Twente Workshop on Language Technology
Corpus-Based Approaches to Dialogue Modelling
June 9, 1995
Preliminary Announcement
On June 9, the ninth international Twente Workshop on Language Technology
(TWLT 9) will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede, the
Netherlands. This time, the workshop will be devoted to approaches which
emphasize the use of empirical data as a basis for dialogue modelling.
Special attention will be paid to the exploitation of man-man and
(simulated) man-machine dialogues for the design of (spoken) dialogue
models and systems.
Proceedings will be available at the workshop. More detailed information
about the programme will be available in March at
URL http://hydra.cs.utwente.nl/~stan/twlt9/
Topics
The workshop will be organized around the following subjects
* corpus based methods as applied to dialogue modelling
* methods for evaluating implemented dialogue models
* dialogue formalisms, speech acts, dialogue grammars
* intention based approaches to dialogue modelling
* tools and methods to obtain and process dialogues
* multimodal dialogues
Organization
TWLT9 is organized by the PARLEVINK-project of the University of Twente in
cooperation with IPO and KPN Research.
Toine Andernach, University of Twente
email: andernac@cs.utwente.nl; fax: +31 53 895283
Stan P. van de Burgt, KPN Research
email: S.P.vandeBurgt@research.ptt.nl; fax: +31 70 3326477
Gerrit van der Hoeven, Institute for Perception Research/Philips Research
email: vdhoeven@prl.philips.nl
Registration fees
Regular registration fee: DFL 75.-
Students registration fee: DFL 40.-
This includes a lunch, coffee and proceedings.
Registration fee is to be paid on site.
Please register well in advance and no later than May 15.
The number of participants is limited to 50.
Conference Site
The workshop will take place in the "Demozaal" in building L of the
Informatica-complex at the campus of the University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands. The campus can be reached by car (follow the route to
'Universiteit') and by bus from Hengelo station (nr. 15 or 51) or from
Enschede station (nr. 1 or 51). The workshop is a 10 minutes walk from the
campus entrance. Follow the red signs reading "TWLT".
Information
For more information on the workshop, please contact the organizers. For
other information and accomodation, please contact:
TWLT secretariat
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
tel: +31 53 893680
fax: +31 53 895283
email: twlt@cs.utwente.nl
Registration
For registration, you can either contact the workshop secretariat or fill
out the form on URL http://hydra.cs.utwente.nl/~stan/twlt9/