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

Program Committee

Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Yasuo Ariki, Kobe University, Japan
Ron Artstein, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, United States
Timo Baumann, Universitat Hamburg, Germany
Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France
Steve Beet, Aculab plc, United Kingdom
Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Nicole Beringer
Nate Blaylock, Nuance Communications, Canada
Dan Bohus
Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, United States
Christophe Cerisara, CNRS, France
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University,
Mark Core, University of Southern California, United States
Paul Crook, Microsoft Corporation, United States
Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Xiaodong Cui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, United States
David DeVault, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, United States
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, United States
Dimitrios Dimitriadis, IBM, United States
Myroslava Dzikovska, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jens Edlund, KTH Speech, Music and Hearing, Sweden
Arash Eshghi, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, United States
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille University LIF/CNRS, France
Raquel Fernandez, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kotaro Funakoshi, Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., Japan
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, United States
Agustin Gravano, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, United States
Curry Guinn
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft Research, United States
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, United States
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University,
Peter Heeman, OHSU / CSLU, United States
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT, Japan
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,
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Norihide Kitaoka, Nagoya University, Japan
Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
Romain Laroche, Orange Labs, France
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Sungjin Lee, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Fabrice Lefevre, Univ. Avignon, France
James Lester, North Carolina State University, United States
Eduardo Lleida Solano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Ramon Lopez-Cozar, University of Granada, Spain
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA, United States
Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., Japan
Yukiko Nakano, Seikei University, Japan
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Douglas O’Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (Univ. of Quebec), Canada
Olivier Pietquin, University Lille 1 - LIFL (CNRS/Lille 1) - SequeL team, France
Paul Piwek, The Open University, United Kingdom
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Antoine Raux, Lenovo Labs, United States
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
David Schlangen, Bielefeld University, Germany
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University, United States
Svetlana Stoyanchev
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College,
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Joel Tetreault, Nuance Communications, United States
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
David Traum, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies, United States
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, United States
Renata Vieira, PUCRS, Brazil
Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, United States
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Jason D Williams, Microsoft Research, United States
Steve Young, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Jian ZHANG, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China