11.378, Calls: Dialogue, Software Support/Large Corpora
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Subject: 11.378, Calls: Dialogue, Software Support/Large Corpora
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:43:59 +0100
From: laila at nis.sdu.dk (Laila Dybkjaer)
Subject: From Spoken Dialogue to Full Natural Interactive Dialogue / LREC 2000 - extended deadline
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:27:26 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora/LREC WORKSHOP
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 15:43:59 +0100
From: laila at nis.sdu.dk (Laila Dybkjaer)
Subject: From Spoken Dialogue to Full Natural Interactive Dialogue / LREC 2000 - extended deadline
LREC 2000 workshop:
FROM SPOKEN DIALOGUE TO FULL NATURAL INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE.
THEORY, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION.
29 May 2000 - immediately before LREC 2000, Athens, Greece
http://www.nis.sdu.dk/lrec2000workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE
Spoken dialogue systems have been in the marketplace since around 1990.
Whereas the first systems only had single word recognition there has been a
steady development towards increasingly natural spoken dialogue. The most
advanced current systems still work within a limited task domain but some
are capable of understanding and replying to fairly long user utterances,
coping with various kinds of initiative, and taking a variety of contextual
issues into account.
Naturalness, as perceived by the user, is closely connected to properties
such as allowed user utterance length, grammar, vocabulary, style and
initiative. Depending on task and situation, perceived naturalness is also
connected to how the user can interact with the system. In human-human
communication we normally do not restrict ourselves to using speech-only
but also include gesture, facial expression, and bodily posture and we
often draw on other information sources such as diagrams, maps and
drawings.
Natural interactive dialogue and conversational systems are moving
centre-stage because of increasing interest in adding other modalities to
achieve a larger potential than speech alone can offer. Several recent
conversational prototype systems include one or several natural interaction
modalities in addition to speech. However, there are many open questions
and unsolved or insufficiently explored problems related to extending
spoken dialogue management and dialogue interfaces to enable increased
natural interactivity.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers in the area
of natural interactive dialogue. The goal of the workshop is to highlight
and evaluate empirically based theories and methods for natural multimodal
conversational dialogue management and dialogue interfaces, and their
evaluation. Focus will be on key issues such as dialogue initiative,
reference, communicative acts, feedback, and cooperativity.
TOPICS
Topics of interest should fall within theory, empirical analysis, and
evaluation of key issues in the transition from spoken dialogue to full
natural interactive dialogue. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Cooperative natural interactive dialogue interfaces and usability
- Experience from natural interactive systems development and evaluation
- Integration of natural interactivity modalities
- Empirically based theories in support of natural interactive dialogue
management and interfaces
- Communicative acts (beyond speech acts)
- Reference in a multimodal context
- Dialogue initiative
- Task management
- Feedback
- Methods for evaluation of natural interactive dialogue management and
dialogue interfaces
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Extended abstracts should be around 4 pages in length. Final papers should
not exceed six pages. Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically
to laila at nis.sdu.dk and must be in postscript or rtf format. Please write
"LREC2000 workshop paper submission" in the subject line.
Final paper style format is available at
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec/kauthor.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 10 March 2000
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2000
Deadline for submission of accepted papers: 10 April 2000
Workshop: 29 May 2000
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Laila Dybkjær, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark (chair)
Niels Ole Bernsen, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark
Justine Cassell, MIT Media Lab, USA
Ronald Cole, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, University of
Colorado at Boulder, USA
Björn Granström, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Sweden
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Dominic W. Massaro, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, USA
David McNeill, Dept. of Psychology, University of Chicago, USA
Sharon Oviatt, Center for Human-Computer Communication, Oregon Graduate
Institute of Science & Technology, USA
Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy
Jan van Kuppevelt, IMS, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
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Dr. Laila Dybkjær
The Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
University of Southern Denmark
Main Campus: Odense University
Science Park 10
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Tel.: ( +45) 65 50 35 53
Fax: (+45) 63 15 72 24
Email: laila at nis.sdu.dk
URL: http://www.nis.sdu.dk/
Secretary Merete Bertelsen
Tel. ( +45) 65 50 35 51
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 12:27:26 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: Data Architectures and Software Support for Large Corpora/LREC WORKSHOP
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
LREC WORKSHOP
DATA ARCHITECTURES AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR LARGE CORPORA
May 30, 2000
ATHENS, GREECE
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE : MARCH 7, 2000
Several software systems for linguistic annotation, search,
and retrieval of large corpora have been developed within the
natural language processing community over the past several
years, including LT-XML (Edinburgh), GATE (Sheffield), IMS
Corpus Workbench (Stuttgart), Alembic Workbench (Mitre), MATE
(Edinburgh/Odense/Stuttgart), Silfide (Loria/CNRS), SARA
(BNC), and several others. Related to and in support of this
development, there have also been efforts to develop standards
for encoding and various kinds of linguistic annotation, as
well as data architectures (e.g., TIPSTER, TalkBank)
etc. Still other developments, such as the introduction of XML
and the powerful XSL transformation language and work on
semi-structured data (e.g., the work of the Lore group at
Stanford), have also impacted the ways in which corpora and
other linguistic resources can be represented, stored, and
accessed.
Approaches to the fundamental design of the formats, data, and
tools are varied among current systems for the annotation and
exploitation of linguistic corpora. A primary reason for this
diversity is that most developers are concerned with only one
aspect of the creation/annotation/exploitation
process. However, in order to work effectively toward
commonality, the phases of the process must be considered as a
whole. This demands bringing together researchers and
developers from a variety of domains in text, speech, video,
etc., many of whom have previously had little or no contact.
This workshop is intended to bring these groups together to
look broadly at the technical issues that bear on the
development of software systems for the annotation and
exploitation of linguistic resources. The goal is to lay the
groundwork for the definition of a data and system
architecture to support corpus annotation and exploitation
that can be widely adopted within the community. Among the
issues to be addressed are:
o layered data architectures
o system architectures for distributed databases
o support for plurality of annotation schemes
o impact and use of XML/XSL
o support for multimedia, including speech and video
o tools for creation, annotation, query and access of corpora
o mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary data
o applicability of semi-structured data models, search and query
systems, etc.
o evaluation/validation of systems and annotations
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Submissions
Papers should be submitted in electronic form (preferably postscript,
but plain ascii, MS Word RTF, or HTML are acceptable) to
ide at cs.vassar.edu by March 7, 2000. Please include the subject line: LREC WORKSHOP
SUBMISSION : <authors' last names> -- for example, "LREC WORKSHOP
SUBMISSION: SMITH, JONES".
Organizers
Nancy Ide (contact)
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA
Tel : +1 914 437 5988
Fax : +1 914 437 7498
ide at vassar.edu
Henry S. Thompson
Human Communication Research Centre
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
SCOTLAND
Tel : +44 (131) 650 4440
Fax : +44 (131) 650 4587
ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Program Committee
Steven Bird, Linguistic Data Consortium
Patrice Bonhomme, LORIA/CNRS
Roy Byrd, IBM Corporation
Jean Carletta, HCRC Edinburgh
Ulrich Heid, IMS Stuttgart
Hamish Cunningham, Sheffield
David Day, Mitre Corporation
Robert Gaizauskas, Sheffield
Ralph Grishman, New York University
Nancy Ide, Vassar College (Chair)
Masato Ishizaki, JAIST
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tony McEnery, Lancaster
David McKelvie, HCRC Edinburgh
Laurent Romary, LORIA/CNRS
Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Henry Thompson, HCRC Edinburgh
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield
Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute
Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University
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