January 21st, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise LAST CFP (Extended Deadline): IWSDS’2025 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
May 27-30 2025, Bilbao (Spain)
Paper Title, Author, and Abstract Submission deadline: January 17th, 2025
Paper Submission deadline: January 25th, 2025
In exceptional circumstances, a specific deadline extension may be considered upon request via iwsds2025@gmail.com.
This year’s conference theme is: Conversational Systems for Emotional Support and Customer Assistance. We also include a new industrial track. And we have three outstanding keynote speakers confirmed: Kristiina Jokinen from Japan, Björn Schuller from Europe and Roberto Pieraccini from USA.
Topics
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We especially invite paper submissions on the following topics:
- User engagement and emotion in dialogue systems
- Proactive, anticipatory, or incremental interaction
- Use of humor and metaphors in dialogue systems
- Multimodal and situated dialogue systems
- Companions and personal assistant dialogue systems
- Educational and healthcare applications
- Big data and large scale dialogue systems
- Digital resources for interactive dialogue management
- Domain transfer and adaptation techniques for dialogue systems
- Dialogue systems for low-resource languages
- Multilingual dialogue systems
- Dialogue system evaluation
- Machine learning for dialogue systems
- Interaction styles in dialogue systems
- LLMs in task-oriented dialogue systems
- LLMs for context tracking and management in dialogue systems
- Ensuring safety and explainability in LLM-powered dialogue systems
- Grounded, personalized and adaptive response generation in dialogue systems
- Mitigating harmful, toxic, or biased language generation in dialogue systems
- Large-scale, high-quality dialogue corpora collection, annotation, labeling and evaluation
- Integration of AI-based consciousness and awareness capabilities on computational systems
- Ethical considerations for AI-based conversational systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.
Submission
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Authors of all papers are requested to submit PDF files of their manuscripts using the IWSDS 2025 paper submission system: https://softconf.com/p/iwsds2025/
Details on the paper submission categories and document templates can be found in: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2025/calls/papers
Important Dates
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Paper Submission:
Paper Title, Author, and Abstract Submission: January 12th, 2025
Paper Submission: January 19th, 2025
Conference: May 27-30, 2025
Organisers: Prof. M. Inés Torres, Dr. Yuki Matsuda, Prof. Zoraida Callejas, Dr. Arantza del Pozo, Dr. Luis Fernando D’Haro
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