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The 17th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held virtually (collocated with SIGdial) on July 27th and 28th, 2021.
YRRSDS (http://www.yrrsds.org/) is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research and helps to create an international network of young researchers working in the field.
We invite researchers at an early stage of their career (no age limit) to submit a 2-page position paper.
This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio, and topic suggestions for discussions. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and not necessarily be from a published paper.
Submission topics include, but are not limited to:
• Open domain, task-oriented dialogue, and chat systems
• Models of dialogue: statistical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches
• Dialogue state tracking and policy learning for dialogue management
• Spoken language understanding and natural language generation for dialogue
• Evaluation methodology for dialogue systems
• Semantics, pragmatics, and context in dialogue systems
• Incremental spoken dialogue systems
• Situated interaction with virtual and robotic agents
• Psycholinguistic influences on dialogue system design
• Establishing social relationships and engagement with the user
• Data collection and dataset sharing for statistical models
• Industry development cycles, requirements, and applications
Important Dates
Submission open April 1st 2021
Submission deadline June 7th 2021
Acceptance notification July 15 2021
Registration open June 1st 2021
YRRSDS 2020 July 27th-28th 2021
Looking forward to meeting you there!
Best wishes,
Angus Addlesee, on behalf of YRRSDS 2021 Organizing Committee
Angus Addlesee Heriot-Watt University
Selina Meyer University of Regensburg
Vojtěch Hudeč Charles University
Jelte van Waterschoot University of Twente
Behnam Hedayatnia Amazon
Chitralekha Gupta National University of Singapore
Contact email: a.addlesee [at] hw.ac.uk