[ln] Conf: FINEXIN 2005

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at site.uottawa.ca>
Message-Id: <200504291339.JAA13806 at kamla.csi.UOttawa.CA>
X-url: http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html


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                    Call for Participation
              (apologies for multiple postings)

        Workshop on the Analysis of Formal and Informal
              Information Exchange in Negotiations
                        FINEXIN 2005

                       May 26-27, 2005
                    University of Ottawa
                     Ottawa, ON, Canada

Please find detailed information about the technical program, invited
talks, registration and accommodation on the FINEXIN 2005 Web site:

        http://nebel.site.uottawa.ca/workshop/workshop.html

Program highlights
------------------

The workshop will last a day and a half. There will be papers on
sentiment and behaviour analysis as reflected in texts, and on the
analysis of formal information exchanged in negotiations.

Invited talks
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* May 26, 9 am. -- an opening address by Prof. Mel Shakun:
  "Information, Negotiation and Research in the GDN Community"

* May 26, 9:15 am. -- "Manual and Automatic Subjectivity Annotation"
       Prof. Janyce Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

* May 27, 9:15 am. -- "Preference structures and behavioural
                       consistency in negotiations"
       Prof. Rudolf Vetschera (University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)

Main topics
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There will be four sessions of technical presentations on the
following main topics.

1. Behaviour and sentiment analysis of informal communication
   in negotiations and in similar activities.

  - sentiment analysis,
  - detection of strategies in negotiations,
  - linguistic indicators of behaviour,
  - cultural influences in negotiations.

2. Analysis of formal offers in negotiations.

  - utility functions in negotiation support systems,
  - assessment of negotiation processes and outcomes based on
    utility functions.

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  Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor     www.site.uottawa.ca/~szpak
  SITE, Computer Science                   szpak at site.uottawa.ca
  University of Ottawa     +613-562-5800/6687, fax +613-562-5664


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