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