Workshop topic

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in research related to spoken dialogue systems in both academia and industry. The roundtable 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. The workshop is co-located with Interspeech 2010 and will take place the day before SIGdial 2010.

Workshop Proposal

The 2010 workshop will be a 2-day event. It will include:

(1) Introductory session: participants will briefly introduce themselves and their research.

(2) Discussion sessions: participants will be split into discussion groups (three groups for the target size of 30-50 participants; the precise number of groups is subject to change depending on the number of attendees). Each group will be assigned a dialogue research issue to discuss; these topics will be chosen based on interests expressed during the submission process. Potential Roundtable discussion topics could include: Semantics and Pragmatics of dialogue systems, Objectification and SDS evaluation, Dialog data collection, Context and spoken dialog systems, Multiparty dialog, Task-oriented versus conversational dialog, SDS situated in real or in virtual worlds. The discussion groups will have two hours to discuss the topic, after which the entire group will reconvene and each group will make a short summary presentation.

(3) Demo and poster session: we will provide a space for students to present their current work and results.

(4) Senior researchers panel: we intend to invite similar numbers (probably 2-3) of senior researchers from both academia and industry for an interactive discussion.

(5) Special session and study tour: we will also try to take advantage of being in Japan. One possible idea is to have a special session on Robots and Spoken Dialog Systems, as well as a thematic study tour.

Please see the program page for more details.

Contact: yrr1...@googlegroups.com