14.104, Calls: Chicago Ling Society/Discourse&Dialogue
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Subject: 14.104, Calls: Chicago Ling Society/Discourse&Dialogue
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:34:43 -0600
From: ikimbara at uchicago.edu
Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society, IL USA
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:43:35 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Japan
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:34:43 -0600
From: ikimbara at uchicago.edu
Subject: Chicago Linguistic Society, IL USA
39th Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society
Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 24-Jan-2003
- CALL FOR PAPERS -
A version of this announcement and call for papers is also available at
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/
== The General Session ==
The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We
encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also
welcome papers onlanguage-related topics from disciplines such as
anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience, and
psychology.
Invited Speakers:
Maria Bittner, Rutgers University
Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Junko Ito, University of California at Santa Cruz Armin Mester, University of
California at Santa Cruz
Janet B. Pierrehumbert. Northwestern University
== The Parasessions ==
Body and Mind: Interaction between Motion, Space, and Thought This
panel invites topics that address the issue of how space and motion
are construed by language and other cognitive modalities. Abstracts in
syntax, psycholinguistics, anthropology, socio-linguistics, and sign
language research are welcome.
Invited Speakers:
David McNeill, University of Chicago
Leonard Talmy, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Quantitative Approaches to Theoretical Issues
Theoretical linguistics has traditionally relied upon subjective data
obtained with native speakers. This panel seeks to address issues of
theoretical import using quantitative, empirical methodologies for the
study of disciplines such as semantics, syntax, morphology, and
phonology.
Invited Speakers
Jeff Runner, University of Rochester
Kjell Sæbø, University of Oslo
Perspectives on Language Learnability
New work in theoretical linguistics often receives critique with
respect to its implications for learnability of language. This panel
will explore current issues in language learnability. We invite
proposals that address learnability in any sub-field(s) of
linguistics. We also strongly encourage work from a variety of
disciplines related to linguistics, particularly computer science,
cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology.
Invited Speakers:
Sean Fulop, University of Chicago
Bruce Tesar, Rutgers University
Submission Deadline: January 24, 2003. No exceptions.
This year, we have moved to a Web-based abstract submission system to
streamline the abstract submission process. We strongly encourage
using this submission system.
You can find specific instructions, guidelines for abstracts, a more
detailed time line, as well as a template and suggested style sheet at
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/StyleSheet.pdf
Please direct your questions to cls at diderot.uchicago.edu.
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:43:35 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Japan
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Announcement
4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Sapporo, July 5 and 6, 2003
(immediately preceding the 41st annual meeting of the ACL)
____________________________________________________________________________
Continuing with a series of successful workshops in Hong Kong, Aalborg
and Philadelphia, this workshop spans the ACL and ISCA SIGdial
interest area of discourse and dialogue. This series provides a
regular forum for the presentation of research in this area to both
the larger SIGdial community as well as researchers outside this
community. The workshop is organized by SIGdial, which is sponsored
jointly by ACL and ISCA.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementational and analytical work
on discourse and dialogue, with a focus on the following three themes:
(1) Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including
topics such as:
* Dialogue management models (specific sub-problems or general
modeling, in particular models for mixed initiative and
user-adaptive dialogue);
* Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration (for understanding
or generation);
* Context-based interpretation of dialogues and/or response planning,
in particular how this contributes to natural interaction;
* Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
(repair and correction types, clarification and under-specificity,
grounding and feedback strategies);
* Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation;
* Contrasts between task-driven and conversational dialogue.
(2) Corpora, Tools and Methodology
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;
* Annotation tools and coding schemes;
* Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies;
* Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
* Tools (XML-based and other) for dialogue system building;
* Evaluation of dialogue systems, including methodology, metrics and
case studies.
(3) 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 long papers for full
plenary presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations. Short
papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary
presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations.
* Long 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.
* Short papers and demo descriptions should aim to be 5 pages or less
(including title page, examples, references, etc.)
Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on
the web or otherwise. For example, excerpts of recorded conversations,
recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to working systems,
etc.
Both long papers and short papers should be sent electronically to the
e-mail address: sigdial2003 at cs.cmu.edu and must be received no later
than March 10th. The format to use for papers and abstracts is the
same (and is the 2003 ACL final paper format). Style files and
additional instructions are available at
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2003/templates/
Papers must be submitted in pdf format.
The title page (no separate title page is needed) should include the
following information:
Title:
Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses;
Keywords;
Abstract (short summary up to 5 lines);
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission March 10, 2003
Notification April 28, 2003
Final submissions May 23, 2003
Workshop July 5-6, 2003
WEBSITES
Workshop website: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2003/
Sigdial website: http://www.sigdial.org/
ACL website: http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/
WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and will
subsequently be available on the SIGdial web site.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University (co-chair), air at cs.cmu.edu
Syun Tutiya, Chiba University (co-chair), tutiya at chiba-u.ac.jp
Donna Byron (Ohio State University)
Phil Cohen (Oregon Health University/OGI)
Nils Dahlbeck (Linköpings universitet)
Yasuharu Den (Chiba University)
Joakim Gustafson (Telia)
Masato Ishizaki (JAIST)
Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR MIC)
Masahito Kawamori (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co.)
Andreas Kellner (Philips)
Ali Knott (Otago University)
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Universität des Saarlandes)
Tomoko Kumagai (National Institute for Japanese Language)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Oliver Lemon (Stanford University)
Wolfgang Minker (University of Ulm)
Mikio Nakano (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Co.)
Shrikanth Narayanan (USC)
Roberto Pieraccini (SpeechWorks Int.)
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh)
Alexandros Potamianos (Technical University of Crete)
Norbert Reithinger (DFKI)
Laurent Romary (LORIA)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University)
Candace L. Sidner (MERL)
Michael Strube (European Media Laboratory)
Jan Wiebe (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Bo Xu (Chinese Academy of Science)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Akira Kurematsu, University of Electro-Communications (general chair),
kure at apple.ee.uec.ac.jp
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, air at cs.cmu.edu
Syun Tutiya, Chiba University, tutiya at chiba-u.ac.jp
Laila Dybkjær, University of Southern Denmark, laila at nis.sdu.dk
David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, traum at ict.usc.edu
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