6.316 Confs: Approaches to Dialogue Modelling, EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP

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Subject: 6.316 Confs: Approaches to Dialogue Modelling, EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>

Asst. Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
               Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 14:44:45 100
From: Toine Andernach (andernac at cs.utwente.nl)
Subject: Workshop Announcement: TWLT9

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:18:19 -0500
From: evelyne at research.att.com
Subject: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 14:44:45 100
From: Toine Andernach (andernac at cs.utwente.nl)
Subject: Workshop Announcement: TWLT9

Twente Workshop on Language Technology
               Corpus-Based Approaches to Dialogue Modelling
                                June 9, 1995
                         Preliminary Announcement

On June 9, the ninth international Twente Workshop on Language Technology
(TWLT 9) will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede, the
Netherlands. This time, the workshop will be devoted to approaches which
emphasize the use of empirical data as a basis for dialogue modelling.
Special attention will be paid to the exploitation of man-man and
(simulated) man-machine dialogues for the design of (spoken) dialogue
models and systems.

Proceedings will be available at the workshop. More detailed information
about the programme will be available in March at
URL http://hydra.cs.utwente.nl/~stan/twlt9/

Topics

The workshop will be organized around the following subjects

 * corpus based methods as applied to dialogue modelling
 * methods for evaluating implemented dialogue models
 * dialogue formalisms, speech acts, dialogue grammars
 * intention based approaches to dialogue modelling
 * tools and methods to obtain and process dialogues
 * multimodal dialogues

Organization

TWLT9 is organized by the PARLEVINK-project of the University of Twente in
cooperation with IPO and KPN Research.

Toine Andernach, University of Twente
email: andernac at cs.utwente.nl; fax: +31 53 895283

Stan P. van de Burgt, KPN Research
email: S.P.vandeBurgt at research.ptt.nl; fax: +31 70 3326477

Gerrit van der Hoeven, Institute for Perception Research/Philips Research
email: vdhoeven at prl.philips.nl

Registration fees

Regular registration fee: DFL 75.-
Students registration fee: DFL 40.-
This includes a lunch, coffee and proceedings.
Registration fee is to be paid on site.

Please register well in advance and no later than May 15.
The number of participants is limited to 50.

Conference Site

The workshop will take place in the "Demozaal" in building L of the
Informatica-complex at the campus of the University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands. The campus can be reached by car (follow the route to
'Universiteit') and by bus from Hengelo station (nr. 15 or 51) or from
Enschede station (nr. 1 or 51). The workshop is a 10 minutes walk from the
campus entrance. Follow the red signs reading "TWLT".

Information

For more information on the workshop, please contact the organizers. For
other information and accomodation, please contact:

TWLT secretariat
University of Twente
Department of Computer Science
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands
tel: +31 53 893680
fax: +31 53 895283
email: twlt at cs.utwente.nl

Registration

For registration, you can either contact the workshop secretariat or fill
out the form on URL http://hydra.cs.utwente.nl/~stan/twlt9/

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 11:18:19 -0500
From: evelyne at research.att.com
Subject: PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR EACL SIGDAT WORKSHOP

      FROM TEXTS TO TAGS: ISSUES IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS

                Dublin, Ireland - March 27, 1995

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:10 Welcome

9:10-9:35:  D. Elworthy
        Tagset Design and Inflected Languages

9:35-10:00 J. Hughes, C. Souter & E. Atwell
        Automatic Extraction of Tagset Mappings from Parallel-Annotated Corpora

10:00-10:25 K. Gojenola
        Different Issues in the Design of a Lemmatizer/Tagger for Basque

10:25-10:55 COFFEE

10:55-11:35 G. Leech (invited speaker)

11:35-12:00 S. Teufel
        A Support Tool for Tagset Mappping

12:00-12:25 S. Armstrong, G. Russell, D. Petitpierre, G. Robert
        An Open Architecture for Multilingual Text Processing

12:25-12:55 C. Thielen
        An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German

12:55-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14:25 H. Feldweg
        Implementation and Evaluation of a New German HMM
        Model for POS Disambiguation

14:25-14:50 H. Schmid
        Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German

14:50-15:15 E. Tzoukerman, D. R. Radev & W. A. Gale
        Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning in French

15:15-15:40 J.-P. Chanod & P. Tapanainen
        Creating a Tagset, Lexicon and Guesser for a French Tagger

15:40-16:00 TEA

16:00-16:25 R. Sproat
        A Finite-State Architecture for Tokenization and Grapheme-to-Phoneme
        Conversion in Multilingual Text Analysis

16:25-16:50 E. Giguet
        Multilingual Sentence Categorization According to Language

16:50-17:15 T. McEnery & Oates
        Cognate Extraction in the Crater Project: Methods and Assessment

17:15-17:30 Conclusion/Discussion

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