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</span></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br><div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between cognitive and computational approaches to reference (PRE-CogSci 2013)<br>
<br>Abstract submission deadline: May 19, 2013<br></div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Workshop date: 31 July 2013, Berlin, Germany.<br><br>Website: <a href="http://pre2013.uvt.nl/" target="_blank">http://pre2013.uvt.nl/</a> <br>
</div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Email: </span><a href="mailto:precogsci2013@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">precogsci2013@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This workshop is organized as part of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2013), and is a follow-up to successful workshops on the production of referring expressions in Amsterdam (</span><a href="http://pre2009.uvt.nl/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://pre2009.uvt.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) and Boston (</span><a href="http://pre2011.uvt.nl/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://pre2011.uvt.nl</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div class="adm"><div id="q_13e1c8caaf3a8e5a_2" class="h4"><div class=""></div></div></div><div class="im"><br>Invited speakers:<br><br>- Herb Clark (Stanford)<br>- Noah Goodman (Stanford)<br>
<br>Topics:<br><br>We invite submissions on all topics related to reference production, and particularly encourage work that combines experimental, computational and theoretical approaches. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:<br>
<br>- collaborative reference, referring expressions in interactive settings, audience/recipient design<br>- non-determinism in reference production: how to algorithmically model non-determinism and individual variation in human reference production?<br>
- interaction between comprehension and production of referring expressions<br>- visual scene perception and its influence on the production of referring expressions<br>- psychologically plausible computational models of reference production<br>
- when and how do human speakers produce complex descriptions (e.g., plurals, quantified descriptions, relational descriptions)?<br>- vagueness: the use of vague (e.g. gradable) predicates in referring expressions<br>- referential over- and underspecification: why and how do speakers produce over- or underspecified descriptions?<br>
- common ground, cooperativeness and shared/private information in reference<br>- realization of referring expressions (including speech and gesture)<br>- how do social and contextual factors influence reference production<br>
- data-collection and experimental evaluation method<br><br>Extended abstract submission:<br>Paper selection will be based on extended, 1000-word abstracts. The only accepted format for submitted abstracts is PDF. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=precogsci2013" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=precogsci2013</a><br>
<br>Final submission:<br>Upon acceptance, authors are invited to prepare a 4-6 page paper using the CogSci author kit. Final versions need to be submitted as PDF. Papers will be published in on line proceedings, and the authors retain the copyrights.<br>
<br>Special issue:<br>Following previous issues of the PRE-Cogsci workshop, a Special Issue was/is edited (PRE-CogSCi 2009: Topics in Cognitive Science. PRE-CogSCi 2011: Language and Cognitive Processes). Similar options are being considered for the present issue of the workshop; one possibility currently under discussion is a research topic for the Open Access journal Frontiers in Psychology.<br>
<br>Financial support:<br>We gratefully acknowledge financial support from:<br>- the (Dutch) NWO-VICI project Bridging the gap between psycholinguistics and computational linguistics: the case of Referring Expressions (Krahmer, 2009 – 2013),<br>
- the (British) EPSRC project RefNet: An Interdisciplinary Network Focussing on Reference, (Bard and van Deemter, 2012-2015), and<br>- the Cognitive Science society,<br><br>Satellite event:<br>RefNet plans to organize a cross-pollination meeting, probably on the day before the PRE-CogSci 2013 workshop, in which researchers will interact with practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction, Robotics, and Geographical Information Systems, to discuss challenges involving reference that come from real applications. More information about this event will be made available in due course.<br>
<br>PRE-CogSci 2013 Organizers:<br><br>- Albert Gatt, University of Malta<br>- Roger van Gompel, University of Dundee<br>- Ellen Gurman Bard, University of Edinburgh<br>- Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University<br>- Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen<br>
<br>The following researchers have agreed to be members of the Program Committee:<br><br>- Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University, Israel<br>- Jennifer Arnold, University of North Carolina, USA<br>- Adrian Bangerter, Univ. of Neuchatel, Switzerland<br>
- Dale Barr, University of Glasgow, UK<br>- Eva Belke, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany<br>- Holly Branigan, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>- Susan Brennan, Stony Brook University, USA<br>- Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>
- Herb Clark, Stanford University, USA<br>- Victor Ferreira, University of California, USA<br>- Jeanette Gundel, University of Minnesota, USA<br>- Martijn Goudbeek, Tilburg University, The Netherlands<br>- Markus Guhe, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>
- Daphna Heller, University of Toronto, Canada<br>- John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland<br>- Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>- Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany<br>- Daniel Matthews, University of Sheffield, UK<br>
- Margaret Mitchell, Johns Hopkins University, USA<br>- Paul Piwek, Open University, UK<br>- Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK<br>- Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK<br>- Amanda Stent, AT&T and Stony Brook University, USA<br>
- Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA<br>- Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan<br>- Mariet Theune, Twente University, Netherlands.<br><br>Important Dates:<br><br>- May 19, 2013: Deadline for Abstract submission<br>
- June 15, 2013: Notification of Acceptance<br>- July 15, 2013: Deadline for full papers<br>- July 31, 2013: Workshop<br></div></div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
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