Welcome to SIGDIAL 2014!

The 15th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2014) will be co-located this year with the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2014) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. SIGDIAL will be held June 18-20 and INLG will be held June 19-21. On June 19 there will be a joint special session between SIGDIAL and INLG. Both conferences immediately precede ACL 2014, which will be held June 22-27 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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 fourteen 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.

SIGDIAL VIDEO RECORDINGS: The video recordings of oral presentations at SIGDIAL 2014 are now available at: http://www.superlectures.com/sigdial2014/.

BEST PAPER AWARDS:
Best Paper Award Winners
Web-style Ranking and SLU Combination for Dialog State Tracking
Jason D. Williams
Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories
Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran and Marilyn A. Walker

Best Paper Award Nominees
Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks
Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young
Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour
Teruhisa Misu, Antoine Raux, Rakesh Gupta and Ian Lane

THE SIGDIAL PROCEEDINGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE! The joint INLG-SIGDIAL session papers are accessible through the SCHEDULE in the SIGDIAL proceedings. THE SIGDIAL PROCEEDINGS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE VIA THE ACL ANTHOLOGY!

ON-SITE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE!

FOR THOSE WHO NEED AN INVITATION LETTER FOR A VISA:
If you need an invitation letter for visa purposes, please send an email to conference[at]sigdial.org. Given that visa application processing times can be long we strongly recommend that you do this as soon as possible. Please include in the email your name and affiliation, title(s) and author(s) of your accepted paper(s), and any other information that may be relevant.

CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS:
We are looking for 2 student volunteers to assist with logistical aspects of the conference. The student volunteers will obtain free registration, and selection will be based on a first come first served basis. To volunteer please send an email to conference[at]sigdial.org.

CO-LOCATED EVENTS:

  • YRRSDS 2014: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, June 16-17, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • INLG 2014: the 8th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, June 19-21, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
  • The REAL Challenge Workshop: The REAL Challenge Workshop, June 21, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  • ACL 2014: the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, June 22-27, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.


Contact e-mail: conference[at]sigdial.org



Last update: June 20, 2014 - Credits