Corpora: 3RD INTL. WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-MACHINE CONVERSATION AT BELLAGIO

Yorick Wilks (y.wilks@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:34:54 GMT

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

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THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
3-5 July, 2000

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 theme of interactivity is now a key one in Human Language Technology under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme. The Bellagio site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998.

All details, previous program, program committee, accomodation and travel
are on the web site:

www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio2000/

Invited speakers include (one has not yet accepted):

Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, US
Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia
Professor G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK
Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE
Dr T Strzalkowski, General Electric, US
Professor D Traum, University of Maryland, US

Timetable:

Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer
conversation. Two page abstracts should be sent by paper
or email to Gillian Callaghan at the address at the bottom:

Deadline for submission: 8 April 2000
Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000
Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000

The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) and SIGDIAL have endorsed the meeting and endorsement has been sought from ELSNET and support from
the European Commission.

Informal inquiries 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) 114 278 0972
email: yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick

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