2nd Call for Papers
IWSDS2011 - Workshop on Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Granada, Spain, September 1-3, 2011

Following on the success of IWSDS2009 (in Irsee, Germany) and IWSDS2010 (in Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) this 3rd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2011) will bring together researchers from all over the world working in the field of spoken dialogue systems. It will provide an international forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists.

This year's workshop designates 'Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems' as a special theme of discussion.  We would also like to encourage discussions of common issues of spoken dialogue systems.

The workshop will be held just after INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy, August 28-31, 2011. It is endorsed by SIGDIAL, a SIG of ISCA and ACL, and is supported by the Korean Society of Speech Scientists. The workshop proceedings will be published in a book by Springer.

Web page of the workshop

http://www.uni-ulm.de/in/iwsds2011

Important dates (Subject to change)

April 22, 2011: Deadline for Long, Short and Demo papers
May 22, 2011: Author notification
May 29, 2011: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper
June 10, 2011: Deadline for early registration
September 1-3, 2011: Workshop

Chairs

Ramón López-Cózar Delgado - University of Granada, Spain
Tetsunori Kobayashi - Waseda University, Japan

Steering Committee

Gary Geunbae Lee - POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
Joseph Mariani - LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI, Orsay, France 
Wolfgang Minker - Ulm University, Germany 
Satoshi Nakamura - NICT, Kyoto, Japan

Local Committee

Zoraida Callejas - University of Granada, Spain 
David Griol - Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain 
Gonzalo Espejo - University of Granada, Spain 
Nieves Ábalos - University of Granada, Spain

Scientific Committee

Jan Alexandersson - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Masahiro Araki- Interactive Intelligence lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
André Berton - Daimler R&D, Ulm, Germany
Sadaoki Furui - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Joakim Gustafson - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden 
Tobias Heinroth - Ulm University, Germany
Paul Heisterkamp - Daimler Research, Ulm, Germany
Kristiina Jokinen - University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara - Kyoto University, Japan
Hong Kook Kim - Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Lin-Shan Lee - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mike McTear - University of Ulster, UK
Mikio Nakano - Honda Research Institute, Japan
Elmar Nöth - University of Erlangen, Germany
Norbert Reithinger - DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Gabriel Skantze - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Alexander Schmitt - Ulm University, Germany
Kazuya Takeda - Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Hsin-min Wang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan