BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2014/newsitem/5762/18- 19-August-2014-5th-AISB-Workshop-on-Figurative-lan guage-its-patterns-and-meanings-in-domain-specific -discourse-Birmingham-U-K- DTSTAMP:20140516T000000 SUMMARY:5th AISB Workshop on "Figurative language: its patterns and meanings in domain-specific dis course", Birmingham, U.K. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140819 LOCATION:Birmingham, U.K. DESCRIPTION:Forms of figurative language such as m etaphor and metonymy are key resources for communi cating domain-specific information in an accessibl e way. Modelling such patterns of communication is a key aim of academic disciplines such as linguis tics, discourse studies, and psycholinguistics, an d understanding such phenomena is an emerging goal within Artificial Intelligence and the related fi eld of Natural Language Processing. A particularly interesting current area of research is work on a utomatically generating as well as understanding m etaphor, which are both emerging as important site s for addressing long-standing problems in linguis tics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive scien ce. To facilitate communication about such effor ts, we are planning a two-day workshop on modellin g the meanings and patterns of health and politica l conflict, where discourse in these domains typic ally gives rise to some of the richest and most fi gurative forms of human discourse. The workshop wi ll take place at the University of Birmingham, and will be jointly organized through the University' s Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) as well as the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligen ce and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). For more information, see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~gargeta d/ We are calling for 500 word abstracts for pre sentations at this workshop, which may report rese arch in progress, as well as more finished researc h. To coincide with IAS activities over lapping wi th the workshop, we are also planning a special se ssion on the morning of the second day dedicated t o corpus and computational resources, such as Fram eNet, WordNet, Propbank, and Ontonotes (to name a few), and if you wish to present in this, please m ark your abstract as for the "Special Session". Ab stracts of no more than 500 words (plus references , if desired) are to be submitted by 9th June. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Forms of figurative language such as metaphor and meton ymy\n are key resources for communicating dom ain-specific information\n in an accessible w ay. Modelling such patterns of communication is a key\n aim of academic disciplines such as lin guistics, discourse\n studies, and psycholing uistics, and understanding such phenomena\n i s an emerging goal within Artificial Intelligence and the\n related field of Natural Language P rocessing. A particularly\n interesting curre nt area of research is work on automatically\n generating as well as understanding metaphor, wh ich are both\n emerging as important sites fo r addressing long-standing\n problems in ling uistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive\n science.\n

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To facilitate communication about such efforts, we are\n pl anning a two-day workshop on modelling the meaning s and\n patterns of health and political conf lict, where discourse in\n these domains typi cally gives rise to some of the richest and\n most figurative forms of human discourse. The wor kshop will take\n place at the University of Birmingham, and will be jointly\n organized t hrough the University's Institute for Advanced\n Studies (IAS) as well as the Society for the S tudy of Artificial\n Intelligence and Simulat ion of Behaviour (AISB).\n

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For more information, see\n http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~gargetad/\n

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\n We a re calling for 500 word abstracts for presentation s at\n this workshop, which may report rese arch in progress, as well\n as more finishe d research. To coincide with IAS activities\n over lapping with the workshop, we are also pla nning a special\n session on the morning of the second day dedicated to corpus\n and c omputational resources, such as FrameNet, WordNet, \n Propbank, and Ontonotes (to name a few), and if you wish to\n present in this, plea se mark your abstract as for the\n "Sp ecial Session". Abstracts of no more than 50 0\n words (plus references, if desired) are to be submitted by 9th\n June.\n

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