LINGUIST List 21.3116 Fri Jul 30 2010 Confs: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Computational Ling/Japan Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Raquel Fernandez, 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Message 1: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Date: 29-Jul-2010 From: Raquel Fernandez <raquel.fernandezuva.nl> Subject: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue E-mail this message to a friend 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Short Title: SIGDIAL 2010 Date: 24-Sep-2010 - 25-Sep-2010 Location: Tokyo, Japan Contact: Raquel Fernandez Contact Email: raquel.fernandezuva.nl Meeting URL: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics Meeting Description: SIGDIAL 2010 Conference 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue University of Tokyo, Japan, September 24-25, 2010 (just before Interspeech 2010) SIGDIAL 2010 Call for Participation SIGDIAL 2010 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11 -Registration Site is Now Open! -Early Registration Deadline: August 10 Call for Participation: The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful ten previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2010 will be co-located with Interspeech 2010 as a satellite event. Registration: Registration site can be accessed from the conference website. Early registration deadline is August 10. Invited Speakers: Marilyn Walker - Professor, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz: Dynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems Hiroshi Ishiguro - Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University: Understanding Humans by Building Androids Accepted Papers: The list is now available at the conference website. Important Dates: Early registration deadline: August 10, 2010 Late registration deadline: August 31, 2010 Conference: September 24-25, 2010 Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University - Hakodate) Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam) Oliver Lemon (Heriot Watt University) Local Chair: Kazunori Komatani (Nagoya University) Local Organizing Committee: Kohji Dohsaka (NTT Corporation) Shinya Fujie (Waseda University) Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT Corporation) Masato Ishizaki (University of Tokyo) Ikuyo Morimoto (Kwansei Gakuin University) SIGDIAL President: Tim Paek (Microsoft Research) SIGDIAL Vice President: Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs - Research) SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer: Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.