About SIGdialSpecial Interest Group on Discourse and DialogueSIGdial_bd4202c0-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471The Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial) is constituted as a special interest group of one or more parent organizations. Parent organizations for SIGdial are currently the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); SIGdial also has an affiliation relationship with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.Association for Computational LinguisticsInternational Speech Communication AssociationAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceSIGdial Officers2017-2019Jason WilliamsPresidentKallirroi GeorgilaVice PresidentVikram RamanarayananSecretaryTreasurerEthan SelfridgeGabriel SkantzeBoard MemberBarbara Di EugenioBoard MemberMilica GasicBoard MemberRyuchiro HigashinakaBoard MemberAnnie LouisBoard MemberKai YuBoard MemberSebastien MoellerISCA LiaisonRaquel FernandezSEMDIAL LiaisonDavid SchlangenSEMDIAL LiaisonSatoshi NakamuraIEEE SLTC LiaisonKotaro FunakoshiSIG-SLUD LiaisonCandace SidnerIUI LiaisonKristiina JokinenIWSDS LiaisonDan BohusICMI LiaisonJohn LangfordICML LiaisonAntoine BordesNIPS/ICLR LiaisonHideo JohoSIGIR Liaison Amanda StentInformation Officer/Web Admin & President EmeritusLaurent RomaryMailing List Maintainer_bd4203c4-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471To promote interest in discourse and dialogue processing._bd420464-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471DiscourseDialogueDiscourse ProcessingPromote development and distribution of reusable discourse processing components._bd42055e-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684711LibraryProvide and coordinate a library of discourse processing development tools, software, data, bibliographic references, publications, and links to related web pages._bd4205f4-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684711.1EvaluationExplore techniques for evaluation of dialogue systems._bd420680-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684712_bd420716-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471Resources & DataShare resources and data among the international community._bd4207a2-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684713Promotion, Development & PublicationPromote and develop the field and avenues for publication_bd42082e-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684713.1Workshops & Symposia LiaisonDevelop standard corpora and interface formats for coordination of the organization of workshops and symposia liaison with other SIGs, funding organizations, etc._bd4208c4-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684713.2Symposia LiaisonsSpecial Interest GroupsResearchEncourage empirical methods in research._bd420950-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684714CommunicationFacilitate communication between researchers in this field._bd4209e6-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684714.1Discourse & Dialogue ResearchersInformationProvide information about relevant research and resources._bd420acc-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684714.2Transcription, Segmentation & AnnotationAgree upon standards for discourse transcription, segmentation, and annotation._bd420b6c-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684715_bd420c0c-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471CollaborationPromote collaboration among developers of various dialogue system components._bd420cb6-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684716_bd420d38-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c574068471Student ParticipationSupport student participation in the discourse and dialogue community._bd420dd8-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684717StudentsDiscourse & Dialogue Community_bd420f5e-da2e-11e7-b85c-a4c5740684712017-12-05OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net