An Analysis of the Recent Visibility of the SigDial Conference

Abstract: Automated speech and text interfaces are continuing to improve, resulting in increased research in the area of dialogue systems. Moreover, conferences and workshops from various fields are focusing more on language through speech and text mediums as candidates for interaction with applications such as search interfaces and robots. In this paper, we explore how visible the SigDial conference is to outside conferences by analysing papers from top Natural Langauge Processing conferences since 2015 to determine the popularity of certain SigDial-related topics, as well as analysing what SigDial papers are being cited by others outside of SigDial. We find that despite a dramatic increase in dialogue-related research, SigDial visibility has not increased. We conclude by offering some suggestions.