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SIGDIAL 2010 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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SIGDIAL 2010
11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group
on Discourse and Dialogue
University of Tokyo, Japan, September 24-25, 2010
(just before Interspeech 2010)
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11/
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** Registration Site will be open in this week **
** Early Registration Deadline: August 10 **
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of
cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and
industry researchers. Continuing with a series of successful ten
previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest area of
discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL
organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse
and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. SIGDIAL 2010 will be co-located with
Interspeech 2010 as a satellite event.
REGISTRATION
Registration site will be open soon (in this week).
Early registration deadline is August 10.
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Marilyn Walker - Professor, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Title: Dynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems
* Hiroshi Ishiguro - Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science,
Osaka University
Title: Understanding humans by building androids
ACCEPTED PAPERS
The list is now available at the conference website:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11/
IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline: August 10, 2010
Late registration deadline: August 31, 2010
Conference: September 24-25, 2010
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Yasuhiro Katagiri (Future University - Hakodate)
Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute Japan)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Raquel Fernandez (University of Amsterdam)
Oliver Lemon (Heriot Watt University)
LOCAL CHAIR
Kazunori Komatani (Nagoya University)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kohji Dohsaka (NTT Corporation)
Shinya Fujie (Waseda University)
Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT Corporation)
Masato Ishizaki (University of Tokyo)
Ikuyo Morimoto (Kwansei Gakuin University)
SIGDIAL PRESIDENT
Tim Paek (Microsoft Research)
SIGDIAL VICE PRESIDENT
Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs - Research)
SIGDIAL SECRETARY/TREASURER
Kristiina Jokinen (University of Helsinki)