Introduction

Abstract

We announced in the justification for the workshop that the title collaborative dialogue technologies stresses the focus on conversational models of group interaction. Our intention was to indicate our priorities in the list of the potential topics to be covered under the more generic heading of distance learning. In this sense, the choice about the book title has influenced the outcome. Differently from other edited publications, the book presents work in progress at the moment with a special emphasis on modelling dialogues in general and learning dialogues in particular, at a distance through a computer network.