LINGUIST List 8.8

Wed Jan 15 1997

Confs: Dialogue Workshop

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1. Jaeger Gerhard, Confs: Munich Workshop on Dialogue

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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 MunDial'97

 Munich Workshop on

 Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

 February 10-12, 1997, Munich, Germany

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The past years saw an increasing interest in attempts to apply formal
methods from different fields to dialogue phenomena, where possible
worlds semantics, DRT, situation theory, dynamic semantics, channel
theory, and game theory served as starting points. The workshop aims
at bringing together researchers from the mentioned and may be other
fields.


Preliminary Program

March 10

 9.00 - 9.45	Registration
 9.45 - 10.00	Opening

10.00 - 11.00	Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
		T.B.A.

11.10 - 11.50	Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) & 
		Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
		"Questions in Dialogue"

12.00 - 12.40	Joris Hulstijn (University of Twente)
		"Structured Information States -- Raising and
		Resolving Issues"

12-40 - 14.10	Lunch Break

14.10 - 14.50	Paul Piwek (IPO, Eindhoven)
		"The Construction of Answers"

15.00 - 15.40	Thomas Juengling (University of Munich)
		"A Decision Theoretic Formulation of the Gricean
		Quantity Maxim"

15.40 - 16.00	Coffee Break

16.00 - 16.40	Robbert-Jan Beun (I.P.O. Eindhoven)
		"Coherence in Cooperative Dialogue"

16.50 - 17.30	Hannes Rieser (University of Bielefeld)
		"Agents Coordination of Syntax Production in Dialogue"

March 11

10.00 - 11.00	Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam)
			T.B.A

11.10 - 11.50	Paulo Quaresma & Jose' Gabriel Lopes (University of
		Lisbon)
		"Updating and Revising the Agents Mental States in Dialogue"

12.00 - 12.40	Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) & Tim
		Fernando (IMS, Stuttgart)
		"Nonincrementality and Revision in Dialogue"

12.40 - 14.10	Lunch Break


14.10 - 14.50	Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri & Hanae Koiso
		(ATR Media Integration and Communications Research
		Laboratories, Kyoto)
		"Scorekeeping for Conversation-Construction"

15.00 - 15.40	Pat Healey (University of Manchester) & Carl Vogel
		(IMS, Stuttgart)
		"Success in Dialogue"

15.40 - 16.00	Coffee Break

16.00 - 16.40	Wolfgang Heydrich (University of Bielefeld)
		"Coordination and Common Ground in Dialogue"

16.50 - 17.30	Rene' Ahn (Tilburg University) & Tijn Borghuis
		(Eindhoven University of Technology)
		"Communication Modelling and Context Dependent
		Interpretation, an Integrated Approach"

20.00 - ??	Party

March 12

10.00 - 11.00	Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam)
		"On Utterer's Meaning and Intentions, and Dynamic
		Semantics"

11.10 - 11.50	Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam)
		"With Reference to Partial Objects"

12.00 - 12.40	Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh)
		"The Dynamics of Discourse Structure"

12.50 - 13.30	Jelle Gerbrandy (University of Amsterdam)
		"Belief Change in a Multi-Agent Framework"

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To register, fill out the Registration form below and send it to the
workshop office *until February 15, 1997*.

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MunDial'97 REGISTRATION FORM

Last Name:...................................

First Name:..................................

Affiliation:.................................

Street Address:..............................

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City:........................................

State/Zip:...................................

Country:.....................................

Phone(s):....................................

Fax:.........................................

E-mail:......................................



Registration rates:
The registration fee is DM 40.- for speakers and students and DM 
60.- else. All fees are in German currency.

	Payment (tick one):
			o Eurocheque (enclosed)
			o Bank transfer (include copy)

For participants from non-EU countries it is possible to pay the fee
at the day of registration. 

Payment must be in German currency, and can be made by crossed
Eurocheque payable to "Anton Benz", or by bank transfer to:

Bank: Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank
 80 799 Muenchen
 Schellingstrasse 29-31
Bank code: 70020001
Acount no: 6890288438
Accound holder: Anton Benz
Intended use: MunDial'97

Bank transfers should specify registrant's name. Please make sure that
the transfer is arranged free of charges to the beneficiary!

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Accomodation: A list of hotels (with prices, phone and fax numbers,
location) is available under WWW at
http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/hotels.html 
Upon request we can make the registration for you. Other arrangements 
can be made by contacting

Munich Tourist Office
80313 Muenchen
Germany
Tel: +49 89 233 0300
Fax: +49 89 23 33 0233


General Information:
Workshop Office. Please address registration form and inquiries to

Anton Benz & Gerhard Jaeger
CIS/SIL
Universitaet Muenchen
Oettingestrasse 67
80538 Muenchen
Germany

Email: jaegercis.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Tel: +49 89 2178-2708
Fax: +49 89 2178-2701