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|Start date=2018/07/12
 
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|Homepage=https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference19/
 
|Homepage=https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference19/
 
|City=Melbourne
 
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|Country=Australia
 
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|has general chair=Kazunori Komatani
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|has Keynote speaker=Mari Ostendorf, Ingrid Zukerman, Milica Gasic
 
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'''SIGDIAL 2018'''
 
'''SIGDIAL 2018'''
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In cooperation with:
 
In cooperation with:
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* Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
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* [[Association for Computational Linguistics]] (ACL)
 
* International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
 
* International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
 
* Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
 
* Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
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of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and YRRSDS 2018 (the 14th Young Researchers’
 
of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and YRRSDS 2018 (the 14th Young Researchers’
 
Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems).
 
Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems).
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The SIGdial conference remains a premier publication venue for research in discourse and dialogue.
 
The SIGdial conference remains a premier publication venue for research in discourse and dialogue.
 
This year, the program includes 3 keynote talks, 5 oral presentation sessions, 3 poster sessions including
 
This year, the program includes 3 keynote talks, 5 oral presentation sessions, 3 poster sessions including
 
1 demo session, and a special session entitled “Physically Situated Dialogue.”
 
1 demo session, and a special session entitled “Physically Situated Dialogue.”
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We received 111 submissions this year, almost identical to the 113 received in 2017 (which was the 2nd
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largest number of submissions to SIGdial in its history). Of the 111 submissions, there were 67 long
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==TOPICS==
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papers, 39 short papers, and 5 demo papers. All submissions received at least 3 reviews. We carefully
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We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:
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considered both the numeric ratings and the tenor of the comments, both as written in the reviews and
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*'''Discourse Processing'''
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as submitted in discussions, in making our selections for the program. Overall, the members of the
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Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.
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Program Committee did an excellent job in reviewing the submitted papers. We thank them for their
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*'''Dialogue Systems'''
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important role in selecting the accepted papers and for helping to come up with a high quality program
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Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.
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for the conference. In line with the SIGdial tradition, our aim has been to create a balanced program
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*'''Corpora, Tools and Methodology'''
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that accommodates as many favorably rated papers as possible. We accepted 52 papers: 36 long papers,
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Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.
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12 short papers, and 4 demo papers. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 47%. The rates
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*'''Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling'''
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separately for types of papers are 54% for long papers, 31% for short papers, and 80% for demo papers.
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The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).
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After acceptance, 3 papers (2 long and 1 demo) that had also been submitted to other conferences were
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*'''Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology'''
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withdrawn. Of the long papers, 19 were presented as oral presentations. The remaining long papers and
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all the short papers were presented as posters, split across three poster sessions.
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==Important Dates==
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This year SIGdial has a special session on the topic “Physically Situated Dialogue”, organized by Sean
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* Special Session Proposal Deadline:                          14 January 2018
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Andrist, Stephanie Lukin, Matthew Marge, Jesse Thomason, and Zhou Yu. The special session brings
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* Special Session Notification                                 26 January 2018
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diverse paper submissions on a topic of growing interest to our technical program, with 7 of the accepted
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* Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: 11 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
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long papers part of this special session. The special session also features a panel discussion and latebreaking
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* Long, Short and Demonstration Final PDF Submission         18 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
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presentations, allowing for active engagement of the conference participants.
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* Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification:         20 April 2018
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This year’s SIGdial conference runs 3 full days, following the precedent set in 2017. One keynote and
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* Final Paper Submission Deadline:                          13 May 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
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one poster session is held each day, with the remaining time given to oral presentations, demos, and the
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* Early Registration Deadline:                                 20 May June 4 2018
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special session.
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* Late Registration Deadline:                                 July 6 2018
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A conference of this scale requires advice, help and enthusiastic participation of many parties and we
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* Conference:                                                 Thursday, 12 July 2018 to Saturday, 14 July 2018
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have a big ‘thank you’ to say to all of them.
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Regarding the program, we thank our three keynote speakers, Mari Ostendorf (University ofWashington,
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==Committees==
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USA), Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia), and Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge) for
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'''General Chair'''
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their inspiring talks on socialbots, interpretation in physical settings, and machine learning techniques,
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* Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
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which cover many modern aspects of research in both discourse and dialogue. We also thank the
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organizers of the special session who designed the schedule for their accepted papers, and organized
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'''Program Chairs'''
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the session with a panel and late-breaking presentations at the venue. We are grateful for their smooth
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* Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
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and efficient coordination with the main conference. We in addition thank Alex Papangelis, Mentoring
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* Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
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Chair for SIGdial 2018, for his dedicated work on the mentoring process. The goal of mentoring is to
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assist authors of papers that contain important ideas but lack clarity. In total, 6 of the accepted papers
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'''Local Chair'''
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received mentoring and we would like to thank our mentoring team for their excellent advice and support
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* Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia
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to the respective authors.
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iv
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'''Sponsorship Chair'''
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* Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
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'''Mentoring Chair
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* Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK
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'''SIGdial President'''
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* Jason Williams, Apple, USA
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'''SIGdial Vice President'''
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* Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
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'''SIGdial Secretary'''
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* Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
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'''SIGdial Treasurer'''
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* Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
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'''SIGdial President Emeritus'''
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* Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

Latest revision as of 09:13, 17 June 2020

SIGDIAL 2018
19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Event in series SIGDIAL
Dates 2018/07/12 (iCal) - 2018/07/14
Homepage: https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference19/
Location
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Important dates
Submissions: 2018/03/11
Accepted short papers: 12
Papers: Submitted 111 / Accepted 52 (46.8 %)
Committees
Organizers: Lawrence Cavedon
General chairs: Kazunori Komatani
PC chairs: Diane Litman, Kai Yu
Keynote speaker: Mari Ostendorf, Ingrid Zukerman, Milica Gasic
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SIGDIAL 2018 Melbourne, Australia July 12-14, 2018

In cooperation with:

We are excited to welcome you to this year’s SIGdial Conference, the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. We are pleased to hold the conference in Melbourne, Australia, on July 12-14th, in close proximity to both ACL 2018 (the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) and YRRSDS 2018 (the 14th Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems).

The SIGdial conference remains a premier publication venue for research in discourse and dialogue. This year, the program includes 3 keynote talks, 5 oral presentation sessions, 3 poster sessions including 1 demo session, and a special session entitled “Physically Situated Dialogue.”

TOPICS

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes:

  • Discourse Processing

Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering, and information retrieval.

  • Dialogue Systems

Open domain, task oriented dialogue and chat systems. Knowledge graphs and dialogue. Dialogue state tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text/web based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications.

  • Corpora, Tools and Methodology

Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.

  • Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).

  • Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology

Important Dates

  • Special Session Proposal Deadline: 14 January 2018
  • Special Session Notification 26 January 2018
  • Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Submission Deadline: 11 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
  • Long, Short and Demonstration Final PDF Submission 18 March 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
  • Long, Short and Demonstration Paper Notification: 20 April 2018
  • Final Paper Submission Deadline: 13 May 2018 (23:59, GMT-11)
  • Early Registration Deadline: 20 May June 4 2018
  • Late Registration Deadline: July 6 2018
  • Conference: Thursday, 12 July 2018 to Saturday, 14 July 2018

Committees

General Chair

  • Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan

Program Chairs

  • Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China

Local Chair

  • Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University, Australia

Sponsorship Chair

  • Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair

  • Alex Papangelis, Toshiba Research, UK

SIGdial President

  • Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President

  • Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary

  • Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer

  • Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus

  • Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA
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Facts about "SIGDIAL 2018"
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Acceptance rate46.8 +
Accepted papers52 +
Accepted short papers12 +
AcronymSIGDIAL 2018 +
End dateJuly 14, 2018 +
Event in seriesSIGDIAL +
Event typeConference +
Has Keynote speakerMari Ostendorf +, Ingrid Zukerman + and Milica Gasic +
Has coordinates-37° 48' 51", 144° 57' 47"Latitude: -37.814244444444
Longitude: 144.96317222222 +
Has coordinatorLawrence Cavedon +
Has general chairKazunori Komatani +
Has location cityMelbourne +
Has location countryCategory:Australia +
Has program chairDiane Litman + and Kai Yu +
Homepagehttps://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference19/ +
IsAEvent +
Start dateJuly 12, 2018 +
Submission deadlineMarch 11, 2018 +
Submitted papers111 +
Title19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue +