Corpora: THIRD BELLAGIO WORKSHOP ON HUMAN COMPUTER CONVERSATION: LAST CALL

From: Yorick Wilks (y.wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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                THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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                 THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
                 Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
                             3-5 July, 2000

    Everything is on the website, including registration information
    on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc.
    The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due and that is
    only a few days away. Hotel accomodation should be booked as soon
    as possible.

     www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/

    Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted):

    Dr B. Alabiso, Microsoft, USA
    Dr J. Hutchens, UWA, Australia
    Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK
    Dr U. Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE
    Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA
    Prof. D. Traum, U Maryland, USA

    The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy,
    took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from
    industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for
    the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question
    only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer
    demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that
    were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly
    successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation
    and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more
    theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis.
    The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted
    excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998.

    The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework
    calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular
    the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in
    invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is
    crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent
    results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora,
    and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora.

    All details, including previous programs, program committee,
    accomodation and travel and details of registration are on the web site.

    Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer
    conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be
    sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to
    the following timetable:

    Deadline for submission: 8 April 2000
    Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000
    Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000

    The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),
    SigDial and ELSNET have endorsed the meeting.

    Submissions and further enquiries to: hccw@dcs.shef.ac.uk

    Yorick Wilks
    HCCW '2000
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Sheffield
    211 Portobello St.,
    Sheffield S1 4DP
    UK

    phone: (44) 114 222 1814
    fax: (44) 114 222 1810
    email: hccw@dcs.shef.ac.uk
    www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick



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