28.2068, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Neuroling, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 28.2068, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Neuroling, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 12:54:57
From: Volha Petukhova [v.petukhova at lsv.uni-saarland.de]
Subject: 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

 
Full Title: 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 
Short Title: SemDial (SaarDial) 

Date: 15-Aug-2017 - 17-Aug-2017
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact Person: Volha Petukhova
Meeting Email: saardial at lsv.uni-saarland.de
Web Site: http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Neurolinguistics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 –
SaarDial) will be held on August 15-17 in Saarbrücken, Germany.

The SemDial brings 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.  Continuing with a series of successful twenty previous
meetings, this workshop will be held together with SIGdial 2017.

SaarDial will be the 21st 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 2017 the workshop will be hosted by the Spoken Language
Systems Group, Saarland University, and will be collocated with the 18th
Annual SIGdal Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.

Invited Speakers: TBA

Website: http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/


Final Call for Papers:

In light of multiple requests we have extended the SemDial 2017 paper deadline
to May 15 (23:59 GMT), 2017.

SemDial 2017 - SaarDial -the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of
Dialogue, 15-17 August 2017, Saarbrücken

http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/

Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2017saardial 

Scope:

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 dialogue systems
- Dialogue management
- Designing and evaluating dialogue systems
- SIGdial&SemDial Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialogue

Important Dates:

Submission due (extended): 15 May 2017 (23:59 GMT)
Notification (extended): 16 June 2017
Final version due: 14 July 2017
SaarDial: 15-17 August 2017
SigDial 2017: 15-17 August 2017

Submissions:

Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to
2 additional pages are allowed for references).

Formatting instructions are available on the SaarDial website:
http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/?page_id=293

Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair using the following
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2017saardial 

Proceedings and Archiving:

All SemDial proceedings have an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
and are available online at http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/
New: In addition, SaarDial papers will be included in the International Speech
Communication Association (ISCA) archive and be assigned a DOI.

Committees: 

http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/?page_id=85




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