CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
We invite you to join us at SIGDIAL 2013. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialog to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of thirteen successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group on discourse and dialog for both ACL and ISCA.
Topics of Interest
The conference includes formal, corpus-based, implementation and analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics:
- Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems
- Corpora, Tools and Methodology
- Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling
- Dimensions of Interaction
- Applications of Dialog and Discourse Processing Technology
For a detailed list, and this year's program, please see the SIGDIAL 2013 website, http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference14/.
Special Theme: Discourse and Dialogue in Social Media
Processing language in social media has attracted a noticeable amount of interest in recent years. Language in this new kind of media offers many opportunities and challenges, from the point of view of discourse and dialogue. To start with, an astounding amount of conversational data is created each day on Twitter and Facebook, but also on many blogs. Additionally, social media provides a window into a variety of human behaviors that rarely appear in the controlled data sets our community is accustomed to work with. We invite submissions on all aspects of discourse and dialogue processing of language as used in a variety of social media platforms, from Twitter and Facebook, to any type of blogs, micro-blogs, collaborative wikis, and multimedia sharing sites. Contributions highlight new insights into discourse and dialogue phenomena in this new genre, or describe new discourse and dialogue processing models emerging from it.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dr Jerome R. Bellegarda, Apple Inc, USA
Prof Bonnie L. Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
CONFERENCE DATES
Conference: Thursday-Saturday, 22-24 August 2013 (Thu morning - Saturday mid-day)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Jason D. Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
Mentoring Chair
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Local Chair
Olivier Pietquin, Supelec, France
Sponsorship Chair
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hua Ai Jan Alexandersson Ron Artstein Srinivas Bangalore Timo Baumann Luciana Benotti Nate Blaylock Dan Bohus Johan Boye Kristy Boyer Harry Bunt Sandra Carberry Giuseppe Carenini Christophe Cerisara Joyce Chai Jennifer Chu-Carroll Mark Core Paul Crook Heriberto Cuayahuitl David DeVault Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio Myroslava Dzikovska Raquel Fernandez Rovira Katherine Forbes-Riley Claire Gardent Kallirroi Georgila Gary Geunbae Lee Jonathan Ginzburg Agustin Gravano Nancy Green Alexander Gruenstein Curry Guinn Joakim Gustafson Peter Heeman Michael Johnston Kristiina Jokinen Arne Jonsson Pamela Jordan Tatsuya Kawahara Simon Keizer Alistair Knott Kazunori Komatani Stefan Kopp Ian Lane Alex Lascarides Sungjin Lee Oliver Lemon Anton Leuski Diane Litman Ramon Lopez-Cozar Wolfgang Minker Teruhisa Misu Sebastian Moller Mikio Nakano Ani Nenkova Vincent Ng Tim Paek Olivier Pietquin Andrei Popescu-Belis Matthew Purver Antoine Raux Norbert Reithinger Hannes Rieser Carolyn Rose David Schlangen Elizabeth Shriberg Candace Sidner Gabriel Skantze Amanda Stent Matthew Stone Svetlana Stoyanchev Kristina Striegnitz Tokunaga Takenobu Thora Tenbrink Joel Tetreault Blaise Thomson Gokhan Tur Renata Vieira Marilyn Walker Nigel Ward Kai Yu Ingrid Zukerman