Thank you for your cooperation. The follow-on workshop is intended to open the discussion to the computational linguistics community as a whole. Extending current technologies will require integration of the various capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However, there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or should be assembled into a coherent framework. Ample time for discussion will be included.
Diagrams are essential in most fields of human activity.
There is substantial interest in diagrams and their use in many academic disciplines for the potential benefits they may confer on a wide range of tasks. That is, a science which takes the nature of diagrams and their use as the central phenomena of interest. A science which is attempting to understand how diagrams differ from other representational systems and trying to develop principles for the design of effective graphical representations. A science which considers how diagrams communicate information and how they are used to solve problems. Applications and engineering provide tests of the theories and principles discovered by the science and extend the scope of the phenomena to be studied by generating new uses of diagrams, new media for presenting diagrams, or novel classes of diagram.