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Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue: Programme 

(Last change: October 12th, 2005)

October 23-25, 2005
Delmenhorst, Germany:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg

Sunday, Oct 23 17:00 Registration opens

18:00
Icebreaker (drinks reception), followed by dinner at HWK

Monday, Oct 24

[Breakfast at the hotel]

09:15
Welcome


09:30 – 10:30
Invited talk
Luc Steels:
The Role of Embodiment in the Emergence of Spatial Language



10:30
Coffee break


11:00 – 13:00
Workshop session:
Spatial prepositions – bridging the gap between monologue and dialogue


11:00
Laura Carlson & Patrick Hill:
Formulating spatial descriptions across various dialogue contexts

11:40
Ronan O’Ceallaigh, Kenny Coventry & Angelo Cangelosi:
The role of context in spatial language comprehension

12:20
Matthew Watson, Martin Pickering & Holly Brannigan:
Flexible reference frames in dialogue


13:00
Lunch (at HWK)


14:30 – 17:30
Workshop session:
Ways of communicating spatial relations


14:30
Stavros Skopeteas:
Information structure versus salience in spatial descriptions: a production experiment in dialogical interaction

15:10
Thora Tenbrink:
Identifying objects in English and German: Empirical investigations of spatial contrastive reference


15:50
Coffee break


16:10
Christian Hying:
A semantic annotation scheme for spatial relations in dialogue

16:50
Sandra Lozano and Barbara Tversky:
Gestures aid both Communicators and Recipients


17:30 – 19:00
Poster session
Jana Holsanova: Spatial language and dialogue: A multimodal perspective
Georg Jahn and Lara Webber: Aligning with a Ghost: Perspective, Belief, and Function in Spatial Reasoning
Sarah Kriz and Mary Hegarty: Spatial Perspective and Linguistic Planning
Matt MacMahon: Understanding and Following Route Instructions Through Large-Scale Space
Philippe Muller and Laurent Prévot: Grounding information in route explanation dialogues
Geda Paulsen: "Bossy" causative verbs in Finnish: Power abuse and social attitudes lexicalized in the derived causative verbs
Sumit Sen and Krzysztof Janowicz: Semantics of motion verbs
Constanze Vorwerg: Consistency in successive spatial utterances
Masao Yokota: An Approach to Integrated Spatial Language Understanding Based on Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory


19:00
Dinner (at HWK)



[Informal continuation of poster session]



Tuesday, Oct 25

[Breakfast at the hotel]


9:00
Invited talk
Martin Pickering: Alignment in dialogue


10:00 – 11:20
Workshop session: Route navigation

10:00

Stefan Münzer and Hubert Zimmer: Computer aided navigation as a spatial communication task

10:40
Anna Filipi and Roger Wales: An interactional account of what might determine shifts in speakers’ use of ‘come’ and ‘go’ in a map task


11:20
Coffee break


11:50 – 13:10
Workshop session: Spatial language and gesture

11:50
Katharina Rohlfing: Pointing to spatial relations in mother-child dialogue

12:30
Kristina Striegnitz, Paul Tepper, Andrew Lovett, and Justine Cassell: Knowledge representation for generating locating gestures in route directions


13:10
Lunch (at HWK)


14:30 – 15:50
Workshop session: Partner adaptation

14:30
Michael Schober: Spatial Dialogue between Partners with Mismatched Abilities

15:10
Kerstin Fischer: Discourse conditions for spatial perspective taking


15:50
Coffee break


16:10 – 17:30
Workshop session: Dialogue structure and modelling

16:10
Leo Ferres, Avi Parush, Maria Rasouli, and Meaghan Bierne: Modelling spatial dialog: the speaker role

16:50
Hui Shi and Thora Tenbrink: Telling ROLLAND where to go: HRI dialogues on route navigation


17:30
Invited talk
Ipke Wachsmuth: Representation and Processing of Shape in Coverbal Iconic Gestures


18:30
Conference close


19:30

Workshop dinner at Hof Hoyerswege


Contact tenbrink@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de



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