First Call for Papers

                           GOTALOG 2000

        FOURTH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

                   Goteborg University, Sweden
                           June 15-17 2000

                  http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/

Gotalog 2000 will be the fourth in a series of workshops that aim
at bringing together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues in fields such as artificial intelligence,
formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, and
psychology. 

We invite abstracts on all topics related to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

- common ground in communication
- semantic interpretation in dialogues
- modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
- multi-agent models
- reference in dialogues
- reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 5
single-column pages (for talks with a duration of 30' plus 10'
discussion) together with a separate page specifying the authors'
names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts should
be submitted electronically (in postscript, html, ascii, or pdf
format) to: gotalog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: February 15th
Acceptance notice: April 15th
Final version due: May 22
Conference: June 15-17th

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Program chairs are Massimo Poesio (U Edinburgh, UK) and David Traum (U
Maryland, USA); the other members of the program committee are Johan
Bos (U Saarlandes, Germany), Jonathan Ginzburg (King's College London,
UK), Masato Ishizaki (JAIST, Japan), Gerhard Jaeger (ZAS Berlin,
Germany), Yasuhiro Katagiri (ATR, Japan), Jan van Kuppevelt (IMS
Stuttgart, Germany), Ian Lewin (SRI, UK), Diane Litman (AT&T, USA),
Johanna Moore (U Edinburgh, UK), Hannes Rieser (U Bielefeld, Germany),
David Sadek (CNET, France), Len Schubert (U Rochester, USA), and Henk
Zeevat (U Amsterdam, Netherlands).

ORGANIZATION:

This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the
EU-sponsored project TRINDI
(http://www.ling.gu.se/research/projects/trindi/).  The workshop will
take place at Goteborg University. The local conference chair is
Robin Cooper.
        
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Information about the Department of Linguistics at Goteborg University can
be found here: http://www.ling.gu.se/ 

Information about Goteborg  can be found here:
http://centralen.gp.se/tourist/
      
News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://www.ling.gu.se/gotalog/ 

Send questions by email to gotalog@cogsci.ed.ac.uk or
trindi@ling.gu.se for questions about local arrangements.
 
Previous workshops in this series include:
MunDial'97 (Munich) http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Twendial'98 (Twente) http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam) http://earth.let.uva.nl/~amstelog/