<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Here is a conference that might interest some of you.<div>Sorry for the editing of the agenda, it's quite messy.<br><div>Best,</div><div>Aliyah Morgenstern</div><div>Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; background-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); "><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b>S</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>EM</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b>D</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>IAL</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> 2012 (SeineDial)</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b>The 16th W</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>ORKSHOP</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> </b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>ON</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> </b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>THE</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> S</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>EMANTICS</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> </b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>AND</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> P</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>RAGMATICS</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> </b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>OF</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px Verdana"><b> D</b></span><span style="font: 17.0px Verdana"><b>IALOGUE</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
</b></span><span style="color: #797979"><b>PARIS</b></span><span style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #797979"><b>,</b></span><span style="color: #797979"><b> S</b></span><span style="font: 14.0px Verdana; color: #797979"><b>EPTEMBER</b></span><span style="color: #797979"><b> 19-21, 2012</b></span><span style="font: 20.0px 'Lucida Grande'"><b><br>
</b></span><span style="color: #797979"><b>Invited speakers: </b></span><span style="color: #2e00d4"><b>Eve V. Clark (Stanford University)</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(46, 0, 212); background-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); position: static; z-index: auto; "><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (DFKI-Saarbrücken), <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(46, 0, 212); background-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); position: static; z-index: auto; "><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> François Récanati (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure)</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 123, 12); background-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); min-height: 16px; "><b></b><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">The SEMDIAL series of workshops brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience <span style="font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'">(information on past SemDials is here: <a href="http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/"><span style="color: #2b5fbb">http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/</span></a> ).</span> </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">In 2012 the workshop will be hosted by Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7). The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and Paris is of course one of the greatest cities to visit, especially in September.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">SeineDial will be immediately preceded by a workshop on Dialogue and Contextualism (a separate announcement on this will appear in due course.) and will feature a special session on The Acquisition of Dialogue. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:</p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">models of common ground/mutual belief in communication</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">modelling agents’ information states and how they get updated</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">multi-agent models and turn-taking</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">goals, intentions and commitments in communication</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">semantic interpretation in dialogues</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">reference in dialogues</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">ellipsis resolution in dialogues</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">dialogue and discourse structure</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">interpretation of questions and answers</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">gesture in communication</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">intonational meaning in dialogue</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">humour in dialogue</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">multimodal dialogue systems</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">dialogue management in practical implementations</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">designing and evaluating dialogue systems</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">contextual factors underlying child utterances in dialogue </li>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">Organizing Committee: Jonathan Ginzburg (chair), Anne Abeillé, Margot Colinet, Philip Miller, Gregoire Winterstein </li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">Programme Committee co-chairs: Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University), Sarah Brown Schmidt (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">SemDial Presidents: Raquel Fernández Rovira (University of Amsterdam), David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)</li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Verdana">Sponsors: CLLILAC-ARP, Laboratoire Linguistique Formelle,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 15px; "><span style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> LabEx </span>Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL).</span></li>
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