The Centre for Linguistic Theory
and Studies in Probability

Dialogue

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

Upcoming session:

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

TBD

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Previous sessions:

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]

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]

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
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
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
15th February 2019
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
4th December 2018
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
26th October 2018
12th October 2018
28th September 2018
8th June 2018 - [10h-12h]
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
13th April 2018
23rd March 2018 - [10h-12h] - joint Dialogue and Language and Perception reading group
9th March 2018
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]