CITEC

Bialogue 2025 is the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series and takes place from September 3–5, 2025 at CITEC, Bielefeld University. The theme of Bialogue 2025 is Meaningful Interaction. For years, the SemDial workshops have explored how humans and machines communicate in dialogue. But with conversational AI now moving beyond the lab and into daily life, the question has become more pressing: Are these interactions truly meaningful? This year’s workshop shows research that digs deeper into the foundations of meaningful interaction - whether through cognitive mechanisms, computational models, user perspectives, or ethical considerations. By bringing together empirical, theoretical, and computational work, Bialogue 2025 aims to shed light on what it really takes for human-machine dialogue to matter. 

The workshop is organised by CITEC researchers in collaboration with TRR 318 Constructing Explainability  and CRC 1646 Linguistic Creativity.