[iva] CFP: Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2020

[j.b.vanwaterschoot at utwente.nl]

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.


YRRSDS (https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2020/<https://sites.google.com/view/yrrsds2020/home>) 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                             March 1st 2020

Submission deadline                      May 7th 2020

Acceptance notification                June 15 2020

Registration open                           May 1st 2020

YRRSDS 2020                                     June 28th-30th 2020



Looking forward to meeting you there!

Best wishes,


Jelte van Waterschoot on behalf of the YRRSDS 2020 Organizing Committee:



Maitreyee                                         Umeå University

Aprajita Shukla                                 Boise State University

Lina Brixey                                        USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Jelte van Waterschoot                  University of Twente

Maria di Maro                                 University of Naples 'Federico II'

Shikib Mehri                                     Carnegie Mellon University


Contact email: j.b.vanwaterschoot at utwente.nl

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