brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

University of Potsdam, Germany; September 11th-13th 2006

Invited Speakers

We are very happy to be able to annnounce that there will be invited presentations by the following distinguished speakers.

• James Allen (University of Rochester, USA) [homepage]
  A Robust Dialogue Agent for Collaborative Problem Solving
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• Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg, Germany) [homepage]
  Engaging in a multimodal dialogue with embodied conversational agents along the virtuality continuum
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• Manfred Krifka (ZAS and Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) [homepage]
  Question-Answer Congruence and the Proper Representation of Focus
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• Emanuel Schegloff (University of California LA, USA) [homepage]
  On "uh" and "uhm" and some of the things they are used to do
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The Special Session on ``Visual Attention and References to the Visual Situation'' will be openend by a (half-hour) invited presentation by

• John Kelleher and Gert-Jan Kruijff (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and DFKI, Germany)
  Handling Spatial Reference in Visually-Situated Dialogs
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