles of conscious and subconscious processes
         for interpreting language and music'
         G/erard Sabah
         LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, FRANCE

SESSION III: MULTIMODAL SYSTEM FORMALISMS & ARCHITECTURES
(Chair: John Connolly)
  3.00  `Let's improvise together a testbed for a formalism
         in language vision and sounds integration'
         Riccardo Antonini
         Consorzio Roma Ricerche,
         Universit\a di Roma ``Tor Vergata'', Rome, ITALY
  3.30  `Multimedia integration: a system-theoretic perspective'
         John Connolly
         Department of Computer Science,
         Loughborough University, Loughborough, ENGLAND

  4.00   Refreshments break

INVITED TALK II:
(Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt)
  4.30  `Communicative rhythm in gesture and speech'
         Ipke Wachsmuth
         Faculty of Technology,
         University of Bielefeld, GERMANY

SESSION IV: LANGUAGE & VISION
(Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt)
  5.30  `Visualising lexical prosodic representations for speech applications'
         Julie Carson-Berndsen and Dafydd Gibbon
         Department of Computer Science,
         University College Dublin, IRELAND &
         Fakultat f. Ling. & Lit.,
         Universitat Bielefeld, GERMANY
  6.00  `Creating new ideas with a multi-domain search'
         Francisco Camara Pereira and Amilcar Cardoso
         Departamento de Engenharia Informatica,
         Polo II da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, PORTUGAL
  6.30  `What does CHAMELEON show for language, vision and music?'
         Paul Mc Kevitt
         Center For PersonKommunikation,
         Aalborg University, DENMARK

  8.00   Workshop Reception

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Tuesday, August 10th, 1999

SESSION V: LANGUAGE & MUSIC
(Chair: Se/an /O Nuall/ain)
  9.00  `Auditory structuring in explaining dyslexia'
         Kai Karma
         Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, FINLAND
  9.30  `Tonality in Irish traditional music'
         Se/an /O Nuall/ain
         School of Computer Applications,
         Dublin City University, Dublin, IRELAND
 10.00  `A comparative review of priming effects in language and music'
         Barbara Tillmann and Emmanuel Bigand
         Universite de Bourgogne LEAD-CNRS, Dijon, FRANCE

 10.30   Refreshments break

INVITED TALK III:
(Chair: Se/an /O Nuall/ain)
 11.00  `The computer and the violin'
         Stephen Nachmanovitch
         Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US

 12.00   LUNCH

SESSION VI: LANGUAGE & MUSIC (SEMANTICS)
(Chair: Jean Callaghan)
 10.00  `Expression, content and meaning in language and music:
         an integrated semiotic analysis'
         Jean Callaghan and Ed McDonald
         School of Contemporary Arts,
         University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Kingswood, NSW, AUSTRALIA &
         National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
 10.30  `Music and language: metaphor and causation'
         Niall Griffith
         Department of Computer Science and Information Systems,
         University of Limerick, IRELAND

SESSION VII: SYNAESTHESIA
(Chair: Sean A. Day)
  2.00  `Synaesthesia and knowing'
         John Gammack
         School of Information Technology,
         Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
  2.30   `Prometheus (Scriabin+Kandinsky)'
         I.L. Vanechkina and B. Galeyev
         Prometei Institute, Kazan, RUSSIA
         (** this paper presented by Sean A. Day **)
  3.00  `Synaesthesia as the manifestation of non-verbal thinking'
         Bulat Galeyev
         Prometei Institute, Kazan, RUSSIA
         (** this paper presented by Sean A. Day **)
  3.30  `What synaesthesia is (and is not)'
         Sean A. Day
         Department of English,
         National Central University, TAIWAN

  4.00   Refreshments break

INVITED TALK IV (SOFTWARE DEMO):
(Chair: Se/an /O Nuall/ain)
  4.30  `Visual music tone painter (synesthesia software)'
         Stephen Nachmanovitch
         Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US

  7.00   Workshop Banquet

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Wednesday, August 11th, 1999

SESSION VIII: CREATIVITY
(Chair: Conn Mulvihill)
  9.30  `Mexican diction as observed in the Tarahumara'
         Julia Lonergan
         Computing Research Laboratory (CRL),
         New Mexico State University (NMSU), Las Cruces, New Mexico, US

INVITED TALK V:
(Chair: Conn Mulvihill)
 10.00  `Creativity: stone and lava'
         Stephen Nachmanovitch
         Free Play Productions, Los Angeles, US

 10.30   Refreshments break

INVITED TALK VI:
(Chair: Conn Mulvihill)
 11.00  `The analogical foundations of creativity in language,
         culture & the arts: the Upper Paleolithic to 2100CE'
         Sheldon Klein
         Computer Sciences Department & Linguistics Department,
         University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, US

 12.00   Workshop Tour: Aran Islands ("Inis Mor" (Big Island)) (PACK LUNCH)
         (Return approx. 9.00 PM)

PANEL SESSION (ON ARAN ISLANDS, "INIS MOR"):
(Chair: Conn Mulvihill)
  3.00   Panel Discussion: `Language, vision, music & creativity'
         Participants: Riccardo Antonini, Francisco Camara Pereira,
         Sheldon Klein, Julia Lonergan, Paul Mc Kevitt, Stephen Nachmanovitch,
         Se/an /O Nuall/ain, Gerard Sabah, Ipke Wachsmuth,
         [Writers-in-Residence]

  9.00   Workshop Close

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                                 CSNLP-8 POSTERS
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CSNLP-8 Posters

`Generating /p/,/t/,/k/ consonants by a physical modeling of
musical percussion'
Patrick Fourcade and Claude Cadoz
Laboratoire CLIPS - IMAG,
ACROE - Ministere de la Culture, Grenoble, FRANCE

`From the complexity of computers - the bee hive model -
to symbol recognition - making a splash'
Stephen McCloskey
School of Information and Software Engineering,
University of Ulster, Jordanstown, N.IRELAND

`Dissociation of music and language processing in a case of global aphasia'
Harriet Read
Department of Philosophy & Department of Human Communication Sciences,
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND

`Rising-falling contours in speech:
a metaphore of tension-resolution schemes in European musical traditions?
evidence from regional varieties of Italian'
Antonio Romano and Gabriele Iannaccaro
Belfast, N.IRELAND- Lecce ITALY and Bellinzona CH- L'Aquila, ITALY

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Dilys Treharne
Department of Human Communication Sciences,
University of Sheffield, ENGLAND

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                             GENERAL INFORMATION
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CONTACT ADDRESSES:
CSNLP-8 LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR
Conn Mulvihill
Information Technology (IT) Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
IRL- Galway, Co. Galway
IRELAND.
E-mail: conn@it.ucg.ie
FaX: (+353) -91-750501
Phone: (+353) -91-524411
WWW:   http://www.it.ucg.ie/

CSNLP-8 PROGRAMME CHAIR
Paul Mc Kevitt
Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK)
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7-A5
Institute of Electronic Systems (IES)
Aalborg University
DK- 9220, Aalborg
DENMARK.
E-mail: pmck@cpk.auc.dk
FaX:   (+45) 98 15 15 83
Phone: (+45) 96 35 86 56
WWW: http://www.cpk.auc.dk/imm

SOCIAL AND TOUR:
This meeting  will have  a  surplus  of  social  events and a  planned
conference tour is a boat trip  of the Aran  Islands, stopping on "Inis
Mor" (Big Island), going walkabout  and seeing the interpretive centre
(TIMING: 12.00 noon - 9.00 PM, Galway -> "Inis Mor" -> Galway).
The final panel session on Creativity will be held on "Inis Mor" at 3.00
PM.  Delegates may choose  to stay overnight on  "Inis Mor" and we would
ask them to reserve accommodation themselves.

CEILI:
It is intended that we organise at least one
Ceili during the Workshop and all participants are
invited to bring their musical instruments to participate.

NUI, GALWAY:
http://www.ucg.ie

GALWAY, IRELAND:
The complete guide to Galway  (http://www.galway.net)
Local Ireland, Galway  (http://www.galway.local.ie)
Galway On-line  (http://www.galwayonline.ie)
Galway Bay FM  (http://gbfm.galway.net/gbfmnew/) (RADIO)

GALWAY, IRELAND is a twin-city of AALBORG, DENMARK

""CITY OF THE TRIBES "To hell or to Connaught" ordered Cromwell as the
dispossessed flocked west in their droves.  The land may still be poor
but no-one these days would equate Connaught  with hell. As anyone who
ever watched the sun go down on the famously beautiful Galway bay will
tell you, it's definitely more on the  heavenly end of the spectrum. A
friendly sprawling city, Galway has all the amenities of a much larger
place yet maintains  its laid-back vibe. As a  University town,  it is
incredibly     youthful,     culturally   vibrant      and  undeniably
cosmopolitan. You can lose your shirt at the races or your inhibitions
at the oyster festival. A  light mist will  enhance your complexion as
you cycle  over the  salmon weir, along  by the  cathedral. Bring your
umbrella and prepare to have lots of fun....""
(see http://www.galway.local.ie)

EVENTS IRELAND:
The Irish Emigrant (http://www.emigrant.ie/calendar.htm)

VISIT IRELAND:
Irish Tourist Board (http://www.ireland.travel.ie)
Discover Ireland (http://www.iol.ie/~discover)
Local Ireland (http://www.local.ie)
Fios Feasa (http://www.fiosfeasa.com)

VENUE
The   venue for registration,  posters   and   exhibits, and for the
conference programme, is SAINT ANTHONY'S COLLEGE BUILDING
(Newcastle Road, North of Campus)
The programme itself will be held in LECTURE HALL NUMBER 1 and
registration in the Lobby directly outside the Lecture Hall.
Distance walking from CORRIB VILLAGE to ST. ANTHONY'S: 5 minutes
Distance walking from SAINT ANTHONY'S COLLEGE to CITY CENTRE: 12 minutes
Distance walking from CORRIB VILLAGE to CITY CENTRE: 17 minutes
(see http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8; "Galway & Ireland")
(see http://www.nuigalway.ie/ecn/general/mediummap.html)
(ANTHONY'S bottom-left of this map)

See also: 'Getting to Galway', under "Galway & Ireland"
on (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8).

TRANSPORT
Galway, Ireland is best  reached from DUBLIN or SHANNON  International
airports  or Belfast   International  Airport (BFS) and  Belfast  City
Airport.  Flights (not frequent), buses and  trains are available from
Dublin  and  Shannon to Galway   (more  from Dublin)   (BUSES are MORE
RELIABLE than  trains). Look at  'Getting to Galway',  under "Galway &
Ireland" (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8) for transport details.

ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation has been reserved for conference delegates in University
Accommodation (CORRIB VILLAGE  beside  CORRIB RIVER) within  3 minutes
walking from   conference site  and  this  costs  per night  IR  23.00
single/en-suite  (incl.   breakfast,  TV  +    phone)  and  IR   44.00
double/en-suite (incl.    breakfast,  TV +  phone).  Please  book this
accommodation  through  us,     the   conference   organisers.    (see
http://www.mis.nuigalway.ie/conference/coiribe.html)

Collect KEYS at  Conference Registration (SAINT ANTHONY'S  COLLEGE) if
during   registration  hours; otherwise  from Warden/Office  at CORRIB
VILLAGE.

Delegates preferring to stay at hotels  or other B&B's must book their
own accommodation --- lists of others are  given on the conference web
pages.

COMPUTER SERVICES
Computer Services will  provide  on-site FTP/WWW and E-mail
services to delegates. (see http://www.ucg.ie/cs/)

NEARBY FACILITIES
The neighbourhood   nearby   contains    banks,  hairdressers,
bookshops, and the City is a stone's throw away.

PARKING
There is ample free parking for around 40 cars  in the vicinity of the
SAINT ANTHONY'S COLLEGE BUILDING and CORRIB VILLAGE.


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                           REGISTRATION  NOTES
__________________________________________________________________________


ADDRESS (for registrations/general enquiries/venue)
Dr. Conn Mulvihill
Information Technology (IT) Centre
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)
IRL- Galway, Co. Galway
IRELAND.
FaX: (+353) -91-750501
Phone: (+353) -91-524411 Ext. 3327 (Micheal Colhoun)
Phone: (+353) -91-524411 Ext. 3327 (Colm O Riordan)
Phone: (+353) -91-524411 Ext. 3330 (Conn Mulvihill)
Phone: (+353) -86-2632411 !MOBILE PHONE! (Micheal Colhoun)
E-mail: csnlp8@it.ucg.ie
WWW CSNLP-8:  http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/
WWW:   http://www.it.ucg.ie/
WWW:   http://www.ucg.ie/

PAYMENT
Payment should be  made by cheque/Eurocheque/money order/bank transfer
payable  to `CSNLP-8, Ireland' drawn  in Irish pounds.  Payment should
be sent together with the Registration Form  to the above registration
address.   If paying by  direct bank transfer  please attach a copy of
receipt of  transfer  to registration  form.   It is  not  possible to
register by email.  (If paying by Eurocheque please add IR 5.00 to the
amount paid)

Cheques/Money orders/Bank Transfers should be made payable to
`CSNLP-8, Ireland' through the following bank:
Allied Irish Bank (AIB)
9 Terenure Road, Rathgar
IRL- Dublin 6
IRELAND.
Phone: +353-1-4975741
Fax: +353-1-4967006
ACCOUNT NAME: "CSNLP-8, Ireland"
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 05328018
BANK SORT CODE: 93-10-71

CONFIRMATION
Confirmation of booking, a receipt, and a map with travel details will
be sent on receipt of the REGISTRATION FORM.

LATE REGISTRATIONS
Registrations postmarked  after WEDNESDAY,  30th  JUNE, 1999  count as
LATE registrations.

CANCELLATIONS
In the event of DELEGATE cancellation, a 75%  refund of the total cost
will be made provided  that written notice  is  received by the  Local
Organisers  by Wednesday,  30th  June, 1999.  After  that date refunds
cannot be made, although substitutions are possible.


THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CSSI):
The aim of the CSSI is the promotion of cognitive science teaching
and research in the island of Ireland.  Membership is open to anyone
anywhere who supports the goals of the organization.  We are open to
further nominations for the steering committee.  Membership is
IR #20 (IEP) (US DOLLARS $30) (STERLING #19).

Two already-established conferences will be run in Ireland by CSSI:
"The Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP)", and
"Mind".  Members will receive free electronic
copies of proceedings of both conferences, an annual newsletter, and
proceedings of the AGM.  It is planned to establish a web page
which, over time, will offer an increasing range of services.
Initially, conference information, a membership form, and links to
other relevant web sites will be provided.

Delegates   wishing  to  join CSSI (thus obtaining  a reduction  in
registration fee) should contact:
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~jkellehe/CSSI/cssi.html
                        http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci/latest/cssi.html

DISCLAIMER
NUI Galway and the Conference  Organisers accept no responsibility for
injury to persons attending the Conference, nor for  loss of or damage
to their property.  The   Conference Organisers reserve the  right  to
change the details given in this document without notice.

________________________________________________________________________

         R E G I S T R A T I O N   F O R M   ----   CSNLP-8
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SEND TO Dr. Conn Mulvihill at address above.

LATE REGISTRATIONS
Registrations   postmarked after  WEDNESDAY, 30th JUNE, 1999 count as LATE
registrations.

Figures in parentheses are for  full-time students (send photo copy of
ID).


                            REGISTRATION FEES
                            -----------------

                            TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

CSNLP-8 REGISTRATION FEE:

                           CSSI         NON
                          MEMBERS     MEMBERS  STUDENTS   COST

Technical Programme         100         120       75
LATE REGISTRATION:
                            130         150      100      _____


                                                 total    _____  IR Pounds

(The registration fee includes conference materials,
 refreshments, and one copy of the proceedings)


                             CONFERENCE TOUR

(Boat tour of and to the Aran Islands
 Wednesday, 11th August, 1999, 12.00-9.00 PM)
                                                   25.00  _____  IR Pounds


                        ACCOMMODATION and BANQUET

BED + Breakfast
(en-suite, incl. breakfast, TV + phone)

(single)                           # days _____  X 23.00  _____

(double)                           # days _____  X 44.00  _____

Banquet
(Tuesday, 10th August, 1999, 7.00 PM)
                                                   20.00  _____


                                                   total  _____  IR Pounds


Eurocheque                                          5.00  _____  IR Pounds

Special dietary considerations  _____
(please tick)

Attending Reception on Monday, 9th August                 _____
(please tick)

                                           OVERALL TOTAL  _____  IR Pounds



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FirstName        ___________________________________________


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WWW              ___________________________________________

Email            ___________________________________________

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