<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The 15th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden (collocated with SIGdial) on September 9 and 10th, 2019. YRRSDS (www.yrrsds.org) is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research and helps to create an international network of young researchers working in the field. We invite researchers at an early stage of their career (no age limit) to submit a 2-page position paper. This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio, and topic suggestions for discussions. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and not necessarily be from a published paper. Submission topics include, but are not limited to: • Open domain, task-oriented dialogue, and chat systems • Models of dialogue: statistical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches • Dialogue state tracking and policy learning for dialogue management • Spoken language understanding and natural language generation for dialogue • Evaluation methodology for dialogue systems • Semantics, pragmatics, and context in dialogue systems • Incremental spoken dialogue systems • Situated interaction with virtual and robotic agents • Psycholinguistic influences on dialogue system design • Establishing social relationships and engagement with the user • Data collection and dataset sharing for statistical models • Industry development cycles, requirements, and applications Important Dates Submission open: 15 May 2019 Submission deadline: 2 June 2019 Author notification: 12 July 2019 Registration opens: 18 July 2019 YRRSDS 2019: 9-10 September 2019 Looking forward to meeting you there! Best wishes, Erik Ekstedt, on behalf of the YRRSDS 2019 Organizing Committee: Mahdokht Afravi University of Texas at El Paso Lina Brixey USC Institute for Creative Technologies Adriana Camacho University of Texas at El Paso Erik Ekstedt KTH Royal Institute of Technology Felix Gervits Tufts University Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos KTH Royal Institute of Technology Maike Paetzel Uppsala University Eran Raveh Saarland University Jelte van Waterschoot University of Twente Contact email: erikekst@kth.se </body> </html>