*The 14th annual Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) will be held at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (collocated with ACL and SIGdial) on July 10-11, 2018.YRRSDS (www.yrrsds.org <http://www.yrrsds.org>) is an annual workshop for graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior researchers working on spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The workshop serves as an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research and helps to create an international network of young researchers working in the field. We invite researchers at an early stage of their career (no age limit) to submit a 2-page position paper. This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio, and topic suggestions for discussions. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and not necessarily be from a published paper. Submission topics include, but are not limited to:• Models of dialogue: statistical, symbolic, and hybrid approaches• Evaluation methodology for dialogue systems• Semantics, pragmatics, and context in dialogue systems• Incremental spoken dialogue systems• Situated interaction with virtual and robotic agents• Psycholinguistic influences on dialogue system design• Establishing social relationships and engagement with the user• Data collection and dataset sharing for statistical models• Industry development cycles, requirements, and applicationsImportant DatesSubmission open: 9 March 2018Submission deadline: 27 April 2018Author notification: 25 May 2018Registration opens: 1 June 2018YRRSDS 2018: 10-11 July 2018Looking forward to meet you there!Best wishes,YRRSDS 2018 organizing committee:Lina Brixey USC Institute for Creative TechnologiesKalesha Bullard Georgia Institute of TechnologyAdriana Camacho University of Texas at El PasoRamesh Manuvinakurike University of Southern CaliforniaEran Raveh Saarland UniversityZahra Razavi University of RochesterMaria Schmidt Daimler AG/Ulm UniversityDamiano Spina RMIT University, MelbourneJohanne Trippas RMIT University, MelbourneTiancheng Zhao Carnegie Mellon University*
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