ST&D Dialogue Modelling and Generation Symposium

Annual meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse

Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Netherlands
July 6, 2005

	The symposium is held as part of the Annual meeting of the the Society for Text & Discourse (ST&D), July 6-9 2005. [Index]
Aims	This symposium is intended to tackle issues in the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue and dialogue generation. It aims at bringing together those from the dialogue modelling and language generation/production communities and will provide an opportunity for researchers from a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, computer science and psycholinguistics, to exchange ideas. We invite talks elaborating on important theoretical notions in dialogue modelling -such as constraints (Asher & Lascarides, 2003, and many other recent papers), the role of domain knowledge (e.g., Ludwig, 2003, and, again, many more) and the influence of social relations between interlocutors on dialogue behaviour (going back to the seminal work by Brown and Levinson, 1978)- and ask presenters to shed light on these or other theoretically fruitful notions in dialogue modelling by: relating them to issues in language generation/production or drawing out similarities and differences between applications of such notions in discourse generation versus interpretation or describing computational/implemented models, in particular, for generation/production or comparing psycholinguistic with linguistic or engineering approaches to dialogue modelling. The symposium will thus be a natural complement to ones that deal with natural language interpretation or structural properties of discourse. [Index]
Index	Aims \| Registration Submissions \| Organizers Programme Committee
Registration	Participants have to register for the main meeting. [Index]
Submissions	Please submit an abstract of your talk to by February 1, 2005, clearly indicating that it is a proposal. Proposals should include a cover page with the following: The title of the presentation Names and institutional affiliations of all authors, including email addresses of all authors Contact Address for presenting author A 75-word abstract of the presentation for publication in the abstracts booklet and on the website. In addition to the cover page, please include a 2-3 page summary of the presentation with a title but no author information (max. 1000 words, including bibliographic references). [Index]

Organizers	Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK Peter Kühnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany [Index]
Programme Committee (confirmed)	Anton Benz, Syddansk Univ., Denmark Harry Bunt, Tilburg Univ., Netherlands Simon Garrod, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands Peter Kühnlein, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany Colin Matheson, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Paiva, Univ. of Sussex, UK Paul Piwek, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK Richard Power, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK Matthew Purver, CSLI, USA Alison Sanford, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK Claudia Sassen, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany Donia Scott, ITRI, Univ. of Brighton, UK Marilyn Walker, Univ. of Sheffield, UK [Index]
	The Symposium is endorsed by SIGGen [Index]