** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **



Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (WoSLaD)

(5th Workshop on Language and Space)



October 23-25, 2005

Delmenhorst, Germany



Sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

(SFB/TR8: http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/)



Workshop website: http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/WoSLaD/





Organisers:

Kenny Coventry, University of Plymouth, UK

John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany

Thora Tenbrink, University of Bremen, Germany



Invited speakers:

Martin Pickering, University of Edinburgh, UK

Luc Steels, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

Ipke Wachsmuth, University of Bielefeld, Germany



Organising committee:

Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Johan Bos, University of Edinburgh, UK

Laura Carlson, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Herb Clark, Stanford University, California, USA (tbc)

Michel Denis, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (tbc)

Christian Freksa, University of Bremen, Germany

Simon Garrod, University of Glasgow, UK

Christopher Habel, University of Hamburg, Germany

Deb Roy, MIT, USA

Michael Schober, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

Barbara Tversky, Columbia University, USA

Emile van der Zee, University of Lincoln, UK



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.



Selected 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.



Important dates

Submissions deadline: 15th June, 2005 for 6-8 page submissions. For submission requirements and more information about the workshop, please go to http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/WoSLaD/



Notification of acceptance by 15th of July (oral paper presentation, poster or rejection).



Full papers (drafts of book chapters) due by 9th October.





Venue: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Hanse Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony and Bremen, Germany (http://www.h-w-k.de/english/fsengl.htm)



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