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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