SIGDIAL 2014 - 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialog

We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation or analytical work on discourse and dialog including but not restricted to the following themes and topics:
1. Discourse Processing and Dialog Systems
Discourse, semantic and pragmatic issues in NLP applications such as text summarization, question answering, or information retrieval, including topics such as:
Discourse structure, temporal structure, information structure
Discourse markers, cues and particles and their use
(Co-)Reference and anaphora resolution, metonymy and bridging resolution
Subjectivity, sentiment, opinions and semantic orientation
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialog systems including topics such as:
Dialog management models
Coordination of speech, gesture, and eye gaze
Text and graphics integration
Strategies for preventing, detecting or handling miscommunication
Utilizing prosodic information for understanding and for disambiguation
Embodied conversational agents
Generation for dialog
2. Corpora, Tools and Methodology
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialog including its support, in particular:
Annotation tools and coding schemes
Data resources for discourse and dialog 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 dialog (i.e. beyond a single sentence) including the following issues:
The semantics/pragmatics of dialog acts
Models of discourse/dialog structure
Prosody in discourse and dialog
Models of presupposition, accommodation, or conversational implicature
Grounded semantics in situated dialog
4. Dimensions of Interaction
Methods to address how interaction is shaped by specific properties of users, goals, modalities
Turn taking and overlap within or across modalities
User modeling
Models of adaptation, such as entrainment
Comparison of interactions of distinct types (e.g., task-based versus tutorial)
Multiparty interaction
5. Applications
The applications of dialog and discourse processing technology in areas such as:
Training and education/tutoring systems
Mobile applications, including automotive applications
Entertainment and gaming applications
Personal assistants
Online chat and blogs
Meetings
Social media and social networks
Human robot interaction and situated interaction