<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The workshop welcomes submissions from developmental scientists!</span><br clear="all"><div><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<p>Call for submissions<u></u><u></u></p><p>RefNet Workshop on Psychological and Computational Models of Reference Comprehension and Production</p><p><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p></div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Date: Sunday 31 Aug 2014<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Location: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/" target="_blank">http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">An informal research workshop will take place, with the aim of sharing the current developments in the study of the production and comprehension of referring expressions in different scientific disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics.<u></u><u></u></p>
<div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>We invite submissions on all topics related to reference production/comprehension. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>-- social and contextual factors influencing reference production and comprehension<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- cooperativeness and perspective-taking in reference production and comprehension.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>-- interaction between comprehension and production of referring expressions<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- the role of visual context in the production/comprehension of referring expressions<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- psychologically plausible computational models of reference production and comprehension<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>-- referential communication in interactive settings<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- referential communication in children<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- complex descriptions (e.g., quantified descriptions, relational descriptions)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>-- the use of vague predicates in referring expressions<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- referential over- and underspecification<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- realisation of referring expressions (including prosody, gesture, eye gaze)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>-- data-collection and experimental evaluation methods<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- the formal semantics and pragmatics of reference<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>Invited speakers:<u></u><u></u></p><p>Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Kees van Deemter, University of Aberdeen<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>Submissions:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Selection of posters and oral presentations will be based on 500-1000 word abstracts including references. Abstracts, in PDF format, should be submitted via the workshop website: <a href="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/submission.html" target="_blank">http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/refnet/submission.html</a> . Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so please include a title but not authors. Revised versions of accepted abstracts will be posted on the RefNet page. There will be no printed proceedings.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates:<u></u><u></u></p><div class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<p>-- Monday 16th June: Submission deadline<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- Mid-July: Notifications of acceptance<u></u><u></u></p><p>-- Sunday 31st August: the workshop<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Programme Committee (more to be announced):<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ellen Bard, Holly Branigan, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Arash Eshghi, Kumiko Fukumura, Simon Garrod, Albert Gatt, Marcus Guhe, Pat Healey, William S. Horton, Julian Hough, Christine Howes, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Emiel Krahmer, Gregory Mills, Paul Piwek, Ehud Reiter, Matthew Stone, Marc Swerts, Roger van Gompel<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organisers:<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Arash Eshghi (<a href="mailto:eshghi.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">eshghi.a@gmail.com</a>)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kumiko Fukumura (<a href="mailto:kumiko.fukumura@strath.ac.uk" target="_blank">kumiko.fukumura@strath.ac.uk</a>)<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Srini Janarthanam<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Note:<u></u><u></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
The workshop takes place immediately after the RefNet summer school Psychological and Computational Models of Language Production (24-31 August, Edinburgh) (<a href="http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/events.html" target="_blank">http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/events.html</a>), but it will be open to anyone, regardless of whether they take part in the summer school. Both the workshop and the summer school are part of RefNet, a research network funded by the UK's EPSRC.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> </span></p></div>-- <br>
<p><span>Danielle Matthews<br>
Department of Psychology<br>
University of Sheffield<br>
</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.1pt" lang="EN-US">Sheffield S10 2TP <br>
</span><span>Tel: 00 44 114 222 6548<br>
<a href="http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/danielle-matthews" target="_blank">http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/danielle-matthews</a></span></p>
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