17.2129, Calls: Applied Ling/Computational Ling/USA; Syntax/Austria

Mon Jul 24 15:30:19 UTC 2006

LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2129. Mon Jul 24 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2129, Calls: Applied Ling/Computational Ling/USA; Syntax/Austria

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1)
Date: 24-Jul-2006
From: Matthias Denecke < matthias at opendialog.org >
Subject: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 

2)
Date: 15-Jul-2006
From: Judith Kainhofer < judith.kainhofer at sbg.ac.at >
Subject: Syntax Workshop at the 34th Austrian Linguistics Conference 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:25:31
From: Matthias Denecke < matthias at opendialog.org >
Subject: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 

Full Title: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems 
Short Title: YRRSDS 

Date: 16-Sep-2006 - 16-Sep-2006
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Matthias Denecke
Meeting Email: yrr-organizers06 at lists.csail.mit.edu
Web Site: http://www.yrrsds.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2006 

Meeting Description:

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop
designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in applied
spoken dialog systems research. The roundtable provides an open forum where
participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future
plans. The workshop is meant to foster creative thinking about current issues in
spoken dialog systems research, and help create a stronger international network
of young researchers working in the field.

This year, the workshop will be held on September 16th, 2006, in Pittsburgh, PA,
USA, as a satellite workshop to Interspeech 2006. 

YRR-2006: Deadline extended (http://www.yrrsds.org/)

New submission deadline: July 31, 2006

Workshop topic:

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is a satellite
workshop to the INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP in Pittsburgh. This workshop will bring
together students, post docs, and junior researchers from different countries,
different research institutions, and different disciplines who share an interest
in applied dialog systems research. It will provide a setting in which
participants can discuss their own research and work and obtain feedback from
others who are at a similar level and who are working on similar problems. The
discussions will have an eye toward: (1) solving the problems that participants
currently face in their work, (2) identifying issues that are likely to be
important in the coming years, and perhaps most importantly, (3) the event will
help to create a more permanent international network of young researchers
working in spoken dialog systems. We hope to continue the success of last year's
Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems: 
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dod/YRR/index.html).

Workshop format:

This workshop will be a full-day event consisting of multiple small-group
discussions of topics that will be chosen based on suggestions submitted by the
participants themselves. Potential roundtable discussion topics could include:

- Use and usefulness of user simulation: What are the best practices for
building and evaluating user simulations?
- Dialog and question answering: How can dialog research help with interactive
question answering?
- Multimodality: Today, spoken dialog systems are common in call centers, mobile
phone, and cars; but, multi-modal systems are much less widely deployed. Why is
this so? Can multimodal dialogue systems play a useful/fun role in
gaming/virtual reality?
- Para-linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena: How should dialog systems
account for and respond to affect (e.g., user frustration)?
- Bridging the gap: How can research on spoken dialog systems benefit from other
fields? What techniques from other fields (such as operations research,
ergonomics, data mining, or others) might be borrowed and extended to advanced
spoken dialog systems? What can linguistic theories and psycho-linguistic
research tell us?

After the small-group discussions, each of the groups will present a summary to
the rest of the participants. We hope that the discussion format will foster
creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialog systems research,
setting the stage for the co-located INTERSPEECH-2006.

Submission process:

We invite participation from students, post docs, and junior researchers who are
currently working in applied spoken dialog systems research. We also invite
participation from those who are working in related fields such as human
factors, speech recognition, artificial intelligence, or speech synthesis, as
applied to spoken dialog systems. Potential participants should submit a 2-page
position paper following the template provided on the webpage. The paper will
include a statement of research interests with a short overview of past, current
and future work. Furthermore a discussion on the following questions:

-What is the next killer application for spoken dialog systems?
-What sort of impact could that application have?
-What questions need to be answered before we can realize that application?

This discussion should be followed by an enumeration of three possible
discussion topics for the event itself. Finally, the authors are asked to
provide a short biographical sketch. Accepted papers will be collated and
distributed to participants in CD-ROM and/or paper format. We also plan to
publish the position papers and presentations from the workshop on the web,
subject to sponsor or publisher constraints.

Further information concerning the submission format is provided on the web-page.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis starting March 27th, 2006, until
the maximum number of participants for the workshop (45) is reached; or, until
the submission deadline (July 31st, 2006) is reached.

Important Dates:

Open for submissions: March 30th, 2006
Submissions deadline:  July 31st, 2006
Registrations begin: August 1st, 2006
Registration deadline: TBD
Workshop: September 16th, 2006

The YRR '06 Organizing Committee:
yrr-organizers06 at lists.csail.mit.edu

-Matthias Denecke
-Alex Gruenstein, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, USA
-Verena Rieser, International Post-Graduate College for Language Technology and
Cognitive Systems, Saarland University, Germany
-Mihai Rotaru, Computer Science Department, University of  Pittsburgh, USA
-Matt Stuttle, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, UK

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:25:38
From: Judith Kainhofer < judith.kainhofer at sbg.ac.at >
Subject: Syntax Workshop at the 34th Austrian Linguistics Conference 

Full Title: Syntax Workshop at the 34th Austrian Linguistics Conference 

Date: 08-Dec-2006 - 10-Dec-2006
Location: Klagenfurt, Austria 
Contact Person: Judith Kainhofer
Meeting Email: oelt2006syntax at gmx.at
Web Site: http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/spw/inhalt/270.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 06-Oct-2006 

Meeting Description:

A Syntax Workshop organised by Judith Kainhofer (Salzburg) and Antonia Rothmayr
(Wien) at the 34th Austrian Lingustics Conference (34. Oesterreichische
Linguistiktagung) 8-10 December, 2006, Klagenfurt, Austria. 

Einladung zum 'Syntax-Workshop'
im Rahmen der 34. Oesterreichischen Linguistiktagung
vom 8. bis 10. Dezember 2006
an der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Österreich.

Inhaltliche Beschreibung:
Der Workshop umfasst alle Themen der generativen Grammatik, insbesondere Fragen
der (minimalistischen) Syntax sowie deren Schnittstelle zu Morphologie,
Phonologie und Semantik, die sowohl in theoretischer wie auch in empirischer
Hinsicht diskutiert werden koennen.

Betraege: 20 Minuten Vortrag, 10 Minuten Diskussion
Sprache: Deutsch, Englisch

Anmeldung:
Bekanntgabe des Vortragstitels mit kurzer Beschreibung (ca. 5-10 Saetze) bis
spaetestens 6. Oktober 2006 per Email an oelt2006syntax at gmx.at.

Achtung Registrierung:
Die Registrierung fuer die Konferenz muss unabhaengig von der Anmeldung zum
Workshop ueber die offizielle Tagungshomepage erfolgen:
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/spw/inhalt/270.htm.

Kontakt: oelt2006syntax at gmx.at,
Judith Kainhofer (Salzburg) und Antonia Rothmayr (Wien)

Anmeldefrist fuer Vortraege: 6. Oktober 2006

Tagung: 8.-10. Dezember 2006

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