Style and format

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 following style files are available for download:

• Word
• Latex

Submission

Submission is closed.

Dates and deadlines

Full 8-page papers

• Submission due: 22 March 2009
• Notification of acceptance: 25 April 2009
• Final version due: 7 May 2009

2-page poster or demo descriptions

• Submission due: 7 May 2009
• Notification of acceptance: 14 May 2009

Scope

We invite papers on all topics related to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogues, including, but not limited to:

• common ground/mutual belief
• turn-taking and interaction control
• dialogue and discourse structure
• goals, intentions and commitments
• natural language understanding/semantic interpretation
• reference, anaphora and ellipsis
• collaborative and situated dialogue
• multimodal dialogue
• extra
• and paralinguistic phenomena
• categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
• designing and evaluating dialogue systems
• incremental, context-dependent processing
• reasoning in dialogue systems
• dialogue management

The 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' (www.dialogue-and-discourse.org).