Dear OCIS and IMD colleagues,
Please find below a Call for Papers that may be of interest to you. The
first International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration will be held
at Kyoto University, Japan, Jan. 25-27, 2007. The main theme of the
workshop is intercultural collaboration, from both technical and
socio-cultural perspectives. Topics will include collaboration suport
(such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies),
social psychological analyses of cultural interaction, and case studies
from activists working to increase mutual understanding in our
multicultural world.
The workshop will feature the following invited speakers:
Christiane D. Fellbaum (Department of Psychology, Princeton)
Yumiko Mori (NPO Pangaea)
Gary Olson (School of Information, University of Michigan)
Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Papers, panels, and demonstrations and poster submissions are invited.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Sept. 1, 2006 The deadline
for papers, panels, posters and demonstrations is Sept. 15. Author
notification will be sent by Nov. 1. The deadline for camera ready
papers is Dec. 1 and the deadline for camera ready post-proceedings
papers is March 1, 2007.
Examples of suitable paper topics include:
Field studies of intercultural teamwork
Cases of intercultural collaboration using IT
Computer supported intercultural colalboration
Internet and web technologies for intercultural collaboration
Multilingual dictionaries and translations
Multilingual NLP web services
Standardization issues on resources and tools for multilingual processing
Usability of multilingual resources and the Language Grid.
Individuals may submit proposals for panels of three or four talks on a
related theme in intercultural communication. Panelists may discuss
previously published work.
Individuals may submit proposals to present demonstrations and posters
during the workshop. Demonstration proposals should clearly describe
the motivation for the tool and how it will be demonstrated at the
workshop. Demonstration and posts can include previously published work
and work that is not yet ready for publication.
Program website:
http://langrid.nict.go.jp/iwic2007/
Program Co-Chairs
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Susan R. Fussell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Piek TJM Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Catherine
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Catherine Durnell Cramton
Associate Professor
Area Chair for Management and Business Law
School of Management
George Mason University
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