SIGDIAL 2007 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue Antwerp, September 2-3, 2007 (Immediately following Interspeech 2007) http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop8 ** Submission Deadline: May 2, 2007 ** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Continuing with a series of successful workshops in Sydney, Lisbon, Boston, Sapporo, Philadelphia, Aalborg, and Hong Kong, this workshop spans the ACL and ISCA SIGdial interest area of discourse and dialogue. This series provides a regular forum for the presentation of research in this area to both the larger SIGdial community as well as researchers outside this community. The workshop is organized by SIGdial, which is sponsored jointly by ACL and ISCA. SIGdial 2007 will be co-located with Interspeech 2007 as a satellite workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including but not restricted to the following three themes: 1. Discourse Processing and Dialogue Systems Discourse semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as text summarization, question answering, information retrieval including topics like: * Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure * Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use * (Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution * Subjectivity, opinions and semantic orientation Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems including topics such as: * Dialogue management models; * Speech and gesture, text and graphics integration; * Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication (repair and correction types, clarification and under-specificity, grounding and feedback strategies); * Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation; 2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue including its support, in particular: * Annotation tools and coding schemes; * Data resources for discourse and dialogue studies; * Corpus-based techniques and analysis (including machine learning); * Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology, metrics and case studies; 3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modeling The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence) including the following issues: * The semantics/pragmatics of dialogue acts (including those which are less studied in the semantics/pragmatics framework); * Models of discourse/dialogue structure and their relation to referential and relational structure; * Prosody in discourse and dialogue; * Models of presupposition and accommodation; operational models of conversational implicature. SUBMISSIONS ----------- The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers for full plenary presentation as well as short papers and demonstrations. Short papers and demo descriptions will be featured in short plenary presentations, followed by posters and demonstrations. * Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, examples, references, etc. In addition to this, two additional pages are allowed as an appendix which may include extended example discourses or dialogues, algorithms, graphical representations, etc. * Short papers and demo descriptions should aim to be 4 pages or less (including title, examples, references, etc.). Please use the official ACL style files: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/ Submission/Reviewing will be managed by the START system. Link to follow. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information (see submission format). SIGdial 2007 cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the co-Chairs. Authors are encouraged to make illustrative materials available, on the web or otherwise. For example, excerpts of recorded conversations, recordings of human-computer dialogues, interfaces to working systems, etc. IMPORTANT DATES (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) ----------------------------------- Submission May 2, 2007 Notification June 13, 2007 Final submissions July 6, 2007 Workshop September 2-3, 2007 WEBSITES -------- Workshop website: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop8 Submission link: To be announced SIGdial organization website: http://www.sigdial.org Interspeech 2007 website: http://www.interspeech2007.org CONTACT ------- For any questions, please contact the co-Chairs at: timpaek[at]microsoft[dot]com or harry[dot]bunt[at]uvt[dot]nl PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CONFIRMED) ----------------------------- Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands (co-chair) Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA (co-chair) Simon Keizer, Tilburg University, Netherlands (local chair) Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm, Germany David Traum, USC/ICT, USA Alex Rudnicky, CMU, USA Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva, Switzerland Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK Dan Bohus, CMU, USA Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg University, Netherlands Gokhan Tur, SRI, USA Ingrid Zuckerman, Monash University, Australia Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany Jason Williams, AT&T Labs, USA Jens Allwood, University of G-böteborg, Sweden-A Julia Hirchberg, Columbia University, USA Justine Cassell, Northwestern University, USA Kallirroi Georgila, University of Edinburgh, UK Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Mark Core, USC/ICT, USA Masato Ishizaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK Michael Johnston, AT&T Labs, USA Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK Oliver Lemon, University of Edinburgh, UK Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France Paul Piwek, Open University, UK Robbert-Jan Beun, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Roberto Pieraccini, Speech Cycle, USA Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs, USA Stephanie Seneff, MIT, USA Steve Young, Cambridge University, UK Candy Sidner, Bae Systems, USA Laila Dybkj-bĉr, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark-A Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands Marilyn Walker, Sheffield University, UK Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, USA