GLICOM - Grup de Lingüística Computacional

Call for papers (closed)

Catalog '04 will be the eighth Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. 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. So mark your calendar now.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

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 paper title and authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address (indicate contact author in case of multiple authorship). The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in postscript, html, ascii, or pdf format) to: catalog04@upf.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 15, 2004 (revised)
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-Korbayová (Universität des Saarlandes),
Staffan Larsson (Göteborgs Universitet),
Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh),
David Milward (Linguamatics, Cambridge),
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex),
Hannes Rieser (Universität Bielefeld),
David Traum (University of Southern California)

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.