AAAI Fall 1997 Symposium on
Communicative Action in Humans and Machines
November 8-10th, 1997, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA


Final Schedule

Saturday Nov. 8thSunday Nov. 9thMonday Nov. 10th

This is the final actual schedule of presentations

Symposium overview

Day 1Saturday Nov. 8
Session I: Introduction, Reports, and Coding Exercise9:00am -10:30am
Session II: Dialogue Act Annotations11:00am -12:30pm
Session III: Logical Foundations2:00pm -3:30pm
Session IV: Multi-Modal Communicative Action4:00pm -5:30pm
Day 2Sunday Nov. 9
Session V: Views on Communicative Act Meaning9:00am -10:30am
Session VI: Social Aspects11:00am -12:30pm
Session VII: Multi-modal Action Systems2:00pm -3:30pm
Session VIII: Models of Action for Dialogue Systems4:00pm -5:30pm
Day 3Monday Nov. 10
Session IX: Communicative Action and Context
(Joint session with Context Symposoum)
9:00am -10:30am
Session X: Wrap-up11:00am -12:30pm

Saturday, November 8th

Session I: Introduction, Reports, and Coding Exercise

9:00am -10:30am
Introduction and Welcome David Traum
Reports on DRI Dialogue Act Coding Susann Luperfoy
Masato Ishizaki
Barbara Di Eugenio
Dialogue Act Coding Exercise
Open Discussion
Coffee Break10:30am-11:00am

Session II: Dialogue Act Annotations

11:00am -12:30pm
Coding Dialogues with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme Mark G. Core and James Allen
Reconstructed Intentions in Collaborative Problem Solving Dialogues Barbara Di Eugenio, Pamela W. Jordan, Richmond H. Thomason, and Johanna D. Moore
A Scheme for Annotating Problem Solving Actions In Dialogue Teresa Sikorski and James F. Allen
Discourse Routines in Decision-Making Interactions Sherri L. Condon, Claude G. Cech, and William R. Edwards
Discussant Susann Luperfoy
Open Discussion
Lunch break12:30pm-2:00pm

Session III:Logical Foundations

2:00pm -3:30pm
Specifying Communicative Multi-Agent Systems with ConGolog Steven Shapiro
Interrelating Interpretation and Generation in an Abductive Framework Richmond H. Thomason and Jerry R. Hobbs
Applying Theories of Communicative Action in Generation Using Logic Programming Matthew Stone
Discussant David Sadek
Open Discussion
Coffee Break3:30pm-4:00pm

Session IV: Multi-Modal Communicative Action

4:00pm -5:30pm
Types of contexts and their role in multimodal communication Giacomo Ferrari
A Discussion on Augmenting and Executing SharedPlans for Multimodal Communication Massimo Zancanaro, Oliviero Stock, and Carlo Strapparava
MITRE multimodal dialogue work Susann Luperfoy
Discussant Johanna Moore
Open Discussion
Symposium Reception6:30pm-7:30pm

Sunday, November 9th

Session V: Views on Communicative Act Meaning

9:00am -10:30am
Perlocutions: The Achilles' Heel of Speech Act Theory Daniel Marcu
Grice's Theory Of Meaning Stephen R. Bayne
Protocols Amoung Computational Agents: Towards a Model based on the Success and Satisfaction B. Chaib-draa
Discussant Richmond Thomason
Open Discussion
Coffee Break10:30am-11:00am

Session VI: Social Aspects

11:00am -12:30pm
An Activity Based Approach to Pragmatics Jens Allwood
Communicative Action as Bargaining: Utility, Relevance, Elementary Social Acts Arthur Merin
Simple Actions, Complex Acts David G. Novick
Discussant David Traum
Open Discussion
Lunch break12:30pm-2:00pm

Session VII: Multi-modal Action Systems

2:00pm -3:30pm
Media-Independent Communicative Actions in Integrated Text and Graphics Generation Nancy Green, Stephen Kerpedjiev, Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna Moore, and Steven F. Roth
A Time to Be Silent and a Time to Speak: Time-Sensitive Communicative Actions in a Reading Tutor that Listens
(Under Revision: Please Do Not Cite)
Gregory Aist and Jack Mostow
Collaboration With an Interface Agent Via Direct Manipulation and Communication Acts Charles Rich and Candace L. Sidner
Discussant Oliviero Stock
Open Discussion
Coffee Break3:30pm-4:00pm

Session VIII: Models of Action for Dialogue Systems

4:00pm -5:30pm
Communicative Actions in a Dialog Model for Cooperative Discourse: an initial report Cecile Balkanski and Martine Hurault-Plantet
Towards a standard for an Agent Communication Language Yannis Labrou and Tim Finin
Representing Communicative Action in a Dialogue-Based Intelligent Tutoring System Reva Freedman
Discussant Candace Sidner
Open Discussion
Plenary Session6:00pm-7:00pm

Monday, November 10th

Session IX: Communicative Action and Context
(joint session with Context in Knowledge Representation & Natural Language Symposium)

9:00am -10:30am
Overview of Context-related material in Communicative Action SymposiumDavid Traum
Overview of Communication-related material in Context SymposiumLucja Iwanska
Representing Conversation Acts in a Unified Semantic/Pragmatic Framework Massimo Poesio and David R. Traum
Panel on Context and Communicative Action Richmond Thomason
Nick Asher
David Novick
Open Discussion
Coffee Break10:30am-11:00am

Session X: Wrap-up

11:00am -12:30pm
Summaries of Interesting Points of the Previous Sessions Candace Sidner
David Traum
Richmond Thomason
Johanna Moore
David Sadek
Susan Luperfoy
Open Discussion

David Traum