The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2024 will invite 
paper submissions. IWSDS 2024 will be held March 4-6, 2024 in Sapporo, Japan.

https://sites.google.com/grp.riken.jp/iwsds2024

IWSDS 2024 will be a primarily in person event with a hybrid component for those who 
cannot travel to Japan. We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:

- User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems
- Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction
- Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems
- Multimodal and situated dialogue systems
- Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems
- Educational and healthcare applications
- Big data and large scale dialogue systems
- Digital resources for interactive dialogue management
- Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems
- Dialogue systems for low-resource languages
- Multilingual dialogue systems
- Dialogue system evaluation
- Machine learning for dialogue systems
- Interaction styles in dialogue systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit 
papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.

Categories of Submissions:
- Long Research Papers:
These are reserved for reports on mature original research results. The expected length 
of a long paper submission should be in the range of 8-13 pages of content, plus up to 3 
pages for references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 2 
additional pages of content (8-15 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be 
taken into account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 3 pages).

- Short Research Papers:
Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or 
ongoing original research efforts. The expected length of a short paper submission should 
be in the range of 4-7 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(4-8 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Position Papers:
These deal with novel unexplored research ideas or viewpoints which describe trends or 
fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion. The expected length 
of a position paper submission should be 2 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for 
references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional 
page of content (2-3 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into 
account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

- Demo Submissions – System Papers:
Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a 
description of their system and demo. The expected length of a demo/system paper 
submission should be up to 5 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final 
versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content 
(up to 6 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the 
number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).

As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in post-workshop proceedings.

We welcome demonstrations from the authors of long and short papers which can be shown 
during the demo session. At the submission time, you will have an option to indicate 
whether the paper will be accompanied by a demonstration.

Submission:

Authors of all papers (including papers submitted to the special sessions) are requested 
to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the IWSDS 2024 paper submission system.
Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IWSDS2024

Submission deadline:
Paper Title, Author, and Abstract Submission: November 10th
Paper Submission: November 17th

We look forward to meeting you at Sapporo.





-- call for sponsors ---------------------------------

We are starting to solicit sponsorship for IWSDS2024. These funds will be used to offset 
some costs for items such as social events, honorariums for invited speakers, etc. In 
exchange for your support, we will provide the opportunity to promote your company during 
the workshop and through the webpage. The sponsorship package for IWSDS2024 is shown 
below. We would greatly appreciate it if you could contribute to IWSDS2024.

Bronze:
Donation amount: $1000
Logo with links on the workshop website
Acknowledgement during opening/closing

Silver:
Donation amount: $3000
Same perks as Bronze
Poster for promoting sponsor's activity during event
10 mins presentation at sponsor session (during lunch)

Gold:
Donation amount: $5000
Same perks as Silver
One of the best papers with the sponsor's name

Contact
Please feel free to post any question or comments to organizer's mailing list: 
iwsds2024@gmail.com.

Sincerely Yours,
IWSDS2024 organizing committee