SIGDIAL 2017 CONFERENCE

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Saarland University
Tuesday, 15 August 2017 to Thursday, 17 August 2017
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SIGDIAL 2017 CONFERENCE
Tuesday, August 15 to Thursday, August 17, 2017
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

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We are pleased to welcome you to the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017) will be held at Saarland University, Saarbrücken,
Germany on August 15-17, 2017.

SIGDIAL 2017 will be co-located with SemDial 2017, the 21st Workshop on the Semantics
and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SIGDIAL and SemDial will run concurrently on August 15-17
and will share a joint special session.  SIGDIAL will occur immediately after the Young
Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS 2017) on August 13-14 in
Saarbrücken, and will precede Interspeech 2017 on August 20-24 in Stockholm, Sweden.

The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research
in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a
series of seventeen 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 in discourse and dialogue for both
ACL and ISCA.

Early registration is on till Friday, 14 July 2017. We hope you will join us in Saarbrücken!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We are happy to announce our invited speakers for SIGDIAL/SemDial 2017:

    Elisabeth André, Augsburg University, Germany
    "Empowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research"

    Andrew Kehler, UC San Diego, USA
    "Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation"

    Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
    "Challenges for Data-driven Dialogue Systems: Finding the Goldilocks Zone for
     Conversational Data"

PROGRAM

Our accepted papers and program can be viewed on the SIGDIAL/SemDial websites.
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

In addition to regular papers and poster sessions, the program will also feature three
special sessions on chosen topics:

    SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog
    https://sites.google.com/view/negotiation2017

    SIGDIAL/SEMDIAL 2017 Joint Special Session on Chatbots and Conversational Agents (WOCHAT)
    http://workshop.colips.org/wochat/@sigdial2017/

    Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems
    https://sites.google.com/view/nlg4ds2017

WEBSITES

  SIGDIAL 2017: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference18/

  Co-located and related events:
    - YRRSDS 2017: https://sites.google.com/site/2017yrrsds/
    - SemDial 2017 (SaarDial): http://www.saardial.uni-saarland.de
    - Interspeech 2017: http://www.interspeech2017.org/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

For any questions, please contact the appropriate members of the organizing committee.

General Chairs
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany

Program Chairs
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK

Local Chairs
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, University of Saarland and DFKI
Volha Petukhova, University of Saarland

Mentoring Chair
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Sponsorships Chair
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA

SIGdial President
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

SIGdial Vice President
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia