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| CONTEXT'03 |
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| Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on |
| Modeling and Using Context |
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| Stanford, California (USA) |
| June 23-25, 2003 |
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| (http://www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) |
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We are pleased to announce that the registration and accomodation
reservation procedures for attending Context 2003 are open online.
Please, follow this link to formalize your registration:
http://context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03/
You can also find links for alternative hotel solutions and travel tips.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION
Monday June 23, 2003
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9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake
(Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA)
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 Session 1: Natural Language I
* Robert Porzel
Contextual Natural Language Processing with Ontological and
Situational Coherence
* Hugo Liu
Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to
Computational Lexicon Design
* Martin Trautwein
Comparatively True Types: a Set-Free Ontological Model of
Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts
* Mark Whitsey
Discourse Context and Indexicality
12:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning
* Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy
Varieties of Contexts
* John Bell
A Common Sense Theory of Causation
15:05:-15:55 Session 3: Logic of Context I
* Rolf Nossum
A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction
* Luciano Serafini
Local Relational Model: a Logical Formalization of Database
Coordination
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30:-17:45 Session 4: Context and Cognitive Modeling
* Leslie Ganet, Patrick Brezilllon and Charles Tijus
Explanation as Contextual Categorization
* Agnes Giboreau, Isabel Urdapilleta and Jean Francois Richard
Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties
* Elisabetta Zibetti and Charles Tijus
Perceiving Action from Static Images: the Role of Spatial Context
18:00 Informational and historical walking tour of the Stanford Campus
and Palo Alto downtown. Refreshment in a nice pub garden.
Tuesday June 24, 2003
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9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin
(CSLI, Stanford University, USA)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 5: Philosophical Foundations
* Claudia Bianchi
How To Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context
* Roger Young
Demonstratives, Reference and Perception
* Horacio Arlo-Costa
A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives
* Isidora Stojanovic
What to Say on What Is Said
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:55 Session 6: Logic of Context II
* Richmond Thomason
Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an
Application
* Sasa Buvac
A Deduction Theorem for Modal Propositional Logic
* Paolo Bouquet and Luciano Serafini
On the Difference Between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms
* Valeria de Paiva
Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30:-18:30 Poster Session
20:30 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees).
Wednesday June 25, 2003
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9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon
(LIP 6, University Paris 6, France)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 7: Context-aware Applications
* Ghita Kouadri Mostifaoui and Patrick Brizillon
A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations
* Robert P. Arritt and Roy M. Turner
Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network
* Lucas Paletta
Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection
* Seiie Jang and Woontack Woo
ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:30 Session 8: Natural Language II
* Nobo Komagata
Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and
Information Theory
* Kavita Thomas
Modelling "but" in Task-Oriented Dialogue
* David Ahn
Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00:-16:50 Session 9: Natural Language III
* Dominic Widdows
A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning
* Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and
Stefano Zanobini
A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching
16:50-17:00 Closing Remarks
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Fausto Giunchiglia (Universitā degli Studi di Trento, Italy)
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Patrick Blackburn (LORIA, France)
Chiara Ghidini (University of Liverpool, UK)
Roy Turner (University of Maine, USA)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
Dikran Karagueuzian (dikran@roslin.stanford.edu)
Michele King (mking@csli.stanford.edu)
John Perry (john@csli.stanford.edu)
Keith Devlin (devlin@csli.stanford.edu)
Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti@psych.stanford.edu)
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