[Corpora-List] 1st CfP: Dialogue Modelling and Generation

From: Claudia Sassen (claudia.sassen@uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 13:56:02 MET

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                           Symposium on
                 Dialogue Modelling and Generation
             http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG
             -----------------------------------------
                        Vrije Universiteit
                      Amsterdam, Netherlands
                          July 6, 2005

    to be held as part of the annual meeting of the
    Society for Text & Discourse (ST&D) July 6-9, 2005 as
    announced at http://www.let.vu.nl/conference/std2005/

    This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics
    and pragmatics of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims
    at bringing together those from the dialogue modelling and
    language generation/production communities and will provide
    an opportunity for researchers from a variety of
    disciplines, including linguistics, computer science and
    psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas.

    We invite talks elaborating on important theoretical notions
    in dialogue modelling -such as constraints (Asher &
    Lascarides, 2003, and many other recent papers), the role of
    domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig, 2003, and, again, many more)
    and the influence of social relations between interlocutors
    on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal work by
    Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and ask presenters to shed light
    on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue
    modelling by:

    - relating them to issues in language generation/production
      or
    - drawing out similarities and differences between
      applications of such notions in discourse generation
      versus interpretation or
    - describing computational/implemented models, in
      particular, for generation/production or
    - comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering
      approaches to dialogue modelling.

    The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones
    that deal with NL interpretation or structural properties of
    discourse.

    Participants have to register for the main meeting

    Program Committee (more to come):
    =================================
    Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands
    Simon Garrod, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
    Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands
    Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany
    Colin Matheson, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
    Daniel Paiva, Univ. of Sussex, UK
    Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
    Richard Power, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
    Matthew Purver, CSLI, USA
    Alison Sanford, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
    Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
    Donia Scott, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
    Marilyn Walker, Univ. of Sheffield, UK

    Organizers:
    ===========
    Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
    Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
    Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany

    Submissions:
    ============
    Please submit an abstract of your talk to
    claudia.sassen@uni-dortmund.de by February 1, 2005, clearly
    indicating that it is a proposal. Proposals should include a
    cover page with the following:

       1. The title of the presentation
       2. Names and institutional affiliations all authors,
          including email addresses of all authors
       3. Contact Address for presenting author
       4. A 75-word abstract of the presentation for publication
          in the abstracts booklet and on the website.

    In addition to the cover page, please include a 2-3 page
    summary of the presentation with a title but no author
    information (max. 1000 words, including bibliographic
    references).

    -- 
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    Uni Dortmund - IDSuL - Emil-Figge-Str. 50  D-44227 Dortmund
    http://www.hrz.uni-dortmund.de/~hytex/storrer/cs/
    http://www.claudia-sassen.net/
    



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