23.139, Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Comp Ling/France

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Date: 06-Jan-2012
From: David Schlangen [david.schlangen at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue


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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:46:17
From: David Schlangen [david.schlangen at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

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Full Title: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 
Short Title: SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial) 

Date: 19-Sep-2012 - 21-Sep-2012
Location: Paris, France 
Contact Person: Jonathan Ginzburg
Meeting Email: yonatan.ginzburg at paris7.jussieu.fr
Web Site: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2012 

Meeting Description:

SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial)
16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Paris, September 19-21, 2012


Invited Speakers:

Eve V. Clark (Stanford University)
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (DFKI-Saarbrücken)                                                  
François Récanati (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure)

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 (information on past SemDials is here: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/). 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. 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. 

Call for Papers:

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

Models of common ground/mutual belief in communication
Modelling agents' information states and how they get updated
Multi-agent models and turn-taking
Goals, intentions and commitments in communication
Semantic interpretation in dialogues
Reference in dialogues
Ellipsis resolution in dialogues
Dialogue and discourse structure
Interpretation of questions and answers
Gesture in communication
Intonational meaning in dialogue
Humour in dialogue
Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
Multimodal dialogue systems
Dialogue management in practical implementations
Categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora
Designing and evaluating dialogue systems
Contextual factors underlying child utterances in dialogue 
Repair in child/adult interaction

Submissions will be fully reviewed and should be in the form of full papers of no more than 8 pages. Submissions will be handled by an online submission system; information will be provided on the webpage of the workshop

Important Dates:

May 1, 2012: Paper submissions due at 23:59 UTC-11
June 15, 2012: Author notification for full papers
June 30, 2012: Poster and demo submissions
July 10, 2012: Author notification for posters and demos
August 20, 2012: Camera-ready copies
September 19 - 21, 2012: Workshop in Paris

Organizing Committee: Jonathan Ginzburg (chair), Anne Abeillé, Margot Colinet, Philip Miller, Gregoire Winterstein 

Programme Committee co-chairs: Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University), Sarah Brown Schmidt (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

SemDial Presidents: Raquel Fernández Rovira (University of Amsterdam), David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)

Sponsors: CLLILAC-ARP, Laboratoire Linguistique Formelle, LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL)





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