Organizing Committees
Chairs
Organizers
Local Organiser: David Griol
Universidad de Granada
Spain
Publicity: Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà
Sponsorship Chair: José Quesada
Special Sessions Chair: María Inés Torres (UPV/EHU)
IWSDS Steering Committee members
Maxine Eskenazi
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Laurence Devillers
LIMSI-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4, France
Rafael E. Banchs
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
Sabato Marco Siniscalchi
Kore University of Enna, Italy
Wolfgang Minker
Ulm University, Germany
Senior Steering Committee
Kristiina Jokinen
AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan
Joseph Mariani
LIMSI-CNRS, France
Haizhou Li
National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Traum
University of Southern California, USA
Satoshi Nakamura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Scientific Program Committee
Adi Gurram Apple Inc., USA
Alessandro Valitutti University College Dublin, Ireland
Anders Johannsen Apple Inc., USA
Andreea Niculescu Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Anna Esposito University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Anne Vilnat LIMSI-CNRS, France
Anselmo Peñas NLP & IR Group, UNED, Spain
Antoine Raux Facebook Inc., USA
Anton Nijholt University of Twente, the Netherlands
Arantxa Otegi University of the Basque Country, Spain
Axel Buendia CNAM, France
Bayan Abushawar Arab Open University, Kuwait
Carl Vogel Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Carlos Segura Perales Telefónica I+D, Spain
Catherine Pelachaud CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Universite, France
Costanza Navarretta University of Copenhagen, Denmark
David Griol University of Granada, Spain
Dávid Sztahó Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
David Camilo Corrales INRA, France
Dhivya Piraviperumal Apple Inc., USA
Dijana Petrovska-Delacretaz TELECOM SudParis, France
Doaa Samy Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Edouard Geoffrois European Commission
Elnaz Nouri University of Southern California, USA
Emer Gilmartin Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Etsuo Mizukami National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Fabrice Lefèvre Avignon Université, France
Felix Burkhardt audEERING, Germany
Fernando Fernández-Martínez Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Frederic Bechet Aix Marseille Université - LIF, France
Gabriel Skantze KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Gennaro Cordasco Universita' della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Italy
Giampiero Salvi Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Girish Kumar Stanford University, USA
Haizhou Li National University of Singapore, Singapore
Harksoo Kim Kangwon National University, South Korea
Helen Meng The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Heriberto Cuayahuitl University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
Hong Yu Apple Inc., USA
Hong Kook Kim Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Hsin-Min Wang Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Huiru Zheng University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Hung-Yi Lee National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ikram Chairi Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco
Jan Alexandersson DFKI GmbH, Germany
Jerome Bellegarda Apple, Inc., USA
Joakim Gustafson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Jonathan Ginzburg Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), France
José David Lopes Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom
José Francisco Quesada Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
José Luis Pro Lekta.ai, Spain
Joseph Mariani LIMSI-CNRS, France
Justin Dauwels Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Justine Cassell Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Kallirroi Georgila University of Southern California, USA
Kheng Hui Yeo Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Koichiro Yoshino Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Kotaro Funakoshi Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., Japan
Kristiina Jokinen University of Helsinki, Finland
Lasguido Nio Rakuten Institute of Technology, Japan
Leila Ben Letaifa Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain
Leonardo Campillos Llanos Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Luis Fernando D'Haro Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Luísa Coheur IST/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal
Maria Koutsombogera Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Maria Teresa Riviello Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
Mariet Theune University of Twente, the Netherlands
Mark Cieliebak Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Marta R. Costa-Jussà Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
Martin Heckmann Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Japan
Masahiro Araki Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Matthew Henderson Google Inc., USA
Maurice Mulvenna University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Michael Mctear University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Mikio Nakano Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., Japan
Milan Gnjatovic University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia
Ming Sun Facebook Inc., USA
Nancy Chen Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Nigel Ward The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Norbert Reithinger DFKI GmbH, Germany
Olivier Galibert Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais, France
Pablo Sierra Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Patrick Paroubek LIMSI-CNRS, France
Paul Heisterkamp formerly Daimler AG, Germany
Pierre Lison Norwegian Computing Center, Norway
Rafael Banchs Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado Universidad de Granada, Spain
Raquel Justo Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain
Raymond Bond University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Ridong Jiang Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Ron Artstein University of Southern California, USA
Ryuichiro Higashinaka Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan
Sabato Marco Siniscalchi University of Enna Kore, Italy
Sakriani Sakti Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Satoshi Nakamura Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Sebastian Stüker Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Seokhwan Kim Amazon Alexa AI, USA
Shuyan Dong Amazon Alexa AI, USA
Sophie Rosset LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Stefan Ultes Daimler AG, Germany
Susanne Burger Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Tatsuya Kawahara Kyoto University, Japan
Tiancheng Zhao Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Tobias Bocklet Intel Inc., USA
Tomoki Toda Nagoya University, Japan
Valerio Mario Salerno Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore", Italy
Zahra Rahimi University of Pittsburgh, USA
Zoraida Callejas Universidad de Granada, Spain