17.1558, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Malaga, Spain

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Subject: 17.1558, Confs: Discourse Analysis/Malaga, Spain

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Date: 19-May-2006
From: Paul Piwek < p.piwek at open.ac.uk >
Subject: ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue 

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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:37:59
From: Paul Piwek < p.piwek at open.ac.uk >
Subject: ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue 

ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue 

Date: 07-Aug-2006 - 11-Aug-2006 
Location: Malaga, Spain 
Contact: Paul Piwek 
Contact Email: mcs_coherence_workshop at open.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01rk/esslli2006.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Meeting Description: 

This workshop aims to compare and contrast different ways of
  modelling coherence in natural language generation and dialogue
  in order to guide decisions such as:

  - what is an appropriate response at a given point in a dialogue?
  - what is the optimal ordering of propositions in a discourse?
  - how should predicates, referring expressions and rhetorical 
    relations be realised (verbally and/or non-verbally) so that the
    resulting utterance can be interpreted naturally and fluently?

  The intention is to provide a forum for advanced PhD students
  and researchers to present and discuss their work with
  colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject
  areas represented at ESSLLI. 

Call for Participation

Workshop on ''Coherence in Generation and Dialogue''

   Endorsed by SIGDIAL (http://www.sigdial.org/)

             August 7th - 11th 2006
                Malaga, Spain

Organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic,
Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ 
31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Málaga

WORKSHOP PURPOSE

  This workshop aims to compare and contrast different ways of
  modelling coherence in natural language generation and dialogue
  in order to guide decisions such as:

  - what is an appropriate response at a given point in a dialogue?
  - what is the optimal ordering of propositions in a discourse?
  - how should predicates, referring expressions and rhetorical 
    relations be realised (verbally and/or non-verbally) so that the
    resulting utterance can be interpreted naturally and fluently?

  The intention is to provide a forum for advanced PhD students
  and researchers to present and discuss their work with
  colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject
  areas represented at ESSLLI.

WORKSHOP FORMAT

  The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
  participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions
  held over five consecutive days in the second week
  of ESSLLI.  There will be 2 slots for paper presentation
  and discussion per session. On the first day, the workshop
  organizers will give an introduction to the topic, followed
  by a talk by one of the invited speakers.

INVITED SPEAKERS

  Robbert Jan Beun, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, United States  

PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

  MONDAY August 7
  1. Introduction: Rodger Kibble, Paul Piwek 
     and Ielka Van der Sluis
  2. Invited Speaker: Robbert-Jan Beun
     A Simple Dialogue Game for the Generation of 
     Coherent Speech Act Sequences 

  TUESDAY August 8
  3. Paul Piwek
     Meaning and Dialogue Coherence
  4. Rodger Kibble
     Generating coherence relations via internal argumentation

  WEDNESDAY August 9
  5. Invited Speaker: Nicholas Asher
     Title TBA
  6. Andy Luecking, Hannes Rieser & Marc Staudacher 
     SDRT and multimodal situated communication

  THURSDAY August 10
  7. Nikiforos Karamanis
     Entity versus rhetorical coherence for information 
     ordering: initial experimentation
  8. Clara Mancini & Donia Scott
     Hyper-Document structure: Representing cognitive
     coherence in non-linear documents

  FRIDAY August 11
  9. Katja Filippova & Michael Strube
     Improving text fluency by reordering of constituents
10.  Discussion session

IMPORTANT DATES

  ESSLLI Early 
  registration deadline  :   May 21, 2006
  Workshop Dates         :   August 7 - 11, 2006

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

  All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI.
  See http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ for details.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

  Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK  

  Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK

  Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen, UK

  Email contact: mcs_coherence_workshop at open.ac.uk
  Substitute @ sign for at.

FURTHER INFORMATION

  About the workshop: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01rk/esslli2006.html
  About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/

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