LINGUIST List 13.1980

Fri Jul 26 2002

Calls: Semantic&Pragmatic of Dialogue,Forms of Address

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1. edilog, EDILOG 2002: Call for Participation and Demonstrations
2. colloque2pbiparis.lon.ac.uk>, Conference call for papers: submission to linguist list

 Call for Participation and Demonstrations

 EDILOG 2002

 SIXTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

 The University of Edinburgh 
 Sept 4th-6th 2002

 ** Early registration deadline: Aug 9 **

 http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/


EDILOG 2002 will be the sixth in a series of workshops that aims to
bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics
and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.


INVITED SPEAKERS:

Susan Brennan (Stony Brook University)
Jan van Kuppevelt (IMS Stuttgart)
Stanley Peters (CSLI Stanford)
Manfred Pinkal (University of the Saarland)
Enric Vallduvi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 


ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Thomason, Stone: 
 "Context in Abductive Interpretation"
Kempson, Otsuka: 
 "Dialogue as Collaborative Tree Growth"
Schlangen, Lascarides: 
 "Resolving Fragments Using Discourse Information"
Padilha, Carletta: 
 "Simulating Small Group Discussion"
Taboada: 
 "Centering and Pronominal Reference: In Dialogue, In Spanish"
de Jager, Knott, Bayard: 
 "A DRT-based framework for presuppositions in dialogue management"
Buchwald, Schwartz, Seidl, Smolensky: 
 "Centering Theory as Recoverability in Bidirectional Optimality 
 Theory"
van Rooy: 
 "Relevance Only"
Mann: 
 "Dialogue Analysis for Diverse Situations"
O'Donovan-Anderson, Okamoto, Perlis: 
 "The Use-Mention Distinction and its Importance to HCI"
Tsovaltzi: 
 "Formalizing Hinting in Dialogue"
Kreutel: 
 "From Dialogue Acts to Dialogue Act Offers: Building Discourse 
 Structure as an Argumentative Process"
Piwek, van Deemter: 
 "Towards Automated Generation of Scripted Dialogue: Some 
 Time-Honoured Strategies"
L�ckelt, Becker, Pfleger, Alexandersson: 
 "Making Sense of Partial"
Krause: 
 "An algorithm for processing referential definite descriptions 
 in dialogue based on abductive inference"
Bard: 
 "Towards a psycholinguistics of dialogue: defining reaction 
 time and error rate in a dialogue corpus"
Lewin, Gorrell, Rayner: 
 "Measuring Linguistic Mastery for Spoken Dialogue Systems"
Kruijff-Korbayov�, Karagjosova, Larsson: 
 "Enhancing collaboration with conditional responses in 
 information-seeking dialogues"
Percus: 
 "Modeling the common ground: the relevance of copular questions"
Amores, Quesada: 
 "Cooperation and Collaboration in Natural Command Language 
 Dialogues"
Howarth, Anderson: 
 "Word duration and referential form in video-mediated and 
 face-to-face communication"
Grasso: 
 "Towards a Framework for Rhetorical Argumentation"
Cooper, Ginzburg: 
 "Using Dependent Record Types in Clarification Ellipsis"
Quesada, Amores: 
 "Knowledge-based Reference Resolution for Dialogue Management 
 in a Home Domain Environment"
Pease, Smaill: 
 "Semantic Negotiation: Modelling Ambiguity in Dialogue"


SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS:
 
We invite poster presentations of actual projects and software
demonstrations relevant to the topics of EDILOG. Authors should
submit a one page abstract including names, affiliation, address, and
e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in plain
text format) to ediloged.ac.uk with subject "Submission of
Demonstration" by August 5. Submissions have to be in English, which
is the workshop language, and will be selected on the basis of
relevance to the workshop.


ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place at The University of Edinburgh. The local
organizers are Johan Bos, Colin Matheson, and Margaret McMillan. Send
email to edilogcogsci.ed.ac.uk for questions about local
arrangements.


SPONSORS:

The British Academy (www.britac.ac.uk)
Siridus (www.ling.gu.se/projekt/siridus/)
The University of Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk/)

2nd Person Pronouns
and Forms of Address in European Languages

CALL FOR PAPERS

This colloquium, organised by the Forum of European Languages in
Paris, will take place in Paris from Thursday 6 to Saturday 8 March
2003.

The theme of the colloquium is second person pronouns and forms of
address ( "T" and "V" forms ) in the languages of Europe.

The colloquium aims to describe the present uses of 2nd person
pronouns and to analyse the developments which have occurred in the
course of the last century. Papers concerning earlier periods will
also be considered.

Papers should, in principle, be delivered in French. However, if a
speaker does not have a sufficiently good command of French, the use
of another language would also be possible, with the prior approval of
the Organising Committee.

Papers of 20 minutes will be followed by 10 minutes of
discussion. Possible subjects for papers include:

- geographical and sociolinguistic variations (involving one or more
languages or linguistic varieties, in a single country or in several
countries)

- the diachronic development of 2nd person pronouns and forms of
address (where this sheds light on contemporary usage)

- stylistic and discoursal variations (written/spoken differences,
usage in different types of text and media)

- problems linked to the translation and learning of foreign
languages.

Each of the 9 members of the Forum will invite a prominent academic to
make a plenary lecture concerning the languages of the Forum: Basque,
Catalan, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Italian,
Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Proposals for papers should include: the title of the paper; the name
and affiliation of the author(s); an abstract of 200=96250 words
(written in French and the language concerned); a postal address and
an email address. Proposals should be sent by email or traditional
mail to one of the following addresses:

Secretariat du colloque 2P
colloque2pbiparis.lon.ac.uk

or

Secretariat du colloque 2P
Instituto Cervantes
7, rue Quentin-Bauchart
75008 Paris, France

All proposals will be evaluated anonymously by the Review Committee.

A selection of the papers given at the colloquium, chosen by the
Review Committee, will be published in Franco-British Studies, the
academic journal of the British Institute in Paris (University of
London), provided that the complete text of the paper (in article
form) is submitted during the colloquium.

CALENDAR

31 October 2002: 	deadline for submitting proposals for papers
15 December 2002: 	notification of the acceptance of papers.

Enrolment fees: 40 euros for students and 60 euros for non-students.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

J. Amenos 	Cervantes Institute, Paris
M. Aubouy 	Camees Institute, Paris
F. Blanco 	Cervantes Institute, Paris
D. Davy 	British Institute in Paris
M. Pires 	British Institute in Paris
T. Puttemans 	University of Paris 4


The Forum of European Languages in Paris

The Forum, an association which was set up in Paris in 1997 and
recognised by the French Interior Ministry in 1999, consists of
cultural centres and institutes in Paris whose aim is to promote both
their own languages and plurilingualism in general. The Forum aims to
develop the general public's interest in European languages, to carry
out joint projects concerning foreign language learning and teaching
and to organise events such as colloquia and seminars.

The Forum's current nine full members and one associate member are the
Alliance Francaise, the British Institute in Paris (University of
London), the Camees Institute in Paris, the Centre for Italian
Language and Culture, the Cervantes Institute, the Dutch Institute,
the Finnish Cultural Centre, the Goethe Institute, the Swedish
Cultural Centre, and the British Council (associate member).