Programme Outline
Conference Programme
Day 1 — 3 September
| Activity | Topic | Time | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration | 8:00-9:00 | ||
| Welcome | Arrival | 9:00-9:30 | |
| Keynote 1: Mark Dingemanse | 9:30-10:30 | Interactional foundations of large language models | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |||
| Session 1 | Empirical Insights & Natural Dialog | 11:00-11:30 | Perceptions of Interaction Styles: An Exploration Using Speaker-Typical Utterances |
| - | - | 11:30-12:00 | Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue |
| - | - | 12:00-12:30 | I think I’m confused?! A Taxonomy of Uncertainty Expression in Spatial Referential Games |
| LUNCH | Group Photo in front of Lynn Chadwick’s Watchers: 13:40 | ||
| Poster Session | Various posters on the Semantics of Dialogue | 14:00-16:00 | |
| Session 2 | Grounding & Repair | 16:00-16:30 | 12 - Community-Authored Usage Glosses as Use-Conditions for Internet Memes |
| - | - | 16:30-17:00 | Covert Self-Repair in Written Dialogue |
| CONFERENCE DINNER | Burleigh Court |
Day 2 - 4th September
| Slot | Topic | Time | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registration | 8:30-9:00 | ||
| Session 3 | Formal Approaches | 9:00-9:30 | Intensified Response Particles and Polarity Opposition |
| - | - | 9:30-10:00 | Pragmatic Reasoning in Reference Games Using Rational Speech Act Theory - A Computational Study Using the Game Codenames |
| - | - | 10:00-10:30 | The Lady Doth Protest Too Much! Informativity Expectations Affect Judgments of Argument Strength |
| COFFEE BREAK | |||
| Session 4 | LLMs & Dialogsystems | 11:00-11:30 | Real Users, Simulated Struggles: A Corpus-Based Expert and LIWC Evaluation of LLM-Generated Responses for Behavior Change Conversations |
| - | - | 11:30-12:00 | Beyond Stop-or-Continue: Repair Action Labels for Speech Overlap in Multi-Party Dialogue Systems |
| - | - | 12:00-12:30 | “They Really Clicked”: How do Multimodal LLMs Judge Rapport Between People? |
| LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING | |||
| Session 5 | Multimodality | 14:00-14:30 | 18 - When are speakers committed to their gestures? Insights from deceptive communication |
| - | - | 14:30-15:00 | When words don’t come easy – How speakers cope with communicatively challenging situations using verbal creativity and co-speech gesture |
| - | - | 15:00-15:30 | Investigating contrastive inference generation across speech and gesture |
| COFFEE BREAK | |||
| Keynote 2: Sophie Scott | 16:00-17:00 | What’s the point in studying laughter? | |
| Closing | That’s all folks! | 17:00 |
Keynotes
- Mark Dingemanse: Interactional foundations of large language models
- Sophie Scott: What’s the point in studying laughter?
Speakers and Talks
Empirical Insights & Natural Dialog
- Nigel Ward, Georgina Bugarini and Harm Lameris, Perceptions of Interaction styles: An Exploration using Speaker-Typical Utterances
- Amandine Decker, Maxime Amblard and Ellen Breitholtz, Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue
- Amelie Robrecht-Hilbig, Bita Bolouki and Simon Dobnik, I think I’m confused?! A Taxonomy of Uncertainty Expression in Spatial Referential Games
Grounding & Repair
- Victoria Sherratt and Nina Dethlefs, Community-Authored Usage Glosses as Use-Conditions for Internet Memes
- Mai Hoang Dao, Catherine Lai and Peter Bell, Covert Self-Repair in Written Dialogue
Formal Approaches
- Lennart Fritzsche, Intensified response particles and polarity opposition
- Florian Kankowski, Stefan Kopp and Amelie Robrecht-Hilbig, Pragmatic Reasoning in Reference Games using Rational Speech Act Theory - A Computational Study Using the Game Codenames
- S.R. Pulapura, Hannah Rohde, Daniel Lassiter and Catherine Lai, The lady doth protest too much! Informativity expectations affect judgments of argument strength
LLMs & Dialogsystems
- Ben Chen and Nina Dethlefs, Real Users, Simulated Struggles: A Corpus-Based Expert and LIWC Evaluation of LLM-Generated Responses for Behavior Change Conversations
- Kenta Yamamoto and Kazunori Komatani, Beyond Stop-or-Continue: Repair Action Labels for Speech Overlap in Multi-Party Dialogue Systems
- Oussama Silem, Éric De la Clergerie and Justine Cassell, “They Really Clicked”: How do Multimodal LLMs Judge Rapport Between People?
Multimodality
- Sebastian Walter and Jonas Hartke, When are speakers committed to their gestures? Insights from deceptive communication
- Alon Fishman, Lisa Gottschalk, Stefan Kopp and Joana Cholin, When words don’t come easy – How speakers cope with communicatively challenging situations using verbal creativity and co-speech gesture
- Sebastian Walter, Investigating contrastive inference generation across speech and gesture