SIGDIAL 2019

11-13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden

Second Call for Special Sessions

http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20

Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019

Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019

The Special Interest Group on Dialogue and Discourse (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 the 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, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End-to-end systems.

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 chair and program co-chairs.

Links:

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/conference19/sessions.htm

• https://robodial.github.io/

• http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair:

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Chairs:

Milica Gaši

, Cambridge University, UK

Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

Local Chair:

Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden

Sponsorship Chair:

Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair:

Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

Publication Chair:

Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

Publicity Chair:

Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIGdial President:

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary:

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer:

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

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Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019  - Willkommen in Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019
http://www.interspeech2019.org

Important Dates Coming Up Soon          

• Proposals due for Survey Presentations: extended to May 12, 2019!
  See Call for Survey Presentations at 

• Sponsoring and Exhibition opportunities: see http://www.interspeech2019.org/sponsorship_and_exhibition/letter_to_our_partnersWhat is new?

INTERSPEECH 2019 is the 20^th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association ISCA and this anniversary edition will introduce several innovative features. These innovations will certainly contribute to raise the attractiveness of the conference beyond the high levels developed already over the past two decades:

Survey presentations have been evolved from the perspective talks at INTERSPEECH 2018 in Hyderabad. The presentations will be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state-of-the-art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of the conference. The presenters will also be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Communication. For further details, see our Call for Survey Presentations further below.

Childcare ? the INTERSPEECH Kids: Bring your family along to Graz, Austria! Childcare will be provided free of charge for conference participants. For terms and conditions, see the conference webpage http://www.interspeech2019.org/venue_and_travel/childcare.  Furthermore, an INTERSPEECH parenting community will be set up on the collaboration platform Slack. To secure a place for your kids, we recommend to apply for either service at your earliest convenience by sending email to childcare@interspeech2019.org

Hackathons will set a stimulating atmosphere for the most creative developers in our community and beyond: through jams and challenges, we will bring together some of our brightest minds, students who are speech science and technology aficionados and who come to Graz as conference participants, as well as students who are representing the highly interdisciplinary community of several partner universities in Graz and beyond. Watch out for details to appear soon on our website http://www.interspeech2019.org or contact directly our hackathon chairs Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Johanna Pirker (TU Graz) at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.

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Welcome to INTERSPEECH 2019 -  Willkommen in Graz, Austria, Sept 15-19, 2019
https://www.interspeech2019.org

INTERSPEECH is the world?s largest and most comprehensive conferen ce on the science and technology of spoken language processing. INTERSPEECH conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from basic theories to advanced a pplications. In addition to regular oral and poster sessions, INTERSPEECH 2 019 will feature plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutoria ls, survey presentations, special sessions and challenges, show & tell sessions, and exhibits. A number of satellite events will also take place a round INTERSPEECH 2019.

Crossroads of Speech and Language - Our conference theme comprises three key elements important in speech research today: language diversity, diver sity of applications, and diversity of representation.  A complete lis t of the scientific areas and topics including special sessions is available at www.interspeech2019.org.

Important Dates Coming Up Soon

Proposals due for Survey Presentations: extended to May 12, 2019
See Call for Survey Presentations at https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/ surveys/

Paper acceptance/rejection notification: June 17, 2019

Graz Convention Bureau hotel booking deadline: August 1, 2019
Rooms will go fast - don't delay your booking! See https://www.interspeech2019.org/venue_and_travel/accomodation/

INTERSPEECH 2019 is the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association ISCA and this anniversary edition will introduce several innovative features. These innovations will certainly contribute to raise the attractiveness of the conference beyond the high levels developed already over the past two decades:

With the highly appreciated support by our generous sponsors, we are able to lower the fees for both full and student registrations. As ISCA will continue its tradition of supporting a sizeable number of student travel grants, we are confident to raise the number of participants to a new all-time record.

Childcare ? the INTERSPEECH Kids: Bring your family along to Graz, Austria! Childcare will be provided free of charge for conference participants. For terms and conditions, see the conference webpage https://www.intersp eech2019.org/venue_and_travel/childcare/. Furthermore, an INTERSPEECH parenting community will be set up on the collaboration platform Slack. To secure a place for your kids, we recommend to apply for either service at your earliest convenience by sending email to childcare@interspeech2019.org.

For our Show & Tell Demonstrations we have evolved the submission format in order to improve the reviewing process. Therefore, next to a two-page description, we have asked for the upload of a simple video of your demonstration that will help deciding which demonstrations will raise the highest interest at the conference. For more details see https://www.interspeech2019.or g/calls/show_and_tell/.

Survey presentations  are a new addition to the technical program. They will be scheduled at the start of suitable oral presentation sessions, and will be allocated a 40-minute time slot for presentation and discussion. Presentations should aim to give an overview of the state-of-the-art for a specific topic covered by one or more of the main technical areas of the conference. The presenters will also be invited to submit survey papers to the ISCA supported journals of Computer, Speech and Language and Speech Co mmunication. For further details, see our Call for Survey Presentations https://www.interspeech2019.org/calls/surveys/.

Hackathons will set a stimulating atmosphere for the most creative developers in our community and beyond: through jams and challenges, we will bring together some of our brightest minds, students who are speech science and technology aficionados and who come to Graz as conference participants, as well as students who are representing the highly interdisciplinary community of several partner universities in Graz and beyond. Watch out for details to appear soon on our website and if you are interested in particpating, get in touch with our hackathon chairs at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to your participation in INTERSPEECH 2019! We strive to make this a memorable event for all of you - one highlight to watch out for will be the Dancing INTERSPEECH Soiree, An Austrian Ballroom Extravaganza at Congress Graz. If you have time to arrive a few days earlier, you can enjoy the 'Aufsteirern' festival of Styrian folk culture https://www.aufsteirern.at/aufsteirern/english-information/
and right after the conference the 'Steirische Herbst' takes over - a contemporary arts festival of all genres https://www.steirischerherbst.at/en.

General Chairs:

Gernot Kubin, TU Graz, Austria
Zdravko Kacic, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Technical Chairs:

Thomas Hain, U Sheffield, UK
Björn Schuller, U Augsburg/Imperial College, Germany/UK

Organising Committee Members:

Michiel Bacchiani, Google NY, USA
Gerhard Backfried, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria
Jamilla Balint, TU Graz, Austria
Eugen Brenner, TU Graz, Austria
Mariapaola D?Imperio, Aix Marseille U, France
Dina ElZarka, U Graz, Austria
Tim Fingscheidt, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Anouschka Foltz, U Graz, Austria
Anna Fuchs, AVL Graz, Austria
Panayiotis Georgiou, USC Los Angeles, USA
Franz Graf, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria
Markus Gugatschka, MU Graz, Austria
Martin Hagmüller, TU Graz, Austria
Petra Hödl, U Graz, Austria
Robert Höldrich, KU Graz, Austria
Mario Huemer, JKU Linz, Austria
Dorothea Kolossa, RU Bochum, Germany
Christina Leitner, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria
Stefanie Lindstaedt, KNOW Centre Graz, Austria
Helen Meng, CU Hong Kong, China
Florian Metze, CMU Pittsburgh, USA
Pejman Mowlaee, Widex/TU Graz, Denmark/Austria
Elmar Noeth, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Franz Pernkopf, TU Graz, Austria
Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger, U Graz, Austria
Lukas Pfeifenberger, Ognios Salzburg, Austria
Johanna Pirker, TU Graz, Austria
Christoph Prinz, Sail Labs Vienna, Austria
Michael Pucher, ÖAW Vienna, Austria
Philipp Salletmayr, Nuance Vienna, Austria
Barbara Schuppler, TU Graz, Austria
Dagmar Schuller, audEERING, Germany
Jessica Siddins, U Graz, Austria
Wolfgang Wokurek, U Stuttgart, Germany
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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 INTERSPEECH 2019: Call for Survey Presentations=NEW

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(updated)INTERSPEECH 2019: Satellite Workshops

Several excellent initiatives organize satellite workshops around INTERSPEECH 2019 and you can find a list of those approved by ISCA at https://www.interspeech2019.org/program/satellite_events/. Please consider contributing both to the main conference and to these important satellite events.

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We are pleased to announce that ISCA-SAC will host three student events at
 Interspeech 2019 in Graz, Austria. In addition to two traditional events:
 Students Meet Experts and Doctoral Consortium, this this year we are hosting
 a new Mentoring event. This event aims to bring together SAC alumni, students
 and experts. You can find the details of all three events here:
 https://www.interspeech2019.org/students/student_events/

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INTERSPEECH 2021
Brno, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 3, 2021
Chairs : Hynek Hermansky and Honza Cernocky 
22^nd INTERSPEECH event

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