[Corpora-List] DiaBruck 2003, 1st CFP (Submission deadline: May 1 2003)

[diabruck at coli.uni-sb.de]

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                         First Call for Papers

                            DiaBruck 2003

SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

                         Saarland University
                          Sept 4th-6th 2003

                  http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/

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DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to
bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics
and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication
- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models and turn-taking
- goals, intentions and commitments in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogues
- reference in dialogues
- dialogue and discourse structure
- interpretation of questions and answers
- nonlinguistic interaction in communication
- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
- multimodal dialogue systems
- dialogue management in practical implementations
- categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5
single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10'
discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors'
names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should
be submitted electronically (in LaTeX, postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
format) to: diabruck at coli.uni-sb.de.  Submission have to be in
English, which is the workshop language. For the accepted talks, a
LaTeX style will be made available for the preparation of the final version.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstracts due: May 1st
Acceptance notice: June 15th
Final version due: August 1st
Conference: Sept 4th-6th


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair), Anton Benz, Barbara Di Eugenio,
David Traum, Colin Matheson, Jonathan Ginzburg, Hannes Rieser,
Henk Zeevat, Jan Alexandersson, Johan Bos, Manfred Pinkal,
Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube


ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place in a nice location near Saarbruecken.
The local organizers are Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bettina Klingner.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Information about Saarland: http://www.english.saarland.de/
Information about the Saarland University: http://www.uni-saarland.de/
News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web
page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
Send email to diabruck at coli.uni-sb.de for questions about local arrangements.

Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )

MunDial'97 (Munich)
 (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
 (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
 (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/ )
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
 (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog)
Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld)
 (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG)
EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh)
 (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/)