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

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