12.2076, Confs: SIGdial 2001 Workshop
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Subject: 12.2076, Confs: SIGdial 2001 Workshop
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:35:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: SIGdial 2001 Workshop
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:35:10 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: SIGdial 2001 Workshop
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*** F I N A L C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ***
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(Online registration by August 24)
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*** W O R K S H O P P R O G R A M ***
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2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2
(Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia)
DESCRIPTION
Following up on the successful 1st Workshop in Hong Kong in October 2000,
this will be the next in a series of workshops spanning the ACL and ISCA
SIGdial interest area of discourse and dialogue. While there has been a
lot of activity in this area, and fairly frequent "specialty" workshops on
various sub-topics, until this series there has not been a regular place
for such research to be presented in a forum to receive attention from the
larger SIGdial community and researchers outside this community. The
workshop is organized by SIGdial which is a joint ACL and ISCA SIG. The
workshop is sponsored by ISCA and ACL.
REGISTRATION (**ONLINE REGISTRATION BY 24 AUGUST 2001**)
Registration is possible via the workshop website:
http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01/
Online registration is encouraged (regular rates: late online registration
by August 24 $135, onsite $ 160; student rates are available).
ACCOMMODATION
A list of hotels is available at the Eurospeech website:
http://eurospeech2001.org/registration/hotels/index.html
Please note that the prices may be different if you haven't registered for
Eurospeech 2001.
CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS
We are seeking several student volunteers to help with on-site
registration and logistical matters. In exchange for a few hours of help,
volunteers will receive 50-100% reduction in workshop registration fees
(depending on covering total workshop costs). Volunteers will be chosen in
a first-come first-served basis. Volunteers should send a note to David
Traum, before registering for the workshop.
INVITED SPEAKERS
* James Allen, University of Rochester
* Stanley Peters, Stanford University
Invited speakers are sponsored by ELSNET and ISLE.
EXHIBITION
The workshop will host exhibitions of books and journals related to the
themes of the workshop. Interested parties are kindly asked to directly
contact the local workshop organization for registration.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs: Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart) and Ronnie Smith
(East Carolina University)
Besides SIGdial organization members (Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM TJ Watson
Research Center; Morena Danieli, Loquendo; Laila Dybkjaer, University of
Odense; Diana Litman, AT&T Labs Research; Akira Shimazu, JAIST; Michael
Strube, European Media Laboratory; David Traum, University of Southern
California) the program committee consists of the following external
members:
James Allen (Univ. of Rochester) Christine Nakatani (Nuance
Alan Biermann (Duke University) Comm.)
Steven Bird (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Massimo Poesio (Univ. of
Sandra Carberry (Univ. of Delaware) Edinburgh)
Rolf Carlson (KTH, Stockholm) Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie
Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Inst.) Mellon University)
John Dowding (RIACS) David Sadek (France Telecom
James Glass (MIT) R&D)
Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen Univ.) Candy Sidner (MERL,
Peter Heeman (Oregon Graduate Cambridge, MA)
Inst.) Mark Steedman (Univ. of
Julia Hirschberg (AT&T Labs Edinburgh)
Research) Martin Stokhof (Univ. of
Lynette Hirschman (MITRE) Amsterdam)
Masahito Kawamori (NTT Oliviero Stock (IRST)
Communication Science Labs) Nigel Ward (Univ. of Tokyo)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Laila Dybkjaer (local chair), David Traum, Julia Hirschberg, Ronnie Smith,
Jan van Kuppevelt.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about submission: Ronnie Smith/Jan van Kuppevelt
<sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Questions about local issues: Laila Dybkjaer <laila at nis.sdu.dk>
Miscellaneous: David Traum <traum at cs.umd.edu>
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SIGdial 2001 Workshop Program
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SATURDAY September 1
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08.15 - 09.00 Registration
09.00 - 09.15 Opening
09.15 - 10.15 Invited talk: James Allen
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in
Dialogue Management
10.15 - 10.40 Ruben San-Segundo, Juan M. Montero, Juana M.
Guitierrez, Ascension Gallardo, Jose D. Romeral and
Jose M. Pardo
A Telephone-Based Railway Information System for
Spanish: Development of a Methodology for Spoken
Dialogue Design
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 - 11.35 Hiyan Alshawi and Shona Douglas
Variant Transduction: A Method for Rapid Development
of Interactive Spoken Interfaces
11.35 - 12.00 Ian Lewin, Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell and
Johan Boye
Plug and Play Speech Understanding
12.00 - 12.50 Short presentation session 1
1. John Fry, Matt Ginzton, Stanley Peters, Brady Clark
and Heather Pon-Barry
Automated Tutoring Dialogues for Training in
Shipboard Damage Control
2. Ruben San-Segundo, Juan Manuel Montero and Jose
Manuel Pardo
Designing Confirmation Mechanisms and Error
Recover Techniques in a Railway Information System
for Spanish
3. Janienke Sturm, Fusi Wang and Bert Cranen
Adding Extra Input/Output Modalities to a Spoken
Dialogue System
4. Emilio Sanchis, Isabel Galiano, Fernando Garcia and
Antonio Cano
A Hybrid Approach to the Development of Dialogue
Systems directed by Semantics
5. Norihi Yasuda, Kohji Dohsaka and Kiyoaki Aikawa
Spoken Dialogue Control Based on a Turn-
minimization Criterion Depending on the Speech
Recognition Accuracy
12.50 - 14.30 Lunch break and poster visit
* Poster visit from 14.00 to 14.30 *
14.30 - 14.55 Peter Bosch
Against the Identification of Anaphora and
Presupposition
14.55 - 15.20 Michael Paul and Eiichiro Sumita
Integration of Referential Scope Limitations into
Japanese Pronoun Resolution
15.20 - 15.45 Robert van Rooy
Conversational Implicatures
15.45 - 16.15 Tea break
16.15 - 16.40 Susan E. Strayer and Peter A. Heeman
Reconciling Initiative and Discourse Structure
16.40 - 17.05 Matthew Purver, Jonathan Ginzburg and Patrick Healey
On the Means for Clarification in Dialogue
17.05 - 17.30 Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts and Diane Litman
Labeling Corrections and Aware Sites in Spoken
Dialogue Systems
17.45 - 18.45 SIGdial business meeting
19.00 Reception
SUNDAY September 2
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09.00 - 10.00 Invited talk: Stanley Peters
Dialogue for Collaborative Activities
10.00 - 10.25 Christian Ebert, Shalom Lappin, Howard Gregory and
Nicolas Nicolov
Generating Full Paraphrases of Fragments in a Dialogue
Interpretation System
10.25 - 10.55 Coffee break
10.55 - 11.20 Jens Allwood, Leif Groenqvist, Elisabeth Ahlsen and
Magnus Gunnarsson
Annotations and Tools for an Activity Based Spoken
Language Corpus
11.20 - 11.45 Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu and Mary Ellen Okurowsky
Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of
Rhetorical Structure Theory
11.45 - 12.35 Short presentation session 2
1. Masahiro Araki, Yukihiko Kimura, Takuya Nishimoto
and Yasuhisa Niimi
Development of a Machine Learnable Discourse Tagging
Tool
2. Christoph Mueller and Michael Strube
Annotating Anaphoric and Bridging Relations with
MMAX
3. Mary McGee Wood
Dialogue Tagsets in Oncology
4. Anne Wichmann and Johanneke Caspers
Melodic Cues to Turn-Taking in English: Evidence
from Perception
5. Kathleen Murray
A Study of Automatic Pitch Tracker Doubling/Halving
"Errors"
12.35 - 14.00 Lunch break and poster visit
* Poster visit from 13.30 to 14.00 *
14.00 - 14.25 Marc Cavazza
An Empirical Study of Speech Recognition Errors in a
Task-Oriented Dialogue System
14.25 - 14.50 Li-chiung Yang:
Visualizing Spoken Discourse: Prosodic Form and
Discourse Functions of Interruptions
14.50 - 15.15 Tim Paek
Empirical Methods for Evaluating Dialog Systems
15.15 - 15.45 Tea break
15.45 - 16.10 Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock
Confidence-Based Adaptivity in Response Generation for
a Spoken Dialogue System
16.10 - 16.35 Christine Doran, John Aberdeen, Laurie Damianos and
Lynette Hirschman
Comparing Several Aspects of Human-Computer and Human-
Human Dialogues
16.35 - 17.00 Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Matthew Bell,
Melanie Martin and Theresa Wilson
A Corpus Study of Evaluative and Speculative Language
17.15 - 18.15 Panel discussion
Spoken Dialogue Systems: Theory that is Ready for
Practice
Panelists: to be announced
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