Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Raquel Fernandez, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan

Mentoring Chair

Pierre Lison, University of Oslo, Norway

Local Chair

Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA
Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA

Sponsorships Chair

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President

Amanda Stent, Yahoo, USA

SIGdial Vice President

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Program Committee

Stergos Afantenos, University of Toulouse, France
Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA
Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France
Steve Beet, Aculab plc, UK
Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Nicole Beringer, 3SOFT GmbH, Germany
Timothy Bickmore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Nate Blaylock, Nuance Communications, Canada
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA
Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden
Kristy Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA
Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Christophe Cerisara, CNRS, France
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University, USA
Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK
David DeVault, University of Southern California, USA
Laurence Devillers, LIMSI, France
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon.com, USA
Jens Edlund, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Kotaro Funakoshi, Honda Research Institute Japan
Milica Gasic, Cambridge University, UK
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, France
Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA
Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden
Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield, UK
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft Research, USA
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Larry Heck, Google, USA
Peter Heeman, Oregon Health and Sciences University, USA
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
Anna Hjalmarsson, KTH, Sweden
David Janiszek, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Yangfeng Ji, Georgia Tech, USA
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Arne Jonsson, Linkoping University, Sweden
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Shafiq Joty, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Simon Keizer, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Dongho Kim, Yonsei University, Korea
Norihide Kitaoka, Nagoya University, Japan
Kazunori Komatani, Nagoya University, Japan
Stefan Kopp, Bielefeld University, Germany
Romain Laroche, Orange Labs, France
Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sungjin Lee, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kornel Laskowski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Fabrice Lefevre, University of Avignon, France
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
Matthew Marge, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield, UK
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Yashar Mehdad, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Raveesh Meena, KTH, Sweden
Helena Moniz, INESC-ID and FLUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA, USA
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institutes of Science and Technology, Japan
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (University of Quebec), Canada
Aasish Pappu, Yahoo! Inc, USA
Olivier Pietquin, University Lille 1, France
Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Rashmi Prasad, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy
Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, France
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kenji Sagae, University of Southern California, USA
Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institutes of Science and Technology, Japan
Niko Schenk, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Alexander Schmitt, Daimler R&D, Germany
David Schlangen, Bielefeld University, Germany
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden
Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Svetlana Stoyanchev, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London
Reid Swanson, University of Southern California, USA
Marc Swerts, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Joel Tetreault, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Gokhan Tur, Microsoft Research, USA
David Traum, University of Southern California, USA
Stefan Ultes, Cambridge University, UK
David Vandyke, Cambridge University, UK
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
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: Februar 19, 2016 - Credits