<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> Apologies for crossposting, please circulate! Best wishes, Chris, Simon and Ellen Special issue of CLASP Papers in Computational linguistics (ISSN:2002-9764) on dialogue and perception <a href="https://clasp.gu.se/publications/clasp-papers-in-computational-linguistics" class="">https://clasp.gu.se/publications/clasp-papers-in-computational-linguistics</a> <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> Following a successful workshop on Dialogue and Perception (<a href="https://clasp.gu.se/news-events/workshop-on-dialogue-and-perception-2018" class="">https://clasp.gu.se/news-events/workshop-on-dialogue-and-perception-2018</a>) we are now compiling a volume dedicated to the topics of the workshop. <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> The study of dialogue investigates how natural language is used in interaction between interlocutors and how coordination and successful communication is achieved. Dialogue is multimodal, situated and embodied, with non-linguistic factors such as attention, eye gaze and gesture critical to understanding communication. However, studies on dialogue have often taken for granted that we align our perceptual representations, which are taken to be part of common ground (grounding in dialogue, Clark, 1996). They have also typically remained silent about how we integrate information from different sources and modalities and the different contribution of each of these. These assumptions are unsustainable when we consider interactions between agents with obviously different perceptual capabilities, as is the case in dialogues between humans and artificial agents, such as avatars or robots. <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> Contrarily, studies of perception have focussed on how an agent interacts with and interprets the information from their perceptual environment. There is significant research on how language is grounded in perception, how words are connected to perceptual representations and agent’s actions and therefore assigned meaning (grounding in action and perception, Harnad, 1990). In the last decade there has been impressive progress on integrated approaches to language, action, and perception, especially with the introduction of deep learning methods in the field of image descriptions that use end-to-end training from data. However, these have a limited integration to the dynamics of dialogue and often fail to take into account the incremental and context sensitive nature of language and the environment. <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> The aim of this collection is to initiate a genuine dialogue between these related areas and to examine different approaches from computational, linguistic and psychological perspectives and how these can inform each other. <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> We invite papers of between 8-12 pages of content and up to two additional pages for references, following the ACL style guidelines. Submission of papers: <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> LaTeX style files: <a href="http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-latex.zip" class="">http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-latex.zip</a> Word style files: <a href="http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-word.zip" class="">http://acl2018.org/downloads/acl18-word.zip</a> <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> Submissions via Easychair <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dap20180" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(29, 65, 159); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dap20180</a></div> Important dates: <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> 1. Deadline for submission: 5th December 2018 2. Reviewing completed by: 6th February 2018 3. Camera ready papers due: 27th March 2019 -- Christine Howes, Simon Dobnik and Ellen Breitholtz Editors <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science University of Gothenburg Box 200, 405 30 GÖTEBORG <div style="margin: 3pt 0pt; max-width: 650pt; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </div> <a href="http://www.christinehowes.com/" class="">www.christinehowes.com</a> <a href="http://www.dobnik.net/simon/" class="">www.dobnik.net/simon/</a> <a href="http://www.clasp.gu.se/about/people/ellen-breitholtz" class="">www.clasp.gu.se/about/people/ellen-breitholtz</a> <div class=""> </div> </body> </html>