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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1st Call for the 5th Doctoral Consortium at Interspeech 2019

Date: September 14, 2019
Location: Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 25d, 8010 Graz, Austria
 
The Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA-SAC) is pleased to announce the 5th Doctoral Consortium. This event gives doctoral candidates the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion includes feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It helps them to identify a road-map toward refining their thesis. Doctoral students from speech-related disciplines participating in Interspeech 2019 are invited to apply! Participants will be selected based on their submitted abstracts.
 
Panel of Experts
tba
 
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is an all-day event taking place just before Interspeech 2019 in Graz at the University of Technology. DC is co-located with the Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech & Technology (YFRSW).
 
Guidelines for Abstract Submission
 
a) Content
Applicants are to submit an extended two-page abstract, briefing about the research pursued towards their thesis. It may incorporate published and in-progress work. The abstract must highlight the following points:

• motivation of your research
• key issues identified and/or addressed
• discussion of results
• future plans and road map for the thesis
• major contributions of your research

b) Form

• Abstracts may be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional page for references.
• Abstracts have to follow the Interspeech 2019 template provided in the author's kit.
• Abstracts must have the applicant as the sole author. Acknowledgement towards supervisors, supporting agencies, and contributors to the work, can be made in a separate section.

c) Submission

• Submit your abstract in PDF format through LinguistList's EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/DC2019
• Accepted submissions will be published on www.isca-students.org and thus a submission inherently indicates a consent towards ISCA-SAC to publish the abstract.

 
Important Dates
June 17, 2019 ? Submission portal opens
July 8, 2019 ? Abstract submission deadline
July 22, 2019 ? Acceptance/rejection notification
July 29, 2019 ? Camera-ready abstract due
Sept 14, 2019 ? 5th Doctoral Consortium
 
For the latest updates, please check https://www.interspeech2019.org/students/student_events/
 
Contact: 
Iona Gessinger, E-mail: gessinger@coli.uni-saarland.de
Berrak Sisman, E-mail: berraksisman@u.nus.edu 

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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          

• Early bird registration deadline 15 July 2019, for registration go to https://www.interspeech2019.org/registration/registration_overview_and_fees/.

• 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 and apply immediately together with your conference registration. 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.

• Hotel accommodation through Graz Convention Bureau, rooms are only blocked until
  1 August 2019, sobe sure to make your booking before that date on:https://www.graztourismus.at/kongress/en/interspeech-2019_kongressformular-9507 Bookings made through this site can be cancelled at no charge if cancellation is received in writing by email or fax up to three working days before date of arrival.

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

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:

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

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 https://www.interspeech2019.org/program/surveys/.

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.org/program/show_and_tell/.

The 1^st INTERSPEECH Hackathon 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 on our website https://www.interspeech2019.org/program/special_events/ or contact directly our hackathon chairs Elmar Nöth (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Johanna Pirker (TU Graz) at hackathon@interspeech2019.org.

We look forward 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
Katharina Pollack, 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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(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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Title: 'Diversity within ISCA' Brown bag lunch at Interspeech, Thu Sept 19, 12:15-13:15,
Hall 1

Earlier in 2019, the ISCA Gender Equality Committee (GEC) was created with the task of
increasing gender equality.

During Interspeech 2019, the ISCA-GEC will organise a brown bag lunch at the Interspeech
conference venue on Thursday September 19
Time: 12:15-13:15 (during the lunch break)
Location: Hall 1.

During this meeting, we will
- present numbers related to diversity within ISCA, with a focus on gender diversity
- review the state of scientific research about the causes of the gender gap in science
and technology
- hints and tips for everyone (i.e., males and females!) on what can be done to reduce
this gender gap
- next steps / discussion time

We hope to see many of you there as diversity is an issue for all of us!

Best wishes,
The ISCA Gender Equality Committee

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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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Information comes later.

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