DiaBruck 2003 Program

Invited Speakers

For abstracts of invited talks click here.

Tutorial

A team of experts prepared a tutorial on good practice in empirically-based dialogue research. The tentative list of themes includes the importance of grounding theoretical research empirically, good-practice for corpus collection (what there is and ways of getting own data; data reuse), good practice for corpus analysis and annotation (standard methodology, guidelines, tested schemes, reliability etc.), tools (what there is, what does it (not) support), representations and standards there (importance of standoff and multilevel annotation), evaluation and reporting on it.

Details and slides here.

The tutorial was presented by David Traum, Michael Strube and Laurent Romary.

DiaBruck Workshop Schedule

(Last change: Sept 05, 2003)

For a list of all accepted papers click here.
For a list of posters and demos click here.

Thursday, September 4 2003

9:00 - 10:30 Tutorial (Part 1)
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment break
11:00 - 12:30 Tutorial (Part 2)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch-buffet in the hotel
14:00 - 15:00 Invited talk: Andreas Herzig
15:00 - 16:00 Demos and posters (Session I)
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment break
16:30 - 17:00 Boye and Wirén: Negotiative Spoken Dialogue Interfaces to Databases
17:00 - 17:30 Sidner, Lee and Lesh: Engagement Rules for Human-Robot Interaction
17:30 - 18:00 Hulstijn: Roles in Dialogue
18:30 Departure of bus from hotel
19:00 - 22:00 Boat trip on the river Saar with BBQ

Friday, September 5 2003

9:00 -   9:30 Ferrari and Castagneto: Influence of Regional Features on Map-Task Dialogues
9:30 - 10:00 Larsson: Interactive Communication Management in an Issue-Based Dialogue System
10:00 - 10:30 Purver and Fernandez: Utterances as Update Instructions
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment break
11:00 - 11:30 Yabushita: Topicality in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Questions and Answers, Evidence for a File-Like Structure of Information State
11:30 - 12:00 Corblin: Presuppositions and Commitment Stores
12:00 - 12:30 Maier and van der Sandt: Denial and Correction in Layered DRT
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch-buffet in the hotel
14:00 - 15:00 Invited talk: Nicholas Asher
15:00 - 16:00 Demos and posters (Session II)
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment break
16:30 - 17:00 Thomas and Matheson: Modelling Concession Across Speakers in Task-Oriented Dialogue
17:00 - 17:30 Lebbink, Witteman and Meyer: A Dialogue Game to Agree to Disagree about Inconsistent Information
17:30 - 18:30 Demos and posters (Session III)
19:30 Dinner-buffet in the hotel

Saturday, September 6 2003

9:00 -   9:30 Kreutel and Mann: Discourse Obligations and Dialogue Macrogame Theory: An Exploratory Analysis
9:30 - 10:00 Zeevat: The Syntax-Semantics Interface of Speech Act Markers
10:00 - 10:30 Ludwig, Görz, Huber and Reiss: Combining the Practical Syllogism and Planning in Dialogue, replaced by Muller and Prévot: An empirical study of acknowledgement structures
10:30 - 11:00 Refreshment break
11:00 - 11:30 Landragin: Referring to Objects Through Sub-Contexts in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
11:30 - 12:00 Pfleger, Engel and Alexandersson: Robust Multimodal Discourse Processing
12:00 - 12:30 Stone and Thomason: Coordinating Understanding and Generation in an Abductive Approach to Interpretation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch-buffet in the hotel
14:00 - 14:30 Kibble: Towards the Elimination of Centering Theory
14:30 - 15:00 Brown-Schmidt and Tanenhaus: Referential Domains and the Interpretation of Referring Expressions in Interactive Conversation
15:00 - 16:00 Invited talk: Martin Pickering
16:00 - 16:30 Refreshment break
17:00 - 19:00 Walk to the Devil's Castle (Teufelsburg)
19:30 Farewell dinner-buffet in the hotel