Dialogue and Discourse

Aims & Scope

Dialogue and Discourse (D&D) is the first peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the single sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. Dialogue and Discourse publishes two regular issues a year, in addition to occasional special issues. D&D is endorsed by SIGdial , SemDial , and AMLaP . D&D papers are included in the ACL anthology . D&D gratefully acknowledges support by Bielefeld University Library , who hosted our journal management system until 2020, and the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago , who took over in 2020. D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on discourse, intended as text that goes beyond the single sentence, and dialogue. Topics within the purview of D&D include: Rigorous linguistic analysis of discourse & dialogue phenomena: reference and anaphora non-sentential utterances and other elliptical phenomena multiparty conversation and classification of conversational types presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles semantics-pragmatics of dialogue acts meta-communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding, intonation in discourse non-verbal communication in discourse Human representation and processing of discourse & dialogue: cognitive (intra-individual) and interactive (inter-individual) processing acquisition, comprehension and production feedback, clarification, correction and repair effects of modality, audience and physical and social context conversational and discursive gestures and expressions Computational / automatic approaches for discourse & dialogue: coreference resolution, including in multimodal communication discourse parsing event and temporal structure natural language understanding, including spoken language understanding natural language generation, including spoken language generation dialogue management and reasoning design and engineering of dialogue systems, including (but not limited to) evaluation, usability, rapid deployment, embodied agents, affect detection, mixed-initiative, adaptation, and user modeling Information states and dynamics of agents in conversational interaction New analytical frameworks advancing theories of discourse and dialogue Innovative methods for the investigation and analysis of discourse and dialogue: motion capture, wearables and other forms of intelligent sensing experiments using mediated, virtual and augmented interactions Overviews and evaluation of new data resources or tools relevant to work on discourse and dialogue in the senses above Comprehensive surveys of existing work in discourse and dialogue on any of the topics mentioned above Please note: papers that exclusively focus on sentence level phenomena / analysis or below are not appropriate for D&D, which is dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the single sentence". If in doubt, feel free to contact the D&D editor in chief: [email protected]. Dialogue and Discourse also accepts for publication shorter articles, called Opinion Pieces, that express a personal opinion or provocative perspective on some aspect of the areas of dialogue and discourse research within the journal's remit. An Opinion Piece is different from a standard research article in that it does not typically present novel results; and it is also different from a survey in that it is not intended to provide a thorough coverage of an aspect of the field. Instead, it is meant to move the field forward by challenging some aspect of current methodology or identifying areas of the field that require further investigation. Provocation won't hurt. Opinion Pieces, like standard papers, will undergo rigorous review. For Opinion Pieces, we expect a typical length of 10 pages. Authors interested in this type of submission may consider the inaugural Opinion Piece that has been published here in 12(1). In D&D, highest priority is given to research reports that are specifically written for a multidisciplinary audience. The audience is primarily researchers on discourse and dialogue and its associated fields, including computer scientists, linguists, psychologists, philosophers, roboticists, sociologists.

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