16.210, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Netherlands; Cognitive Sci/UK

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Subject: 16.210, Calls: Discourse Analysis/Netherlands; Cognitive Sci/UK

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1)
Date: 21-Jan-2005
From: Claudia Sassen < claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation

2)
Date: 21-Jan-2005
From: Vyv Evans < vyv at sussex.ac.uk >
Subject: New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics: First UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:19:11
From: Claudia Sassen < claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de >
Subject: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation

Full Title: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation
Short Title: DMG

Date: 06-Jul-2005 - 06-Jul-2005
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contact Person: Claudia Sassen
Meeting Email: claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de
Web Site: http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy
of Language; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2005

Meeting Description:

Last Call for Extended Abstracts (2-3 pages) for the

Symposium on
Dialogue Modelling and Generation
http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG

Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 6, 2005

to be held as part of the annual meeting of the
Society for Text & Discourse (ST&D) July 6-9, 2005 as
announced at http://www.let.vu.nl/conference/std2005/

This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing together the
dialogue modelling and language generation/production communities and will
provide an opportunity for researchers from a variety of disciplines,
including linguistics, computer science and psycholinguistics, to exchange
ideas.

We invite talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in dialogue
modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003, and many other
recent papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig, 2003, and,
again, many more) and the influence of social relations between
interlocutors on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal work by
Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and ask presenters to shed light on these or
other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue modelling by:

- relating them to issues in language generation/production
  or
- drawing out similarities and differences between
  applications of such notions in discourse generation
  versus interpretation or
- describing computational/implemented models, in
  particular, for generation/production or
- comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering
  approaches to dialogue modelling.

The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones that deal with NL
interpretation or structural properties of discourse.

Participants have to register for the main meeting

The Symposium is endorsed by SIGGen and by SIGDial

We are currently in conversation with a publisher regarding
publication of selected symposium papers as a book after the
meeting.

Program Committee:

Anton Benz, Syddansk Univ., Denmark
Harry Bunt, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands
Simon Garrod, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Univ. des Saarlandes, Germany
Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany
Colin Matheson, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Paiva, Univ. of Sussex, UK
Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Richard Power, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Matthew Purver, CSLI, USA
Alison Sanford, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Donia Scott, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Marilyn Walker, Univ. of Sheffield, UK

Organizers:

Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany
Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK
Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany

Submissions:

Please submit an abstract of your talk to
claudia.sassen at uni-dortmund.de by February 1, 2005, clearly indicating that
it is a proposal, i.e., by including in the subject line of the email the
words ''Proposal for DMG''. Proposals should include a cover page with the
following:

   1. The title of the presentation
   2. Names and institutional affiliations all authors,
      including email addresses of all authors
   3. Contact Address for presenting author
   4. A 75-word abstract of the presentation for publication
      in the abstracts booklet and on the website.

In addition to the cover page, please include a 2-3 page extended abstract
of the presentation with a title but no author information (max. 1000
words, including bibliographic references). Name the file containing the
cover page using the first author's name concatenated with ''_abs''. Name
the file containing the extended abstract using the first author's name
concatenated with ''_ext''.

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:19:17
From: Vyv Evans < vyv at sussex.ac.uk >
Subject: New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics: First UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference

Full Title: New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics: First UK Cognitive
Linguistics Conference
Short Title: NDCL

Date: 23-Oct-2005 - 25-Oct-2005
Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Vyv Evans
Meeting Email: info at cogling.org.uk
Web Site: http://www.cogling.org.uk

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science

Call Deadline: 14-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

First Call for Papers for:

NEW DIRECTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
First UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
23-25 October 2005

University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
http://www.cogling.org.uk

Within the last 25 years or so, Cognitive Linguistics has emerged as a
radical and exciting new approach to the study of language and the mind
within the interdisciplinary project known as Cognitive Science.  In that
time, a rich and relatively mature set of theories has developed which have
by now been applied to a wide range of linguistic and cognitive phenomena.
As Cognitive Linguistics has grown and matured, debates have emerged
regarding foundational theoretical positions and data collection practices
and methodologies. Moreover, in recent years, both the empirical basis and
the interdisciplinary character of Cognitive Linguistics have been
significantly strengthened.  The purpose of this international conference
is to take stock of the major achievements associated with Cognitive
Linguistics since its emergence, and to provide a forum for examining new
directions.  Papers are invited for submission which relate to any aspect
of cognitive Linguistics, from theory to description.  However, priority
will be given to papers which relate to the theme 'new directions'.

Papers which relate to some aspect of the following are particularly
welcome:

- new descriptive or theoretical insights in Cognitive Linguistics
- new or recent empirical or methodological aspects of Cognitive
Linguistics
- new or recent applications of Cognitive Linguistics
- a critical evaluation of an aspect of the Cognitive Linguistics
enterprise
- the interface between Cognitive Linguistics and neighbouring
disciplines
- new frontiers in Cognitive Linguistics
- new or recent theories within Cognitive Linguistics, or new developments
in a particular theory

The conference will also see the inauguration of the UK Cognitive
Linguistics Association.  There will also be a collection of peer-reviewed
papers published based on the conference theme.

Plenary speakers are:

Paul Chilton, University East Anglia, UK
'Distance, direction and deixis: Towards a vector-based representation of
discourse space'
Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA
'Constructions and constructional meaning'
Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK
Talk title tbc
Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK
'Mind, brain, society: Language as vehicle and language as window'
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Talk title tbc
Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden
'Intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis and the grounding of language'

Conference Format
The conference will run over three days.  In addition to six plenary
lectures which will each last for one hour, there will be a general
session, consisting of 30 minute presentations in parallel, poster
presentations and  4 invited theme sessions relating to the conference
theme.  The invited theme sessions are as follows:

- Blending, religion and ritual
- Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics
- Conceptual projection
- Making sense of embodiment

Submission of Abstracts
Submissions are solicited for the general session and for poster
presentations.  Presentations in the general session should last for 20
minutes with 10 minutes for questions.  All submissions for the general and
poster sessions should follow the abstract guidelines below.

- Abstracts of no more than 500 words (about a page) should be submitted to
abstract at cogling.org.uk
- Abstracts must be in 12 point font and submitted as an email attachment
- The abstract should clearly indicate the talk/poster title, and may
include references, as long as the total word count does not exceed 500
words.
- Please do not include your name or any other obvious forms of
identifiers, as far as is possible, in the abstract.  This is because the
abstracts will be subject to anonymous peer-review.
- The preferred format for sending abstracts is in Word, RTF or PDF.
- The abstract title should
be given as the subject line of the email to which the abstract is attached.
- In the body of the email message include the following information: name,
title, affiliation, email address, telephone no., postal address, talk
title.  Please also indicate whether your preferred presentation format is
general or poster session. - In order to assist with the reviewing process,
please also list up to 5 keywords in the email message

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 14th 2005

For full conference information please see the conference website:

http://www.cogling.org.uk

This conference is being held at the University of Sussex and organised by
the Sussex Cognitive Linguistics Research Group, and the Linguistics and
English Language Department.  We are grateful to the School of Humanities,
and to the British Academy for generous financial support.  We also
acknowledge the support of the University of Sussex Centre for Research in
Cognitive Science (COGS).

Organising committee chair: Vyv Evans

Organising committee members: Rob Clowes, Jason Harrison, Anu Koskela,
Shane Lindsay, John Sung, Joerg Zinken (University of Portsmouth)

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