[Corpora-List] final call for papers: SIGDIAL 2012

[Amanda Stent]

CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGDIAL 2012 CONFERENCE:  13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest 
Group on Discourse and Dialog
Seoul, South Korea
July 5-6, 2012

Deadline for submissions:  March 26, 2012 GMT-11

CALL FOR PAPERS

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of 
cutting edge research in discourse and dialog to both academic and 
industry researchers. Continuing a series of twelve successful previous 
meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse 
and dialog. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization 
(http://www.sigdial.org/), which serves as the Special Interest Group on 
discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.

Topics of Interest

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on 
discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following 
themes and topics:

1. Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems
2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology
3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
4. Dimensions of Interaction
5. Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

For a detailed list of topics of interest, see 
http://nlp.postech.ac.kr/sigdial2012/topics.htm.

Special Theme

Coherence, whether understood as "general overall interrelatedness" or 
"continuity in meaning and context" (Louwerse and Graesser, 2005) is a 
topic that spans research on discourse and on dialog and has strong 
connections to research on coreference, discourse structure, dialog/task 
modeling, natural language generation, etc.  The special theme for 
SIGDIAL 2012 is "characterizing dialog coherence", where dialog includes 
multi-party interaction.  We welcome theoretical, analytical, 
computational or interdisciplinary submissions on this topic.

SUBMISSIONS

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short 
papers, and demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be 
published in the conference proceedings.
     * Long papers will be presented in full plenary presentations. 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.
     * Short papers will be featured in short plenary presentations, 
followed by posters. They should be no longer than 4 pages.  One 
additional page is allowed for references and appendices.
     * Demonstrations will be presented in special sessions, separate 
from short paper presentations and poster sessions. Demo descriptions 
will appear in a dedicated section of the proceedings and should be no 
longer than 3 pages, inclusive of references. To encourage late breaking 
demos, demo submissions have a later deadline.

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or 
publications must provide this information (see submission format). 
SIGDIAL 2012 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that 
will be (or has been) published elsewhere, except for demonstrations. 
Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the technical program 
co-chairs at program-chairs[at]sigdial.org.

Authors are encouraged to submit additional supportive material such as 
video clips or sound clips and examples of available resources for 
review purposes.

Submission is electronic using paper submission software at: 
https://www.softconf.com/c/sigdial2012/

FORMAT

All long, short, and demo submissions should follow the two-column 
ACL-HLT 2012 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style 
files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for ACL-HLT 2012 
conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL-HLT 2012 style 
guidelines (http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp), and they must be 
electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be 
anonymous.

MENTORING SERVICE

The mentoring service offered last year has been very beneficial. We 
will follow the same practice this year. 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 
service chair, Dr. Kallirroi Georgila, at kgeorgila[at]ict.usc.edu.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

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.

SPONSORSHIP

SIGDIAL also offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more 
information, email Jason Williams, Sponsorship Chair, at 
jdw[at]research.att.com.

Dialogue and Discourse

SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal 
Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL.

IMPORTANT DATES

Long and Short Papers
  Submission Deadline    March 26, 23:59, GMT-11, 2012
  Paper Notification    May 7, 2012
  Final Paper Due    June 4, 2012

Demos
  Submission Deadline    May 14, 2012
  Notification        May 21, 2012
  Final Paper Due    June 4, 2012

Conference           July 5-6, 2012

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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

General Co-Chairs
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, South Korea
Jonathan Ginzburg, Universite Paris-Diderot, France

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA Nancy, France
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

Mentoring Chair
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for 
Creative Technologies

Local Chair
Minhwa Chung, Seoul National University

Sponsorships Chair
Jason Williams AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL President
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGDIAL Vice President
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland


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