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CATALOG 04 (8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (July 2004)

Call for Participation
                   Call for Demos and Project Descriptions

                              Catalog '04

 EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

                           Universitat Pompeu Fabra
                            July 19-21 2004

                    http://www.upf.edu/catalog04

                           
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Catalog 2004 will be the eighth 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.

The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation:

      *Robin Cooper (G?teborgs Universitet) 
=09*Massimo Poesio (University of Essex) 
      *Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)  
      *Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester) 

For the program, see the Catalog '04 website.


REGISTRATION

The registration process has started, see the Catalog 04 website. Note
that the early registration deadline with a reduced fee is June 30
2004.


DEMOS AND PROJECT NOTES

We invite abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual
projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit a two page abstract including names,
affiliation, address, and e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted
electronically (in postscript, pdf, html or ascii) to: catalog04@upf.edu.
Submissions have to be in English, which is the workshop language.

Selection will be made on the basis of relevance to the workshop. The
accepted abstracts will be made available on the workshop website and 
will get time/space for presentation  during the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Demo and project abstracts due: June 15 2004
Acceptance notice: June 21 2004
Early registration deadline: June 30 2004
*********Final version due: June 30 2004*************
Workshop dates: July 19-21 2004

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair),
Anton Benz (Syddansk Universitet), Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh), 
Justine Cassell (Northwestern University), Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford
), Robin Cooper (G?teborgs Universitet), Paul Dekker(University of Amster
dam),Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria), Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow), Pa
t Healey (Queen Mary, University of London), Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, (Univ
ersit?t des Saarlandes), Staffan Larsson (G?teborgs Universitet), Colin
 Matheson (University of Edinburgh), David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge
), Massimo Poesio (University of Essex), Hannes Rieser (Universit?t Biele
feld), David Traum (University of Southern California)

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Rambla building) 
in the center of Barcelona.

ENDORSEMENT:

The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL http://www.sigsem.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

More information on the conference is being posted on the workshop's Webpag
e at http://www.upf-edu/catalog04. For further information you can also mai
l to catalog04@upf.edu.

Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )

MunDial'97 (Munich)
 (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
 (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
 (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/ )
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
 (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog)
Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld)
 (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG)
EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh)
 (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/)
DiaBruck'03 (Saarbruecken)
 (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/)