Organizers

General Chair

Olivier Pietquin, Google AI

Program Chairs

Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University

Vivian Chen, National Taiwan University

Local/Virtual Chair

Casey Kennington, Boise State University

Sponsorship Chair

David Vandyke, University of Cambridge

Mentoring Chair

Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull

Publication Chair

Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany

SIGDIAL President

Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

SIGDIAL Vice President

Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan

SIGDIAL Secretary

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA

SIGDIAL Treasurer

Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA

SIGDIAL President Emeritus

Jason Williams, Apple, USA

Mailing List Maintainer

Amanda Stent, Bloomberg, USA

Scientific Committee

SPC
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon
Annie Louis, Google
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Penn State University
Gabriel Skantze, KTH
Manfred Stede, Universität Potsdam
David Traum, University of Southern California
Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute

PC
Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Ron Artstein, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg
Frederic Bechet, Aix Marseille Universite - LIS/CNRS
Steve Beet, Aculab plc
Jose Miguel Benedi, Universitàt Politècnica de València
Luciana Benotti, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Nate Blaylock, Cerence
Dan Bohus, Microsoft Research
Johan Boye, KTH
Chloé Braud, IRIT - CNRS
Hendrik Buschmeier, Bielefeld University
Andrew Caines, University of Cambridge
Christophe Cerisara, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LORIA
Senthil Chandramohan, Microsoft
Lin Chen, Head of AI, Cambia Health Solutions
Paul Crook, Facebook
Heriberto Cuayahuitl, University of Lincoln
Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull
David DeVault, University of Southern California
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago
Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University
Keelan Evanini, Educational Testing Service
Mauro Falcone, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Michel Galley, Microsoft Research
Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Alborz Geramifard, Facebook AI
Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
Joakim Gustafson, KTH
Ivan Habernal, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Helen Hastie, Heriot-Watt University
Michael Heck, Heinrich Heine University
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT Media Intelligence Labs.
Takuya Hiraoka, NEC Central Research Laboratories
David M. Howcroft, Heriot-Watt University
Ruihong Huang, Texas A&M University
Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications
Koji Inoue, Kyoto University
Filip Jurcicek, Apple Inc.
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University
Simon Keizer, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Chandra Khatri, Uber AI
Alexander Koller, Saarland University
Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University
Kornel Laskowski, Carnegie Mellon University
Fabrice Lefevre, Avignon University
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University
Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin
Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre
Bing Liu, Facebook
Eduardo Lleida Solano, University of Zaragoza
José Lopes, Heriot Watt University
Ramon Lopez-Cozar, University of Granada
Nurul Lubis, Heinrich Heine University
Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute USA
Seungwhan Moon, Facebook Conversational AI
Elena Musi, University of Liverpool
Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Vincent Ng, University of Texas at Dallas
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, Univ. of Quebec
Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI
Cecile Paris, CSIRO
Nanyun Peng, University of Southern California
Laura Perez-Beltrachini, University of Edinburgh
Paul Piwek, The Open University
Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD / HES-SO
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service R&D
Abhinav Rastogi, Google Inc.
Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento
Antonio Roque, Tufts University
Carolyn Rose, Carnegie Mellon University
Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) / RIKEN AIP
Ruhi Sarikaya, Amazon
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam
Ethan Selfridge, Interactions LLC
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp.
Matthew Stone, Rutgers University
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Toshiba Research Europe
Kristina Striegnitz, Union College
Pei-Hao Su, PolyAI
Hiroaki Sugiyama, NTT Communication Science Labs.
António Teixeira, University of Aveiro
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Bo-Hsiang Tseng, University of Cambridge
Gokhan Tur, Amazon
Stefan Ultes, Mercedes Benz AG
David Vandyke, Apple
Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica
Yi-Chia Wang, Uber AI
Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso
Jason D Williams, Apple
Yen-chen Wu, University of Cambridge
Steve Young, University of Cambridge
Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zhou Yu, University of California, Davis
Jian ZHANG, Dongguan University of Technology; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology