Call for Papers

Call for Papers

DiSS 2025 – 12th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech

We are pleased to announce the 12th edition of DiSS workshop – Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 4-5, 2025. This year’s theme is “Disfluencies in the Age of AI: A Multidisciplinary View“. The workshop is organized as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2025 and proudly sponsored by ISCA.

We invite submissions from all fields addressing disfluency, paralinguistics, and related phenomena, including (but not limited to): psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics, speech production and perception, conversational AI, gesture analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, dialogue systems, human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, healthcare, and generative AI.

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: April 19, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2025
  • Camera-ready submission deadline: June 16, 2025
  • Author registration deadline: June 23, 2025
  • DiSS Workshop: September 4–5, 2025

Submission guidelines

Please prepare your manuscript using the official Interspeech 2025 template (LaTeX or Word) and submit a single PDF file. Submissions will be managed through the Microsoft CMT system. Authors must create a free account to submit their papers.

Committees

Organizers
  • Helena Moniz, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA
  • Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
  • Robert Eklund, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Fernando Batista, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Publicity Chair
  • Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Local Organisation
  • Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Anna Havras, University of Lisbon and VoiceInteraction, Portugal
  • Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
  • Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and Unbabel, Portugal
  • Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
  • Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Scientific Committee
  • Alexandra Markó, SSNS Institute for Expert Services, Hungary
  • Ana Isabel Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Anna Havras, VoiceInteraction and University of Lisbon
  • Anna Maria Pompili, INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
  • Antonio Bonafonte, SANAS AI, Barcelona, Spain
  • Catarina Botelho, INESC-ID Lisbon
  • Chiara Mazzocconi, Aix Marseille Université, France
  • Clara Niza, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
  • Daniela Braga, Defined.ai, USA
  • David Escudero, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
  • David Matos, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
  • Elizabeth Shriberg, Ellipsis Health, USA
  • Eugénio Ribeiro, ISCTE and INESC-ID Lisboa
  • Francesco Cutugno, Universita’ Degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
  • Francisco Teixeira, INESC-ID Lisbon
  • Gueorgui Nenov Hristovky, University of Lisbon, Portugal
  • George Georgiou, University of Nicosia, Greece
  • Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Ivana Didirková, Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France
  • Jens Allwood, University of Götenburg, Sweden
  • Jessica di Napoli, Aachen University, Germany
  • Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden
  • João Graça, Unbabel and Widn.AI, USA
  • Judit Bóna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
  • Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
  • Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Khiet Truong, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Kikuo Maekawa, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
  • Loulou Kosmala, Université Paris-Est Créteil, France
  • Mária Gosy, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
  • Mariana Julião, INESC-ID Lisbon
  • Malte Belz, Humboldt-Universität, Germany
  • Martin Corley, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Miguel Menezes, University of Lisbon and INESC-ID Lisbon, Portugal
  • Paulina Peltone, University of Turku, Finland
  • Petra Wagner, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Plínio Barbosa, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
  • Ralph Rose, Waseda University, Japan
  • Robert Hartsuiker, Ghent University, Belgium
  • Rubén Solera Ureña, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
  • Sérgio Paulo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
  • Simon Betz, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  • Vera Cabarrão, Unbabel, Portugal
  • Vered Silber Varod, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Please visit our webpage for up-to-date information: https://diss2025.inesc-id.pt
Any questions should be directed to: diss2025@googlegroups.com

We look forward to welcoming you in Lisbon for an engaging and collaborative event!

— The DiSS 2025 Organizing Committee