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)

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IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology

SLT 2010

December 12-15, 2010

Berkeley, CA

www.slt2010.org

Call for Papers

The Third IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Workshop will be held between December 12-15, 2010 in Berkeley, CA. The goal of this workshop is to allow the spoken language processing community to share and present recent advances in various areas of spoken language technology. This workshop has been endorsed/sponsored by the ISCA and ACL as well. The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010 (http://www.dialrc.org/sdc) will be organized as a special session.

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission: July 16, 2010

• Notification: September 1, 2010

• Workshop: December 12-15, 2010

Workshop Topics:

• Spoken language understanding

• Spoken document summarization

• Machine translation for speech

• Spoken language based systems

• Spoken language generation

• Question answering from speech

• Human/computer interaction

• Educational/healthcare applications

• Speech data mining

• Information extraction

• Spoken document retrieval

• Multimodal processing

• Spoken dialog systems

• Spoken language systems

• Spoken language databases

• Assistive technologies

Organizing Chairs:

• Dilek Hakkani-Tür, ICSI

• Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington

Technical Chairs:

• Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID, Portugal

• Tim Paek, Microsoft Research

Area Chairs:

• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia U.

• Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen

• Andreas Stolcke, SRI/ICSI

• Ye-Yi Wang, Microsoft Research

Finance Chair:

• Gokhan Tur, SRI International

Advisory Board:

• Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Labs

• Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs

• Giuseppe Riccardi, U. Trento

Demo Chairs:

• Alex Potamianos, Tech. U. of Crete

• Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki U. of Tech.

Publicity Chair:

• Bhuvana Ramabhadran, IBM

• Benoit Favre, U. Le Mans

Panel Chairs:

• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Inst. Of Tech.

• Eric Fosler-Lussier, Ohio State U.

Publication Chair:

• Yang Liu, U. Texas, Dallas

Local Organizers:

• Dimitra Vergryi, SRI International

• Murat Akbacak, SRI International

• Sibel Yaman, ICSI

• Arindam Mandal, SRI International

Europe Liaisons:

• Frederic Bechet, U. Avignon

• Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh

Asia Liaisons:

• Helen Meng, C. U. Hong Kong

• Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH

Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Jordan, U. California, Berkeley

• Chris Manning, Stanford U.

• James W. Pennebaker, U. Texas, Austin

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