The Timing Bottleneck — in which @andreasliesenfeld @alianda and I argue timing and overlap are mission-critical for conversational user interfaces, speech recognition and dialogue systems 🧵 1/n

 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.45.pdf

This received a Best Paper nomination at #SIGDial2023 in Prague, where @alianda presented it. The paper builds on Lopez et al. 2022 #konvens2022; here we add a stronger cross-linguistic angle and new ways of looking at consequences of subpar ASR for dialog flow

Busy times, so inevitably I'm procrastinating by updating my 'papers by figures' page https://markdingemanse.net/publications/visuals

Latest additions are from recent work with @andreasliesenfeld and @alianda (best paper nomination at #sigdial2023)

Thank you to everyone who made #INLG2023 (joint with #SIGDIAL2023) a great success! Now it's time to start thinking about #INLG2024 and #INLG2025!

If you're interested in helping with the scientific programme or volunteering to host the conference next year or the following year, please check out the #CallForBids: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2309&L=SIGGEN&O=D&P=3591

Since #sigdialxinlg2023 #sigdial2023 #inlg2023 are ongoing and LLMs are (still) the talk of the town, let me share our paper on the openness of instruction-tuned LLMs, raising some key concerns for anyone who cares about scientific reproducibility, ethical knowledge production, and the risks of relying on proprietary and closed solutions

 Paper here (pdf): https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3526897_1/component/file_3526898/content
Live tracker here: https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io/

Thread here: https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/110728766949576969

Reminder: early registration for #SIGDIAL2023 + #INLG2023 is available until 18 August, with discounted room rates for the executive rooms at the hotel available until then as well: https://inlg2023.github.io/

Note that event registration takes place through Eventbright and you will need to click 'print tickets' to download the PDF of the tickets to get info for the hotel discount.

I'm planning to go to #SIGDIAL2023 #INLG2023 by train rather than plane, because it's truly astonishing how much worse for the planet it is for us to fly when we can travel over land instead: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint

We really need a world that's willing to move at a slower pace, taking more time to get places, or we're not going to have a world one day. I'd love to see employers explicitly prioritizing rail travel and national rail services in Europe coordinating to simplify end-to-end bookings

Yoooooo, you have 3 more days tor get the early bird registration price for #SIGDIAL2023 + #INLG2023 in #Prague! https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/

Come to the international conference on #NaturalLanguageGeneration teamed up and co-located with the annual meeting for the ACL special interest group for #dialogue and #discourse :D