[iva] SIGDIAL 2023 Second Call for Papers (submission deadline May 15)

[Svetlana Stoyanchev]

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGDIAL) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation
Conference (INLG) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting
edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry
researchers, continuing a series of 23 successful previous meetings. The
conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest
Group in Discourse and Dialogue for ACL and ISCA.

Topics of Interest

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or
analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to,
the following themes:

  *   Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse
parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event
representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and
style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in
applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay
grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in
text generated by large language models.

  *   Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal,
embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components,
evaluation and applications, Knowledge representation and extraction for
dialogue, State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and
emotional intelligence, Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot
interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue,
Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue.

  *   Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on
discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation
tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora.

  *   Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of
conversations(i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act,
conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions.

  *   Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology.

Submissions

The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers,
and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or
for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters.


  *   Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed
and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and
analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages,
including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is
allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices
containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is
allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.

  *   Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work.
Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short
papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a
small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting
application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including
title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed
for references. One additional page is allowed for sample
discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the
final version to address reviewers’ comments.

  *   Demo descriptions should be no longer than 4 pages including title,
text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page
document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions,
specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo.

Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials,
such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files.

Multiple Submissions

SIGDIAL 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will
be (or has been) published elsewhere and that has been or will be submitted
to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of
SIGDIAL. Overlap with the SIGDIAL workshop submissions is permitted for
non-archived workshop proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can
be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org.

Blind Review

Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper
submissions, SIGDIAL  2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the
integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>).
Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo
descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and
self-references are allowed.

Submission Format

All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column
ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr> and also downloadable directly
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> (Latex and Word)

Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are
contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.

Submission Deadline

SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START
<https://softconf.com/n/sigdial2023/> system, as well as the commitment of
already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.

Regular submission

Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START
<https://softconf.com/n/sigdial2023/> system and upload an initial pdf of
their papers before May 15, 2023 (23:59 GMT-11).

Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/>

Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>
for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment
deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and
meta-review to SIGDIAL 2023 is June 19, 2023. Note that the paper needs to
be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest
date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2023.

Mentoring

Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational
assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a
recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor
who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the
authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication.

Best Paper Awards

In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse
science and technology, SIGDIAL 2023 will include best paper awards. All
papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A
selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of
interest will select the recipients of the awards.



SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee

Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Rayhan Joty
Conference Website: https://2023.sigdial.org/
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