Call for Papers
SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE
Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2014) will be co-located with
the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.
SIGDIAL will be held June 18-20 and INLG will be held June 19-21.
On June 19 there will be a joint special session between SIGDIAL and INLG.
Both conferences immediately precede
ACL 2014, which will be held June 22-27
in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
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 fourteen successful
previous meetings, this conference
spans the research interest areas 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.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on
discourse and dialogue including but not restricted to the following themes
and topics:
- Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Open Domain Dialogue
- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialogue and Written Text
- Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology
- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialogue, for a joint special session with INLG 2014
SPECIAL SESSIONS
There will be one special session co-located with the
8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) on the afternoon of June 19.
There will be a second special session on the
Dialog State Tracking Challenge (DSTC) on the morning of June 20.
Special session submissions will undergo regular SIGDIAL review process.
SUBMISSIONS
Special Session Proposals
Submission of special session proposals is now closed.
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[at]sigdial.org by the special
session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly
by the general and program co-chairs.
Papers
Submission of papers is now closed.
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 dialogues, 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, which would highlight a particular area or topic.
All papers will undergo regular peer review.
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.
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/e/sigdial2014/.
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
ACL 2014 style guidelines, and they must be electronic in PDF.
As in most previous years, submissions will not be anonymous. Papers may include authors' names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed.
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
Svetlana Stoyanchev at 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 dialogue 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.
SPONSOR THE CONFERENCE
SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more information,
email the sponshorships chair Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio at
sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org.
DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE
SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal
Dialogue and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial.
IMPORTANT DATES
| 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) |
| Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification |
Friday, 18 April 2014 |
| Final Paper Submission Deadline (mentored papers only) |
Wednesday, 14 May 2014 |
| Final Paper Submission Deadline (all types except for mentored papers) |
Friday, 23 May 2014 |
| Conference |
Wednesday, 18 June 2014 (morning) to Friday, 20 June 2014 (midday) |
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Mentoring Chair
Local Chair
Sponsorships Chair
SIGdial President
SIGdial Vice President
SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Program Committee
| Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany |
| Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Yasuo Ariki, Kobe University, Japan |
| Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA |
| Timo Baumann, Universitat Hamburg, Germany |
| Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France |
| Steve Beet, Aculab plc, UK |
| Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain |
| Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina |
| Nicole Beringer, 3SOFT GmbH, Germany |
| Nate Blaylock, Nuance Communications, Canada |
| Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA |
| Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden |
| Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA |
| Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft, USA |
| Christophe Cerisara, CNRS, France |
| Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA |
| Mark Core, University of Southern California, USA |
| Paul Crook, Microsoft, USA |
| Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| Xiaodong Cui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA |
| Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University, USA |
| David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA |
| Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
| Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA |
| Dimitrios Dimitriadis, AT&T Labs Research, USA |
| Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Jens Edlund, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden |
| Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy |
| Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France |
| Raquel Fernández, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France |
| Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA |
| Panayiotis Georgiou, University of Southern California, USA |
| Agustin Gravano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA |
| Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA |
| Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft Research, USA |
| Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| Peter Heeman, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, USA |
| Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| David Janiszek, Universite Paris Descartes, France |
| Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Arne Jonsson, Linkoping University, Sweden |
| Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| Norihide Kitaoka, Nagoya University, Japan |
| Kazunori Komatani, Nagoya University, Japan |
| Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Ian Lane, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Romain Laroche, Orange Labs, France |
| Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Sungjin Lee, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, South Korea |
| Fabrice Lefevre, University of Avignon, France |
| Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA |
| Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| Eduardo Lleida Solano, University of Zaragoza, Spain |
| Ramon Lopez-Cozar, University of Granada, Spain |
| Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Hugo Meinedo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal |
| Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China |
| Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany |
| Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA, USA |
| Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan |
| Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA |
| Elmar Noeth, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (University of Quebec), Canada |
| Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK |
| Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland |
| Matthew Purver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Antoine Raux, Lenovo Labs, USA |
| Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany |
| Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
| Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| David Schlangen, Bielefeld University, Germany |
| Gabriel Skantze, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden |
| Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany |
| Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany |
| Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA |
| Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA |
| Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Labs Research, USA |
| Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA |
| Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands |
| Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal |
| Joel Tetreault, Yahoo! Labs, USA |
| Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal |
| David Traum, University of Southern California, USA |
| Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, USA |
| Renata Vieira, PUCRS, Brazil |
| Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, USA |
| Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA |
| Steve Young, Cambridge University, UK |
| Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Jian Zhang, Dongguan University of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China |
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