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3-2-1 | (2013-08-23) SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE, Metz, FranceSIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE
14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/ Metz, France 23-24 August 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge
research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers.
Continuing with a series of thirteen successful previous meetings, this conference
spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored
by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse
and dialog for both ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based,
implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted
to the following themes and topics:
- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology
For a detailed list, see the complete list of topics of interest on the SIGDIAL 2013 website.
Special Theme: Discourse and Dialogue in Social Media Processing language in social
media has attracted a noticeable amount of interest in recent years.
Language in this new kind of media offers many opportunities and challenges,
from the point of view of discourse and dialogue. To start with, an astounding
amount of conversational data is created each day on Twitter and Facebook,
but also on many blogs. Additionally, social media provides a window into a variety
of human behaviors that rarely appear in the controlled data sets our community is
accustomed to work with. We invite submissions on all aspects of discourse and
dialogue processing of language as used in a variety of social media platforms,
from Twitter and Facebook, to any type of blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis,
and multimedia sharing sites. We particularly welcome contributions that highlight
new insights into discourse and dialogue phenomena in this new genre, or describe
new discourse and dialogue processing models emerging from it.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr Jerome R. Bellegarda, Apple Inc, USA
Prof Bonnie L. Webber, University of Edinburgh,UK
SUBMISSIONS
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and
demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Long papers will be presented in full plenary presentations. They must be no longer
than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples.
Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include
extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
Short papers will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters.
They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional
page is allowed for references and appendices. Demonstrations will be presented in
special sessions, separate from short paper presentations and poster sessions.
Demo descriptions will appear in a dedicated section of the proceedings and should
be no longer than 3 pages, including references. To encourage late breaking demos,
demo submissions have a later deadline. Papers that have been or will be submitted
to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format).
SIGDIAL 2013 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere, except for demonstrations. Any questions regarding submissions
can be sent to the technical program co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips
or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes. Submission
is electronic using paper submission software at https://www.softconf.com/d/sigdial2013/
FORMAT
All long, short, and demo submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2013 format.
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files
tailored for the ACL 2013 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2013
style guidelines (http://acl2013.org/site/call.html), and they must be electronic in PDF.
As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous.
MENTORING SERVICE
For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service.
Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or
organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and conditionally accepted
with recommendation to revise with a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously
published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare
their submissions for publication. Any questions about the mentoring service can be
addressed to the mentoring chair, Dr. Kallirroi Georgila, at kgeorgila[at]ict.usc.edu.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology,
SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent
researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.
SPONSORSHIP
SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email
the conference organizers at sigdial-conf[at]sigdial.org.
DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to
the journal Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL.
IMPORTANT DATES
Long and Short Papers Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, 3 May 2013 (23:59, GMT-11)
Paper Notification: Friday, 21 June 2013
Final Paper Due
- For papers accepted subject to receiving mentoring Friday, 19 July 2013 - For accepted papers Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Demos
Demo Paper Submission Deadline Tuesday, 2 July 2013 (23:59, GMT-11)
Demo Paper Notification Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Final Demo Paper Due Wednesday, 24 July 2013
Conference Friday-Saturday, 23-24 August 2013
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
Mentoring Chair
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Local Chair
Olivier Pietquin, Supelec, France
Sponsorships Chair
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA SIGDIAL President
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research,USA
SIGDIAL Vice President
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
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3-2-2 | (2013-09-02) CfP Fourth International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems, Vienna, Austria
Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems PQS 2013 2-4 September 2013 Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The fourth international workshop on Perceptual Quality of Systems aims to bring together leading professionals and scientists from different fields that are all related to perceptual quality. Supported by ISCA and the European COST action Qualinet, this event will serve as a forum facilitating an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between both academic and industrial researchers working on different aspects of perceptual quality of systems. Inaugurated in Herne/Mont Cenis (2003) and continued in Berlin (2006) and Bautzen (2010), PQS 2013 will be held in Vienna, Austria.
User perceived quality of technical systems is grounded on human experience and therefore a highly complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Thus, any approach to quality assessment and prediction has to take the relevant human perception and judgment factors into account, an issue that has been addressed by a number of scientific disciplines including psychophysics, cognitive psychology, speech and audiovisual quality assessment, human computer interaction (HCI), usability and user experience research, and Quality of Experience (QoE).
Authors are invited to submit extended paper abstracts (1.5-2 pages) according to the guidelines that will be available on the workshop web site. Contributions typically refer to methodological aspects of quality and usability assessment and evaluation, the underlying perception and judgment processes, as well as to user perceived quality of particular technologies, systems or services. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Methodologies and Methods of Quality Assessment and Evaluation * Metrology: Test Design and Scaling * Quality of Speech, Audio and Music * Quality of Images and Video * Quality of Haptics * Quality of Multimodal and Multi-sensory Perception * Perceptual Quality vs. Quality of Experience vs. User Experience vs. Usability * Semio-Acoustics and -Perception * Quality Engineering Processes * Quality and Usability of - Speech Technology Devices - Interactive Telecommunication Systems and Services - Multi-Modal User Interfaces - Haptic and Olfactory Interfaces - Audiovisual, 3D and Virtual Reality Systems
Important Dates: - Submission (Extended Abstracts): March 31, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2013 - Camera-ready submission: June 15, 2013
Local Organizing Committee: Raimund Schatz, FTW Sebastian Egger, FTW
General Organizing Committee: Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin Alexander Raake, TU Berlin Ercan Altinsoy, TU Dresden Tobias Hossfeld, University of Würzburg
For further information please refer to http://pqs.ftw.at
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