28.1155, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

Tue Mar 7 17:59:17 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1155. Tue Mar 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1155, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 12:59:04
From: Annie Louis [aplouis at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

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

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

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Apr-2017 

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.

Call for Papers:

SIGDIAL 2017 Conference

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

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.

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 and Dialogue Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Open Domain Dialogue and Chat Systems
- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialogue and Written Text
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialogue
- Multi-Modal, Embodied, and Situated Dialogue
- Dialogue in Virtual Reality Applications and Human-Robot Interaction

Submissions:

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers and
demo descriptions. 

Please read the submission information here:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

Important Note: In a change from previous years, reviewing at SIGDIAL 2017
will be double blind. Papers that do not conform will be rejected without
review.

Mentoring:

Submissions with innovative core ideas that may be in need of language
(English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for ''mentoring'' and
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.

Best Paper Awards:

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science
and technology, SIGDIAL 2017 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.

Important Dates:

Special Session Submission: 1 March 2017 (23:59, GMT-11)
Special Session Notification: 10 March 2017
Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission: 18 April 2017 (23:59, GMT-11)
Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: 9 June 2017
Final Paper Submission: 7 July 2017
Conference: 15-17 August 2017

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.

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

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