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 is now open        **
       **    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 is now open.
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop11/
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)