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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
3-2-1 | (2018-07-12) CfP SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS SIGDIAL 2018 CONFERENCE http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/ The 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2018) will be held at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, July 12-14, 2018. SIGDIAL will be co-located with ACL 2018 which will be held July 15-20 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of eighteen 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:
SPECIAL SESSIONS We also welcome papers to special sessions (http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/sigdial2018/calls.html#callforspecialsessions). The special session proposal deadline is January 14, 2018, with acceptance decisions announced January 26, 2018. In order for papers submitted to special sessions to appear in the SIGDIAL conference proceedings, they must undergo the regular SIGDIAL review process. 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.
Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos, sound files, etc.
Multiple Submissions: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission link). SIGDIAL 2018 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org. Blind Review: Building on last year?s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2018 will follow the new 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 2018 format. Authors are expected to use the ACL LaTeX style template or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL 2018 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2018 style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link TBA. IMPORTANT NOTE: ADOPTION OF ACL 2018 AUTHOR GUIDELINES As noted above, SIGDIAL 2018 is adopting the new ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines[1] will be rejected without review. Preserving Double Blind ReviewThe following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected, or withdrawn.
Citation and ComparisonIf you are aware of previous research that appears sound and is relevant to your work, you should cite it even if it has not been peer-reviewed, and certainly if it influenced your own work. However, refereed publications take priority over unpublished work reported in preprints. Specifically:
MENTORING Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for 'mentoring' and accepted with recommendation to revise with 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 2018 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. IMPORTANT DATES
SIGDIAL 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
Program Chairs: Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
Local Chair: Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK SIGdial President: SIGdial Vice President: SIGdial Secretary: SIGdial Treasurer:
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3-2-2 | (2018-07-12) SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions, Melbourne, Australia
SIGDIAL 2018 Conference: Call for Special Sessions
Special Session Submission Deadline: January 14, 2018 Special Session Notification: January 26, 2018 The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. 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 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 but taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, while 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.
We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities.
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[at]sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general and program co-chairs.
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Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings. http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/multiling-2015-multilingual-summarization-multiple-documents-online-fora-and-call-centre-con SIGDIAL 2018 Organizing Committee General Chair: Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan Program Chairs: Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China Local Chair: Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia Sponsorship Chair: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan Mentoring Chair: Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK SIGdial President:
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA SIGdial Vice President:
Kallirroi Georgila, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service, USA SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corp, USA
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3-2-3 | ISCA-endorsed events. The 2017 vintage was very fruitful with 19 events endorsed by ISCA
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