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ISCApad Archive » 2019 » ISCApad #254 » Events » ISCA Supported Events » (2019-09-11) SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Saturday, August 10, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
*************************************************************************** SIGDIAL 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** SIGDIAL 2019 – 20th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue September 11-13, 2019 (just before Interspeech 2019) https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/ *************************************************************************** [ apologies for multiple postings ] ** Registration Site is now open ** ** Early Registration Deadline: July 27, 2019 ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. After a series of successful previous meetings, this jubilee edition continues to span 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 2019 will be temporally co-located with Interspeech as a satellite event. INVITED SPEAKERS Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, UK Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China VENUE SIGDIAL 2019 will be held in beautiful Stockholm at the Student Union building (THS) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). A map of the venue and travel information can be found at https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/attend.html REGISTRATION Registration for SIGDIAL 2019 is being graciously handled by KTH, and can be accessed at https://axacoair.se/go?IM75WFJn Registration fees are as follows: Early bird, until July 27, Full: 4,000 SEK, Student: 2,800 SEK Regular, until September 3, Full: 5,600 SEK, Student: 3,600 SEK ACCEPTED PAPERS The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/papers.html ADDITIONAL EVENTS In addition to regular papers and poster sessions, the program will also feature Special Session on Implications of Deep Learning for Dialog Modeling http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/ Invited demo from the host institution Panel discussion on The Future of Dialogue Research (details TBC) Best of Journal of Discourse and Dialogue (details TBC) IMPORTANT DATES Final Paper Deadline (mentored papers) July 23, 2019 Early Registration Deadline July 27, 2019 Final Paper Deadline (all other papers) July 28, 2019 Late Registration Deadline September 3, 2019 Conference September 11-13, 2019 WEBSITES Conference website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html SIGdial organization website: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference20/index.html Interspeech 2019 website: https://www.interspeech2019.org/ Young Researchers Roundtable 2019 website: https://sites.google.com/site/yrrsds2019/home Semdial 2019 website: https://semdial2019.github.io ORGANIZING COMMITTEE For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing committee at conference@sigdial.org: General Chair: Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Program Chairs: Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia Local Chair: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan Mentoring Chair: Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI, USA Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany Publicity Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan The members of the executive board are SIGdial President: Jason Williams, Apple, USA SIGdial Vice President: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA |
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