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        DEIXIS, DEMONSTRATION and DEICTIC BELIEF in MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS
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        Workshop held in the section 'Language and Computation' as part of the

        'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information'

                                 ESSLLI-99

                  August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands

                       LAST CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
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ORGANISERS:

  Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken)
  Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh)
  Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360)

Questions concerning the workshop may be addressed to any of the organisers.

BACKGROUND:
Deixis has always been at the heart of reference research as widely known
literature in semantics and pragmatics (H.H. Clark, S.C. Levinson, H. Kamp,
D. Kaplan, W.V. Quine) demonstrates. Being fundamental, it is in the common
focus of several disciplines: Cognitive science, linguistics, philosophical
logics, AI, and psychology.
Until recently, little was known about the role of pointing and demonstration
in deixis, especially about the coordination of speech and gesture
in deictic contexts. The situation has now changed due to research in
linguistics, ethnomethodology, vision, neuro-computation, gesture analysis,
psychology, and computer simulation.
At present, research is going on at various places, aimed at the integration
of deixis information from e.g. the visual and the auditory channel.
Relevant topics in this new field are e.g. saliency, focus-monitoring, types
of gestures and demonstrations, and especially the emergence and structure of
composite signals but it also has intimate connections with problems of long
standing such as grounding, mutuality or agents' coordination in discourse.

The workshop will integrate different methodologies, experimental paradigms,
computer simulation including virtual reality approaches and formal modelling
alike. It is addressed to Master-students, PhD-students and scholars working
on philosophical, linguistic or computational aspects of deixis including
gesture.

The following publications might be of help to students looking for information
concerning reference, deixis, gesture recognition and similar topics:

Clark, H.H.: 1995, Using Language. Cambridge: CUP
Davis, St. (ed.): 1991, Pragmatics. A Reader. New York, Oxford: OUP.
              Chs II and III
Levinson, St.C.: Pragmatics. Cambridge: CUP . Ch. 2
McNeill, D.: 1992, Hand and Mind. Univ. of Chicago Press
Recanati, F.: 1993, Direct Reference. From Language to Thought.
              Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell
Wachsmuth, I. and Froehlich, M. (eds): 1998, Gesture and Sign Language in
              Human-Computer Interaction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL BE ORGANISED:
The workshop will consist of ten sessions (90 min. each) of presentation
and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place during the
ESSLLI-Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI- community.

SUBMISSIONS:
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copy or
e-mail (plain ASCII or (La)TeX) to the following address:

               deixis at lili.uni-bielefeld.de

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 1999.
Notification of contributors will be given around April 15, 1999.
Contributors of selected papers will be asked to provide extended abstracts
(six pages) in LaTeX-format to be edited as ESSLLI-workshop notes.
The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is May 31, 1999.

REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-99, but they
will be eligible for a reduced registration fee.

SUMMARY OF DATES:
        Feb 15, 99: Deadline for submissions
        Apr 15, 99: Notification of acceptance
        May 31, 99: Deadline for final copy
        Aug  9, 99: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99
home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ and the home page of this
workshop at http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~deixis

ADDRESSES:
Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken): Elisabeth.Andre at dfki.de
Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh): poesio at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360): rieser at lili.uni-bielefeld.de