LINGUIST List 9.550

Fri Apr 10 1998

Confs: Twendial'98

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1. Joris Hulstijn, Twendial'98

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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 Twendial'98

 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology is the 2nd workshop on

 Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

 May 13-15, 1998
 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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 http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt13.html


We distribute the program for Twendial'98. Twendial'98 aims at
bringing together researchers from various backgrounds that apply
formal methods to the study of dialogue phenomena. In particular, we
hope to bridge the widely recognised gap between theory and practice
in the design of dialogue systems. Twendial'98 is organized by Joris
Hulstijn and Anton Nijholt of the University of Twente, Enschede, the
Netherlands.

Invitation

Researchers and students with an interest in dialogue phenomena and
formal methods are invited to take part in the workshop. Fees include
a copy of the proceedings, lunches, coffee and tea during breaks and
an informal reception. Regular fee for the workshop is Dfl. 175,- To
register, please fill in the registration form that can be obtained
from our website and send or email it to the address below.

More Information

For more information on the workshop we refer to our website at
http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt13.html. For
specific information regarding the program or the proceedings, contact
Joris Hulstijn (joriscs.utwente.nl) or Anton Nijholt
anijholtcs.utwente.nl). For registration, accommodation and travel
inquiries please contact the Parlevink Secretariat:

 Mrs. Alice Hoogvliet and Mrs. Charlotte Bijron:
 Dept. of Computer Science (SETI)
 P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede
 phone: + 31 53 4893680
 fax: + 31 53 4893503
 e-mail: hoogvliecs.utwente.nl


Program

Wednesday 13th of May

12.00
 Registration
13.30
 Opening
13.35
 Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin)
 to be announced

14.15
Robin Cooper (Goteborg University)
Mixing situation theory and type theory to formalize information
states in dialogue exchanges

14.55
 Break

15.15
Wolfgang Heydrich (Universitat Hamburg / Universitat Bielefeld)
Theory of Mutuality (Syntactic Skeleton)

15.55
Jelle Gerbrandy (ILLC/Universtity of Amsterdam)
Some Remarks on Distributed Knowledge

16.35
 Break
17.00
Henk Zeevat (ILLC/Universtity of Amsterdam)
to be announced
17.40
 Drinks

Thursday 14th of May

9.00
 
Thomas Clermont, Marc Pomplun, Elke Prestin, Hannes Rieser
(Universitat Bielefeld) Eye-movement Research and the Investigation of
Dialogue Structure

9.40

Wolfgang Heydrich and Peter Kuhnlein and Hannes Rieser (Universitat
Bielefeld) A DRT-style Modelling of Agents' Mental States in Discourse

10.20
 Break

10.50
Mieke Rats (Delft University / looking for a job) Making DRT suitable
for the description of information exchange in a dialogue

11.30
Soo-Jun Park, Keon-Hoe Cha, Won-Kyung Sung, Do Gyu Song, Hyun-A Lee,
Jay Duke Park, Dong-In Park (SERI, Korea), Jorg Hohle (GMD/FIT
Birlinghoven) MALBOT: An Intelligent Dialogue Model using User
Modeling

12.10
Lunch Break

14.00
Steve Pulman (Cambridge SRI)
to be announced

14.40
Wieland Eckert (AT&T)
Automatic Evaluation of Dialogue Systems

15.20
Break

15.45
Ian Lewin (SRI International)
Formal Design, Verification and Simulation of Multi-Modal 
	Dialogues

16.25
Marc Blasband (Nederlandse Spoorwegen)
to be announced

17.05

Friday 15th of May

9.00
Stefan van Oord and Rieks op den Akker (University of Twente)
Fuzzy Natural Language Dialogue Systems

9.40
John Barnden (University of Birmingham) Uncertain Reasoning About
Agents' Beliefs and Reasoning, with special attention to Metaphorical
Mental State Reports

10.20
Break

10.40
Jean-louis Dessalles (ENST, Paris)
The interplay of desire and necessity in dialogue

11.20
Nicolas Maudet and Fabrice Evrard (IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse)
A Generic framework for dialogue game implementation

12.00
Lunch Break

13.30
Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
to be announced

14.10
Robert van Rooy (ILLC/University of Amsterdam)
Presupposed Questions

14.50
Jeroen Groenendijk (ILLC/Universtity of Amsterdam)
Issues in Update Semantics

15.20
Break

15.50
Stafan Larsson (Goteborg University)
Questions Under Discussion and Dialogue Moves

16.30 
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh) and David Traum (UMIACS,
University of Maryland) Towards an Axiomatization of Dialogue Acts

17.00

Closing


Also to be included in the proceedings is:

Adam Zachary Wyner (Bar Ilan University)
Adverbs and Anaphora


Twendial'98 is the 13th Twente Workshop on Language Technology
(TWLT13). Twendial is hosted by the Parlevink Linguistic Engineering
Group and is sponsored by IPA , NS and CTIT.