13.704, Calls: Treebanks, Multimodal Dialog

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Subject: 13.704, Calls: Treebanks, Multimodal Dialog

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1)
Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:58:03 +0200
From:  "Kiril Simov" <kivs at bgcict.acad.bg>
Subject:  CFP: Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2002

2)
Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:32:07 +0100 (MET)
From:  Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject:  International CLASS Workshop: 2nd CFP

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:58:03 +0200
From:  "Kiril Simov" <kivs at bgcict.acad.bg>
Subject:  CFP: Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2002

             Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 2002
         20th and 21st September 2002, Sozopol, Bulgaria

Workshop motivation and aims

Treebanks are a language resource that provides annotations of natural
languages at various levels of structure: at the word level, the
phrase level, the sentence level, and sometimes also at the level of
function-argument structure.  Treebanks have become crucially
important for the development of data-driven approaches to natural
language processing, human language technologies, grammar extraction
and linguistic research in general. There are a number of on-going
projects on compilation of representative treebanks for languages that
still lack them (Spanish, Bulgarian, Portugese,Turkish) and a number
of on-going projects on compilation of treebanks for specific purposes
for languages that already have them (English).

The practices of building syntactically processed corpora have proved
that aiming at more detailed description of the data becomes more and
more theory-dependent (Prague Dependency Treebank and other
dependency-based treebanks as the Italian treebank (TUT) or the
Turkish treebank (METU); Verbmobil HPSG Treebanks, Polish HPSG
Treebank, Bulgarian HPSG-based Treebank etc.).  Therefore the
development of treebanks and formal linguistic theories need to be
more tightly connected in order to ensure the necessary information
flow between them.

The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers and advanced
students working in one or both of these areas. It will be held in
conjunction with the summer school "Empirical Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing", Flagman hotel, Sozopol, Bulgaria.


Topics of interest

Papers should address the following topics:

- design principles and annotation schemes for treebanks;
- applications of treebanks in acquiring linguistic knowledge and NLP;
- the role of the linguistic theories in a treebank development;
- treebanks as a base for linguistic research;
- evaluation of treebanks;
- tools for creation and management of treebanks;
- standards for treebanks.

Two round-table discussions will be organized on the following topics:

- the relationship between the syntactic properties of a given
language and the choice of linguistic theory for annotation purposes

- the utility of treebanks for linguistic theorizing


Important dates

Deadline for workshop abstract submission
12th April 2002

Notification of acceptance
20th May 2002

Final version of paper for workshop proceedings
24th June 2002


Submissions

Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of
the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 25 minutes long
(20 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and
discussion). Each submission should include: title; author(s);
affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,
telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts (maximum 1500 words,
plain-text format or Postscript) should be sent to:

Name: Kiril Simov
Email: kivs at bgcict.acad.bg

Those who wish to attend without offering a paper are asked to briefly
motivate their interest.

The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than
4,000 words or 10 A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and
presentation of the final version will be sent to authors upon
notification of acceptance.


Program Committee

Erhard Hinrichs, Germany (co-chair)
Tilman Berger , Germany
Marek Swidzinski, Poland
Adam Przepi'orkowski, Poland
Kiril Simov, Bulgaria (co-chair)
Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Republic
Anatolij N. Baranov, Russia
Sandra Kuebler, Germany
Kemal Oflazer, Turkey
Michael Barlow, USA
Tomaz Erjavec, Slovenia
Robert Engels, Norway
Andreas Wagner, Germany
Frank Richter, Germany
Manfred Sailer, Germany
Walter Daelemans, Belgium
Karel Oliva, Austria

Invited Speakers

Frantisek Cermak, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Hans
Uszkoreit, DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany (to be confirmed)

Workshop registration

The registration fee for the workshop is:

150 Euro

The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of
the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments.

Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for
participation will be processed on first come first served basis.

Local organisation

Kiril Simov (kivs at bgcict.acad.bg)
Petya Osenova (petyaosenova at hotmail.com)
Milena Slavcheva (milena at lml.bas.bg)

BulTreeBank Project
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
Web: http://www.bultreebank.org/










-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:32:07 +0100 (MET)
From:  Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject:  International CLASS Workshop: 2nd CFP

                          2nd Announcement
      (we apologize if you receive this message more than once)


                 *** International CLASS Workshop ***

                                 on

         Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in
                     Multimodal Dialogue Systems


                         Copenhagen, Denmark
                           28-29 June 2002


              Detailed and more up to date information
                may be found at the workshop webpage:
          http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html


Invited Speakers/Contributors (nearly all confirmed):

Tim Bickmore and Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab), Phil Cohen (Oregon
Graduate Institute), Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder),
Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm), Dominic Massaro (UCSC), Candy
Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA), Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST), Wolfgang
Wahlster (DFKI), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield),


GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Following up on the CLASS workshop in Verona (Italy, 14-15 December
2001), this workshop will concentrate on innovative and challenging
approaches on natural, intelligent and effective interaction in
multimodal dialogue systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring
together theoretically and practically oriented researchers from both
academia and industry with the purpose of having a thorough, fruitful
and representative discussion of the topic area in an international
setting.


CLASS SPONSORSHIP

The workshop is sponsored by the European CLASS project
(http://www.class-tech.org/) which was initiated on the request of the
European Commission with the purpose of supporting and stimulating
collaboration within and among Human Language Technology (HLT)
projects, as well as between HLT projects and relevant projects
outside Europe.  Currently, CLASS comprises 42 projects and 220
registered members.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical research on
multimodal dialogue systems. The focus of the workshop is on natural,
intelligent and effective multimodal interaction. Topics of interest
include:

* Multimodal Signal Processing
  Models for multimodal signal recognition and synthesis,
  including combinations of speech (emotional speech and
  meaningful intonation for speech), text, graphics, music,
  gesture, face and facial expression, and (embodied)
  animated or anthropomorphic conversational agents.

* Multimodal Communication Management
  Dialogue management models for mixed initiative
  conversational and user-adaptive natural and multimodal
  interaction, including models for collaboration and multi-
  party conversation.

* Multimodal Miscommunication Management
  Multimodal strategies for handling or preventing
  miscommunication, in particular multimodal repair and
  correction strategies, clarification strategies for
  ambiguous or conflicting multimodal information, and
  multimodal grounding and feedback strategies.

* Multimodal Interpretation and Response Planning
  Interpretation and response planning on the basis of
  multimodal dialogue context, including (context-semantic)
  models for the common representation of multimodal
  content, as well as innovative concepts/technologies on
  the relation between multimodal interpretation and
  generation.

* Reasoning in Intelligent Multimodal Dialogue Systems
  Non-monotonic reasoning techniques required for
  intelligent interaction in various types of multimodal
  dialogue systems, including techniques needed for
  multimodal input interpretation, for reasoning about the
  user(s), and for the coordination and integration of
  multimodal input and output.

* Choice and Coordination of Media and Modalities
  Diagnostic tools and technologies for choosing the
  appropriate media and input and output modalities for the
  application and task under consideration, as well as
  theories and technologies for natural and effective
  multimodal response presentation.

* Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Schemes
  Training corpora, testsuites and benchmarks for multimodal
  dialogue systems, including corpus tools and schemes
  for multilevel and multimodal coding and annotation.

* Architectures for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
  New architectures for multimodal interpretation and
  response planning, including issues of reusability and
  portability, as well as architectures for the next
  generation of multi-party conversational interfaces to
  distributed information.

* Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems
  Current practice and problematic issues in the
  standardization of subjective and objective multimodal
  evaluation metrics, including evaluation models allowing
  for adequate task fulfilment measurements, comparative
  judgements across different domain tasks, as well as
  models showing how evaluation translates into targeted,
  component-wise improvements of systems and aspects.


WORKSHOP FORMAT

Although the workshop has an open character implying that plenty of
room is available for the presentation of papers from researchers from
all over the world, the workshop will contain invited contributions
from a group of 10 specially qualified researchers with a balanced
composition of workshop-relevant expertise. Part of the group is
selected from the broad CLASS community; part of them are
internationally leading researchers from outside CLASS. Invited
contributors will also participate in the panel session organized by
the co-chairs of the workshop program committee.


SUBMISSION OF FULL AND SHORT PAPERS

In addition to papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the
submission of short papers in combination with a very short
presentation in the plenary session followed by a poster
presentation. Full papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including
references, examples, algorithms, graphical representations,
etc. Short papers should be 4 pages maximally.

Full and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail
address classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no
later than 31 March 2002.

Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html.
Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format.

The title page should include the following information (no separate
title page is needed):

- Title
- Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
- Abstract (up to 15 lines)
- List of relevant keywords


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of full and short papers:         31 March 2002
Notification of acceptance:                  30 April 2002
Final submissions:                           31 May 2002
Workshop:                                    28-29 June 2002


WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

Full papers and short papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

In addition to the group of invited contributors, authors of a
selected number of papers accepted for the workshop proceedings will
be asked to send in an extended and updated version of their paper for
publication in a book that will be published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers (TLTB book series). In order to guarantee full coherence of
the book, we might invite some workshop-external researchers to
contribute a chapter to the book as well.


PANEL SESSIONS

In addition to the presentation of full and short papers in the
plenary session, we will organize the following panel discussion on
the main theme of the workshop:

  Natural Multimodal Interaction: Current Practice and
  Future Research

Members of this panel session will be invited contributors. Panellists
will be asked to send in a short position abstract before the
workshop.  After the workshop, a written summary of this panel session
will be available at the CLASS sub-website on Natural and Multimodal
Interactivity (http://www.class-tech.org/nmi/). We intend to make
available a video or audio recording as well.

Further, we strongly encourage proposals for a second panel session
related to the main topic of the workshop or some special
subtopic. The deadline for panel session proposals is 30 April
2002. Proposals can also be sent to the workshop e-mail address
(classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de) and should contain the
following information:

- title of the proposed panel session
- a brief description of the suggested topic of the panel
  session, including an explanation of why this topic is
  relevant for the field
- a list of suggested panellists

Questions on panel session proposals may be directed to the chairs of
the workshop program committee at
classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs

Niels Ole Bernsen (NISLab, Odense University)
Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart)

Reviewers (nearly all confirmed)

* Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
* Tim Bickmore and Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab)
* Louis Boves (Nijmegen University)
* Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute)
* Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder)
* John Dowding (RIACS)
* Laila Dybkjaer (NISLab, Odense University)
* Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm),
* Jean-Claude Martin (LIMSI-CNRS)
* Dominic Massaro (UCSC)
* Catherine Pelachaud (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
* Thomas Rist (DFKI)
* Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA)
* Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
* William Swartout (ICT, USC)
* Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST)
* Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI)
* Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjaer, Jan van Kuppevelt.


CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions about submission
and review process:                    Jan van Kuppevelt
                        <kuppevelt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>

Questions about local issues:          Laila Dybkjaer
                                      <laila at nis.sdu.dk>

Miscellaneous:                         Niels Ole Bernsen
                                        <nob at nis.sdu.dk>































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