** Deadline for submissions: March 26, 2012 GMT-11 **
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 with a series of eleven successful previous meetings, this conference
spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. 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.
We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on
discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following
themes and topics: Topics of Interest
For a detailed list of topics of interest, see
http://nlp.postech.ac.kr/sigdial2012/topics.htm
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
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.
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.
The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. All accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.
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. 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/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.
SIGDIAL also offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information, email Jason Williams, Sponsorship Chair, at jdw[at] research.att.com.
SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGDIAL.
| 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 | June 17-18, 2011 | |
For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing committee: