Call for Papers
Logic and Probabilistic Methods for Dialogue Modeling
https://sites.google.com/site/logicprob4fordialog/home
August 3 -- 14, 2015
Barcelona, Spain
Organized as part of the
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2015 http://esslli2015.org/
Valeria de Paiva(valeriadepaiva (at) nuance.com)
Charlie Ortiz (charles.ortiz (at) nuance.com)
Workshop Aims Traditional approaches to dialogue modeling have focused on the representation and manipulation of symbolic representations of agent and dialogue states as well as communicative actions. More recently, data driven probabilistic approaches have been receiving greater attention within the research community. The aim of this workshop is to explore the prospects for hybrid approaches that combine both paradigms as well as analyses of the types of problems that are more amenable to one approach versus another.
Thematic Questions Some of the questions that workshop participants will discuss and attempt to answer include:
· Can a logic-based NLU (natural language understanding system) be combined effectively with a classification-based one?
· How can we profitably combine logic-based methods for ``speech act" interpretation with probabilistic methods for the same?
· What are the differences between these methods when it comes to interpretation versus generation of Natural Language utterances?
· Some of the trade-offs in speed and robustness between simpler template-based or canned text output solutions and deeper, grammar based generation of utterances are well known. But can we have a fuller picture of these trade-offs and of their range of application?
· Are there any advantages of probabilistic methods when framed in terms of plan based approaches or discourse coherence relations?
· How can natural language pipelines that incorporate a probabilistic approach at one stage of processing (for example, speech act understanding) be integrated with another module, say, a dialogue module that is strictly logic-based?
Submission Details Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract on the general theme of the workshop. Submissions should be no longer than four pages and should be in .pdf format. Please send your submission electronically to the above email addresses of the organizers, with the name of the author(s) and affiliation(s), addresses and the title of the paper in the body of the message. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI.
Workshop Format The workshop is part of ESSLLI 2015. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second week of ESSLLI. We anticipate invited talks combined with slots for paper presentations, depending on the quality and number of paper submissions. The first day of the workshop will include a general introduction to the topic of the workshop presented by the organizers; the workshop will end with a general discussion.
Follow Up The organizers intend both to organize a follow up of this workshop and a book or special journal issue around the subject. Both options will be discussed at the workshop in Barcelona.
Invited Speakers (TBA)
Workshop Program Committee (TBA)
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 1, 2015
Notifications: April 15, 2015
Camera-ready copy: June 1, 2015
Workshop: August 8-14, 2015