The closing workshop of the Leverhulme funded network Dialogue Matters: Foundations for Technology Development, initially set up between London (KCL, QMUL), Edinburgh/Glasgow, Stanford, Stony Brook, Gothenburg, Essex, with additional collaborators now also participating will be held in conjunction with and around LONDIAL 2008.

This two-day workshop will feature invited presentations by members of this group and other leaders of the computational linguistics and human language technology community. The second day of the Dialogue Matters workshop will include demonstration of the Augmented Human Interaction Laboratory at QMUL.

Dates and Venues:

LONDIAL 2008 dates:

June 2nd - June 4th, 2008

Venue: King's College London Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus

Room numbers:

Monday 2nd June: G79

Tuesday 3rd June - Wednesday 4th June G73

Dialogue Matters Workshop dates:

June 2nd, at King’s College London Franklin Wilkins Building (room G79).

June 5th, at Queen Mary, University of London (rooms CS337, CS338).

Slides, hand-outs, papers and other electronic documents submitted by participants for the workshop will be found at WorkshopSix

Programme with PROVISIONAL times (slides and talks at WorkshopSix)

Monday 2nd June 2008
9.00	Towards a formal view of agents that learn from corrective feedback	R. Cooper (Göteborg)
9.40	Formalising the semantics of corrective feedback	S. Larsson (Göteborg)
10.20	Towards a balanced corpus of multimodal reference in dialogue	P. Piwek (Open University)
11.00	coffee
11.20	Layered pragmatic processes: the case of metaphorical instructions	M. Stone (Rutgers)
12.00	Incremental Processing in the InPro-Numbers Dialogue System	G. Skantze and D. Schlangen (Potsdam)
12.40	lunch
13.30	Learning models for dialog structure from corpora	A. Stent (Stony Brook)
14.10	IrRelevance: Semantics and/or Pragmatics?	J. Ginzburg (KCL)
14.50	Towards a Quantitative Model of Alignment in Communication	A. Mehler (Bielefeld)
15.30	tea
16.00	LONDIAL
Thursday 5th June 2008
9.40	Convergence and Divergence in Dialogue	P. Healey (QMUL)
10.20	Grammar as Mechanisms for Dialogue Coordination: The case of Syntactic Change	R. Cann and R. Kempson (Edinburgh and KCL)
11.00	coffee
11.30	Alignment effects in human-computer dialogue	H. Branigan (Edinburgh)
12.10	The integration advantage due to focus- and topic-marking: Evidence from Hindi	S. Vasishth and R. Shaher (Potsdam)
12.50	lunch
13.50	How audience design unfolds in articulation and gesture	S. Brennan (SUNY)
14.30	Integrating language production and comprehension in the study of communication	M. Pickering (Edinburgh)
15.10	Planning dialogue management under uncertainty: the mixture model POMDP approach	O. Lemon (Edinburgh)
15.50	tea
16:20	How to Draw a Church Window (working title)	H. Rieser (Bielefeld)
17:00	Machine understanding of dialogue among humans	S. Peters and R. Fernandez (Stanford)
17:40	Closing Discussion
19:15	Dialogue Matters celebratory dinner (Zeera Indian Restaurant, 554 Mile End Road, London, E3 4PL )

For more details contact Eleni Gregoromichelaki (eleni.greg@blueyonder.co.uk).

-- EleniGreg - 18 Apr 2008