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CALL FOR PAPERS:

SemDial 2o1o (PozDial)
14th WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Poland, 16-18 June, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS (January 2o1o)
The SemDial series of workshops aims 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. SemDial 2010 will be the 14th
workshop in the SemDial series and it will be organized at the Institute of
Psychology (Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science), Adam Mickiewicz
University (AMU), Poznań. AMU is one of Poland’s largest institutions of
higher education, located in the historical city of Poznań.

WEBSITE: http://www.semdial2010.amu.edu.pl
E-MAIL: semdial@amu.edu.pl

Authors of best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended
versions to Dialogue & Discourse, the new open-access journal dedicated
exclusively to research on language ‘beyond the single sentence’
(http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org).

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
• implicature production and reception in natural speech
• cognitive processes involved in verbal communication
• dialogue and discourse structure
• interpretation of questions and answers
• nonverbal 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
• incremental interpretation and/or production in dialogue

DATES AND DEADLINES
1. Full 8-page papers
Submission due: Due to a number of requests, the paper submission deadline
for SemDial 2010 is being extended to MONDAY 29th MARCH.
Notification of acceptance: 12 April 2010
Camera-ready papers due: 04 May 2010
2. 2-page poster or demo descriptions
Submission due: 12 April 2010
Notification of acceptance: 04 May 2010
3. SemDial 2010: June 16-18, 2010 (Wednesday-Friday)

Full papers will be in the usual 8-page, 2-column format. There will also
be poster and demo presentations. The selection of posters and demos will
be based on 2-page descriptions. Selected descriptions will be included in
the proceedings. The styles (LATEX, MSWord, O.O.Writer) and detailed
instructions needed for proper submission preparation are available on the
conference website (http://semdial2010.amu.edu.pl/submission.html). Authors
of best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions to
Dialogue & Discourse.

INVITED SPEAKERS
Dale Barr (University of California, Riverside)
Jonathan Ginzburg (King’s College, London)
Jeroen Groenendijk (University of Amsterdam)
Henry Prakken (Utrecht University)

ORGANISATION

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Matthew Purver (Queen Mary University of London)
Andrzej Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Katarzyna Budzyńska-Nowacka (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in
Warsaw)
Maria Golka (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Dorota Leszczyńska-Jasion (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Paweł Łupkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Jerzy Pogonowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Joanna Szwabe (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
Mariusz Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ron Artstein, Nicholas Asher, Luciana Benotti, Anton Benz, Johan Bos,
Harry Bunt, Donna Byron, Robin Cooper, Paul Dekker, David DeVault, Jens
Edlund, Raquel Fern´andez, Mary Ellen Foster, Claire Gardent, Jonathan
Ginzburg, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Joakim Gustafson, Peter Heeman, Pat
Healey, Anna Hjalmarsson, Ruth Kempson, Alistair Knott, Alexander Koller,
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Nicolas Maudet, John Niekrasz, Stanley Peters, Ron
Petrick, Martin Pickering, Paul Piwek, Massimo Poesio, Hannes Rieser, David
Schlangen, Gabriel Skantze, Mark Steedman, Amanda Stent, Matthew Stone,
David Traum, Marilyn Walker

PREVIOUS SEMDIAL EVENTS
Previous workshops in the SemDial series include:
DiaHolmia, Stockholm, 24-26 June 2009
LONDIAL, London, 2-4 June 2008
DECALOG, Rovereto, 30 May – 1 June 2007
brandial, Potsdam, 11-13 September 2006
DIALOR, Nancy, 9-11 June 2005
CATALOG, Barcelona, 19-21 July 2004
DiaBruck, Saarbr¨ucken, 4-6 September 2003
EDILOG, Edinburgh, 4-6 September 2002
BI-DIALOG, Bielefeld, 14-16 June 2001
G¨OTALOG, Gothenburg, 15-17 June 2000
Amstelogue, Amsterdam, 7-9 May 1999
Twendial, Twente, 13-15 May 1998
MunDial, Munich, 10-12 May 1997
SemDial Workshop Series homepage: http://www.illc.uva.nl/semdial/

—
Katarzyna Budzyńska-Nowacka

Dept. of Logic – Institute of Philosophy
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland

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