[Corpora-List] Prelimiinary Call for Papers: SemDial 2010 (June 16-18 2010, Poznan, Poland)

[Matthew Purver]

SemDial 2010 -- The 14th International Workshop on the Semantics and 
Pragmatics of Dialogue

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
June 16-18, 2010

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

The SemDial series of workshops aims to bring together researchers 
working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as 
artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal 
semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science.
SemDial 2010 will be the 14th workshop in the SemDial series and it will 
be organized at the Institute of Psychology (Chair of Logic and 
Cognitive Science), Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU), Poznan. AMU is one 
the Poland’s largest institutions of higher education, located in a 
historical city of Poznan.

WEBSITE: http://www.semdial2010.amu.edu.pl
E-MAIL: semdial at amu.edu.pl

SCOPE

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics 
of dialogue, 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
— implicature production and reception in natural speech
— cognitive processes involved in verbal communication
— dialogue and discourse structure
— interpretation of questions and answers
— nonverbal interaction in communication
— 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

DATES AND DEADLINES

1. Full 8-page papers
— Submission due: 15 March 2010
— Notification of acceptance: 12 April 2010
— Camera-ready papers due: 04 May 2010

2. 2-page poster or demo descriptions
— Submission due: 12 April 2010
— Notification of acceptance: 04 May 2010

3. SemDial 2010: June 16-18, 2010 (Wednesday-Friday)

Full papers will be in the usual 8-page, 2-column format. There will 
also be poster and demo presentations. The selection of posters and 
demos will be based on 2-page descriptions. Selected descriptions will 
be included in the proceedings. The styles and detailed instructions 
needed for proper submission preparation will be available
soon on the conference website (http://www.semdial2010.amu.edu.pl).

The best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions to 
Dialogue & Discourse, the new open-access journal dedicated exclusively 
to research on language ‘beyond the single sentence’ 
(http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org).

ORGANISATION

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London)
Andrzej Wisniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Katarzyna Budzynska-Nowacka (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw)
Maria Golka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Dorota Leszczynska-Jasion (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Paweł Łupkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Jerzy Pogonowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Joanna Szwabe (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Mariusz Urbanski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

PREVIOUS SEMDIAL EVENTS

Previous workshops in the SemDial series include:
— DiaHolmia, Stockholm, 24-26 June 2009
— LONDIAL, London, 2-4 June 2008
— DECALOG , Rovereto, 30 May - 1 June 2007
— brandial, Potsdam, 11-13 September 2006
— DIALOR, Nancy, 9-11 June 2005
— CATALOG, Barcelona, 19-21 July 2004
— DiaBruck, Saarbrücken, 4-6 September 2003
— EDILOG, Edinburgh, 4-6 September 2002
— BI-DIALOG, Bielefeld, 14-16 June 2001
— GÖTALOG, Gothenburg, 15-17 June 2000
— Amstelogue, Amsterdam, 7-9 May 1999
— Twendial, Twente, 13-15 May 1998
— MunDial, Munich, 10-12 May 1997

SemDial Workshop Series homepage: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/

-- 
Matthew Purver - http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/

Senior Research Fellow
Interaction, Media and Communication
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK


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