Corpora: 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue CFP

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                            1st Announcement

           2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
                     Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2
                (Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia)

         More up to date information on submission schedule,
         formats, registration and program committee may be
                  found at the workshop website

    Description

    Following up on the successful 1st Workshop in Hong Kong in October 2000,
    this will be the next in a series of workshops spanning the ACL SIGdial
    interest area of discourse and dialogue. While there has been a lot of
    activity in this area, and fairly frequent "specialty" workshops on
    various sub-topics, until this series there has not been a regular place
    for such research to be presented in a forum to receive attention from the
    larger SIGdial community and researchers outside this community.

    Invited Speakers: to be announced.

    Topics of Interest

    We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work on
    discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes:

    (i) Dialogue Systems
          Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
          including topics such as:
          * dialogue management models
            (specific subproblems or general modeling, in particular
            models for mixed initiative and user-adaptive dialogue);
          * speech, text, and graphics integration (for
            understanding or generation);
          * context-based interpretation and/or response planning,in
            particular how this contributes to natural interaction;
          * strategies for handling or preventing miscommuncation
            (repair and correction types, clarification and
            underspecificity, grounding and feedback strategies);
          * utilizing prosodic information for various types of
            disambiguation;
          * task-driven versus conversational dialogue;
          * evaluation of dialogue systems including task complexity
            measurements.

    (ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools
          Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based
          and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in
          particular:
          * issues and problems in discourse and dialogue
            annotation;
          * techniques (including machine learning), tools, coding
            schemes and data resources for discourse and dialogue
            studies;
          * XML-based tools for dialogue access to internet
            information.

    (iii) Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
          The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and
          dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence) including
          the following issues:
          * the semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including
            those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics
            framework);
          * incremental (plan-based,topic-based, etc.) models of
            discourse/dialogue structure integrating referential and
            relational structure;
          * modeling genre-specific aspects of discourse and
            dialogue structure, including the specific structural
            aspects of (interactive) digital media;
          * prosody in discourse and dialogue;
          * modeling politeness and non-recursive parts of discourse
            and dialogue;
          * models of presupposition and accommodation;
          * operational models of conversational implicature.

    Submission of Papers and Abstracts

    The program committee welcomes the submission of papers for full plenary
    presentation. The papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including title
    page, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages
    are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses
    or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.

    Besides papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission
    of short 4-page papers (inclusive title page, examples, references, etc.)
    to be combined with a short presentation in the plenary session and a
    poster presentation.

    Full papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail
    address sigdial2001@ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no later
    than May 7.

    The format to use for papers and abstracts is the same (ACL final paper
    format). Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
    http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01. Papers must be submitted in pdf
    (preferred) or postscript format.

    The title page should include the following information:

          Title:
          Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses:
          Keywords (up to 5 keywords specifying subject area):
          Submission type (full paper or short paper submission):
          Abstract (short summary up to 5 lines):

    Important Dates

    Submission of full papers and short papers May 7
    Notification June 20
    Final submissions August 1
    Workshop September 1-2

    Workshop Publications

    Like full papers, short papers will be published in the workshop
    proceedings. Authors of a selected number of full papers accepted for the
    workshop proceedings will be asked to send in a version of their paper for
    the publication in a book on current directions and developments in
    discourse and dialogue, to be published by a renowned, international
    publisher.

    Panel Sessions

    In addition to the regular paper and abstract submissions, the program
    committee welcomes proposals for other relevant activities, such as
    reports of working groups and initiatives, and targeted discussion
    sessions. The program committee itself intends to organize two panel
    sessions, the descriptions of which will be given in later announcements,
    namely one specifically on spoken dialogue systems and the other on the
    pragmatics/semantics of discourse and dialogue being directly relevant to
    the first subject.

    Program Committee

    Co-Chairs: Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart) and Ronnie Smith
    (East Carolina University)

    Organizing Committee

    Laila Dybkjaer (local chair), David Traum, Julia Hirschberg, Ronnie Smith,
    Jan van Kuppevelt.

    Contact Information:

    Questions about submission: Ronnie Smith/Jan van Kuppevelt
                                  <sigdial2001@ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
    Questions about local issues: Laila Dybkjaer <laila@nis.sdu.dk>
    Miscellaneous: David Traum <traum@cs.umd.edu>



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