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science.uva.nl>==================================================================== *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** Fourth workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-4 Nancy, France, 25-26 September 2003 http://www.loria.fr/~areces/ICoS-4 (Submission deadline: 30 June 2003) ==================================================================== ABOUT ICoS ---------- Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. ICoS-4 is intended to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. ICoS-4 will take place in Nancy, France, on 25-26 September 2003. It will be part of a special Nancy Inference Week: on the day before ICoS-4 (24 September) there will be a one day school on Description Logic and its applications in linguistics, and on the two days preceding that (22-23 September 2003) the third Method for Modalities (M4M-3) will be held. ICoS-4 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. IMPORTANT DATES - ------------- Submission Deadline: June 30, 2003. Notification: August 8, 2003. Final Versions: September 8, 2003. INVITED SPEAKERS - -------------- We anticipate having three invited talks at ICoS-4. The speakers will be announced shortly. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - --------------- James Allen Carlos Areces Peter Baumgartner Patrick Blackburn (co-chair) Johan Bos (co-chair) Harry Bunt Anne Copestake Dick Crouch Kees van Deemter Helen Gaylard Nissim Francez Shalom Lappin Alexander Koller Jeff Pelletier Ian Pratt-Hartmann Maarten de Rijke Michael Schiehlen Matthew Stone SUBMISSIONS - --------- We invite two kinds of submission: - Research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications (10 pages). - System descriptions (6 pages) focusing on actual implementations and explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. The systems described will be demonstrated at ICoS-4. Submission deadline: June 30, 2003. Notification: August 8, 2003. Submission is by email. Either Postscript or PDF files can be sent to: icos4Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
coli.uni-sb.de>- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 submissions on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: - models of common ground/mutual belief in communication - modelling agents' information states and how they get updated - multi-agent models and turn-taking - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - semantic interpretation in dialogues - reference in dialogues - dialogue and discourse structure - interpretation of questions and answers - nonlinguistic interaction in communication - natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - multimodal dialogue systems - dialogue management in practical implementations - categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora - designing and evaluating dialogue systems SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5 single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX, postscript, html, ascii, or pdf format) to: diabruckMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue