jan alexandersson ztxyydfkide apologies multiple copies first announcement 7th sigdial workshop discourse dialogue sydney july 1516 2006 continuing series successful workshops hong kong aalborg philadelphia sapporo lisboa workshop spans acl isca sigdial interest area discourse dialogue series provides regular forum presentation research area larger sigdial community well researchers outside community workshop organized sigdial sponsored jointly acl isca topics interest welcome formal corpusbased implementational analytical work discourse dialogue including restricted following three themes 1 discourse processing dialogue systems discourse semantic pragmatic issues nlp applications text summarization question answering information retrieval including topics like discourse structure temporal structure information structure discourse markers cues particles use coreference anaphora resolution metonymy bridging resolution subjectivity opinions semantic orientation spoken multimodal textweb based dialogue systems including topics dialogue management models speech gesture text graphics integration strategies preventing detecting handling miscommunication repair correction types clarification underspecificity grounding feedback strategies utilizing prosodic information understanding disambiguation 2 corpora tools methodology corpusbased work discourse spoken textbased multimodal dialogue including support particular annotation tools coding schemes data resources discourse dialogue studies corpusbased techniques analysis including machine learning evaluation systems components including methodology metrics case studies 3 pragmatic andor semantic modeling pragmatics andor semantics discourse dialogue ie beyond single sentence including following issues semanticspragmatics dialogue acts including less studied semanticspragmatics framework models discoursedialogue structure relation referential relational structure prosody discourse dialogue models presupposition accommodation operational models conversational implicature submission papers abstracts program committee welcomes submission long papers full plenary presentation well short papers demonstrations short papers demo descriptions featured short plenary presentations followed posters demonstrations long papers must longer 8 pages including title examples references etc addition two additional pages allowed appendix may include extended example discourses dialogues algorithms graphical representations etc short papers demo descriptions aim 4 pages less including title examples references etc papers submitted meetings publications must provide information see submission format sigdial 06 accept publication presentation work published elsewhere authors encouraged make illustrative materials available web otherwise example excerpts recorded conversations recordings humancomputer dialogues interfaces working systems etc important dates subject change submission february 13 2006 notification march 20 2006 final submissions april 17 2006 workshop july 1516 2006 websites workshop website httpsigdial06dfkide sigdial website httpwwwsigdialorg colingacl website httpwwwacl2006org program committee confirmed jan alexandersson dfki gmbh germany cochair alistair knott otago university new zeeland cochair masahiro araki kyoto institute technology japan ellen bard university edinburgh uk johan bos university edinburgh uk johan boye telia research sweden dirk bühler university ulm germany sandra carberry university delaware usa rolf carlson kth sweden jennifer chucarroll ibm research usa mark core university edinburgh uk laila dybkjaer university southern denmark sadaoki furui tokyo institute technology japan jonathan ginzburg kings college london uk iryna gurevych darmstadt university technology germany joakim gustafson teliasonera sweden masato ishizaki university tokyo japan michael johnston att research usa pamela jordan university pittsburgh arne jönsson linköping university sweden staffan larsson göteborg university ramón lópezcózar delgado university granada spain susann luperfoy stottler henke associates usa michael mctear university ulster uk wolfgang minker ulm university germany sharon oviatt oregon health sciences university usa tim paek microsoft research usa norbert pfleger dfki gmbh germany roberto pieraccini telleureka usa massimo poesio university essex uk norbert reithinger dfki gmbh germany alex rudnicky carnegie mellon university usa david schlangen university potsdam germany candy sidner mitsubishi electric research laboratories merl usa ronnie smith east carolina university usa matthew stone rutgers university usa marc swerts tilburg university netherlands david traum uscict usa bonnie webber university edinburgh uk janyce wiebe university pittsburgh usa ingrid zukerman monash university australia _______________________________________________ uai mailing list faqengrorstedu httpssecureengroregonstateedumailmanlistinfouai mon 04 aug 2008 182440 0100 uai 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