LINGUIST List 23.139 Mon Jan 09 2012 Calls: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Comp Ling/France Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     David Schlangen , 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Message 1: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Date: 06-Jan-2012 From: David Schlangen <david.schlangenuni-bielefeld.de> Subject: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 16th Workshop on Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Short Title: SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial) Date: 19-Sep-2012 - 21-Sep-2012 Location: Paris, France Contact Person: Jonathan Ginzburg Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics Call Deadline: 01-May-2012 Meeting Description: SEMDIAL 2012 (SeineDial) 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Paris, September 19-21, 2012 Invited Speakers: Eve V. Clark (Stanford University) Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (DFKI-Saarbrücken) François Récanati (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure) The SEMDIAL series of workshops brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience (information on past SemDials is here: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/). In 2012 the workshop will be hosted by Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7). The Semdial workshops are always stimulating and fun, and Paris is of course one of the greatest cities to visit, especially in September. SeineDial will be immediately preceded by a workshop on Dialogue and Contextualism (a separate announcement on this will appear in due course.) and will feature a special session on The Acquisition of Dialogue. Call for Papers: We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to: Models of common ground/mutual belief in communication Modelling agents' information states and how they get updated Multi-agent models and turn-taking Goals, intentions and commitments in communication Semantic interpretation in dialogues Reference in dialogues Ellipsis resolution in dialogues Dialogue and discourse structure Interpretation of questions and answers Gesture in communication Intonational meaning in dialogue Humour in dialogue Natural language understanding and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems Multimodal dialogue systems Dialogue management in practical implementations Categorisation of dialogue moves or speech acts in corpora Designing and evaluating dialogue systems Contextual factors underlying child utterances in dialogue Repair in child/adult interaction Submissions will be fully reviewed and should be in the form of full papers of no more than 8 pages. Submissions will be handled by an online submission system; information will be provided on the webpage of the workshop Important Dates: May 1, 2012: Paper submissions due at 23:59 UTC-11 June 15, 2012: Author notification for full papers June 30, 2012: Poster and demo submissions July 10, 2012: Author notification for posters and demos August 20, 2012: Camera-ready copies September 19 - 21, 2012: Workshop in Paris Organizing Committee: Jonathan Ginzburg (chair), Anne Abeillé, Margot Colinet, Philip Miller, Gregoire Winterstein Programme Committee co-chairs: Staffan Larsson (Gothenburg University), Sarah Brown Schmidt (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) SemDial Presidents: Raquel Fernández Rovira (University of Amsterdam), David Schlangen (Bielefeld University) Sponsors: CLLILAC-ARP, Laboratoire Linguistique Formelle, LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (EFL) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.