LINGUIST List 17.1481
Sun May 14 2006
Calls: Pragmatics/Germany;Computational Ling/Germany
Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows
<kevinlinguistlist.org>
Directory
1. Raquel
Fernandez,
Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
2. Antonietta
Alonge,
Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches: What Can We Gain by Computational Treatment of Data?
Message 1: Brandial06 (10th Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Workshop)
Date: 10-May-2006
From: Raquel Fernandez <raquelling.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: 17-May-2006
Meeting Description:
Brandial06, the 10th International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL10)
[ Due to several requests, we have extended the submission deadline for Brandial 06 to **May 17th 2006**.
Authors who have already submitted a paper and wish to revise their submissions can do so until this new deadline through the submissions website. ]
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, 2006 ** EXTENDED TO May 17th 2006!! **Notification: 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: Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches: What Can We Gain by Computational Treatment of Data?
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Date: 10-May-2006
From: Antonietta Alonge <anto.alongeunipg.it>
Subject: Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches: What Can We Gain by Computational Treatment of Data?
Full Title: Cognitive-Linguistic Approaches: What Can We Gain by Computational Treatment of Data?
Date: 05-Oct-2006 - 07-Oct-2006
Location: Munich, Germany
Contact Person: Antonietta Alonge
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.lmu.de/pages/events/events.htm
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 31-May-2006
Meeting Description:
A theme session at DGKL-06 (Meeting of the German Cognitive LinguisticsAssociation), Munich, Germany, 5-7 October 2006
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Cognitive-linguistic approaches: what can we gain by computationaltreatment of data?
A theme session at DGKL-06 (Meeting of the German Cognitive LinguisticsAssociation), Munich, Germany, 5-7 October 2006
http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/gcla_2006.shtml
http://www.kognitive-sprachforschung.lmu.de/
!!! NEW DEADLINE EXTENSION for abstract submission: 31st May 2006 !!!
Work with empirical data is important, if not essential, to cognitivelinguistics. Electronic corpora of written texts or transcriptions ofspeech are increasingly used and sometimes purposefully collected bylinguists in their investigations of phenomena such as metaphor,metonymy, idioms, and frames. During their work, some linguists alsocompile - more or less private - electronic archives of phenomenastudied in cognitive linguistics: searchable lists, classifications,databases. Moreover, they have to deal with these phenomena - usuallyin cooperation with computational linguists and computer scientists -when building general lexicon resources for the automatic treatment oflanguage.
Problems that arise when working with corpora are connected to the waythey are prepared for and processed by the corpus tools (concordancers,corpus managers). For example, in spite of some attempts incomputational linguistics to detect metaphors in running texts, nocorpus manager disposes of a ''Show all metaphors'' function. Rather, inorder to search a corpus for metaphors, linguists will devise their ownmethods, be they theory-based or data-driven.
Other problems arise when creating project-specific as well as moregeneral archives of language usage examples classified by cognitivelinguistic criteria. Here, linguists decide which criteria they use intheir classifications and which features of the archived data theyannotate. These decisions are often made at a project-specific basisand therefore different classifications might be difficult to compare.
At a larger scale, this also applies to general linguistic resourcesdeveloped for Human Language Technology applications. The decisionstaken during linguistic resource-building may then be evaluated - bythe resource developers or others -, based on large quantities of dataencoded in the resources themselves. Evaluations of this kind are atthe same time test-beds for theories put forth in cognitivelinguistics, and their results provide valuable feedback for theorydevelopment.
In this theme session, we would like to discuss methods of exploitingelectronic corpora for any cognitive linguistic research, notrestricted to the phenomena mentioned above, as well as practicalexperiences with resource building in cognitive linguistics. We alsoinvite contributions that evaluate the implications of data encoded incomputational resources, from the viewpoint of cognitive linguistictheory.
Please send only detailed abstracts (2 pages), in which you make clearhow your study is related to the topics indicated.
The deadline for abstract submission is 31st May 2006. Participantswill be notified of the acceptance of their papers by 15th July 2006.
Please send your abstracts exclusively as email attachments (pdf- orrtf-files) to:
Antonietta Alonge (Perugia)anto.alongeuni-hamburg.de
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