17-19 Jul 2020
Waltham MA, U.S.A.
SemDial 2020 - THE 24TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE (WatchDial) 17-19 July 2020 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA WatchDial will be the 24th 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 2020 the workshop will be hosted by the programs in Linguistics and in Computational Linguistics, in collaboration with the departments of Computer Science and Philosophy at Brandeis University, and will be collocated with the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. WEBSITE https://www.brandeis.edu/nasslli2020/semdial.html <https://www.brandeis.edu/nasslli2020/semdial.html> Initial Call For Papers SCOPE We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue common ground/mutual belief goals, intentions and commitments in communication turn-taking and interaction control semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue dialogue and discourse structure categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora child-adult interaction language learning through dialogue gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication multimodal dialogue interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems dialogue management designing and evaluating dialogue systems SUBMISSIONS Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here: http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip <http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip> The Overleaf template is also available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrkcwjptpcd <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrkcwjptpcd> Concurrent submission policy: 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. SEMDIAL 2020 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2020 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2020> IMPORTANT DATES > Submissions due: 9 March 2020 > Notification: 20 April 2020 > Final version due: 22 May 2020 > NASSLLI: 11-17 July 2020 > WatchDial: 17-19 July 2020 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 15 May 2020. TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Sophia Malamud (Brandeis University) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University) Jonathan Ginzburg (Université Paris Diderot) LOCAL ORGANISATION Sophia Malamud & James Pustejovsky Brandeis University SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS Ellen Breitholtz (Göteborg University) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam