8-10 Nov 2018
**** SEMDIAL 2018 (AixDial) - 1st Call for Papers **** THE 22st WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE 8-10th November 2018 Aix-en-Provence, France AixDial will be the 22nd 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 2018 the workshop will be hosted by Aix Marseille University, and organized by the Language and Speech Lab (LPL) as well as the Computer Science Lab (LIS). It will be collocated with the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond,. WEBSITE: http://semdial.hypotheses.org/ <http://semdial.hypotheses.org/call-for-paper> **KEYNOTES: TBA** *SCOPE* We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - common ground/mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - multimodality: gesture, gaze, intonational meaning in communication - dialogue and discourse structure - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - language learning through dialogue - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - machine learning applied to dialogue - experimental approaches to dialogue (eye-tracking, time responses,...) - using physiological mesures (breathing, pulse, perspiration,...) for dialogue study - neurophysiology of dialogue (EEG, FMRi, FNIRS,...) *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 and the URL of the submission site will be available on the AixDial website soon. There will be a later a call for 2-page abstracts describing system demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES* Submissions due : June 1st, 2018 Notification : July 20th, 2018 Demo / Project deadline : September, 7th, 2018 Final version due : October 1st, 2018 SemDial : November 8-10th, 2018 *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Benoît Favre (LIS, Aix Marseille Université) Magalie Ochs (LIS, Aix Marseille Université) Laurent Prévot (LPL, Aix Marseille Université) *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* Stéphanie Desous (LPL, Aix Marseille Université) Benoît Favre (LIS, Aix Marseille Université) Simone Fuscone (LPL-LIS, Aix Marseille Université) Magalie Ochs (LIS, Aix Marseille Université) Laurent Prévot (LPL, Aix Marseille Université) ******* *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS* Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam) David Schlangen (Bielefeld University) -- [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