<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir="ltr"> <p><br> </p> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"> <div></div> </div> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p><br> </p> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"> <div> </div> </div> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p><br> </p> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">***Second Call for Papers***</span></p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Website: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/sicon-2023/home__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vyuyEpzHCWCIBqZ1pQKJ77HcwGiNXv9LcH9glSTV_HWFjwUg8U3fQEnRhopucUvVk-Emd_2JcZp66GgXyPcqHfrfCQs$" target="_blank"> https://sites.google.com/view/sicon-2023/home</a></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/SIConWorkshop__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vyuyEpzHCWCIBqZ1pQKJ77HcwGiNXv9LcH9glSTV_HWFjwUg8U3fQEnRhopucUvVk-Emd_2JcZp66GgXyPcq1nBZ9d8$" target="_blank"> @SIConWorkshop</a></span></p> <p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Paper Submission via Openreview: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org*ACL*2023*Workshop*SICon__;Ly8vLw!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vyuyEpzHCWCIBqZ1pQKJ77HcwGiNXv9LcH9glSTV_HWFjwUg8U3fQEnRhopucUvVk-Emd_2JcZp66GgXyPcqSEYe_RU$" target="_blank"> https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2023/Workshop/SICon</a> </span></p> <p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Contact: </span><a href="mailto:socialinfluencenlp@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:14.6667px; white-space:pre-wrap">socialinfluencenlp@gmail.com</a></p> <p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Arial; font-size:14.6667px; white-space:pre-wrap">Venue: Co-located with ACL 2023; July 14, 2023; Toronto, Canada (Hybrid)</span><br> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Social influence is the change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors that results from interaction with another individual or a group. Social influence is a core function of human communication, and is ubiquitous in everyday life, with scenarios ranging from negotiations to argumentation to behavioral interventions. Consequently, realistic human-machine conversations must reflect these social influence dynamics, making it essential to systematically model and understand them in dialogue research. This requires perspectives not only from NLP and AI research but also from game theory, emotion, communication, and psychology.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">SICon 2023 will be the first venue that uniquely fosters a dedicated discussion on social influence within NLP while involving researchers from other disciplines such as affective computing and the social sciences. SICon 2023 features keynote talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks for accepted papers. We encourage researchers of all stages and backgrounds to share their exciting work! </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">SICon will promote discussion around several key questions:</span></p> <ol style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> <li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:decimal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically? </span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:decimal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion or negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences? </span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:decimal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks? </span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:decimal; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">What are the ethical issues involved with AI that engage in social influence and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild?</span></p> </li></ol> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">***Submission Guidelines***</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">SICon welcomes submissions of archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) and recently published short and long papers that are relevant to the theme of the workshop.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">***Important Dates***</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">(All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ‘anywhere on Earth’)</span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> <li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:disc; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">Direct paper submission deadline: April 17, 2023</span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:disc; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">Commitment deadline for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) papers (with reviews): April 24, 2023</span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:disc; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2023</span></p> </li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px; list-style-type:disc; font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline">Camera-ready paper due: May 30, 2023</span></p> </li></ul> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">***Invited Speakers and Panelists***</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Jonathan Gratch (USC)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">He He (NYU)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Mike Lewis (Meta AI)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Jonathan May (USC)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Kathleen R. McKeown (Columbia Uni.)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Noam Slonim (IBM)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Diyi Yang (Stanford Uni.)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Jingwen Zhang (UC Davis) </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">***Organizers***</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Kushal Chawla (USC)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Weiyan Shi (Columbia Uni.)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Maximillian Chen (Columbia Uni.)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Alexandros Papangelis (Amazon Alexa AI)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Gale Lucas (USC)</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Zhou Yu (Columbia Uni.)</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>