9.1458, Calls: Deixis, Computational Linguistics
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Subject: 9.1458, Calls: Deixis, Computational Linguistics
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:21:36 +0200
From: pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Deixis, Demonstration, and Deictic Belief in Multimedia Context
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 98 15:54:53 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Computational Linguistics
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:21:36 +0200
From: pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Deixis, Demonstration, and Deictic Belief in Multimedia Context
ESSLLI-workshop on
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
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
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 organizers.
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 WORKHSOP 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:
pkuehnle at lili.uni-bielefeld.de (Peter Kuehnlein)
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 elligible 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/
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
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 98 15:54:53 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Computational Linguistics
We are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for EACL '99, to
be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 through 12 June 1999.
The call (text version below) can be found at
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/call-for-papers.html
The conference home page is at
http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/
Henry S. Thompson, Programme committee chair
Alex Lascarides, Programme commitee co-chair
Koenraad de Smedt, Local arrangements chair
John Nerbonne, EACL president
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EACL '99 Call for Papers, Demos/Posters, Student Papers, Tutorials and
Workshops
_______________________________________________________________________
9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
8--12 June, 1998
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
1. Paper Sessions
1.1. Topics of Interest
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited
to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken
and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models
of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information
extraction; corpus-based language modeling; machine translation and
translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in
multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems.
1.2. Requirements
Papers should describe original work. They should emphasize completed
work rather than intended work and they should indicate clearly the
state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate,
concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for
presentation at the EACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available published
proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must
reflect this fact on the title page.
1.3. Format for Submission
Authors should submit preliminary versions of their papers for review,
not to exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Papers should be
headed by a title page containing the paper ID code (see below), title,
a short (5 line) summary, up to five keywords specifying the subject
area, the word count (excluding figures and bibliography) and a notice
of multiple submission, if required. Since reviewing will be `blind',
the title page of the paper should omit author names and addresses.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g.,
"We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be avoided.
Instead, use references of the form "Smith previously showed (1991) . .
. " Care should be taken to avoid obvious giveaways in the bibliography
such as listings for unpublished in-house technical reports. Papers
outside the specified length and/or without an ID code are liable to
rejection without review.
To identify each paper, an ID code must be acquired by filing an
electronic paper registration form: on successful completion of this
form an ID code will be sent to the designated author by e-mail.
To assist in the refereeing process, we would be very grateful if
authors prepare a web-browsable (e.g. HTML, PostScript, PDF) electronic
version of their papers. We understand that this may not be possible in
all cases, but request that it be prepared if at all possible. To
preserve anonymity, do not include a pointer to this with your paper
submission: We will request a URL for your electronic version in the
email acknowledgement of receipt message. Also please note that we will
not be downloading copies from this URL, so it should remain valid
through the refereeing process, i.e. until 10 March 1999. Be aware that
the paper copy is the definitive copy, and changes should not be made
to the electronic copy after submission on paper.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTex (plus bibstyle and
trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of
submissions. These styles include a place for the required information
such as ID code and word count, and allow for a graceful transition to
the style required for publication.
If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of
the required format is at
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/substyle.html. If you cannot
access this web page, send email to eacl99 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk with subject
SUBSTYLE for an automatic reply.
1.4. Submission Procedure
Four (4) paper copies of each paper (printed on both sides of the page
if possible) should be submitted to the following address:
EACL Programme Committee
HCRC
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK
Enquiries to the Programme Committee by email at
eacl99 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk, (Henry S. Thompson, Chair and Alex Lascarides,
co-Chair).
1.5. Schedule
Submissions must be received by 18 January 1999. Late submissions
(those arriving on or after 19 January 1999) will be returned unopened.
Acknowledgements will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of
acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) on 10 March 1999.
Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column format,
preferably using a laser printer, must be received by 19 April 1999,
along with a signed copyright release statement. Detailed formatting
guidelines will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice.
The paper sessions, including student papers, will take place on 9--11
June 1999.
2. Poster and Demo Sessions
The meeting will include a Poster Session and a Demo Session. Posters
should present work in progress, project status reports, unevaluated
results or system summaries (with or without demos). Space for A1
posters is reserved at the session and there will be 2 pages in the
proceedings allocated to describe the work shown in the poster.
We also encourage the submission of software demos presenting system
overviews. Developers should outline the design of their system and
provide sufficient details to allow the evaluation of its validity,
quality, and relevance to computational linguistics. Pointers to web
sites running the demo preview will also be helpful.
For both sessions, four (4) paper copies of a two (2) page abstract not
exceeding 800 words (exclusive of references) should be submitted by 18
January 1999 to the posters/demos chair:
Giorgio Satta
Universita di Padova
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica
via Gradenigo 6/A
35131 Padova
Italy
Phone: +39 (0)49 827-7831
Fax: +39 (0)49 827-7826
Email: satta at dei.unipd.it
Both submissions should include the following information on the first
page: paper title and author(s)' name(s); address, telephone/fax
numbers and email of contact author. Submission type ("poster
submission" or "demo submission") must be clearly indicated on the
first page.
Demo submissions should also clearly indicate if any computer equipment
is expected to be provided by the local organizer. If so, please
specify desired hardware platform, hard disk and memory capacity,
operating system and other software needed in order to run the demo.
Also mention name and contact information of systems operations
specialist. If you are bringing your own laptop, you should instead
request a video projector if you need one, providing details about PC
type, screen resolution, etc.
3. Student Sessions
There will again be special Student Sessions organized by a committee
of EACL graduate student members. EACL student members are invited to
submit short papers on any of the topics listed above. The papers will
be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members for
presentation in workshop-style sessions and publication in a special
section of the conference proceedings. There will be a separate call
for papers available shortly.
4. Tutorials
The meeting will include a programme of tutorials on Tuesday June 8,
immediately preceding, and at the same venue as the conference.
Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be
covered in a three hour slot (including a half-hour break). In
exceptional cases, 6-hour tutorials are possible as well.
Proposals for tutorials should contain:
* A title and brief description of the tutorial topic.
* The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of
the tutorial speakers, with brief cv.
* Any special support requirements (e.g. PC, projector)
Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text
as soon as possible, but no later than 18 December 1998 to the tutorial
coordinator:
Walter Daelemans
ILK Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 13 4663070
Fax: +31 13 4663110
Email: walter.daelemans at kub.nl
Approved tutorial speakers' travel and accommodation expenses will be
reimbursed provided a short tutorial abstract and full tutorial
materials are received in good time for publicity and reproduction.
Details of the schedule for this will accompany notification of
acceptance.
For further details concerning tutorials, see the tutorials page at
http://ilk.kub.nl/~walter/eacl/tutorials.html
5. Workshops
As in other years, EACL '99 will be accompanied by a number of
workshops. These will be held on June 12, the day after the main
conference. The ACL has a policy on workshops.
Proposals must include a clear description of the workshop aims, a
budget of the workshop expenses and expected sources of income, and an
indication of the expected number of participants. Please send your
workshop proposals (preferably electronically) as soon as possible and
in any case before 18 December 1998 to the workshop chair:
Gertjan van Noord
Alfa-informatica RuG
PO Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
Email: vannoord at let.rug.nl
For further details concerning workshops, see the workshops page at
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/eacl99/workshops.html
6. Venue and Local Organisation
The conference will be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 through 12 June,
1999. See the conference home page for local arrangements information.
The Local Arrangements Committee is chaired by Koenraad de Smedt. The
Local Arrangements Committee can be reached at:
Humanities Information Technologies
University of Bergen
Alligaten 27
5007 Bergen
Norway
Phone: +47 5558-8008
Fax: +47 5558-9470
Email: eacl99 at uib.no
7. Timetable
1998
18 Dec Workshop proposals due in Groningen
18 Dec Tutorial proposals due in Tilburg
25 Dec Decisions on workshops sent to workshop organisers
28 Dec Decision on tutorials sent to tutorial organisers
1999
18 Jan Submitted papers due in Edinburgh
1 Mar Tutorial summary for brochure due in Tilburg
10 Mar Decisions on programme sent to authors
19 Apr Final versions of papers due in Edinburgh
1 May Tutorial course material due in Tilburg
5 May Camera-ready copy of workshop proceedings due in Groningen
8 Jun Tutorials
9--11 Jun Paper sessions
12 Jun Workshops
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