[ln] Appel: Dialogue Modelling and Generation Symposium, Amsterdam, Last Call

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:17:03 +0100
From: Peter Kuehnlein <p at uni-bielefeld.de>
Message-id: <41EEA41F.9010005 at uni-bielefeld.de>
X-url: http://lubitsch.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/DMG
X-url: http://www.let.vu.nl/conference/std2005/


Please apologize cross-postings

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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