*** Call for Participation ***

SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 Conferences

September 11-15, 2023
Prague, Czechia & online
https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/

Early Registration Deadline: **August 18 -- extended**
Late Registration Deadline: September 15
Non-presenters Free Registration: August 12 - September 15

Workshops: September 11-12
Main Conferences: September 13-15

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGdial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language
Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly this year in
Prague, Czechia. The event will be hybrid, but in-person participation
is strongly encouraged! Virtual attendance will be free for
non-presenters.

The organizers of SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 invite all researchers and
practitioners, SIGDial & SIGGEN members, and SIGDIAL & INLG 2023
industry partners and sponsors to join the conference.
The registration is now open, with early rates available until August
10 (see https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/registration.html). A
limited number of hotel rooms at the conference venue is available for
booking at special rates until August 18.

**SIGDIAL** 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 23 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 on discourse
and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.

**INLG** is a yearly venue for presentations related to all aspects of
Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text,
concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. The event
is organized under the auspices of SIGGEN, the Special Interest Group
on Natural Language Generation of ACL.

The joint conference on Sep 13-15 will feature 4 keynote speeches by
Barbara Di Eugenio, Emmanuel Dupoux, Elena Simperl and Ryan Lowe, as
well as a number of regular paper presentations and system
demonstrations.
- Keynotes: https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/speakers.html
- SIGDIAL accepted papers: https://2023.sigdial.org/accepted-papers/
- INLG accepted papers: https://inlg2023.github.io/accepted_papers.html

The event includes several workshops on Sep 11-12 (see
https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/workshops.html):
- YRRSDS: 19th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
- The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse
- DSTC11: The 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge
- PracticalD2T: 1st Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
- Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of
Interactive Assistants
- Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and
Multilingual WebNLG Challenge
- Connecting multiple disciplines to AI techniques in
interaction-centric autism research and diagnosis
- Designing divergent agent tasks for SDS data collection


We thank you for your support and look forward to welcoming you at the
conference!

Best regards,
SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 Organizers