University of Munich

Doctoral Program "Language, Information, Logic"


MunDial'97


Munich Workshop on

Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue


10-12 March 1997


Program

March 10
9.00 - 9.45
Registration
9.45 - 10.00
Opening
10.00 - 11.00 Jonathan Ginzburg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) "On Some Semantic Consequences of Turn Taking"
11.10 - 11.50 Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) & Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) Questions in Dialogue"
12.00 - 12.40 Joris Hulstijn (University of Twente) "Structured Information States -- Raising and Resolving Issues"
12-40 - 14.10
Lunch Break
14.10 - 14.50 Paul Piwek (IPO, Eindhoven) "The Construction of Answers"
15.00 - 15.40 Thomas Jüngling (University of Munich) "A Decision Theoretic Formulation of the Gricean Quantity Maxim"
15.40 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.40 Robbert-Jan Beun (I.P.O. Eindhoven) "Coherence in Cooperative Dialogue"
16.50 - 17.30 Hannes Rieser (University of Bielefeld) "Agents Coordination of Syntax Production in Dialogue"
March 11
10.00 - 11.00 Henk Zeevat (University of Amsterdam) "How to Dialogue? The proper role of common grounds"
11.10 - 11.50 Paulo Quaresma & José Gabriel Lopes (University of Lisbon) "Updating and Revising the Agents Mental States in Dialogue"
12.00 - 12.40 Nicholas Asher (University of Texas at Austin) & Tim Fernando (IMS, Stuttgart) "Nonincrementality and Revision in Dialogue"
12.40 - 14.10
Lunch Break
14.10 - 14.50 Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri & Hanae Koiso (ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto) "Scorekeeping for Conversation-Construction"
15.00 - 15.40 Pat Healey (University of Manchester) & Carl Vogel (IMS, Stuttgart) "Success in Dialogue"
15.40 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.40 Wolfgang Heydrich (University of Bielefeld) "Coordination and Common Ground in Dialogue"
16.50 - 17.30 René Ahn (Tilburg University) & Tijn Borghuis (Eindhoven University of Technology) "Communication Modelling and Context Dependent Interpretation, an Integrated Approach"
20.00 - ??
Party
March 12
10.00 - 11.00 Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam) "Questions in Dynamic Semantics"
11.10 - 11.50 Paul Dekker (University of Amsterdam) "With Reference to Partial Objects"
11.50 - 12.00
Coffee Break
12.00 - 12.40 Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh) "The Dynamics of Discourse Situations"
12.50 - 13.30 Jelle Gerbrandy (University of Amsterdam) "Belief Change in a Multi-Agent Framework"


Organisation


20/3/1997, questions and comments to Gerhard Jäger