Social Influence in Conversations

#SICon2024 co-located with EMNLP 2024 (November 16, 2024)

Call for papers

The Second Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2024) invites submissions on recent advancements in social influence dialogue systems, along with other NLP tasks, which will help expand these systems' social influence capabilities in the future. We aim to promote discussion around some key questions:

How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically?
How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion and negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences?
What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks?
What ethical issues are involved with AI that engage in social influence, and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild?

We also call for shared task submissions, consisting of a data/task and a companion paper motivating and evaluating the submission. The Shared Task tab of this website contains more information.

Topics of Interest

Topics will include, but are not limited to:

Analysis-focused contributions

Analyzing linguistic behaviors in social influence (SI) interactions such as persuasion appeals, emotional expressions, promising therapy methods, or deception (e.g., strategic games like Diplomacy and Catan)
Associations between linguistic behaviors and SI on task outcomes (e.g., agent performance, user satisfaction, etc.)
Associations between user attributes, including demographics (e.g., gender, education, etc.) and personality traits (e.g., cooperativeness/competitiveness or Big-5 traits, etc.) with SI task outcomes
Studying cultural differences in SI interactions
SI in text grounded in other modalities (e.g., face-to-face multi-issue negotiations)

System design contributions

Dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, negotiation, persuasion, argumentation, recommendation, or emotional support
SI systems for multi-agent interactions
SI systems effectively harnessing the capabilities of LLMs
SI systems benefitting from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion, negotiation tactics) developed in social science)
Unintentional aspects of SI for any human-facing NLP system

Contributions advancing relevant sub-goals in social influence tasks

Detecting influence strategies in text, outcome prediction, stance detection, and argument mining
Partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions

Other specific contributions

Datasets that capture forms of social influence, especially in underrepresented languages (e.g., human-human datasets, wizard-of-oz paradigm, etc.)
Designing guardrails for Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics for AI with SI capabilities
Opinion or position papers on SI

Submission Guidelines

We refer to the EMNLP 2024 website for paper templates (the official ACL style templates) and requirements for both submission types, regular workshop submissions, and shared task submissions. We will allow additional space (not counted towards the above page limits) for supplementary material, including an appendix. We encourage all authors to include careful considerations of the limitations, broader impacts, and ethical considerations of their work. We also encourage authors to provide their code and data, where applicable, in the interest of reproducibility.

Submission Type 1: Regular workshop submissions

Regular workshop submissions are archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) covering ongoing work on social influence NLP. Both tracks' accepted papers will be publicly available on the workshop’s website.

If you are unsure whether a topic is suitable, contact the workshop organizers at sicon-chairs@googlegroups.com.

Submission Type 2: Shared task submission

See our dedicated shared task section and website.

Process

The review will be double-blind. Please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission (covers all three submission types above). This includes anonymizing the already-published work by removing acknowledgments, self-citations, etc.
Non-archival submissions are expected to receive less detailed reviews compared to archival submissions.
SICon 2024 will use a separate ethics review, as required. Please ensure that any ethical concerns are appropriately addressed in the paper.
Parallel Submissions: Parallel submissions to other venues are NOT allowed.
Mode of Presentation: To foster thorough interaction and feedback, presentations will be primarily based on poster sessions. However, we will recognize three exceptional papers by providing dedicated slots for lightning talks (5 minutes each).

Camera-ready submissions

Authors of accepted archival papers should upload the final version of their paper to the submission system by the camera-ready deadline. Authors may use one extra page to address reviewer comments, for a total of nine pages + references. Broader Impacts/Ethics and Limitations sections are optional and can be included on a 10th page.

Submission Site

Direct submissions can be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon

ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions may be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon_ARR_Commitment

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