Call for Papers – IWSDS (International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology) 2023

February 21-24, 2023, Los Angeles, USA

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The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2023 invites paper submissions. IWSDS 2023 will be held February 21-24, 2023 in Los Angeles, USA at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies. IWSDS 2023 will be a primarily in person event with a hybrid component for those who cannot travel to Los Angeles and wish to attend virtually. This year’s conference theme is “Diversity in Dialogue Systems” (DiDS). We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:

-Diversity in languages spoken -Diversity in domain/task being performed (e.g., range of tasks, dialogue systems that engage in multiple tasks) -Diversity in user population -Diversity in training data (e.g., ethics/bias considerations) -Diversity in methods/architectures used for dialogue system development (e.g., end-to-end vs. module-based) -Diversity in dialogue system evaluation methodologies

-User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems

-Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction

-Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems

-Multimodal and situated dialogue systems

-Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems

-Educational and healthcare applications

-Big data and large scale dialogue systems

-Digital resources for interactive dialogue management

-Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems

-Dialogue systems for low-resource languages

-Multilingual dialogue systems

-Dialogue system evaluation

-Machine learning for dialogue systems

-Interaction styles in dialogue systems

However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.

Special Sessions:

In addition, IWSDS will host two special sessions. Authors can submit papers to either of these using the same procedure as the regular papers but selecting the specific session during the submission process.

Multi-party Conversational AI: The program of IWSDS 2023 will include a special session on multi-party conversational AI, where more than two agents are involved in a conversational interaction. The objectives of this session are to review work done in the past in the field of multi-party conversational AI, to showcase recent and ongoing work, and to identify paths forward. Topics of interest are (but are not limited to): designing social state representations and models for multi-party interactions, addressee identification, speaker diarization, common ground detection, transformers for multi-party dialogue, datasets and simulators for multi-party dialogue, reinforcement learning for managing multi-party dialogue, handling split utterances (user utterances split between dialogue turns and utterances of other speakers), anaphora and ellipsis resolution in multi-party dialogue, multimodal input and output in multi-party dialogue systems, monitoring conversation status (sentiment analysis, detection of (dis)agreements and misunderstandings, etc.), methods and metrics for evaluating multi-party dialogue systems.

Dialogue Systems for Multilingual and Under-resourced Language Speakers: Current dialogue systems target mostly monolingual and high resource languages and their speakers. However, millions of speakers around the world (e.g., India, Africa, Europe as well as indigenous and immigrant communities in the US) are multilingual and it is normal for these speakers and communities to switch within or across languages in daily lives (Doğruöz et al., 2021https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8712328__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!ukr0B0DoBLu-O7LOQqwbGpam7QZrZkfrUydQNPunD2V1jutfjl0rh6VdYt5IhHjDZWXQK0PLdUro7jjMREDwTrFsmQ$; Sitaram et al., 2019https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00784__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!ukr0B0DoBLu-O7LOQqwbGpam7QZrZkfrUydQNPunD2V1jutfjl0rh6VdYt5IhHjDZWXQK0PLdUro7jjMRECeRB_czw$). In addition, most languages of the world are still under-resourced. Therefore, there is a need for dialogue systems to be more inclusive and target both the multilingual and under-resourced languages and their speakers. The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers from the SDS community and encourage research and discussion around the unique challenges (e.g., data collection, model building, sociolinguistic aspects and system evaluation) for multilingual and under-resourced languages.

Important Dates:

(All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, Anywhere on Earth)

Paper submission: October 28, 2022

Paper notification: December 9, 2022

Camera ready papers due: January 11, 2023

Workshop: February 21-24, 2023