Context'03 - Technical Program

Last Changed June 11, 2003

A printable (PDF) version of the program is now available.


Monday June 23, 2003
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:15 Invited Talk 1: David Leake (Computer Science Department, Indiana University, USA)
Title: Context and Experience
Chair: TBA
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:25 Session 1: Natural Language I
Chair: TBA
  • 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
12:25-12:50 Session 2: Context-aware Applications I
Chair: TBA
  • Ghita Kouadri Mostéfaoui and Patrick Brézillon
    A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations

12:50-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:05 Session 3: Context and Common Sense Reasoning
Chair: TBA
  • Ramanathan Guha and John McCarthy
    Varieties of Contexts

  • John Bell
    A Common Sense Theory of Causation
15:05:-15:55 Session 4: Logic of Context I
Chair: TBA
  • 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 5: Context and Cognitive Modeling
Chair: TBA
  • 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
9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 2: Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford University, USA)
Title: A framework for modeling evidence-based, context-influenced reasoning
Chair: TBA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Session 6: Philosophical Foundations
Chair: TBA
  • 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 7: Logic of Context II
Chair: TBA
  • 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
19:00 Barbecue Dinner (Included in the registration fees).


Wednesday June 25, 2003
9:30-10:30 Invited Talk 3: Patrick Brezillon (LIP 6, University Paris 6, France)
Title: Context Dynamic and Explanation in Contextual Graphs
Chair: TBA
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:40 Session 8: Context-aware Applications II
Chair: TBA
  • 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

  • Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini and Stefano Zanobini
    A SAT-based Algorithm for Context Matching
12:40-14:15 Lunch
14:15:-15:25 Session 9: Natural Language II
Chair: TBA
  • David Ahn
    Presupposition Accommodation in Adverbial Quantification

  • Nobo Komagata
    Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory

  • Dominic Widdows
    A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning

15:30-15:45 Closing Remarks