📢 Call for Papers: #SIGDIAL2026
Submit your latest work on discourse & dialogue to the 27th Annual SIGdial Conference (Atlanta, July 13–15, 2026)!
🗓 Deadlines (AoE)
• Mar 23 – Title & abstract
• Mar 30 – Full paper (PDF)
• May 4 – ARR commitment
• May 25 – Notifications
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with @UCL_VoCoLab, @Addlesee_AI and @verena_rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.
Self-ownership, not self-production, modulates bias and agency over a synthesised voice
📢New from: Bryony Payne, Angus Addlesee, Verena Rieser, & Carolyn McGettigan
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic
Angus Addlesee, N. Cherakara, N. Nelson, D.H. Garcia, N. Gunson, W. Sieińska, C. Dondrup, O. Lemon
aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-d…
Best Demo Award #eacl2024
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Well done to the researchers!!
Angus Addlesee, @Addlesee_AI
Nancie Gunson, @nagunson
Daniel Hernández García
Weronika Sieińska
Marta Romeo
Christian Dondrup, @cdondrup
Oliver Lemon, @oliverlemon
And special thanks to our interns:
Neeraj Cherakara, @n_cherakara
Nivan Nelson
Angus Addlesee retweeted
The first iLab paper of 2023 was at #IWSDS2023!
"Data Collection for Multi-party Task-based Dialogue in Social Robotics"
By @Addlesee_AI, Weronika Sieińska, @nagunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, @cdondrup & @oliverlemon
With @SpringH2020 & @PALRobotics
drive.google.com/file/d/1gUs…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
The WTF workshop at @ACM_CUI
"Building for Speech: Designing the Next Generation of Social Robots for Audio Interaction" by @Addlesee_AI @g_papaioannou and @oliverlemon
We highlight critical problems that prevent spoken interactions with social robots.
arxiv.org/abs/2311.01146
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Finally, @ACM_CUI !
"Understanding and Answering Incomplete Questions" by @Addlesee_AI and @mdtux at @AmazonScience
We artificially interrupted 21k questions paired with their #SPARQL queries targeting @wikidata to recover from long mid-utterance pauses
amazon.science/publications/…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Also at @sigdial
"Multi-Party Goal Tracking With LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering" by @Addlesee_AI , Weronika Sieińska, @nagunson, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, @cdondrup & @oliverlemon
Establishing the MP goal-tracking task
aclanthology.org/2023.sigdia…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Moving from robots to @ISCAInterspeech
"Understanding Disrupted Sentences Using Underspecified Abstract Meaning Representation" by @Addlesee_AI and @mdtux with @AmazonScience
We explore whether semantic parsing can improve voice accessibility!
amazon.science/publications/…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
YRRSDS'23 is happening shortly in September! Don't miss coming and discussing future NLP topics with early-career researchers. Here is a recap of the past few years if you want to know what it is about by @Addlesee_AI : towardsdatascience.com/the-f…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Voice agents can sometimes mistake pauses for end of speech. At this year's @ISCAInterspeech, Amazon researchers show that learning graph representations of sentence semantics can repair truncated speech, preventing downstream mistakes. #Interspeech2023
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Designing Conversational Agents for Multi-party Interactions by @Addlesee_AI buff.ly/3Kh7QkZ
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Voice Assistant Accessibility by @Addlesee_AI buff.ly/3ManiSv
Angus Addlesee retweeted
"The Young Researcher’s Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) is an annual open forum for early-career spoken dialogue researchers to discuss current issues in the field, share tools and stimulate new ideas."
Read more from @Addlesee_AI's post. buff.ly/3DAdBrU
Angus Addlesee retweeted
Pleasure to be part of @YRRSDS_Official 2022.
@Addlesee_AI, thank you for summarising the event
If you want to read about what we discuss at YRRSDS every year, Angus has read through and summarised the current #ConvAI issues and new ideas from the past 5 years!
Thank you to all attendees ❤️ and to this year's sponsors: @helloalana, @AmazonScience, and @SICSA_Scotland
Angus Addlesee retweeted
🤖Very interesting post 🤖 The Future of Voice Assistants: What are the Early Research Trends? by @Addlesee_AI in @TDataScience. Our Smooth Operators project conversationalagentsresearch… contributes to the key topics personalization, repair, and evaluation towardsdatascience.com/the-f…
Angus Addlesee retweeted
This is awesome. The discussions are very relevant and enriching. I feel guilty for not attending YRRSDS 2022. Will not repeat the same mistake in 2023!
If you want to read about what we discuss at YRRSDS every year, Angus has read through and summarised the current #ConvAI issues and new ideas from the past 5 years!
Thank you to all attendees ❤️ and to this year's sponsors: @helloalana, @AmazonScience, and @SICSA_Scotland
Angus Addlesee retweeted
YRRSDS is collocated with SIGdial to let early-stage researchers meet and share their exciting work!
You can read the important notes and trends from the last 5 years of @YRRSDS_Official below. There are also a few photos of #SIGdial at the end 🎉
Disclaimer: I am @Addlesee_AI
This analysis of conversational AI trends was a pleasure to research & write!
Early-stage researchers meet yearly to discuss current issues and new ideas in #ConvAI
I summarised 5 years of @YRRSDS_Official trends on @TDataScience here:
towardsdatascience.com/the-f…
YRRSDS is great!
Angus Addlesee retweeted
If you want to read about what we discuss at YRRSDS every year, Angus has read through and summarised the current #ConvAI issues and new ideas from the past 5 years!
Thank you to all attendees ❤️ and to this year's sponsors: @helloalana, @AmazonScience, and @SICSA_Scotland
This analysis of conversational AI trends was a pleasure to research & write!
Early-stage researchers meet yearly to discuss current issues and new ideas in #ConvAI
I summarised 5 years of @YRRSDS_Official trends on @TDataScience here:
towardsdatascience.com/the-f…
YRRSDS is great!





















