13.285, Calls: Computational Ling,Multimodal Dialogue Systems
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Subject: 13.285, Calls: Computational Ling,Multimodal Dialogue Systems
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Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:19:41 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: International CLASS Workshop: CFP
2)
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:41:37 +0100
From: Brigitte Krenn <brigitte at ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: cfp: Computational Approaches to Collocations
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:19:41 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: International CLASS Workshop: CFP
1st Announcement
*** International CLASS Workshop ***
on
Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in
Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Copenhagen, Denmark
28-29 June 2002
Detailed and more up to date information
may be found at the workshop webpage:
http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html
Invited Speakers/Contributors (not yet all confirmed):
James Allen (University of Rochester), Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab),
Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute), Bjoern Granstroem (KTH,
Stockholm), Dominic Massaro (UCSC), Roger Moore (20/20 Speech Ltd., UK),
Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA), Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST), Wolfgang
Wahlster (DFKI), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Following up on the CLASS workshop in Verona (Italy, 14-15 December 2001),
this workshop will concentrate on innovative and challenging approaches on
natural, intelligent and effective interaction in multimodal dialogue
systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together theoretically and
practically oriented researchers from both academia and industry with the
purpose of having a thorough, fruitful and representative discussion of
the topic area in an international setting.
CLASS SPONSORSHIP
The workshop is sponsored by the European CLASS project
(http://www.class-tech.org/) which was initiated on the request of the
European Commission with the purpose of supporting and stimulating
collaboration within and among Human Language Technology (HLT) projects,
as well as between HLT projects and relevant projects outside Europe.
Currently, CLASS comprises 42 projects and 220 registered members.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical research on
multimodal dialogue systems. The focus of the workshop is on natural,
intelligent and effective multimodal interaction. Topics of interest
include:
* Multimodal Signal Processing
Models for multimodal signal recognition and synthesis,
including combinations of speech (emotional speech and
meaningful intonation for speech), text, graphics, music,
gesture, face and facial expression, and (embodied)
animated or anthropomorphic conversational agents.
* Multimodal Communication Management
Dialogue management models for mixed initiative
conversational and user-adaptive natural and multimodal
interaction, including models for collaboration and multi-
party conversation.
* Multimodal Miscommunication Management
Multimodal strategies for handling or preventing
miscommunication, in particular multimodal repair and
correction strategies, clarification strategies for
ambiguous or conflicting multimodal information, and
multimodal grounding and feedback strategies.
* Multimodal Interpretation and Response Planning
Interpretation and response planning on the basis of
multimodal dialogue context, including (context-semantic)
models for the common representation of multimodal
content, as well as innovative concepts/technologies on
the relation between multimodal interpretation and
generation.
* Reasoning in Intelligent Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Non-monotonic reasoning techniques required for
intelligent interaction in various types of multimodal
dialogue systems, including techniques needed for
multimodal input interpretation, for reasoning about the
user(s), and for the coordination and integration of
multimodal input and output.
* Choice and Coordination of Media and Modalities
Diagnostic tools and technologies for choosing the
appropriate media and input and output modalities for the
application and task under consideration, as well as
theories and technologies for natural and effective
multimodal response presentation.
* Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Schemes
Training corpora, testsuites and benchmarks for multimodal
dialogue systems, including corpus tools and schemes
for multilevel and multimodal coding and annotation.
* Architectures for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
New architectures for multimodal interpretation and
response planning, including issues of reusability and
portability, as well as architectures for the next
generation of multi-party conversational interfaces to
distributed information.
* Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Current practice and problematic issues in the
standardization of subjective and objective multimodal
evaluation metrics, including evaluation models allowing
for adequate task fulfilment measurements, comparative
judgements across different domain tasks, as well as
models showing how evaluation translates into targeted,
component-wise improvements of systems and aspects.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
Although the workshop has an open character implying that plenty of room
is available for the presentation of papers from researchers from all over
the world, the workshop will contain invited contributions from a group of
10 specially qualified researchers with a balanced composition of
workshop-relevant expertise. Part of the group is selected from the broad
CLASS community; part of them are internationally leading researchers from
outside CLASS. Invited contributors will also participate in the panel
session organized by the co-chairs of the workshop program committee.
SUBMISSION OF FULL AND SHORT PAPERS
In addition to papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the
submission of short papers in combination with a very short presentation
in the plenary session followed by a poster presentation. Full papers must
be no longer than 10 pages, including references, examples, algorithms,
graphical representations, etc. Short papers should be 4 pages maximally.
Full and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail address
classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no later than
31 March 2002.
Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html
Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format.
The title page should include the following information (no separate
title page is needed):
- Title
- Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
- Abstract (up to 15 lines)
- List of relevant keywords
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full and short papers: 31 March 2002
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2002
Final submissions: 31 May 2002
Workshop: 28-29 June 2002
WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
Full papers and short papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.
In addition to the group of invited contributors, authors of a selected
number of papers accepted for the workshop proceedings will be asked to
send in an extended and updated version of their paper for publication in
a book to be published by an international leading publisher (details will
be given in the next Call for Papers). In order to guarantee full
coherence of the book, we might invite some workshop-external researchers
to contribute a chapter to the book as well.
PANEL SESSIONS
In addition to the presentation of full and short papers in the plenary
session, we will organize the following panel discussion on the main theme
of the workshop:
Natural Multimodal Interaction: Current Practice and
Future Research
Members of this panel session will be invited contributors. Panellists
will be asked to send in a short position abstract before the workshop.
After the workshop, a written summary of this panel session will be
available at the CLASS sub-website on Natural and Multimodal Interactivity
(http://www.class-tech.org/nmi/) We intend to make available a video or
audio recording as well.
Further, we strongly encourage proposals for a second panel session
related to the main topic of the workshop or some special subtopic. The
deadline for panel session proposals is 30 April 2002. Proposals can also
be sent to the workshop e-mail address
(classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de) and should contain the following
information:
- title of the proposed panel session
- a brief description of the suggested topic of the panel
session, including an explanation of why this topic is
relevant for the field
- a list of suggested panellists
Questions on panel session proposals may be directed to
the chairs of the workshop program committee at
classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs
Niels Ole Bernsen (NISLab, Odense University)
Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart)
Reviewers (not yet all confirmed)
* James Allen (University of Rochester)
* Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
* Louis Boves (Nijmegen University)
* Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab)
* Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute)
* John Dowding (RIACS)
* Laila Dybkjaer (NISLab, Odense University)
* Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm)
* Dominic Massaro (UCSC)
* Roger Moore (20/20 Speech Ltd., UK)
* Catherine Pelachaud (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
* Thomas Rist (DFKI)
* Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA)
* Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
* William Swartout (ICT, USC)
* Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST)
* Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI)
* Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjaer, Jan van Kuppevelt.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about submission
and review process: Jan van Kuppevelt
<kuppevelt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Questions about local issues: Laila Dybkjaer
<laila at nis.sdu.dk>
Miscellaneous: Niels Ole Bernsen
<nob at nis.sdu.dk>
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:41:37 +0100
From: Brigitte Krenn <brigitte at ai.univie.ac.at>
Subject: cfp: Computational Approaches to Collocations
** 2nd Call for Papers**
International Workshop on
"Computational Approaches to Collocations"
22., 23. July 2002
Vienna, Austria
**********
SUBMISSION DEADLINE 25. FEB. 2002
**********
Chair:
Brigitte Krenn (ÖFAI, Vienna)
Organising Committee:
Brigitte Krenn (ÖFAI, Vienna),
Geoffrey Willians (Université de Bretagne Sud, France),
Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
Workshop description:
"Computational Approaches to Collocations" will be a two day workshop
with paper presentations and special topic sessions. The scope of the
workshop will cover computational models and strategies for
collocation identification and their use in computational linguistic
applications. For more information see
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/colloc02/index.html
The workshop is intended to complement the EURALEX Workshop on
"Lexicographic applications of computational approaches to
collocations: Restricted collocations in dictionaries" chaired by
Geoffrey Williams and Ulrich Heid (see
http://www.cst.dk/elx2002/workshop/index.html)
Papers are invited on all computational aspects of identifying and
processing lexical collocations, including, but not limited to:
statistics-based and hybrid methods on collocation identification, the
development and testing of association measures, the discussion of
significance versus relevance of identification results, the
application of collocations in information extraction, in machine
translation, in the development of lexical resources, in the
evaluation of smoothing methods, etc.
Format of submissions:
(*) Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
(*) Use 12pt, two column style, set margins so that the text lies
within a rectangle of approx. 16.5 x 23cm (6.5 x 9 inches).
(*) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred.
(*) Electronic format: documents should be sent in PDF format
(*) Hardcopy submission (if electronic submission is not possible):
send four (4) copies to the contact addresse indicated below.
(*) Submissions should be send to colloc02 at oefai.at.
Important Dates:
(*) 25th February, 2002: Deadline for submitted papers.
(*) 8th April, 2002: Notification of acceptance.
(*) 6th May, 2002: Camera ready copy.
(*) 22nd, 23rd July, 2002: Workshop.
Contact:
Brigitte Krenn
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
Schottengasse 3
1010 Vienna, Austria
email: colloc02 at oefai.at
Programme Committee:
Beatrice Daille (France)
Gregor Erbach (Germany)
Stefan Evert (Germany)
Thierry Fontenelle (USA)
Patrick Hanks (UK)
Ulrich Heid (Germany)
Adam Kilgarriff (UK)
Brigitte Krenn (Austria)
Anke Lüdeling (Germany)
Christopher Manning (USA)
Ted Pedersen (USA)
Patrick Schone (USA)
Dan Tufis (Romania)
Eric Wehrli (Suisse)
Geoffrey Willians (France)
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