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dcs.shef.ac.uk>SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT 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ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 12-14 July, 1999 The URL was given in an outdated form last time: it is: www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio99/ The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place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: yorickMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uiuc.edu>XXXII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SINO-TIBETAN LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 28 - 31 October, 1999 First Circular and Call for Paper and Workshop Proposals I am pleased to announce that, after some unfortunate delay, we have arranged to the XXXII ICSTLL to be held at this university on the dates mentioned above. I know that this first notice comes to you all somewhat later than is customary, but I hope that, nevertheless, most or many of you will be able to attend, present papers and make this a good session. I ask you to submit proposals for papers on Sino-Tibetan, and also Tai-Kadai and Austroasiatic languages and linguistics; and I also request submissions of proposals for at least one workshop session on particular themes - we shall have time and space for only one or two, and one of them will be on the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Kuki-Chin languages of the Myanmar (Burma)-India borderlands (including Mizo-Lushai). Also at this time, We shall be able to invite one or two Keynote Speakers. The University of Illinois is readily accessible: the nearest major International Airports are in St. Louis and Chicago, and from there it is easy to get a flight directly to Champaign/University of Illinois Willard Airport. Access by bus from Chicago is also easy. We are currently in the process of arranging for blocks of hotel rooms to be reserved for all those attending, and it will be good is you let us know soon that you plan to attend, s that we can make certain that sufficient hotel space is available for you well in advance and at the most affordable rates. In a subsequent circular information will be available about accommodations and prices. There will be a conference banquet, on a pay-as-you go basis. Cost will be announced later. I am asking you all please to return your proposals to me for papers and your preliminary registration no later than April 1. I shall not require you to send your registration fees at this time, though earlier is better, but the schedule of fees will be: Before 1 September, 1999 After 1 September, 1999 Non-students US $ 70 $75 Students $ 60 65 As soon as I can put together list of persons planning to attend, I shall send out a Second Circular, with further particulars about the conference itself and about Registration procedures. I shall need Abstracts of proposed papers by 1 April so that I can begin to decide on what papers will be accepted and what conference sessions are to be scheduled. sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Anthropology, and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies Please return the this form, duly filled up, to me not later than 1 April. You can return it by e-mail to f-lehmanMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue