Date: 19-Apr-2011
From: Lina Rojas <lina.rojas loria.fr>
Subject: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
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Full Title: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems
Short Title: YRRSDS
Date: 15-Jun-2011 - 16-Jun-2011
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Contact Person: Lina Rojas
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.yrrsds.org/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 22-Apr-2011
Meeting Description:
7th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2011)
http://www.yrrsds.org
The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) is an annual workshop designed for graduate students, post-docs and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The YRRSDS provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. Previous workshops have been co-located with SIGdial or InterSpeech, and YRRSDS’10 was recently held in Japan. YRRSDS’11 will be hosted by the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, USA, and will be directly before SIGdial and ACL 2011.
The workshop has three main goals:
1) To offer an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research
2) To provide young researchers with career advice from senior researchers and professionals from both academic and industrial backgrounds
3) To develop a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field
YRRSDS'11 will feature:
A senior researcher panel (both academia and industry)
A demo and poster session (Best Poster Award!)
A special session on Embodied Conversational Agents
Two Roundtable discussion and presentation sessions
Special Session Invited Speaker: Prof. Bill Swartout, Director of Technology for USC's Institute for Creative Technologies and research professor of computer science at USC
Organizing Committee:
William Y. Wang, Columbia University, USA
Khan Md. Anwarus Salam, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Sungjin Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Lina Maria Rojas Barahona, LORIA, France
Hamid R. Chinaei, Laval University, Canada
Ethan Selfridge, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
ISCA Travel Grants: More information provided at http://www.yrrsds.org
We thank our Sponsors: IBM, Microsoft Research, LG, AT&T, and BioSpeech
YRRSDS 2011 is endorsed by: SIGdial, ACL, ISCA, ISCA-Students, dialogs on dialogs, IEEE Signal Processing Society
Call for Papers:
Submission Information:
We invite any researcher who is at a relatively early stage of their career (e.g. students, post-docs, or junior researchers in industry) to submit a 2-page position paper. This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio and topic suggestions for the workshop. Acceptance is on a first-come, first-served basis and the number of participants is generally capped at 50. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and are not necessarily from a published paper. Further format and outline information are provided at http://www.yrrsds.org under Submissions.
Please submit via the EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yrrsds2011
If you experience any problems with submission please contact the organizers at: yrrsds2011gmail.com
Important Dates:
Submissions deadline: April 22, 2011
Author notification: May 9, 2011
Camera ready deadline: May 20, 2011
Some Topics of Interest (more complete list at http://www.yrrsds.org):
- Models of dialogue: Statistical, Symbolic and Hybrid dialogue modeling
- The Spoken Dialogue Challenge: SDS evaluation
- Psycholinguistic influences of dialogue system design
- Dialogue system development beyond 'toy' research domains
- The importance of establishing social relations with the user in automated dialogues
- Interacting with virtual and robotic agents
- Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue systems
- Context and spoken dialogue systems
- Building truly incremental spoken dialogue systems
- Dialogue data collection, sharing data sets and formats for statistical models
- Understanding industry development cycles, requirements, and future application domains for dialogue systems
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