REPORT ON SIGDIAL ACTIVITIES: July 2006 to June 2007 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 447 members from 34 countries (up 52 members and up 1 country from last year). SIGdial has held an annual workshop on discourse and dialogue since 2000. The last workshop was held in July 15-16, 2006, in Sydney, Australia. The chairs were Jan Alexandersson and Alistair Knott. The next workshop will be in September 2-3, 2007, at Antwerp, Belgium, immediately following Interspeech 2007. The workshop is also recognized by ISCA as a satellite event for Interspeech 2007. The chairs are Harry Bunt and Tim Paek. 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 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 17th, Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP Satellite Workshop Dialogue on Dialogues: Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Advanced Speech-based Interactive Systems (Pittsburgh, PA) - September 1, 2007: Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (Antwerp, Belgium)