Intentions in dialogue

14th SemDial (PozDial) Satellite Workshop

INTENTIONS IN DIALOGUE, sponsored by DynDial

PozDial participants may also be interested in the "Intentions in Dialogue" workshop being held in Poznan on Tuesday 15th June (at the same location).
Modelling the achievement of effective coordination between interlocutors is often assumed to rely on some notion of strategic common ground or mutual knowledge computation. However, some recent psycholinguistic and language acquisition data seem to undermine this assumption, and computational models of dialogue often exclude high-order meta-representations of other parties' beliefs or intentions. This workshop will explore various points of views pertaining to this issue and its resolution.

Talks are by invitation, but all SemDial participants are welcome to attend and join the discussions.

Programme

(tentative programme)

9.00 Gregory Mills: Intentions as the product of sequential coordination.
9.45 Dale Barr: Using precedents to find referents: Evidence for pragmatic heuristics in language comprehension
10.30 coffee
11.00 David Traum: Intentions, Belief, Common Ground and Communication in Humans and Machines
11.45 Hannes Rieser: An Intentional Treasure Hunt
12.30 lunch
1.20 Jonathan Ginzburg: Genre types and indirect meaning
2.05 Rodger Kibble: Public and private spheres in Brandom's normative pragmatics
2.50 Matthew Stone: Distinguishing speaker meaning from invited inference
3.35 tea
4.00 Eshghi, Healey et al: Incremental Turn Processing in Dialogue
4.45 Kempson et al: Incrementality, representationalism and intention recognition
5.30 Robin Cooper: wrap-up reflections