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DiaBruck 2003 SEVENTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (SEMDIAL) Saarland University Sept 4th-6th 2003 http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ Endorsed by SIGSEM http://www.sigsem.org/ the ACL Special interest Group in Computational Semantics Endorsed by SIGdial http://www.sigdial.org/ the ACL Special interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue --------------------------------------------------------------------- DiaBruck 2003 will be the seventh in a series of workshops that aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence, formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The following keynote speakers have accepted our invitation, one more invited talk is being arranged: * Nicholas Asher, University of Austin, Texas * Andreas Herzig, IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France There will also be a tutorial addressing good practice in empirically-based dialogue research. For a list of accepted papers, see the DiaBruck website. REGISTRATION The registration process has started, see the DiaBruck website. Note that the early registration deadline with a reduced fee is July 31 2003. DEMOS AND PROJECT NOTES We invite abstracts describing software demonstrations and/or actual projects relevant to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors should submit a two page abstract including names, affiliation, address, and e-mail. The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in postscript, pdf, html or ascii) via the DiaBruck website http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ (under "Submission of demos and posters"). Submissions have to be in English, which is the workshop language. Selection will be made on the basis of relevance to the workshop. The accepted abstracts will be published in the workshop proceedings and will get space for presenting posters during the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Demo and project abstracts due: July 11 2003 Acceptance notice: July 20 2003 Early registration deadline: July 31 2003 Final version due: August 4 2003 Workshop dates: September 4-6 2003 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (chair), Jonathan Ginzburg (co-chair), Anton Benz, Barbara Di Eugenio, Bonnie Webber, Colin Matheson, David Traum, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat, Jan Alexandersson, Johan Bos, Manfred Pinkal, Mary McGee Wood, Massimo Poesio, Michael Strube, Robin Cooper, Stina Ericsson ORGANIZATION: The workshop will take place in Hotel Scheidberg in Wallerfangen, about half an hour away from Saarbruecken. The local organizers are Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Bettina Klingner and Claudia Kosny. FOR MORE INFORMATION: News about the conference are being posted on the workshop's Web page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/ For further information you can also mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information about Saarland: http://www.english.saarland.de/ Information about the Saarland University: http://www.uni-saarland.de/ Information about the conference location: http://www.hotel-scheidberg.de/ Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include: (see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ ) MunDial'97 (Munich) (http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html) Twendial'98 (Twente) (http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html) Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) (http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/ ) Gotalog'00 (Gothenburg) (http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog) Bidialog'01 (Bielefeld) (http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG) EDILOG'02 (Edinburgh) (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/)