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The 28th Workshop on

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

September 11th - 12th, 2024

Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini 84 - Rovereto (Italy)

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TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aim 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.

Important deadlines

Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").

  • TrentoLogue Conference: September 11–12, 2024
  • Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024
  • Long paper submissions: May 26, 2024 - deadline extended to June 2, 2024
  • Reviews due to: June 24, 2024
  • Notification: July 1, 2024
  • Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024
  • Notification for short paper: July 17, 2024
  • Camera Ready due: August 26, 2024

Keynote speakers

  • Uri Hasson, Princeton University
  • Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and Central European University, Vienna
  • Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy

 

Organizing Committee

  • Raffaella Bernardi, CIMeC - University of Trento
  • Jakub Szymanik, CIMeC - University of Trento
  • Roberto Zamparelli, CIMeC - University of Trento
  • Vanessa Maria Caleca, CIMeC - University of Trento

 

Programme Committee

Chairs

  • Raffaella Bernardi, CIMeC - University of Trento
  • Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg
  • Giuseppe Riccardi, DISI - University of Trento

Programme

1st Day 11th of September

9:00-9:20  Registration

9:25  Opening
9:30  Invited talk: Uri Hasson, Deep learning as a cognitive model for natural language processing language development

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00  Petra Wagner, Marcin Włodarczak, Hendrik Buschmeier, Olcay Türk and Emer Gilmartin. Turn-taking dynamics across different phases of explanatory dialogues
11:30  Sean Leishman, Peter Bell and Sarenne Wallbridge. PairwiseTurnGPT: a multi-stream turn prediction model for spoken dialogue
12:00  Sebastiano Gigliobianco, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and David Schlangen. Learning Task-Oriented Dialogues through Various Degrees of Interactivity
12:30  Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes. Behaving according to protocol: How communicative projects are carried out differently in different settings

13:00-14:00 Lunch (Free)

14:00  Pakawat Nakwijit, Attapol T. Rutherford and Matthew Purver. How do Encoder-only LMs Predict Closeness and Respect from Thai Conversations?
14:30  Sabrina Patania, Emanuele Masiero, Luca Brini, Gregor Donabauer, Udo Kruschwitz, Valentyn Piskovskyi and Dimitri Ognibene. Large Language Models as an active Bayesian filter: information acquisition and integration
15:00  Jonathan Ginzburg, Chris Eliasmith and Andy Lücking. Swann’s Name: Towards a Dialogical Brain Semantics

16:00-17:30 Poster Session (Coffee Break)

17:30-18:30 SemDial Business Meeting (Aula Magna, Palazzo Piomarta)

19:30  Networking Dinner


2nd Day 12th of September


9:00-9:30  Registration

9:30  Invited talk: Azzurra Ruggeri, Emergence and Developmental trajectory of Ecological Active Learning

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

11:00  Chiara Mazzocconi, Céline Hidalgo, Roxane Bertrand, Leonardo Lancia, Stéphane Roman and Daniele Schon. Laughter in Dialogues with Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children: Do they all laugh alike?
11:30  Yingqin Hu, Brillet Capucine, Bosko Rajkovic, Gauhar Rustamova, Chiara Mazzocconi, Pelachaud Catherine and Jonathan Ginzburg. Laughter in the cradle: a taxonomy of infant laughables
12:00  Adam Ek, Bill Noble, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Robin Cooper, Simon Dobnik, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Christine Howes, Staffan Larsson, Vladislav Maraev, Gregory Mills and Gijs Wijnholds. I hea- umm think that's what they say: A Dataset of Inferences from Natural Language Dialogues
12:30  Haseon Park. Towards A Formal Semantics of Silence: An Analysis Based on the KoS Framework

13:00-14:00  Light lunch in Palazzo Piomarta, Room 10, ground floor

14:00  Aida Tarighat, Martin Corley and Patrick Sturt. Perspectives on Language Model and Human Handling of Written Disfluency and Nonliteral Meaning
14:30  Amy Han Qiu, Vanessa Vanzan, Chara Soupiona and Christine Howes. Disfluencies in conversation: a comparison of utterances with and without metaphors
15:00  Qiang Xia, Emer Gilmartin and Marcin Włodarczak. Speaker transition patterns in German: A comparison between task-based and casual conversation in face-to-face and remote conversation

16:00-17:30  Poster Session (Coffe Break)

17:30-18:30  Invited Talk: Bernardo Magnini, Toward collaborative LLMs: Investigating Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogues

Poster Sessions

1st day: 11th of September
  1. Weronika Sieińska, Angus Addlessee, Daniel Hernández García, Nancie Gunson, Marta Romeo, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon. A Multi-party Dialogue Dataset for Dialogue Goal Tracking in a Hospital Setting and How It Can Be Used in LLM Prompt Engineering Experiments
  2. Davide Mazzaccara, Alberto Testoni and Raffaella Bernardi.Boosting Questions' Effectiveness in Medical Interviews
  3. Amelie Robrecht, Heike Buhl and Stefan Kopp. Inferring Partner Models for Adaptive Explanation Generation
  4. Edoardo Sebastiano De Duro, Riccardo Improta and Massimo Stella. Network science highlights the emotional structure of counselling conversations simulated by Large Language Models and humans
  5. Chris Madge and Massimo Poesio. A LLM Benchmark based on the Minecraft Builder Dialog Agent Task
  6. Julian Hough, Carlos Baptista De Lima, Frank Foerster, Patrick Holthaus and Yongjun Zheng. FLUIDITY: Defining, measuring and improving fluidity in human-robot dialogue in virtual and real-world settings
  7. Milena Belosevic and Hendrik Buschmeier. Modeling the Use-Mention Distinction in LLM-Generated Grounding Acts
  8. Andrea Zaninello and Bernardo Magnini. Machine-to-Machine Generation of Explanatory Dialogues for Medical QA: an Exploratory Study
  9. Paul Piwek. Are conversational large language models speakers?
  10. Staffan Larsson. Pre-Generative Conversational AI
  11. David Arps and Yulia Zinova. It is difficult, but not impossible: Measuring Scalar Activation in Language Models
  12. Michael O'Mahony, Cathy Ennis and Robert Ross. Getting to the point: Contrasting Directness and Warmth in Motivational Embodied Conversational Agents
  13. Sara Amido, Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes. "No, you listen!" A pilot experiment into escalation devices in confrontational conversation
  14. Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian and Nausicaa Pouscoulous. Speaker contribution to scalar implicature tasks
  15. Mattias Appelgren and Simon Dobnik. To Your Left: A Dataset and a Task of Spatial Perspective Coordination
  16. Ambra Ferrari and Peter Hagoort. Beat gestures and prosodic stress interactively influence language comprehension
2nd Day: 12th of September
  1. Paola Herreño Castañeda, Jonathan Ginzburg and Mathilde Dargnat. Discourse Markers for Topic Change
  2. Andy Lücking, Alexander Mehler and Alexander Henlein. The Linguistic Interpretation of Non-emblematic Gestures Must be agreed in Dialogue: Combining Perceptual Classifiers and Grounding/Clarification Mechanisms
  3. David Pagmar and Asad Sayeed. Every quantifier scope ambiguity is enabled by a context
  4. Cecilia Domingo, Paul Piwek, Michel Wermelinger and Svetlana Stoyanchev. Annotation Needs for Referring Expressions in Pair-Programming Dialogue
  5. Mark Monaghan, Harry Addlessee, Jose Rodriguez Assalone, Sandra Gregoire, Buhari Bashir, Ross Nelson, Mahad Mahad, Javier Sanchez Castro, Elissa Westerheim, Oliver Lemon and Nancie Gunson. Red-teaming LLMs for patient safety in healthcare settings: the HPQ dataset and evaluation
  6. Bogdan Laszlo, Staffan Larsson and Asad Sayeed. Using LLMs to generate training data for dialogue system NLUs
  7. Vidya Somashekarappa and Christine Howes. Influence of Robot-Gaze Aversion on Human-Behavioral Dynamics and Perceptual Cognition
  8. Vanessa Vanzan, Amy Han Qiu, Fahima Ayub Khan, Chara Soupiona and Christine Howes. Emoji-Text Mismatches: Stirring the Pot of Online Conversations
  9. Federica Iurescia and Giovanni Moretti. Treebank for Dialogue: a case study from Roman Tragedy
  10. Marie Boscaro, Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari and Valentin Tinarrage. Assertion, cooperativity and evidence on X
  11. Amandine Decker, Vincent Tourneur, Maxime Amblard and Ellen Breitholtz. "Wait, did you mean the doctor?’’: Collecting a Dialogue Corpus for Topical Analysis
  12. Daphne Petrén and Ellen Breitholtz. "If a foid wanted me I’d probably go mgtow": How ideology and identity are displayed in dialogues on an incel forum
  13. Yoshiko Kawabata and Mikio Nakano. Analysis of the Transitions of Spatial-Temporal Scenes in Everyday Conversation
  14. Andrea Martinenghi, Cansu Koyuturk, Simona Amenta, Martin Ruskov, Gregor Donabauer, Udo Kruschwitz and Dimitri Ognibene. VON NEUMIDAS: Enhanced Annotation Schema for Human-LLM Interactions Combining MIDAS with Von Neumann Inspired Semantics
  15. Nikolai Ilinykh and Simon Dobnik. Dialogue with LLaVA: does it "understand" the pragmatics of the MeetUp task?
  16. Jan Fliessbach, Lucia M. Tovena, Damien Fleury and Yoan Linon. Accounting for comment-questions

Please, note that the posters must be printed in A1 portrait format, A1 landscape format is not suitable for the boards

 

SemDial 2024 Proceedings at https://www.semdial.org/anthology/venues/semdial/

 

 

Workshop registration - Call for Online Participation

Registrations for the participation in presence to the TrentoLogue workshop are now closed. Upon request, we have opened the registration form for online participation.

Important information

Fee 30 EURO
Deadline for registration: September 5th at 12:00 PM CEST
Deadline for payment: September 9th at 11:59 PM CEST

The Zoom link will be shared with the online participants on September 10 pm; it will let participants attend the three invited talks and the presentations of the full papers.

In order to submit the registration successfully and to ensure the online participation in this event, all sections of the online registration form must be completed.

REGISTER

Call for papers

We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches 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
  • categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
  • child-adult interaction
  • language learning through dialogue
  • gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
  • multimodal dialogue
  • interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
  • dialogue management
  • designing and evaluating dialogue systems
  • modeling miscommunication, dysfluency, and repair
  • dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective
  • neuroscience of dialogue
  • Interactivist approaches to dialogue
  • animal communication

Submission Instructions

  • Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
  • Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.
  • Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL

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 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere.

Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog 

Accommodation

We would like to remind that the conference venue is Rovereto.

We advise participants to contact the hotel directly to make a reservation. Booking details should include as reference “TrentoLogue 2024 – University of Trento”, surname, length of stay and credit card details.

Please, contact the hotel directly if there are any cancellations or changes on the reservation.

Accommodations in Rovereto

You can find at the link List and fees of hotels the Hotel rates offered to the University of Trento. Guests shall book the hotel personally and inform the hotel management of the University event they will attend, requesting the rates offered to the University of Trento.

To have further information about other accommodations in Rovereto, please, go to the accommodation page of the Tourist Board Rovereto, Vallagarina e Monte Baldo

Venue

The workshop, organized by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences of the University of Trento, will take place at Palazzo Piomarta, Corso Bettini 84 - Rovereto (TN), Italy.

How to reach Rovereto


By car

A22 Brennero Motorway, exit Ala-Avio, exit Rovereto sud/Lago di Garda nord and exit Rovereto nord. Create your own route with www.maps.google.com or www.viamichelin.com

By train

Rovereto Railway Station, on the Bologna-Brennero line. For timetables check the Trenitalia website

By plane

Rovereto is about 100 km from Verona airport (Valerio Catullo), 200 Km from Venice airport (Marco Polo), 215 Km from Milano-Linate airport, 170 km from Milano Bergamo airport, 203 from Bologna airport and 245 km from Milano Malpensa airport.

Moving around by bus

You can use buses to move around the city or to reach nearby places. For further information about routes, timetables and connections, check the Trentino Trasporti website and on the map (JPG | 114 KB).

Taxi service in Rovereto at the Railway Station – Piazzale Orsi n. 9, tel. 0464 421365

Useful links

About Rovereto

Set amid hills and vineyards, Rovereto is in the center of Valle dell’Adige, along the main road linking Trento and Verona.

We advise you to explore the city on foot, the streets of the city center are like a journey through different time periods:

  • the Middle Ages in the walls of Castelbarco
  • the dominion of the Republic of Venice in the home of the Podestà
  • the Eighteenth Century in the palazzi of Corso Bettini
  • the First World War in the rooms of the castle
  • Along the city streets, you can see the most important and prestigious Eighteenth century palazzi, from Accademia degli Agiati, to Teatro Zandonai, to the city library in palazzo Annona.

Many illustrous guests have visited the city. Perhaps the most famous is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who held his first concert in Italy in the church of San Marco.

In Rovereto you can visit museums of art, history and science such as Mart, Depero’s House of Futurist Art, the Italian War Museum and the City Museum Foundation.

Rovereto is also a City of Peace, as evidenced by the large memorial bell Campana dei Caduti. Cast using bronze of the cannons of the nations that took part in WWI, each evening its 100 tolls spread a universal message of peace.

Here you can find a Map of Rovereto with the locations of the train station, the workshop venue, and hotels.

Download

Richiesta Autorizzazione Partecipazione a corsi, scuole, workshop e convegni organizzati dall'Università di Trento (PDF | 149 KB )

Modulo Autorizzazione PA (PDF | 54 KB )

Contacts

CIMeC Staff
cimec@unitn.it

University of Trento
Corso Bettini, 84 - Rovereto (Trento)