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 - Interactional foundations of large language models 9:30-10:30  
COFFEE BREAK      
Session 1 Empirical Insights & Natural Dialog 11:00-11:30 5 - Perceptions of Interaction Styles: An Exploration Using Speaker-Typical Utterances
- - 11:30-12:00 8 - Do we need to answer that question? Salience and Answerability of Potential Questions in Naturalistic Dialogue
- - 12:00-12:30 11 - 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 28 - 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 17 - Intensified Response Particles and Polarity Opposition
- - 9:30-10:00 29 - Pragmatic Reasoning in Reference Games Using Rational Speech Act Theory - A Computational Study Using the Game Codenames
- - 10:00-10:30 34 - The Lady Doth Protest Too Much! Informativity Expectations Affect Judgments of Argument Strength
COFFEE BREAK      
Session 4 LLMs & Dialogsystems 11:00-11:30 6 - Real Users, Simulated Struggles: A Corpus-Based Expert and LIWC Evaluation of LLM-Generated Responses for Behavior Change Conversations
- - 11:30-12:00 7 - Beyond Stop-or-Continue: Repair Action Labels for Speech Overlap in Multi-Party Dialogue Systems
- - 12:30-13:00 14 - “They Really Clicked”: How do Multimodal LLMs Judge Rapport Between People?
LUNCH & BUSINESS MEETING      
Session 5 Multimodality 14:30-15:00 18 - When are speakers committed to their gestures? Insights from deceptive communication
- - 15:00-15:30 30 - When words don’t come easy – How speakers cope with communicatively challenging situations using verbal creativity and co-speech gesture
- - 15:30-16:00 19 - Investigating contrastive inference generation across speech and gesture
COFFEE BREAK      
Keynote 2 Sophie Scott - What’s the point in studying laughter? 16:30-17:30  
Closing That’s all folks! 17:30  

Keynotes