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EACL 2014 Workshop on Dialog in Motion<br>
Workshop at EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), April 26, 2014<br>
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** DEADLINE EXTENSION *<br>
CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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https://sites.google.com/site/dialoginmotion<br>
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NEW submission deadline:<br>
Long & short papers & demos: February 3, 2014 at 23:59 GMT<br>
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Call For Papers<br>
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Spoken dialogue systems used in call centers and car dashboards reflect years of technological development. But the smart devices that now accompany people throughout their daily activity and the extensive integration of sensors and actuators into people’s
environments demand new concepts in dialogue modeling and management in order to provide intuitive, pro-active, personalized, context-aware, multi-modal, multi-domain dialogue systems. Users of such systems may also expect to be able to converse completely
free of constraints, which again requires new types of dialogue strategies.<br>
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The past few years have seen the development of intelligent assistants supporting speech interaction to deliver complex mobile information in situ. Siri (Apple, released in 2011), S Voice (Samsung, 2012), and Google Now (2012) are examples of the more widely
known assistants. There are several other dialogue-enabled assistants such as SpeakToIt Assistant, Vlingo, and Iris, available to smartphone users. These applications use GIS connectivity for navigation and to contextualize tasks such as search. Other multimodal
applications (e.g. Wikitude, WikiHood, FieldTrip) can pro-actively present encyclopedic information about the user’s surroundings, such as landmarks and points of interest, as the user walks around. Augmented reality and wearable technology such as Google
Glass are also changing human-machine interactions. There is also growing interest in bringing all these different modalities together in the context of space and time.<br>
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On the other hand, researchers have focused on many natural language processing issues relating to dialogue in spatial and temporal contexts: natural language understanding for mobile robot communication (MacMahon et al. 2006, Jian et al. 2010, Vogel and Jurafsky
2010, Pappu and Rudnicky 2012, Kim and Mooney, 2013), natural language generation in virtual and real indoor and outdoor environments (Dale 2003, Cheng 2004, Byron 2007, Dethlefs 2011, Janarthanam 2012, Fang et al. 2013), reference resolution (Schutte 2010),
location-based belief tracking (Ma 2012), grounding in visual and spatial contexts (Boye 2012), dialogue management for location-based services (Stent 2010, Cuayáhuitl 2011, Janarthanam 2013, Metallinou et al. 2013), etc. The GIS community has also expressed
interest in designing and implementing systems that are interactive and aware of the user’s location (Malaka 2000, Bartie 2006).<br>
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In this proliferation of location-aware systems in the industry, together with research efforts in spatial and mobile contexts, we see a convergence of efforts (e.g. Word2Actions workshop at NAACL 2012, the Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation
and Generation workshop series and the Vision and Language workshop at NAACL 2013) towards what we call "Dialogue In Motion": any form of interaction between a computer/robot and a human in motion - for example a pedestrian or a driver, in the real world or
in a simulated environment. Natural language interactions are promoted as a more direct interaction medium, but they raise additional challenges in the context of dynamic spatial environments.<br>
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In-car spoken dialog systems have a long track record of non-trivial implementations combining voice, GUI, haptic, and gestures with additional constraints on user’s cognitive load and environment context. For this reason, they will be of a special interest
at the workshop.<br>
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This workshop will focus on these challenging issues in language processing for dialogues in motion. It solicits submissions focused on topics such as:<br>
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* User modeling for situated mobile tasks<br>
* Data collection and annotation for situated mobile tasks<br>
* Evaluation methodology for situated mobile tasks<br>
* Novel and real world-applications of situation-aware spoken dialogue systems<br>
* Proactive strategies of information delivery <br>
* Dialogue management in single or multi-task situation-aware dialogue systems, in particular statistical dialogue management<br>
* Speech recognition in realistic environments<br>
* Situated natural language understanding and/or generation<br>
* Studies and models of cognitive load in dialogue-supported mobile tasks<br>
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We expect that researchers working in various areas of NLP and dialogue systems related to spatial and mobile contexts will contribute to and participate in this workshop.<br>
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Submission modalities<br>
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We invite three different submission modalities:<br>
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* Regular long papers (8 content pages + 1 page for references)<br>
Long papers should report on substantial, original, and unpublished research including new experimental results, resources and/or techniques.<br>
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* Regular short papers (4 content pages + 1 page for references)<br>
Short papers should report on small experiments, focused contributions, ongoing research, negative results and/or opinion discussions.
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Both long and short accepted papers will be presented either orally or in a poster session<br>
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* System demonstration (4 content pages + 1 page for references)<br>
System demonstration papers should describe and document the demonstrated system or resources. We encourage the demonstration of both early research prototypes and mature systems, that will be presented in a demo session.<br>
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Reviewing will be double-blind, and thus no author information should be included in the papers; self-reference should be avoided as well. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings, where no distinction will be made between papers presented orally or as posters.<br>
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All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EACL 2014 formatting requirements (available at the EACL 2014 website). We strongly advise the use of the provided Word or LaTeX template files.<br>
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More details about the submission procedure (e.g. online submission system) will be available soon.<br>
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Important dates<br>
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3 February 2014: Long & short paper submission deadline 23:59 PDT (GMT)<br>
20 February 2014: Notification of Acceptance<br>
03 March 2014: Camera-ready papers due<br>
26 April 2014: Workshop Date<br>
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Program Committee<br>
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Yoav Artzi<br>
University of Washington<br>
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John Bateman<br>
University of Bremen<br>
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Tilman Becker<br>
DFKI<br>
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Luciana Benotti<br>
University of Cordoba<br>
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Andre Berton<br>
Daimler AG, Ulm, Germany<br>
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Johan Boye<br>
KTH Royal Institute of Technology<br>
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Stephen Clark<br>
University of Cambridge<br>
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Robrecht Comeyne<br>
Nuance Communications, Merelbeke, Belgium<br>
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Heriberto Cuayahuitl<br>
HeriotWatt University<br>
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Jan Curin<br>
IBM Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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Nina Dethlefs<br>
HeriotWatt University<br>
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Ute Ehrlich<br>
Daimler AG, Ulm, Germany<br>
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Jens Edlund<br>
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
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Michael Feld<br>
DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany<br>
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Dan Goldwasser<br>
University of Maryland<br>
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Joakim Gustafson<br>
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden<br>
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Peter Heeman<br>
OGI, Oregon Health & Science University, USA<br>
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Filip Jurcicek<br>
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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John Kelleher<br>
Dublin Institute of Technology<br>
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Jan Kleindienst<br>
IBM Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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Alexander Koller<br>
University of Potsdam<br>
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Kazunori Komatani<br>
Nagoya University<br>
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Ioannis Konstas<br>
University of Edinburgh<br>
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Geert-Jan Kruijff<br>
Nuance Communications<br>
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Tom Kwiatkowski<br>
University of Washington<br>
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Staffan Larsson<br>
Gothenburg University, Sweden<br>
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Oliver Lemon<br>
Heriot Watt University<br>
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Nils Lenke<br>
Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany<br>
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Jan Macek<br>
IBM Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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Tomas Macek<br>
IBM Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic<br>
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Ray Mooney<br>
University of Texas at Austin<br>
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Christian Mueller<br>
DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany<br>
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Deepak Ramachandran<br>
Nuance Communications<br>
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Verena Rieser<br>
Heriot Watt University<br>
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Hui Shi<br>
Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology<br>
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Jan Svec<br>
University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic<br>
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Thora Tenbrink<br>
Bangor University<br>
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Adam Vogel<br>
Stanford University<br>
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Jason Williams<br>
Microsoft Research<br>
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Luke Zettlemoyer<br>
University of Washington<br>
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Organising Committee<br>
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Tiphaine Dalmas<br>
ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>
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Jana Götze <br>
School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>
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Joakim Gustafson<br>
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>
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Srinivasan Janarthanam<br>
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, UK<br>
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Jan Kleindienst<br>
IBM Czech Republic, Prague R&D Lab, Czech Republic<br>
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Christian Mueller<br>
DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany<br>
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Amanda Stent<br>
Yahoo! Labs, New York, USA<br>
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Andreas Vlachos<br>
University of Cambridge, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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