Call for Papers

GÖTALOG 2000

FOURTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

June 15-17 2000

http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/

Götalog 2000 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that aim at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, and psychology.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

common ground in communication
semantic interpretation in dialogues
modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
reference in dialogues
reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5 single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. Abstracts should be submitted electronically (in postscript, html, ascii, or pdf format), to: gotalog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

IMPORTANT DATES:

February 28th	Deadline for submission of papers
April 15th	Notification of acceptance
May 22	Final Version due for the Proceedings
June 15-17th	Workshop

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Massimo Poesio (Co-chair)	U Edinburgh	UK
David Traum (Co-chair)	U Maryland	USA
Cecile Balkanski	LIMSI-CNRS	France
Johan Bos	U Saarlandes	Germany
John Gurney	Army Research Lab	USA
Jonathan Ginzburg	King's College London	UK
Masato Ishizaki	JAIST	Japan
Gerhard Jäger	Munich	Germany
Yasuhiro Katagiri	ATR	Japan
Jan van Kuppevelt	IMS Stuttgart	Germany
Ian Lewin	SRI	UK
Diane Litman	AT&T	USA
Johanna Moore	U Edinburgh	UK
Joakim Nivre	Göteborg University	Sweden
Hannes Rieser	Bielefeld	Germany
David Sadek	CNET	France
Len Schubert	Rochester	USA
Henk Zeevat	Amsterdam	Netherlands

ORGANIZATION:

This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the EU-sponsored project TRINDI. The workshop will take place at Gothenburg University, in Gothenburg Sweden. The local conference chair is Robin Cooper.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Information about Gothenburg Univesity Department of Linguistics
Information about Göteborg Sweden
News about the conference will be made available through the workshop home page
Send questions by email to gotalog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk or trindi@ling.gu.se for questions about local arrangements.

Previous workshops in this series include:

MunDial'97 (Munich)
Twendial'98 (Twente)
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)

Last modified: Sun Mar 5 14:02:19 2000