[iva] SIGDIAL 2021: Call for Special Sessions

[Mikio Nakano]

SIGDIAL 2021
29-31 July, 2021, Singapore
https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference22/

Call for Special Sessions

Special Session Submission Deadline: January 15, 2021
Special Session Notification: February 15, 2021

The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers
welcome the submission of special session proposals. We welcome special
session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue
communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Role of
Discourse in NLP Applications, Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and
End‐to‐end systems.

A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the
conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a
poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.
Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held
as parallel sessions. The papers submitted to special sessions are handled
by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in
the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as
regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken
from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the
suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make
acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide
what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears
in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.

Submissions:

Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page
proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list
of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate
in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).

These proposals should be sent to conference at sigdial.org by the special
session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed
jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.

Links:

Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the
sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.
http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/deep/
https://robodial.github.io/
https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference18/sessions.htm
http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/
Important DatesJanuary 15, 2021

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Mikio Nakano
C4A Research Institute, Inc.
SIGdial Vice President