**************** SECOND (FINAL) NOTICE ************************* Call for Participation AAAI Fall Symposium on COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR INTEGRATING LANGUAGE AND VISION November 10-12 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA This symposium will focus on research issues in developing computational models for integrating language and vision. The intrinsic difficulty of both natural language processing and computer vision has discouraged researchers >from attempting their integration, although in some cases it may simplify the individual tasks (e.g. collateral-based vision, resolving ambiguous sentences through the use of visual information). Developing a bridge between language and vision is non-trivial, since the correspondence between words and images is not one-to-one. Much has been said about the necessity of linking language and perception for a system to exhibit intelligent behavior, but there has been relatively little work on developing computational models for this task. A natural-language understanding system should be able to understand and make references to the visual world. The use of scene-specific context (obtained from written or spoken text accompanying a scene) could greatly enhance the performance of computer vision systems. Some of the topics to be addressed are: o use of collateral text in image and diagram understanding o generating natural-language descriptions of visual data (e.g., event perception in image sequences) o identifying and extracting visual information from language o understanding spatial language, spatial reasoning o knowledge representation for linguistic and visual information, hybrid (language and visual) knowledge bases o use of visual data in disambiguating/understanding text o content-based retrieval from integrated text/image/video databases o language-based scene modeling (e.g., picture or graphics generation) o cognitive theories connecting language and perception The symposium will consist of invited talks, panel discussions, individual presentations and group discussions. Those interested in making a presentation should submit a technical paper (not to exceed 3,000 words). Others interested in participating in the symposium should submit either a position paper or a research abstract. Email submissions in postscript format are encouraged, and should be sent to rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu. Alternatively, 4 hard copies may be sent to: Rohini Srihari CEDAR/SUNY at Buffalo UB Commons, 520 Lee Entrance Suite 202 Buffalo, NY 14228-2567 ********** Papers should be sent by APRIL 14, 1995. ************ In addition to invited participants, a limited number of other interested parties will be able to register on a first-come basis. Registration will be available by August 1, 1995 through AAAI. Further information Please address any questions regarding the symposium to Rohini Srihari (rohini@cedar.buffalo.edu), Debra Burhans (burhans@cs.buffalo.edu) or Rajiv Chopra (rchopra@cs.buffalo.edu). RELEVANT DATES April 14, 1995 Submissions for the symposium are due May 19, 1995 Notification of acceptance September 1, 1995 Working notes for symposium distributed Nov 10-12, 1995 Symposium held at MIT Organizing Committee: Rohini K. Srihari (Chair), CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo David Waltz, NEC Research Institute Thomas M. Strat, SRI International Candace Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation Janice Glasgow, Queen's University Ken Forbus, Northwestern University Annette Herskovits, Wellesley College Gordon Novak, University of Texas at Austin Jeffrey Siskind, University of Toronto Sponsored by the American Association for Artififical Intelligence 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 (415) 328-3123 fss@aaai.org