22.98, Calls: Computational Ling, Psycholing, Semantics/USA

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Date: 22-Dec-2010
From: Ron Artstein [linguist at artstein.org]
Subject: Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:19:41
From: Ron Artstein [linguist at artstein.org]
Subject: Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

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Full Title: Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 
Short Title: Semdial 2011 

Date: 21-Sep-2011 - 23-Sep-2011
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA 
Contact Person: Ron Artstein
Meeting Email: semdial2011 at artstein.org
Web Site: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2011 

Meeting Description:

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. In 2011 the workshop will leave Europe for the first time, to be held at the Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and L.A. is a great place to visit.

SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue), 
The 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Los Angeles, September 21-23, 2011
http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011 

Call for Papers:

Deadline for receipt of papers for review: June 5, 2011

Scope:

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
- Nonlinguistic 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

Submission:

Deadline for receipt of papers is June 5, 2011, at 23:59 UTC-11. Submission will be through Easychair at the following address; it will open for submissions no later than May 1, 2011.

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2011

Submitted papers should be in the following format.

 - Anonymous PDF file
- 8 pages total (including data, tables, figures, and references)
- US letter paper size
- 11pt Times font
- 1 inch (2.5 cm) margins
- 2-column format

Include a one-paragraph abstract of the entire work (about 200 words). We strongly recommend using the style files provided by ACL-HLT 2011.

Multiple submissions by the same author or group of authors are allowed, but each person may only give one oral presentation at the workshop.

We will have a separate submission of late-breaking system demonstrations and ongoing project descriptions, to be presented in a poster session during the workshop. Late-breaking submissions will be two pages long; they will not be refereed, but evaluated for relevance only by the area chairs. Submission of late-breaking abstracts will be allowed only after review of the main session papers has concluded. The deadline for late-breaking submissions is August 7, 2011.

Proceedings:

Final, 8-page versions of the accepted papers, together with the 2-page accepted late-breaking abstracts, will be compiled in a proceedings volume and distributed (online or in print) at the workshop.

Important Dates:

Submissions due:  June 5, 2011 (Sunday)
Notification:  July 29, 2011 (Friday)
Late-breaking submissions:  August 7, 2011 (Sunday)
Notification:  August 12, 2011 (Friday)
Final versions due:  August 24, 2011 (Wednesday)
SemDial 2011 workshop:  September 21-23, 2011 (Wednesday--Friday)

Organizers:

Ron Artstein: Area chair Theoretical Linguistics, Logic, and Conversation Analysis
David DeVault: Area chair Natural Language Processing
Kallirroi Georgila: Area chair Natural Language Processing
Elsi Kaiser: Area chair Psycholinguistics
David Traum: Internal coordinator
Sudeep Gandhe: Sponsorship and fundraising
Mark Core: Demos and posters
Anton Leuski: Web site

If you have any questions, please write to one of the organizers. We do not have a dedicated email address.

SemDial 2011 homepage: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/nld/semdial2011
SemDial series homepage: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial

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