Modeling Turn Taking as a Basic Mechanism of Communication

Human-computer communication requires a model of turn taking, i.e. the machine has to be able to switch between the speaker- and the hearer-mode. The hearer-mode maps language signs into a representation of their content. The speaker-mode maps content into a corresponding signs of a language of choice.

This workshop invites original work on all aspects of turn taking, for example, relating automatic word form recognition to word form production, relating syntactic-semantic parsing to semantic-syntactic parsing, analyzing the inferences needed for interpretation and production, defining the data structure for storing content, or designing the control structure for relating language interpretation and production. In addition to papers on grammar and software systems modeling turn taking, empirical investigations on dialogue systems will be considered.

Workshop chair:
Roland Hausser, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg