Amstelogue'99 Final Call for Papers

[Robert van Rooy]

                   FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS


                         AMSTELOGUE'99

Amsterdam Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

                         May 7-9, 1999
                  University of Amsterdam


Invited Speakers:
        Hans Kamp (Stuttgart, Germany)
        Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld, Germany)
        Munindar Singh (North Carolina, USA)
        David Traum (Maryland, USA)

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Amstelogue '99 will be a sequel to the successful dialogue workshops
Mundial'97 (Muenchen) and Twendial'98 (Twente). Like its predecessors,
Amstelogue '99 aims at bringing together researchers from different
fields on the topic of semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. These
fields include artificial intelligence, formal semantics/pragmatics and
computational/applied linguistics.

In order to increase the cohesion of the talks across the three
themes, we put forward, in addition, the over-all topic
Speech Acts/Dialogue Moves.

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This year, the workshop will be organised around the following
three themes:

I Formal Semantics of Dialogue

This covers topics such as models of common ground/ mutual belief,
the semantics of goals, intentions and commitments in communication,
treatment of dialogue moves in a formal semantic framework, the
semantics of cross-speaker anaphora.

II Dialogue Systems

This covers e.g. knowledge representation for multi-agent interaction,
dialogue management in practical implementations, semantics and
pragmatics of natural language in automated dialogue systems.

III Dialogue Analysis (Empirical)

This covers topics such as turn-taking, categorisation of dialogue
moves or speech acts in real (i.e., non-constructed) dialogues, aspects
of institutional interaction, characteristics of multi-participant
conversations, the role of nonlinguistic interaction in communication.

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Program committee:
         Laila Dybkjaer (Odense, Denmark)
         Herman Hendriks (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
         Gerd Jaeger (Berlin, Germany)
         Hans Kamp (Stuttgart, Germany)
         Jan van Kuppevelt (Stuttgart, Germany)  (Chair)
         Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld, Germany)
         Candy Sidner (Cambridge MA, USA)
         Munindar Singh (North Carolina, USA)
         David Traum (Maryland, USA)
         Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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The collected abstracts of the talks will be provided as workshop
proceedings at the start of the workshop. Furthermore, we will have a
proceedings of the full papers of accepted abstracts. With the Journal
of Semantics we have agreed to publish a special issue, subject to
their double reviewing procedure.

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Related event: the day before the workshop, 6 May, will be occupied to
the TRINDI-project workshop. For further information see their webside
http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/

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Procedure: Anyone who is working on the semantics or pragmatics of
dialogue is kindly invited to send us an ABSTRACT of (at most) 5 pages
(400 a 500 words/page) in latex or ascii (talks will be 45 minutes) on
one of the above mentioned topics, or a related topic. Please indicate
for what theme you are opting. Abstracts clearly relating to the
over-all topic of Speech Acts will be preferred.

deadline: 15 February 1999
send to: amstelog at ai.hum.uva.nl

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Registration and Accommodation

The registration fee will be Dfl 150 (70 EURO). This fee includes a copy

of the Proceedings of the conference, and lunch. A special student fee
is available on request.

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Organisation:

Noor van Leusen, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, U.v.A,
noor at ai.let.uva.nl
Robert van Rooy, Dept. of Philosophy, U.v.A, vanrooy at philo.uva.nl
Henk Zeevat, Dept. of Computational Linguistics, U.v.A,
henk at ai.let.uva.nl

More information on website: http://earth.hum.uva.nl/~amstelog

Sponsors:

DISC
Dutch Research School in Logic
Dutch Research Foundation
Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
ILLC
TRINDI