<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Call for papers for a special issue on Natural Language Generation (NLG) for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) to be published as part of the Dialogue & Discourse journal.</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Language generation for dialogue requires sophistication in modeling the context of the dialogue, as well as methods that are sensitive to the rhetorical structure of a turn, and to the requirement that turns in dialogue are typically incremental and structured as oral, rather than written language. We therefore especially invite submissions which address these gaps, whether by introducing novel statistical or neural approaches or by leveraging data to improve natural language generation for dialogue using a more traditional architecture. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dialogue and Discourse (D&D) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". As of April 2017, D&D has published 57 papers, and the journal’s h-index is 16. D&D is endorsed by SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by Scopus and the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Submissions are made via the online submission system at <a href="http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml" class="m_693437201586719128gmail-m_7681712844261716322OWAAutoLink" id="m_693437201586719128gmail-m_7681712844261716322LPlnk356584" target="_blank">http://www.dialogue-and-dis<wbr>course.org/submission.shtml</a></div><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference paper(s); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review with the target timeline below. Once accepted and finalised, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">* deadline for submissions <b><span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aBn"><span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aQJ">January 20, 2018</span></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">* decision made <span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aBn"><span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aQJ">May 1st, 2018</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">* revisions due <span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aBn"><span class="m_693437201586719128gmail-aQJ">June 1st, 2018</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">* issue published July, 2018</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dialogue and Discourse Editors</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Issue Editors:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Verena Rieser (Heriot-Watt University)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Marilyn Walker (University of California Santa Cruz)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Vera Demberg (Saarland University)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Editor In Chief:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">David Schlangen</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Associate Editors:</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Vera Demberg, Saarland University</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Raquel Fernandez, ILLC, University of Amsterdam</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Massimo Poesio, Uni Essex, United Kingdom</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">David Schlangen, Bielefeld University</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Amanda Stent, Bloomberg LP</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University, Canada</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">David R Traum, University of Southern California, United States</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Full editorial board at: <a href="http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/editors.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.dialogue-and-di<wbr>scourse.org/editors.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="m_693437201586719128gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Professor Marilyn Walker</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">General Chair, NAACL 2018. North American Conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Professor of Computer Science <br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">Baskin School of Engineering</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:arial">University of California Santa Cruz<br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw" target="_blank">users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>