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CfP: SemDial 2025 – Bialogue: 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 3–5 September 2025, Bielefeld (Germany)

Second Call for Papers: SemDial 2025  Bialogue  the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

Website: https://semdial2025.github.io/


Information

We invite submissions for Bialogue 2025, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series at Bielefeld University, Germany. 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

This year, the conference will center around the theme Meaningful Interaction. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but 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* Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.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 2025 formatting guidelines and use the ACL submission templates.
* Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.

* Long papers: At most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
* Short papers: At most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.


Important Dates

All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (Anywhere on Earth)

Long Paper Deadline May 16, 2025
Reviews due June 6, 2025
Notification (long) June 13, 2025
Camera Ready (long) July 4, 2025
Short Paper/Poster Deadline July 18, 2025 Notification (short) July 25, 2025 Camera Ready (short/posters) August 9, 2025 Registration Deadline August 15, 2025 Bialogue 2025 September 35, 2025


For any questions, please contact the organizers:semdial2025@uni-bielefeld.de


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