29.4239, FYI: Call for Papers: Volume on Dialogue and Perception

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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 02:39:15
From: Ellen Breitholtz [ellen.breitholtz at ling.gu.se]
Subject: Call for Papers: Volume on Dialogue and Perception

 
Special issue of CLASP Papers in Computational linguistics (ISSN:2002-9764) on
dialogue and perception
https://clasp.gu.se/publications/clasp-papers-in-computational-linguistics
 
Following a successful workshop on Dialogue and Perception
(https://clasp.gu.se/news-events/workshop-on-dialogue-and-perception-2018) 
we are now compiling a volume dedicated to the topics of the workshop.
 
The study of dialogue investigates how natural language is used in interaction
between interlocutors and how coordination and successful communication is
achieved. Dialogue is multimodal, situated and embodied, with non-linguistic
factors such as attention, eye gaze and gesture critical to understanding
communication. However, studies on dialogue have often taken for granted that
we align our perceptual representations, which are taken to be part of common
ground (grounding in dialogue, Clark, 1996). They have also typically remained
silent about how we integrate information from different sources and
modalities and the different contribution of each of these. These assumptions
are unsustainable when we consider interactions between agents with obviously
different perceptual capabilities, as is the case in dialogues between humans
and artificial agents, such as avatars or robots.
 
Contrarily, studies of perception have focussed on how an agent interacts with
and interprets the information from their perceptual environment. There is
significant research on how language is grounded in perception, how words are
connected to perceptual representations and agent’s actions and therefore
assigned meaning (grounding in action and perception, Harnad, 1990). In the
last decade there has been impressive progress on integrated approaches to
language, action, and perception, especially with the introduction of deep
learning methods in the field of image descriptions that use end-to-end
training from data. However, these have a limited integration to the dynamics
of dialogue and often fail to take into account the incremental and context
sensitive nature of language and the environment.
 
The aim of this collection is to initiate a genuine dialogue between these
related areas and to examine different approaches from computational,
linguistic and psychological perspectives and how these can inform each other.
 
We invite papers of between 8-12 pages of content and up to two additional
pages for references, following the ACL style guidelines.  

 
Submission of papers:
 
LaTeX style files: http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-latex.zip
Word style files: http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-word.zip
Submissions via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dap20180

Important dates:
 
1. Deadline for submission: 5th December 2018
2. Reviewing completed by: 6th February 2018
3. Camera ready papers due: 27th March 2019

 
-- 
Christine Howes, Simon Dobnik and Ellen Breitholtz
Editors
 
Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
University of Gothenburg
Box 200, 405 30 GÖTEBORG
 
www.christinehowes.com
www.dobnik.net/simon/
www.clasp.gu.se/about/people/ellen-breitholtz
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Pragmatics





 



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