Date Change due to the FIFA World Cup! 📢
SIGdial will now be held on the 3rd to 5th of August 🎉
Deadlines are updated accordingly:
• Apr 13 - Title & abstract
• Apr 20 - Full paper (PDF)
• Mav 25 - ARR commitment
• Jun 15- Notifications
Workshops on the 1st and 2nd August
📢 Call for Papers: #SIGDIAL2026
Submit your latest work on discourse & dialogue to the 27th Annual SIGDIAL Conference (Atlanta, July 13–15, 2026)!
🗓 Deadlines (AoE)
• Mar 23 – Title & abstract
• Mar 30 – Full paper (PDF)
• May 4 – ARR commitment
• May 25 – Notifications
• Jun 8 – Camera-ready
This was a major collaboration across Europe, huge thanks to:
@oliverlemon.bsky.social for leading the team from @heriotwattuni.bsky.social, and all SPRING partners & colleagues who made it possible (see the huge author list!)
A milestone for socially assistive robotics in healthcare! 🤖💬
The paper ties together work from 8 institutions to advance human–robot interaction (HRI) in real healthcare settings
We address:
• Robot navigation in clinical environments
• Speech processing & non-verbal behaviour
• My favourite - Accessible conversational AI for older adults
• and much more...
Our final SPRING Project paper has just been published in the International Journal of Social Robotics! 🎉
📄 Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
We explore how hospital patients and our robot Ari can engage in natural, useful conversations
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
SIGdial has three fantastic keynotes this year & registration is open! 🎉
"Are there purely multi-turn 'dialog failures'?" by Dr Chris Welty
"Interactive Task Learning" by Prof Alex Lascarides
"Ecological Study of Language Acquisition, the role of natural conversation" by @fourtassi.bsky.social
The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed...
But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review 🎉
ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th
Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th
