Sign up for our awesome New York Tech Events weekly email newsletter.     EVENT DETAILS Natural language, dialog & speech (NDS) researchers focus on communication between people & computers using human languages both in written & spoken forms. They develop models for analyzing the structure & content of human conversation & create artificial agents who can engage in human-like interaction with people & other agents. Building on the success of NYAS's annual Machine Learning Symposium, the longest-running conference on Machine Learning in the Eastern United States, NDS2019 will convene leading researchers from academia & industry to discuss cutting-edge methodologies & computational approaches to applied & theoretical problems in dialog systems, spoken & natural language understanding, natural language generation & speech synthesis. Call for Abstracts Short (1500 character or less) abstract submissions are invited for a poster session & consideration for short talks. For complete submission instructions, please visit our online portal. The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, September 30, 2019.