IWSDS 2015
Call For Papers (Extended paper submission due is September 28th)
The Sixth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System (IWSDS 2015) will be held in Busan, South Korea, on Jan 11-13, 2015. The IWSDS workshop series provides an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists, with a special interest to the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday applications. IWSDS 2015 designates “Dialog System and Intelligent Assistant” as a theme of discussion.
Topics
Submission of papers in all areas of spoken dialog system is encouraged, with emphasis on the following traditional topics, but not limited to:
· Speech recognition and synthesis
· Speaker/language recognition
· Spoken language understanding
· Dialog management
· User modeling / simulation
· Evaluation of dialog system
· Multi-modality / emotion recognition from speech
· Question answering from speech
· Speech data mining
· Language resource and databases
· Machine learning for spoken dialog systems
· Educational and healthcare applications
We would also like to encourage the discussion of the following special topics:
· Personal assistant with dialog systems
· Proactive and anticipatory computing
· Dialog systems connected to knowledge base
· Big data for large scale spoken dialog system
Important Dates
Paper Submission: September 21, 2014 Extended to September 28
Notification of Acceptance: October 27, 2014
Demo Submission/Acceptance: TBD
Submission Procedure
Authors are invited to submit full-length, 8-12 page papers (long) or 4-6 page papers (short), including references, to the IWSDS 2015 web site (http://www.iwsds.org/). As usual, proceedings are to be published by Springer post conference book.