Call for Papers
Reasoning and Interaction (ReInAct), University of Gothenburg (Hybrid online and physical event), Sweden, October 4-6, 2021.
Reasoning and Interaction (ReInAct) is a conference organized by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), http://clasp.gu.se at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), https://www.gu.se/en/flov. It is sponsored by SIGSEM http://sigsem.org, the ACL special interest group on semantics. The ReInAct conference proceedings will be published online in the ACL Anthology for 2021 as a SIGSEM workshop event.
ReInAct will bring together researchers interested in computationally relevant approaches to reasoning and interaction in natural language. ReInAct is open to Machine Learning, Symbolic and Experimental approaches, as well as combinations of these.
ReInAct will also involve a shared task on Dialogue Natural Language Inference (DNLI). More details on the task will be published in due course and will be announced here: https://sites.google.com/view/reinact2021/shared-task
Topics of interest
We welcome all computational and/or computationally relevant approaches to reasoning and interaction in natural language. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas, including (but not limited to) the following:
visual, dialogue and multi-modal inference systems
neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experimental approaches to reasoning and interaction
dialogue modelling and linguistic interaction
formal approaches to social meaning
statistical, machine learning and information theoretic approaches to reasoning and interaction
methodologies and practices for annotating dialogue and multi-modal datasets
formal aspects of reasoning and interaction
visual, dialogue and multi-modal generation
semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts
multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning
semantics-pragmatics interface
applications of visual, dialogue and multi-modal system technology
Submission Requirements
ReInAct2021 will feature three types of submissions: long papers, student papers, and short papers. All types of papers should be submitted not later than August the 6th. August the 17th. Long papers must describe original research, and they must not exceed 8 pages excluding references. They will be presented at the conference either orally or as posters. Student papers describe original research, and the first author must be a student, or at least 2/3 of the work on a paper should be done by students. Student papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding references. Reviewers will give special support to student authors through mentoring. The papers will be presented orally or as posters at the conference. Short papers present work in progress, or they describe systems and/or projects. They must not exceed 4 pages excluding references. They will be presented as posters at the conference and summarised in lightning talks. Position papers are also accepted. These should be formatted in the same way as long papers. All types of papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology.
Submissions should be pdf files and use the Latex or Word templates provided for ACL 2021 submissions. An overleaf template can be found here. Submissions have to be anonymous.
Papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the softconf system at: https://www.softconf.com/l/reinact2021. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using softconf.
Concurrent submissions
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at ReInAct 2021 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
Camera Ready versions
Camera ready versions should follow the same guidelines with respect to style and page numbers as the initial submission, i.e. there are no additional pages allowed in the final submission. Please submit the camera ready version by September 17th.
Important dates
Deadline extension: August 17th
Submission deadline: August 6th
Notification of acceptance: September 8th
Camera ready: September 17th
Conference: 4-6 October
Invited Speakers
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Joyce Chai, University of Michigan
Riccardo Fusaroli, Aarhus University
Organization
Programme Chairs: Ellen Breitholtz, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik, Christine Howes and Asad Sayeed
Shared Task Organizers: Adam Ek, William Noble and Stergios Chatzikyriakidis
Program Committee
Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Christoph Benzmüller, Freie Universität Berlin
Jean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg
Patrick Blackburn, University of Roskilde
Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg
Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, University of Gothenburg
Stephen Clark, Queen Mary University of London
Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg
Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
Philippe de Groote, Inria
Markus Egg, Humboldt University
Adam Ek, University of Gothenburg
Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot
Dimitra Gkatzia, Edinburgh Napier University
Eleni Gregoromichelaki, University of Gothenburg
Julian Hough, Queen Mary University of London
Christine Howes, University of Gothenburg
Richard Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology
Ralf Klabunde, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
NikhilKrishnaswamy, Colorado State University
Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg
Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg
Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg
Elin McCready, Aoyama Gakuin University
Paul McKevitt, Ulster University
Louise McNally, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Violaine Prince, University of Montpellier
Stephen Pulman, Oxford University
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London
Christian Retoré, University of Montpellier
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country
Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh
Asad Sayeed, University of Gothenburg
Vidya Somashekarappa, University of Gothenburg
Tim Van de Cruys, University of Toulouse
Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin
Sina Zarrieß, Universität Bielefeld
