[iva] 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations

[Gale Lucas]

****** First Call for Papers ******


SICon
 2024: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations

Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2024/home

Twitter/X:
 @SIConWorkshop

Paper
 Submission via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon

Contact:
sicon-chairs
 [at] googlegroups.com

Venue:
 Co-located with EMNLP 2024; November 15 or 16, 2024; Miami, Florida


***
 Workshop description ***

Social influence
 (SI) is the change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors from interacting with another individual or a group. For example, a buyer uses SI skills to negotiate trade-offs and build rapport with the seller. SI is ubiquitous in everyday
 life, and hence, realistic human-machine conversations must reflect these dynamics, making it essential to model and understand SI in dialogue research systematically. This would improve SI systems' ability to understand users’ utterances, tailor communication
 strategies, personalize responses, and actively lead conversations. These challenges draw on perspectives not only from NLP and AI research but also from Game Theory, Affective Computing, Communication, and Social Psychology.

SICon 2024
 will be the second edition of a venue that uniquely fosters a dedicated discussion on social influence within NLP while involving researchers from other disciplines such as affective computing and the social sciences. SICon 2024 features keynote talks, panel
 discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks for accepted papers. We encourage researchers of all stages and backgrounds to share their exciting work!

SICon
 will promote discussion around several key questions:


*
 How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically?

*
 How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g.,successful persuasion or negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences?

*
 What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks?

*
 What are the ethical issues involved with AI that engage in social influence and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild?


***
 Submission Guidelines ***


SICon
 welcomes two types of papers: regular workshop submissions and shared task submissions (more information about the shared task will be announced at a later date).


Regular
 workshop submissions are archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) covering ongoing work on social influence NLP. Topics include but are not limited to:



Analysis-focused
 contributions (e.g., associations between linguistic behaviors or user attributes with SI task outcomes);




System design
 contributions (e.g., dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, emotional support, etc.; SI systems effectively harnessing the capabilities of LLMs);




Contributions
 advancing relevant subgoals in SI tasks (e.g. detecting SI strategies in text, partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions);




SI systems
 benefited from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion, negotiation tactics) developed in social science;




Ethical issues
 and guardrails involved with AI that engage in SI;




Unintentional
 aspects of SI for any human-facing NLP system;




Datasets capturing
 forms of SI;




Opinion or
 position papers on SI.


Submissions
 should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines and be submitted through OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon


***
 Important Dates ***

Direct
 paper submission deadline: August 15, 2024

Notification
 of acceptance: October 1, 2024

Camera-ready
 paper due: October 8, 2024

Workshop:
 November 15 or 16, 2024
(All
 submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ‘anywhere on Earth’)


***
 Contact ***


For
 any questions, please contact the organizers at: sicon-chairs
 [at] googlegroups.com


Consider
 joining our slack community! A dedicated space to connect researchers working on various topics related to social influence in NLP and beyond, as well as a useful communication channel for live announcements during the workshop.

https://join.slack.com/t/acl2023sicon/shared_invite/zt-1y7cv1c2v-Lm21Sm6KX3jljtnKlrft_g



***
 Organizers ***


Muskan
 Garg (Mayo Clinic)

Kushal
 Chawla (Capital One)

Weiyan
 Shi (Stanford NLP)

Ritam
 Dutt (Carnegie Mellon University)

Deuksin
 Kwon (University of Southern California)

James
 Hale (University of Southern California)

Liang
 Qiu (Amazon)

Aina
 Garí Soler (Télécom-Paris)

Alexandros
 Papangelis (Amazon Alexa AI)

Gale
 Lucas (University of Southern California)

Zhou
 Yu (Columbia University)

Daniel
 Hershcovich (University of Copenhagen)
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