CFA: CATALOG '04

[Francis M Hult]

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>                          First Call for Papers
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>                             CATALOG'04
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> EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)
>
>                          Pompeu Fabra University
>                              Barcelona
>                         **July 19-21 2004**
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> Workshop URL: http://www.upf.edu/catalog04
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>
> Catalog'04 will be the eighth 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, com
> putational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.  The Dial/Log conferences a
> re always stimulating and fun and Barcelona, which will host ACL 2004 immediate
> ly following Catalog'04, is a great place to visit. Barcelona will also host, d
> uring the summer of 2004, its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events
> , exhibits, and performances (http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So
> mark your calendar now.
>
> INVITED SPEAKERS:
>
> Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
> Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester),
> Two other speakers to be announced
>
> We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
> pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:
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> - - 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
> - - ellipsis resolution 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 25' 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 postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
> format) to: <catalog04 at upf.edu>
> Submissions have to be in English, which is the workshop language. For the acce
> pted talks, a LaTeX style will be made available for the preparation of the fin
> al version.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES:
>
> Abstracts due: March 12, 2004
> Acceptance notice: May 5, 2004
> Final version due: June 5, 2004
> Conference: July 19-21, 2004
>
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
>
> Anton Benz (Syddansk Universitet),
> Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh),
> Justine Cassell (Northwestern University)
> Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford),
> Robin Cooper (Göteborgs Universitet),
> Paul Dekker, (University of Amsterdam)
> Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria)
> Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow),
> Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair)
> Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London),
> Ivana Kruijff Korbayova  (Universität des Saarlandes),
> Staffan Larsson (Göteborgs Universitet),
> Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh),
> David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge),
> Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
> Hannes Reiser (Universität Bielefeld),
> David Traum (USC)
>
>
> ORGANIZATION:
>
> The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the city of
> Barcelona (exact venue to be announced). The local committee is chaired by Enri
> c Vallduví.
>
> 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/)
> DIABRUCK 2003
> http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/