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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
</span><span class="aqj"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wednesday, June 18</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> to
</span></b><span class="aqj"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friday, June 20, 2014</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog will be<br>
co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (<a href="http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">INLG 2014</a>) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding ACL 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <a href="http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15/" target="_blank">http://www.<span style="color:#222222">sigdial</span>.org/workshops/conference15</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
</span></b><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sunday, 9 March 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">23:59</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
GMT-11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences, providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research across the areas of discourse and dialog
and attracting a diverse set of participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS<br>
<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Prof. Lillian Lee from Cornell University, and<br>
Prof. Steve Young from the University of Cambridge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TOPICS OF INTEREST<br>
<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Corpora, Tools and Methodology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Dimensions of Interaction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Open Domain Dialog<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog for a joint special session with INLG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SPECIAL SESSIONS<br>
<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There will be one special session co-located with <a href="http://inlg2014.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">INLG</a> on the morning of
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">June 20th</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">. There will be a second special session on the <a href="http://camdial.org/%7Emh521/dstc/" target="_blank">Dialogue
State Tracking Challenge (DSTC)</a><b>. </b> Special session paper submissions will undergo regular SIGdial review process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Long, Short and Demonstration</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paper Submission Deadline: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sunday,
9 March 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">23:59</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
GMT-11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paper Notification: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friday, 18 April 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Final Paper Due</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- For papers accepted subject<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> to receiving mentoring
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wednesday, 14 May 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">- For accepted papers
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friday, 23 May 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference </span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wednesday, June 18, 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> to
</span><span class="aqj"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Friday, June 20, 2014</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SUBMISSIONS</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee, be accepted for oral or poster presentation. They must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, content, and examples.
Two additional pages are allowed for references and appendices, which may include extended example discourses or dialogs, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Short papers will be presented as posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for references and appendices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying
furniture and equipment needed for the demo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a SIGDIAL special session, which would highlight a particular area or topic. All papers will undergo regular peer review. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). A paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not
have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at <span style="color:#1155CC">program-chairs[at]<a href="http://sigdial.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">sigdial</span>.org</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for review purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Submission is electronic using paper submission software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FORMAT</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for
the ACL 2014 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style guidelines (<a href="http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm</a>), and they must be electronic in PDF.
As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MENTORING SERVICE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring service. Submissions with innovative core ideas that may need language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged
for "mentoring" and conditionally 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. Any
questions about the mentoring service can be addressed to the mentoring chair at <span style="color:#1155CC">mentoring[at]<a href="http://sigdial.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">sigdial</span>.org</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">STUDENT SUPPORT</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials will be posted at the conference website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">BEST PAPER AWARDS</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL will recognize two best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers
in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SPONSORSHIP</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email the conference organizers at <span style="color:#1155CC">sponsor-chair[at]<a href="http://sigdial.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#222222">sigdial</span>.org</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DIALOG AND DISCOURSE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">General Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Technical Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Helen <span class="il">
Hastie</span>, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mentoring Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Local Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sponsorships Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGdial President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGdial Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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