REPORT ON SIGDIAL ACTIVITIES: July 2005 to June 2006

David Traum, SIGdial President

SIGdial is the ACL and ISCA Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue which was formed in November 1997.  More information about
SIGdial can be found on the webpages: http://www.sigdial.org including
an actively updated calendar of upcoming events, resources, and previous
reports. Members can join from the webpage, which includes
participation in a low-volume, moderated mailing list (mainly
conference and job announcements).  SIGdial currently has 395 members
from 33 countries (up 26 and down 5 from last year).

An election of officers and three advisory board members was held in
Fall of 2005 for the years 2006 and 2007.  SIGdial is currently led by
officers David Traum (President), Wolfgang Minker (Vice President),
and Kristiina Jokinen (Secretary), and Science Advisory Committee
members Jan Alexandersson, Michael McTear, Tim Paek, Alexander
Rudnicky, Candace Sidner, and Ronnie Smith. Additional positions
are President Emeritus: Laila Dybkjaer, Information officer: Karen
Ward, SIG SLUD/JSAI liaison: Syun Tutiya, ISCA Liaison: Rolf Carlson,
Mailing List Maintainer: Laurent Romary, Student Liaisons: Holmer
Hemsen (Europe), Dan Bohus (America), and Kotaro Funakoshi (Asia), and
Stephen Choularton (S Pacific).


SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialogue since
2000. The last workshop was held in September 2005, in Lisbon
Portugal, just before the Interspeech 2005 conference. The chairs were
Laila Dybkjaer and Wolfgang Minker. The next workshop will be in July
2006, just co-located with ACL-COLING. The chairs are Jan
Alexandersson and Alexander Knott. More information on SIGdial
workshops can be found here: http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/

SIGdial also endorses a number of other dialogue-related workshops
and events that are open to the general community. The SIGdial
Endorsed events for the previous and  upcoming year are:


July 7th 2005: Symposium on Dialogue Modelling and Generation 
(Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Sept 1st 2005: The Young Researcher's Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue
systems (Lisbon, Portugal)

July 7-9, 2006: Workshop on Constraints in Discourse (Maynooth, Ireland)

August 7-11th, 2006 ESSLLI 2006 Workshop on "Coherence in Generation
and Dialogue" (Malaga, Spain)

September 11th-13th 2006: Brandial 2006: The 10th Workshop on the
Semantics and Pragmatics of  Dialogue (Potsdam, Germany)

September  16th, 2006: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog
Systems (Pittsburgh, PA)

September 17th, Interspeech2006 - ICSLP Satellite Workshop Dialogue on
Dialogues: Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Advanced Speech-based
Interactive Systems (Pittsburgh, PA)