*** Call for Participation ***
SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 Conferences
September 11-15, 2023 Prague, Czechia & online https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/
Early Registration Deadline: **August 10** Late Registration Deadline: September 15 Non-presenters Free Registration: August 12 - September 15
Workshops: September 11-12 Main Conferences: September 13-15
The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial 2023) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2023) will be held jointly this year in Prague, Czechia. The event will be hybrid, but in-person participation is strongly encouraged! Virtual attendance will be free for non-presenters.
The organizers of SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 invite all researchers and practitioners, SIGDial & SIGGEN members, and SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 industry partners and sponsors to join the conference. The registration is now open, with early rates available until August 10 (see https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/registration.html). A limited number of hotel rooms at the conference venue is available for booking at special rates until August 10.
**SIGDIAL** provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing a series of 23 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 on discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.
**INLG** is a yearly venue for presentations related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. The event is organized under the auspices of SIGGEN, the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation of ACL.
The joint conference on Sep 13-15 will feature 4 keynote speeches by Barbara Di Eugenio, Emmanuel Dupoux, Elena Simperl and Ryan Lowe, as well as a number of regular paper presentations and system demonstrations. - Keynotes: https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/speakers.html - SIGDIAL accepted papers: https://2023.sigdial.org/accepted-papers/ - INLG accepted papers: https://inlg2023.github.io/accepted_papers.html
The event includes several workshops on Sep 11-12 (see https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/workshops.html): - YRRSDS: 19th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems - The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse - DSTC11: The 11th Dialog System Technology Challenge - PracticalD2T: 1st Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation - Taming Large Language Models: Controllability in the era of Interactive Assistants - Workshop on Multimodal, Multilingual Natural Language Generation and Multilingual WebNLG Challenge - Connecting multiple disciplines to AI techniques in interaction-centric autism research and diagnosis - Designing divergent agent tasks for SDS data collection
We thank you for your support and look forward to welcoming you at the conference!
Best regards, SIGDIAL & INLG 2023 Organizers
(Apologies for cross-posting)