9.196, Calls: Human-Computer Studies,Translingual Information
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Subject: 9.196, Calls: Human-Computer Studies,Translingual Information
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:28:03 +0900
From: Kristiina Jokinen <kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp>
Subject: 2nd CFP: IJHCS Special Issue
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:16:23 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: ACL Workshop on Translingual Information Management
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:28:03 +0900
From: Kristiina Jokinen <kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp>
Subject: 2nd CFP: IJHCS Special Issue
Call for Papers
The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
will publish a special issue on the theme
Collaboration, Cooperation and Conflict in Dialogue Systems
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This special issue is devoted to theoretical and empirical studies of
cooperation and collaboration in dialogue systems, addressing problems
specific to dialogue management. It is associated with the workshop on
the same theme held at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya but seeks submissions from
all researchers who have been working on the topic, not just the
workshop participants.
Work on autonomous cooperative systems has shown the importance of
collaboration in different domains: besides collaborating with users
to provide requested information and to solve their problems, the
systems should also be able to collaborate with other specialist
intelligent systems (as in multi-agent infrastructures, for
example). Also, research in natural language dialogue has brought new
insights about collaboration: how mutual belief is established in
dialogue (and, consequently, task) fulfillment, as well as how to
cooperate to enable successful communication between the conversants.
The notions of cooperation and collaboration are closely related to
each other, but likely not the same: cooperation is one of the design
principles for dialogue systems, but such systems do not necessarily
collaborate with the user. To what degree is cooperation necessary for
collaboration and how does it appear in dialogue? Cooperation turns
into benevolence if the agent attempts to fulfill the partner's goals
without questioning their contextual relevance, but this is not
necessarily collaboration. On the other hand, if the agents pursue
their own goals without considering those of their partners or the
joint task, their actions can hardly be described as cooperative or
collaborative.
This special issue concentrates on human-human and human-computer
communication, and on the ways cooperation and collaboration are
manifested in these situations: how the partners jointly construct
dialogue acts, infer non-explicitly expressed intentions, negotiate
appropriate references, generate cooperative answers, co-produce
utterances, give feedback, help each other in task achievement,
etc. Since collaboration and cooperation are also related to conflict
situations, arising from misunderstandings, erroneous perception,
partial knowledge, false beliefs, etc., submissions that examine how
cooperation and collaboration work in solving conflicts, and how the
partners negotiate to reach a mutually acceptable resolution are also
welcome.
We encourage submissions on different aspects of cooperation and
collaboration, addressing especially one or more of the following
research issues:
- How can we define "collaborative dialogues"? Are all dialogues
collaborative? How do corpus studies back up the classification?
- What kind of individual commitments are needed for collaboration?
How do social settings (roles, acquaintance) affect communication
and collaboration? How are these commitments and settings
represented in a dialogue model?
- What is the role of cooperation in collaborative dialogue? Can
collaborative activity include benevolent or uncooperative
behaviour? Does collaboration require sincerity (e.g., can
cheating be collaborative)?
- How does collaboration contribute to conflict resolution and
recovery from misunderstandings? How can costs and benefits of
collaboration be measured?
- How is collaboration and cooperation related to task
performance? What mechanisms are needed to combine collaborative
task plans with dialogue contributions?
- How can cooperation/collaboration principles and mechanisms be
expressed in formal, computational models of communication or
interaction? How can these models be implemented?
- Is collaboration the main issue to problems in dialogue
management? What are the solutions, future research problems?
Both theoretical and more practically oriented papers are welcome, but
we encourage papers that provide real-world examples of collaboration,
cooperation and conflict, and compare multiple ways of addressing the
problems that arise.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Full paper submissions to the special issue should be in the IJHCS
format. Information for the IJHCS authors can be found at:
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/IJHCS/IJHCS_IA.html
To help to coordinate the review process, authors who intend to submit
are asked to send a short statement of intention to submit to David
Sadek one month prior the deadline.
The deadline for submissions is March 16. Submissions should
preferably be sent as postscript files by email to:
David.Sadek at cnet.francetelecom.fr
If this is not possible, send six (6) hardcopies to David Sadek at the
address:
David Sadek
France Telecom
CNET - DIH
Technopole Anticipa - 2, Avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion Cedex - FRANCE
In either case, the authors should also send a separate electronic
title and abstract page (in plain text format) to
David.Sadek at cnet.francetelecom.fr
The submissions will undergo the usual IJHCS reviewing process taking
into account the requirements of the special issue. Each paper will be
reviewed by 3 reviewers who are members of the scientific board.
Authors of submitted papers will also be asked to act as referees for
other submissions. The reviewers will judge the submissions primarily
along the following dimensions: relevance, significance, originality,
clarity, technical soundness, and overall quality of presentation.
IMPORTANT DATES
November 1997 Call for papers
February 16 Statement of intent to submit
March 16 Submission deadline
June 15 Notification of acceptance
August 15 Final papers due
SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS:
Kristiina Jokinen
ATR, Japan
kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp
David Sadek
France Telecom, CNET, France
David.Sadek at cnet.francetelecom.fr
David R. Traum
University of Maryland, USA
traum at cs.umd.edu
SPECIAL ISSUE SCIENTIFIC BOARD:
James Allen, University of Rochester, USA
Jens Allwood, University of G\"{o}teborg, Sweden
Michael Baker, University Lyon II, France
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Bell Laboratories, USA
Patrick Healey, ATR, Japan
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
Masato Ishizaki, NTT, Japan
Karen Lochbaum, US West, USA
Susan McRoy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
David Novick, EURISCO, France
Candace Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation, USA
MORE INFORMATION:
Updated information on the special issue as well as the IJCAI workshop
is available at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~traum/CCCinDS/
General information on IJHCS is available at:
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/IJHCS
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:16:23 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: ACL Workshop on Translingual Information Management
ACL/COLING-98
Workshop on
TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES
August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98)
University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESCRIPTION
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The development of natural language applications which handle
multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge
facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years,
a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas
such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech
recognition, together with core capabilities such as information
extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning
and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon
construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few
years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass
multi-lingual and multi-modal information.
Extending current technologies will require integration of the various
capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However,
there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or
should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved
in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval
engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software
to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and
generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the
effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information
retrieval?
This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in
conjunction with the First International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an
international panel of invited experts will consider these questions
in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of
computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the
need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The
follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the
computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will
include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the
discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop.
TOPICS
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The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions:
1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas
of the field dealing with language and related media of human
communication?
2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future,
and what kind of systems will result?
3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to
handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in
integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)?
In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the
following areas:
o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.)
o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal
o machine translation
o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information
extraction
o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text
o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas
o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics-
based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information
acquisition, etc.
We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers
should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and
questions outlined above.
SUBMISSIONS
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Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six
(6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words).
Submissions should be sent to:
Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520
USA
Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html
The official language of the conference is English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998
Notification Date: May 15, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley, USA
Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ulrich Heid (tentative) University of Stuttgart, Germany
Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA
Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA
Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France
Kimmo Koskenniemi (tentative) University of Helsinki, Finland
Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore
Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France
Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA
Sergei Nirenburg (tentative) New Mexico State University, USA
Akitoshi Okumura (tentative) NEC, Japan
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA
Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland
Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy
Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain
Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany
ORGANIZERS
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Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
INFORMATION
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Information on the workshop can be found at
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html
Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers:
Robert Frederking <ref at nl.cs.cmu.edu>
Eduard Hovy <hovy at isi.edu>
Nancy Ide <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
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