LINGUIST List 17.1347
Tue May 02 2006
Calls: Semantics/Germany;General Ling/Netherlands
Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows
<kevinlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. David
Schlangen,
Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
2. Berit
Gehrke,
Synax and Semantics of Spatial P
Message 1: Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
Date: 28-Apr-2006
From: David Schlangen <dasling.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject: Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
Full Title: Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
Short Title: Brandial06 (Semdial 10)
Date: 11-Sep-2006 - 13-Sep-2006
Location: Potsdam, Germany
Contact Person: David Schlangen
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics
Call Deadline: 12-May-2006
Meeting Description:
brandial06, the 10th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL10)
[ fourth and final call for papers ]
brandial06
TENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL)
Potsdam (Germany) September 11-13 2006
brandial06 will be the tenth in a series of workshops that aims tobring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics ofdialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semanticsand pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.The SemDial conferences are always stimulating and fun, andPotsdam/Berlin is a great place to visit.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
- James Allen (University of Rochester, USA)- Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany)- Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University and ZAS, Germany)- Emanuel Schegloff (University of California LA, USA)
SUBMISSIONS:
We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics andpragmatics 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
For the first time, we will have a special session (one afternoon), on ** Visual Attention and References to the Visual Situation **chaired by Massimo Poesio and Hannes Rieser. (Committee: SarahBrown-Schmidt (University of Illinois at Urbana), John Kelleher(Dublin Institute of Technology), Pia Knoeferle (University of theSaarland), Geert-Jan Kruijff (DFKI).)
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): linguistic andphilosophical studies of deixis; eye-tracking studies of referenceresolution in situated language use; and computational models ofdeictic references and reference interpretation. As always, especiallyencouraged are interdisciplinary submissions, e.g., providing a soundtheoretical analysis based on solid empirical evidence.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Authors should submit an *anonymous* paper of at most 8 pages (fortalks with a duration of 25' plus 10' discussion) via the web-site(please indicate if you are submitting for the special session).Please see the website for details on formatting, etc.(Submissions are now open!)
WEBSITE:
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submissions due: May 12th, 2006Notification: July 3rd, 2006Final version due: August 4th, 2006Conference: September 11-13, 2006
There will be a later call for short abstracts describing system demonstrationsand/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop, withsubmission deadline in July.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Jan Alexandersson (DFKI, Saarbruecken)Ellen Bard (University of Edinburgh)Johan Bos (Universita di Roma La Sapienza)Justine Cassell (Northwestern University)Matthew Crocker (Universitaet des Saarlandes)Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam)Raquel Fernandez (University of Potsdam) (co-chair)Simon Garrod (University of Glasgow)Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College, London)Pat Healey (Queen Mary University of London)Rodger Kibble (Goldsmiths University of London)Alistair Knott (University of Otago)Joern Kreutel (Semantic Edge and University of Potsdam)Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Universitaet des Saarlandes)Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University)Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)Oliver Lemon (University of Edinburgh)Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh)Nicolas Maudet (Universite Paris Dauphine)Philippe Muller (Universite Paul Sabatier)Yukiko Nakano (RISTEX Japan)Manfred Pinkal (Universitaet des Saarlandes)Massimo Poesio (University of Essex)Matt Purver (CSLI Stanford)Hannes Rieser (Universitaet Bielefeld)David Schlangen (Universitaet Potsdam) (co-chair)Michael Strube (EML Research)Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)David Traum (ICT, University of Southern California) (co-chair)
ORGANISATION:
The workshop will take place in Potsdam at the ''Neues Palais''campus at the edge of beautiful Park Sanssouci. The local committeeis chaired by David Schlangen and Raquel Fernandez.
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'03 (Saarbruecken) (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/)CATALOG'04 (Barcelona) (http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/)Dialor'05 (Nancy) (http://dialor05.loria.fr/)
Message 2: Synax and Semantics of Spatial P
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Date: 28-Apr-2006
From: Berit Gehrke <berit.gehrkelet.uu.nl>
Subject: Synax and Semantics of Spatial P
Full Title: Synax and Semantics of Spatial P
Date: 02-Jun-2006 - 04-Jun-2006
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
Contact Person: Berit Gehrke
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Berit.Gehrke/personal/Pconference
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-May-2006
Meeting Description:
The conference Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P is organized by UiL OTS, Utrecht University. The conference will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands from June 2nd to 4th, 2006. We invite abstracts for 40-minute talks with an additional 20-minute discussion.
Invited speakersMarcel den Dikken (CUNY)Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster)Vivienne Fong (University of Stanford)Marcus Kracht (UCLA)Peter Svenonius (University of Tromsø)Joost Zwarts (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
CALL FOR ELECTRONIC POSTERS
The conference on Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P will take place at the UiL OTS, Utrecht University from June 2nd to 4th, 2006. Its main aim is to stimulate discussion about the category P in a broad sense (prepositions, postpositions, circumpositions, particles, prefixes) from various linguistic perspectives. Abstracts for presentation have been selected and the programme can be found below.
If you wish to attend the conference and participate in the discussion, you are welcome to submit an electronic poster to the conference web site. Electronic posters will be reviewed only for pertinence to the topic of the conference. They should summarize recent work that is unpublished or otherwise not widely known. If published, please include the reference.
Electronic posters should be up to 1000 words (roughly 5 pages), ideally in .html format, or else in .pdf.
Please create a text that is easy to read off the screen, in terms of wording, organization, and typography. Examples and analyses should be presented in their logical order, not on separate pages as in some conference abstracts.
Each poster should start with the name, affiliation, email address, and possibly home page link of the author(s), followed by the title. We will not post submissions that do not contain the author information.
Please email the poster files by May 15th, 2006 to both of the following e-mail addresses:
Anna.Asburylet.uu.nl
The submissions will be posted on this site soon thereafter and are to be used as potential sources of discussion during the conference.
If you would like to draw attention to a related paper of yours, please post them at your home page and send us an entry consisting of the author(s), the full title of the paper, and the link. Such entries will be posted alongside electronic posters, for the long-term benefit though perhaps not for the immediate edification of participants.
Further details including possible topics as well as information about registration can be found on the conference site:http://www.let.uu.nl/~Berit.Gehrke/personal/Pconference/
PROGRAMME
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
09.30-10.30Marcel den Dikken (invited speaker): On the internal structure of adpositional phrases and the syntax of the pseudopassive10.30-11.30Arhonto Terzi: Locative Ps as modifier of Place and the relation with their complements11.45-12.45Enoch Oladé Aboh: Possession and Predication in Complex Spatial Phrases14.15-15.15Andrew McIntyre: The Integration of Directional PPs15.15-16.15Jaume Mateu Fontanals: Verb prefixation and the l-syntax of directionality/resultativity16.30-17.30Irena Botwinik-Rotem: Why are they different? A case study of Hebrew locative PPs17.30-18.30Vivienne Fong (invited speaker): t.b.a.
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006
09.30-10.30Marcus Kracht (invited speaker): The Fine Structure of Spatial Expressions10.30-11.30Sander Lestrade: The correspondence between directionality and transitivity: An OT semantics account for prepositional case alternation11.45-12.45Tatiana Nikitina: Pragmatic factors and variation in the expression of spatial goals: The case of into vs. in14.15-15.15Marina Pantcheva: Categorial Status of Persian Class 2 Prepositions15.15-16.15Christina Tortora: Aspect inside PLACE PPs16.30-17.30Ivano Caponigro and Lisa Pearl: Silent (spatial) prepositions: Evidence from free relatives17.30-18.30Peter Svenonius (invited speaker): t.b.a.19.30conference dinner
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
09.30-10.30Raffaella Folli (invited speaker): t.b.a.10.30-11.30Cecile Meier: A compositional analysis of spatial prepositions11.45-12.45Joost Zwarts (invited speaker): P-patterns: How prepositions shape each other's meanings12.45-14.00forum discussion
AlternatesBert Cappelle: The microstructure of English particle phrasesChinedu Uchechukwu: The grammaticalization of prepositional markers in IgboNaoko Tomioka: The distribution and interpretation of adjunct locative PPs
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