28.3077, Confs: Comp Ling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:43:35
From: Annie Louis [alouis at inf.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

 
18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue 
Short Title: SIGDIAL 2017 

Date: 15-Aug-2017 - 17-Aug-2017 
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany 
Contact: Annie Louis 
Contact Email: aplouis at essex.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

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 seventeen 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.

SIGDIAL 2017 will be co-located with SemDial 2017, the 21st Workshop on the
Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SIGDIAL and SemDial will run
concurrently on August 15-17 and will share a joint special session.  SIGDIAL
will occur immediately after the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken
Dialog Systems (YRRSDS 2017) on August 13-14 in Saarbrücken, and will precede
Interspeech 2017 on August 20-24 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Special Sessions:

SIGDIAL 2017 will include three special sessions:

1. SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog
   https://ajstent.github.io/negotiationdialog2017/index.html

Organizers: 
- Amanda Stent (Bloomberg LP)
- Aasish Pappu (Yahoo Inc)
- Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh)
- Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz)

2. Second WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and Conversational Agents
   http://workshop.colips.org/wochat/@sigdial2017/

Organizers: 

- Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
- Ron Artstein (University of Southern California)
- Rafael E. Banchs (Institute for Infocomm Research)
- Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University)

3. Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
   https://sites.google.com/view/nlg4ds2017

Websites:
SIGDIAL 2017: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

Co-located and related events: 
- YRRSDS 2017: https://sites.google.com/site/2017yrrsds/
- SemDial 2017 (SaarDial): http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de
- Interspeech 2017: http://www.interspeech2017.org/

Organizing Committee:

For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing
committee.

General Chairs
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu,
Estonia
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany

Program Chairs
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK

Local Chairs
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, University of Saarland and DFKI 
Volha Petukhova, University of Saarland

Mentoring Chair
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Sponsorships Chair
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu,
Estonia
 

Tuesday, August 15 to Thursday, August 17, 2017
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

We are pleased to welcome you to the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special
Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017) will be held at
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany on August 15-17, 2017.

Early registration is on till Friday, 14 July 2017. We hope you will join us
in Saarbrücken!

Keynote Speakers:

We are happy to announce our invited speakers for SIGDIAL/SemDial 2017:

- Elisabeth André, Augsburg University, Germany
''Empowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research''
- Andrew Kehler, UC San Diego, USA
''Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation''
- Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
''Challenges for Data-driven Dialogue Systems: Finding the Goldilocks Zone for
Conversational Data''

Program:
Our accepted papers and program can be viewed on the SIGDIAL/SemDial websites.
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/





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