CFP: 17th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (semdial 2013) (DialDam)
Submission deadline: September 17, 2013
Conference date(s):
December 16, 2013 - December 18, 2013
Conference Venue:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Topic areas
Details
DialDam will be the 17th 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 2013 the workshop will be hosted by the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, and will be collocated with the Amsterdam Colloquium.
WEBSITE
http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/dialdam/
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 spoken dialogue systems
- dialogue management
- designing and evaluating dialogue systems
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 DialDam website.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: 10 September 2013
Notification: 20 October 2013
Final version due: 15 November 2013
DialDam: 16-18 December 2013
Amsterdam Colloquium: 18-20 December 2013
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 in early November.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
Amy Isard (Edinburgh University)
LOCAL ORGANISATION
Inés Crespo & Raquel Fernández
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
SEMDIAL BOARD PRESIDENTS
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
David Schlangen (Bielefeld University)