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<pre wrap=""> Second Call for Papers
CATALOG'04
EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)
Pompeu Fabra University
Barcelona
July 19-21 2004
(Apologies for Multiple Postings)
Workshop URL: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.upf.edu/catalog04">http://www.upf.edu/catalog04</a>
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Catalog'04 will be the eighth in a series of workshops that aims to bring
together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues
in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona, which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004, its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and performances (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/">http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/</a>). So
mark your calendar now.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Robin Cooper (Göteborgs Universitet)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michael Tannenhaus <font face="Arial">(</font>University of Rochester<font
face="Arial">)</font>,
We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:
- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication
- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models and turn-taking
- goals, intentions and commitments in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogues
- reference in dialogues
- ellipsis resolution in dialogues
- dialogue and discourse structure
- interpretation of questions and answers
- nonlinguistic interaction in communication
- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
- multimodal dialogue systems
- dialogue management in practical implementations
- categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5
single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 25' plus 10'
discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors'
names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should
be submitted electronically (in postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
format) to: <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:catalog04@upf.edu"><catalog04@upf.edu></a>
Submissions have to be in English, which is the workshop language. For the accepted talks, a LaTeX style will be made available for the preparation of the final version.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: March 12, 2004
Acceptance notice: May 5, 2004
Final version due: June 5, 2004
Conference: July 19-21, 2004
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Anton Benz (Syddansk Universitet),
Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh),
Justine Cassell (Northwestern University)
Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford),
Robin Cooper (G\"oteborgs Universitet),
Paul Dekker, (University of Amsterdam)
Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria)
Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow),
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair)
Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London),
Ivana Kruijff Korbayova (Universit\"at des Saarlandes),
Staffan Larsson (G\"teborgs Universitet),
Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh),
David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge),
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
Hannes Rieser (Universit\"at Bielefeld),
David Traum (USC)
ORGANIZATION:
The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the city of
Barcelona (exact venue to be announced). The local committee is chaired by Enric Vallduví.
Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
(see also <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/">http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/</a> )
MunDial'97 (Munich)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html">http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html</a>)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html">http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html</a>)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/">http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/</a>)
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog">http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog</a>)
Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG">http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG</a>)
EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh)
(<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/">http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/</a>)
DIABRUCK 2003
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/">http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/</a>
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