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EDILOG 2002: Call for Participation and Demonstrations (fwd)

Call for Participation and Demonstrations

                            EDILOG 2002

        SIXTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

                      The University of Edinburgh 
                           Sept 4th-6th 2002

               ** Early registration deadline: Aug 9 **

                   http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/


EDILOG 2002 will be the sixth in a series of workshops that aims to
bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics
and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.


INVITED SPEAKERS:

Susan Brennan (Stony Brook University)
Jan van Kuppevelt (IMS Stuttgart)
Stanley Peters (CSLI Stanford)
Manfred Pinkal (University of the Saarland)
Enric Vallduvi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 


ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Thomason, Stone: 
 "Context in Abductive Interpretation"
Kempson, Otsuka:  
 "Dialogue as Collaborative Tree Growth"
Schlangen, Lascarides: 
 "Resolving Fragments Using Discourse Information"
Padilha, Carletta: 
 "Simulating Small Group Discussion"
Taboada: 
 "Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish"
de Jager, Knott, Bayard: 
 "A DRT-based framework for presuppositions in dialogue management"
Buchwald, Schwartz, Seidl, Smolensky: 
 "Centering Theory as Recoverability in Bidirectional Optimality 
  Theory"
van Rooy: 
 "Relevance Only"
Mann: 
 "Dialogue Analysis for Diverse Situations"
O'Donovan-Anderson, Okamoto, Perlis: 
 "The Use-Mention Distinction and its Importance to HCI"
Tsovaltzi: 
 "Formalizing Hinting in Dialogue"
Kreutel: 
 "From Dialogue Acts to Dialogue Act Offers: Building Discourse 
  Structure as an Argumentative Process"
Piwek, van Deemter: 
 "Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some 
  Time-Honoured Strategies"
L?ckelt, Becker, Pfleger, Alexandersson: 
 "Making Sense of Partial"
Krause: 
 "An algorithm for processing referential definite descriptions 
  in dialogue based on abductive inference"
Bard: 
 "Towards a psycholinguistics of dialogue: defining reaction 
  time and error rate in a dialogue corpus"
Lewin, Gorrell, Rayner: 
 "Measuring Linguistic Mastery for Spoken Dialogue Systems"
Kruijff-Korbayov?, Karagjosova, Larsson: 
 "Enhancing collaboration with conditional responses in 
  information-seeking dialogues"
Percus: 
 "Modeling the common ground: the relevance of copular questions"
Amores, Quesada: 
 "Cooperation and Collaboration in Natural Command Language 
  Dialogues"
Howarth, Anderson: 
 "Word duration and referential form in video-mediated and 
  face-to-face communication"
Grasso: 
 "Towards a Framework for Rhetorical Argumentation"
Cooper, Ginzburg: 
 "Using Dependent Record Types in Clarification Ellipsis"
Quesada, Amores: 
 "Knowledge-based Reference Resolution for Dialogue Management 
  in a Home Domain Environment"
Pease, Smaill: 
 "Semantic Negotiation: Modelling Ambiguity in Dialogue"

 
SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS:
 
We invite poster presentations of actual projects and software
demonstrations relevant to the topics of EDILOG.  Authors should
submit a one page abstract including names, affiliation, address, and
e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in plain
text format) to edilog@ed.ac.uk with subject "Submission of
Demonstration" by August 5.  Submissions have to be in English, which
is the workshop language, and will be selected on the basis of
relevance to the workshop.


ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at The University of Edinburgh. The local
organizers are Johan Bos, Colin Matheson, and Margaret McMillan.  Send
email to edilog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk for questions about local arrangements.


SPONSORS:

The British Academy (www.britac.ac.uk)
Siridus (www.ling.gu.se/projekt/siridus/)
The University of Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/)