[UAI] NAACL Workshop deadline Extension - 3/2/2001

From: Cindi Thompson (cindi@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2001 - 10:32:10 PST

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    Extended Deadline CFP (March 2)

    NAACL 2001 Workshop on
    Adaptation in Dialogue Systems

    Webpage: www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html

    Overview

    The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers
    investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue
    systems, both speech and text based.

    Methods for learning and adaptation show promise for enhancing the
    robustness, flexibility, and overall accuracy of dialogue systems. While
    researchers in many parts of computational linguistics who use these
    methods have begun to form communities, the burgeoning set of activities
    within dialogue has remained relatively disparate. We are interested in
    adaptation that includes learning procedures as well as decision making
    methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring dialogue behavior based on the
    context. We would also like to explore techniques that allow a dialogue
    system to learn with experience or from data sets gathered from empirical
    studies. Researchers looking at methods to automatically improve different
    modules of dialogue systems, or the system as a whole, have not had many
    opportunities to come together to share their work. We thus welcome
    submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of
    dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP,
    and decision theory.

    Call For Papers

    We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including:

    - - Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from
         speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user
         modeling
    - - Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses
    - - Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty
    - - User and user group modeling
    - - Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems,
         including issues in annotation
    - - Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems
    - - Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to
          dialogue

    We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working
    systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to
    anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for
    demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked to
    submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of their
    current systems.

    A web site providing additional information on the
    workshop is located at:
                http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html

    Important Dates (2001):

     Paper submission deadline: Mar 2
     Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 16
     Camera ready papers due: Mar 30
     Workshop date: Jun 4

    Paper Submission

    Electronic submission only: send the postscript or pdf form of your
    submission to: timpaek@microsoft.com. The Subject line should be
    "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". A cover page should be included
    with title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and an
    abstract. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first
    author shortly after receipt. Please address any questions to
    timpaek@microsoft.com

    Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper
    submissions should consist of a full paper (we prefer 6 pages or less). The
    templates are available at the workshop web site.

    Organizers

     Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research horvitz@microsoft.com
     Tim Paek Microsoft Research timpaek@microsoft.com
     Cindi Thompson University of Utah cindi@cs.utah.edu

    Program Committee

     Jennifer Chu-Carroll IBM TJ Watson Research Center
     Peter Heeman Oregon Graduate Institute
     Diane Litman AT & T Labs
     Candace Sidner MERL
     Marilyn Walker AT & T Labs



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