SIGDIAL 2019: Call for Special Sessions

SIGDIAL 2019
11‐13 September 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
Call for Special Sessions
http://workshops.sigdial.org/conference20

Special Session Submission Deadline: January 28, 2019
Special Session Notification: February 18, 2019 

The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) organizers welcome the submission of special session proposals.

A SIGDIAL special session is the length of a regular session at the conference, and may be organized as a poster session, a panel session, a poster session with panel discussion, or an oral presentation session.

Special sessions may, at the discretion of the SIGDIAL organizers, be held as parallel sessions.

The papers submitted to special sessions are handled by the special session organizers, but for the submitted papers to be in the SIGDIAL proceedings, they have to undergo the same review process as regular papers. The reviewers for the special session papers will be taken from the SIGDIAL program committee itself, taking into account the suggestions of the session organizers, and the program chairs will make acceptance decisions. In other words, special session organizers decide what appears in the session, while the program chairs decide what appears in the proceedings and the rest of the conference program.

We welcome special session proposals on any topic of interest to the discourse and dialogue communities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Explainable AI, Evaluation, Annotation, and End‐to‐end systems.

Submissions
Those wishing to organize a special session should prepare a two-page proposal containing: a summary of the topic of the special session; a list of organizers and sponsors; a list of people who may submit and participate in the session; and a requested format (poster/panel/oral session).
These proposals should be sent to conference@sigdial.org by the special session proposal deadline. Special session proposals will be reviewed jointly by the general chair and program co‐chairs.

Links
Those wishing to propose a special session may want to look at some of the sessions organized at recent SIGDIAL meetings.
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference19/sessions.htm
https://robodial.github.io/
http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/sigdial2016/

SIGDIAL 2019 Organizing Committee

General Chair:
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Program Chairs:
Milica Gašić, Cambridge University, UK
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

Local Chair:
Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden

Sponsorship Chair:
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

Mentoring Chair:
Alex Papangelis, Uber AI, USA

Publication Chair:
Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

Publicity Chair:
Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

SIGdial President:
Jason Williams, Apple, USA

SIGdial Vice President:
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

SIGdial Secretary:
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGdial Treasurer:
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President Emeritus:
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA