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