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		            EACL-03 Workshop  on


    Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management 

 
	 	   Budapest, Hungary, April 13-14 2003
	(Just preceding the 11th Conference of the European Chapter 
            of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

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Sunday April 13


09:30 Start

09:45 - 17:00 Approaches to Dialogue Management 

09:45 'A Constructive View of Discourse Operators'
Allan Ramsay and Helen Gaylard

10:15 'An Agent Design for Effective Negotiation Dialogues'
Bryan McEleney and Gregory OhareMcEleney 

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 'Multimodal Dialogue Management in the COMIC Project'
Roberta Catizone, Andrea Setzer and Yorick Wilks

11:30 'Automating Hinting in Mathematical Tutorial Dialogue'
Armin Fiedler and Dimitra Tsovaltzi

12:00 Discussion on the issues presented in the morning papers 

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:00 Dialogue management styles
 
14:00 'Policies and Procedure for Spoken Dialogue Systems'
Matthias Denecke

14:30 'Distributed dialogue management on blackboard architecure'
Antti Kerminen and Kristiina Jokinen

15:00 'Multi-Level Architectures for Natural Activity-Oriented Dialogue'
Oliver Lemon and Lawrence Cavedon


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 Demonstations (if none, panel will be 16-17)

16:30 Panel discussion: Styles of dialogue management - are they really different?

17:30 End of Day 1


Monday April 14

09:00 - 17:00 Adaptation and learning in spoken dialogue systems

09:00 'An Indexation algorithm for vocal searches in large databases'
Christophe Dupriez and Melanie Roland 

09:30 'Flexibility and efficiency through personalisation? Experiments with a conversational Program Guide Information System'
Peter Pal Boda, Suresh Chaude, Elvira Hartikainen and Nidhi Gupta

10:00 'SesaME: A Framework for Personalised and Adaptive Speech Interfaces'
Botond Pakucs

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:00 Invited talk: Paul Heisterkamp
Paul Heisterkamp and Wilhelm-Emil Kincses
Don't talk to the driver:Situated dialog in the vehicle

Abstract:
Potential driver distraction is currently seen as a major obstacle to 
introducting new and more complex services to the vehicle environment.
Spoken dialog can be designed to largely avoid to distract the driver, if it
is adaptive to the driving situation and the cognitive workload of the
driver. We outline the state of the art of spoken dialog in the vehicle. We 
give an overview some data sources available in a modern vehicle and how these
can be used for sitation assessment. We present recent dialog systems making
use of some of those data sources to achieve more efficient interaction. We
propose how dialog can handle different driving situations. Situated dialog
can safely start interactons, offering support and services and negotiate
different options and scenarios. We call this pro-active dialog. In order 
better even adapt spoken dialog to the cognitive workload in humans under given
conditions and personal states, we are starting to combine research in spoken
dialog with neuroscience and brain imaging technology. We discuss some research
needs to fully open the possibilites of pro-active dialog.   

12:00 Discussion on the issues presented in the morning papers 

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 'Machine Learning for Shallow Interpretation of User Utterances in
Spoken Dialogue Systems' Piroska Lendvai, Anatal van den Bosch and Emiel
Krahmer

14:30 'Learning to classify utterances in a task-oriented dialogue'
William Black, Paul Thompson, Adam Funk and Andrew Conroy

15:00 Why a static interpretation is not sufficient in spatial
communication
John Bateman, Kerstin Fischer, and Thora Tenbrink

15:15 Discussion on the issues presented in the previous papers

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 Panel discussion: Adaptation and learning in intelligent
interactive systems

17:00 End of the workshop