[Corpora-List] Call for short papers: SEMDIAL 2014 Workshop, Sept 1st-3rd, Edinburgh, UK

[Raquel Fernandez]

SemDial 2013 (DialWatt) Call for abstracts

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		semdial 2014 - DialWatt
THE 18TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
	
	http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/Semdial/

                   1-3 September 2014
                        Edinburgh

** Call for abstracts on ongoing projects or system demonstrations **
	** Submission deadline extended to 7 July 2014 **

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DialWatt will be the 18th 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.

*INVITED SPEAKERS:*

- Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
- Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh)
- Matthew Purver (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Michael Schober (New School for Social Research)


*ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS*

We invite abstracts on ongoing projects or system demonstrations
on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogue, including, but not limited to:

- dialogue and discourse structure
- common ground/mutual belief
- combination of statistical and symbolic methods
- multimodal interaction
- dialogue management
- turn-taking and interaction control
- categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- child-adult interaction
- language learning through dialogue
- strategic communication
- socially intelligent interaction
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems

Authors should submit an abstract of 2 pages of content (1 additional 
page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of 
the submission site are available
on the dialWatt website. Abstract submissions will not be refereed, but 
evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need 
to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

Short paper submissions due:	7 July 2014
Notification:		11 July 2014
DialWatt:		1-3 September 2014

*RELATED EVENTS*

In 2014 the workshop will be hosted by the Interaction Lab 
(https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/), Heriot-Watt 
University. DialWatt will be collocated with RO-MAN 2014 
(http://rehabilitationrobotics.net/ro-man14/) and AMLaP 2014 
(http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/AMLaP/).

The summer school in Psychological and Computational Models of Language 
Production 
(http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/RefNet/index.html) and the 
world famous Edinburgh festival take place just before DialWatt. 
http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/planning-for-edinburgh-festivals-2014

*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:*

Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
Philippe Muller (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

*LOCAL ORGANISATION:*

Arash Eshghi (general chair)
Mary Ellen Foster (local organiser)
Andy Taylor (website).

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:*

Nicholas Asher, Timo Baumann,Luciana Benotti, Nate Blaylock, Holly 
Branigan, Valeria De Paiva, Paul Dekker, David Devault, Arash Eshghi, 
Raquel Fernández, Victor Ferreira, Kallirroi Georgila, Jonathan 
Ginzburg, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Markus Guhe, Pat Healey, Heriberto 
Cuayahuitl, Anna Hjalmarsson, Amy Isard,  Simon Keizer, Ruth Kempson, 
Alexander Koller, Pierre Lison, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Colin 
Matheson, Gregory Mills, Chris Potts, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, 
Hannes Rieser, David Schlangen, Gabriel Skantze, Amanda Stent, Matthew 
Stone, David Traum, Nigel Ward

*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:*

Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)
http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/

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