15-17 Aug 2017
Saarbruecken, Germany
Call for Papers: SemDial 2017 - SaarDial THE 21st WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE, 15-17 August 2017, Saarbrücken SaarDial will be the 21st 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 2017 the workshop will be hosted by the Spoken Language Systems Group, Saarland University, and will be collocated with the 18th Annual SIGdal Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. *WEBSITE:* http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/ *INVITED SPEAKERS:* TBA *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 dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - SIGdial&SemDial Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialogue *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 are available on the SaarDial website: http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de/?page_id=293 Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2017saardial *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submissions due: 08 May 2017 (23:59 GMT) Notification: 09 June 2017 Final version due: 14 July 2017 SaarDial: 15-17 August 2017 SigDial 2017: 15-17 August 2017 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 23 June 2017. *PROCCEDINGS AND ARCHIVING* All SemDial proceedings have an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and are available online at http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ NEW: In addition, SaarDial papers will be included in the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) archive and be assigned a DOI. *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Volha Petukhova (Saarland University) Ye Tian (Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7) *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Nicholas Asher; IRIT, CNRS Claire Beyssade; CNRS/Institut Jean Nicod Ellen Breitholtz; University of Gothenburg Valeria De Paiva; University of Birmingham Judith Degen; Stanford University Paul Dekker; ILLC/University of Amsterdam David DeVault; University of Southern California Simon Dobnik; University of Gothenburg Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam Kallirroi Georgila; ICT, University of Southern California Jonathan Ginzburg; Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7) Eleni Gregoromichelaki; King?s College London Julian Hough; Bielefeld University Christine Howes; University of Gothenburg Julie Hunter; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Amy Isard; University of Edinburgh Andrew Kehler; UC San Diego Ruth Kempson; Kings College London Staffan Larsson; University of Gothenburg Alex Lascarides; University of Edinburgh Pierre Lison; Norwegian Computing Center Gregory Mills; University of Groningen Matthew Purver; Queen Mary University of London Kyle Rawlins; Johns Hopkins University Hannes Rieser; Bielefeld University David Schlangen; Bielefeld University Mandy Simons; CMU Amanda Stent; Bloomberg Matthew Stone; Rutgers, State University of New Jersey David Traum; ICT, University of Southern California *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* Denise Mayer, Knowledge and Technology Transfer GmbH, Saarland University Volha Petukhova, Saarland University Thomas Kleinbauer, Saarland University Ingmar Steiner, Saarland University *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam) David Schlangen (Bielefeld University) http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ -- [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