Call for papers

We invite submissions on all topics related to reference production, and particularly encourage work that combines experimental and computational approaches. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• different kinds of referring expressions; when are which types of reference (pronouns, descriptions, etc.) most appropriate?
• when and how do human speakers produce complex descriptions (e.g., plurals, quantified descriptions, relational descriptions)?
• psychologically plausible computational models of reference production
• vagueness: the use of vague (e.g. gradable) predicates in referring expressions
• individual variation and non-determinism in reference production
• referential overspecification: why and how do speakers overspecify?
• referential underspecification: production of descriptions which do not uniquely identify a referent
• referring expressions in interactive settings; audience design,
• adaptation and alignment
• ambiguity avoidance in references
• common ground, cooperativeness and shared/private information in reference
• realization of referring expressions (including speech and gesture)
• visual scene perception and its influence on the production of referring expressions
• how do social and contextual factors influence reference production
• data-collection and experimental evaluation method

Extended abstract submission:
Paper selection will be based on extended, 1000 word abstracts. The only accepted format for submitted abstracts is PDF. Abstracts can be submitted here.

Final submission:
Upon acceptance, authors are invited to prepare a 4-6 page paper using the CogSci author kit. Final versions need to be submitted as PDF. Papers will be published in on line proceedings, and the authors retain the copyrights.

Special Issue

We will publish a special issue related to this workshop in Language and Cognitive Processes. A separate call for papers for this special issue will be distributed in due course.

If authors have any questions, they should contact the workshop organizers at precogsci2011@gmail.com