SIGDIAL 2018
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| isA | Event |
| Acronym | SIGDIAL 2018 |
| Title | 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue |
| Start date | 2018/07/12 |
| End date | 2018/07/14 |
| Homepage | https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference19/ |
| ... | ... |
SIGDIAL 2018 Melbourne, Australia July 12-14, 2018
In cooperation with:
- Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
We are excited to welcome you to this year’s SIGdial Conference, the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. We are pleased to hold the conference in Melbourne, Australia, on July 12-14th, in close proximity to both ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and YRRSDS 2018 (the 14th Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems).
The SIGdial conference remains a premier publication venue for research in discourse and dialogue. This year, the program includes 3 keynote talks, 5 oral presentation sessions, 3 poster sessions including 1 demo session, and a special session entitled “Physically Situated Dialogue.”
TOPICS
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
- Discourse Processing
Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.
- Dialogue Systems
Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
Important Dates
- Special Session Proposal Deadline: 14 January 2018
- Special Session Notification 26 January 2018
- Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: 11 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
- Long, Short and Demonstration Final PDF Submission 18 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
- Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: 20 April 2018
- Final Paper Submission Deadline: 13 May 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
- Early Registration Deadline: 20 May June 4 2018
- Late Registration Deadline: July 6 2018
- Conference: Thursday, 12 July 2018 to Saturday, 14 July 2018
Committees
General Chair
- Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
Program Chairs
- Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
Local Chair
- Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
Sponsorship Chair
- Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Mentoring Chair
- Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK
SIGdial President
- Jason Williams, Apple, USA
SIGdial Vice President
- Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
SIGdial Secretary
- Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer
- Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus
- Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA