Call for participation: SemDial 2025 – Bialogue – The 29th Edition of the SemDial Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

# Call for participation: SemDial 2025 – Bialogue – The 29th Edition of the SemDial Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue Website: https://semdial2025.github.io/ ## Information Bialogue 2025 is now open for registration, welcoming both presenters and interested attendees. Please note that to present at the conference, at least one author of each submission must be registered. Bialogue conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. ## Topics This year, the conference will center around the theme “Meaningful Interaction”. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to: * Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue * Common ground and mutual belief * Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * Turn-taking and interaction control * Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * Dialogue and discourse structure * Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue * Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * Multimodal dialogue * Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * Dialogue management, design, and evaluation * Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue * Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research ## Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”) Camera Ready (short/posters) August 9, 2025 Registration Deadline August 22, 2025 SemDial 2025 – Bialogue September 3–5, 2025 -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme