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# Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Conference series Published by [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)

- [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/venues/sigdial/)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/S4306417680)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68291527)

[**74** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/works/) · [**5,701** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/works/) · [**2,138** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/works/) · [**2000–2026** years of the works here](#years)

## Works by year

Works in our library by year 74 dated works from 2000 to 2026; the busiest year is 2026 with 27.

**The numbers**

| Year | Works |
| --- | --- |
| 2026 | 27 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2004 | 4 |
| 2002 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 |

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Dialogue systems (43)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Discourse analysis (18)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech act theory (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [English (8)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Sentiment & emotion (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Language models & pretraining (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Coreference resolution (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Speech & spoken language (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Summarization (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Text generation (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Information retrieval & search (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/)

**3 more topics**

[Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (73)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (73)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Decision Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Giuseppe Carenini**3 works here · 82 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-carenini/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steve Young**2 works here · 643 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) · [🧑‍🔬**Dilek Hakkani-Tur**2 works here · 233 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ellen Riloff**2 works here · 233 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marilyn Walker**2 works here · 233 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shereen Oraby**2 works here · 233 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shereen-oraby/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vrindavan Harrison**2 works here · 233 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vrindavan-harrison/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tatjana Scheffler**2 works here · 92 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatjana-scheffler/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jeroen Geertzen**2 works here · 87 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeroen-geertzen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nancy Chen**2 works here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nancy-chen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zhengyuan Liu**2 works here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Manfred Stede**2 works here · 80 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manfred-stede/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 4 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**University of Potsdam** Potsdam · Germany 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-potsdam/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**Utrecht University** Utrecht · Netherlands 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/utrecht-university/) · [🎓**Tilburg University** Tilburg · Netherlands 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tilburg-university/) · [🎓**Université Paris Cité** Paris · France 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-cite/)

## Works in our library (74)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**Building a Discourse-Tagged Corpus in the Framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory**Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurovsky*2001 · 912 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/carlson-2001-building-discourse-tagged-corpus-framework/)
2. [**The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems**Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, et al.*2015 · 474 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/)
3. [**The ICSI Meeting Recorder Dialog Act (MRDA) Corpus**Elizabeth Shriberg, Raj Dhillon, Sonali Bhagat, et al.*2004 · 470 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shriberg-2004-icsi-meeting-recorder-dialog-act/)
4. [**The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation**Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek, Verena Rieser*2017 · 461 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/novikova-2017-e2e-dataset-new-challenges-end/)
5. [**Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks**Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young*2014 · 431 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/henderson-2014-word-based-dialog-state-tracking/)
6. [**Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems**Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, et al.*2017 · 326 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/asri-2017-frames-corpus-adding-memory-goal/)
7. [**Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach**Shuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, et al.*2019 · 233 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2019-dialog-state-tracking-neural-reading/)
8. [**Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*2020 · 223 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2020-unsupervised-evaluation-interactive-dialog-dialogpt/)
9. [**Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim, et al.*2015 · 212 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2015-stochastic-language-generation-dialogue-recurrent/)
10. [**Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization**Joonsuk Park, Claire Cardie*2012 · 165 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2012-improving-implicit-discourse-relation-recognition/)
11. [**Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, et al.*2016 · 163 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)
12. [**ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations**Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, et al.*2020 · 137 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2020-convokit-toolkit-analysis-conversations/)
13. [**MultiWOZ 2.4: A Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset with Essential Annotation Corrections to Improve State Tracking Evaluation**Fanghua Ye, Jarana Manotumruksa, Emine Yilmaz*2022 · 131 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2022-multiwoz-2-4-multi-domain/)
14. [**The MATE/GNOME Proposals for Anaphoric Annotation, Revisited**Massimo Poesio*2004 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/poesio-2004-mate-gnome-proposals-anaphoric-annotation/)
15. [**The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions**Debanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri, Smaranda Muresan*2017 · 99 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2017-role-conversation-context-sarcasm-detection/)
16. [**A Rule Based Approach to Discourse Parsing**Livia Polanyi, Chris Culy, Martin van den Berg, et al.*2004 · 94 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/polanyi-2004-rule-based-approach-discourse-parsing/)
17. [**Dialogue Act Recognition with Bayesian Networks for Dutch Dialogues**Simon Keizer, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt*2002 · 83 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/keizer-2002-dialogue-act-recognition-bayesian-networks/)
18. [**Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization**Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen*2021 · 81 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-coreference-aware-dialogue-summarization/)
19. [**Discourse Coherence in the Wild: A Dataset, Evaluation and Methods**Alice Lai, Joel Tetreault*2018 · 79 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2018-discourse-coherence-wild-dataset-evaluation/)
20. [**Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, et al.*2017 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2017-are-you-serious-rhetorical-questions/)
21. [**Constructing a Lexicon of English Discourse Connectives**Debopam Das, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, et al.*2018 · 66 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/das-2018-constructing-lexicon-english-discourse-connectives/)
22. [**A Multidimensional Approach to Utterance Segmentation and Dialogue Act Classification**Jeroen Geertzen, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt*2007 · 55 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/geertzen-2007-multidimensional-approach-utterance-segmentation-dialogue/)
23. [**Multi-level Dialogue Act Tags**Alexander Clark, Andrei Popescu-Belis*2004 · 54 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clark-2004-multi-level-dialogue-act-tags/)
24. [**Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification**Daniel Ortega, Ngoc Thang Vu*2017 · 51 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ortega-2017-neural-based-context-representation-learning/)
25. [**Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain**Kristy Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips, et al.*2010 · 42 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boyer-2010-dialogue-act-modeling-complex-task/)

[See all 74 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/works/)

Venues, publishers and identifiers from OpenAlex (2026-10-14) and the ACL Anthology; yearly proceedings are counted as one series.