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IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>1st Announcement *** International CLASS Workshop *** on Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in Multimodal Dialogue Systems Copenhagen, Denmark 28-29 June 2002 Detailed and more up to date information may be found at the workshop webpage: http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html Invited Speakers/Contributors (not yet all confirmed): James Allen (University of Rochester), Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab), Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute), Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm), Dominic Massaro (UCSC), Roger Moore (20/20 Speech Ltd., UK), Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA), Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST), Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) GENERAL DESCRIPTION Following up on the CLASS workshop in Verona (Italy, 14-15 December 2001), this workshop will concentrate on innovative and challenging approaches on natural, intelligent and effective interaction in multimodal dialogue systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together theoretically and practically oriented researchers from both academia and industry with the purpose of having a thorough, fruitful and representative discussion of the topic area in an international setting. CLASS SPONSORSHIP The workshop is sponsored by the European CLASS project (http://www.class-tech.org/) which was initiated on the request of the European Commission with the purpose of supporting and stimulating collaboration within and among Human Language Technology (HLT) projects, as well as between HLT projects and relevant projects outside Europe. Currently, CLASS comprises 42 projects and 220 registered members. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical research on multimodal dialogue systems. The focus of the workshop is on natural, intelligent and effective multimodal interaction. Topics of interest include: * Multimodal Signal Processing Models for multimodal signal recognition and synthesis, including combinations of speech (emotional speech and meaningful intonation for speech), text, graphics, music, gesture, face and facial expression, and (embodied) animated or anthropomorphic conversational agents. * Multimodal Communication Management Dialogue management models for mixed initiative conversational and user-adaptive natural and multimodal interaction, including models for collaboration and multi- party conversation. * Multimodal Miscommunication Management Multimodal strategies for handling or preventing miscommunication, in particular multimodal repair and correction strategies, clarification strategies for ambiguous or conflicting multimodal information, and multimodal grounding and feedback strategies. * Multimodal Interpretation and Response Planning Interpretation and response planning on the basis of multimodal dialogue context, including (context-semantic) models for the common representation of multimodal content, as well as innovative concepts/technologies on the relation between multimodal interpretation and generation. * Reasoning in Intelligent Multimodal Dialogue Systems Non-monotonic reasoning techniques required for intelligent interaction in various types of multimodal dialogue systems, including techniques needed for multimodal input interpretation, for reasoning about the user(s), and for the coordination and integration of multimodal input and output. * Choice and Coordination of Media and Modalities Diagnostic tools and technologies for choosing the appropriate media and input and output modalities for the application and task under consideration, as well as theories and technologies for natural and effective multimodal response presentation. * Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Schemes Training corpora, testsuites and benchmarks for multimodal dialogue systems, including corpus tools and schemes for multilevel and multimodal coding and annotation. * Architectures for Multimodal Dialogue Systems New architectures for multimodal interpretation and response planning, including issues of reusability and portability, as well as architectures for the next generation of multi-party conversational interfaces to distributed information. * Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems Current practice and problematic issues in the standardization of subjective and objective multimodal evaluation metrics, including evaluation models allowing for adequate task fulfilment measurements, comparative judgements across different domain tasks, as well as models showing how evaluation translates into targeted, component-wise improvements of systems and aspects. WORKSHOP FORMAT Although the workshop has an open character implying that plenty of room is available for the presentation of papers from researchers from all over the world, the workshop will contain invited contributions from a group of 10 specially qualified researchers with a balanced composition of workshop-relevant expertise. Part of the group is selected from the broad CLASS community; part of them are internationally leading researchers from outside CLASS. Invited contributors will also participate in the panel session organized by the co-chairs of the workshop program committee. SUBMISSION OF FULL AND SHORT PAPERS In addition to papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the submission of short papers in combination with a very short presentation in the plenary session followed by a poster presentation. Full papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including references, examples, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. Short papers should be 4 pages maximally. 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ai.univie.ac.at>** 2nd Call for Papers** International Workshop on "Computational Approaches to Collocations" 22., 23. July 2002 Vienna, Austria ********** SUBMISSION DEADLINE 25. FEB. 2002 ********** Chair: Brigitte Krenn (�FAI, Vienna) Organising Committee: Brigitte Krenn (�FAI, Vienna), Geoffrey Willians (Universit� de Bretagne Sud, France), Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart, Germany) Workshop description: "Computational Approaches to Collocations" will be a two day workshop with paper presentations and special topic sessions. The scope of the workshop will cover computational models and strategies for collocation identification and their use in computational linguistic applications. For more information see http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/colloc02/index.html The workshop is intended to complement the EURALEX Workshop on "Lexicographic applications of computational approaches to collocations: Restricted collocations in dictionaries" chaired by Geoffrey Williams and Ulrich Heid (see http://www.cst.dk/elx2002/workshop/index.html) Papers are invited on all computational aspects of identifying and processing lexical collocations, including, but not limited to: statistics-based and hybrid methods on collocation identification, the development and testing of association measures, the discussion of significance versus relevance of identification results, the application of collocations in information extraction, in machine translation, in the development of lexical resources, in the evaluation of smoothing methods, etc. Format of submissions: (*) Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. (*) Use 12pt, two column style, set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of approx. 16.5 x 23cm (6.5 x 9 inches). (*) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. (*) Electronic format: documents should be sent in PDF format (*) Hardcopy submission (if electronic submission is not possible): send four (4) copies to the contact addresse indicated below. (*) Submissions should be send to colloc02Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue