24-26 Aug 2015
Gothenburg, Sweden
SemDial 2015 - goDIAL http://www.flov.gu.se/godial/ THE 19TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE 24-26th August 2015 Gothenburg goDIAL will be the 19th 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 2015 the workshop will be hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - common ground/mutual belief - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - experimental studies of dialogue - child-adult interaction - language learning and coordination through dialogue - multimodal dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems Authors should submit an *anonymous* paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site will be available on the goDIAL website. Submissions due: 13th May 2015 Notification: 17th June 2015 Final version due: 15th July 2015 goDIAL: 24-26 August 2015 There will be a later call for 2-page abstracts describing system demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop, with submission deadline 3rd June. *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Christine Howes (University of Gothenburg) Staffan Larsson (University of Gothenburg) *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* Ellen Breitholtz Simon Dobnik *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam) David Schlangen (Bielefeld University) http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ -- *Dr Christine Howes* Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science University of Gothenburg Box 200, 405 30 GÖTEBORG http://flov.gu.se/english/contact/staff/chris-howes