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

[maitreyee]

*Important update regarding COVID19*


SIGDial has decided to host the conference virtually, which will be the 
same for YRRSDS. The exact program has yet to be determined, but we can 
say that we at least have the poster presentations, interactive 
roundtable discussions and talks by invited speakers. We have extended 
the deadline and notification to give more time to participants and 
reviewers.


The 16th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems 
(YRRSDS) will be held virtually at Boise State University in Boise, 
Idaho, USA(collocated with SIGdial) on June 29th and 30th, 2020. The 
deadline for submitting a 2-page position paper is 11th 18th of May!


YRRSDS (www.yrrsds.org <http://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: March 1st 2020

Submission deadline: May 7th 2020May 18th 2020

Acceptance notification: June 15 2020June 19th 2020

Registration open: May 1st 2020

YRRSDS 2020: June 29th-30th 2020



Stay safe and healthy,


Maitreyee, on behalf of the YRRSDS 2020 Organizing Committee:

MaitreyeeUmeå University

Aprajita ShuklaBoise State University

Lina Brixey USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Jelte van WaterschootUniversity of Twente

Maria di MaroUniversity of Naples 'Federico II'

Shikib MehriCarnegie Mellon University


Contact email: maittewa at cs.umu.se

On 2020-03-16 17:39, maitreyee wrote:
>
> 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,
>
>
> Maitreyee Tewari, on behalf of the YRRSDS 2020 Organizing Committee:
>
> MaitreyeeUmeå University
>
> Aprajita ShuklaBoise State University
>
> Lina Brixey USC Institute for Creative Technologies
>
> Jelte van WaterschootUniversity of Twente
>
> Maria di MaroUniversity of Naples 'Federico II'
>
> Shikib MehriCarnegie Mellon University
>
>
> Contact email: maittewa at cs.umu.se
>
>
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