8.1830, Calls: Semantics/Pragmatics,Intermedia Representations

Mon Dec 22 21:54:17 UTC 1997

LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1830. Mon Dec 22 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1830, Calls: Semantics/Pragmatics,Intermedia Representations

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:13:10 +0100 (MET)
From:  joris at cs.utwente.nl (Joris Hulstijn)
Subject:  Twendial - Formal Semantics & Pragmatics of Dialogue

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:39:57 -0500
From:  James Pustejovsky <jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject:  Call for Papers for COLING/ACL 1998 WORKSHOP

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:13:10 +0100 (MET)
From:  joris at cs.utwente.nl (Joris Hulstijn)
Subject:  Twendial - Formal Semantics & Pragmatics of Dialogue

                                Twendial'98
    13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology in the 2nd workshop on

              -- Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue --

                              May 13-15, 1998
              University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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The Mundial'97 workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
was a success. Many interesting approaches and phenomena were
discussed. Therefore we organize a follow-up. Again, the workshop aims
at bringing together researchers from various backgrounds that apply
formal methods to the study of dialogue phenomena. Contributions can
for instance be based on DRT, situation theory, dynamic semantics,
agent theories, database theory and game theory.

In particular, we hope to bridge the widely recognized gap between theory
and practice in the design of dialogue systems. Therefore we welcome both
theoretical work as well as formal methods used in designing, building and
testing applications of dialogue technology.

Twendial'98 is organized by Joris Hulstijn and Anton Nijholt (University of
Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands).

Invited Speakers

   * Nicholas Asher 	(University of Texas at Austin)
   * Jonathan Ginzburg 	(Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
   * Steve Pulman 	(Cambridge SRI)
   * Henk Zeevat 	(University of Amsterdam)

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations (with 10 additional
minutes for discussion) on any topic related to formal semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

   * common ground in communication
   * modelling information of agents
   * inter-speaker reference
   * 'questions-under-discussion'
   * designing and evaluating dialogue models

Please send two anonymous abstracts (no more than two A4 or 8 1/2" by
11" pages in a 12 pt proportional font, possibly with an additional
page for figures and references) together with a separate page
specifying author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail
address, and title of the abstract. E-mail submissions of abstracts
written in plain ASCII or LaTeX are welcome. The submission deadline
will be February 1st (unlike in some earlier postings).

     Joris Hulstijn
     Computer Science, University of Twente
     PO BOX 217, 7500 AE Enschede
     The Netherlands
     joris at cs.utwente.nl

Abstracts will be refereed by an international programme
committee. There will be a proceedings volume in the "TWLT" series
containing full papers based on these abstracts. For previous volumes
in these series see (http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences ).
The proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Final submission
of papers is therefore at least one month before the start of the
workshop.

Important Dates

   * Deadline for submission 2-page abstract: 	February 1st, 1998
   * Notification of acceptance: 		February 16, 1998
   * Deadline for accepted papers: 		April 13, 1998
   * Workshop: 					May 13-15, 1998

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Twendial'98 is the 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT13).
The TWLT series is hosted by the Parlevink Linguistic Engineering Group and
is sponsored by the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT).

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Date:  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:39:57 -0500
From:  James Pustejovsky <jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject:  Call for Papers for COLING/ACL 1998 WORKSHOP

	CONTENT VISUALIZATION AND INTERMEDIA REPRESENTATIONS
		         	(CVIR'98)
		(Co-Sponsored by ACL's SIGMEDIA)

     		 Preliminary Call for Papers

WHEN:    August 15, 1998 (immediately following COLING/ACL-98)
WHERE:   University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

In the last few years, multimedia systems have become available which
integrate text, graphics, sound (speech and non-speech audio), as well as
animation. There are many different communities working on such systems
(e.g., hypermedia, human-machine interaction, information retrieval,
scientific visualization, content extraction, dialog tracking), each with
distinct concerns and goals, and often the communities are not aware of
each other's research and methods.

This workshop aims to bring together these communities to examine the
questions of the visual presentation of diverse content through multiple
media. The major goal is to explore common intermedia representation
languages which are expressive enough to cover diverse modalities yet
suitably appropriate for the individual media.

With increasing amounts of data, information, and knowledge available to
the user, the effective use of visualization is increasingly important in
applications. Examples include: visualization of data in scientific
literature,  including support for interactive information retrieval;
business and finance data visualization (data profiling); automated or
assisted map, graph, diagram, or image construction from text or data;
event, process, and knowledge editing and visualization tools; and
knowledge navigation over databases, texts, and search results.

The specific issues addressed by the workshop include but are not limited to:

  - Definition of Content:  different disciplines and applications have
distinct perspectives on what content is, e.g., of text, video, graphics,
collections of interactions or correspondences.
 -  Knowledge Representation: i.e., what it is, how to represent it, reason
about it, and present it.
  - Taxonomies of content representations, tasks, and visualization artifacts.
  - Representations for content and how these relate to and/or facilitate
visualization tasks.
  - Selection and Organization of Content:  Deciding what to present and
how to organize the presentation of selected content and why (i.e., effect).
  - Deciding how to coordinate the presentation of content through several
media:
  - The relationship of cognitive task to visualization content and style
(e.g.,  visualization structure, properties, form, coherency,
interpretability, and accuracy of displays).
  -  Deciding how to accept and integrate input from several media.
  -  Medium-specific encoding of content.
  -  Presentation and interaction techniques of generated results.
  -  Tailoring visualizations to specific user and usergroup
characteristics, knowledge, and interests.
  -  Content visualization evaluation metrics and methods.

We encourage submissions of demonstrations and/or videos of working
visualizations pertaining to the above topics.

The organizers will produce a workshop report and, providing there is
sufficient interest and adequate results reported, will consider a special
edited journal issue and/or state of the art collection.

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
	James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
	Mark T. Maybury, MITRE

SPONSOR:  SIGMEDIA (ACL's special interest group on Multimedia
	      Language Processing)

Requirements for submission

Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.  Maximum
length is 8 pages including figures and references.  Please use US or A4
letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of
6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).  Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or
Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings
and title.  LaTeX users are encouraged to use the ACL style file at:
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty.
MS-Word users should use the ACL style file at:
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MSWord_template.rtf

Submissions can be made either as hardcopies or electronically in ASCII,
PostScript, HTML, or MS-Word format. They should be sent to:

James Pustejovsky
CVIR'98
Computer Science Department and
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
voice: 1-617-736-2709
fax: 1-617-736-2741
jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu

More detailed information on the workshop can be found at:
 http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/CVIR/

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: March 11, 1998
Deadline for hardcopy submissions: March 13 (arrival date)
Notification of acceptance: May 1, 1998
Final manuscripts due: June 12, 1998

Organizers:

JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department and
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
voice: 1-617-736-2709
fax: 1-617-736-2741
jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~rllc

MARK T. MAYBURY
Director, Advanced Information Systems Center
The MITRE Corporation (MS K308)
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA  01730
Tel: (781) 271-7230
Fax: (781) 271-2780
http://www.mitre.org/resources/centers/advanced_info/

James Pustejovsky
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department and
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
USA
voice: 1-617-736-2709
fax: 1-617-736-2741

jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~rllc

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