28.1376, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1376. Mon Mar 20 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1376, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:04:16
From: Amanda Stent [amanda.stent at gmail.com]
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.

2nd Call for Papers: 

SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog              

https://ajstent.github.io/negotiationdialog2017/index.html
Papers due April 18 (for SIGDIAL) or May 8 (for SEMDIAL and position papers)  

Introduction:

Most of the work  to date on spoken dialog systems has focused on
task-oriented dialog, where the goal of the system is to help the user
complete a task, such as finding and booking a flight, a restaurant or a
hotel. However there has been less effort on dialog interactions where the
dialog partners have individual, perhaps private, and potentially conflicting,
task and social goals. We call dialogs with  these properties negotiation
dialogs. In these types of dialogs, the conversation typically revolves around
abstract objects representing the conversants’ opinions, thoughts, needs or
desires, rather than concrete entities that can be easily represented as
frames and slots. Negotiation dialogs show one or more of the following
characteristics that makes them distinct from traditional dialogs:

- Exchange of ideas/opinions in response to a topic(s)
- Present or withhold information that may potentially lead to speaker’s task
success
- Convince the interlocutor to achieve common ground; alternatively perpetual
disagreement
- Show positive or negative attitudes towards audience during the exchange
e.g., flamewars, snarky comments, insults, witty remarks at the other’s
expense
- Deliberate digression from the topic or obfuscation of one’s own or other’s
proposals, claims or arguments

Our objectives in this special session are two-fold: first, to encourage
discussion among researchers working on or interested in working negotiation
dialog; and second, to set the stage and establish a planning committee for a
2018 shared task on negotiation dialog. 

We welcome regular paper and position paper submissions on any aspect of 
negotiation dialog. For more information and updates please check out the
special session website at
https://ajstent.github.io/negotiationdialog2017/index.html.

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