Potential participants should submit a 2-page position paper which should include their past, present and future work, a short bio and topic suggestions for the workshop. The format and outline are provided in latex and word templates. If you want to see what people submitted for last year's workshop, last year proceedings can be found here.

Submission templates: Word zip-file, LaTeX zip-file, LaTeX tgz-file
Only pdf documents can be accepted for submission.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis from May 17th until the maximum number of participants for the workshop (50) is reached, or until the submission deadline July 30, 2010 is reached. Please submit your PDF file to the organizing committee at submission_AT_yrrsds_DOT_org.

In addition to paper submission, please answer the poll for discussion topics. We suggest a list of discussion topics below, but feel free to suggest other subjects of your interest. The submitted discussion topics will be clustered, and preceeding the workshop, participants will be asked to express their interest in the topics chosen for discussion.

Why develop dialogue systems?
Links between dialogue and cognition,
Role of affect in dialogue,
Face-to-face dialogue involves the embodiment of messages,
Task-oriented versus conversational dialogue,
Dialogue systems as a testbed for theories of dialogue,
Dialogue management or interaction management,
What to say vs. when to say it,
Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue systems,
Context and spoken dialogue systems,
Models of dialogue: Statistical dialogue modeling vs. symbolic dialogue modeling (rule-based, plan-based, agent-based)
Dialogue management: Domain/task/strategy switching in multi-purpose,
Combination of management,
Self-evolutionary dialogue management,
Multiparty dialogue,
Building truly incremental SDS,
Models for learning and reasoning beyond the confines of a single interaction,
SDS/HRI situated in real or in virtual worlds,
(Audio-visual) conversational scene analysis,
Combining SDS and question-answering systems,
Objectivity and SDS evaluation,
Shared evaluation and data collection campaigns,
Dialogue data collection,
Sharing data sets and formats for statistical models,
Understanding industry development cycles, requirements, and future SDS application domains.

Registration instructions will be emailed to each participant after acceptance. Specific questions can be directed to the organizing committee at yrr10-organizers_AT_googlegroups_DOT_com.

In addition to the position papers, the YRR offers attendees the opportunity to receive feedback from academic and industry panelists as well as from fellow attendees on a poster or demo of their current work. We will provide space to put up posters during the lunch break. This is a great chance to receive feedback from other researchers working in the same research area in an informal way - so don't miss out on this opportunity!
In case you want to present a demo, please bring a laptop.