In each case, the description of annotation structures or tools should be accessible to readers outside the particular community in which the system originated. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 400 word abstract of their paper so that the editors can comment on its suitability for the special issue. To facilitate a rapid review process, authors are required to give notification of their submission two weeks in advance of the submission deadline. All submissions must consist of original unpublished work that is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be approximately 30 pages double spaced.
Electronic submission is encouraged.
Please register at this site to receive email notification of any subsequent announcements concerning the special issue. DISC intends to contribute to the establishment of dialogue engineering guidelines to be used by different target groups, among others developers, deployers and customers. These developments have led to a situation in which there is a great need, shared by developers, deployers and customers alike, for effective guidelines, which will enable them to make well-formed design and implementation decisions, in accordance with broad consensus of what must be 'best practice' in this particular engineering domain. The purpose of this special issue is to bring together leading views on what might be considered to be best practice in the development and evaluation of SLDSs. So, we would like to take as a starting point a definition of best practice relative to factual constraints imposed on SLDS development.