| | *The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
(SIGDIAL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18-20, 2024. SIGDIAL will be
co-located with INLG which will take place after SIGDIAL in Tokyo, Japan.*
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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 24 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL
organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for 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. Discourse issues in text generated
by large language models.
* Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded,
situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications,
Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, State representation, 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. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue.
* 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 Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations (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. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation.
Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.
* Long papersubmissions 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 papersubmissions 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
pagesincluding 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 descriptionsshould be no longer than 4 pagesincluding 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 2024 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 program-chairs [at] sigdial.org <http://sigdial.org/>.
Blind Review
Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL
2024 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review
(see author guidelines
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_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
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>and also downloadable directly
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>(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 Deadline
SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START 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 Softconf/START system and upload an
initial pdf of their papers before May 17, 2024(23:59 GMT-11). Details and the
submission link will be posted on the conference website <https://2024.sigdial.org/>.
Submissionvia ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/>
Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>for detailed
information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to
submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2024 is June 19, 2024.
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, 2024.
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 2024 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 2024 Program Committee
Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes
Conference Website: https://2024.sigdial.org/ <https://2024.sigdial.org/>
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