text_combined: ingrid zukerman irqtywvudfghuzinfotechmonasheduau apologies multiple postings nineteenth international joint conference artificial intelligence august 1 2005 4th workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue systems call participation please note limited number attendees allowed workshop description workshop fourth workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue systems first workshop organised ijcai99 stockholm second workshop took place ijcai2001 seattle third workshop held ijcai2003 acapulco year workshop includes presentations three main areas dialogue management adaptive discourse planning automatic learning dialogue policies probabilistic machine learning techniques significant representation main applications informationproviding systems robotics workshop allow plenty time discussion based emergent issues workshop attend workshop aims bringing together researchers practitioners work development communication models support robust efficient interaction natural language commercial dialogue systems basic research interest also anyone studying discourse dialogue multimodal interfaces coordinate different information sources involves theoretical well practical research eg empirical evaluations usability formalization dialogue phenomena development intelligent interfaces various applications workshop encourage participation system builders theoretically oriented researchers thus creating forum discussion across vocational disciplinary borders taking practical applications implemented dialogue systems point departure emphasize potential contributions theoretical empirical research applications best testbeds evaluating usefulness originality theories ideas workshop format workshop kept small maximum 40 participants interested participants contact one members organizing committee provide brief description relevant work paper given ample time discussion customary conference encourage presentations critical comparative nature provide fuel discussion accepted papers program included workshop web page k eliasson towards robotic dialogue system learning planning capabilities foster white assessing impact adaptive generation comic multimodal dialogue system frampton lemon reinforcement learning dialogue strategies using users last dialogue act j henderson lemon k georgila hybrid reinforcementsupervised learning dialogue policies communicator data b inouye biermann algorithm continuously seeks minimum length dialogs k komatani generating confirmation distinguish phonologically confusing word pairs spoken dialogue systems lesch kleinbauer j alexandersson towards decent recognition rate automatic classification multidimensional dialogue act tagset b mceleney g hare efficient dialogue using probabilistic nested user model niemann george zukerman towards probabilistic multilayered spoken language interpretation system stede schlangen talk tourists using adaptive dialogue strategy model informationseeking chat p warnestal dialogue strategy evaluation conversational recommender system jd williams p poupart young factored partially observable markov decision processes dialogue management j wyatt planning resolve ambiguous references objects organizing committee ingrid zukerman chair school computer science software engineering monash university clayton victoria 3800 australia tel 61 3 99055202 fax 61 3 99055146 email ibzstdcssemonasheduau jan alexandersson german research center artificial intelligence dfki gmbh stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66 123 saarbrucken germany tel 496813025347 fax 496813025341 email klrqyahvehukrempdfkide arne jonsson department computer information science linkoping university s581 83 linkoping sweden tel 46 13 281717 fax 46 13 142231 email oxysfidaliuse program committee johan boye telia research sweden sandra carberry university delaware usa peter heeman oregon graduate institute usa eric horvitz microsoft research usa kazunori komatani kyoto university japan staffan larsson gotteborgs universitet sweden diane litman university pittsburgh usa michael mctear university ulster uk norbert reithinger dfki germany candy sidner merl usa david traum usc institute creative technology usa wed 06 aug 2008 203440 1000 uai call participation ijcai05 workshop practical dialogue systems