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3-2-1 (2013-08-23) SIGDIAL 2013 CONFERENCE, Metz, France Submission open
  
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 

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