SIGDIAL 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