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 Post-event material

Proceedings of YRRSDS 2008

Summaries of discussion groups:
Next killer applications
Multimodal
Realistic Conversation

Web albums
Oskar's
Craig's
Sabrina's

Industry talks
Tobias Göbel, VoiceObjects


 Overview

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop is meant to provide an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research, and help create a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field.

Please note that by 'young researchers' the workshop's organizers mean to target students and researchers in the field who are at a relatively early stage of their careers, and in no way mean to imply that participants must meet certain age restrictions.

This year, the workshop will be held on June 21th, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio, as a satellite workshop to ACL 2008, the day after the 9th SIGdial workshop.It will be held on campus of the The Ohio State University, not far from the ACL location.

Previous workshops were held in Antwerp (Interspeech 2007), Pittsburgh (Interspeech 2006) and Lisbon (Interspeech 2005). Here you can also find the previous years' proceedings and notes.

Here is the poster advertising the workshop. Please post in your department!

ISCA will consider applications for a limited number of travel grants for the roundtable.  Applications should be send to grants@isca-speech.org, details of the application process and forms are available from http://www.isca-speech.org/grants.html. Closing date for applications is May, 24th.

 Workshop Format

Workshop events will include small informal discussion groups, a larger Question & Answers style discussion with senior researchers from academia and industry, and an opt-in demo presentation session. There will also be time for participants to have informal discussions over coffee with senior researchers on potential career opportunities. The small discussion groups are intended to allow participants to exchange ideas on key research topics, and identify issues that are likely to be important in the coming years. The results of each discussion group will then presented and discussed in plenary sessions. The topics for discussion are still open and will be determined by participant submissions and finalized online before the workshop. Potential participants should submit a short paper, as described below in the submission process to get accepted to the workshop.

In addition to the traditional one day event, a half day extension on the topic of Frameworks and Grand Challenges for Dialog System Evaluation is under consideration for the morning of June 22nd, 2008. The aim of this extra extension is to provide an opportunity for dialog systems researchers to discuss issues of evaluation, and hopefully determine an agenda for a future evaluation event or framework. Organization of this extended event will depend on interest; we therefore, as described below, invite potential participants to indicate their interest with their YRR08 submission.

Please see the Call for Participation for a list of potential topics

 Workshop Committees

Organizing Committee

Hua Ai, Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Carlos Gómez Gallo, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, USA
Robert J. Ross, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Germany
Sabrina Wilske, Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany
Andi Winterboer, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, University of Edinburgh, UK
Craig Wootton, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Local Organization

Tim Weale, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA

Advisory Committee

John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany
Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Sudeep Gandhe, University of Southern California, USA
Stefan Hamerich, Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Germany
Hartwig Holzapfel, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
Alistair Knott, Otago University, New Zealand
Geert-Jan Kruijff, DFKI Language Technology, Germany
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Johanna Moore, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ian O'Neill, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research, USA
Verena Rieser, University of Edinburgh, UK
Antonio Roque, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
David Schlangen, University of Potsdam, Germany
Marilyn Walker, University of Sheffield, UK
Fuliang Weng, Bosch Research, USA
Wieneke Wesseling, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael White, Ohio State University, USA



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