LINGUIST List 17.1558
Sun May 21 2006
Confs: Discourse Analysis/Malaga, Spain
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ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue
Message 1: ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue
Date: 19-May-2006
From: Paul Piwek <p.piwekopen.ac.uk>
Subject: ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue
ESSLLI Workshop on Coherence in Generation and Dialogue
Date: 07-Aug-2006 - 11-Aug-2006
Location: Malaga, Spain
Contact: Paul Piwek
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01rk/esslli2006.html
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Meeting Description:
This workshop aims to compare and contrast different ways of modelling coherence in natural language generation and dialogue in order to guide decisions such as:
- what is an appropriate response at a given point in a dialogue? - what is the optimal ordering of propositions in a discourse? - how should predicates, referring expressions and rhetorical relations be realised (verbally and/or non-verbally) so that the resulting utterance can be interpreted naturally and fluently?
The intention is to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI.
Call for Participation
Workshop on ''Coherence in Generation and Dialogue''
Endorsed by SIGDIAL (http://www.sigdial.org/)
August 7th - 11th 2006 Malaga, Spain
Organized as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ 31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Málaga
WORKSHOP PURPOSE
This workshop aims to compare and contrast different ways of modelling coherence in natural language generation and dialogue in order to guide decisions such as:
- what is an appropriate response at a given point in a dialogue? - what is the optimal ordering of propositions in a discourse? - how should predicates, referring expressions and rhetorical relations be realised (verbally and/or non-verbally) so that the resulting utterance can be interpreted naturally and fluently?
The intention is to provide a forum for advanced PhD students and researchers to present and discuss their work with colleagues and researchers who work in the broad subject areas represented at ESSLLI.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. There will be 2 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session. On the first day, the workshop organizers will give an introduction to the topic, followed by a talk by one of the invited speakers.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Robbert Jan Beun, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, United States
PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
MONDAY August 7 1. Introduction: Rodger Kibble, Paul Piwek and Ielka Van der Sluis 2. Invited Speaker: Robbert-Jan Beun A Simple Dialogue Game for the Generation of Coherent Speech Act Sequences
TUESDAY August 8 3. Paul Piwek Meaning and Dialogue Coherence 4. Rodger Kibble Generating coherence relations via internal argumentation
WEDNESDAY August 9 5. Invited Speaker: Nicholas Asher Title TBA 6. Andy Luecking, Hannes Rieser & Marc Staudacher SDRT and multimodal situated communication
THURSDAY August 10 7. Nikiforos Karamanis Entity versus rhetorical coherence for information ordering: initial experimentation 8. Clara Mancini & Donia Scott Hyper-Document structure: Representing cognitive coherence in non-linear documents
FRIDAY August 11 9. Katja Filippova & Michael Strube Improving text fluency by reordering of constituents 10. Discussion session
IMPORTANT DATES
ESSLLI Early registration deadline : May 21, 2006 Workshop Dates : August 7 - 11, 2006
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI. See http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/ for details.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Rodger Kibble, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK
Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen, UK
Email contact: mcs_coherence_workshop at open.ac.uk Substitute sign for at.
FURTHER INFORMATION
About the workshop: http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01rk/esslli2006.html About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
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