Preliminary Call for Papers
SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE
Wednesday, September 2 to Friday, September 4, 2015
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2015) will be located in Prague, Czech Republic. SIGDIAL will be held September 2-4.
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 fifteen 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
- Computational Sociolinguistics
- Collaborative Process Analysis
- 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
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. 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
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 2015 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.
FORMAT
All long, short, and demonstration submissions should follow the two-column ACL 2015 format. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files tailored for the ACL 2015 conference. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2015 style guidelines ACL 2015 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 sponsorships chair Kristy Boyer 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
Special Session Proposal Deadline: Sunday, 15 March 2015 (23:59, GMT-11)
Special Session Notification: Monday, 30 March 2015
Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: Thursday, 30 April 2015 (23:59, GMT-11)
Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: Friday, 12 June 2015
Final Paper Submission Deadline (mentored papers only): Monday, 13 July 2015
Final Paper Submission Deadline (all types except for mentored papers): Monday, 20 July 2015
Conference: Wednesday, 2 September 2015 to Friday, 4 September 2015
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam, Germany
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mentoring Chair
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T, USA
Local Chair
Filip Jurcicek, Charles University, Czech Republic
Sponsorships Chair
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, 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