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SIGDIAL 2019 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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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/

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** 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