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Formal approaches to the dynamics of linguistic interaction

17-21 Jul 2017
Toulouse, France

Formal approaches to the dynamics of linguistic interaction: Call for 
papers

Workshop to be held in week one of ESSLLI 2017 (17-21st July; 
www.irit.fr/esslli2017/), Toulouse, France.

Full details at www.christinehowes.com/fadli

It is uncontentious that natural language use involves interaction; between 
participants in a dialogue, between modalities such as vision, gesture and 
speech, and between new and existing information in language acquisition, for 
example. Such interaction is dynamic; it proceeds in an increment-by-increment 
fashion, with continual updating of information at all levels.

Due to the dominance of structural accounts, these observations have only 
recently been brought into focus in different disciplines where models for 
information exchange have been initiated, notably in various paradigms of 
dialogue theory, Dynamic Syntax and computational linguistics.

For our workshop we maintain a broad notion of interaction, roughly the 
production and exchange of information between agents of some sort, be they 
natural or artificial (e.g. avatars or modelling devices as in certain types of 
logics). Hence, in addition to topics tied up with n-party communication using 
different communication media and human-computer interaction we also welcome 
contributions dealing with exchanges between semiotic systems or contact 
between languages. In addition, on a more fine-grained level we would like to 
have contributions on interaction between different modalities such as speech 
and, respectively, nonverbal context, intonation, eye-tracking processes, 
gesture, facial expression and perhaps still others. We favour contributions 
which focus on the dynamics of the information exchange and discuss formal 
models to reconstruct it.

Organisers:
Christine Howes, University of Gothenburg
Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld University

Submission details:
We are accepting submissions for both posters and oral presentations. Papers 
should be anonymous and up to 4 pages of content (with one additional page for 
references), formatted as per the short paper EACL 2017 format (details at 
www.christinehowes.com/fadli).

Submission will be through easychair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fadli2017).

Important dates:
Submissions deadline: 24 February 2017
Notification to authors: 15 April 2017
Final copy for proceedings: 15 May 2017
Program available: 1 June 2017
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