First call for Papers: SemDial 2026 – LuffDial – the 30th edition of the SemDial workshop series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

## Information

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* Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.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: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/
* 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: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2026

## 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