IPTC co-organizes the 11th Intl. Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technolog

IPTC-UPM in collaboration with Universidad de Granada is organizing IWSDS2020 to be held in Madrid from May 18-20, 2020. Submission deadline is Jan 10, 2020. More information is available at: https://www.iwsds.tech @iwsds2020.

The Conference Chairs are Luis Fernando D'Haro (IPTC-UPM) and Zoraida Callejas (UG).

Submissions on the following topics are encouraged (not limited):

• Engagement and emotion in human-robot in-teractions.

• Digital resources for interactive applications.

• Multi-modal and machine learning methods.

• Companions, personal assistants and dialogue systems.

• Proactive and anticipatory interactions.

• Educational and healthcare robot applications.

• Dialogue systems and reasoning.

• Big data and large scale spoken dialogue systems.

• Multi-lingual dialogue systems.

• Conversational systems with personality information.

• Spoken dialog systems for low-resource languages.

• Domain Transfer and adaptation techniques for spoken dialog systems.

In addition, IWSDS will host three special ses-sions and one workshop:

• Chatbots and Conversational Agents and Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge.

• Dialogue systems for mental e-health.

• Designing humor in human computer inter-action with focus on dialogue technology.

• Speech Language and Conversation Tech-nologies for Iberian Languages.