** Short papers SemDial 2022  **

        ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 **

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SemDial 2022 - DubDial

THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

https://semdial2022.github.io/

           22-24 August 2022

           Dublin // Online

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DubDial will be the 26th 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 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date.

*WEBSITE:*

https://semdial2022.github.io/

This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology.

*SCOPE:*

We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches 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

- psycholinguistics of dialogue

- language learning through dialogue

- gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication

- multimodal and multi-party dialogue

- interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems

- dialogue management

- designing and evaluating dialogue systems

- modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair

- applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena

- enactive approaches to interaction

- dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective

*INVITED SPEAKERS:*

• Mark H. Bickhard

• Yvette Graham

• Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi

*DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions*

We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022*

Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website:

https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call#

Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop.

*IMPORTANT DATES:*

Short paper submissions due:    22 July 2022

Notification:                                 25 July 2022

Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022

*REGISTRATION*

Registration is now open:

https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration#

*RELATED EVENTS*

The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website:

https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html

*TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:*

Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg)

Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London)

John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin)

        Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022@gmail.com

*LOCAL ORGANISATION:*

John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre.

        Contact: organisers.semdial2022@gmail.com

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:*

Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng

*SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:*

Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg))

Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London)

http://semdial.org/