LINGUIST List 12.1115

Mon Apr 23 2001

Calls: Discourse/Dialogue, ConSole X/Student Org

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Jan van Kuppevelt, Discourse and Dialogue - SIGDIAL 2001
2. Craenenbroeck, J. van, Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSole)

 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
 Aalborg, Denmark, September 1-2
 (Just before Eurospeech 2001-Scandinavia)

 CALL FOR PANEL DISCUSSION PROPOSALS

 Deadline for submissions: June 4, 2001.

In addition to regular paper and abstract submisions, the program
committee of the 2nd ACL SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
organizes the following two panel sessions for which they invite
proposals.

Panel Session I

Spoken Dialogue Systems: Theory that is Ready for Practice

For this panel session, we invite submissions that focus on ideas whose
theory, being of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, corpus-linguistic,
statistic and/or prosodic nature, has been studied in great detail and
that is ready or at least has a clear potential to be included in the next
advance of spoken dialogue systems. Submission format should follow the
same guidelines as plenary papers and should contain the following
content:

- - a synopsis of the idea with appropriate references;
- - a description of problem domains where an implemented system could
 make good use of the idea;
- - a description of how the idea's utility could be evaluated;
- - (optional) a description of necessary technologies;

Questions may be directed to Ronnie Smith/Jan van Kuppevelt
 <sigdial2001ims.uni-stuttgart.de>


Panel Session II

Discourse Structure and Conversational Implicatures

For this panel session, we invite submissions on operational models of
conversational implicatures which focus on their discourse-structural
status. Possible topics of interest for this panel discussion are: the
nature of conversational implicatures and their relation to
presuppositional inferences, discourse-structural (rhetorical,
referential, etc.) constraints on the generation and interpretation of
conversational implicatures, question-focus and (particularized vs.
generalized) conversational implicatures, conversational implicatures and
(underspecified vs. optimal) linguistic form, e.g. the form of referring
expressions, and conversational implicatures in the context of dynamic,
topic- or goal-related discourse processing. Submission format should
follow the same guidelines as plenary papers and should contain the
following content:

- - a synopsis of the operational model with appropriate
 references;
- - a description of main topics for the panel discussion;
- - a set of topic-related position statements;

Questions may be directed to Jan van Kuppevelt/Ronnie Smith
 <sigdial2001ims.uni-stuttgart.de>


Information on the SIGdial 2001 Workshop can be found at the workshop
webpage: http://www.sigdial.org/sigdialworkshop01

ConSole X
Call for Papers

The tenth meeting of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe
(ConSole) will be held at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, from
7 until 9 December 2001.

The invited speakers at this year's conference will be:
	-		Jonathan David Bobaljik (McGill University)
	-	John McCarthy (University of Massachusetts)
	-	Henriette de Swart (University of Utrecht)

SOLE aims at providing students of generative linguistics with a
possibility of gaining international experience and a publication forum of
their own. Furthermore, SOLE strives to enhance contacts and cooperation
between students of generative linguistics in Europe and around the world.

Papers are solicited from students in ALL fields of generative
linguistics, including but not limited to phonology, morphology,
semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, sign language, language acquisition and
syntax. We will aim for a balanced program

GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS:
Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data, references and
diagrams. Abstracts should be typed in at least 11-point font, with
one-inch margins (letter-size; 8"1/2 by 11" or A4). Abstracts must be
anonymous. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract
per author. 

We strongly encourage electronic submissions. Send name, affiliation,
e-mail, mailing address, and title of the paper in the body of the
message. The anonymous abstract should be sent as an attachment in one of
the following formats: pdf, rtf, postscript, Microsoft Word (2000 or
earlier), or plain text. For any unusual fonts, please attach the font
file (Macintosh only). 

Postal submissions must include 5 copies of an anonymous abstract and 
an index card (3'' by 5'') including the author, title, and contact
information as above. Submissions by fax will not be accepted.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 
	August 1, 2001

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 
	September, 2001

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: 
	consolexlet.leidenuniv.nl <mailto:consolexlet.leidenuniv.nl>

POSTAL SUBMISSIONS: 
	ConSole X - abstracts
	ULCL 
	Vakgroep ATW 
	P.O. Box 9515 
	2300 RA Leiden
	The Netherlands

Electronic submissions will receive an email confirmation by August 15. If
you do not receive confirmation by this date, please contact the
organisers. 
 
Questions regarding submissions and the conference in general can be
addressed to the local organisers at the following e-mail address or fax
numbers:

		E-mail:	j.van.craenenbroecklet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:j.van.craenenbroecklet.leidenuniv.nl>	
		Fax: 	+31-71 527 2125 or +31-71 527 2615

Information regarding the conference will soon be available on the
following website:

		http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/sole/consolex/


Local organisers: 				

Jeroen van Craenenbroeck j.van.craenenbroecklet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:j.van.craenenbroecklet.leidenuniv.nl>	
Ineke van der Meulen a.c.van.der.meulenlet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:a.c.van.der.meulenlet.leidenuniv.nl>		
Marina Tzakosta m.tzakostalet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:m.tzakostalet.leidenuniv.nl>					

SOLE board:

Marjo van Koppen j.m.van.koppenlet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:j.m.van.koppenlet.leidenuniv.nl>
Erik Jan van der Torre e.j.van.der.torrelet.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:e.j.van.der.torrelet.leidenuniv.nl>
Malte Zimmermann maltehum.uva.nl <mailto:maltehum.uva.nl>