[Corpora-List] DiaBruck 2003, call for participation (July 31 early

[diabruck at coli.uni-sb.de]

registration deadline)

---------------------------------------------------------------------

                          Call for Participation
                            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/

                           Endorsed by SIGSEM
                         http://www.sigsem.org/
      the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics

                           Endorsed by SIGdial
                         http://www.sigdial.org/
      the ACL Special interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue

---------------------------------------------------------------------

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.

The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation:

    * Nicholas Asher, University of Austin, Texas
    * Andreas Herzig, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France
    * Martin Pickering, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

There will also be a tutorial addressing good practice in
empirically-based dialogue research.

For a list of accepted papers, posters and demos see the DiaBruck website.


REGISTRATION

The registration process has started, see the DiaBruck website. Note
that the early registration deadline with a reduced fee is July 31
2003.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Early registration deadline: July 31 2003
Final version of accepted papers and poster/demo abstracts due: August 4 2003
Workshop dates: September 4-6 2003

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair), Jonathan Ginzburg (co-chair), Anton
Benz, Barbara Di Eugenio, Bonnie Webber, Colin Matheson, David Traum,
Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat, Jan Alexandersson, Johan Bos, Manfred
Pinkal, Mary McGee Wood, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube, Robin Cooper,
Stina Ericsson

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place in Hotel Scheidberg in Wallerfangen,
about half an hour away from Saarbruecken.

The local organizers are Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Bettina Klingner and Claudia Kosny.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

News about the conference are being posted on the workshop's Web
page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
For further information you can also mail to diabruck at coli.uni-sb.de.

Information about Saarland: http://www.english.saarland.de/
Information about the Saarland University: http://www.uni-saarland.de/
Information about the conference location: http://www.hotel-scheidberg.de/

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/)