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SemDial 2018 / AixDial: Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Aix-en-Provence (France)

8-10 Nov 2018

**** SEMDIAL 2018 (AixDial)  - 1st Call for Papers ****
THE 22st WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND
PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

                 8-10th November 2018

                 Aix-en-Provence, France

AixDial will be the 22nd 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 2018 the workshop will be hosted
by Aix Marseille University, and organized by the Language and
Speech Lab (LPL) as well as the Computer Science Lab (LIS). It will
be collocated with the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information
Structure and Beyond,.

WEBSITE: http://semdial.hypotheses.org/
<http://semdial.hypotheses.org/call-for-paper>

**KEYNOTES:  TBA**

*SCOPE*

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
- goals, intentions and commitments in communication
- turn-taking and interaction control
- multimodality: gesture, gaze, intonational meaning in communication
- dialogue and discourse structure
- the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue
- interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
- dialogue management
- categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- child-adult interaction
- language learning through dialogue
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems
- machine learning applied to dialogue
- experimental approaches to dialogue (eye-tracking, time responses,...)
- using physiological mesures (breathing, pulse, perspiration,...) for
dialogue study
- neurophysiology of dialogue (EEG, FMRi, FNIRS,...)


*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 and the URL of the submission site will be available
on the AixDial website soon. There will be a later a call for 2-page
abstracts
describing system demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the
topics of
the workshop.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

Submissions due             : June 1st, 2018
Notification                       : July 20th, 2018
Demo / Project deadline  : September, 7th, 2018
Final version due             : October 1st, 2018
SemDial                           : November 8-10th, 2018


*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:*

Benoît Favre (LIS, Aix Marseille Université)
Magalie Ochs (LIS, Aix Marseille Université)
Laurent Prévot (LPL, Aix Marseille Université)

*LOCAL ORGANISATION:*

Stéphanie Desous (LPL, Aix Marseille Université)
Benoît Favre (LIS, Aix Marseille Université)
Simone Fuscone (LPL-LIS, Aix Marseille Université)
Magalie Ochs (LIS, Aix Marseille Université)
Laurent Prévot (LPL, Aix Marseille Université)


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*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS*

Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)
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