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FinanceSIGDIAL 2011
Business MeetingTim Paek, Amanda Stent and Kristiina Jokinen
SIGDIAL Executive Board
AgendaSIGDIAL 2011 Conference ReportSIGDIAL 2010-11 ActivitiesSIGDIAL FinancesAnnouncements from affiliates and sponsored
eventsSIGDIAL 2012
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SIGDIAL 2011Organizing Committee
General Chairs: David Traum and Johanna MooreProgram Chairs: Joyce Chai and Rebecca PassonneauLocal Chair: Peter HeemanSponsorships Chair: Jason WilliamsMentoring Chair: Ronnie Smith
Statistics: 68 papers were submitted, 25 of which were accepted as full papers, 11 as poster papers and demo papers.
Sigdial 2011 GeneralAttendance
87 pre-registered Participants13 Countries30 students~19 sigdial only (no ACL)
Finances“green”:
re-usable shopping bags, no printed
~$5000 surplus
ProgramReceived 68 paper submissions
51 long papers18 were accepted as plenary presentations7 were accepted as long papers for poster presentations5 were accepted as short papers for poster presentation
17 short papers6 were accepted for poster presentations
Received 8 demo submissions7 will be presented.
Four papers in the special theme session on situated dialogue
Program CommitteeConsists of 90 members
Mentoring serviceChaired by Ronnie SmithOne paper received mentoring
Invited SpeakersAlex Lascarides
University of EdinburghMichael Tenanhaus University of Rochester
Strategic Conversation Common Ground and Perspective-taking in Real-time Language Processing
Award ProcessAwards
Best paper Award, sponsored by AT&T Labs Research,
Best Student Paper, sponsored by IBM ResearchNominees selected from those recommended by
PC membersBest paper award committee The awards will be announced at the end of the
conference.
Best Paper Award, Sponsored by AT&T Labs Research
NomineesWhich System Differences Matter? Using L1/L2
Regularization to Compare Dialogue SystemsJosé González-Brenes and Jack MostowFri, Session 1, 11:10
A Two-Stage Domain Selection Framework for Extensible Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mikio Nakano, Shun Sato, Kazunori Komatani, Kyoko Matsuyama, Kotaro Funakoshi and Hiroshi G. Okuno
Fri, Session 1, 11:35
A Comparison of Latent Variable Models For Conversation Analysis
Sourish Chaudhuri and Bhiksha RajFri, Session 2, 16:25
Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech RecognitionEthan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman and Jason WilliamsSat, Session 4, 14:15
Best Student Paper AwardSponsored by IBM Research
Nominees
Which System Differences Matter? Using L1/L2 Regularization to Compare Dialogue Systems
José González-Brenes and Jack MostowFri, Session 1, 11:10
A Comparison of Latent Variable Models For Conversation Analysis
Sourish Chaudhuri and Bhiksha RajFri, Session 2, 16:25
Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition
Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman and Jason WilliamsSat, Session 4, 14:15
Successful SIGDIAL 2010Thanks to the Organizing Committee!
General Co-Chairs: Yasuhiro Katagiri and Mikio Nakano
Technical Co-Chairs: Raquel Fernández and Oliver Lemon
Local Chair: Kazunori Komatani97 submissions / 127 registrationsNet profit: 203,761JPY
SIGDIAL 2010-11 Initiatives
The current executive committee has the goals of broadening the reach of SIGDIAL across discourse and dialog communities (ACL, ISCA, IEEE), and of encouraging more participation from SIGDIAL members through online and offline activities
In 2010-11 SIGDIAL Ran electionsHeld a logo competitionExtended our affiliations and sponsorships
SIGDIAL 2010 ElectionsHeld elections for 3 Executive Board positions and 3
Scientific Advisory Board positions in September 2010
For all members who voted, thank you!
Election results announced in January, 2011 Executive Board incumbents re-elected: Tim Paek (President),
Amanda Stent (Vice President), Kristiina Jokinen (Secretary-Treasurer)
3 New Scientific Advisory Board members: Joyce Chai, Matthew Purver, Ingrid Zukerman
Existing Scientific Advisory Board members: Mikio Nakano, Janyce Wiebe, Jason Williams.
Thank you for your serviceWe thank the following Scientific Advisory Board members:
• David Schlangen
• Candy Sidner
• Michael McTear
SIGDIAL LogoLogo contest featured over 15 entriesWinner is Luis Fernando D’Haro’s entry,
submitted with Andres Ramirez-Calambás
SIGDIAL AffiliationsSIG of ACL and of ISCA“In-Cooperation” affiliation with AAAISponsored by ELSNET Initiative to become “industrial partner” of SpeechTek
Europe 2011 was approved Initiative to seek out technical co-sponsorship for our venues
from IEEE SLT was approved and ratified on their endSIGDIAL Liaisons: Roberto Pieraccini (IEEE SLT), Alexander
Rudnicky (AVIOS), Candy Sidner (IUI), Harry Bunt (SIGSEM), Yasuhiro Katagiri (SIGSLUD), Sebastian Varges (SIGGEN)
SIGDIAL Sponsored Venues
SIGDIALSEMDIALIWSDSYRRSDSDialogue and Discourse
SIGDIAL FinancesIncome and expenses:
No membership fees Workshop organisation
Rough net cost: about 12 - 27 k EurosRegistration fees set for assumed break-even pointExternal support has grown in the past few years
May reflect prestige as a conference in the community 2011: Microsoft, HRI, AT&T, IBM Research, Vlingo, Avios Thanks to the sponsorship chair Jason Williams
We thank our sponsors!
AT&T Labs – Research Best paper award
sponsor
Honda Research Institute
Banquet sponsor
Applied Voice Input/Output Society
(AVIOS)Conference sponsor
IBM ResearchBest student paper
award sponsor
Microsoft ResearchConference sponsor
Vlingo, Inc.Conference sponsor
SIGDIAL FundsSIGDIAL “Shadow Account”
Maintained by ACL Balance: $24,599.90 (= 17k Euro)
Without 2011 Conference OrganizationIncludes $7250 sponsorships (+ $500 from AT&T)
SIGDIAL Euro Account Resides in Helsinki Balance: 15,141.27 Euro (= $22,000)
(After funding transferred from University of Tokyo, 2010 Conference)
Co-signers: President and Secretary-Treasurer
SIGDIAL Funds2011 Initiative: Logo Contest
150 Euro award to Luis Fernando D'Haro Other support possibilities using SIGDIAL
fundsStudent participation/travel in the SIGDIAL
conferencesBest paper awardsFinancial support for the endorsed workshopsStartup funding for the journalExpanding Sharable ResourcesEtc.?
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