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> [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement]
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> | CONTEXT'03
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> | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
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> | Modeling and Using Context
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> | Stanford, California (USA)
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> | 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.
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>
> TECHNICAL PROGRAM, PRELIMINARY VERSION
>
> Monday June 23, 2003
> --------------------
> 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
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> * 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
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> 12:30-14:15 Lunch
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> 14:15:-15:05 Session 2: Context and Common Sense Reasoning
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> * 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
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> * 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
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> * Roger Young
> Demonstratives, Reference and Perception
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> * 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 (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy)
>
> PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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> 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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