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apologize crossposting<br>
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Call for participation for the<br>
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Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG">http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG</a><br>
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<br>
held on occasion of<br>
Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse<br>
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
July 7, 2005 (New Date!)<br>
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The symposium is held as part of the Annual meeting of the the Society<br>
for Text & Discourse (ST&D), July 6-9 2005.<br>
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This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and<br>
pragmatics of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing<br>
together the dialogue modelling and language generation/production<br>
communities and will provide an opportunity for researchers from a<br>
variety of disciplines, including linguistics, computer science and<br>
psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas.<br>
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We invited talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in<br>
dialogue modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003,
and<br>
many other recent papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig,<br>
2003, and, again, many more) and the influence of social relations<br>
between interlocutors on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal<br>
work by Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and asked presenters to shed light<br>
on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue modelling<br>
by:<br>
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- relating them to issues in language generation/production or<br>
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- drawing out similarities and differences between applications of<br>
such notions in discourse generation versus interpretation or<br>
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- describing computational/implemented models, in particular, for<br>
generation/production or<br>
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- comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering approaches<br>
to dialogue modelling.<br>
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The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones<br>
that deal with natural language interpretation or structural properties
of<br>
discourse.<br>
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See the schedule at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/schedule.html">http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/schedule.html</a><br>
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The Symposium is endorsed by SIGGen as well as by SIGDial<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net">http://www.peter-kuehnlein.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de">http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de</a>
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than
a man talking nonsense not to himself."
(Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead)
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