Appel: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th 2014

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:26:40 +0000
From: Helen Hastie <h.hastie at hw.ac.uk>
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X-url: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15
X-url: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm

SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be

co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately
preceding ACL 2014.

http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 (under construction)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences,
providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of
participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by
the SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on
discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog, for a joint special
  session with INLG

IMPORTANT DATES

Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 9 February 2014 (23:59,
GMT-11)

Special Session Notification: Monday, 17 February 2014


Long, Short and Demonstration

Paper Submission Deadline: Sunday, 9 March 2014 (23:59, GMT-11)

Paper Notification: Friday, 18 April 2014

Final Paper Due

- For papers accepted subject

  to receiving mentoring Wednesday, 14 May 2014

- For accepted papers Friday, 23 May 2014


Conference Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday, June 20, 2014

SUBMISSIONS

Special Session Proposals

The SIGdial organizers welcome the submission of special session
proposals.
 A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the
conference; may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with
panel discussion, or an oral presentation session; and will be held on
the last day of the conference.  Special sessions may, at the discretion
of the SIGdial organizers, be held as parallel sessions.  Those wishing
to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal
containing:
 a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and
sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate; and a
requested format (poster/panel/oral session).  These proposals should be
sent to conference[a]sigdial.org <conference at sigdial.org> by the special
session proposal deadline.  Special session proposals will be reviewed
jointly by the general and program co-chairs.

Papers

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short
papers, and demonstration descriptions. All accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings.

Long papers may, at the discretion of the technical program committee,
be accepted for oral or poster presentation. 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 presented as posters. They should be no longer than
4 pages, including title and content. One additional page is allowed for
references and appendices.

Demonstration papers should be no longer than 3 pages, including
references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the
program co-chairs for demonstration descriptions, specifying furniture
and equipment needed for the demo.

Authors of a submission may designate their paper to be considered for a
SIGDIAL special session.  However, in 2014 all papers will undergo
regular peer review and appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings.
Consequently, no paper is guaranteed to appear in any particular session
at SIGDIAL.

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications must provide this information (see submission format). A
paper accepted for presentation at SIGDIAL 2014 must not have been
presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Any
questions regarding submissions can be sent to the program co-chairs at
program-chairs[at]sigdial.org <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.

FORMAT

All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the
two-column ACL 2014 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX
style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2014
conference.  Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2014 style
guidelines ( http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they
must be electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will
not be anonymous.

MENTORING SERVICE

For several years, the SIGDIAL conference has offered a mentoring
service.  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 chair at
mentoring[at]sigdial.org <mentoring at sigdial.org>.

STUDENT SUPPORT

SIGdial also offers a limited number of scholarships for students
presenting a paper accepted to the conference. Application materials
will be posted at the conference website.

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 offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more
information, email the conference organizers at
sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org.

DIALOG AND DISCOURSE

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mentoring Chair
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA

Local Chair
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA

Sponsorships Chair
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

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