First Call for Papers:

LONDIAL: 2008 WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE

in conjunction with:

Final WORKSHOP OF Dialogue Matters: Leverhulme International Network
Project.

King�??s College London, June 2nd�?? June 4th, 2008


The SEMDIAL series of workshops aim to bring together researchers
working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as
artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, formal
semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and neural science.
In 2008 we will celebrate eleven years of the SEMDIAL series with the
LONDIAL workshop, to be organized at King�??s College London in
conjunction with the Interaction, Media and Communication Centre at
Queen Mary London. The SemDial workshops are always stimulating and fun,
and with King�??s being in the heart of London, just across from the South
Bank Centre, there will be no shortage of evening entertainment.

LONDIAL 2008 will be held in conjunction with the closing workshop of
the Leverhulme-funded network Dialogue Matters: Foundations for
Technology Development, initially set up between London (KCL, QMUL),
Edinburgh/Glasgow, Stanford, Stony Brook, Gothenburg, Essex, with
additional collaborators now also participating. This one-day workshop
on 2nd June (and possibly the previous day) will feature invited
presentations by members of this group and other leaders of the
computational linguistics and human language technology community.

There is also a planned session on dialogue situated in joint action.

We are still waiting to finalize many details; this preliminary
announcement is intended to let you know of the dates and deadlines.

DATES AND DEADLINES:

Submissions due: 9th March 2008 (Sunday)
Notification: 28 March 2008 (Friday)
Final version due: 30 April 2008 (Wednesday)
Dialogue Matters opening workshop: 2nd June 2008 (Monday)
DECALOG 2007: 2nd �?? 4th June 2008 (Monday - Wednesday)

SCOPE:

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
- nonlinguistic interaction in communication
- 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

Submissions will be in the usual 8-page, 2-column format.
There will also be a poster session.

Details on the invited speakers, program committee members, submission
format and procedure, local arrangements, and a web address for the
workshop will be circulated at a later date.

ORGANIZATION:

Pat Healey (program co-chair)
Jonathan Ginzburg (program co-chair)
Ruth Kempson, Miriam Bouzouita (local arrangements)

PREVIOUS SEMDIAL EVENTS

Previous workshops in the SEMDIAL series include:

MunDial'97 (Munich)
http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/sil/workshop/dialogwsh.html
Twendial'98 (Twente)
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/twlt13.html
Amstelogue'99 (Amsterdam)
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/computerlinguistiek/amstelog/
GOTALOG 2000 (Gothenburg)
http://www.ling.gu.se/konferenser/gotalog2000/
BI-DIALOG 2001 (Bielefeld)
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/BIDIALOG/
EDILOG 2002 (Edinburgh)
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/edilog/
DiaBruck 2003 (Saarbruecken)
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/diabruck/
CATALOG'04 (Barcelona)
http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/
DIALOR'05 (Nancy)
http://dialor05.loria.fr/
BRANDIAL 2006 (Potsdam)
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/brandial/
DECALOG 2007 (Rovereto)
http://www.cimec.unitn.it/events/decalog/index.htm

(see also http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/semdial/ )