SIGDIAL 2016 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference17/
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
(SIGDIAL 2016) will be located in the University of Southern California
Institute for Creative Technology, Los Angeles, CA, USA. SIGDIAL will be held
September 13-15.
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 sixteen 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
Call for Special Session Proposals
The SIGDIAL organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals. A
SIGDIAL special session has the length of a regular session at the conference
and may be organized as a poster session, a poster session with panel
discussion, or an oral presentation session. Note that Special Session papers
can include papers that appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings and/or papers which do
not appear in the proceedings. The only firm requirement is that papers which
appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings must follow the same review process as normal
SIGDIAL papers. Reviews for these papers are managed by the PC as usual. The
special session organizers may suggest reviewers for the special session, but
that is the extent of their involvement in reviewing special session papers
which appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings. Special session organizers can decide
how to handle SIGDIAL rejected papers--for example, they may invite papers which
will not appear in the proceedings to still be presented. 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:
(i) Summary of the topic of the special session;
(ii) List of organizers and sponsors;
(iii) List of people who may submit and participate;
(iv) 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.
Special Session Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, 1 March 2016 (23:59, GMT-11)
Special Session Notification: Sunday, 27 March 2016
* General SIGDIAL call for papers will be posted in Feb 2016.
SIGDIAL 2016 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany
Program Chairs
Giuseppe Carenini, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan
Local Chairs
Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA
Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA
Mentoring Chair
Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway
Sponsorships Chair
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, 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