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Subject: 12.2971, Calls: General Ling, Computational Ling
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:11:25 +0100
From: = Amparo Carbonell <aleson at ua.es>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: XVII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG LINGUISTS
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:58:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Susan Herring <susan at ling.uta.edu>
Subject: CFP: Coherence in CMC
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 11:11:25 +0100
From: = Amparo Carbonell <aleson at ua.es>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: XVII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF YOUNG LINGUISTS
Dear colleague,
We are pleased to announce the XVIIth meeting of the Association of
Young Linguists to be held in Alicante, Spain, on April 2002.
Please find further information in English, Spanish, Catalan, Basque
and Gallician on our conference web-page:
http://www.ua.es/dfcat/trobada.htm
DEADLINE for the submission of abstracts: January 31th, 2002
Yours faithfully,
Sandra Montserrat
Conference Secretary
e.mail: Sandra at torsimany.ua.es
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:58:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Susan Herring <susan at ling.uta.edu>
Subject: CFP: Coherence in CMC
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
A CHI 2002 WORKSHOP
Discourse Architectures:
Designing and Visualizing
Computer-Mediated Conversation
AT A GLANCE
- What: A Workshop on Designing and Visualizing CMC
- Where: CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- When:
* Submission: Position paper and profile by January 25, 2002
* Notification: Accept/Reject feedback by February 22, 2002
* Workshop: Monday, April 21, 2002
- Organizers: Tom Erickson, Susan Herring, Warren Sack
ORGANIZERS
- Thomas Erickson, snowfall at acm.org
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Susan Herring, herring at indiana.edu
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
- Warren Sack, sack at sims.berkeley.edu
School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The goal of this workshop is to examine the issue of coherence in
computer-mediated (text-based) conversation (CMC), and how it can be
visualized graphically. Coherence, broadly defined, is that which in a
discourse connects utterances with utterances, utterances with people,
and people with other people. It is, in short, the "glue" of text and
conversation. Coherence is manifested in and through patterns of
message exchange (including turn-taking, threading, and
cross-posting), citation and other forms of intertextual reference,
and social networks. Visualizations of coherence phenomena take the
form of graphical user interfaces and graphical representations
produced by quantitative and/or qualitative analyses.
In this workshop, we will approach the issue of coherence from two
perspectives: design and analysis. As designers of CMC systems, we
often sense that computer-mediated conversation has a tendency towards
drift, dissolution and chaos, and that participants in CMC have to do
extra work to 'stay on course.' Therefore, we solicit approaches to
designing CMC systems that aim to support participants in achieving
coherence in their conversational interactions. We especially
encourage reports of novel CMC system designs that support coherence,
as well as analyses that visualize ways in which participants have
developed practices that support the achievement of coherence in
conventional CMC systems.
At the same time, as analysts, we recognize that computer-mediated
conversations are often not as chaotic as they appear to the untrained
eye. Coherence lurks below the surface, and we have developed a wide
range of analytical techniques for uncovering and explicating
it. Often these techniques involve diagrams or other graphical
representations of structure (among utterances, persons, groups, or
some combination of these). We solicit descriptions and demonstrations
of analytical techniques for representing coherence in CMC.
We use the phrase 'Discourse Architectures' as a rubric for both of
these perspectives. That is, we are interested both in the structure
or architecture *of* discourse (the ways in which the utterances which
form a conversation interrelate and build upon one another), and in
architectures *for* discourse (the ways in which CMC systems can be
designed to shape the conversation that takes place within them).
The basic premise underlying the workshop is that the understandings
of coherence developed by designers and researchers can usefully
inform one another. Analytical representations based on discourse
research and/or theory might, suitably modified, serve as interface
designs, and the interplay between graphical user interfaces and the
achievement of coherence by users might advance research
understandings.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
By January 25th, submit the following (preferably electronically):
1. Submit a position paper of no more than six pages. The paper should
include:
(a) A discussion of your understanding of "coherence", as a theoretical
or analytical construct, or as a practical result of the use of
a CMC system.
(b) A description of your approach to analyzing or designing to
support coherence, applied to a specific CMC system or data
set.
(c) Examples of the graphical representations produced by your approach,
and some discussion of what they reveal about or how they
support coherence.
2. The position paper should include, as an appendix, a profile of
yourself consisting of:
(a) a short biography (no more than 250 words)
(b) the discipline(s) you are situated in
(c) a brief description of your relevant analytical and/or
design work, with references (URLs preferred)
(d) a pointer to someone else's design or analysis that
you think is interesting (URLs preferred)
3. Those from outside the HCI community should note that you are NOT
required to pay the conference registration fee if you only want to
attend the workshop. First-time attendees are welcome.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
- On the workshop: contact the organizers
- On CHI 2002: http://www.acm.org/chi2002/
- For a web-based version of this CFP:
http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/DiscourseArch02CFP.html
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