Call for papers, SIGDIAL 2023 Workshop Connecting Multiple Disciplines to AI Techniques in Interaction-centric Autism Research and Diagnosis (ICARD)

We welcome submissions on one or more of the following topics:

Multimodal information processing of interactions involving people with symptoms of autism

Datasets of autism behavior: child-child, child-parent, child-researcher and multi-party conversation

Application of Social science and AI techniques in autism understanding and diagnosis

Speech recognition for autism speech

Conversational tools for language development in autism

Dialogue modeling for autism diagnosis and intervention

AI-mediated tools for improving cognitive and social development in autism

Applications, demos, and resources for studying social interaction and dialogue in autism

Submissions

We welcome reports of original research in the form of two types:

Long papers (8 pages + references)

Short papers (4 pages + references)

We also welcome submission of non-archival one page abstracts describing work in progress.

We encourage all authors to include relevant discussions of ethical considerations and impact in the body of the paper.

Non-archival Option

Authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions.

Submission Format

All long, short, and abstract submissions must follow the two-column ACL format , which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word). Please refer to the SIGDIAL 2023 website for the most recent version of the templates.

Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format.

All submissions should be anonymized to facilitate double blind reviewing.

Submissions that do not adhere to the author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without review.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: June 15, 2023

Author notification: July 14, 2023

Camera-ready deadline: August 14, 2023

Workshop date: September 12, 2023

All deadlines are 11.59 pm AOE time.