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LREC 2000 workshop

From spoken dialogue to full natural interactive dialogue. 
Theory, empirical analysis and evaluation.

Held in conjunction with the 
Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2000)

Athens, Greece Monday 29 May 2000, 8.50-13.20


 
 
Sponsored by Elsnet, the European Language and Speech Network
Endorsed by SIGdial, the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue of the Association for Computational Linguistics

 
 
 
 
Workshop description Call for papers
Important dates Submission
Registration Conference information
Venue Program committee
Contact person Preliminary programme

 

Workshop Description

Spoken dialogue systems have been in the marketplace since around 1990. Whereas the first systems only had single word recognition there has been a steady development towards increasingly natural spoken dialogue. The most advanced current systems still work within a limited task domain but some are capable of understanding and replying to fairly long user utterances, coping with various kinds of initiative, and taking a variety of contextual issues into account.

Naturalness, as perceived by the user, is closely connected to properties such as allowed user utterance length, grammar, vocabulary, style and initiative. Depending on task and situation, perceived naturalness is also connected to how the user can interact with the system. In human-human communication we normally do not restrict ourselves to using speech-only but also include gesture, facial expression, and bodily posture and we often draw on other information sources such as diagrams, maps and drawings. 

Natural interactive dialogue and conversational systems are moving centre-stage because of increasing interest in adding other modalities to achieve a larger potential than speech alone can offer. Several recent conversational prototype systems include one or several natural interaction modalities in addition to speech. However, there are many open questions and unsolved or insufficiently explored problems related to extending spoken dialogue management and dialogue interfaces to enable increased natural interactivity.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers in the area of natural interactive dialogue. The goal of the workshop is to highlight and evaluate empirically based theories and methods for natural multimodal conversational dialogue management and dialogue interfaces, and their evaluation. Focus will be on key issues such as dialogue initiative, reference, communicative acts, feedback, and cooperativity. See also the more detailed list of proposed topics.
 
 

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 10 March 2000

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2000

Deadline for submission of accepted papers: 10 April 2000

Workshop: 29 May 2000
 
 

Submission Details

Extended abstracts should be around 4 pages in length. Final papers should not exceed six pages. Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically to laila@nis.sdu.dk and must be in postscript or rtf format. Please write "LREC2000 workshop paper submission" in the subject line.

Final paper style format is available here.
 
 

Registration

The registration fee for the workshop is
  • if you are attending LREC: 40 Euro
  • if you are NOT attending LREC: 80 Euro
The fee includes a coffee break and the workshop proceedings.

 Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for participation will be processed on a first come first served basis. Registration is handled by the LREC Secretariat
 
 

Conference Information

General information on LREC: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html Specific queries about the conference and registration for the workshop: 

LREC Secretariat 
ILSP 
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str 
15125 Marousi 
Athens 
Greece 

Phone: +30 1 6800959 
Fax: +30 1 6856794 
E-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr
 
 

Venue

The workshop will take place at the ZAPPEION MEGARON, the venue of the LREC 2000 conference. Participants are kindly requested to organize hotel reservations via the local LREC organizers. 
 
 

Program Committee

    Laila Dybkjær, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark (chair)

    Niels Ole Bernsen, Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Odense, Denmark

    Justine Cassell, MIT Media Lab, USA

    Ronald Cole, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

    Björn Granström, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Sweden

    Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France

    Dominic W. Massaro, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, USA

    David McNeill, Dept. of Psychology, University of Chicago, USA
     
     

    Sharon Oviatt, Center for Human-Computer Communication, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA

    Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy

    Jan van Kuppevelt, IMS, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

Contact Person

Laila Dybkjær
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory
Odense University
Science Park 10
5230 Odense M, Denmark

 Phone: +45 65 50 35 53
Fax: +45 63 15 72 24
Email: laila@nis.sdu.dk
 
 
 


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