LINGUIST List 8.1022

Mon Jul 7 1997

Calls: CMC/98, Complex predicates

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  • Harry Bunt, CMC/98 First Announcement
  • Paola Monachesi, Complex predicates workshop

    Message 1: CMC/98 First Announcement

     Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:36:03 +0200
    From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Buntkub.nl>
    Subject: CMC/98 First Announcement


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    CMC/98

    Second Int'l Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication,

    Theory and Applications *********

    Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMED)

    Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28-30 January 1998 *********

    FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS *********

    Following the successful first conference CMC/95 (which has been the basis of a book published soon by Springer Verlag), the Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University, in collaboration with the Center for Research on User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, will host the Second International Conference on the theory and applications of Cooperative Multimodal Communication, CMC/98, to take place January 28-30, 1998.

    The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation.

    TOPICS OF INTEREST ********* The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

    * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue

    * metaphors for human-computer interaction

    * communicative acts in multimodal communication

    * interacting with visual domain representations

    * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context

    * effective use of different media and modalities

    * formal and computational models of dialogue context

    * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue

    * the role of time in multimodal communication

    * agent-based dialogue architectures

    * user modelling

    * approaches to dialogue management

    SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ********* Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including keywords and references, by October 1, 1997. Only electronic submission will be possible, in uuencoded compressed Postscript form, to be sent to tijnwin.tue.nl and to kievitkub.nl (two copies).

    All extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee; authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper. Full papers will have to be submitted in Latex form, so it would seem advisable to use Latex also for the extended abstract. A Latex style file to be used for the full paper will be made available; for details see the CMC/98 Web page.

    IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of extended abstracts: 1 October, 1997 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 1997 Final papers due: 1 December, 1997

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE *********

    Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Stanford) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam)

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden



    INFORMATION ********* For questions about the program contact Harry Buntkub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts and papers contact tijnwin.tue.nl.

    For all other matters contact the conference secretariat:

    Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denkkub.nl.

    Web: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC (soon available)



    - ---------------------------------------------------- Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Buntkub.nl WWW: http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Faces/Hb/Hb.html - ---------------------------------------------------

    Message 2: Complex predicates workshop

     Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 12:26:20 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Paola Monachesi <paolasfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>
    Subject: Complex predicates workshop


    As a part of the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), March 4-6, 1998, in Halle, a workshop will be held on:

    Complex Predicates

    Constructions which go under the name of ``complex predicates'' occur in a variety of rather different language families. This term is generally used to cover those constructions which contain at least two predicates which in various senses, together act like a single one. Restructuring verbs in Italian and Spanish, perceptual and causative verbs in Germanic and Romance are well known examples of this phenomenon.

    Despite a large quantity of existing literature on the topic, the representation of the syntax-semantics and the syntax-phonology interfaces (with respect to complex predicates) can by no means be placed in the category of ``solved problems''. The aim of this workshop is to provide further insights into the interface question by promoting a discussion between competing theories and formalisms.

    With respect to the syntax-semantics interface, the crucial problem that complex predicates raise is that a biclausal predicate-argument structure corresponds to a monoclausal syntactic structure. The natural question is then how can this non-isomorphism be solved? The same question arises with respect to the syntax-phonology interface as there are two levels of representation which stand in a non-isomorphic relationship to one another (i.e., prosodic and syntactic structure).

    The central question to be addressed is thus, how this non-isomorphism can be analyzed within differing theoretical perspectives, and what further solutions may be possible. In short, the workshop is addressed to those interested in the interface between phonology, syntax and semantics.

    Organizers: Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz), Paola Monachesi (University of Tuebingen)

    Languages of the workshop will be German and English. Talks will be 40 minutes + 15 minutes question period. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a 1-page abstract (in German or English) by e-mail to both: Miriam Butt (muttcsli.stanford.edu) Paola Monachesi (paolasfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de)

    Your abstract should reach us no later than August 15, 1997. The programme of the workshop will be set up by September 15. Camera-ready one-page abstracts of the accepted papers will be due in December 1997.