Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia
Manfred Stede, Potsdam University, Germany

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK
David DeVault, Anticipant Speech / University of Southern California, USA

Mentoring Chair

Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Local Chairs

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Saarland University and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Volha Petukhova, Saarland University, Germany

Sponsorships Chair

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGdial President

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

SIGdial Vice President

Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA

SIGdial Secretary/Treasurer

Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Tartu, Estonia

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, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIF/CNRS, France
Steve Beet, Aculab plc, UK
Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Timothy Bickmore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Nate Blaylock, Nuance Communications, Canada
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research, USA
Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden
Kristy Boyer, University of Florida, USA
Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University, Germany
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
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull, UK
Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Rakuten, USA
Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service, USA
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Raquel Fernandez, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kotaro Funakoshi, Honda Research Institute Japan
Milica Gasic, Cambridge University, UK
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot, France
Curry Guinn, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield, UK
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Larry Heck, Google, USA
Peter Heeman, Oregon Health and Sciences University, USA
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo, Japan
David Janiszek, Universite Paris Descartes, France
Yangfeng Ji, Georgia Tech, USA
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
Casey Kennington, Boise State University, Idaho
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
Kornel Laskowski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sungjin Lee, Microsoft Research, USA
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
Matthew Marge, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Raveesh Meena, KTH, Sweden
Yashar Mehdad, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA, USA
Helena Moniz, INESC-ID and FLUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institutes of Science and Technology, Japan
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, INRS-EMT (University of Quebec), Canada
Alexandros Papangelis, Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK
Aasish Pappu, Yahoo! Inc, USA
Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex, UK
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento, Italy
Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, France
Michael Roth, UIUC/Saarland
Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institutes of Science and Technology, Japan
Niko Schenk, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
David Schlangen, Bielefeld University, Germany
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions Corporation, USA
Gabriel Skantze, KTH Speech Music and Hearing, Sweden
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg LP, USA
Matthew Stone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Interactions Corporation, USA
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College, USA
Reid Swanson, University of Southern California, USA
Björn Schuller, Imperial College London, UK and University of Passau, Germany
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
Stefan Ultes, Cambridge University, UK
David Vandyke, Cambridge University, UK
Marilyn Walker, UCSC, USA
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh, UK
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: April 9, 2017 - Credits