Call for Papers
IWSDS2011 - Special Tracks
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, considering three Special Tracks:

- Spoken dialogue systems for robotics
- Emotions and spoken dialogue systems
- Spoken dialogue systems for real-world applications

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

June  3, 2011: Deadline for Long, Short and Demo papers
June 13, 2011: Author notification
June 19, 2011: Deadline for final submission of accepted paper
June 26, 2011: Deadline for early registration
September 1-3, 2011: Workshop

Chairs

Ramon Lopez-Cozar 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 Abalos - 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