BI-DIALOG 2001, 1st Call for Papers

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                        First Call for Papers

                            BI-DIALOG 2001

        FIFTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

                   Bielefeld University, Germany
                           June 14-16 2001

                  http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bidialog/

Bi-Dialog 2001 will be the fifth in a series of workshops that aim
at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence,
formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics,
philosophy, and psychology.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- common ground in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogues
- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models
- reference in dialogues
- dialogue and discourse structure
- reasoning in spoken and multimodal dialogue systems

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5
single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' 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 LaTeX, postscript, html,
ascii, or pdf format) to: bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: February 15th
Acceptance notice: April 15th
Final version due: May 22
Conference: June 14-16th

INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary):

Simon Garrod (HCRC), Alex Lascarides (HCRC), Robert van der Sandt
(Univ. Nijmegen), Isabel Gomez Txurruka (ILCLI)

ADVISORY BOARD (preliminary):

Ellen Bard (HCRC), Anton Benz (HU Berlin), Peter Bosch (Univ.
Osnabrueck), Robin Cooper (Goteborg Univ.), Claire Gardent (Univ.
des Saarlandes), Joris Hulstijn (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam), Yasuhiro
Katagiri (ATR MIC RL), Ian Lewin (SRI), Massimo Poesio (HCRC), Uwe
Reyle (IMS), Henk Zeevat (ILLC)

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at Bielefeld University. The local
organizers are Peter Kuehnlein, Hannes Rieser, and Henk Zeevat.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Information about Bielefeld University:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/

News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web
page at
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/

Send emails to bidialog at uni-bielefeld.de or
pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de for questions about local
arrangements.

Previous workshops in this series include:

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://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/)
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
 (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog)