SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE Call for Participation

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Participation
Abbreviated Title: 
SIGDIAL2015
Location: 
Charles University
Wednesday, 2 September 2015 to Friday, 4 September 2015
Country: 
Czech Republic
Contact Email: 
City: 
Prague
Contact: 
general chairs

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SIGDIAL 2015 CONFERENCE
The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and
Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2015) will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on September
2-4.

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 fifteen successful previous
meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas 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.

See conference website for full program:
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/conference16/

Registration by 30th September 2015 is EUR 155 for students, EUR 235 for
others.

PROGRAM

* Invited speakers
* Oral presentations
* Poster presentations
* Demonstrations
* Open space session
* MultiLing special session
* Banquet

INVITED SPEAKERS

Frank Fischer (University of Munich, Germany):
The Interplay of Discussion, Cognition and Instruction in
Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments

Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Microsoft Research, USA):
Graph-based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs
* Alexander Koller, University of Potsdam, Germany
* Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Technical Program Co-Chairs
* Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
* Carolyn Penstein Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Local Chair
* Filip Jurcicek, Charles University, Czech Republic

Mentoring Chair
* Svetlana Stoyanchev, Interactions Corporation, USA

Sponsorships Chair
* Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA

SIGdial President
* Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA

SIGdial Vice President
* Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer
* Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland