[Corpora-List] Australia: 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, at Coling-ACL 2006 --- CFP

[Timothy Baldwin]

Second Announcement
7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Sydney, July, 14-15, 2006

Continuing with a series of successful workshops in Hong Kong,
Aalborg, Philadelphia, Sapporo and Lisboa 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 or analytical work
on discourse and dialogue including but not restricted to the
following three themes:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems

Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as
text summarization, question answering, information retrieval
including topics like:

    * Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure
    * Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use
    * (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging
      resolution
    * Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation

Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including
topics such as:

    * Dialogue management models;
    * Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration;
    * 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;

2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology

Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal
dialogue including its support, in particular:

    * Annotation tools and coding schemes;
    * Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
    * Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine
      learning);
    * Evaluation of systems and components, 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);
    * Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their relation to
      referential and relational structure;
    * Prosody in 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 8 pages, including title,
      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 4 pages or
      less (including title, examples, references, etc.)

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information (see submission
format). SIGdial 06 cannot accept for publication or presentation work
that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

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.

Important Dates (subject to change)

Submission             March 6, 2006
Notification             April 17, 2006
Final submissions     May 22, 2006
Workshop             July 14-15, 2006

Websites

Workshop website: http://sigdial06.dfki.de
Sigdial website: http://www.sigdial.org
COLING/ACL website: http://www.acl2006.org

Contact
Email: sigdial06 at dfki.de

Program Committee

Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany (co-chair)
Alistair Knott, Otago University, New Zealand (co-chair)
Andri Berton, DaimlerChrysler AG Germany
Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Ellen Bard, University of Edinburgh
Johan Bos, University of Edinburgh
Johan Boye, Telia Research Sweden
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
Rolf Carlson, KTH Sweden
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM Research
Mark Core, University of Edinburgh
Laila Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Iryna Gurevych, EML Germany
Joakim Gustafson, Teliasonera Sweden
Masato Ishizaki, University of Tokyo Japan
Michael Johnston, AT&T Research USA
Arne Jvnsson, Linkvping University Sweden
Staffan Larsson, Gvteborg University
Ramsn Lspez-Cszar Delgado, University of Granada Spain
Susann Luperfoy, Stottler Henke Associates USA
Michael McTear, University of Ulster
Wolfgang Minker, Ulm
Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Health and Sciences University
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research USA
Norbert Pfleger, DFKI GmbH Germany
Roberto Pieraccini, Tell-Eureka USA
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex UK
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH Germany
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Candy Sidner, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) USA
Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University The Netherlands
David Traum, USC/ICT USA
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh UK
Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University Australia
Dirk B|hler, University of Ulm Germany
Laurent Romary, LORIA France