37.1584, Confs: 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (United Kingdom)

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Date: 24-Apr-2026
From: Bill Noble [winoble at mit.edu]
Subject: 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue


30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Short Title: SemDial 2026 - LuffDial
Theme: Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

Date: 03-Sep-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Loughborough, United Kingdom
Contact: Bill Noble
Contact Email: winoble at mit.edu
Meeting URL: https://semdial2026.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics

Submission Deadline: 17-Jun-2026

We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop
on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough
University, Loughborough UK. This conference brings together
researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across
diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience.
Topics:
Submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal,
computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to:
 - Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue
 - Common ground and mutual belief
 - Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
 - Turn-taking and interaction control
 - Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
 - Dialogue and discourse structure
 - Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
 - Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue
 - Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
 - Multimodal dialogue
 - Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
 - Dialogue management, design, and evaluation
 - Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
 - Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological
approaches to dialogue
 - Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research
Submission Details:
Submissions should meet the following requirements:
 - Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review
elsewhere.
 - Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the
title page of the submissions.
 - Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and use the ACL
submission templates: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/
 - Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.
Long papers:
 - 4-8 pages of content,
 - (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for
limitations and optionally ethical considerations,
 - unlimited pages of references,
 - (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be
selective).
Short papers (Posters):
 - Up to 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for
references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.
 - Accepted short papers will be presented as posters at the
conference.
 - (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for
limitations and optionally ethical considerations,
 - (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be
selective).
Submission: Please submit your paper via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2026
Important Dates:
Jun 17  - Long Paper Deadline
Jul  9  - Reviews completed
Jul 16  - Notification
Jul 17  - Short Paper (Poster) Deadline
Jul 24  - Notification (Short Papers)
Aug  6  - Camera Ready
Aug 21  - Registration Deadline
Sep 3–4 - SemDial 2026 – LuffDial



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