16-18 Jul 2016
New Brunswick NJ, U.S.A.
Semdial 2016 - JerSem
THE 20TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
16-18 July 2016
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
JerSem will be the 20th 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 2016 the workshop will be hosted by the Rutgers
University Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers, the State University of
New Jersey, at its downtown New Brunswick Campus, approximately one hour
from New York City. The workshop is timed to immediately follow IJCAI
2016 in New York City, and will be collocated at Rutgers with NASSLLI, the
North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.
*WEBSITE*
http://semantics.rutgers.edu/jersem/
*FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE*
20 April 2016
*INVITED SPEAKERS*
JerSem will feature keynote talks by
- Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers
- Jonathan Ginzburg, Universite Paris-Diderot
- Kordula de Kuthy, University of Tubingen
- Nigel Ward, University of Texas El Paso
*SCOPE*
We invite submissions 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 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
- 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
*SPECIAL SESSION: QUESTIONS UNDER DISCUSSION*
To capitalize on overlaps with NASSLLI on questions under discussion
and the problems of dialogue, we anticipate that the first day of
Semdial will focus on the role of discourse purposes in utterance
interpretation and dialogue structure, and their reflection in
utterance form. This special session on questions under discussion
welcomes a wide range of research on the rule-governed relationship of
utterances to the discourse purposes of interlocutors, as reflected in
the structure of discourse, in regularities for maintaining coherence
in discourse, in the dynamics of questions under discussion, or in
linguistic mechanisms for grounding and commitment. Also relevant are
alternative explanations of discourse purposes that draw on general
principles of human decision making, social cognition, and teamwork.
We expect to organize contributed and invited sessions to explore the
issues, and so particularly welcome submissions on topics such as:
- the crosslinguistic grammar of information structure
- models of discourse structure incorporating discourse purposes
or questions under discussion
- the pragmatics of questions under discussion: how they evolve
and are identified by interlocutors
- analyses of specific phenomena in terms of discourse purposes
- computational and psycholinguistic models of coherence in dialogue
- collaborative reasoning as an alternative to grammatical models
The special session will also feature a panel discussion with
- Jonathan Ginzburg, Universite Paris-Diderot
- Kordula de Kuthy, University of Tubingen
- Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University
- Craige Roberts, The Ohio State University
- Amanda Stent, Yahoo!
*SUBMISSIONS:*
*FULL PAPERS*
Authors should submit an *anonymous* paper of at most 8 pages of
content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references) in
two-column ACL-style conference format. Style files and instructions
for electronic submissions via easychair are available on the JerSem
website.
*IMPORTANT DATES:*
Submissions due: 20 April 2016
Notification: 26 May 2016
Final version due: 17 June 2016
NASSLLI: 9-15 July 2016
IJCAI: 11-15 July 2016
JerSem: 16-18 July 2016
*DEMONSTRATION AND POSTER ABSTRACTS*
JerSem will also provide authors with an opportunity to submit 2-page
late-breaking abstracts describing system demonstrations and poster
presentations, with an anticipated deadline in early June.
*TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS:*
Julie Hunter (University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier)
Mandy Simons (Carnegie Mellon University, special session on QUD)
Matthew Stone (Rutgers University)
*PROGRAM COMMITTEE:*
Nicholas Asher, Universite Paul Sabatier
David Beaver, University of Texas Austin
Claire Beyssade, Universite Paris 8
Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg
Eve Clark, Stanford University
Judith Degen, Stanford University
Valeria de Paiva, Nuance
Paul Dekker, University of Amsterdam
David DeVault, University of Southern California
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California
Jonathan Ginzburg, Universite Paris-Diderot
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, King's College London
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London
Julian Hough, University of Bielefeld
Chris Howes, University of Gothenburg
Amy Isard, University of Edinburgh
Andrew Kehler, University of California San Diego
Ruth Kempson, King's College London
Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University
Pierre Lison, University of Oslo
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University
Gregory Mills, University of Groningen
Chris Potts, Stanford University
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University London
Kyle Rawlins, Johns Hopkins University
Hannes Rieser, University of Bielefeld
Craige Roberts, The Ohio State University
David Schlangen, University of Bielefeld
Amanda Stent, Yahoo!
Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State Univeristy
David Traum, University of Southern California
*LOCAL ORGANIZATION:*
Matthew Stone and Ernest Lepore
Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers--New Brunswick
*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:*
Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)
http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/
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