SummDial
SummDial: A SIGDial 2021 Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings
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.
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 dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic),
- New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation,
- Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development and ethical issues involved,
- Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from text summarization,
- 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, to 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- Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work.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.
Special Session Program
The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, lightning talks, oral and poster paper presentations. Details of the program would be updated here closer to the event.
Important Dates
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Regular Paper (Long and Short) Abstract/Initial Version Deadline (SIGDial)* |
April 02, 2021 |
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Regular Full-Papers (Long and Short) Final Deadline (SIGDial) |
April 10, 2021 |
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Notification for Regular Papers at SIGDial |
May 24, 2021 |
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Camera-ready due (Regular Papers at SIGDial) |
June 8, 2021 |
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Position, Late-breaking and Work-In-Progress Papers Deadline |
May 31, 2021 June 15, 2021 |
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Notification for Late-breaking/Work-In-Progress/Position Papers |
July 15, 2021 |
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Event Date |
July 29, 2021 |
All submission deadlines are 23:59 GMT-11
* It is mandatory to submit a placeholder abstract on April 2nd and do final paper submission on April 10th.
Submission Website and Format
Extended Versions to Journal
We would additionally invite selected authors to submit a full-paper to a special issue of the open access Information journal from MDPI which is indexed within Scopus, ESCI (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, DBLP, and many other databases. The journal submissions would undergo further review. Authors of invited papers should be aware that the final submitted manuscript must provide a minimum of 50% new content and not exceed 30% copy/paste from the proceedings paper.
Organizers
- Tirthankar Ghosal, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Muskaan Singh, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Anja Nedoluzhko, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Ondřej Bojar, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic
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