17.506, Confs: Computational Ling/Delmenhorst, Germany

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Subject: 17.506, Confs: Computational Ling/Delmenhorst, Germany

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Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Kerstin Fischer < kerstinf at uni-bremen.de >
Subject: Workshop on How People Talk to Computers, Robots, and other Artificial Communication Partners 

	
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:02:24
From: Kerstin Fischer < kerstinf at uni-bremen.de >
Subject: Workshop on How People Talk to Computers, Robots, and other Artificial Communication Partners 
 



Workshop on How People Talk to Computers, Robots, and other Artificial Communication Partners 

Date: 21-Apr-2006 - 23-Apr-2006 
Location: Delmenhorst (Bremen), Germany 
Contact: Kerstin Fischer 
Contact Email: kerstinf at uni-bremen.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/HRIworkshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

The aim of this workshop is to collect research on different ways of communicating with artificial communication partners, such as dialogue systems, speech-processing robots, and artificial conversational agents, and to get an overview of which kinds of speech and language speakers really address to such systems and why. We are interested in empirical results on different types of users, different conversational styles, and the effect of situational variables on the speech and language produced by human users. Reference points may be human-to-human communication or different settings in which particular ways of talking emerge. Interesting would also be to see different ways of adapting to such different conversational styles, including phonetic/prosodic peculiarities, as well as emotional properties of speech, lexical and syntactic choices, and different discourse behaviours. 

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from linguistics, psychology, and computer science for the joint development of a catalogue of research desiderata, the formulation of concrete research questions and the definition of different research positions focussing on how people talk to artificial communication partners.

New Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: February 25th, 2006
Notification of Acceptance/Rejectance: March 6th, 2006

Further details can be found at:
http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/HRIworkshop/

Contact:
Kerstin Fischer kerstinf at uni-bremen.de
Anton Batliner batliner at informatik.uni-erlangen.de





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