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Wednesday, August 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
====SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS==== http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/ SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, USA. September 13-15, 2016 (just after INTERSPEECH) Submission Deadline: 15 May, 2016 **NEWS** INVITED SPEAKERS We are happy to announce our invited speakers: - Susan Brennan, NSF/Stony Brook http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/ - Louis-Philippe Morency, CMU http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/ SPECIAL SESSION We will have a special session on 'The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants'. website: http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ Organizers: - Yoichi Matsuyama (CMU) - Alexandros Papangelis (Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory) See below for more details. ==== CALL FOR PAPERS The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful sixteen previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2016 will be co-located with INTERSPEECH 2016 (http://interspeech2016.org/) as a satellite event, and also with YRRSDS 2016 (http://www.yrrsds.org/), the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: 1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as text summarization, question answering, and information retrieval. Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. 2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, and corpora. 3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence). SUBMISSIONS The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and demo descriptions. Papers submitted as long papers may be accepted as long papers for oral presentation, long papers for poster presentation, or short papers for poster presentation. Short papers will be presented as posters. - Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for example discourses or dialogues and algorithms. - Short papers should be no longer than four pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references. - Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, sound files, etc. Please use the official ACL style files: http://acl2016.org/files/acl2016.zip Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). SIGDIAL 2016 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs<at>sigdial.org. INVITED SPEAKERS - Susan Brennan, NSF/Stony Brook http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/ - Louis-Philippe Morency, CMU http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~morency/ SPECIAL SESSION The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants Organizers: - Yoichi Matsuyama (CMU) - Alexandros Papangelis (Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory) Today is the era of intelligent personal assistants. All the major tech giants have introduced personal assistants as the front end of their services, including Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Facebook's M, and Amazon's Alexa. Several of these companies have also released bot toolkits so that other smaller companies can join the fray. However, while the quality of conversational interactions with intelligent personal assistants is crucial for their success in both business and personal applications, fundamental problems, such as discourse processing, computational pragmatics, user modeling, and collecting and annotating adequate real data, remain unsolved. Furthermore, the intelligent personal assistants of tomorrow raise a whole set of new technical problems. The SIGDIAL special session 'The Future of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants' will consist of talks and posters that introduce and evaluate solutions to dialogue system challenges preventing the development of effective and compelling intelligent personal assistants. Researchers from both academia and industry are welcome. A panel of notable academic and industry players will lead to insights on future directions. The special session will last 2.5 hours and will consist of long/short paper presentations, poster presentations, and a panel discussion entitled 'The Future Directions of Dialogue Based Intelligent Personal Assistants'. For more information, please visit the special session website: http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ The papers submitted to the special session are handled by special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. MENTORING Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and 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 this initiative can be addressed to the mentoring chair Pierre Lison (University of Oslo, Norway plison@ifi.uio.no). BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize BEST PAPER AWARDs. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 15 May, 2016 Notification of acceptance: 28 Jun, 2016 Final submission: 21 Jul, 2016 Conference: 13-15 Sept, 2016 WEBSITES Conference website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17 Submission link: To be announced SIGdial organization website: http://www.sigdial.org Co-located Conference website: INTERSPEECH 2016 http://interspeech2016.org/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing committee. General Chairs Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany general-chairs<at>sigdial.org Program Chairs Giuseppe Carenini, The University of British Columbia, Canada Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan program-chairs<at>sigdial.org Local Chairs Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA local-organizers<at>sigdial.org Mentoring Chair Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway mentoring<at>sigdial.org Sponsorships Chair Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA sponsor-chair<at>sigdial.org SIGdial President Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Inc., USA SIGdial Vice President Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland To contact SIGdial President, vice presidents, and secretary/treasurer, send an email to exec<at>sigdial.org. |
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