First call for Papers: SemDial 2026 – LuffDial – the 30th edition of
the SemDial workshop series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of
Dialogue
Website: https://semdial2026.github.io/
We invite submissions for SemDial 2026 – LuffDial, the 30th Workshop
on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue at Loughborough University,
Loughborough UK. This conference brings together researchers working on
the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines,
including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Topics
Submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal,
computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics
of dialogue, including but not limited to:
- Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue
- Common ground and mutual belief
- Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
- Turn-taking and interaction control
- Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
- Dialogue and discourse structure
- Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue
- Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
- Multimodal dialogue
- Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
- Dialogue management, design, and evaluation
- Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
- Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological
approaches to dialogue - Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue
research
Submission Details
Submissions should meet the following requirements:
- Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review
elsewhere. - 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. - Papers should follow the ACL formatting guidelines and use the ACL
submission
templates - Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.
Long papers:
- 4-8 pages of content,
- (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for
limitations and optionally ethical considerations, - unlimited pages of references,
- (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be
selective).
Short papers (Posters):
- Up to 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for
references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on
request. - Accepted short papers will be presented as posters at the
conference. - (optional) unlimited extra space after the conclusion for
limitations and optionally ethical considerations, - (optional) unlimited pages for appendices (but please be
selective).
Submission: Please submit your paper via EasyChair
Important Dates
- Jun 17 - Long Paper Deadline
- Jul 9 - Reviews completed
- Jul 16 - Notification
- Jul 17 - Short Paper (Poster) Deadline
- Jul 24 - Notification (Short Papers)
- Aug 6 - Camera Ready
- Aug 21 - Registration Deadline
- Sep 3–4 - SemDial 2026 – LuffDial