11.18, Calls: Natural Lang Generation, Communicating Agents

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Subject: 11.18, Calls: Natural Lang Generation, Communicating Agents

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1)
Date:  Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:31:49 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at si.umich.edu>
Subject:  International Natural Language Generation Conference - INLG'2000

2)
Date:  Fri, 07 Jan 2000 22:03:19 +0100
From:  Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder at uni-bonn.de>
Subject:  Communicating Agents

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 6 Jan 2000 20:31:49 -0500 (EST)
From:  "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev at si.umich.edu>
Subject:  International Natural Language Generation Conference - INLG'2000

         International Natural Language Generation Conference
                              INLG'2000

                         Mitzpe Ramon, Israel

                       Workshops: 12 June 2000
                   Main conference: 13-16 June 2000


                     CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The First International Natural Language Generation Conference
(INLG'2000) will be held June 13 to 16, 2000 in Mitzpe Ramon,
Israel. This conference continues in the tradition of the nine
biennial workshops on natural language generation that have been held
from 1980 to 1998.

In addition to the main conference session, INLG'2000 will feature a
separate track for student papers as well as a small number of
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS to be held on June 12.

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops. To be
considered, please submit a formal proposal to the address shown below
by January 1, 2000. Decisions will be made by January 8, 2000.

A list of possible topics appears on the conference home page (see below).

Proposals should include the following:

o     Title and (brief) description of the workshop topic
o     An estimate of the expected number of participants
o     A description of the workshop format
o     An estimate of required equipment (computers, projectors, VCR, etc.)

Note: Workshop participants will be expected to register for the main
conference.

For additional information on INLG'2000, please refer to the
conference home page: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~nlg2000

Address for communication:

Dragomir R. Radev, INLG'2000 Workshops Chair (radev at umich.edu)
School of Information
University of Michigan
305A West Hall
550 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092

Important dates:

January 9, 2000: Workshop proposals due
January 23, 2000: Acceptance/rejection decisions made
February 6, 2000: Workshop Calls for Papers (CFP) due back to workshops chair
May 7, 2000: Complete camera-ready workshop materials due

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Dragomir R. Radev                                       radev at umich.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Information       University of Michigan
Phone: 734-615-5225                     http://www.si.umich.edu/~radev/


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Date:  Fri, 07 Jan 2000 22:03:19 +0100
From:  Bernhard Schroeder <B.Schroeder at uni-bonn.de>
Subject:  Communicating Agents


Communicating Agents

Workshop of the GLDV special interest group on
generation and parsing in morphology, syntax and semantics,
IKP, University of Bonn, Feb 15, 2000

http://www.gldv.org/Veranstaltungen/WS_Feb00/

In the focus of this workshop will be approaches to the
formal description and eventually to the implementation of
communicating agents.

We invite papers on the following aspects:

    1.incremental analysis / interpretation
            datastructure of the context (e.g. dynamic semantics)
            computational reconstruction of reference
            correlation of semantic and pragmatic interpretation
    2.partner oriented generation
            intentionally directed generation
            partner knowledge and attribution of belief
    3.evolution of systems and strategies of communication
            concept evolution / formation / construction
            evolution of linguistic norms
            repair strategies in disturbed communication

Lectures should not be longer than 20 minutes. They will be followed
by a 10 minute discussion each. Workshop languages are English and
German.  We plan to publish workshop proceedings with the full papers.

System demonstrations will be possible on demand.

Abstracts of no more than 600 words should be sent
 - preferably by E-Mail in ASCII, HTML, PS or PDF format -
to Bernhard Schroeder before Jan 10, 2000.

Timetable

Jan 10, 2000
      Deadline for abstracts
Jan 24, 2000
      Notification on acceptance
Feb 15, 2000
      Workshop

Please register before Feb 8, 2000, if possible.

Organizing Comittee

      Roland Hausser, University of Erlangen
      Hans-Christian Schmitz, University of Bonn
      Bernhard Schroeder, University of Bonn

Workshop fees

Members of the GLDV, non-students
      DM 20
Student members of the GLDV
      DM 10
Others, non-students
      DM 40
Other students
      DM 20

Contact

Bernhard Schroeder
Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
Universität Bonn
Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
D-53115 Bonn
Germany

E-Mail
      B.Schroeder at uni-bonn.de
Phone
      +49 228 735621
Fax
      +49 228 735639

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