LINGUIST List 14.1684

Fri Jun 13 2003

Calls: Semantics/Pragmatics/Germany

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. diabruck, DiaBruck 2003

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 Call for Demos and Project Descriptions

 DiaBruck 2003

 SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)

 Saarland University
 Sept 4th-6th 2003

 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/

 Endorsed by SIGSEM
 http://www.sigsem.org/
 the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics

 Endorsed by SIGdial
 http://www.sigdial.org/
 the ACL Special interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue

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DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh 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.

We invite abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual
projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues.


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit a two page abstract including names,
affiliation, address, and e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted
electronically (in postscript, pdf, html or ascii) via the DiaBruck
website http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ (under "Submission
information"). Submissions have to be in English, which is the
workshop language.

Selection will be made on the basis of relevance to the workshop. The
accepted abstracts will be published in the workshop proceedings and
will get space for presenting posters during the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Demo and project abstracts due: July 11 2003
Acceptance notice: July 20 2003
Final version due: August 4 2003
Workshop dates: September 4-6 2003

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair), Anton Benz, Barbara Di Eugenio,
Bonnie Webber, Colin Matheson, David Traum, Hannes Rieser, Henk
Zeevat, Jan Alexandersson, Jonathan Ginzburg, Johan Bos, Manfred
Pinkal, Mary McGee Wood, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube, Robin Cooper,
Stina Ericsson

ORGANIZATION:

The workshop will take place in Hotel Scheidberg in Wallerfangen,
about half an hour away from Saarbruecken.

The local organizers are Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Bettina Klingner and
Claudia Kosny.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

News about the conference are being posted on the workshop's Web page
at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ For further information you can
also mail to diabruckcoli.uni-sb.de.

Information about Saarland: http://www.english.saarland.de/
Information about the Saarland University: http://www.uni-saarland.de/
Information about the conference location: http://www.hotel-scheidberg.de/

Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )

MunDial'97 (Munich)
 (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
 (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
 (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/ )
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
 (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog)
Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld)
 (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG)
EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh)
 (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/)