36.1696, Confs: COLM 2025 Workshop: Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models (Canada)

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Date: 28-May-2025
From: Robert D. Hawkins [rdhawkins at stanford.edu]
Subject: COLM 2025 Workshop: Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models


COLM 2025 Workshop: Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models
Short Title: PragLM
Theme: Towards Language Models as Language Users

Date: 10-Oct-2025 - 10-Oct-2025
Location: Montreal, Canada
Contact: Robert Hawkins
Contact Email: rdhawkins at stanford.edu
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 23-Jun-2025

Pragmatic competence, the ability to interpret and produce language in
context, lies at the heart of human communication. From implicature to
speech act recognition, from reference resolution to conversational
repair, pragmatic reasoning shapes how we use language to collaborate,
negotiate meaning, and navigate everyday social interactions. How well
do current large language models (LLMs) approximate human pragmatics,
and what core pragmatic capacities remain beyond their reach?
The 1st Workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models (PragLM)
brings together linguists, cognitive scientists, and NLP researchers
to examine this fundamental question. We invite contributions that
probe LLMs' pragmatic capabilities through the lens of linguistic
theory: Can these models compute scalar implicatures? Do they exhibit
sensitivity to common ground? How do they handle indirect speech acts,
conversational maxims, or context-dependent reference? We particularly
welcome work that uses insights from theoretical and experimental
pragmatics to both evaluate and improve context-sensitive language use
in models. By bridging linguistic theory with computational modeling,
this workshop aims to advance our understanding of pragmatic
competence — both in machines and in human cognition.
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/
Submission deadline: June 23rd
Link to submit:
https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2025/Workshop/PragLM



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