20-22 September 2021
               Potsdam // The Internet

SemDial 2021 - PotsDial THE 25TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE 20-22 September 2021 Potsdam // The Internet PotsDial will be the 25th 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 2021 the workshop will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. (If the pandemic situation allows for it, there will be a local component for those who want to travel to Potsdam, but fully remote participation, including presentation, will be possible. Please see the website for updates closer to the date.) *WEBSITE:* https://semdial2021.ling.uni-potsdam.de *INVITED SPEAKERS:* TBD *SCOPE:* We invite papers on all topics related 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 - the psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - conversation analysis applied to human/agent interaction - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems *SUBMISSIONS:* Authors should submit an *anonymous* paper at most 8 pages of content (additional pages are allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site will be available on the PotsDial website. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2021 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Submission due: 31 May 2021 Notification: 10 July 2021 Final version due: 15 August 2021 PotsDial: 20-22 September 2021 There will be a later call for 2-page abstracts describing system demonstrations and/or ongoing projects relevant to the topics of the workshop, with submission deadline 20 August. Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg) Kallirroi Georgila (University of Southern California) Contact: semdial2021.progchairs@gmail.com *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* TBD *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* Jana Götze (Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam) David Schlangen (Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam) Contact: semdial2021.organizers@gmail.com *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/