Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue
(5th Workshop on Language and Space)
October 23-25, 2005
Delmenhorst, Germany
Programme
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| Organisers |
Kenny Coventry
John Bateman
Thora Tenbrink
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University of Northumbria,
UK
University of Bremen, Germany
University of Bremen, Germany
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| Invited speakers
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Martin Pickering
Luc Steels
Ipke Wachsmuth
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University of Edinburgh,
UK
Free University of Brussels, Belgium
University of Bielefeld, Germany
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Organising committee
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Nicholas Asher
Johan Bos
Laura Carlson
Christian Freksa
Simon Garrod
Christopher Habel
Deb Roy
Michael Schober
Barbara Tversky
Emile van der Zee
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University of Texas
at Austin, USA
University of Edinburgh, UK
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
University of Bremen, Germany
University of Glasgow, UK
University of Hamburg, Germany
MIT, USA
New School for Social Research, NY, USA
Stanford University, USA
University of Lincoln, UK
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Workshop description:
Spatial language
and Dialogue |
Research on spatial language comprehension and production has been
a hive of activity over the last few years. For example, a number of
recent published books (both edited and authored) have been dedicated
to the topic (e.g., Carlson & van der Zee, 2005, Coventry &
Garrod, 2004; Levinson 2003; van der Zee & Slack 2003). However,
in spite of the attention paid to understanding spatial language understanding,
most of the work has focused on monologue in often restricted situations.
Yet there is growing interest in theories of dialogue (e.g., Clark, 1996;
Pickering & Garrod, 2004), but thus far not much work has been conducted
using dialogue in the spatial language domain. The purpose of this workshop
is to bring researchers together working on spatial language and dialogue
in order to share what is known about spatial language and dialogue
and to facilitate moving the literature in this direction. We encourage
submissions from those working on spatial language and dialogue, human-human
dialogue, human-robot dialogue and robot-robot dialogue. Each submission
should be targeted to issues of spatial language and dialogue, but a focus
on spatial language or dialogue with pointers towards dialogue/spatial
language will also be considered.
Initial submissions should have a length of about 6-8 pages and
adhere to the required format.
They should be sent electronically as pdf to Thora Tenbrink by June
15th, 2005.
The workshop will be limited to a maximum of 45 participants (19 slots
for oral presentations, 10-15 slots for poster presentations plus some additional
non-presenting slots).
Selected full papers from the workshop will be published
in an edited volume (working title Spatial Language in Dialogue) in the
Oxford University Press Language and Space series.
References
Carlson, L. A. &
van der Zee, E. (Eds.) (2005). Functional features in language and
space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Clark, H. H. (1996). Using language. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Coventry, K. R. & Garrod, S.C, (2004). Saying, seeing
and acting. The psychological semantics of spatial prepositions.
Psychology Press. Hove and New York.
Pickering, M. & Garrod, S. (2004). Toward a mechanistic
psychology of dialogue. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27,
169-226.
van der Zee, E. & Slack, J. (Eds.), (2003). Representing
Direction in Language and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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| Dates |
Paper submission
Notification of acceptance
Full papers (drafts of book chapters)
Workshop
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15th June, 2005
22nd July, 2005 (oral paper presentation, poster or rejection)
9th October, 2005
October 23-25, 2005
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Submission
requirements
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Extended abstracts,
6-8 pages
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Submission format: Sample.
Submissions should be in pdf format.
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Venue
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Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
(Hanse Institute for Advanced Study)
Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony and Bremen,
Germany
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| Contact Address |
tenbrink@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de
Thora Tenbrink
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
P.O.Box 330 440
28334 Bremen, Germany
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