[Research | Projects | Publications | S&D | Education | Jobs | Staff] LREC 2000 workshop From spoken dialogue to full natural interactive dialogue.
Held in conjunction with the
Athens, Greece Monday 29 May 2000, 8.50-13.20
Workshop DescriptionSpoken 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 DatesDeadline for submission of extended abstracts: 10 March 2000Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2000 Deadline for submission of accepted papers: 10 April 2000 Workshop: 29 May 2000
Submission DetailsExtended 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.
RegistrationThe registration fee for the workshop is
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 InformationGeneral information on LREC: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html Specific queries about the conference and registration for the workshop:LREC Secretariat
Phone: +30 1 6800959
VenueThe 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
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 PersonLaila DybkjærNatural Interactive Systems Laboratory Odense University Science Park 10 5230 Odense M, Denmark Phone: +45 65 50 35 53
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