[Corpora-List] Dialogue Modelling and Generation Symposium: Last Call

[Claudia Sassen]

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

Submissions:
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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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