linguistlist.org>
Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>
lili59.lili.uni-bielefeld.de>Coordination and Action ======================= Workshop at ESSLLI XIII (Helsinki) August 20th - 24th, 2001 (http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~pkuehnle/HELSINKI) Background & Scope: =================== Coordination is at present one of the most powerful explanatory devices used in various cognitive sciences (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, logics, AI). The original impetus came from philosophy, especially from D. Lewis' work on coordination and convention (Lewis, 1969). Later on the concept gained considerable acceptance due to the work of the psychologist H. Clark and his collaborators (Clark (ed.), 1992; Clark, 1996) who investigated various problems of language use, such as reference and agents' information states. They showed that multi-agent dialogue is based on coordination and joint action, grounding and mutual belief. These concepts rapidly found their way into dialogue theories based on discourse analysis or speech act theory. A slightly different perspective on coordination can be found in theories using the notion of dialogue game (Levin and Moore, 1978; Mann, 1988; Carletta et al., 1997; Ginzburg, 1997; Power, 1979). Dialogue games are applied in a variety of research contexts, inter alia in the research initiatives VERBMOBIL (Germany) and TRINDI (UK, Germany, Sweden). The concept of dialogue games also stimulated reconstructions in more formal theories such as DRT (Lascarides & Asher, 1999; Poesio, 1998) or various forms of update semantics (Hulstijn, 2000). The notion of joint action received support from philosophy (e.g. Bratman (1992) on cooperativity, Searle (1990) on collective intention) and especially from the AI community working on shared plans in interaction (Grosz and collaborators, 1996). It was repeatedly taken up by logicians, especially those working on information states, mutuality or BDI-architectures (Fagin et al., 1995; Herzig and collaborators, 1999; Sadek, 1992). Research topics coming to the fore at present are coordination of information between different hierarchical levels of language and speech, a topic already discussed in H. Clark's work, and coordination of information coming from different channels (such as visual-gestural and verbal-auditory). Especially research with a multi-media objective contributed by linguistics, psychology and AI is of relevance in this context. The intention-based concept of coordination is also used in robotics and simulation work for agent-architectures combining high-level deliberative patterns with low-level reactive devices for which the well-known RoboCup setting provides a good example. Workshop format: ================ The workshop will be held on five subsequent days. Each session will consist of two talks plus discussion (30" + 15" each). The workshop language will be English. Submission guidelines: ====================== The organizers welcome contributions from different fields of Cognitive Science, especially from projects implementing interdisciplinary research strategies. Above all, masters students and PhD candidates are encouraged to submit contributions. For the abstracts, LaTeX, DVI, PostScript, Word, and PDF documents will be accepted. Please, send abstracts until Feb., 28th 2001 to pkuehnleMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
hotmail.com>CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION The 10th Annual Postgraduate Linguistics Conference University of Manchester, UK March 31, 2001 The Tenth Postgraduate Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Manchester on March 31, 2001. The conference is organised by postgraduates and is aimed to present the research done by postgraduates. The organizers welcome graduate student papers on all areas of linguistics. The length of the presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the PLUM (Papers in Linguistics form the University of Manchester) series. More detailed information will be available on the conference web site. The conference web site: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/PGConference/10.htm The guidelines for abstract submission will be available on the conference web site. DATES: Deadline for abstracts: February 9, 2001 Early registration fee (until March 3): �6 On site registration: �9 The main organizer: Ali Ellafi (ali.s.ellafiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue