12.1272, Calls: Cybernetics/AI, Discourse/Dialogue
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Subject: 12.1272, Calls: Cybernetics/AI, Discourse/Dialogue
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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:46:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Sylvia Fischer <sylvia at oefai.at>
Subject: Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2002)
2)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:43:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue: EXTENSION OF DEADLINE
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:46:14 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Sylvia Fischer <sylvia at oefai.at>
Subject: Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2002)
* *
* *
* SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING *
* ON *
* CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH *
* (EMCSR 2002) *
April 2 - 5, 2002
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
in cooperation with
Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna
and
International Federation for Systems Research
* * * * *
An electronic version of this CfP (and further information whenever it
becomes available) can be found at
http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/
* * * * *
The international support of the European Meetings on Cybernetics and
Systems Research held in Austria in 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982,
1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 (when 500 scientists
from more than 40 countries from all continents, except the
Antarctica, met to present, hear and discuss 134 papers) encouraged the Council
of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (VSGK) to organize a similar
meeting in 2002 to keep pace with continued rapid developments in related
fields.
Sessions
A Systems Science
G.J.Klir, USA, and P.Vysoky, Czech Republic
B Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory
Y.Rav, France
C System, the Quantum, and Complexity
M.Carvallo, Netherlands
D Systemic Aspects of Component-Based System Development
G.Chroust, Austria, and F.Stallinger, Austria
E Foundations of Information Science (FIS)
G.Ossimitz, Austria, and B.A.Banathy, USA
F Designing and Systems
W.Gasparski, Poland
G Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology
L.M.Ricciardi, Italy
H Systems Science in Medicine
F.Tretter, Germany, and G.Porenta, Austria
I Simulation of Social Behaviour and Artificial Economy
K.Hornik, Austria, and A.Taudes, Austria
J Cultural Systems
P.Ballonoff, USA, I.Ezhkova, Belgium, M.Fischer, UK, P.Jorion,
France, and D.Read, USA
K Management and Organizational Change
S.A.Umpleby, USA
L Soft Computing and Knowledge-Based Systems
C.Carlsson, Finland, and K.-P.Adla_nig, Austria
M Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems
S.Kollias, Greece, and G.Dorffner, Austria
N AT2AI-3: From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation
J.P.M|ller, Germany, and P.Petta, Austria
O ACE 2002: Agent Construction and Emotions
C.Pinto-Ferreira, Portugal, R.Ventura, Portugal, and P.Petta,
Austria
P Bayesian Techniques for Mining Data and Texts, and the Discovery of
Surprising Knowledge
Y.Kodratoff, France
Q Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
V.Marik, Czech Republic, and E.Buchberger, Austria
R Communication and Computers
A M.Tjoa, Austria
S History of Cybernetics and Information Technology
F.Pichler, Austria
Submission Guidelines
Acceptance of contributions will be determined on the basis of Draft
Final Papers. Each paper must explain clearly
- what problem it is trying to address,
- what has been tried before and why it isn't good enough,
- WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY IT IS BETTER,
- some proof that your method is sound (or reference to it),
- how it will help others/apply to other problems,
- some results/proof it works.
Draft Final Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced A4 pages (maximum
43 lines, max. line length 160 mm, 12 point), in English. They have to
contain the final text to be submitted, including graphs and pictures.
However, these need not be of reproducible quality.
They must carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation (incl.
e-mail address, if possible) in this order, and must include an
abstract.
Please specify the symposium in which you would like to present your
paper. Each scientist shall submit only one paper. Please send four
hard copies of the Draft Final Paper to the Conference Secretariat (not to
symposia chairpersons!) Electronic or fax submissions cannot be
accepted.
Deadline for submission
October 19, 2001
Submissions received after the deadline cannot be considered.
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
Authors will be notified about acceptance or rejection no later than
December 7, 2001. Successful authors will be provided by the
conference secretariat at the same time with the instructions for the
preparation of the final paper, which will also be available via ftp and
World-Wide Web.
Final Papers
The final paper will be limited to a maximum of 6 pages (10-point,
double column). Camera-ready copies of the final paper will
be due at the conference secretariat by January 18, 2002. Acceptance
of the final paper will be based on compliance with the reviewers'
comments.
Presentation
It is understood that each accepted paper is presented personally at
the Meeting by one of its authors.
Conference Fee
ATS 2900 (Euro 210.75) if received before January 31, 2002
Euro 255 if received later
Euro 305 if paid at the conference desk.
The Conference Fee includes participation in the Sixteenth European
Meeting, attendance at official receptions, coffee during breaks, and
the volumes of the proceedings available at the Meeting. Please send
cheque,
or transfer the amount free of charges for beneficiary to the
account no. 0026-34400/00 of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic
Studies at Creditanstalt-Bankverein Vienna (bank routing number: 11000, SWIFT
code: CABVATWW). Please state your name clearly.
Hotel Accommodation
will be handled by
AUSTROPA INTERCONVENTION,
Friedrichstra_e 7
A-1010 Vienna
phone +43-1-58800-514
fax +43-1-58800-520.
Reservation forms will be sent to all those registering for the
conference.
Scholarships
The International Federation for Systems Research is willing to
provide a limited number of scholarships covering the registration fee for the
conference for colleagues from weak currency countries. Applications should
be sent to the Conference Secretariat before October 20, 2001.
Insurance
The conference organizers can accept no liability for personal
injuries, or for loss or damage to property belonging to conference
participants, either during or as a result of the conference.
Please check the validity of your personal insurance.
Chairman of the Meeting
Robert Trappl, President
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
Secretariat
S. Fischer and I. Ghobrial-Willmann
Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria)
Phone: +43-1-5336112-60
Fax: +43-1-4277-9631
E-mail: sec at oefai.at
Programme Committee
K.-P. Adla_nig (Austria) V. Marik (Czech Republic)
P. Ballonoff (USA) J.P. M|ller (Germany)
B. A.Banathy (USA) G. Ossimitz (Austria)
E. Buchberger (Austria) P. Petta (Austria)
C. Carlsson (Finland) F. Pichler (Austria)
M. Carvallo (Netherlands) C. Pinto-Ferreira (Portugal)
G. Chroust (Austria) G. Porenta (Austria)
G. Dorffner (Austria) Y. Rav (France)
I. Ezhkova (Belgium) D. Read (USA)
M. Fischer (UK) L. M. Ricciardi (Italy)
W. Gasparski (Poland) N. Rozsenich (Austria)
G. Grvssing (Austria) F. Stallinger (Austria)
W. Horn (Austria) A. Taudes (Austria)
K. Hornik (Austria) A M. Tjoa (Austria)
P. Jorion (France) R. Trappl (Austria)
G. J. Klir (USA) F. Tretter (Germany)
S. Kollias (Greece) H. Trost (Austria)
Y. Kodratoff (France) S. A. Umpleby (USA)
O. Ladanyi (Austria) R. Ventura (Portugal)
P. Vysoky (Czech Republic)
Organizing Committee
E. Buchberger W. Horn
G. Chroust J. Matiasek
S. Fischer P. Petta
I. Ghobrial-Willmann R. Trappl
C. Holzbaur H. Trost
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PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 19, 2001
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EMCSR 2002 16TH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH
REGISTRATION:
Electronic registration is possible via
http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/
or by sending an e-mail to
sec at oefai.at
containing the following data:
o I plan to attend the Meeting and to submit a paper
to Session .....
o I plan to attend the Meeting, but I will not submit a paper.
o I will not be at the Meeting but am interested to receive
information about the Proceedings.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
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Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:43:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue: EXTENSION OF DEADLINE
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PLEASE NOTE:
In order to get a better distribution of short and long
papers over the three themes of the workshop, we especially invite
submissions on theme 3, the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and
dialogue
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*** EXTENSION OF PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE TO MAY 21 ***
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2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2
(Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia)
More up to date information on submission schedule,
formats, registration and program committee may be
found at the workshop website
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 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.
INVITED SPEAKERS: to be announced.*
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work on
discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes:
(i) Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
including topics such as:
* dialogue management models
(specific subproblems or general modeling, in particular
models for mixed initiative and user-adaptive dialogue);
* speech, text, and graphics integration (for
understanding or generation);
* context-based interpretation and/or response planning,in
particular how this contributes to natural interaction;
* strategies for handling or preventing miscommuncation
(repair and correction types, clarification and
underspecificity, grounding and feedback strategies);
* utilizing prosodic information for various types of
disambiguation;
* task-driven versus conversational dialogue;
* evaluation of dialogue systems including task complexity
measurements.
(ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based
and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in
particular:
* issues and problems in discourse and dialogue
annotation;
* techniques (including machine learning), tools, coding
schemes and data resources for discourse and dialogue
studies;
* XML-based tools for dialogue access to internet
information.
(iii) Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and
dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence) including
the following issues:
* the semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including
those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics
framework);
* incremental (plan-based,topic-based, etc.) models of
discourse/dialogue structure integrating referential and
relational structure;
* modeling genre-specific aspects of discourse and
dialogue structure, including the specific structural
aspects of (interactive) digital media;
* prosody in discourse and dialogue;
* modeling politeness and non-recursive parts of discourse
and dialogue;
* models of presupposition and accommodation;
* operational models of conversational implicature.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS
The program committee welcomes the submission of papers for full plenary
presentation. The papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including title
page, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages
are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses
or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
Besides papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission
of short 4-page papers (inclusive title page, examples, references, etc.)
to be combined with a short presentation in the plenary session and a
poster presentation.
Full papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail
address sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no later
than May 21 (extended deadline).
The format to use for papers and abstracts is the same (ACL final paper
format). Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01. Papers must be submitted in pdf
(preferred) or postscript format.
The title page (no separate title page is needed) should include the
following information:
- Title;
- Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses;
- Abstract (short summary up to 15 lines).
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full papers and short papers May 21
Notification June 27
Final submissions August 1
Workshop September 1-2
WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
Like full papers, short papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Authors of a selected number of full papers accepted for the
workshop proceedings will be asked to send in a version of their paper for
the publication in a book on current directions and developments in
discourse and dialogue, to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
PANEL SESSIONS
In addition to regular paper and abstract submisions, the program
committee of the 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
organizes the following two panel sessions for which they invite
proposals. Deadline for submissions is June 4, 2001.
Panel Session I
Spoken Dialogue Systems: Theory that is Ready for Practice
For this panel session, we invite submissions that focus on ideas whose
theory, being of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, corpus-linguistic,
statistic and/or prosodic nature, has been studied in great detail and
that is ready or at least has a clear potential to be included in the next
advance of spoken dialogue systems. Submission format should follow the
same guidelines as plenary papers and should contain the following
content:
- - a synopsis of the idea with appropriate references;
- - a description of problem domains where an implemented system could
make good use of the idea;
- - a description of how the idea's utility could be evaluated;
- - (optional) a description of necessary technologies.
Questions may be directed to Ronnie Smith/Jan van Kuppevelt
<sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Panel Session II
Discourse Structure and Conversational Implicatures
For this panel session, we invite submissions on operational models of
conversational implicatures which focus on their discourse-structural
status. Possible topics of interest for this panel discussion are: the
nature of conversational implicatures and their relation to
presuppositional inferences, discourse-structural (rhetorical,
referential, etc.) constraints on the generation and interpretation of
conversational implicatures, question-focus and (particularized vs.
generalized) conversational implicatures, conversational implicatures and
prosody, conversational implicatures and (underspecified vs. optimal)
linguistic form, e.g. the form of referring expressions, and
conversational implicatures in the context of dynamic, topic- or
goal-related discourse processing. Submission format should follow the
same guidelines as plenary papers and should contain the following
content:
- - a synopsis of the operational model with appropriate
references;
- - a description of main topics for the panel discussion;
- - a set of topic-related position statements.
Questions may be directed to Jan van Kuppevelt/Ronnie Smith
<sigdial2001 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
EXHIBITION
The workshop will host exhibitions of books and journals related to the
themes of the workshop. Details will be announced later at the workshop
website. Interested parties should contact the local workshop organization
for registration (see below).
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) Masahito Kawamori (NTT
Alan Biermann (Duke University) Communication Science Labs)
Steven Bird (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Christine Nakatani (Nuance Comm.)
Sandra Carberry (Univ. of Delaware) Massimo Poesio (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Rolf Carlson (KTH, Stockholm) Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon
Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Inst.) University)
Robin Cooper (Gothenburg Univ.)** David Sadek (France Telecom R&D)
John Dowding (RIACS) Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA)
James Glass (MIT)** Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen Univ.) Martin Stokhof (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Peter Heeman (Oregon Graduate Inst.) Oliviero Stock (IRST)
Julia Hirschberg (AT&T Labs Research) Nigel Ward (Univ. of Tokyo)
Lynette Hirschman (MITRE) Annie Zaenen (Xerox Research Centre
Hans Kamp (Univ. of Stuttgart) Europe)
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>
* Financially supported by ELSNET
** Not yet confirmed
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