[iva] SIGDIAL 2020: Call for Participation (Free Registration)

[Smaranda Muresan]

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 SIGDIAL 2020 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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SIGDIAL 2020 – 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on 
Discourse and Dialogue
July 1-3, 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (just before ACL 02020)
https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/ <https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/>
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** Registration Site is now open; Free Registration **
** Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020  **

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. 

INVITED SPEAKERS
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research: “Neural Text Generation: Progress and Challenges “
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh: “Argument Mining, Discourse Analysis, and Educational Applications “
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technologies: “Conversational Turn-taking in Human-robot Interaction”

VENUE
SIGDIAL 2020 will be held virtually. Each of the three conference days features one keynote and several oral sessions, with the remaining time given to demos, a special session (RoboDial 2.0), sponsor session,  mentoring activities, and participants led break-out sessions and/or social activities. In organizing the virtual conference, we decided to keep as much as possible the spirit of an in person conference. All keynotes, talks and demos are pre-recorded and made available at the beginning of the conference for participants to watch asynchronously (details to be provided on the website soon). The long and short papers are organized in thematic sessions and take into consideration the speakers' different time zones.  Each session contains 3-4 pre-recorded talks that are streamed followed by a Live QA part with all the presenters in that session. For demos, we organize Live QA sessions with the demo presenters. Topic-wise we have papers on evaluation and corpora, natural language generation, task oriented dialogues, knowledge use and acquisition,  behavior modeling, dialogue policy and dialogue state tracking, modeling convergence in dialogues, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Full schedule will be provided soon on the website. 

REGISTRATION
Registration for SIGDIAL 2020 is free but you need to register by June 25, 2020 to be able to participate in the Live events and access the web conference manager system. Please fill out the Registration Form. <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeweqCmfV01FmUcYTNU-g0p6CzGHlKSWQbdyzOvk7X2g39Ohw/viewform>  On July 1 and 2,  we have ~2 hours allocated in the program for breakout sessions led by conference participants (July 1 between  12:30-14:30 GMT-6 (Boise, Idaho time); and  on July 2 between 14:00-16:30 GMT-6 (Boise, Idaho time)). In the registration form, we listed a list of topics for discussion. Please select which one you are interested in participating in  and which ones you would be interested in leading a discussion around. If you’d like to lead such a session (could be 30-45 min) please select that in the registration form and fill in the registration form by June 22, 2020 so we can update the schedule and the website. 

ACCEPTED PAPERS
The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website: 
https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/proceedings.html <https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/proceedings.html>


IMPORTANT DATES
Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020 (June 22, 2020 if you are interested in leading a breakout session topic discussion)
Conference July 1-3, 2020


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing committee at conference at sigdial.org <mailto:conference at sigdial.org>:
General Chair: Olivier Pietquin, Google AI 
Program Chairs: Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
               Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University
Local Chair: Casey Kennington, Boise State University 
Sponsorship Chair: David Vandyke, University of Cambridge 
Mentoring Chair: Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull
Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany
Video-Presentation Chairs: Koji Inoue,  Kyoto University, Japan
                                            Erik Ekstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technologies

The members of the executive board are
SIGdial President: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
SIGdial Vice President: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA
SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA
SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA

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