Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission:  December 20, 2023

Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024

Workshop dates: April 18-19, 2024

Abstract guidelines: Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length (A4 or letter-size), in 12 pt. font, with 1-inch/2,5-cm margins; a third page can be used for references, data, and figures. Please indicate whether you want the submission to be considered for an oral presentation, a poster (+flash presentation), or either. Abstracts should be submitted to EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=core2024.

Contact e-mail address: [email protected]

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• The general principles that intervene in efficient communication, especially alternatives to or refined definitions of notions such as “efficiency”, “effort”, and “informativity”.

• Which features of entities or events are more likely to be used for discrimination.

• The role of the visual context and/or distractor entities in influencing RE choice; more generally, the role of multi-modal aspects.

• The role of the implicit semantic organization of RE alternatives and the conventionalized division of labor between them, especially organization based on implicative semantic relations (e.g. hyponymy, troponymy).

• The factors influencing the choice among alternative cross-classifications of a target referent (e.g. the choice between “taxonomic” descriptions such as woman vs. role-based descriptions such as skier).

• The dynamics between reference and the linguistic system, that is, how efficient communication is enabled by and at the same time transforms a given language.

We take a methodologically pluralistic approach and thus welcome presentations on experimental studies, analysis of corpus data, computational modeling, critiques or analyses of published research, as well as position papers.