LINGUIST List 10.1766

Sun Nov 21 1999

Calls: Semantics/Pragmatics, Computational Ling

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Massimo Poesio, Semantics/Pragmatics-Gotalog 2000
2. Khalid CHOUKRI, Computational Ling: LREC 2000 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

 Second Call for Papers


 GOTALOG 2000

 FOURTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

 Gothenburg University, Sweden
	 June 15-17 2000

 http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/

Gotalog 2000 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that aim
at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence,
formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, and
psychology. 

We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- common ground in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogues
- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models
- reference in dialogues
- dialogue and discourse structure
- reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5
single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10'
discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors'
names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should
be submitted electronically (in postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
format) to: gotalogcogsci.ed.ac.uk.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: February 15th
Acceptance notice: April 15th
Final version due: May 22
Conference: June 15-17th

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Jens Allwood (Gothenburg)
Herbert Clark (Stanford)
Paul Dekker (Amsterdam)
Ronnie Smith (East Carolina)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Program chairs are Massimo Poesio (U Edinburgh, UK) and David Traum (U
Maryland, USA); the other members of the program committee are Cecile
Balkanski (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Johan Bos (U Saarlandes, Germany),
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College London, UK), Masato Ishizaki (JAIST,
Japan), Gerhard Jaeger (ZAS Berlin, Germany), Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR,
Japan), Jan van Kuppevelt (IMS Stuttgart, Germany), Ian Lewin (SRI,
UK), Diane Litman (AT&T, USA), Johanna Moore (U Edinburgh, UK), Hannes
Rieser (U Bielefeld, Germany), David Sadek (CNET, France), Len
Schubert (U Rochester, USA), and Henk Zeevat (U Amsterdam,
Netherlands).

ORGANIZATION:

This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the
EU-sponsored project TRINDI
(http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/). The workshop will
take place at Gothenburg University. The local conference chair is
Robin Cooper.

The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL, the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Discourse and
Dialogue.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Information about Gothenburg University Department of Linguistics: 
http://www.ling.gu.se/ 

Information about Gothenburg: http://centralen.gp.se/tourist/

News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ 

Send questions by email to gotalogcogsci.ed.ac.uk or
trindiling.gu.se for questions about local arrangements.

Previous workshops in this series include:

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://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/

EXTENDED DEADLINE LREC'2000

Please note that, due to the number of requests, the submission deadline
(abstracts for papers, posters or demos; proposals for panels or workshops) 
for the
2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) ;
to be held in ATHENS, GREECE, 31 MAY- 2 JUNE 2000
has been postponed until Saturday 27 November 1999 (instead of Saturday 
20 November 1999).

All detailed submission information can be found at:

http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html

New Calendar of IMPORTANT DATES


 Submission of proposals
 for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops 
: 27 NOVEMBER 1999

 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10 
DECEMBER 1999
 Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos: 2 
FEBRUARY 2000
 Final version of the articles for the proceedings: 2 APRIL 2000
 CONFERENCE DATES: 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000

Best regards

Khalid CHOUKRI
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