[Corpora-List] SIGdial 2010 Annual Meeting

[Raquel Fernandez]

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                            SIGDIAL 2010
          11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
                      on Discourse and Dialogue

          University of Tokyo, Japan, September 24-25, 2010
                    (just before Interspeech 2010)
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                ** Submission Deadline: May 7, 2010 **

CALL FOR PAPERS

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 successful ten
previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area 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 2010 will be co-located
with Interspeech 2010 as a satellite event.

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:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems

Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as
text summarization, question answering, information retrieval
including topics like:

- Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure;
- Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use; (Co-)Reference
   and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution;
- Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation.

Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including
topics such as:

- Dialogue management models;
- Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration;
- Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
   (repair and correction types, clarification and under-specificity,
   grounding and feedback strategies);
- Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for
   disambiguation.

2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology

Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and spoken, text-based
and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in particular:

- Annotation tools and coding schemes; Data resources for discourse
   and dialogue studies;
- Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning);
- Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology, metrics
   and case studies.

3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond
a single sentence) including the following issues:

- The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are
   less studied in the semantics/pragmatics framework);
- Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their relation to
   referential and relational structure;
- Prosody in discourse and dialogue;
- Models of presupposition and accommodation; operational models of
   conversational implicature.

SUBMISSIONS

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers for full
plenary presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations. Short
papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary
presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations.

- Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title,
   examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages
   are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example
   discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc.
- Short papers and demo descriptions should be 4 pages or less
   (including title, examples, references, etc.).

Please use the official ACL style files:
http://acl2010.org/authors.html

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information (see submission
format). SIGDIAL 2010 cannot accept for publication or presentation
work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions
regarding submissions can be sent to the General Co-Chairs.

Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on
the web or otherwise. Examples might include excerpts of recorded
conversations, recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to
working systems, and so on.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialog and discourse
science and technology, SIGDIAL will again recognize a BEST PAPER
AWARD and a BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD. A selection committee consisting
of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the
recipients of the awards.

IMPORTANT DATES (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Submission: May 7, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2010
Final submission: July 30, 2010
Conference: September 24-25, 2010

WEBSITES

Conference website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11
Submission link: To be announced
SIGdial organization website: http://www.sigdial.org
Interspeech 2010 website: http://www.interspeech2010.org

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University - Hakodate): katagiri at fun.ac.jp
Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan): mnakano at acm.org

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam): raquel.fernandez at uva.nl
Oliver Lemon (Heriot Watt University): olemon at gmail.com

LOCAL CHAIR
Masato Ishizaki (University of Tokyo): masato.ishizaki at gmail.com

SIGDIAL PRESIDENT
Tim Paek (Microsoft Research): timpaek at microsoft.com

SIGDIAL VICE PRESIDENT
Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs - Research): amanda.stent at gmail.com

SIGDIAL SECRETARY/TREASURER
Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki):
kristiina.jokinen at helsinki.fi


-- 
Raquel Fernandez Rovira
ILLC, University of Amsterdam
http://staff.science.uva.nl/~raquel

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