Contact:  Ron Artstein

Call Deadline: 18-Feb-2007 

The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science. In 2007 we will celebrate ten years of the SEMDIAL series with the DECALOG workshop, organized at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, CIMeC (Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello), of the University of Trento in Rovereto. 

Preliminary announcement: 

DECALOG - The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

in conjunction with: 

Inaugural Workshop of the Language, Interaction, and Computation Lab
Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CiMeC)

Universite di Trento (Italy), May 30 - June 1, 2007

DECALOG 2007 will be held in conjunction with the inaugural workshop 
of the Language, Interaction and Computation Lab of CIMeC. This 
one-day workshop will feature invited presentations by some of 
the leaders of the computational linguistics and human language 
technology community.

We are still waiting to finalize many details; this preliminary 
announcement is intended to let you know of the dates and deadlines.

Dates and Deadlines:

Submissions due: 18 February 2007 (Sunday)
Notification: 30 March 2007 (Friday)
Final version due: 30 April 2007 (Monday)
CIMeC opening workshop: 29 May 2007 (Tuesday)
DECALOG 2007 workshop:  30 May - 1 June 2007 (Wednesday - Friday)

Scope:

We invite papers 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.

Submissions will be in the usual 8-page, 2-column format.

Details on the invited speakers, program committee members, submission 
format and procedure, local arrangements, and a web address for the 
workshop will be circulated at a later date.

Organization:

Ron Artstein (program co-chair)
Laure Vieu (program co-chair)
Massimo Poesio (local arrangements)

Previous SEMDIAL Events:

Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:

MunDial'97 (Munich)
  http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Twendial'98 (Twente)
  http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
  http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/
G?TALOG 2000 (Gothenburg)
  http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/
BI-DIALOG 2001 (Bielefeld)
  http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/
EDILOG 2002 (Edinburgh)
  http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/
DiaBruck 2003 (Saarbruecken)
  http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
CATALOG'04 (Barcelona)
  http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/
DIALOR'05 (Nancy)
  http://dialor05.loria.fr/
BRANDIAL 2006 (Potsdam)
  http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/

(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )