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| 3-2-1 | (2020-07-01) CfP SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE, Boise, Idaho,USA (UPDATED) *Important information regarding COVID-19:
Dear SIGdial Community, We wanted to let everyone know our plans with regard to COVID-19. First, we want to reassure everyone that SIGDIAL 2020 will take place in some form, and papers accepted to SIGDIAL will be published. Since SIGDIAL 2020 is co-located with ACL in Seattle, we are coordinating our efforts with them. We are considering the possibility of either a virtual or a postponed conference. We will keep you posted on any updates regarding this decision. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at conference@sigdial.org. Please take care of yourself and each other. Warmly, Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President, in behalf of the SIGDIAL 2020 Organizing Committee SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE
July 1-3, 2020
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack?s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
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 a series of nineteen 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 in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
IMPORTANT DATES
IMPORTANT CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
Multiple Submission Policy: SIGDIAL no longer accepts papers that have been submitted to other meetings or journals whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL.
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:
- Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval.
- Dialogue Systems: Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multimodal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
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 or long papers for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
- Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.
- Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative results; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers? comments.
- Demo descriptions should be no longer than four pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.
Multiple Submissions
SIGDIAL 2020 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and meetings, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous year?s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2020 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors? names and affiliations, and
self-references are allowed.
Submission Format
All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference (http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip [ acl2020. org/downloads/acl2020-templates. zip ] ). Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of their paper before the March 6, 2020 deadline. https://www.softconf.com/l/sigdial2020/ ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES
As noted above, SIGDIAL 2020 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.
Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of the double-blind reviewing process and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected or withdrawn.
- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).
- If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
- Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible.
Citations and Comparison: If you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis.
MENTORING
Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of 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.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2020 will include 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.
SIGDIAL 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Olivier Pietquin, Google AI
Program Chairs:
Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
Local Chair:
Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Sponsorship Chair:
David Vandyke, University of Cambridge
Mentoring Chair:
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull
Publication Chair:
Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
SIGdial President:
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIGdial Vice President:
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus:
Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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| 3-2-2 | (2020-07-01) CfSS SIGDIAL 2020, Boise, Idaho, USASIGDIAL 20201‐3 July, USA2nd Call for Special Sessions
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA (http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference21/). Note the revised conference dates from previous announcement to avoid overlap with ICML 2020 and IJCAI 2020. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020 Special Session Notification: January 31, 2020 To accommodate the conference date change, we moved the submission deadline slightly by 2 days. So please note the deadline of January 15, 2020.
The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Role of Discourse in NLP Applications, Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End‐to‐end systems. A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session. Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions. The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the 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. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program. Submissions Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session). These proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.
Links Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/ https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ SIGDIAL 2020 Organizing Committee
General chair: Olivier Pietquin (Google Brain, France) Co-program chairs: Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA) Yun-Nung Vivian Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Local chair: Casey Kennington (Boise State University, USA) Sponsorship chair: David Vandyke (Apple, UK) Mentoring chair: Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK) Publication chair: Stefan Ultes (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, Germany)
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| 3-2-3 | (2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderbedrg, Denmark (UPDATE) COVID 19 Unfortunately, I have to inform you today that we will have to cancel the TAI conference in Sonderborg, DK for this year (as well as its satellite event, 13th Nordic Prosody). This announcement makes me and the whole organization team very sad, especially because the planning process was already very advanced, including safety preparations such as masks for conference participants, and the first contributions have already been submitted. ***************** 'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world' Sonderborg, Denmark 16-20 August 2020 The 1st edition of the Tone-and-Intonation (TAI) conference series is proudly hosted by the Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark. Being a merger of the two former conference series TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe), TAI 2020 welcomes contributions on phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody including (but not limited to) topics related to the production and perception of prosody and rhythm, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition and teaching of prosody in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody. In addition, in TAI 2020 a number of sessions will be dedicated to the conference theme of globalization and digitization. In this context, we also encourage researchers of neighboring disciplines to submit papers related to tone and intonation to the conference. Globalization poses increasing challenges to both societies and individuals in terms of language contact and language acquisition. Digitization opens up new ways of human-human and human-machine interaction. In both contexts, tone and intonation are special linguistic, technical and didactic hurdles. Their better understanding not only has the potential for deeper insights into the nature of speech communication but can also decisively shape the communication of tomorrow. VENUE Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The SDU is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mariapaola D'Imperio (Rutgers University, USA) - Peggy Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) - Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany) - Hans Basböll (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
01 March 2020 Online abstract submission opens 01 November 2020 Deadline for the submission of a revised abstract and an optional 5-page full paper (4 pages of text plus 1 page for references only) Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstract and paper submission will be handled via the EasyChair platform. More detailed information about the submission procedure and about the abstract/paper formatting requirements will be available on the conference website soon. TAI 2020 is co-sponsored by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and the IPA (International Phonetic Association). We are pleased to offer 5 IPA Student Awards that will cover the early bird student registration fee. Further ISCA-sponsored grants (max. 3) might be added soon. Please check the website tai2020.org for further information on how to apply. Oliver Niebuhr Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation SDU Electrical Engineering CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics
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| 3-2-4 | (2020-09-21) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September 21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions: Categories of submissions:
As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Submission:Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair). IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.
Special Sessions and WorkshopsIn addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
Templates for formatting are available below:
Important datesPaper submission deadline: January 10, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8) Paper notification deadline: February 7, 2020 Camera ready papers due: February 21, 2020 Early bird registration ends: July 17, 2020 Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
Twitter: @iwsds2020
Supported by: SigDial and Colips
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| 3-2-5 | (2020-09-21) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020 Place: Madrid, Spain
Dates: September 21-23, 2020
Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade. Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to iwsds2020@gmail.com The proposal must indicate:
Proposal submission deadline: September 13, 2019 Proposal acceptance notification: September 17, 2019 Important notice:
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| 3-2-6 | (2020-09-21) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain (UPDATED) The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics: List of Topics
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. Submission GuidelinesAll papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair). IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only. As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes). Special Sessions and WorkshopsIn addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
Templates for formatting are available below: Important Dates
ContactAll questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsds2020@gmail.com SponsorsIWSDS2020 is sponsored by Universidd Politécnica de Madrid, SigDial, and Colips. CommitteesOrganizing Committee
Steering Committee
Senior Steering Committee
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| 3-2-7 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):
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