[Corpora-List] Announcement: 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

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			     Announcement
	    4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

		     Sapporo, July 5 and 6, 2003

      (immediately preceding the 41st annual meeting of the ACL)
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Continuing with a series of successful workshops in Hong Kong, Aalborg
and Philadelphia, this workshop spans the ACL and ISCA SIGdial
interest area of discourse and dialogue.  This series provides a
regular forum for the presentation of research in this area to both
the larger SIGdial community as well as researchers outside this
community.  The workshop is organized by SIGdial, which is sponsored
jointly by ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

(1) Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including
topics such as:
* Dialogue management models (specific sub-problems or general
modeling, in particular models for mixed initiative and
user-adaptive dialogue);
* Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration (for understanding
or generation);
* Context-based interpretation of dialogues and/or response planning,
in particular how this contributes to natural interaction;
* Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
(repair and correction types, clarification and under-specificity,
grounding and feedback strategies);
* Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation;
* Contrasts between task-driven and conversational dialogue.

(2) Corpora, Tools and Methodology
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;
* Annotation tools and coding schemes;
* Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
* Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
* Tools (XML-based and other) for dialogue system building;
* Evaluation of dialogue systems, including methodology, metrics and
case studies.

(3) 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 long papers for full
plenary presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations. Short
papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary
presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations.

* Long 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.

* Short papers and demo descriptions should aim to be 5 pages or less
(including title page, examples, references, etc.)

Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on
the web or otherwise. For example, excerpts of recorded conversations,
recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to working systems,
etc.

Both long papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the
e-mail address: sigdial2003 at cs.cmu.edu and must be received no later
than March 10th.  The format to use for papers and abstracts is the
same (and is the 2003 ACL final paper format).  Style files and
additional instructions are available at
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2003/templates/

Papers must be submitted in pdf format.

The title page (no separate title page is needed) should include the
following information:
           Title:
           Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses;
           Keywords;
           Abstract (short summary up to 5 lines);

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission         March 10, 2003
Notification       April  28, 2003
Final submissions  May 23, 2003
Workshop	   July 5-6, 2003

WEBSITES
Workshop website: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2003/
Sigdial website: http://www.sigdial.org/
ACL website: http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/

WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will
subsequently be available on the SIGdial web site.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University (co-chair), air at cs.cmu.edu
Syun Tutiya, Chiba University (co-chair), tutiya at chiba-u.ac.jp
Donna Byron (Ohio State University)
Phil Cohen (Oregon Health University/OGI)
Nils Dahlbeck (Linköpings universitet)
Yasuharu Den (Chiba University)
Joakim Gustafson (Telia)
Masato Ishizaki (JAIST)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR MIC)
Masahito Kawamori (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co.)
Andreas Kellner (Philips)
Ali Knott (Otago University)
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Universität des Saarlandes)
Tomoko Kumagai (National Institute for Japanese Language)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Oliver Lemon (Stanford University)
Wolfgang Minker (University of Ulm)
Mikio Nakano (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co.)
Shrikanth Narayanan (USC)
Roberto Pieraccini (SpeechWorks Int.)
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh)
Alexandros Potamianos (Technical University of Crete)
Norbert Reithinger (DFKI)
Laurent Romary (LORIA)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University)
Candace L. Sidner (MERL)
Michael Strube (European Media Laboratory)
Jan Wiebe (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Science)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Akira Kurematsu, University of Electro-Communications (general chair),
kure at apple.ee.uec.ac.jp
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, air at cs.cmu.edu
Syun Tutiya, Chiba University, tutiya at chiba-u.ac.jp
Laila Dybkjær, University of Southern Denmark, laila at nis.sdu.dk
David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, traum at ict.usc.edu