ingrid zukerman irqtywvudfghuzinfotechmonasheduau apologies multiple postings nineteenth international joint conference artificial intelligence august 1 2005 4th workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue systems extended deadline april 1 2005 description workshop workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue systems focus adaptivity dialogue systems encourage papers presenting successful adaptive dialogue systems well papers potential drawbacks challenges fourth workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue system first workshop organised ijcai99 stockholm second workshop took place ijcai2001 seattle third workshop held ijcai2003 acapulco topics addressed workshop include limited methods design development adaptive dialogue systems representation language resources adaptive dialogue systems requirements data adaptive dialogue systems acquire data role ontologies adaptive dialogue systems modelling adaptivity user models desirability adaptation practical systems investigations use adaptive systems properties important user acceptance evaluation adaptive dialogue systems evaluate techniques algorithms adaptivity dialogue systems various levels eg interpretation dialogue strategy generation robustness handle unpredictability adaptive dialogue systems architectures frameworks adaptive dialogue systems requirements methods development related architecture use techniques methods related areas alife emergence models embodied cognition 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 dialogue multimodal interfaces coordinate different information sources involves theoretical well practical research eg empirical evaluations usability formalization dialogue phenomena development intelligent interfaces various applications excluding areas robotics 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 preference given active participants selected basis submitted papers according ijcai rules workshop attendees must register main conference paper given ample time discussion customary conference said encourage contributions critical comparative nature provide fuel discussion also invite people share experiences implementing coordinating knowledge modules dialogue systems integrating dialogue components applications submission instructions potential participants invited submit papers topics outlined submissions longer 6 six pages exclusive references single spaced line ijcaistyle electronic submissions ps pdf format sent ibzstdcssemonasheduau accepted papers published workshop proceedings distributed participant note participants expected register main ijcai conference addition workshop important dates deadlines new deadline submission full papers 1 april 2005 notification acceptancerejection 29 april 2005 deadline receipt cameraready papers 25 may 2005 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 saarbrücken germany tel 496813025347 fax 496813025341 email klrqyahvehukrempdfkide kristiina jokinen media labuniversity art design helsinki uiah hämeentie 135 c fin00530 helsinki finland tel 358975630269 fax 358975630555 email grbxxltbpqmjgkdtuiahfi arne jönsson department computer information science linköping university s581 83 linköping 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 göteborgs 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 171842 1100 uai 4th ijcai workshop knowledge reasoning practical dialogue systems