In 2020, the 10th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition conference will be held from 1 to 2 May 2020 at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. This conference will be hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University.

The CLDC aims to provide a forum for researchers interested in language, discourse, and cognition to discuss new research findings, exchange innovative ideas and share the approaches in these fields. Topics relevant to language, discourse, and cognition as well as interdisciplinary studies stimulated over the last few years have given rise to a growing body of critical findings, making CLDC an important event in the field of cognitive linguistics in East Asia.

Consequently, studies presented at the conference CLDC focus on the study of languages from many perspectives, in order to enrich the dialogue between different fields of cognitive science. As such, the main theme of this joint conference is: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, referring to the place language often finds itself in.

Call for Papers

General Theme: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
The 10th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 10) provides an international forum that brings together researchers interested in language, discourse, and cognition. The focus of CLDC 10 sets "Conversation Analysis and Artificial Intelligence" as the main theme in the hope that we can further explore various issues bearing on the symbiosis among cognition, language and other disciplines. We would like to invite original abstracts on topics dealing with, but not limited to, the following disciplines or sub-disciplines:

• Cognitive Syntax

• Cognitive Semantics

• Cognitive Pragmatics

• Cognitive Sociolinguistics

• Corpus and Computational Linguistics

• Linguistic Typology

• Cognitive Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Cognitive Science, Social Science, Computer Science, etc.)

Special Theme: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The 10th Conference on Language, Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC 10) features a special theme titled "Conversation Analysis and Artificial Intelligence". In recent years, the development of new methods and tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) allows for more possibilities to investigate languages. Linguistics knowledge such as conversation analysis, on the other hand, helps to design better and authentic conversations for machines. In view of the importance and potential of this topic, the special theme of CLDC 10 invites abstracts on research related to various aspects of CONVERSATION ANALYSIS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, including theoretical and/or applied and interdisciplinary studies. Possible topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:

• Conversation analysis and studies

• Conversation markers

• Conversation and semantics

• Conversation modeling

• Conversation Recommendations

• Conversational AI Deployment

• Language Understanding (NLU / SLU)

• Language Generation

• Dialogue State Tracking

• Dialogue Evaluation

• Dialogue Data Collection / Datasets

• Slot-based Conversational AI

• Retrieval-based Conversational AI

• Generative Conversational AI

• Multimodal Dialogues

• Contextual Modeling

• Semantic Representation

• Dialogue Representation Learning

SUBMISSION FORMAT:

Abstracts must be written in English and are limited to one A4 page (Times New Roman, 12 pt font, single-spaced), excluding references. Authors are limited to one first-authored submission only. Please do not include in your abstract any information that may reveal your identity, as the review process will be conducted anonymously.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

CLDC 10 will accept online submissions only, via the EasyChair Conference System. Submissions will not be accepted in the hard copy format or by email transmission. To start your submission, please click on the link: https://easychair.org/cfp/CLDC10

Please note that if you do not have an account on the EasyChair Conference System, you need to sign up for an account first. You can start the submission process after you log in to the system. 

1. Please log in to the submission system and complete the form.

2. Please do NOT include any example or reference in the main text of the abstract. In addition to typing your abstract into the text box, please prepare a pdf file and upload it in the paper column (at the bottom of the form). In the pdf file, you can include special characters or fonts (e.g., IPA) used in the main text of the abstract and in the supplementary materials (examples, references, etc.). The pdf file should NOT contain any personal information that may reveal the authors’ identities.

3. Please specify at least three keywords for your abstract. Also, please identify at least one subfield related to your work by checking the subfield(s) from the list provided above, and write it both in your pdf and the keyword box. If the topic of your abstract belongs to a category not listed, please select “others”.

4. Please click “Abstract Only” to proceed.

5. Shortly after you complete the submission process, an E-mail message confirming receipt of your abstract will be sent to you.

LANGUAGE USED AT THE CONFERENCE: ENGLISH

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
• Dr. Natalia Levshina (Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics) 
  Communicative efficiency in language structure and use: Convergent evidence from typology, experiments and corpora

Venue

The conference will be held in National Taiwan University (No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.)).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to cldc2020@gmail.com