News

• September 16, 2020: The agenda and links to Zoom meetings are available here. Free registration here.

• September 13, 2020: Virtual Zoom meetings will be held during the three days of the conference. From 15:00 - 17:00 (CET, UTC+2) allowing all participants to meet, listen about important announcements from the organizers, sponsors, workshops and our great keynotes. Do not miss any of our meetings. More details will be send soon to all registered participants.

• September 9, 2020: All presentations for accepted papers are available online (check for more). Public videos are also indicated and available at our Youtube channel.

• July 6, 2020: Important announcement: due to the COVID-19 situation, IWSDS2020 will be hosted as a FULLY VIRTUAL conference (more details here)

• July 1, 2020: We are proud to announce that Lekta.ai will be our third gold sponsor.

• June 8, 2020: Deadline to submit the signed copyright forms for the proceedings with Springer.

• May 5, 2020: Our book proposal for the proceedings as Springer LNEE series book has been accepted.

• March 12, 2020: IWSDS2020 has been postponed due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The new dates will be: September 21-23, 2020 just two days after COLING2020 in Barcelona, Spain. (click here for more information)

• February 15, 2020: We are proud to announce that COLIPS will be our second gold sponsor.

• February 10, 2020: ISCA endorsement for IWSDS2020. Students can apply to travel grants (click here for more information)

• January 31, 2020: Reviewing process started. Expected author's notification day: February 23, 2020

• January 13, 2020: We are proud to announce that Vicomtech will be our first gold sponsor.

• January 10, 2020: Papers deadline extended until January 25, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8). Updates over submitted papers will be allowed until January 30, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8). Access submission system: paper submission system (EasyChair)

• December 18, 2019: Final call for papers

• November 25, 2019: Call for Sponsors

• November 11, 2019: Sent invitations for PC members

• November 11, 2019: Second call for papers

• October 11, 2019: First call for papers

• September 13, 2019: Announced the list of selected special sessions and workshops. Check it at: https://www.iwsds.tech/special-sessions

• September 2, 2019: Last call for special sessions and workshops

• August 12, 2019: Second call for special sessions and workshops

• July 22, 2019: SigDial endorsement for IWSDS2020

• July 15, 2019: Colips endorsement for IWSDS2020

• July 1, 2019: First call for special sessions

• June 19, 2019: IWSDS Website launched

Introduction

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Eleventh International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS 2020). This year’s conference theme will be: "Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade", being our target to discuss, propose and set the milestones of the dialogue systems we will be designing and running for the following 10 years.

Following the success of a series of ten previous events, IWSDS 2020 will be held VIRTUALLY in Madrid on September 21-23, 2020. Taking advantage of its historical and geographical situation, its rich entertainment and culture offering, and the warmness of its people that makes everyone feel at home, participants will be able not only to keep track of the state of the art in spoken dialogue systems but also enjoying the attractiveness of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

On behalf of the organizing committee, we welcome you to Madrid, and hope that you enjoy the workshop as well as the charms of this great city and country that welcomes you.

Luis Fernando D'Haro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Zoraida Callejas (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

IWSDS 2020 Conference Chairs

Important Dates

• September 13, 2019: Special session and workshop proposals submission

• September 20, 2019: Special session and workshop notifications

• January 10, 2020 January 25, 2020 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT -8): EXTENDED: Research, position and demo papers submission. UPDATES over uploaded papers will be allowed until January 30 (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

• February 7, 2020 February 23, 2020: EXTENDED: Author notifications

• February 7, 2020: February 23, 2020: EXTENDED: Early bird registration opens

• February 21, 2020: March 8, 2020: EXTENDED: Camera ready papers due (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

• February 28, 2020: March 13, 2020 EXTENDED: Early bird registration ends (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

• March 31, 2020: Full registration deadline for accepted papers only (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

• July 17, 2020: Early bird registration ends (23:59 Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8)

• May 18-20, 2020: Conference dates (Collocated with LREC in Marseille, France)

• September 21-23, 2020: Conference dates (VIRTUAL CONFERENCE)