Dear Colleague:
below is the draft program for the Third International Workshop on
Human Computer Conversation at Bellagio. It will be on the web along with all
other hotel and registration information, at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/program.html
We can still accept a few more registrations for the Workshop, but
hotel accormodation is getting short and (non-invited) speakers and
attendees should hurry. Below the program is a set of fax numbers
for Bellagio hotels, a somewhat wider selection is given than the original set
on the website. Fax is the normal way to book hotels in Italy, and it
may be worth noting that there are always cancellations of early bookings
a month ahead of given dates, so it may well be worth faxing a repeat
request to a hotel of your choice on 1st or 2nd of June.
DRAFT PROGRAM FOR HCCW3
Monday 3rd July, 2000
Morning session
1000 Registration and Coffee.
1020 Welcome to HCCW3.
1030 Invited Talk: Some findings on the grammar of English
Conversation. Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster, UK).
1110 Invited Talk: Conversing with Stochastic Language Models.
Jason Hutchens (UWA, AUS).
Track I Submitted Papers:
1200 The Infant Conversational System.
Paul Bucheit (Harold Washington College, US)
1230 Grammars with Genetic Algorithms (The Sex Life of Grammars).
Marc Blasband (Compuleer, NL)
Track II Submitted Papers:
1200 Verbal and nonverbal discourse planning.
Catherine Pelachaud (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", IT)
1230 A Fundamental Architecture To Integrate Conversation Management
Engines with Conversation Development and Evaluation Tools.
Emmett J. Coin (ejTalk Research, US)
Evening Session
Track I Submitted Papers:
1800 Non-problems and social obligations in human-computer
conversation. Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, NL)
1830 In the beginning was the "END": Evaluation of Natural Dialogues
as a step towards improving artificial ones.
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin (CNRS-LIMSI, FR)
Track II Submitted Papers:
1800 Rule-Based Dialogue Management Systems.
Nick Webb (University of Sheffield, UK)
1830 The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language
dialogue systems.
Vincenzo Pallotta (MEDIA Research Group-DI-LITH, CH)
1900 Animated Conversational Agents in E-Commerce Enterprises.
Helen McBreen (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Tuesday 4th July, 2000
Morning Session
0930 Invited Talk: Dialogs: The Next Generation User Interface.
Bruno Alabiso (Microsoft, US).
1010 Invited Talk: Experiences from the Verbmobil Project.
Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, DE).
Coffee
Track I Submitted Papers:
1100 Information States, Obligations and Intentional Structure in
Dialogue Modelling.
Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1130 Characteristics of Acceptance Utterances in Reaction to Answers
to Questions and their Relations to Dialog Strategies.
Akira Shimazu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, JP)
1200 Question Accommodation and Information States in Dialogue.
Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University, SE)
1230 Context and Content in Dialogue Systems.
Guenther Goerz, Bernd Ludwig and Martin Klarner
(University of Erlangen-Nürenberg, DE)
Track II Submitted Papers:
1100 What Makes Speakers Angry in Human-Computer Conversation.
Kerstin Fischer (University of Hamburg, DE)
1130 A Flexible Spoken Dialogue Manager.
Eli Hagen (Simon Fraser University, CAN)
1200 Taking Turns Talking About Text In A Reading Tutor That
Listens. Gregory Aist (LTI, CMU, US)
1230 DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog
Systems. Nicolas Nicolov (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)
Evening Sessions in parallel
1800 Panel: What if any, is the role of politeness in dialogue
implementations.
(Chair: Yorick Wilks) Geoffrey Leech,
other participants to be announced.
1800 Demonstration session
Wednesday 5th July, 2000
Morning Session
0930 Invited Talk: Title to be announced.
David Traum (University of Maryland, US).
1010 Invited Talk: The Dialogue Game: designing task-oriented
spontaneous interaction systems for automated call centers.
Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Research Lab., US).
Coffee
Track I Submitted Papers:
1130 Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Sergei Nirenburg and Jim Cowie (New Mexico State University, US)
1200 Bayesian Selection of Conversational Responses.
Gene Ball (Microsoft, US)
1230 Politeness as Actions of an Implicit Task.
David Novick (University of Texas at El Paso, US)
Track II Submitted Papers:
1130 The Virtual Presenter: a Conversational Character for
Interactive TV. Marc Cavazza (University of Teeside, UK)
1200 AutoTutor's Conversational Behaviors.
Natalie Person (Rhodes College, US)
1230 "Kairai" - Software Robots Understanding Natural Language.
Yusuke Shinyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP)
Evening Session
1700 Panel: Is there a real gulf between theoretical models of
dialogue and implementations and, if so, is this a healthy
state of affairs?
(Chair: Yorick Wilks) Participants to be announced.
FAX NUMBERS OF BELLAGIO HOTELS
5* Hotels - Bellagio
Villa Serbelloni - Fax: +39 031 951529
3* Hotels - Bellagio
Belvedere - Fax +39 031 950102
Du Lac - Fax +39 031 951624
Excelsior Splendido - Fax +39 031 951224
Florence - Fax +39 031 951722
Nuovo Hotel Metropole - Fax +39 031 951534
2* Hotels - Bellagio
Europa - Fax. +39 031 950471
Fioroni - Fax. +39 031 951970
Il Perlo Panorama - Fax +39 031 951556
Nuovo Miralago - Tel. +39 031 951355
Silvio - Fax. +39 031 950912
1* Hotels - Bellagio
Genzianella - Fax. +39 031 964734
Giardinetto - Fax. +39 031 950168
La Pergola - Fax. +39 031 950263
Roma - Fax. +39 031 951966
Suisse - Fax. +39 031 951775
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