May, 27-30, 2025
IWSDS 2025
The 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology
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The International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology 2025 (IWSDS 2025) will invite paper submissions. IWSDS 2025 will be held May, 27-30, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain (in person event). This year’s conference theme is: Conversational Systems for Emotional Support and Customer Assistance.
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 systems
However, submissions are not limited to these topics and we encourage you to submit papers in all areas of natural language dialogue systems.
Industrial track
The Industrial Track invites contributions showcasing the implementation of novel and robust real-world applications of spoken dialogue systems. We encourage contributions that bridge research and practice, emphasizing robust implementation strategies and lessons learned from deployment in industrial or commercial settings.
Submissions should highlight practical advancements and address challenges in areas such as, but not limited to:
Innovative applications: new use cases and industries benefiting from spoken dialogue systems
Efficient training and deployment: approaches for rapid, scalable, and resource-efficient model development
Scalable, fast and cost-effective implementation: strategies enabling effective operation in resource-constrained or large-scale scenarios
Human-in-the-Loop strategies: integration of human expertise to enhance system learning and performance
Ethical and responsible systems: addressing fairness, transparency and societal impact in real-world applications
Categories of Submission
Long Papers
These are reserved for reports on mature original research results. Review versions of long papers may have up to eight (8) pages of content plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, final versions of long papers will be given one additional page – up to nine (9) pages of content plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references – so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. All figures and tables that are part of the main text must fit within these page limits. The conference encourages submission of appendices and supplementary material, which are not required to fit within these page limits. However, review versions of papers must be self-contained: it is optional for reviewers to look at appendices or supplementary material.
Short Papers
Authors may choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or ongoing original research efforts. Review versions of short papers may have up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions of short papers may have up to five (5) pages, plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references. All figures and tables that are part of the main text must fit within these page limits. The conference encourages submission of appendices and supplementary material, which are not required to fit within these page limits. However, review versions of papers must be self-contained: it is optional for reviewers to look at appendices or supplementary material.
Position Papers
These deal with novel unexplored research ideas or viewpoints which describe trends or fruitful starting points for future research and elicit discussion. The expected length of a position paper submission should be 2 pages of content, plus up to 2 pages for references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content (2-3 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account but the number of pages for references will not change (up to 2 pages).
Demo/System Papers
Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may choose this category and provide a description of their system and demo. The expected length of a demo/system paper submission should be up to 5 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will be given 1 additional page of content (up to 6 pages of content) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account, plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references.
Accepted papers will be published in post-workshop proceedings in ACL Anthology.
We welcome demonstrations from the authors of long and short papers which can be shown during the demo session. At the submission time, you will have an option to indicate whether the paper will be accompanied by a demonstration.
Submission
Authors of all papers (including papers submitted to the special sessions) are requested to submit PDF files or manuscripts using IWSDS 2025 paper submission system.
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