Keynote Speakers

We are happy to announce our invited speakers for SIGDIAL/SemDial 2017:

  • Elisabeth André, Augsburg University, Germany

  • Andrew Kehler, UC San Diego, USA

  • Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK


Elisabeth André



Elisabeth André, Full Professor of Computer Science (W3),
Chair of Human-Centered Multimedia,
Faculty of Applied Informatics,
Augsburg University, Germany

Invited Lecture: Empowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research


Andrew Kehler



Andrew Kehler, Professor in the Department of Linguistics,
UC San Diego, USA

Invited Lecture: Conversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation



Oliver Lemon



Oliver Lemon, Professor and Director of the Interaction Lab,
Department of Computer Science,
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

Invited Lecture: Challenges for Data-driven Dialogue Systems: Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Conversational Data











Last update: July 13, 2017 - Credits