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ginzburg, 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)
Roxana_Girju, Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics - HLT/NAACL 2004
Message 1: 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:09:57 -0500 (EST)
From: ginzburg <ginzburgdcs.kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)
8th Workship on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL)
Short Title: CATALOG '04
Date: 19-Jul-2004 - 21-Jul-2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Enric Vallduvì
Contact Email: catalog04upf.edu
Meeting URL: http://www.upf.edu/catalog04
Linguistic Sub-field: Semantics
Call Deadline: 12-Mar-2004
Meeting Description:
Catalog'04 will be the eighth 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.
The Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona,
which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great
place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004,
its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and
performances (http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your
calendar now.
First Call for Papers
CATALOG'04
EIGHTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)
Pompeu Fabra University
Barcelona
July 19-21 2004
Catalog'04 will be the eighth 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.
The Dial/Log conferences are always stimulating and fun and Barcelona,
which will host ACL 2004 immediately following Catalog'04, is a great
place to visit. Barcelona will also host, during the summer of 2004,
its 'Forum 2004', a huge cultural fair full of events, exhibits, and
performances (http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/). So mark your
calendar now.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
Michael Tannenhaus (University of Rochester),
Two other speakers to be announced
We invite abstracts 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
- ellipsis resolution 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 25' 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 postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
format) to: <catalog04upf.edu> Submissions have to be in English,
which is the workshop language. For the accepted talks, a LaTeX style
will be made available for the preparation of the final version.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: March 12, 2004
Acceptance notice: May 5, 2004
Final version due: June 5, 2004
Conference: July 19-21, 2004
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Anton Benz (Syddansk Universitet),
Johan Bos (University of Edinburgh),
Justine Cassell (Northwestern University)
Lawrence Cavedon (CSLI, Stanford),
Robin Cooper (Göteborgs Universitet),
Paul Dekker, (University of Amsterdam)
Claire Gardent (CNRS, Loria)
Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow),
Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London, Chair)
Pat Healey (Queen Mary, University of London),
Ivana Kruijff Korbayova (Universität des Saarlandes),
Staffan Larsson (Göteborgs Universitet),
Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh),
David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge),
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
Hannes Reiser (Universität Bielefeld),
David Traum (USC)
ORGANIZATION:
The workshop will take place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the city
of Barcelona (exact venue to be announced). The local committee is
chaired by Enric Vallduví.
Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:
(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )
MunDial'97 (Munich)
(http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
(http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
(http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/)
Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg)
(http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog)
Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld)
(http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG)
EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh)
(http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/)
DIABRUCK 2003
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
Message 2: Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics - HLT/NAACL 2004
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:00:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Roxana_Girju <Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics - HLT/NAACL 2004
Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics - HLT/NAACL 2004
Date: 06-May-2004 - 07-May-2004
Location: Boston, MA, United States of America
Contact: Roxana Girju
Contact Email: Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu
Meeting URL: http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html
Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics
Subject Language: English
Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2004
Meeting Description:
Computational Lexical Semantics Workshop at HLT/NAACL 2004
Call for Papers and Participation
Computational Lexical Semantics
Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2004
(http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html)
May 6, 2004
Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
Workshop Lexical semantics is the study of word semantic properties in
context and it is at the core of NLP and many of its applications.
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in text semantics fueled
in part by the complexity of some major research initiatives, such as
Question Answering, Text Summarization, Machine Translation,
Information Extraction, Reasoning, and others. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, government,
and industry interested in text understanding, lexical semantics,
knowledge representation, question answering, information retrieval,
machine translation, and speech processing to submit papers reporting
on recent advances and new perspectives in computational lexical
semantics, including but not limited to the following topics:
* semantically based language models;
* information retrieval using semantics;
* complex nominals - acquisition and interpretation;
* polysemy and sense boundaries;
* semantic roles and other semantic relations;
* verb semantic classes and alternations;
* semantics of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions;
* metonymy and metaphor;
* the role of context in lexical semantics;
* representation issues in lexical semantics;
* tools and resources;
* evaluation of systems;
Papers describing applications of natural language, speech
understanding, and information retrieval that use lexical semantics
are especially welcome.
Important Dates:
Friday, Jan. 16, 2004 Paper submission deadline
Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 Notification of acceptance
Monday, March 1, 2004 Camera ready version deadline
Thursday, May 6, 2004 Workshop
Workshop Format:
The desired workshop length is one day of approximately 6 hours of
paper presentations. We expect to accept between 15 - 18 papers (20 -
30 minutes / paper).
Submission Format:
The papers should be of maximum 8 pages (including references)
submitted in electronic form (ps or pdf) following the style provided
by the HLT/NAACL-04 conference. All submissions must be original,
previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). The
papers should be attached to an email indicating the contact authors,
paper's title, and appropriate subject areas under which the paper can
be classified. Please submit the papers via email to Roxana Girju
(Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu).
Program Committee:
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas (Chair)
Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA (Co-chair)
Jade Goldstein DoD, USA
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglu Columbia University, USA
Marti Hearst U.C. Berkeley, USA
Mirella Lapata University of Sheffield, UK
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
John Prange ARDA, USA
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA
Carol Van Ess-Dykema DoD, USA
Contact:
Interested participants should send their questions to Roxana Girju
(Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu)