[Corpora-List] Final CfP: Constraints in Discourse

From: Claudia Sassen (claudia.sassen@uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 14:24:50 MET

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                                    Workshop on
                           Constraints in Discourse
                                   3-5 June, 2005
                             Dortmund, Germany
                http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de

    For a long time, the development of precise frameworks of discourse
    interpretation has been hampered by the lack of a deeper understanding
    of the dependencies between different discourse units. The recent 15
    years have seen a considerable advance in this field. A number of
    strong constraints have been proposed that restrict the sequencing and
    attaching of segments at various descriptive levels, as well as the
    interpretation of their interrelations. Early, and very influential,
    work on the sequencing and ordering of discourse segments has been
    done by Grosz & Sidner (1986). One of the best-known of the
    constraints on sequencing and accessibility of expressions across
    sentence boundaries is the RFC (Right Frontier Constraint), often
    associated with a paper of Polanyi (1988). Other relevant constraints
    are, e.g. the CSC (Coordinate Structure Constraint, Ross 1967) or the
    recently expressed MDC (Maximal Discourse Coherence, Asher &
    Lascarides 2003) principle.

    The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting
    recent research on constraints in discourse. The target areas include
    the recognition of discourse structure as well as the interpretation
    and generation of discourse in a broad variety of domains. The
    workshop offers a forum for researchers from diverse formal
    approaches, including but not limited to:
    - Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST)
    - Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT)
    - Tree Adjoining Grammars
    - The QUD Modell
    - Plan Based Reasoning
    - Abductive Reasoning
    - Gricean Pragmatics
    - Speech Act Theory

    We invite talks that further our theoretical understanding of
    the role of constraints in discourse, as well as empirical studies
    that shed light on their empirical validity. The conference is explicitly
    intended for discussion and comparison of theoretical
    accounts that lay the ground for applications. It is not intended as a
    platform for system demonstrations. Specific topics might relate to
    - Anaphora Resolution
    - Co-reference
    - Dialogical vs. Monological Discourse
    - Questions and Answers
    - Lexicon and Discourse Relations
    - Cognitive Modeling
    - Underspecification and Nonmonotonic Inferences
    etc.

    The organisers are planning to publish a selection of the results of
    the workshop either as a special issue of a journal or as a book.

    Publication (and workshop) language is English

    The workshop is endorsed by SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on
    Discourse and Dialogue, and SIGsem, the Special Interest Group on
    Semantics, of ACL.

    Invited Speakers
    ================
    Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin), USA
    Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France
    Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA
    Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
    David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany

    Paper Submission
    ================

    Researchers interested in contributing a paper to the workshop are
    invited to submit an abstract that spans not more than 3 pages in PDF or PS
    (single column, 10pt font size, a4 paper, including a bibliography)
    using the form at the workshop website
    (http://www.constraints-in-discourse.de). Reviews will be done
    blindly; the abstracts may accordingly not include explicit hints that
    allow the identification of the authors (such as "in paper (...) we
    show that").

    Important Dates
    ===============
    Conf: 3-5 June, 2005
    Deadline for Submissions: 1 March, 2005
    Notification of Acceptance: 1 April, 2005
    Final Abstracts due: 15 May, 2005

    Program Committee
    =================

    Nicholas Asher, Univ. of Texas (Austin)
    Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding
    Kurt Eberle, Lingenio GmbH, Germany
    Claire Gardent, LORIA/CNRS, France
    Barbara Grosz, Harvard Univ., USA
    Anke Holler, Ruprecht-Karls-Univ., Germany
    Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
    Livia Polanyi, Palo Alto Research Center
    Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany
    David Schlangen, Univ. Potsdam, Germany

    Organisation
    ============

    Organisation Committee:
    Anton Benz, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Kolding
    Peter Kuehnlein, Univ. Bielefeld, Germany
    Claudia Sassen, Univ. Dortmund, Germany

    Local Organisation:
    Claudia Sassen (claudia.sassen@uni-dortmund.de)

    Coordinates
    ===========
    The workshop will take place from 3-5 June, 2005. It will be hosted by
    the University of Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is situated in the
    Eastern region of the Ruhrgebiet and can easily be reached via car,
    airplane or train. The venue will be Haus Bommerholz, the conference
    center of Univ. Dortmund.

    Fees
    ====
    We thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG = German NSF) for
    the funding.

    Their support allows us to keep the fees generally low. The
    fees (including coffee breaks and lunch) are

    People from countries with weak economy: free
    Students, including PhD students: EUR 25
    Other participants from Academia: EUR 85
    Participants from commercial enterprises: EUR 170

    -- 
    Dr. Claudia Sassen    Universitaet Dortmund
    Emil-Figge-Strasse 50 IDSuL D-44227 Dortmund
    http://www.hrz.uni-dortmund.de/~hytex/storrer/cs/
    http://www.claudia-sassen.net/
    



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