Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Mentoring Chair

Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Local Chair

Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA

Sponsorships Chair

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, 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

Program Committee

Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Yasuo Ariki, Kobe University, Japan
Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA
Timo Baumann, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France
Steve Beet, Aculab plc, UK
Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
Nicole Beringer, 3SOFT GmbH, Germany
Nate Blaylock, Nuance Communications, Canada
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA
Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft, USA
Christophe Cerisara, CNRS, France
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA
Mark Core, University of Southern California, USA
Paul Crook, Microsoft, USA
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Xiaodong Cui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University, USA
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA
Dimitrios Dimitriadis, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jens Edlund, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France
Raquel Fernández, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Panayiotis Georgiou, University of Southern California, USA
Agustin Gravano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft Research, USA
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Peter Heeman, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Center for Spoken Language Understanding, USA
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
David Janiszek, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arne Jonsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Norihide Kitaoka, Nagoya University, Japan
Kazunori Komatani, Nagoya University, Japan
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
Ian Lane, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Romain Laroche, Orange Labs, France
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sungjin Lee, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, South Korea
Fabrice Lefevre, University of Avignon, France
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
James Lester, North Carolina State University, USA
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Eduardo Lleida Solano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Ramon Lopez-Cozar, University of Granada, Spain
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
Hugo Meinedo, INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany
Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA, USA
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Elmar Noeth, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (University of Quebec), Canada
Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Antoine Raux, Lenovo Labs, USA
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Schlangen, Bielefeld University, Germany
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Amanda Stent, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Joel Tetreault, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Isabel Trancoso, INESC-ID / IST, Portugal
David Traum, University of Southern California, USA
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, USA
Renata Vieira, PUCRS, Brazil
Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
Steve Young, Cambridge University, UK
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jian Zhang, Dongguan University of Technology and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China



Last update: June 12, 2014 - Credits