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THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
12-14 July, 1999
The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy,
took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from
industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for
the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question
only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer
demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that
were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly
successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation
and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more
theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis.
The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted
excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998.
All details, including previous program, program committee, accomodation
and travel, details of registration (a form is attached below for the
convenience of some) are on the web site:
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/
Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted):
Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, USA
Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia
Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK
Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE
Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer
conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be sent
by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to
the following timetable:
Deadline for submission: 15 April 1999
Notice of acceptance: 15 May 1999
Camera ready paper due: 15 June 1999
The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
has endorsed the meeting and endorsements have been sought from
ELSNET, SigDial and the European Commission.
Submissions and further enquiries to:
Yorick Wilks
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
phone: (44) 114 282 5561
fax: (44) 114 222 1810
email: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick
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