| | The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Avignon, France on August 25-27, 2025.
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 25 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
SIGDIAL 2025 invites submissions of original research on all aspects
of discourse and dialogue. We encourage formal, corpus-based,
experimental, or analytical work, as well as work on implementations
and applications, including but not limited to the following areas:
- Discourse Processing: Research on rhetorical and coherence
relations, discourse parsing, discourse connectives, reference
resolution, event representation, and causality in narrative. This
also includes work on argument mining, text quality and style,
cross-lingual discourse analysis, and discourse considerations in
applications like machine translation, text summarization, essay
grading, question answering, and information retrieval. We
particularly encourage submissions that explore discourse issues in
text generated by large language models.
- Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Investigations into the pragmatics
and semantics of conversations, going beyond the single sentence
level. This includes research on rational speech acts, conversation
acts, intentions, conversational implicature, and presuppositions.
- Dialogue Systems: Contributions related to task-oriented and
open-domain dialogue systems, whether spoken, multimodal, embedded,
situated, or text-based. This includes research on system components,
evaluation, and applications. Specific areas of interest include
knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, state
representation and tracking, policy learning, social and emotional
intelligence, dialogue in virtual reality and human-robot
interaction, entrainment, alignment, and priming. We also welcome
work on generation for dialogue, style, voice, personality, and
safety and ethics in dialogue systems.
- LLM-Based Dialogue Technologies: Research on the use of Large
Language Models (LLMs) in dialogue systems, including but not
limited to areas like prompt engineering, fine-tuning for dialogue,
data synthesis and augmentation for dialogue tasks, safety and
ethics of LLMs in conversation, and evaluation of LLM-generated
dialogue.
- Corpora, Tools, and Methodology: Submissions focused on corpus-based
and experimental work on discourse and dialogue. We encourage
submissions related to annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing,
evaluation methodologies, and corpora development.
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology: We
welcome submissions showcasing innovative applications of dialogue
and discourse processing technology in various domains.
# Submission Types
The following submission types are expected:
- Long Papers: 8 pages max, excluding references and appendices;
+1 page in the final version. Long papers should describe
substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Include
concrete evaluation and analysis where appropriate.
- Short Papers: 4 pages max, excluding references and appendices;
+1 page in the final version. Short papers should present focused
contributions, such as concise descriptions of novel ideas, negative
results, or interesting application notes.
- Demo Descriptions: 4 pages max, including references. Also a
separate 1-page document for equipment requirements. Demo
descriptions should clearly outline the system to be demonstrated,
its functionality, and its relevance to the SIGDIAL community.
# Submission Guidelines
- Content Essential for Review: All content crucial for understanding
your contribution or assessing its technical correctness should be
included in the main paper, not solely in appendices. Reviewers are
not obligated to review appendices.
- Supplementary Materials: Authors are encouraged to submit
supplementary materials like corpora, code, videos, or sound files
to ensure reproducibility and/or enhance their submissions.
- Multiple Submissions Policy: SIGDIAL 2025 cannot accept work that is
currently under review, or has been published elsewhere, including
other conferences or journals with overlapping review periods.
- Blind Review: Long and short papers will undergo double-blind
review, following ACL policies
(https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines).
Demo descriptions will NOT be anonymous.
- Submission Format: All submissions must adhere to the two-column
ACL format (Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f64f1fb97c4c50001b60549)
and downloadable LaTeX/Word templates
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) available).
Submit electronically in PDF format.
# Submission Deadlines
SIGDIAL accepts both regular submissions via the Softconf/START system
(https://www.softconf.com/n/sigdial2025/) and commitments of papers
previously reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
(https://aclrollingreview.org/).
Regular Submission (Softconf/START): Submission deadline is April 21,
2025 (23:59 GMT-11). The authors are allowed to update ONLY the PDF
until April 28, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11).
ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Commitment: before June 6, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11)
# Mentoring Program
SIGDIAL 2025 offers a mentoring program to assist authors whose
submissions show promise but require improvement in language or
organization. Accepted papers flagged for mentoring will receive
guidance from experienced SIGDIAL members to prepare their work for
publication.
# Best Paper Awards
SIGDIAL 2025 will recognize outstanding contributions with Best Paper
Awards. All accepted papers are eligible.
# Presentation Format
All accepted papers must be presented in person at the conference
venue in either oral or poster sessions. Remote presentations will
only be considered in exceptional circumstances (e.g., visa or health
issues) with prior approval from the organizers.
# Student Travel Grant
To broaden participation, SIGdial plans to support a number of
selected students for paper presentations at SIGdial. Details of
application for the grant will be announced soon.
SIGDIAL 2025 General Chair and Program Committee
Conference Website: https://2025.sigdial.org |
