System Narratology - iwLCC2002
The 3rd International Workshop on Literature in Cognition and Computer
in conjunction with PRICAI-02
August 18, 2002 (National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan)

Workshop Program (Tentative): New!

Time: 13:30 - 16:00

Chairperson: Jun Katanuma (Sapporo International University)

System Narratology --Concept and Methodology--
Takashi Ogata (Yamanashi University)

Rhetoric for Japanese Literary Hypertext
Hitoshi Morita (Siebold University of Nagasaki) and Yoneharu Fujita (Oita University)

A Multi-Agent Based Model of Rhetoric Cognition
Akihito Kanai (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Yamanashi University), Yuichiro Kato (Cog-Dive), and Michiaki Iwazume (RIKEN)

Workshop Description:
Conventional studies of literature have viewed literature as the unalterable text and placed great emphasis on analyzing it. However, a transdisciplinary joint research project LCC (Literature, Cognition, and Computer. SIG of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society 1998-2001, now independent research project) has viewed literature from a different perspective. We see literature as a process of ever changing phenomenon of creation and cognition. Research fields of members were cognitive science, artificial intelligence, informatics, marketing science, literary theory, anthropology, and so on.
The members of LCC have discussed many interesting themes through many research meetings --- e.g., story and discourse, reader and author, interpretation and generation, intention and understanding, mental dimension and text dimension, some agents in narrative ---. They have also discussed new possibilities of approaching literature: cognitive and computational model of literature, the system of generating narrative, the expression of literature by computer technology and how to market the outcome, statistics processing of a language of literature. Of course traditional literary theories also treated these themes. But an important difference is that our goal is to develop integrated models of literary phenomena by synthesizing these themes. The idea of the system narratology has been formed through such discussion in LCC.
This workshop seeks to explore the dynamism of literature and to venture into a new realm of study of literature by focusing on a creation process of literature. One way of doing it is to re-constructing (or de-constructing) the outcome of literary theory from a viewpoint of cognitive science. "Expanded literary theory," which one may call it, intends to develop an integrated model of literary phenomena with cognition, text, and institution by the fusion of literary theories, narratology, cognitive/computational science, and social sciences such as management and marketing. This rather ambitious venture hopes to realize the dynamical analysis of literature, the experimental creation and practice of new literary genre.
The second approach may rather sound to the audience of AI field, that is, to seek to establish a computational and cognitive model of literature appreciation. A layered model of comprehension-appreciation should help us to understand the process of emotion involved in literary text processing. The third approach is broader in its range. This approach sees literature as a social phenomenon and tries to find overall cognitive mechanism of literature. One of the main focuses of this approach is how media affects literary cognition and creation. The fourth approach is more practical in its nature. Digitalization is now altering our society and literature is greatly affected by this trend. This approach should picture the future of literary creation. These are only few of the approaches expected to be presented in this workshop. We hope that this workshop will shed more light on the computational and cognitive process of how art is created and perceived.
We believe researches on literature will extend our knowledge of natural language processing, emotions, and ultimately aesthetic aspects of human mind. Expectations and criticism to literary theories were among the most frequently heard. One could even witness a hegemonic argument predicting a counterattack of the classical symbolic computation paradigm in the field of literature in which the paradigm would show its best performance.
This workshop will be successions of the First International Workshop on Literature in Cognition and Computer (iwLCC1999) at the Second International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tokyo, in July 1999, and the Second International Workshop on the Literature in Cognitive and Computer held and organized by the SIG-LCC at the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, in August 2001.

Call for Papers:
We invite papers presenting research on literature in cognition and computer explained above. Major topics of interest include, but are not restricted, to the following: Papers should not exceed 8 pages including figures, tables, and references. Although no particular style is required, authors are strongly encouraged to use MicrosoftWord, Postscript or PDF (10 point font and 2 columns). All submissions should be sent via electronic mail to iwlcc2002@utm.se.uec.ac.jp. If you would like to submit a paper via air mail, please let us know by email that you send via air mail. Non-electronic submissions should be sent to the following address.
Takashi Ogata
Fucalty of Engineering, Yamanashi University
Takeda 4-3-11 Kofu, Yamanashi, 400-0016 Japan
All submissions will be reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline (full-length paper or extended abstract): May 31, 2002
Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2002
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2002
Workshop: August 18, 2002

Workshop Organizers:

Chair:
Takashi Ogata
Yamanashi University, Japan
ogata@esi.yamanashi.ac.jp

Co-chair:
Hitoshi Morita
Siebold University of Nagasakii, Japan
morita@sun.ac.jp

Akira Utsumi
The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
utsumi@se.uec.ac.jp

Jun Katanuma
Sapporo International University, Japan
jcat@ed.siu.ac.jp

Last Modified: August 7, 2002
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