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dcs.shef.ac.uk>THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 3-5 July, 2000 Everything is on the website, including registration information on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc. The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due and that is only a few days away. Hotel accomodation should be booked as soon as possible. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted): Dr B. Alabiso, Microsoft, USA Dr J. Hutchens, UWA, Australia Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK Dr U. Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA Prof. D. Traum, U Maryland, USA 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 programs, program committee, accomodation and travel and details of registration are on the web site. 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: 8 April 2000 Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000 Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000 The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), SigDial and ELSNET have endorsed the meeting. Submissions and further enquiries to: hccwMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ny01.nytud.hu>Theoretical Linguistics Programme, Budapest University 7th International Symposium on Logic and Language The conference will be held in Tihany, Hungary (at the Balaton Lake), probably on September 7--9, 2000. Our Symposia on Logic and Language have aimed at promoting the interaction between formal linguists and logicians. The 7th Symposium will be organized by the Theoretical Linguistics Programme of the Lor�nd E�tv�s University of Budapest. The topic of the 7th Symposium is EVENTUALITIES. List of those invited speakers who already gave a semi-positive answer: Emmon Bach David Dowty Fred Landman Paul Portner Susan Rothstein Mark Steedman Ede Zimmermann Alessandro Zucchi Conference Information * Presentations. We plan 20-minute presentations followed by 10-minute discussions. The extended abstracts (see below) will be distributed to the participants in the beginning of the conference. * Abstracts. The deadline for submitting abstracts (about two pages, i.e., 4000 characters) is April 30 2000. The abstracts are to be submitted by e-mail, to the following address: kalmanMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue