<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Dear Moderator,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Could you please post this announcement to the list?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Many thanks,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jonathan Ginzburg</div><div>-------------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b> Last Call for Papers:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> LONDIAL: 2008 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> King’s College London, June 2<sup>nd</sup> – June 4<sup>th</sup>, 2008</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> in conjunction with:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Final workshop of Dialogue Matters: Foundations for Technology Development</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(Leverhulme International Network Project).<span> </span>This workshop is now to be held with the first day at King’s College London on June 2nd immediately preceding LONDIAL, the second day at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) on June 5th (NOTE: change of dates of this workshop).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <b>(Apologies for Multiple Postings)</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2008 we will celebrate eleven years of the SEMDIAL series with the LONDIAL workshop, to be organized at King’s College London (KCL) in conjunction with the Interaction, Media and Communication Group at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). The SEMDIAL workshops are always stimulating and fun, and with KCL being in the heart of London, just across from the South Bank Centre, there will be no shortage of evening entertainment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">LONDIAL 2008 will be held in conjunction with the closing workshop of the Leverhulme-funded network Dialogue Matters: Foundations for Technology Development, initially set up between London (KCL, QMUL), Edinburgh/Glasgow, Stanford, Stony Brook, Gothenburg, Essex, with additional collaborators now also participating. This two-day workshop will feature invited presentations by members of this group and other leaders of the computational linguistics and human language technology community, and demonstration of the Augmented Human Interaction Laboratory at QMUL (June 5th). This series of workshops has provided an extremely fruitful synergy of theoretical, historical, computational and psycho-linguists, with overlapping interests in dialogue modeling. Confirmed speakers include Susan Brennan, Amanda Stent, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson, Stanley Peters, and Holly Branigan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is also a planned session on dialogue situated in joint action.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">DATES AND DEADLINES:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submissions due: 21<sup>st</sup> March 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">(Please specify if you are submitting to the <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/ds/events/londial/dsija.html">DSiJA</a> or not)<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification: 16<sup>th</sup> April 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final version due: 30<sup>th</sup> April 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dialogue Matters opening workshop: 2<sup>nd</sup> June 2008 (Monday)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">LONDIAL 2008: 2<sup>nd</sup> – 4<sup>th</sup> June 2008 (Monday - Wednesday)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dialogue Matters workshop meeting at QMUL:<span> </span>5th June 2008 (Thursday)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SCOPE (expanded from first call):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- modeling agents' information states and how they get updated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- multi-agent models and turn-taking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- goals, intentions and commitments in communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- semantic interpretation in dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- reference in dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- ellipsis resolution in dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- alignment and misalignment in dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- dialogue and discourse structure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- dialogue situated in joint action<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- interpretation of questions and answers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- incremental, context-dependent processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- nonlinguistic interaction in communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- multimodal dialogue systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- dialogue management in practical implementations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- categorization of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- designing and evaluating dialogue systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is also a planned <strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">session on dialogue situated in joint action</span> </strong>(<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/ds/events/londial/dsija.html">DSiJA</a>). Submissions of papers are invited for this session. <span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for receipt of papers is 21<sup>st</sup> March 2008, 23:59 UTC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submit your paper via the web at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=londial2008">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=londial2008</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Before submitting you must register with the website and receive a password by email; please do this well ahead of your submission, since email is sometimes unreliable. You will also need to fill out a web form with the author details and type in (or paste) a plain-text version of your abstract (200 words), in addition to uploading your paper.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The actual paper should be an anonymous PDF file, 8 pages long (including data, tables, figures, and references), A4 paper size, 11pt Times font, 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins, 2-column format. Include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words). You may find it convenient to use the style files provided by <span style="color: black; ">ACL 2007. Please specify whether your paper is for the DSiJA.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for relevance only by the program committee chairs. Submission of late-breaking abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main session papers has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking submissions is 30<sup>th</sup> April 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">INVITED SPEAKERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">David Traum, University of Southern California<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Andrzej Wisniewski, <span style="color: black; ">Adam Mickiewicz University</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Geneva; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Susan Fussell, Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">(one more to be confirmed)<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">PROCEEDINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the 2-page accepted late-breaking abstracts, will be distributed in a proceedings volume at the workshop. In order to ensure publication in the proceedings, AT LEAST ONE author of each paper must have registered to attend the meeting by 30<sup>th</sup> April 2008, the deadline of submission of the revised paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">ORGANIZATION:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pat Healey (program co-chair)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jonathan Ginzburg (program co-chair)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ruth Kempson, Miriam Bouzouita, Eleni Gregoromichelaki (local arrangements)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">PREVIOUS SEMDIAL EVENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">MUNDIAL '97 (Munich)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html">http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">TWENDIAL '98 (Twente)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html">http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">AMSTELOGUE '99 (Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/">http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">GOTALOG 2000 (Gothenburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/">http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">BI-DIALOG 2001 (Bielefeld)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/">http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">EDILOG 2002 (Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/">http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">DIABRUCK 2003 (Saarbruecken)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">CATALOG 2004 (Barcelona)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/">http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">DIALOR 2005 (Nancy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://dialor05.loria.fr">http://dialor05.loria.fr</a>/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">BRANDIAL 2006 (Potsdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/">http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">DECALOG 2007 (Rovereto)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.cimec.unitn.it/events/decalog/index.htm">http://www.cimec.unitn.it/events/decalog/index.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(see also <a href="http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/">http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/</a> )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style="font-size: 14px; "><strong>LONDIAL Program Committee</strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Nicholas Asher, CNRS, Toulouse & Univ. of Texas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bolzano<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Johan Bos, University La Sapienza<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Miriam Bouzouita, King’s College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Susan Brennan, Stony Brook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Justine Cassell, Northwestern University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eve Clark, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paul Dekker, University of Amsterdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Raquel Fernández, CSLI, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ruth Filik, University of Glasgow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jonathan Ginzburg, King’s College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eleni Gregoromichelaki, King’s College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pat Healey, Queen Mary London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ruth Kempson, King’s College London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ian Lewin, University of Cambridge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Gregory Mills, Queen Mary London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Fabio Pianesi, ITC-IRST, Trento<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Manfred Pinkal, University of Saarland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Paul Piwek, Open University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Massimo Poesio, University of Essex<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">David Schlangen, University of Potsdam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Matthew Stone, Rutgers University<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><div class="MsoNormal"><strong>DSiJA Program Committee</strong> <br><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Ellen Gurman Bard, University of Edinburgh <br>Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld <br>Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Massimo Poesio, University of Essex</span><br>Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld <br>Jan-Peter de Ruiter, MPI for Psychoinguistics, Nijmegen <br>Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh <br>Ipke Wachsmuth, University of Bielefeld<o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For further information see the website:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/ds/events/londial/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/ds/events/londial/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div></body></html>