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Saturday, August 06, 2022 by Chris Wellekens

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3-2-1(2022-09-07) CfP Special sessions of SIGDIAL, Edinburgh, UK
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, End‐to‐end systems, Vision and Language, and Human-Robot Interaction.
 
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.
 
Important Dates
Mar 12, 2022: Special Session Proposal Deadline
Mar 26, 2022: Special Session Notification
 

 

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3-2-2(2022-09-07) The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022), Edinburgh, UK (update)
The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) will be held as a hybrid conference at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and online between September 7-9, 2022.
 
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 22 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.
 
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, multi-modal, 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), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions.
  • 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 result; 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 2022 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. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to sigdial2022pcs@googlegroups.com
 
Blind Review
 
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2022 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, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
 
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
 
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the softconf system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
 
Regular submission:
 
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 11, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). ***The title, authors, and abstract cannot be changed after this date.*** The final PDF needs to be uploaded by May 19, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). Details will be posted at the conference website.
 
Conference Website: https://2022.sigdial.org/ 
 
For special session long and short papers please select the session for “Submission Type”.
 
Commitment via ACL Rolling Review (ARR):
 
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for SIGDIAL 2022 (deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2022) is June 18, 2022. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2022.
 
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 2022 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.
The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) will be held as a hybrid conference at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and online between September 7-9, 2022.
 
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 22 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.
 
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, multi-modal, 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), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions.
  • 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 result; 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 2022 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. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to sigdial2022pcs@googlegroups.com
 
Blind Review
 
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2022 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, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word)
 
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
 
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the softconf system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.
 
Regular submission:
 
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 11, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). ***The title, authors, and abstract cannot be changed after this date.*** The final PDF needs to be uploaded by May 19, 2022 (23:59 GMT-11). Details will be posted at the conference website.
 
Conference Website: https://2022.sigdial.org/ 
 
For special session long and short papers please select the session for “Submission Type”.
 
Commitment via ACL Rolling Review (ARR):
 
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for SIGDIAL 2022 (deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2022) is June 18, 2022. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2022.
 
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 2022 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.
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3-2-3(2023-01-07) SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement , Doha, Qatar

SLT-CODE Hackathon Announcement

 

Have you ever asked yourself how your smartphone recognizes what you say and who you are?

 

Have you ever thought about how machines recognize different languages?

 

If that is your case, join us for a two-day speech and language technology hackathon. We will answer these questions and build fantastic systems with the guidance of top language and speech scientists in a collaborative environment.

 

The two-day speech and language technology hackathon will take place during the IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, on January 7th and 8th, 2023. This year's Hackathon will be inspiring, momentous, and fun. The goal is to build a diverse community of people who want to explore and envision how machines understand the world's spoken languages.

 

During the Hackathon, you will be exposed (but not limited) to speech and language toolkits like ESPNet, SpeechBrain, K2/Kaldi, Huggingface, TorchAudio, or commercial APIs like Amazon Lex, etc., and you will be hands-on using this technology.

 

At the end of the Hackathon, every team will share their findings with the rest of the participants. Selected projects will have the opportunity to be presented at the SLT workshop.

 

The Hackathon will be at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3). In-person participation is preferred; however, remote participation is possible by joining a team with at least one person being local.

 

More information on how to apply and important dates are available at our website https://slt2022.org/hackathon.php

 

Interested? Apply here: https://forms.gle/a2droYbD4qset8ii9 The deadline for registration is September 30th, 2022.

 

If you have immediate questions, don't hesitate to contact our hackathon chairs directly at hackathon.slt2022@gmail.com.

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3-2-4(2023-01-09) SLT2022, Doha, Qatar

Languages of the World, Doha, Qatar

9th to 12th January, 2023

 



CALL FOR PAPERS IS ALREADY OPEN

The2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop(SLT2022) will be held on 9th - 12th January 2023 at Doha, Qatar. SLT 2022 will be the first speech conference to have visited the Middle East and the first speech conference to be held in an Arabic speaking nation.

The SLT Workshop is a flagship event of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee. The workshop is held every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding.

 

MoreInformation:

https://slt2022.org

 

We invite papers in all areas of spoken language processing, with emphasis placed on the following topics:

Automatic speech recognition

Conversational/multispeaker ASR Far-field speech processing

Speaker and language recognition Spoken language understanding

Spoken dialog systems

Low resource/multilingual

Language processing

Spokendocumentretrieval

Speech-to-speech translation Text-to-speech systems Speech summarization

New applications of automatic speech recognition

Audio-visual/Multimodal speech processing

Emotion recognition from speech



 

SLT2022 will also feature Speech Hackathon to provide hands-on

element for students and young professionals.

 

 

 

Important dates

 

Paper submission: July15,2022

Paper Update: July21,2022

Rebuttal period: August26-31,2022

Paper Notification: Sept30,2022

Early Registration Period:Oct,2022

Speech Hackathon: Jan8-9,2023

Arabic Speech Meeting: Jan13,2023

 

 

GeneralChair

Ahmed Ali(QCRI)

Bhuvana Ramabhadran(Google)

Technical chairs

Shinji Watanabe(CarnegieMellonUniversity)

Mona Diab(FaceBook)

Sanjeev Khudanpur(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)

Julia Hirschberg(ColumbiaUniversity)

Murat Saraclar(BogaziciUniversity)

Marc Delcroix(NTTCommunicationScienceLaboratories)

 

Regional publicity chairs

Sebastian Möller(TUBerlin)

Tomoki Toda (Nagoya University)

Finance chair

Jan Trmal(JohnsHopkinsUniversity)

Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave(UdeA,Colombia)

 

Sponsorship chairs

Murat Akbacak(Apple)

Eman Fituri (QCRI)

Jimmy Kunzmann(Amazon)

SLTC Liaison

Kyu Jeong Han(ASAAP)

Publication chairs

Alberto Abad Gareta(INESC-ID/IST)

Erfan Loweimi(King'sCollegeLondon)

 

Invited speaker chair

Andrew Rosenberg(Google)

Nancy F.Chen(Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R)

 

Challenge&demonstrationchairs

Imed Zitouni(Google)

Jon Barker(University of Sheffield)

Seokhwan Kim(Amazon)

Peter Bell(University of Edinburgh)

 

SpeechHackathonOrganizingCommittee

Thomas Schaaf(3M|M*Modal)

Gianni DiCaro(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar)

Shinji Watanabe - ESPNET (Carnegie Mellon University)

Paola Garcia-KALDI/K2(Johns Hopkins University)

Mirco Ravanelli - Speech Brain (Université de Montréal)

Alessandra Cervone(Amazon)

Mus'ab Husaini(QCRI)

 

Advisoryboard

Jim Glass (MIT)

Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar)

Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore)

Local Arrangements chairs

Shammur Chowdhury(QCRI)

Houda Bouamor(Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar)

Student coordinator

Berrak Sisman(Singapore University of  Technology and Design)

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