31.1518, Calls: Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Subject: 31.1518, Calls: Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 20:24:50
From: Sophia Malamud [smalamud at brandeis.edu]
Subject: THE 24TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (WatchDial)

 
Full Title: THE 24TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (WatchDial) 
Short Title: SemDial 2020 

Date: 17-Jul-2020 - 19-Jul-2020
Location: Waltham, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Sophia Malamud
Meeting Email: smalamud at brandeis.edu
Web Site: https://www.brandeis.edu/nasslli2020/semdial.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

**Hosted online from Brandeis University, Waltham (Watch City), MA**

WatchDial will be the 24th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims
to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience. In 2020 the workshop will be hosted by the programs in
Linguistics and in Computational Linguistics, in collaboration with the
departments of Computer Science and Philosophy at Brandeis University, and
will be collocated with the North American Summer School in Logic, Language,
and Information.

Invited Speakers: 
-Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)
-Craige Roberts (Ohio State University and Rutgers University)
-Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)


Final Call for Papers: 

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of
dialogue, including, but not limited to:
* the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue
* common ground/mutual belief
* goals, intentions and commitments in communication
* turn-taking and interaction control
* semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
* dialogue and discourse structure
* categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora
* child-adult interaction
* language learning through dialogue
* gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
* multimodal dialogue
* interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
* dialogue management
* designing and evaluating dialogue systems

Submissions: 
Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of
content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
* Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here:
http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip
* The Overleaf template is also available here:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrkcwj
ptpcd

Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to
other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote
on the title page of the submissions. SEMDIAL 2020 cannot accept work for
publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.
Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2020 

Important Dates: 
* FINAL EXTENDED DUE DATE: May 8 2020
* Notification: June 9 2020
* Final camera-ready version due: July 5 2020
* WeSSLLI: 11-17 July 2020
* WatchDial: 18-19 July 2020

There will be a later call for 2-page abstracts describing system
demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop,
with submission deadline 19 June 2020.

Technical Programme Chairs: 
Sophia Malamud (Brandeis University)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot)

Local Organisation: 
Sophia Malamud & James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) 

SemDial Board Chairs: 
Ellen Breitholtz  (Göteborg University)
Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London)

http://semdial.org/




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