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2023Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2023-06-28T13:31:31Z

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SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2022-2023

Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 581 members.

Our most recent regular election was held in early 2023, and elected Dilek Hakkani-Tur (President), Milica Gašić (Vice President), Alexandros Papangelis(Secretary) and Casey Kennington (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Stefan Ultes, Kotaro Funakoshi, and Deyi Xiong were elected. The President is in the process of appointing three other members for the board. Gabriel Skantze is our President Emeritus. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.

SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGDIAL 2022 was held in Edinburgh, September 7-9, also allowing remote participation. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2022 were: Oliver Lemon (General and Local Chair), Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Jessy Li (program co-chairs), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), Malihe Alikhani (Publication chair), and Ondřej Dušek (mentoring chair). The keynote speakers were Vivian Chen (National Taiwan University), Angeliki Lazaridou (DeepMind), and Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia). SIGDIAL 2022 included one Special Session: Natural Language in Human Robot Interaction (NLiHRI).

SIGDIAL 2022 received a total of 140 submissions. We accepted 64 papers: 37 long papers, 19 short papers, and 8 demo descriptions. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 45.7%, which is in line with the acceptance rate from last year. We thank the SIGDIAL 2022 sponsors, including LivePerson, Apple, Alana, Toshiba, and Furhat Robotics. The presentations are archived on Youtube.

Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial. YRRSDS is organized by early-stage researchers, and experiments with innovating meeting formats. YRRSDS 2022 was attended by approximately 30 early-stage researchers.

SIGDIAL 2023 will be co-organized with INLG 2023 and will take place in Prague, September 11-15. For the first time, the main conference (September 13-15) will be preceded by two days of workshops (September 11-12). The organizers of SIGDIAL 2023 are: David Schlangen (General Chait), Ondřej Dušek (Local Chair), Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Joty (program co-chairs), Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Sponsorship chair), Malihe Alikhani (Publication chair), and Casey Kennington (mentoring chair).

SIGDIAL 2024 is planned to be located at Kyoto University, September 17-20, with Tatsuya Kawahara as General chair.

SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community. In 2022-2023 we endorsed the journal Dialogue & Discourse.

2022Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2022-07-07T16:28:35Z

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SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2021-2022

Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 581 members.

Our most recent regular election was held in early 2021, and elected Gabriel Skantze (President), Milica Gašić (Vice President), Alexandros Papangelis(Secretary) and Ethan Selfridge (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Seokhwan Kim, Casey Kennington, and Kotaro Funakoshi were elected. The President is in the process of appointing three other members for the board. Jason Williams is our President Emeritus and Amanda Stent administers the SIGdial mailing list. We have recently appointed a new social media person, María Leonor Pacheco, and a webmaster, Bram Willemsen. A new website is under construction and will be released during 2021, with a new design and a new resource portal. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.

SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGDIAL 2021 was originally planned to be held in Singapore, co-located with ACL in Bangkok, July 29-31. However, due to the covid situation, it was a hybrid event. Due to the travel restrictions, only local people from Singapore were there in person, and the rest joined online (with a small registration fee). The organizers of SIGDIAL 2021 were: Haizhou Li (General and Local Chair), Gina-Anne Levow and Zhou Yu (program co-chairs), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), Jessy Li (Publication chair), and Nina Dethlefs (mentoring chair). The keynote speakers were Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas), Jason Weston (Facebook AI), and Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University). SIGDIAL 2021 included two Special Sessions: Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings ("SummDial"), and Safety for E2E Conversational AI ("SafeConvAI").

SIGDIAL 2021 received a total of 142 submissions. We accepted 59 papers: 40 long papers, 15 short papers, and 4 demo descriptions. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 41.5%, which is in line with the acceptance rate from last year. We thank the SIGDIAL 2021 sponsors, including LivePerson, Apple, DataBaker, Google, Rasa, Furhat Robotics, and Toshiba. The presentations are archived on Youtube.

Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial. YRRSDS is organized by early-stage researchers, and experiments with innovating meeting formats. YRRSDS 2021 was attended by approximately 30 early-stage researchers.

SIGDIAL 2022 will be a hybrid event, and will take place in Edinburgh, September 7-9. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2022 are: Oliver Lemon (General and Local Chair), Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Jessy Li (program co-chairs), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), Malihe Alikhani (Publication chair), and Ondřej Dušek (mentoring chair).

Planning for SIGDIAL 2023 and SIGDIAL 2024 is underway.

SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community. In 2021-2022 we endorsed the journal Dialogue & Discourse.

2021Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2021-07-05T12:31:24Z

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SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2020-2021

Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 581 members.

Our most recent regular election was held in early 2021, and elected Gabriel Skantze (President), Milica Gašić (Vice President), Alexandros Papangelis(Secretary) and Ethan Selfridge (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Seokhwan Kim, Casey Kennington, and Kotaro Funakoshi were elected. The President is in the process of appointing three other members for the board. Jason Williams is our President Emeritus and Amanda Stent administers the SIGdial mailing list. We have recently appointed a new social media person, María Leonor Pacheco, and a webmaster, Bram Willemsen. A new website is under construction and will be released during 2021, with a new design and a new resource portal. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.

SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGDIAL 2020 was supposed to be held in Boise, USA, co-located with ACL 2020 in Seattle. However, due to the covid situation, it had to be held online as a virtual conference, with no registsration fees. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2020 were: Olivier Pietquin (General Chair), Smaranda Muresan and Vivian Chen (program co-chairs), Casey Kennington (local/virtual chair), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), and Nina Dethlefs (mentoring chair). The keynote speakers were Asli Celikyilmaz (Microsoft Research), Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh), and Gabriel Skantze (KTH). SIGDIAL 2020 included one special session on Special Session on Situated Dialogue with Virtual Agents and Robots.

SIGDIAL 2020 received a total of 104 submissions. We accepted 41 papers: 23 long papers, 10 short papers, and 8 demo descriptions. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 39%. The acceptance rate for long papers (37%) and short papers (31%) remains in line with the acceptance rate from last year. For the first time, the reviWe thank the SIGDIAL 2020 sponsors, including Apple, Rasa, Tishiba, and Honda Research Institute. The presentations are archived on Youtube.

Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial. YRRSDS is organized by early-stage researchers, and experiments with innovating meeting formats. YRRSDS 2020 was attended by approximately 30 early-stage researchers.

SIGDIAL 2021 was originally planned to be held in Singapore, co-located with ACL in Bangkok, July 29-31. However, due to the covid situation, it will be a hybrid event. Due to the travel restrictions, only local people from Singapore are expected to be there in person, and the rest join online (with a small registration fee). The organizers of SIGDIAL 2020 are: Haizhou Li (General and Local Chair), Gina-Anne Levow and Zhou Yu (program co-chairs), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), Jessy Li (Publication chair), and Nina Dethlefs (mentoring chair).

Planning for SIGDIAL 2022 is underway.

SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community. In 2020-2021 we endorsed IWSDS 2020 and the journal Dialogue & Discourse.

SIG Compliance

2020-11-17T14:25:24Z

Gabriel.skantze:

== Guidelines ==

[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.vassar.edu/sigann
'''contacts''': president Nancy Ide (ide@cs.vassar.edu), secretary Adam Meyers (meyers@cs.nyu.edu)
'''members''': 250
'''elections (last,next)''': Sep. 2017, 2019
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;

=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com),
secretary Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com)
'''members''': 112
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, June-July 2019
'''events''': BioNLP workshops at ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Jian Su (sujian@i2r.a-star.edu.sg), secretary-treasurer Noah Smith (nasmith@cs.washington.edu)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2019, December 2020
'''events''': EMNLP every year

=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 594
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2019, 2021
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL co-located with ACL 2020; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===

'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 164
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2018, March 2021
'''events''': Annual Workshop on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA); 11th BEA at NAACL 2016; 12th BEA at EMNLP 2017; 13th BEA at NAACL 2018; 14th BEA at ACL 2019

=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===

'''web page''': tbc
'''contacts''': president Antti Arppe (arppe@ualberta.ca), secretary Mans Hulden (mans.hulden@colorado.edu)
'''members''': 42
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': ComputeEL Workshop on the use of computational methods in the study of endangered languages; ComputEL-1 at ACL 2014; ComputEL-2 at the 5th International Conference of Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC5) 2017; ComputEL-3 at ICDL6, 2019

=== SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 106
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2016, 2019
'''events''': FSMNLP 2017 (Umea, Sweden), FSMNLP 2019 (Dresden, Germany), FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': chair Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@abdn.ac.uk),
secretary Jose M. Alonso (josemaria.alonso.moral@usc.es)
'''members''': 419
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2018, December 2020
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019

=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2020
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Caroline Sporleder (caroline.sporleder@cs.uni-goettingen.de),
secretary Kalliopi Zervanou (kzervanou@yahoo.co.uk)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2015, pending
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019

=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Anna Korhonen (alk23@cam.ac.uk), secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 852
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2016, 2019 or 2020
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2019; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Philippe de Groote (philippe.degroote@inria.fr), vice president Frank Drewes (frank.drewes@umu.se),
'''members''': 282
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2016, 2020
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London. MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University

=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Jason Eisner (jason@cs.jhu.edu),
secretary Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca)
'''members''': 145
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2019, Feb 2021
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task

=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 152
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu) , secretary Suzanne Stevenson (suzanne@cs.toronto.edu)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2016, pending
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sigparse
'''contacts''': president Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie@inria.fr),
secretary Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no)
'''members''': 256
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2016, 2019
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed)

=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Isabelle Augenstein (augenstein@di.ku.dk),
secretary Karl Moritz Hermann (kmh@google.com)
'''members''': 28
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2018, October 2021
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019

=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Katrin Erk (katrin.erk@mail.utexas.edu),
secretary Raffaella Bernardi (raffaella.bernardi@unitn.it)
'''members''': 878
'''elections (last,next)''': July 2017, Summer 2020
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019

=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 110
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2017, 2020
'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages

=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Frank Rudzicz (frank@cs.toronto.edu), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (emilypx@rit.edu)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2018, Fall 2020
'''members''': 150
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019;

=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (first,next)''': Summer 2022
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2021;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on linguistic typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 68
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020;

=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 57
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2018, 2020
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': Roland Schäfer (roland.schaefer@fu-berlin.de)
secretary Egon W. Stemle (egon.stemle@eurac.edu)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': November 2018, 2021
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017

2020Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2020-07-14T09:35:35Z

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SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2019-2020

Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 581 members.

Our most recent regular election was held in early 2019, and elected Gabriel Skantze (President), Mikio Nakano (Vice President), Vikram Ramanarayanan (Secretary) and Ethan Selfridge (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junyi Jessy Li, and Casey Kennington were elected. The President also appointed Barbara Di Eugenio, Annie Louis and Raquel Fernandez for the board. Jason Williams is our President Emeritus and Amanda Stent administers the SIGdial website and mailing list. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.

SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGDIAL 2019 was held in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with Interspeech 2019. SIGDIAL 2019 included one special session on Physically Situated Dialogue. The organizers were: Satoshi Nakamura (general chair), Milica Gasic and Ingrid Zukerman (program co-chairs), Gabriel Skantze (local chair), Alex Papangelis (mentoring chair) and Mikio Nakano (sponsorship chair). The keynote speakers were Dan Bohus, Mirella Lapata, and Helen Meng. SIGDIAL 2019 received a total of 146 submissions, and accepted 51 papers: 33 long papers, 13 short papers, and 5 demo papers. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 35%. The rates separately for types of papers are 35% for long papers, 30% for short papers, and 50% for demo papers. 19 long papers were presented as talks; the remaining long papers and all short papers were presented as posters. We thank the SIGDIAL 2019 sponsors, including Honda Research Institute, Microsoft, Interactions, Amazon Alexa, Apple, Rasa Technologies, ETS, Toshiba Research Europe, and Monash University. As is now SIGDIAL tradition, we video-record oral presentations with permission of the presenters and archived these online (https://www.superlectures.com/sigdial2018/).

Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial. YRRSDS is organized by early-stage researchers, and experiments with innovating meeting formats. YRRSDS 2019 was attended by approximately 30 early-stage researchers.

SIGDIAL 2020 was originally planned to be held in Boise, USA, 1-3 July, in “near co-location” with ACL in Seattle. Due to the Corona situation, the conference will instead be virtual, with no registration fees. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2020 are: Olivier Pietquin (General Chair), Smaranda Muresan and Vivian Chen (program co-chairs), Casey Kennington (local/virtual chair), David Vandyke (Sponsorship chair), and Nina Dethlefs (mentoring chair). Planning for SIGDIAL 2021 is underway now, with the location set to Singapore, close in time to ACL 2021 in Bangkok.

SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community. In 2019-2020 we endorsed IWSDS 2019 and the journal Dialogue & Discourse.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGDIAL

2019-07-22T10:12:28Z

Gabriel.skantze: Created page with "SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2018-2019 Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information ab..."

SIGdial annual report to ACL for 2018-2019

Gabriel Skantze, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog. More information about SIGdial can be found on our website: http://www.sigdial.org. Users can also become members from the website; members are added to a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly conference and job announcements). SIGdial is fully compliant with ACL and ISCA guidelines for SIGs, and currently has 581 members.

Our most recent regular election was held in early 2019, and elected Gabriel Skantze (President), Mikio Nakano (Vice President), Vikram Ramanarayanan (Secretary) and Ethan Selfridge (Treasurer). For the Scientific Advisory Board, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Junyi Jessy Li, and Casey Kennington were elected. The President also appointed Barbara Di Eugenio, Annie Louis and Raquel Fernandez for the board. Jason Williams is our President Emeritus and Amanda Stent administers the SIGdial website and mailing list. We also have liaisons to a variety of other groups, including IUI, ISCA, AVIOS, SIGGEN, IEEE, etc.

SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialog since 2000; the workshop became a conference in 2009. SIGDIAL 2018 was held in Melbourne, Australia, co-located with ACL 2018. SIGDIAL 2018 included one special session on Physically Situated Dialogue. The organizers were: Kazunori Komatani (general chair), Diane Litman and Kai Yu (program co-chairs), Lawrence Cavedon (local chair), Alex Papangelis (mentoring chair) and Mikio Nakano (sponsorship chair). The keynote speakers were Mari Ostendorf, Ingrid Zukerman, and Milica Gasic. SIGDIAL 2018 received a total of 111 submissions, and accepted 52 papers: 36 long papers, 12 short papers, and 4 demo papers. These numbers give an overall acceptance rate of 47%. The rates separately for types of papers are 54% for long papers, 31% for short papers, and 80% for demo papers. 19 long papers were presented as talks; the remaining long papers and all short papers were presented as posters. We thank the SIGDIAL 2017 sponsors, including Honda Research Institute, Microsoft, Interactions, Nextremer, Amazon, Adobe Researc, Apple, Tricorn (Beijing) Technology, ETS, PolyAI, Toshiba Research Europe, Monash University, Uber, and RMIT University. As is now SIGDIAL tradition, we video-record oral presentations with permission of the presenters and archived these online (https://www.superlectures.com/sigdial2018/).

Since 2005, the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) has been co-located with SIGDIAL, and starting in 2016 YRRSDS officially became the second annual event of SIGdial. YRRSDS is organized by early-stage researchers, and experiments with innovating meeting formats. YRRSDS 2018 was attended by approximately 30 early-stage researchers.

SIGDIAL 2019 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, 11-13 September, in “near co-location” with Interspeech. The organizers of SIGDIAL 2019 are: Satoshi Nakamura (General Chair), Ingrid Zukerman and Milica Gašić (program co-chairs), Gabriel Skantze (local chair), Mikio Nakano (Sponsorship chair), and Alexander Papangelis (mentoring chair). Planning for SIGDIAL 2020 is underway now, with the location set to Boise, USA.

SIGdial also endorses other dialog-related workshops and events that are open to the general community. In 2018-2019 we endorsed IWSDS 2018 and the journal Dialogue & Discourse.