[ecoop-info] CALL FOR PAPERS: SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, June 18th-20th, Philadelphia, USA

[Helen Hastie]

SIGDIAL 2014 CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 18 to Friday, June 20, 2014

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialog will be

co-located with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language
Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, PA, USA and immediately preceding
ACL 2014.

     http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference15 (under construction)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2014 SIGDIAL conference continues a series of fourteen conferences,
providing a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
across the areas of discourse and dialog and attracting a diverse set of
participants from academia and industry. The conference is sponsored by the
SIGdial organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on
discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome formal, corpus-based, system-building or analytical work on
discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes
and topics:

- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems

- Corpora, Tools and Methodology

- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling

- Dimensions of Interaction

- Open Domain Dialog

- Style, Voice and Personality in Spoken Dialog and Written Text

- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology

- Novel Methods for Generation Within Dialog, for a joint special session
with INLG


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)

Paper Notification:               Friday, 18 April 2014

Final Paper Due

- For papers accepted subject

 to receiving mentoring          Wednesday, 14 May  2014

- For accepted papers             Friday, 23 May 2014


Conference                          Wednesday, June 18, 2014 to Friday,
June 20, 2014


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; 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[a]sigdial.org <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 dialogs, 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.  However, in 2014 all papers will undergo regular
peer review and appear in the SIGDIAL proceedings.  Consequently, no paper
is guaranteed to appear in any particular session at SIGDIAL.

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 <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 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 (
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/ACL2014/CallforPapers.htm), and they must be
electronic in PDF. As in most previous years, submissions will not be
anonymous.

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 at mentoring[at]sigdial.org <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 dialog 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.

SPONSORSHIP

SIGDIAL offers a number of opportunities for sponsors. For more
information, email the conference organizers at
sponsor-chair[at]sigdial.org<sponsor-chair at sigdial.org>
.

DIALOG AND DISCOURSE

SIGDIAL authors are encouraged to submit their research to the journal
Dialog and Discourse, which is endorsed by SIGdial.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mentoring Chair

Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Research Labs, USA

Local Chair

Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA

Sponsorships Chair

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, 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
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