[CfP] SummDial @ SIGDial 2021: A Special Session on Automatic Minuting and Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-party Meetings

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***SummDial @ SIGDial 2021: A Special Session on Automatic Minuting and Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-party Meetings***

https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html

***Overview***

With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are possibly no agreed-upon guidelines to take minutes, and people adopt different styles to record minutes of the meeting. The minutes also depend on the meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the meeting.

The SummDial special session at SIGDial 2021 intends to instigate discussions on these challenges. Our goal for this SIGDial special session would be to stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural Language Processing communities. We are also launching a shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/

***SummDial @ SIGDial 2021 will be an all-virtual event***

***Call for Papers (Long, Short, Late-breaking, Research In Progress, Position Papers)***

We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report:

- Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio, video),

- Challenges in manual and automatic dialogue summarization evaluation,

- New methods and metrics for manual and automatic dialogue summarization evaluation,

- Challenges and methods in summarizing transcripts in different domains, including legal, educational, political, social, etc.

- Datasets and corpora for dialogue summarization,

- Techniques of data collection, pre-processing, adaptation,

- Ethical issues and possible solutions,

- New systems for dialogue or meeting summarization, or new evaluations of existing systems,

- Qualitative or quantitative comparisons of speech-specific summarization systems and summarization systems imported from the text domain,

- Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization,

- Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for multi-topic summarization,

- Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this topic, take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are going and where we should go.

Researchers may choose to submit:

- ***Long papers*** must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. These papers would go through the same peer-review process by the SIGDial program committee as papers submitted to the main SIGdial track. These papers will appear in the main SIGdial proceedings and are presented with the main track. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments.

- ***Short papers*** must describe original and unpublished work. These papers would go through the same peer-review process by the SIGDial program committee as papers submitted to the main SIGdial track. These papers will appear in the main SIGdial proceedings and are presented with the main track. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. It should be no longer than 4 pages, including title, text, figures, and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. An unlimited number of pages are allowed for references.

- ***Late-breaking and Work-in-progress papers*** will showcase ongoing work and focused relevant contributions. Submissions need not present original work. Late-breaking and work-in-progress papers should be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables, and references. These will be reviewed by the SummDial program committee and posted on the special session website. These papers will be presented as lightning talks or posters during the session. Authors will retain the copyright to their work so that they may submit to other venues as their work matures.

- ***Position papers*** will give voice to authors who wish to take a position on a topic listed above or the field of spoken, dialogue, meeting summarization. Submissions need not present original work and should be two to six pages in length, including title, text, figures and tables, and references. These will be reviewed by the SummDial program committee and posted on the special session website. These papers will be presented as lightning talks or posters during the session. Authors will retain the copyright to their work so that they may submit to other venues.

***SummDial Special Session***

The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, lightning talks, oral and poster paper presentations. Details of the program would be updated on our website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html

***Important Dates***

- Regular Papers (Long and Short) Deadline (SIGDial): April 2, 2021 (23:59 GMT-08)

- Notification for Regular Papers: TBA (as per SIGDial 2021)

- Camera-ready due (Regular Papers): TBA (as per SIGDial 2021)

- Late-breaking (LBR) and Work-In-Progress Papers (WiP) Deadline: May 31, 2021

- Position Papers Deadline: May 31, 2021

- Notification for LBR/WiP/Position Papers: July 5, 2021

- Event date: TBA (between July 29 - 31, 2021)

***Submission Website and Format***

- For Regular Papers (Long and Short), please follow the SIGDial 2021 submission instructions http://www.colips.org/conferences/sigdial2021/wp/call-for-papers/

- For Late-breaking, Work-In-Progress, and Position Papers, please submit to min...@ufal.mff.cuni.cz

- Please follow SIGDial 2021 submission instructions and formatting guidelines.