12.435, Calls: Discourse/Dialogue, Predicative Morphosyntax
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Subject: 12.435, Calls: Discourse/Dialogue, Predicative Morphosyntax
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:23:09 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:23:05 BST
From: "Delia Bentley" <mfupgdb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Predicative Morphosyntax
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:23:09 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
1st Announcement
2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2
(Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia)
More up to date information on submission schedule,
formats, registration and program committee may be
found at the workshop website
Description
Following up on the successful 1st Workshop in Hong Kong in October 2000,
this will be the next in a series of workshops spanning the ACL SIGdial
interest area of discourse and dialogue. While there has been a lot of
activity in this area, and fairly frequent "specialty" workshops on
various sub-topics, until this series there has not been a regular place
for such research to be presented in a forum to receive attention from the
larger SIGdial community and researchers outside this community.
Invited Speakers: to be announced.
Topics of Interest
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work on
discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes:
(i) Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
including topics such as:
* dialogue management models
(specific subproblems or general modeling, in particular
models for mixed initiative and user-adaptive dialogue);
* speech, text, and graphics integration (for
understanding or generation);
* context-based interpretation and/or response planning,in
particular how this contributes to natural interaction;
* strategies for handling or preventing miscommuncation
(repair and correction types, clarification and
underspecificity, grounding and feedback strategies);
* utilizing prosodic information for various types of
disambiguation;
* task-driven versus conversational dialogue;
* evaluation of dialogue systems including task complexity
measurements.
(ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based
and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in
particular:
* issues and problems in discourse and dialogue
annotation;
* techniques (including machine learning), tools, coding
schemes and data resources for discourse and dialogue
studies;
* XML-based tools for dialogue access to internet
information.
(iii) Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and
dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence) including
the following issues:
* the semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including
those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics
framework);
* incremental (plan-based,topic-based, etc.) models of
discourse/dialogue structure integrating referential and
relational structure;
* modeling genre-specific aspects of discourse and
dialogue structure, including the specific structural
aspects of (interactive) digital media;
* prosody in discourse and dialogue;
* modeling politeness and non-recursive parts of discourse
and dialogue;
* models of presupposition and accommodation;
* operational models of conversational implicature.
Submission of Papers and Abstracts
The program committee welcomes the submission of papers for full plenary
presentation. The papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including title
page, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages
are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses
or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
Besides papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission
of short 4-page papers (inclusive title page, examples, references, etc.)
to be combined with a short presentation in the plenary session and a
poster presentation.
Full papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail
address sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no later
than May 7.
The format to use for papers and abstracts is the same (ACL final paper
format). Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01
Papers must be submitted in pdf (preferred) or postscript format.
The title page should include the following information:
Title:
Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses:
Keywords (up to 5 keywords specifying subject area):
Submission type (full paper or short paper submission):
Abstract (short summary up to 5 lines):
Important Dates
Submission of full papers and short papers May 7
Notification June 20
Final submissions August 1
Workshop September 1-2
Workshop Publications
Like full papers, short papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Authors of a selected number of full papers accepted for the
workshop proceedings will be asked to send in a version of their paper for
the publication in a book on current directions and developments in
discourse and dialogue, to be published by a renowned, international
publisher.
Panel Sessions
In addition to the regular paper and abstract submissions, the program
committee welcomes proposals for other relevant activities, such as
reports of working groups and initiatives, and targeted discussion
sessions. The program committee itself intends to organize two panel
sessions, the descriptions of which will be given in later announcements,
namely one specifically on spoken dialogue systems and the other on the
pragmatics/semantics of discourse and dialogue being directly relevant to
the first subject.
Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart) and Ronnie Smith
(East Carolina University)
Organizing Committee
Laila Dybkjaer (local chair), David Traum, Julia Hirschberg, Ronnie Smith,
Jan van Kuppevelt.
Contact Information:
Questions about submission: Ronnie Smith/Jan van Kuppevelt
<sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Questions about local issues: Laila Dybkjaer <laila at nis.sdu.dk>
Miscellaneous: David Traum <traum at cs.umd.edu>
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:23:05 BST
From: "Delia Bentley" <mfupgdb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Predicative Morphosyntax
CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP
PREDICATIVE MORPHOSYNTAX: PARAMETERS OF VARIATION IN ROMANCE
University of Palermo, 23-24 November 2001
Abstracts are invited for a workshop on Romance predicative
morphosyntax. The purpose of the workshop is to explore parametric
variation in the morphosyntax of verbal, nominal, adjectival
predicates. Space will be given to both synchronic and diachronic
analyses of any languages of the Romance family. Topics which are
likely to be covered in the workshop are: synthetic and analytic
predication, agreement systems, copulas and auxiliaries. But papers
are invited on any aspect of Romance predicative morphosyntax.
The workshop will take place in Palermo. There will be scope for a
maximum of 15 presentations of 20 minutes each followed by 10 minutes
for discussion.
Organisers:
Ignazio Mirto, University of Palermo (ignazio.mirto at libero.it)
Delia Bentley, University of Manchester (delia.bentley at man.ac.uk)
Keynote speakers:
Professor Carol Rosen, Cornell University
Professor Nigel Vincent, University of Manchester
Abstracts
One page abstracts should be sent to either of the above e-mail
addresses by 31 May 2001. Notification of acceptance will be given by
22 June 2001.
For further details see our website:
http://www.unipa.it/~lendi/workshop.htm
Dr Delia Bentley
Department of Linguistics
University of Manchester
Oxford Rd
M13 9PL
GB
Tel. +44 +161 +2753193
Fax +44 +161 +2753187
e-mail: delia.bentley at man.ac.uk
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