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hotmail.com>Call for Papers on Rajasthani Language Research papers (2000 words) are invited on Rajasthani language, its dialects (Bagri, Shekhawati, Mewati, Marwari, Dhundhari, Harauti, Mewari, and Wagri) and other issues concerning its linguistics, literature, culture, music, history, social status, constitutional ramifications, documentation, teaching, relation with other languages, suprasegmental features (particularly tone system) communication, business, endangerment, folklore, popular culture, medieval history, assessment, humor, slang, and its use in actual social settings. Research paper having the above said information should be sent as an attachment file (in MS Word only) no later than March 31st 2003 to: gp010Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>HLT-NAACL / NSF WORKSHOP Research Directions in Dialogue Processing May 31st - June 1st, 2003 Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA Researchers and product engineers have begun to develop increasingly sophisticated dialogue capabilities for spoken language systems. Their experience is rapidly creating information and artifacts which in turn are attracting increasing interest on the part of researchers from a variety of disciplines. One reason for this ferment is that groups who traditionally have had little opportunity to interact with each other, linguists, computational linguists, speech scientists and engineers, each approaching dialog from different perspectives, have begun to interact on a technical level. In part this is due to the emergence of working technologies, such as recognition systems and speech synthesizers, that for the first time allow researchers not directly familiar with the implementation of component technologies to put together systems that converse (however simply) with humans. As a result, groups with very different traditions now find themselves working on phenomena that are nominally the same. These researchers are concerned about making use of linguistically motivated dialogue models, the need for well-engineered, practical interfaces for use with everyday users, and the availability of corpora that can steer new research in this area for both computational linguists and engineers. These shared concerns present an opportunity to encourage cross-fertilization and to transform the study of dialog into a richer and more energetic enterprise. In turn, such a transformation will increase our scientific understanding of dialog and will hasten the creation of techniques and artifacts that significantly impact human-computer communication. The purpose of this workshop is identify common research concerns and to identify paradigms, tools, corpora, evaluation techniques and other infrastructure that will promote the scientific study of dialogue. Submission of Position Papers Contributions are invited from active practitioners in the field of dialog processing and can address one of the following topics: * acquisition and decoding of signals * multi-modal integration * language understanding * dialog management * pragmatics * output planning * language generation * rendering through speech and other modes Each position paper may address one or more of the following issues: * identify successful research paradigms * identify accepted or emerging evaluation techniques * identify corpora, both available and desired, that will drive research In addition, all papers should discuss methods of sharing resources (such as tools and corpora) across communities, for example though the adoption or development of standards and through design for reusability. Submissions Position papers should be no longer than 3 pages and should follow the HLT/NAACL style (see http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html). Note that authors should identify themselves (in contrast to the instructions for HLT/NAACL papers). To encourage a more productive workshop, the organizers may ask groups of several authors to combine their thoughts into a single presentation. Position papers should be submitted in electronic form (either pdf or postscript) to: dialogue2003Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue