[Corpora-List] [Corpora] LONDIAL 2008: the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Jonathan Ginzburg
ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk
Wed Mar 5 12:04:07 UTC 2008
Dear Moderator,
Could you please post this announcement to the list?
Many thanks,
Jonathan Ginzburg
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Last Call for Papers:
LONDIAL: 2008 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
King’s College London, June 2nd – June 4th, 2008
in conjunction with:
Final workshop of Dialogue Matters: Foundations for Technology
Development
(Leverhulme International Network Project). This workshop is now to
be held with the first day at King’s College London on June 2nd
immediately preceding LONDIAL, the second day at Queen Mary,
University of London (QMUL) on June 5th (NOTE: change of dates of
this workshop).
(Apologies for
Multiple Postings)
The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers
working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as
artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/
pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2008 we
will celebrate eleven years of the SEMDIAL series with the LONDIAL
workshop, to be organized at King’s College London (KCL) in
conjunction with the Interaction, Media and Communication Group at
Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). The SEMDIAL workshops are
always stimulating and fun, and with KCL being in the heart of
London, just across from the South Bank Centre, there will be no
shortage of evening entertainment.
LONDIAL 2008 will be held in conjunction with the closing workshop of
the Leverhulme-funded network Dialogue Matters: Foundations for
Technology Development, initially set up between London (KCL, QMUL),
Edinburgh/Glasgow, Stanford, Stony Brook, Gothenburg, Essex, with
additional collaborators now also participating. This two-day
workshop will feature invited presentations by members of this group
and other leaders of the computational linguistics and human language
technology community, and demonstration of the Augmented Human
Interaction Laboratory at QMUL (June 5th). This series of workshops
has provided an extremely fruitful synergy of theoretical,
historical, computational and psycho-linguists, with overlapping
interests in dialogue modeling. Confirmed speakers include Susan
Brennan, Amanda Stent, Robin Cooper, Staffan Larsson, Stanley Peters,
and Holly Branigan.
There is also a planned session on dialogue situated in joint action.
DATES AND DEADLINES:
Submissions due: 21st March 2008
(Please specify if you are submitting to the DSiJA or not)
Notification: 16th April 2008
Final version due: 30th April 2008
Dialogue Matters opening workshop: 2nd June 2008 (Monday)
LONDIAL 2008: 2nd – 4th June 2008 (Monday - Wednesday)
Dialogue Matters workshop meeting at QMUL: 5th June 2008 (Thursday)
SCOPE (expanded from first call):
We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:
- models of common ground/mutual belief in communication
- modeling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models and turn-taking
- goals, intentions and commitments in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogue
- reference in dialogue
- ellipsis resolution in dialogue
- alignment and misalignment in dialogue
- dialogue and discourse structure
- dialogue situated in joint action
- interpretation of questions and answers
- incremental, context-dependent processing
- nonlinguistic interaction in communication
- natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue
systems
- multimodal dialogue systems
- dialogue management in practical implementations
- categorization of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems
There is also a planned session on dialogue situated in joint action
(DSiJA). Submissions of papers are invited for this session.
SUBMISSION:
Deadline for receipt of papers is 21st March 2008, 23:59 UTC.
Submit your paper via the web at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=londial2008
Before submitting you must register with the website and receive a
password by email; please do this well ahead of your submission,
since email is sometimes unreliable. You will also need to fill out a
web form with the author details and type in (or paste) a plain-text
version of your abstract (200 words), in addition to uploading your
paper.
The actual paper should be an anonymous PDF file, 8 pages long
(including data, tables, figures, and references), A4 paper size,
11pt Times font, 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins, 2-column format. Include a
one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words). You may
find it convenient to use the style files provided by ACL 2007.
Please specify whether your paper is for the DSiJA.
Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are
allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the
workshop.
We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system
demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a
poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be
two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for
relevance only by the program committee chairs. Submission of late-
breaking abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main
session papers has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking
submissions is 30th April 2008.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
David Traum, University of Southern California
Andrzej Wisniewski, Adam Mickiewicz University
Susan Fussell, Carnegie Mellon University
(one more to be confirmed)
PROCEEDINGS:
Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the 2-
page accepted late-breaking abstracts, will be distributed in a
proceedings volume at the workshop. In order to ensure publication in
the proceedings, AT LEAST ONE author of each paper must have
registered to attend the meeting by 30th April 2008, the deadline of
submission of the revised paper.
ORGANIZATION:
Pat Healey (program co-chair)
Jonathan Ginzburg (program co-chair)
Ruth Kempson, Miriam Bouzouita, Eleni Gregoromichelaki (local
arrangements)
PREVIOUS SEMDIAL EVENTS:
Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
MUNDIAL '97 (Munich)
http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
TWENDIAL '98 (Twente)
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html
AMSTELOGUE '99 (Amsterdam)
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/
GOTALOG 2000 (Gothenburg)
http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/
BI-DIALOG 2001 (Bielefeld)
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/
EDILOG 2002 (Edinburgh)
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/
DIABRUCK 2003 (Saarbruecken)
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
CATALOG 2004 (Barcelona)
http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/
DIALOR 2005 (Nancy)
http://dialor05.loria.fr/
BRANDIAL 2006 (Potsdam)
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/
DECALOG 2007 (Rovereto)
http://www.cimec.unitn.it/events/decalog/index.htm
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )
LONDIAL Program Committee
Maria Aloni, University of Amsterdam
Nicholas Asher, CNRS, Toulouse & Univ. of Texas
Raffaella Bernardi, Free University of Bolzano
Patrick Blackburn, INRIA, Nancy
Johan Bos, University La Sapienza
Miriam Bouzouita, King’s College London
Susan Brennan, Stony Brook
Justine Cassell, Northwestern University
Eve Clark, Stanford University
Paul Dekker, University of Amsterdam
Raquel Fernández, CSLI, Stanford University
Ruth Filik, University of Glasgow
Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow
Jonathan Ginzburg, King’s College London
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, King’s College London
Pat Healey, Queen Mary London
Elsi Kaiser, University of Southern California
Ruth Kempson, King’s College London
Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
Ian Lewin, University of Cambridge
Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh
Gregory Mills, Queen Mary London
Fabio Pianesi, ITC-IRST, Trento
Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh
Manfred Pinkal, University of Saarland
Paul Piwek, Open University
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Amanda Stent, Stony Brook University
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld
DSiJA Program Committee
Ellen Gurman Bard, University of Edinburgh
Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefeld
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld
Jan-Peter de Ruiter, MPI for Psychoinguistics, Nijmegen
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
Ipke Wachsmuth, University of Bielefeld
For further information see the website:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/ds/events/londial/
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