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| 3-2-1 | (2020-05-11) 1st Joint SLTU and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop, Marseille, France (MODIFIED DEADLINES) Call for Papers 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop http://www.ilc.cnr.it/sltu-ccurl_2020/ 1st Call for Papers Date: 11-12 May, 2020. To be held as part of the 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France. Endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) , ELRA and ISCA (to be confirmed) Invited speakers Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Tutorials On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aixmarseille, near the LREC venue). T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University (building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit) T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg (Using Transkribus in training models for less-resourced languages) title to be confirmed More details will be announced on the workshop web page. Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial). Workshop description and objectives The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop will be held on May 11-12 2020 in Marseille, France, during LREC2020. Organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), this joint workshop will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address lessresourced languages. Example topics are the following: -Language resource development, acquisition and representation -Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources -Linguistic and cognitive studies -Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units -Code switched lexical modeling -Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing -Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing -Machine translation and dialogue systems -NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. We will have both oral presentation sessions and poster sessions. The decision on whether a presentation will be an oral or poster one will be taken by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how that might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. Submission and Publication ● Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. ● Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of 8 pages (references excluded), strictly complying with the LREC stylesheet (https:// lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/). Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in due time). ● Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. ● Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or posters and will be published in the workshop proceedings. ● The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met. Important dates (Modified) 14 February 2020: Paper submission deadline February 14, 2020 Paper submission deadline March 13, 2020 Paper notification of acceptance April 2, 2020 Camera-ready papers due May 11-12, 2020 Workshop Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! ● Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. ● As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. Workshop chairs Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy Programme Committee ● Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC ● Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) ● Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) ● Amita Dev (BPIBS, India) TBC ● Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) ● Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ● Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) ● Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC ● Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) ● Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC ● Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project, Australia) TBC ● Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC ● Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC ● Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC ● Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC ● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC ● Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) ● Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) ● Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) ● Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC ● Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) ● Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC ● Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC ● Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) ● Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) ● Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC ● Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) TBC ● Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) ● Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) ● John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) ● Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC ● Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) TBC ● Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, NOIDA, India) TBC ● Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) TBC ● Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) ● Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) ● Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) ● Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) ● Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC ● Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC ● Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) ● Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC ● Maxim Romanov TBC ● Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) ● Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) ● Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC ● Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) ● Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) ● Omar Farooq (AMU, India) ● Pedro Moreno (Google, USA) TBC ● Pradip K Das (IIT, India) ● Richard Sproat (Google, USA) TBC ● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC ● Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) ● Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) ● Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) ● Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) ● Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan) ● Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) TBC ● Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC ● Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) ● Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) TBC ● Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) ● Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) ● Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) ● Uwe Springmann (Würzburg University, Germany) TBC ● Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) ● Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) ● Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC ● Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC ! Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC Contact Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it
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| 3-2-2 | (2020-05-24) SProSIG conference, Tokyo, Japan (UPDATE)
Registration for Speech Prosody 2020 is now open. However
The organizing committee is monitoring the situation in Japan regarding coronavirus. The schedule may be partially or totally changed in the future, and the conference may be postponed. Details on the event will be announced before the deadline of early bird registration (April 2) at the latest. (from https://sp2020.jpn.org/registration/ )
Nigel Ward
Dear SProSIG members,
As previously announced, the next speech prosody conference will be held from May 24 to 28, 2020 at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
http://sp2020.jpn.org
The deadline for proposals for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions is Sep 15. If you have any interest in organizing such an activity, please send your proposal to office@sp2020.jpn.org.
We appreciate if you can circulate this also to your domestic speech prosody mailing lists.
Best wishes,
SP2020 chair Nobuaki MINEMATSU @ UTokyo office@sp2020.jpn.org
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| 3-2-3 | (2020-05-24) The 10th Speech Prosody Conference, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (UPDATE)
Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
First, a brief note about SP 2020 in Tokyo: it will likely be a few more days before the registration page is open and the schedule posted, as the organizers are working out how best to deal with the travel disruptions the virus is causing. As information becomes available we’ll send it to this list.
In any case, looking ahead to 2022, members of SProSIG with a history of attendance at Speech Prosody conferences are encouraged to submit bids to host Speech Prosody 11. Bids submitted by April 21 will garner a presentation spot during Speech Prosody in Tokyo. The final deadline is June 30, 2020, and written bids received by that date will be posted at http://sprosig.org. The SProSIG membership will then be invited to consider the bids and to vote their preferences. Bids may include any information that you believe is likely to sway the members, but should contain at least:
- City and Country
- General Chair
- Organizing Committee Members
- Proposed conference dates
- Expected registration fee
- Sponsoring Organization (university, company, or agency; may be tentative)
- Venue (may be tentative)
- Access from the closest major airport
- Accommodation options
Further information and the bid template are available at http://sprosig.org/about.html. Please submit bids to Hongwei Ding (hwding@sjtu.edu.cn ) with a cc to Nigel Ward (nigelward@acm.org ).
Martine Grice, Plinio Barbosa, Aoju Chen, Hongwei Ding, Nigel Ward
Speech Prosody SIG Officers ******************************************************* The 10th Speech Prosody Conference will be held from May
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| 3-2-4 | (2020-07-01) CfP SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE, Boise, Idaho,USA SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE
July 1-3, 2020
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack?s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
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 a series of nineteen 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.
IMPORTANT DATES
IMPORTANT CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
Multiple Submission Policy: SIGDIAL no longer accepts papers that have been submitted to other meetings or journals whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL.
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.
- Dialogue Systems: Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state 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. Spoken, multimodal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
- 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/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
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.
- Long paper submissions 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 paper submissions 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 results; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including 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 descriptions should be no longer than four pages including 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 2020 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. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and meetings, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous year?s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2020 will follow the 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 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference (http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip [ acl2020. org/downloads/acl2020-templates. zip ] ). Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of their paper before the March 6, 2020 deadline. https://www.softconf.com/l/sigdial2020/ ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES
As noted above, SIGDIAL 2020 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.
Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of the double-blind reviewing process 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.
- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).
- If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
- Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible.
Citations and Comparison: If 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:
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis.
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 2020 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 2020 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair:
Olivier Pietquin, Google AI
Program Chairs:
Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
Local Chair:
Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Sponsorship Chair:
David Vandyke, University of Cambridge
Mentoring Chair:
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull
Publication Chair:
Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
SIGdial President:
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIGdial Vice President:
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus:
Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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| 3-2-5 | (2020-07-01) CfP SIGDIAL 2020 CONFERENCE, Boise, Idaho,USA, Message from the organizers * SIGDIAL 2020 submission deadline *
Many of you asked us if the deadline can be extended for SIGDIAL 2020. Unfortunately, due to the tight schedule we cannot extend the deadline. The submission deadline remains March 6, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11). However, to give you a chance to submit the best of your work, we decided to accept updates to papers until March 11, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11). Please note that after March 6, 2020 the title, the list of authors and the abstract cannot be changed, but the main body of the paper can be amended.
Here are the relevant Key Dates Updated:
?Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Deadline (including long and short papers for special session): March 6, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11): after this date no change in title, author or abstract is allowed
?Final Paper Upload for Long, Short & Demonstration Papers (including long and short papers for special session) : March 11, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11): body of the paper can be amended until this deadline
?Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: April 26, 2020
?Camera Ready for Long, Short & Demo Papers: May 11 2020 (23:59 GMT-11)
?Special Session only: late breaking, work in progress and position papers: May 15, 2020(23:59 GMT-11)
?Conference: July 1-3
For more information please check the SIGDIAL 2020 website
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IMPORTANT CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
Multiple Submission Policy: SIGDIAL no longer accepts papers that have been submitted to other meetings or journals whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL.
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.
- Dialogue Systems: Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state 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. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
- 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/or Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e., beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
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.
- Long paper submissions 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 paper submissions 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 results; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including 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 descriptions should be no longer than four pages including 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 2020 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. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and meetings, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.
Blind Review
Building on previous year?s move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2020 will follow the 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 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template from the ACL conference (http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip). Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.
Submission Link and Deadline
Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a pdf of their paper before the March 6, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11) deadline. However, you have until March 11, 2020 (23:59 GMT-11) to upload a final version of the paper. Note that title, authors and abstract cannot change after the initial deadline of March 6, 2020.
ADOPTION OF ACL AUTHOR GUIDELINES
As noted above, SIGDIAL 2020 is adopting the ACL guidelines for submission and citation for long and short papers. Long and short papers that do not conform to the following guidelines will be rejected without review.
Preserving Double Blind Review
The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of the double-blind reviewing process 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.
- You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes).
- If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask that you do not advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
- Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible.
Citations and Comparison: If 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:
?You are expected to cite all refereed publications relevant to your submission, but you may be excused for not knowing about unpublished work (especially work that has been recently posted or is not widely cited).
?In cases where a preprint has been superseded by a refereed publication, the refereed publication should be cited in addition to or instead of the preprint version.
Papers (whether refereed or not) appearing less than three months before the submission deadline are considered contemporaneous to your submission, and you are therefore not obliged to make detailed comparisons that require additional experimentation or in-depth analysis.
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 2020 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.
For any questions contact us at conference@sigdial.org
We hope to see as many of you as possible in Boise in July.
Smaranda Muresan, program co-chair, on behalf of the SIGDIAL 2020 organizers
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| 3-2-6 | (2020-07-01) CfSS SIGDIAL 2020, Boise, Idaho, USASIGDIAL 20201‐3 July, USA2nd Call for Special Sessions
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2020) will be held on July 1-3, 2020 at the Jack’s Urban Meeting Place (JUMP) in Boise, Idaho, USA (http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference21/). Note the revised conference dates from previous announcement to avoid overlap with ICML 2020 and IJCAI 2020. SIGDIAL will be temporally co-located with ACL 2020, which will be held on July 5-10 in Seattle, Washington, USA (https://acl2020.org/).
IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2020 Special Session Notification: January 31, 2020 To accommodate the conference date change, we moved the submission deadline slightly by 2 days. So please note the deadline of January 15, 2020.
The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. 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 Role of Discourse in NLP Applications, Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End‐to‐end systems. 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. 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@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.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/ https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/ SIGDIAL 2020 Organizing Committee
General chair: Olivier Pietquin (Google Brain, France) Co-program chairs: Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University, USA) Yun-Nung Vivian Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Local chair: Casey Kennington (Boise State University, USA) Sponsorship chair: David Vandyke (Apple, UK) Mentoring chair: Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK) Publication chair: Stefan Ultes (Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, Germany)
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| 3-2-7 | (2020-08-16) 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), Sonderborg, Denmark ***************** 'Tone and Intonation in a globalized, digital world' Sonderborg, Denmark 16-20 August 2020 The 1st edition of the Tone-and-Intonation (TAI) conference series is proudly hosted by the Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark. Being a merger of the two former conference series TAL (Tonal Aspects of Languages) and TIE (Tone and Intonation in Europe), TAI 2020 welcomes contributions on phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody including (but not limited to) topics related to the production and perception of prosody and rhythm, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition and teaching of prosody in L1 and L2, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody. In addition, in TAI 2020 a number of sessions will be dedicated to the conference theme of globalization and digitization. In this context, we also encourage researchers of neighboring disciplines to submit papers related to tone and intonation to the conference. Globalization poses increasing challenges to both societies and individuals in terms of language contact and language acquisition. Digitization opens up new ways of human-human and human-machine interaction. In both contexts, tone and intonation are special linguistic, technical and didactic hurdles. Their better understanding not only has the potential for deeper insights into the nature of speech communication but can also decisively shape the communication of tomorrow. VENUE Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark (https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/centre+for+industrial+elektronics). The SDU is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mariapaola D'Imperio (Rutgers University, USA) - Peggy Mok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) - Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany) - Hans Basböll (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
01 March 2020 Online abstract submission opens 01 November 2020 Deadline for the submission of a revised abstract and an optional 5-page full paper (4 pages of text plus 1 page for references only) Registrations are made through the conference website. Abstract and paper submission will be handled via the EasyChair platform. More detailed information about the submission procedure and about the abstract/paper formatting requirements will be available on the conference website soon. TAI 2020 is co-sponsored by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and the IPA (International Phonetic Association). We are pleased to offer 5 IPA Student Awards that will cover the early bird student registration fee. Further ISCA-sponsored grants (max. 3) might be added soon. Please check the website tai2020.org for further information on how to apply. Oliver Niebuhr Associate Professor of Communication & Innovation SDU Electrical Engineering CIE - Centre for Industrial Electronics
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| 3-2-8 | (2020-09-21) 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020), Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September 21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics:
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions: Categories of submissions:
As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes).
Submission:Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair). IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only.
Special Sessions and WorkshopsIn addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
Templates for formatting are available below:
Important datesPaper submission deadline: January 10, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8) Paper notification deadline: February 7, 2020 Camera ready papers due: February 21, 2020 Early bird registration ends: July 17, 2020 Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
Twitter: @iwsds2020
Supported by: SigDial and Colips
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| 3-2-9 | (2020-09-21) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020, Madrid, Spain (UPDATED) CALL for Workshops and Special Sessions for IWSDS 2020 Place: Madrid, Spain
Dates: September 21-23, 2020
Website: https://www.iwsds.tech
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020 invites proposals for Workshops and Special Sessions in any topic related to the main conference theme: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade. Authors are requested to submit PDF files (maximum three pages) of their proposal to iwsds2020@gmail.com The proposal must indicate:
Proposal submission deadline: September 13, 2019 Proposal acceptance notification: September 17, 2019 Important notice:
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| 3-2-10 | (2020-09-21) CfW and SS: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY (IWSDS) 2020, Madrid Spain (UPDATED) The Information Processing and Telecommunications Center at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IPTC-UPM) in collaboration with Universidad de Granada are organizing the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS2020) to be held in Madrid, Spain from September21-23, 2020. We are now inviting paper submissions especially on the following topics: List of Topics
However, submissions are not limited to these topics, therefore we are encouraging to submit papers in all areas of spoken dialogue systems. We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a demonstration, and will organize the conference in order to best accommodate these papers, whatever their category. Submission GuidelinesAll papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.We distinguish between the following categories of regular submissions:
Authors are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the paper submission system (EasyChair). IWSDS 2020 requires that all authors wishing to present a paper take into account:
NOTE: All submitted papers are subject to a single-blind review. The change in page limits is to accommodate responses to reviewer comments only. As usual, a selection of accepted papers will be published in a book by Springer following the conference (Springer LNEE series, SCOPUS and other important indexes). Special Sessions and WorkshopsIn addition, IWSDS will host three special sessions and one workshop. Authors can submit specific papers to any of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process. For additional information about these special sessions and workshop please check the Special Session link:
Templates for formatting are available below: Important Dates
ContactAll questions about submissions should be emailed to iwsds2020@gmail.com SponsorsIWSDS2020 is sponsored by Universidd Politécnica de Madrid, SigDial, and Colips. CommitteesOrganizing Committee
Steering Committee
Senior Steering Committee
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| 3-2-11 | The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All): a report. The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):
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