<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="NL" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="WordSection1"> The 16th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, USA (collocated with SIGdial) on June 29th and 30th, 2020.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> YRRSDS (<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2020/home">https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2020/</a>) 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. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> We invite researchers at an early stage of their career (no age limit) to submit a 2-page position paper. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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<o:p></o:p> • Models of dialogue: statistical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches<o:p></o:p> • Dialogue state tracking and policy learning for dialogue management • Spoken language understanding and natural language generation for dialogue<o:p></o:p> • 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<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Important Dates<o:p></o:p> Submission open March 1st 2020<o:p></o:p> Submission deadline May 7th 2020 <o:p></o:p> Acceptance notification June 15 2020<o:p></o:p> Registration open May 1st 2020<o:p></o:p> YRRSDS 2020 June 28th-30th 2020<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Looking forward to meeting you there!<o:p></o:p> Best wishes,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Jelte van Waterschoot on behalf of the YRRSDS 2020 Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Maitreyee Umeå University<o:p></o:p> Aprajita Shukla Boise State University<o:p></o:p> Lina Brixey USC Institute for Creative Technologies<o:p></o:p> Jelte van Waterschoot University of Twente<o:p></o:p> Maria di Maro University of Naples 'Federico II'<o:p></o:p> Shikib Mehri Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Contact email: j.b.vanwaterschoot@utwente.nl<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>