[CogSci] Workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models (PragLM)

[Robert Hawkins]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models (PragLM) @ COLM 2025.

Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/praglm/
Submission deadline: June 23rd
Link to submit: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2025/Workshop/PragLM

Abstract:
We produce language based on our understanding of how context contributes to meaning and deliberate on the choice of utterances and interpretations that helps us collaborate and engage in social interactions. While recent large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance on a variety of language-related tasks, could these models be considered as true pragmatic language users? The 1st Workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models (PragLM) aims to stimulate research on LLMs as pragmatically competent language users. We invite contributions that will forward the discussion of understanding and improvement of LLMs' capability to generate natural language flexibly and efficiently across contexts, with relations to research on the cognitive and linguistic processes supporting effective, context-sensitive communication. Our interdisciplinary theme brings together researchers in NLP, computational pragmatics, cognitive science, and other fields.

We look forward to your submissions!

Best,
Robert Hawkins
(on behalf of the organizing committee for PragLM)
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