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cs.utwente.nl>Twendial'98 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology in the 2nd workshop on -- Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue -- May 13-15, 1998 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mundial'97 workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue was a success. Many interesting approaches and phenomena were discussed. Therefore we organize a follow-up. Again, the workshop aims at bringing together researchers from various backgrounds that apply formal methods to the study of dialogue phenomena. Contributions can for instance be based on DRT, situation theory, dynamic semantics, agent theories, database theory and game theory. In particular, we hope to bridge the widely recognized gap between theory and practice in the design of dialogue systems. Therefore we welcome both theoretical work as well as formal methods used in designing, building and testing applications of dialogue technology. Twendial'98 is organized by Joris Hulstijn and Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands). Invited Speakers * Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) * Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) * Steve Pulman (Cambridge SRI) * Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam) Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations (with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic related to formal semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * common ground in communication * modelling information of agents * inter-speaker reference * 'questions-under-discussion' * designing and evaluating dialogue models Please send two anonymous abstracts (no more than two A4 or 8 1/2" by 11" pages in a 12 pt proportional font, possibly with an additional page for figures and references) together with a separate page specifying author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail address, and title of the abstract. E-mail submissions of abstracts written in plain ASCII or LaTeX are welcome. The submission deadline will be February 1st (unlike in some earlier postings). Joris Hulstijn Computer Science, University of Twente PO BOX 217, 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands jorisMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.brandeis.edu>CONTENT VISUALIZATION AND INTERMEDIA REPRESENTATIONS (CVIR'98) (Co-Sponsored by ACL's SIGMEDIA) Preliminary Call for Papers WHEN: August 15, 1998 (immediately following COLING/ACL-98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: In the last few years, multimedia systems have become available which integrate text, graphics, sound (speech and non-speech audio), as well as animation. There are many different communities working on such systems (e.g., hypermedia, human-machine interaction, information retrieval, scientific visualization, content extraction, dialog tracking), each with distinct concerns and goals, and often the communities are not aware of each other's research and methods. This workshop aims to bring together these communities to examine the questions of the visual presentation of diverse content through multiple media. The major goal is to explore common intermedia representation languages which are expressive enough to cover diverse modalities yet suitably appropriate for the individual media. With increasing amounts of data, information, and knowledge available to the user, the effective use of visualization is increasingly important in applications. Examples include: visualization of data in scientific literature, including support for interactive information retrieval; business and finance data visualization (data profiling); automated or assisted map, graph, diagram, or image construction from text or data; event, process, and knowledge editing and visualization tools; and knowledge navigation over databases, texts, and search results. The specific issues addressed by the workshop include but are not limited to: - Definition of Content: different disciplines and applications have distinct perspectives on what content is, e.g., of text, video, graphics, collections of interactions or correspondences. - Knowledge Representation: i.e., what it is, how to represent it, reason about it, and present it. - Taxonomies of content representations, tasks, and visualization artifacts. - Representations for content and how these relate to and/or facilitate visualization tasks. - Selection and Organization of Content: Deciding what to present and how to organize the presentation of selected content and why (i.e., effect). - Deciding how to coordinate the presentation of content through several media: - The relationship of cognitive task to visualization content and style (e.g., visualization structure, properties, form, coherency, interpretability, and accuracy of displays). - Deciding how to accept and integrate input from several media. - Medium-specific encoding of content. - Presentation and interaction techniques of generated results. - Tailoring visualizations to specific user and usergroup characteristics, knowledge, and interests. - Content visualization evaluation metrics and methods. We encourage submissions of demonstrations and/or videos of working visualizations pertaining to the above topics. The organizers will produce a workshop report and, providing there is sufficient interest and adequate results reported, will consider a special edited journal issue and/or state of the art collection. PROGRAM CHAIRS: James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University Mark T. Maybury, MITRE SPONSOR: SIGMEDIA (ACL's special interest group on Multimedia Language Processing) Requirements for submission Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use US or A4 letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the ACL style file at: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty. MS-Word users should use the ACL style file at: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MSWord_template.rtf Submissions can be made either as hardcopies or electronically in ASCII, PostScript, HTML, or MS-Word format. They should be sent to: James Pustejovsky CVIR'98 Computer Science Department and Volen Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University Waltham, MA 02254-9110 voice: 1-617-736-2709 fax: 1-617-736-2741 jamespMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue