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10 October 2025, Workshop on Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models @ COLM 2025
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 invite researchers to present their published and ongoing works on the topics of, but not limited to:
- Improving Pragmatic, Contextual Language Use in LLMs
- Evaluating Pragmatic Competence of Language Models
- Theory-of-Mind (ToM) and Pragmatics
- Pragmatics across Cultures and Languages
- Application of LLMs for Understanding Human Pragmatic Language Use
- Interpretability of LLMs' Pragmatic Competence
We seek both 4-page extended abstracts and 8-page full papers, excluding references and appendices. All workshop papers are non-archival, and we welcome position papers on topics of interest to the workshop. All submissions will be in the COLM 2025 LaTeX format and submitted via the OpenReview portal. Accepted papers will be invited for poster/oral presentations and will be publicly available on the workshop website.
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