Dialogue Reading Group

Meetings: Alternate Fridays (odd weeks), 10.15-12.00.

Upcoming session:

26 May 2023 -- [10h-12h]

Lücking, A., and Ginzburg, J. (2022) Leading voices: dialogue semantics, cognitivescience and the polyphonic structure of multimodal interaction in Language and Cognition. (Led by Robin)

Future paper suggestions:

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• Boleda, G., Aina, L., Silberer, C., Sorodoc, I. T., & Westera, M. (2019). What do entity-centric models learn? Insights from entity linking in multi-party dialogue. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; 2019 Jun 2-7; Minneapolis, United States of America. Stroudsburg (PA): ACL; 2019. p. 3772–83.. ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics). https://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/handle/10230/42450/boleda_naacl19_entity.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (suggested by Fahima)
• Ahn, E., Jimenez, C., Tsvetkov, Y., & Black, A. W. (2020, January). What code-switching strategies are effective in dialog systems?. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2020 (pp. 254-264). (suggested by Fahima)
• Acton, E. (2022). Sociophonetics, semantics, and intention. Journal of Linguistics, 1-30. doi:10.1017/S0022226721000475 (suggested by Robin)
• Bare plurals; possibly: Carlson, Greg N. A Unified Analysis of the English Bare Plural in Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings. 2008. (Suggested by Ellen)
• Pustejovsky, J. and Krishnaswamy, N. “Embodied Human Computer Interaction” Ms. (Suggested by Eleni) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1eraygvs520c2vo/PustejovskyKrishnaswamy2021DraftNew.pdf?dl=0
• Ilbury, Christian. U Ok Hun?: The digital commodification of white woman style. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2022. (suggested by Bill)
• Lu et al. Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Conversation Structure arXiv preprint, May 2022. (suggested by Bill)
• Tanvi Dinkar et al. Fillers in Spoken Language Understanding: Computational and Psycholinguistic Perspectives to appear in TAL, January 2023. (suggested by Bill)

Previous sessions:

12 May 2023 -- [10h-12h]

Stateva, P., Andreetta, S., Reboul, A., & Stepanov, A. (2021). Bilingual Children’s Use of the ‘Maximize Presupposition’ Principle. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics (2016-2021), 6. https://hal.science/hal-03337015/document (lead by Fahima)

17 March 2023 -- [10h-12h]

Bernardy, Grove, Howes (2022). Rational Speech Act models are utterance-independent updates of world priors. (http://semdial.org/anthology/Z22-Bernardy_semdial_0013.pdf) SemDial 2022. (lead by Jean-Philippe)

3 February 2023 -- [10h-12h]

Zhou et al. Online Semantic Parsing for Latency Reduction in Task-Oriented Dialogue ACL 2022. (lead by Bill)

20 January 2023 -- [10h-12h]

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ Ouyang et al. (2022). Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (led by Staffan)

9 December 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Sinclair, A. J., & Fernández, R. (2022). Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue. System, 102952. (Led by Fahima)

13 May 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Dingemanse, Mark, and Andreas Liesenfeld. From Text to Talk: Harnessing Conversational Corpora for Humane and Diversity-aware Language Technology. (updated version may exist on ACL) (Led by Bill and Fahima)

8 April 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Lewis, D. (1988). Statements partly about observation. Philosophical papers, 17(1), 1-31. (Led by Bill)

18 March 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Charolles, M. (2020). Discourse topics and digressive markers. Journal of Pragmatics, 161, 57-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.01.005 (Led by Amandine and Ellen)

4 March 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Franzén, A. G., Jonsson, R., & Sjöblom, B. (2021). Fear, anger, and desire: Affect and the interactional intricacies of rape humor on a live podcast. Language in Society, 50(5), 763–786. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000615 (Led by Vlad and/or Chris)

18 February 2022 -- [13h-15h]

Myslín, M., & Levy, R. (2015). Code-switching and predictability of meaning in discourse. Language, 871-905.https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24672251.pdf (led by Fahima)

4 February 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Franke, M., De Jager, T., & Van Rooij, R. (2012). Relevance in Cooperation and Conflict. Journal of Logic and Computation, 22(1), 23–54. https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exp070 (suggested by Eleni)

21 January 2022 -- [10h-12h]

Beltrama, A., & Schwarz, F. (2021). Imprecision, personae, and pragmatic reasoning. Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 31(0), 122–144. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v31i0.5107 (led by Bill)

10 December 2021 -- [10h-12h]

• Põldvere, N., Fuoli, M., & Paradis, C. (2016). A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques. Corpora, 11(2), 191–225. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2016.0092 (led by Bill)

26 November 2021 -- [10h-12h]

• Venhuizen, N. J., Hendriks, P., Crocker, M. W., & Brouwer, H. (2019). A Framework for Distributional Formal Semantics. In R. Iemhoff, M. Moortgat, & R. de Queiroz (Eds.), Logic, Language, Information, and Computation (pp. 633–646). Springer. (led by Robin)

29 October 2021 -- [10h-12h]

• Venhuizen, Noortje J., et al. “Expectation-Based Comprehension: Modeling the Interaction of World Knowledge and Linguistic Experience.” Discourse Processes, vol. 56, no. 3, Apr. 2019, pp. 229–55. (led by Alex)

15 October 2021 -- [10h-12h]

• Sikos L, Venhuizen NJ, Drenhaus H, Crocker MW (2021) Reevaluating pragmatic reasoning in language games. PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248388. (led by Bill)

10 September 2021 -- [13h-15h]

Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing (continued from last session)

27 August 2021 -- [13h-15h]

Hough, J., & Purver, M. (2017). Probabilistic Record Type Lattices for Incremental Reference Processing. In S. Chatzikyriakidis & Z. Luo (Eds.), Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics (Vol. 98, pp. 189–222). Springer International Publishing. (Led by Eleni and Staffan)

19 June 2021 -- [13h-14h]

Hough, J., Jamone, L., Schlangen, D., Walck, G., & Haschke, R. (n.d.). A Types-As-Classifiers Approach to Human-Robot Interaction for Continuous Structured State Classification. 13.

28 May 2021 -- [10h-12h]

Benotti, L., & Blackburn, P. (2021). Grounding as a Collaborative Process. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 515–531. (Led Robin & Bill)

30 April 2021 -- [13h-15h]

A manuscript about meaning acquisition, in preparation. (Led by Robin)

16 April 2021 -- [10h-12h]

Fabrizio Cariani & Lance J. Rips, Experimenting with (Conditional) Perfection (Forthcoming) (Lead by Ellen)

19 March 2021 -- [13h-15h]

• Weichold, M., & Thonhauser, G. (2020). Collective Affordances. Ecological Psychology, 32(1), 1–24. (Led by Eleni)

5 March, 2021 -- [13h-15h]

• Walton, D. (2001). Persuasive Definitions and Public Policy Arguments. Argumentation and Advocacy, 37(3), 117–132. (Led by Ellen)

16 February 2021 -- [13h-15h]

• Ducrot, O., & Žagar, I. Ž. (2009). Slovenian lectures introduction into argumentative semantics. Pedagoški inštitut. (Last two lectures; Led by Bill)

22 January 2021 -- [13h-15h]

• Ducrot, O., & Žagar, I. Ž. (2009). Slovenian lectures introduction into argumentative semantics. Pedagoški inštitut. (First three lectures; Led by Bill)

11 December 2020 -- [13h-15h]

• Led by: Robin Cooper
• Erk, K., & Herbelot, A. (n.d.). How to marry a star: Probabilistic constraints for meaning in context. (in prep.) ArXiv

9 October 2020

• Jonathan Ginzburg (2012). The Interactive Stance. Chapter 4

8 May 2020

• Jonathan Ginzburg (2012). The Interactive Stance. Chapters 2 & 3

24 April 2020

• Jonathan Ginzburg (2012). The Interactive Stance. Chapters 1 & 2

8 April 2020

• Led by: Bill Noble
• Eckert, Penelope (2019). The limits of meaning: Social indexicality, variation, and the cline of interiority

27 March 2020

• Organizational meeting

17 January 2020 -- [13h-15h]

• Led by: Bill Noble
• Lev-Ari, Shiri. “Social Network Size Can Influence Linguistic Malleability and the Propagation of Linguistic Change.” Cognition, vol. 176, July 2018, pp. 31–39. GU UB Access

08 Novemeber 2019

• Led by: Bill Noble
• Linell, Per. Approaching Dialogue: Talk, Interaction and Contexts in Dialogical Perspectives, Ch. 11, Communicative projects. John Benjamins Publishing, 1998

25 October 2019

• Led by: Bill Noble

• Mills, Gregory J. “Dialogue in Joint Activity: Complementarity, Convergence and Conventionalization.” New Ideas in Psychology, vol. 32, Jan. 2014, pp. 158–73.

  GU UB Access

27th September 2019

• SemDial Roundtable discussion
• Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. 2019

28th May 2019 -- joint seminar with Semantics and Pragmatics (LI1404)

• Led by: Bill Noble
• Mills, Gregory, and Pat Healey. “Semantic Negotiation in Dialogue: The Mechanisms of Alignment.” Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2008, pp. 46–53.

10th May 2019 -- joint seminar with Semantics and Pragmatics (LI1404)

• Led by: Ellen Breitzholtz
• Searle, John R. “A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts.” Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts, Cambridge University Press, 1979. DOI.org (Crossref), doi:10.1017/CBO9780511609213.

26th April 2019

• **Led by: **Bill Noble
• Christiansen, M. H., & Chater, N. (2016). The now-or-never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e62.

12th April 2019

• Led by: Chris Howes
• Brown-Schmidt, Sarah. “Beyond Common and Privileged: Gradient Representations of Common Ground in Real-Time Language Use.” Language and Cognitive Processes, vol. 27, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 62–89. Crossref

29th March 2019

• Led by: Chris Howes Ellen Breitholtz with Eleni Gregoromichelaki
• Stalnaker, Robert. “On the Representation of Context.” Journal of Logic, Language and Information, vol. 7, no. 1, Jan. 1998, pp. 3–19. Springer Link

15th March 2019

• Led by: Bill Noble
• Zhang, Justine, et al. “Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure.” Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018, pp. 1350–1361.

15th February 2019

• Led by: Bill Noble
• [Burnett, Heather. "A Persona-based Semantics for Slurs". (under review). ]{style=”color: #2a2a2a;”}

1st February 2019

• Led by: Sylvie Saget
• Kempson, Ruth, Ronnie Cann, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis. “Language as Mechanisms for Interaction.” Theoretical Linguistics 42, no. 3–4 (January 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2016-0011.

18th January 2019

• Led by: Eleni Gregoromichelaki
• Rietveld, E., Denys, D., & Van Westen, M. (2018-09-06). Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF). In (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198735410.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198735410-e-3.

4th December 2018

• Led by: Christine Howes
• Elder, C. & Haugh, M. (2018). The interactional achievement of speaker meaning: Toward a formal account of conversational inference. Intercultural Pragmatics, 15(5), pp. 593-625. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/iprg.2018.15.issue-5/ip-2018-0021/ip-2018-0021.xml?format=INT

23rd November 2018

• Linell, P. 2017 Dialogue, dialogicality and interactivity: A conceptually bewildering field? Language & Dialogue, 7: 301-336.

6th November 2018 (NOTE: TUESDAY am inT116) -- before P. Blackburn's coming - CLASP Seminar Invited Speaker

• Led by: Sylvie Saget
• Benotti, L., & Blackburn, P. (2017) [Modeling the clarification potential of instructions: Predicting clarification requests and other reactions]{.nodeLink}{.pplink}, Computer Speech & Language 45, 536-551 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0885230816300961

26th October 2018

• Led by: Bill Noble**
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• Kalociński, Dariusz, Marcin Mostowski, and Nina Gierasimczuk. “Interactive Semantic Alignment Model: Social Influence and Local Transmission Bottleneck.” Journal of Logic, Language and Information 27, no. 3 (September 2018): 225–53.

12th October 2018

• Led by: Ellen Breitholtz/Robin Cooper**
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• Henderson, R and McCready, E (2017) How Dogwhistles Work, JSAI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, 231--240 http://rhenderson.net.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/papers/how_dogwhistles_work.pdf

28th September 2018

• Led by: Sylvie Saget
• Bangerter, A., & Clark, H. H. (2003). Navigating joint projects with dialogue. Cognitive Science, 27(2), 195-225.

8th June 2018 - [10h-12h]

• Led by: Vlad Maraev
• Hempelmann, C. F., & Attardo, S. (2011). []{.nodeLink}{.pplink}[Resolutions and their incongruities: further thoughts on logical mechanisms]{.nodeLink}{.pplink}. Humor-International of Humor Research, 24(2), 125-142.

25th May 2018

• Led by: Sylvie Saget & Simon Dobnik [(cross reading from Dialog + Language&Perception perspectives!)]{style=”color: #ff9900;”}
• Clark, H. H., & Bangerter, A. (2004). Changing ideas about reference. In Experimental pragmatics (pp. 25-49). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

27th April 2018

• Led by: Robin Cooper
• [[Burnett, Heather. (accepted). ]{style=”font-size: 16px; background-color: white;”}]{style=”font-family: Arial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;” size=”2” face=”Arial” color=”#2A2A2A”}[["Signalling Games, Sociolinguistic Variation and the Construction of Style". accepted in ]{style=”font-size: 16px; background-color: white;”}]{style=”font-family: Arial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;” size=”2” face=”Arial” color=”#2A2A2A”}[[Linguistics & Philosophy. ]{style=”font-size: 16px; background-color: white;”}]{style=”font-family: Arial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: small;” size=”2” face=”Arial” color=”#2A2A2A”}[[]{style=”font-size: 16px; background-color: white;”}]{style=”font-family: Arial; font-size: small;” size=”2” face=”Arial”}{#LPlnk812110}

13th April 2018

• Led by: Ellen Breitholtz
• Linell, P. (2017). []{.nodeLink}[Dialogue and the Birth of the Individual Mind: With an Example of Communication with a Congenitally Deafblind Person]{.nodeLink}. Journal of Deafblind Studies on Communication, 3(1).

23rd March 2018 - [10h-12h] - joint Dialogue and Language and Perception reading group

• Led by: Sylvie Saget**
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• Viethen, J., Dale, R. and Guhe, M. (2011) "Generating subsequent reference in shared visual scenes: Computation vs. re-use" Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics.

9th March 2018

• Led by: Staffan Larsson**
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• Grosz, B. J., & Sidner, C. L. (1986). Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse. Computational linguistics, 12(3), 175-204.

16th February 2018

• Led by: Vladislav Maraev
• Clark, H. H., & Brennan, S. E. (1991). Grounding in communication. Perspectives on socially shared cognition, 13(1991), 127-149.

2nd February 2018 - joint Dialogue and Language and Perception reading group

• Led by: Robin Cooper
• [Pustejovsky, J. (2018), From affordances to events: Communicating action through language and gesture. MS (not for distribution; e-mail me for pdf)]{style=”font-family: arial;” face=”arial”}

19th January 2018

• Led by: Chris Howes
• [Cowley, S. J. & Harvey, M. I. (2016), The illusion of common ground New Ideas in Psychology, Elsevier, 42, 56-63 [link]]{style=”font-family: arial;” face=”arial”}

15 December 2017

• Led by: Ellen Breitholtz
• Ginzburg, J. (2010) `Questions: Logic and Interaction.' In van Benthem and ter Meulen (eds.) Handbook of Logic and Language, 2nd Edition Elsevier [pdf]

17th November 2017

• Led by: Sylvie Saget
• Thomas, K.A., DeScioli, P., Haque, O.S., & Pinker, S. (2014) The psychology of coordination and common knowledge, Journal of[ personality and social psychology, 107(4). [pdf]]{.Apple-converted-space}

3rd November 2017

• Led by: Vlad Maraev
• Jefferson, G., Sacks, H., & Schegloff, E. (1977). Preliminary notes on the sequential organization of laughter. Pragmatics Microfiche, 1, 2–9. [pdf]