The 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 3-5 August 2026. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. #SIGDIAL2026
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⏰ Deadlines approaching for #SIGDIAL2026
Dialog researchers: only 9 days until abstracts are due!
📅 Key dates (AoE):
• Apr 13 - Title & abstract
• Apr 20 - Full paper (PDF)
• May 25 - ARR commitment
• Jun 1 - Notifications
📍 Atlanta, GA | Aug 2–5 @ Emory University
As 2026 winds down, here are a few papers from #SIGDIAL2026 worth revisiting 🧵 #NLProc
Better Scores, Worse Grounding: fine-tuning made dialogue fact-checkers score higher overall while quietly breaking cases where a pronoun points back to an earlier turn. Worth looking past the headline number.
Park & Zubiaga
aclanthology.org/2026.sigdia…
When a model predicts who speaks next, is there only one right answer?
Kubo et al. argue turn-taking is inherently ambiguous and propose scoring models' predictions as distributions, not yes/no labels.
Check the paper here:
aclanthology.org/2026.sigdia…
#SIGDIAL2026 #AI #NLP
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This week I'm attending @sigdial, organizing #Wochat2026 a workshop on AI agentic systems. We received approx. 20 papers and accepted 8 of them. There were around 45 attendees. Check our website for further information. sites.google.com/view/wochat…. – at Druid Hills, GA
📢 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
We welcome long & short papers, demos, and ARR commitments across dialogue systems, LLMs, discourse, agentic AI, user simulation & more.
🔗 2026.sigdial.org
#NLP #AI #Dialogue #CFP
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We are starting the meeting for #DSTC12 at @sigdial. The full program is available at dstc12.dstc.community/worksh…. Papers are already published online at our website.
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Happy to attend @sigdial at Avignon University, France. I will be presenting a paper about our Track 1 challenge at DSTC12 on Thursday, which is part of our activities at @ASTOUND_project funded by @EU_Commission through the EIC Pathfinder program.
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Happy to share that 🔄TD-Eval is accepted to #SIGDIAL2025 as an oral presentation!
Hope to see you there at @sigdial and chat more on TOD Agent evaluation, which will definitely play a big role in next generation conversational agents.
🚀Excited to share our new evaluation paper "TD-Eval: Revisiting Task-Oriented Dialogue Evaluation by Combining Turn-Level Precision with Dialogue-Level Comparisons"! 🔄
🤖⚔️TOD systems have rapidly evolved thanks to LLMs, but traditional metrics remain insufficient in evaluating their current capabilities—they focus on final dialogue scores, miss turn‑level intermediate errors, and cannot keep up with modern system sophistication. So, how can we measure real conversational quality?
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.19982
Webpage: emrecanacikgoz.github.io/TD-…
SIGdial has three fantastic keynotes this year & registration is open! 🎉
"Are there purely multi-turn 'dialog failures'?" by @cawelty
"Interactive Task Learning" by @ALascarides
"Ecological Study of Language Acquisition, the role of natural conversation" by @Adinseg
You can read the keynote abstracts and bios here: 2025.sigdial.org/keynotes/
And early registration is open until the 18th of July!
2025.sigdial.org/registratio…
The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed...
But we are still welcoming submissions through @ReviewAcl 🎉
ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th
Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th
