[dbjapan] SIGDIAL 2020 CFP

[Ryuichiro Higashinaka <ryuichiro.higashinaka [at] gmail.com>]

[apologies for multiple postings]

関連研究者のみなさま，

代理で投稿します．今年のSIGDIALはregistrationが無料ですので，
奮って参加登録ください．
Registration for SIGDIAL 2020 is free but you need to register by June
25, 2020 to be able to
participate in the Live events and access the web conference manager system.
とのことです．よろしくお願いいたします．

東中

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 SIGDIAL 2020 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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SIGDIAL 2020-21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on
Discourse and Dialogue
July 1-3, 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (just before ACL 02020)

https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/

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** Registration Site is now open; Registration is free of charge**
** Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020  **

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of
cutting edge research in
discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. The
conference is sponsored by the
SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in
discourse and dialogue for both
ACL and ISCA.


INVITED SPEAKERS

Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research: "Neural Text Generation:
Progress and Challenges" Diane
Litman, University of Pittsburgh: "Argument Mining, Discourse
Analysis, and Educational
Applications " Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technologies:
"Conversational Turn-taking
in Human-robot Interaction”


VENUE

SIGDIAL 2020 will be held virtually. Each of the three conference days
features one keynote and
several oral sessions, with the remaining time given to demos, a
special session (RoboDial 2.0),
sponsor session, mentoring activities, and participants led break-out
sessions and/or social
activities. In organizing the virtual conference, we decided to keep
as much as possible the spirit
of an in person conference. All keynotes, talks and demos are
pre-recorded and made available at the
beginning of the conference for participants to watch asynchronously
(details to be provided on the
website soon). The long and short papers are organized in thematic
sessions and take into
consideration the speakers' different time zones.  Each session
contains 3-4 pre-recorded talks that
are streamed followed by a Live QA part with all the presenters in
that session. For demos, we
organize Live QA sessions with the demo presenters. Topic-wise we have
papers! on evaluation and
corpora, natural language generation, task oriented dialogues,
knowledge use and acquisition,
behaviour modeling, dialogue policy and dialogue state tracking,
modeling convergence in dialogues,
and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Full
schedule will be provided soon on
the website.


REGISTRATION

Registration for SIGDIAL 2020 is free but you need to register by June
25, 2020 to be able to
participate in the Live events and access the web conference manager
system. Please fill out the
Registration Form.  On July 1 and 2, we have ~2 hours allocated in the
program for breakout sessions
led by conference participants (July 1 between 12:30-14:30 GMT-6
(Boise, Idaho time); and on July 2
between 14:00-16:30 GMT-6 (Boise, Idaho time)). In the registration
form, we listed a list of topics
for discussion. Please select which one you are interested in
participating in and which ones you
would be interested in leading a discussion around. If you’d like to
lead such a session (could be
30-45 min) please select that in the registration form and fill in the
registration form by June
22, 2020 so we can update the schedule and the website.

ACCEPTED PAPERS

The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website:
https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/proceedings.html


IMPORTANT DATES

Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020 (June 22, 2020 if you are
interested in leading a breakout
session topic discussion)
Conference July 1-3, 2020

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing
committee at conference [at] sigdial.org:

General Chair: Olivier Pietquin, Google AI
Program Chairs: Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
                        Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
Local Chair: Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Sponsorship Chair: David Vandyke, University of Cambridge
Mentoring Chair: Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull
Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
Video-Presentation Chairs: Koji Inoue,  Kyoto University, Japan
                                       Erik Ekstedt, KTH Royal
Institute of Technologies

The members of the executive board are

SIGdial President: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIGdial Vice President: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service
(ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA