General Co-Chairs

Johanna Moore, The University of Edinnburgh, UK
David Traum,University of Southern California, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Joyce Chai Michigan State University, USA
Rebecca Passonneau Columbia University, USA

Program Committee

Hua Ai, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gregory Aist, Arizona State University
Jan Alexandersson, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Jens Allwood, University of Göteborg
Nicholas Asher, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs Research
Nate Blaylock, Florida Institute for Human Machine Cognition
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research
Johan Boye, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Harry Bunt, University of Tilburg
Donna Byron, Northeastern University
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University 
Yejin Choi, Stony Brook University
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Mark Core, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies
David DeVault, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Barbara	Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University 
Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam
Katherine Forbes-Riley, University of Pittsburgh
Matthew Frampton, Stanford University
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Genevieve Gorrell, University of Sheffield
Agustin Gravano, University of Buenos Aires
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Alexander Gruenstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Joakim	Gustafson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Helen Hastie, Heriot Watt University
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Beth Ann Hockey, University of California at Santa Cruz
Michael	Johnston, AT&T Labs Research
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki
Arne Jonsson, Linköping University
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Simon Keizer, University of Cambridge 
John Kelleher, Dublin Institute of Technology
Alistair Knott, University of Otago
Geert-Jan Kruijff, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, University of Saarlandes
Ian Lane, Carnegie Mellon University
Staffan Larsson, Göteborg University
Gary Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech)
Fabrice Lefevre, Cambridge University
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Ramon Lopez-Cozar, University of Granada
Susann Luperfoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm
Sebastian Moller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute
Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvannia
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research
Shimei Pan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS
Paul Piwek, Open University
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute
Matthew Purver, University of London
Antoine Raux, Honda Research Institute
Norbert Reithinger, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Alex Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University
Yoshinori Sagisaka, Waseda University
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Stephanie Seneff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft	
Candace Sidner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Manfred	Stede, University of Potsdam
Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs Research
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Open University
Michael	Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University 
Tokunaga Takenobu, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thora Tenbrink, University of Bremen
Joel Tetrault, Educational Testing Service
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft 
Marilyn Walker, University of California at Santa Cruz
Nigel Ward, University of Texas El Paso
Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh
Jason Williams, AT&T Labs Research
Teresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh
Steve Young, University of Cambridge 
Michelle Zhou, IBM Almaden Research Center
Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University

Mentoring Chair

Ronnie Smith East Carolina University, USA

Local Chair

Peter Heeman Oregon Health & Science University, USA

Sponsorships Chair

Jason Williams AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL President

Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGDIAL Vice President

Amanda Stent, AT&T Labs - Research, USA

SIGDIAL Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland