Welcome to SIGDIAL 2011!

The 12th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue will be held on June 17-18, 2011 at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, USA.

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 eleven 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.

Best Paper Awards

A Comparison of Latent Variable Methods for Conversation Analysis, by Sourish Chaudhuri and Bhiksha Raj
Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition, by Ethan O. Selfridge , Iker Arizmendi , Peter A. Heeman , and Jason D. Williams (student paper)

Invited Speakers

Professor Alex Lascarides (The University of Edinburgh) Strategic Conversation
Professor Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester) Common ground and perspective-taking in real-time language processing

CO-LOCATED EVENTS:

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems This is an annual workshop designed for students, post-docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry.
ACL HLT June 19-24th, 2011.

We thank our sponsors:

Contact E-mail: conference[at]sigdial.org

Welcome to SIGDIAL 2011!

Schedule

Online Proceedings

Registration

Instructions for Presenters

Best Paper Awards

Invited Speakers