CG-24: Conversational Grounding in the Age of Large Language Models |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cg24 |
Conversational Grounding refers to the process where conversation participants create new shared information, known as common ground, which they can reference later. This process involves more than just sharing information through statements; it also includes visual signals, inferential understanding, and interactive feedback mechanisms. Despite extensive research in this area, numerous unresolved issues persist, especially concerning different scenarios, participant configurations, sensory inputs, and objectives. Additionally, the advent of large language models has transformed grounding processes, introducing new challenges while potentially resolving existing ones. The current moment is ideal for gathering experts in Conversational Grounding to enhance collective understanding, share advancements, and establish new best practices for incorporating conversational grounding into dialogue systems, given these developments and challenges.
The "Conversational Grounding in the Age of Large Language Models" workshop aims to bring together researchers looking at grounding from different perspectives, including linguistics and language use, computer dialogue systems, and collaborative interaction. We invite participants to propose presentations of their individual work and/or group discussion topics.
Submission Guidelines
The participants will need to provide a 2-page extended abstract describing their work related to conversational grounding, and what they'd like to present at the workshop (previously published or new work are both welcomed). The authors should use the ACL template provided here - https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files.
List of Topics
- Fundamental Issues in Conversational Grounding
- Use of LLMs for Conversational Grounding
- Situated and Multimodal Grounding
- Multiparty Grounding
- Grounding needs for Specific Application areas
Timeline
- 1st May, 2024 - Deadline for paper submission
- 21st May, 2024 - Acceptance result
- 29th July, 2024 - Start of workshop
- 2nd August, 2024 - End of workshop
Program Committee
- Justine Cassell
- David Traum
- Biswesh Mohapatra
Venue
The conference will be held in along with European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2024. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to CG24_esslli@outlook.com