29.1086, Calls: Cog Science, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Sweden

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Subject: 29.1086, Calls: Cog Science, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Socioling/Sweden

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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:29:16
From: Christine Howes [christine.howes at gu.se]
Subject: Workshop on Dialogue and Perception

Full Title: Workshop on Dialogue and Perception 
Short Title: DaP 2018 

Date: 14-Jun-2018 - 15-Jun-2018
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden 
Contact Person: Christine Howes
Meeting Email: christine.howes at gu.se
Web Site: https://clasp.gu.se/news-events/workshop-on-dialogue-and-perception-2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 04-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The study of dialogue investigates how natural language is used in interaction
between interlocutors and how coordination and successful communication is
achieved. Dialogue is multimodal, situated and embodied, with non-linguistic
factors such as attention, eye gaze and gesture critical to understanding
communication. However, studies on dialogue have often taken for granted that
we align our perceptual representations, which are taken to be part of common
ground (grounding in dialogue, Clark, 1996). They have also typically remained
silent about how we integrate information from different sources and
modalities and the different contribution of each of these. These assumptions
are unsustainable when we consider interactions between agents with obviously
different perceptual capabilities, as is the case in dialogues between humans
and artificial agents, such as avatars or robots.

Contrarily, studies of perception have focussed on how an agent interacts with
and interprets the information from their perceptual environment. There is
significant research on how language is grounded in perception, how words are
connected to perceptual representations and agent’s actions and therefore
assigned meaning (grounding in action and perception, Harnad, 1990). In the
last decade there has been impressive progress on integrated approaches to
language, action, and perception, especially with the introduction of deep
learning methods in the field of image descriptions that use end-to-end
training from data. However, these have a limited integration to the dynamics
of dialogue and often fail to take into account the incremental and context
sensitive nature of language and the environment.

The aim of this workshop is to initiate a genuine dialogue between these
related areas and to examine different approaches from computational,
linguistic and psychological perspectives and how these can inform each other.
It will feature invited talks by leading researchers in these areas, and high
level contributed papers, presented as posters, selected through open
competition and rigorous review.

Accepted Invited Speakers (so far):

Jacob Andreas, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow
Alexia Galati, University of California, Merced
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University of London
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Call for Papers:

Workshop on dialogue and perception (DaP 2018)
Dates: June 14-15, 2018
Venue: Wallenberg Conference Centre, University of Gothenburg

Conference webpage:
https://clasp.gu.se/news-events/workshop-on-dialogue-and-perception-2018

Organised by CLASP, University of Gothenburg

We invite papers of between 2-4 pages of content and up to one additional page
for references, following the ACL style guidelines. The conference proceedings
will be published online, with an ISSN, on the CLASP website. Authors will
have the opportunity to extend their papers for the post-proceedings and will
retain the copyright of their papers and be free to publish them elsewhere,
with acknowledgement.

Registration is free and participation is open. We warmly invite everyone to
attend.

Submission of papers:

EasyChair submission address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dap2018

LaTeX style files: http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-latex.zip

Word style files: http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-word.zip

Important dates:

1. Deadline for submission: April 4, 2018
2. Notification of authors: April 20, 2018
3. Camera ready papers due: May 2, 2018

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