Appel: HCC

[Philippe Blache]

From: y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks)



			SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

       Apologies if you receive this from more than one source

             THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
             Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
                         12-14 July, 1999

The URL was given in an outdated form last time: it is:

 www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio99/

The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy,
took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from
industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for
the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question
only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer
demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that
were not being published or discussed.  The Workshops were highly
successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation
and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more
theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis.
The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted
excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998.

The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework
calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular
the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in
invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is
crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent
results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora,
and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora.

All details, including previous program, program committee,
accomodation and travel, details of registration (a form is
attached below for the convenience of some) are on the web site.
Hotels are in great demand at that time of year and intending
participants should book soon.

Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted):

Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, USA
Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia
Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK
Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE
Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA

Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer
conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be
sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to
the following timetable:

Deadline for submission: 15 April 1999
Notice of acceptance:    15 May   1999
Camera ready paper due:  15 June  1999

The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
havand SIGdial have endorsed the meeting and endorsement has
been sought from ELSNET.

Submissions and further enquiries to:
Yorick Wilks
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK

phone: (44) 114 282 5561
fax:   (44) 114 222 1810
email: yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk
www:   http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick

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