23.2144, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Korea

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Subject: 23.2144, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Korea

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Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:43:47
From: Pierre Lison [plison at ifi.uio.no]
Subject: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems

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Full Title: Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems 
Short Title: YRRSDS 

Date: 03-Jul-2012 - 04-Jul-2012
Location: Seoul, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Pierre Lison
Meeting Email: yrrsds2012 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.yrrsds.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-May-2012 

Meeting Description:

The 8th Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2012) will be held on July 3-4 in Seoul, South Korea.

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) is an annual workshop designed for graduate students, post-docs and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The YRRSDS 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.

Previous workshops have been co-located with SIGdial or InterSpeech, and YRRSDS 2011 was recently held in Portland, Oregon, US. YRRSDS 2012 will be hosted by Seoul National University, and will be held directly before SIGdial and ACL 2012.

The workshop has four main goals:

1. To offer an interdisciplinary forum for creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialogue systems research
2. To provide young researchers with career advice from senior researchers and professionals from both academic and industrial backgrounds
3. To develop a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field
4. To provide a platform for sharing knowledge about methodology, approaches, and tools

YRRSDS'12 will feature:

A senior researcher panel (both academia and industry)
A demo and poster session (Best Poster Award!)
Two Roundtable discussion and presentation sessions
A special session on tools and toolkits for research in SDS

YRRSDS 2012 is endorsed by:

ACL http://www.aclweb.org
ISCA http://www.isca-speech.org
SIGdial http://www.sigdial.org
dialogs on dialogs http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Edgroup/index.html

We thank our Sponsors:

Google http://www.google.com
Microsoft Research http://www.research.microsoft.com
AT&T Research http://www.research.att.com
LG Electronics http://www.lg.com/global/index.jsp 

Call for Papers:

Submission Information:

We invite any researcher who is at a relatively early stage of their career (there is no age limit) to submit a 2-page position paper. This should include their past, present and future work, a short bio and topic suggestions for the workshop. Acceptance is on a first-come, first-served basis and the number of participants is generally capped at 50. Poster presentation by all participants is expected. However, posters need only present current work and are not necessarily from a published paper. Further format and outline information are provided at http://www.yrrsds.org under Submissions.

Please submit via the EasyChair system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yrrsds2012

If you experience any problems with submission please contact the organizers at: yrrsds2012 at gmail.com.

Important Dates:

Submissions deadline: May 21, 2012
Author notification: May 28, 2012
Camera ready deadline: June 11, 2012

Some Topics of Interest (more complete list at http://www.yrrsds.org):

Models of dialogue: Statistical, Symbolic and Hybrid dialogue modeling
Spoken Language Understanding
Approaches to Dialogue Management
Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
The Spoken Dialogue Challenge: SDS evaluation
Psycholinguistic influences of dialogue system design
Dialogue system development beyond toy research domains
The importance of establishing social relations with the user in automated dialogues
Interacting with virtual and robotic agents
Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue systems
Context and spoken dialogue systems
Building truly incremental spoken dialogue systems
Dialogue data collection, sharing data sets and formats for statistical models
Understanding industry development cycles, requirements, and future application domains for dialogue systems

Organizing Committee:

Timo Baumann (U Hamburg, Germany)
WonSeok Choi (U Sogang, South Korea)
Heather Friedberg (U Pittsburgh, USA)
Jana Götze (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
Srini Janarthanam (HWU Edinburgh, UK)
Kyungduk Kim (POSTECH, South Korea)
Pierre Lison (U Oslo, Norway)
Alejandra Lorenzo (Loria, France)
Raveesh Meena (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
Michal Ptaszynski (High-Tech research Center, Japan)
HyukSu Ryu (U Seoul, South Korea)






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