SIGdial 2001 Kluwer Book
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SIGdial 2001 Kluwer Book |
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to be Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in Spring 2002 |
PLEASE NOTE: Extension of submission deadline
Because of several requests, the regular submission deadline of 31 December
2001 will be extended to 15 January 2002.
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G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N
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Purpose of the Book
The purpose of the book is the publication of high quality articles
representing current and new directions in discourse and dialogue, focusing
on the three topic areas of the SIGdial 2001 Workshop: (i) Dialogue Systems,
(ii) Corpora and Corpus Tools, and (iii) Semantic and Pragmatic Modeling
of Discourse and Dialogue (details on the themes can be found at the
workshop
webpage). We certainly want to avoid that the book will become simply
another proceedings: besides that the greater part of the book will consist
of longer and updated versions of best papers from the proceedings, the
book will contain several other articles, including from our invited speaker
candidates.
Intended Contents of Invited Articles
We would like authors of papers that were originally published in the proceedings to elaborate and revise their contribution further based on the reviewers' comments, workshop feedback and more current results.
In order the book to be coherent, authors of new submissions are asked
to concentrate their contribution on one or more of the workshop topic
areas.
Publication of the Book
The intention is to have the book in print "quickly". We are aiming
for mid to late Spring 2002. Articles must be sent in by the end of the
calendar year. Because of the large number of high quality articles,
Kluwer
Academic Publishers (Jacqueline Bergsma, Publishing Editor Humanities
Unit) has offered us to come out with two volumes of 250-300 pages each,
which could be made and purchased as a set.
Submission of Articles
Contributions to the book should be between 15-25 pages, including examples, algorithms, graphical representations, references and appendices.
The articles should be sent electronically to the following e-mail address: sigdial2001-kluwerbook@ims.uni-stuttgart.de.
The style format to use for papers is provided by Kluwer. The Kluwer style file can be downloaded here. Kluwer edited volume templates for LaTeX and Word can be downloaded from the Kluwer website at http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/BOOKSTYLES/
Papers must be submitted in pdf or postscript format and must be sent to the e-mail address: sigdial2001-kluwerbook@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
The strict deadline for all submissions is 31 December 2001.
Review Procedure
While extended and revised book submissions will be reviewed by one of the original reviewers of the paper as well as by one new reviewer, new invited submissions will be sent to two new reviewers. In both cases, we assume that the invited articles won't be rejected but rather that the reviewers' comments will lead to an amendment of the contribution.
We intend the reviewers group to consist of all those who were involved in the review process for the workshop:
A. SIGdial organization reviewers
| Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM TJ Watson Research Center) |
| Morena Danieli (Loquendo) |
| Laila Dybkjaer (Univ. of Odense) |
| Diana Litman (AT&T Labs Research) |
| Akira Shimazu (JAIST) |
| Michael Strube (European Media Laboratory) |
| David Traum (Univ. of Southern California) |
B. External reviewers
| James Allen (Univ. of Rochester) | Masahito Kawamori (NTT) |
| Alan Biermann (Duke University) | Communication Science Labs) |
| Steven Bird (Univ. of Pennsylvania) | Christine Nakatani (Nuance Comm.) |
| Sandra Carberry (Univ. of Delaware) | Massimo Poesio (Univ. of Edinburgh) |
| Rolf Carlson (KTH, Stockholm) | Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Inst.) | David Sadek (France Telecom R&D) |
| John Dowding (RIACS) | Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA) |
| James Glass (MIT) | Mark Steedman (Univ. of Edinburgh) |
| Carlos Gussenhoven (Nijmegen Univ.) | Martin Stokhof (Univ. of Amsterdam) |
| Peter Heeman (Oregon Graduate Inst.) | Oliviero Stock (IRST) |
| Julia Hirschberg (AT&T Labs Research) | Nigel Ward (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| Lynette Hirschman (MITRE) | Annie Zaenen (Xerox Research Centre Europe) |
| Hans Kamp (Univ. of Stuttgart) |
Statement of Intention to Submit
In order to get a better impression of the full range of submissions,
authors are asked to e-mail a short statement of their intention to submit
a book chapter to the book editors as soon as possible, but not later than
15 October 2001.
Important Dates
| Statement of intention to submit: | before 15 October 2001 |
| Submission deadline (extended): | 15 January 2002 |
| Notification of acceptance: | 28 February 2002 |
| Final submissions due: | 31 March 2002 |
| Publication date: | Late Spring or early Summer 2002 |
Editors
The co-chairs of the SIGdial 2001 Workshop, Ronnie Smith (East Carolina
University) and Jan van Kuppevelt (Stuttgart University) will be the editors
of the book.
Contact Information
Questions about submission can be sent to the editors at the SIGdial
book e-mail address (sigdial2001-kluwerbook@ims.uni-stuttgart.de).