Special Interest Group for Discourse and Dialogue

[Susann LuperFoy]

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		Announcing a Special Interest Group

			   ACL-SIGDIAL

	    the Association for Computational Linguistics
           Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue


The aim of SIGDIAL is to bring together researchers and system developers
interested in discourse and dialogue processing, including those with an
interest in development or evaluation of deployable dialogue systems. It is
our intention to serve as a focal point for sharing information and
resources. SIGDIAL will provide members with a means of exchanging news and
recent research developments, to sponsor meetings in discourse and dialogue
processing, and to make available all forms of relevant resource material.


The SIGDIAL homepage at http://www.iet.com/Projects/sigdial/.


There you will find, among other information, the initial and temporary
officers and  Science Advisory Committee members and their email addresses,
including:

President		Susann LuperFoy
---------		luperfoy at iet.com



Vice President		David Traum
--------------		traum at cs.umd.edu



Secretary		Morena Danieli
---------		danieli at cselt.it


Information Officers
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			Bonnie Webber  		(Sep-Oct)
			Candy Sidner 		(Nov-Dec)
			Jennifer Chu-Carroll 	(Jan-Feb)
			Sandra Carberry		(Mar-Apr)
			Barbara Di Eugenio  	(May-Jun)
			David Traum  		(Jul-Aug)


The webpage at http://www.iet.com/Projects/sigdial/calendar/ has
instructions for posting announcements for upcoming events to the SIGDial
current events calendar via the SIGDial Information Officer.


ACL Student Liaison	Lisa Harper
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AAAI Liaison		Diane Litman
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CHI Liaison		David Novick
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ESCA Liaison		(open)
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ICSLP Liaison		Julia Hirschberg
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Additional Science Advisory Committee Members
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			Jens Allwood
			Masato Ishizaki
			Johanna Moore
			David Novick
			Norbert Reithinger
			David Sadek
			Oliviero Stock



Chair of the Bibliography Committee is	Florence Reeder freeder at mitre.org



Upcoming election for the SIG officers will take place later this year. The
nomination and voting procedure instructions will be presented to SIGDIAL
members via our mailing list by our election committee co-chairs, David
Traum and Kristiina Jokinen (traum at cs.umd.edu and kjokinen at itl.atr.co.jp).

To join SIGDIAL, and subscribe to the moderated SIGDial Members mailing
list, you can send an email message to majordomo at dc.iet.com with the
message body

	subscribe sigdial

If you have difficulty with your subscription contact Susann LuperFoy
directly at (luperfoy at iet.com). A threaded email archive is being stored
at:
	http://www.iet.com/Projects/sigdial/archives/



For more information about the SIG, please check out the SIGDIAL homepage at
	http://www.iet.com/Projects/sigdial/.