Final Call for Participation
SIGDIAL 2017 CONFERENCE
Tuesday, August 15 to Thursday, August 17, 2017
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
We are pleased to welcome you to the 18th Annual Meeting of the
Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), which
will be held at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany on August
15-17, 2017.
SIGDIAL 2017 will be co-located with SemDial 2017, the 21st Workshop
on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SIGDIAL and SemDial will
run concurrently on August 15-17 and will share a joint special
session. SIGDIAL will occur immediately after the Young Researchers'
Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS 2017) on August 13-14 in
Saarbrücken, and will precede Interspeech 2017 on August 20-24 in
Stockholm, Sweden.
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 seventeen 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.
Registration is open. We hope you will join us in Saarbrücken!
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We are happy to announce our invited speakers for SIGDIAL/SemDial
2017:
Elisabeth André, Augsburg University, Germany
"Empowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research"
Andrew Kehler, UC San Diego, USA
"Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language
Interpretation"
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
"Challenges for Data-driven Dialogue Systems: Finding the
Goldilocks Zone for Conversational Data"
PROGRAM
Our accepted papers and program can be viewed on the SIGDIAL website:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
In addition to regular oral and poster/demo sessions, the program will
also feature three special sessions on chosen topics:
SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog
https://sites.google.com/view/negotiation2017
SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Chatbots and
Conversational Agents (WOCHAT)
http://workshop.colips.org/wochat/@sigdial2017/
Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
https://sites.google.com/view/nlg4ds2017
WEBSITES
SIGDIAL 2017: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/
Co-located and related events:
- YRRSDS 2017: https://sites.google.com/site/2017yrrsds/
- SemDial 2017 (SaarDial): http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de
- Interspeech 2017: http://www.interspeech2017.org/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the
organizing committee.
General Chairs
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Program Chairs
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Local Chairs
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, University of Saarland and DFKI
Volha Petukhova, University of Saarland
Mentoring Chair
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Sponsorships Chair
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA
SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA
SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia