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cogsci.ed.ac.uk>GOTALOG 2000 Fourth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Gothenburg University, Sweden June 15-17 2000 http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 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. This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the EU-sponsored project TRINDI (http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/), and will take place at Gothenburg University. It will include talks on a number of topics in the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including: - the semantics and pragmatics of anaphora - decision theory in pragmatics - information state update - dialogue games - the semantics and pragmatics of questions - spoken dialogue systems - turn-taking and grounding in dialogue as well as presentations by our four invited speakers: Jens Allwood (Gothenburg) Herbert Clark (Stanford) Paul Dekker (Amsterdam) Ronnie Smith (East Carolina) (See program below.) Information about participation and registration, an online registration form, and the program are available at http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ The workshop is endorsed by SIGDIAL, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Discourse and Dialogue. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary program: Day 1, Thursday June 15th 8:00 Registration, refreshments 9:00 Opening remarks SESSION ON FORMAL MODELLING OF PRAGMATIC ISSUES 9:10 INVITED TALK 1: PAUL DEKKER On Safe Updates by Means of Supported Assertions 10:10 Towards an analysis of dialogue acts and indirect speech acts in a BDI framework Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin, and Jacques Virbel 10:50 Coffee 11:10 Decision problems in pragmatics Rob van Rooy 11:50 Communication and Cooperation among Agents Rossana Damiano & Guido Boella 12:30 Lunch SESSION ON REFERENCE 2:00 When is a union really an intersection? Problems resolving reference to locations in a dialogue system Donna Byron and Myroslava Dzikovska 2:40 Lifelong Discourse Representation Structure Gabor Alberti 3:20 Empirical Study of the Anaphoric Accessibility space in Spanish dialogues Patricio Martinez-Barco & Manuel Palomar 4:00 Coffee 4:20 The Meaning of `and' in a formal theory of discourse and dialogue Isabel Gomez Txurruka 5:00 INVITED TALK 2: OVERVIEW OF TRINDI PROJECT RESULTS 6:15pm-8:00 OPENING RECEPTION in Linguistics Dept, including Wine, snacks, and demos and posters - ------- Day 2, Friday June 16th 9:00 INVITED TALK 4: JENS ALLWOOD Parameters of dialog analysis 10:00 The Pragmatics of English Dialogues in the Chinese Context Zongxin Feng 10:40 Coffee SESSION ON QUESTIONS 11:00 Accomodating questions and the nature of QUD Robin Cooper, Elisabet Engdahl and Staffan Larsson 11:40 First-Order Inference and the Interpretation of Questions and Answers Johan Bos & Malte Gabsdil 12:20 Lunch SESSION ON DIALOGUE SYSTEMS 2:00 INVITED TALK 3: RONNIE SMITH Trying to Understand Misunderstanding: How Robust Can Spoken Natural Language Dialogue Systems Be? 3:00 Asynchronous Dialogue Management: Two Case-Studies Johan Boye, Beth Ann Hockey, Manny Rayner 3:40 Design Constraints and Representation for Dialogue Management in the Automatic Telephone Operator Scenario Jose Quesada, J. Gabriel Amores, Gabriela Fernandez, Jose` A. Bernal, M. Teresa Lopez 4:20 Coffee SESSION ON DIALOGUE GAMES 4:40 Dialogue Games are Recipes for Joint Action Joris Hulstijn 5:20 A formal model of Conversational Game Theory Ian Lewin 6:00 Obligations, Intentions, and the Notion of Conversational Games Jorn Kreutel and Colin Matheson 6:40 BANQUET - on a boat in G'burg harbour - ------- Day 3, Saturday June 17th 9:00 Processes of collaboration and communication in desktop videoconferencing: do they differ from face-to-face interactions? Alison Newlands, Anne Anderson, Jim Mullin and Anne-Marie Fleming 9:40 Multi-speaker utterances and coordination in task-oriented dialogue Hannes Rieser and Kristina Skuplik 10:20 Coffee SESSION ON WIZARD OF OZ STUDIES 10:40 Modality Convergence in a Multimodal Dialogue System Linda Bell, Johan Boye , Joakim Gustafson and Mats Wiren 11:20 What is a Situation? Kerstin Fischer 12:00 Lunch 1:30 POSTER/DEMO SESSION #2 2:40 INVITED TALK 5: HERBERT CLARK Uptake and its role in conversation 3:40 Coffee MAPTASK AROUND THE WORLD 4:00 Accessibility, duration, and modelling the listener in spoken dialogue Ellen Bard 4:40 The nature of common ground units: an empirical analysis using MapTask dialogues Lesley Stirling, I Mushin, J Fletcher, and R. Wales 5:20 Overlaps and interruptions: Towards a hearer's model of turn taking Mika Enomoto and Syun Tutiya 6:00 FINAL REMARKS AND CLOSING DRINKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local Arrangements: The local organization chair is Robin Cooper. For questions about local arrangements, send email to trindiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue