Organizers:

General Chair: 

David Traum, University of Southern California, USA

Program Chairs:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

Koichiro Yoshino, RIKEN & Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Finance Chair:

Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA

Local Organization:

Alesia Gainer, University of Southern California, USA (chair)

Ron Artstein, University of Southern California, USA

Rose Biedka, University of Southern California, USA

Jacqueline Brixey, University of Southern California, USA

Anabel Franco-Huerta, University of Southern California, USA

Carla Gordon, University of Southern California, USA

Anton Leuski, University of Southern California, USA

Setareh Nasihati Gilani, University of Southern California, USA

Webmaster:

Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA

IWSDS Steering Committee:

Rafael E. Banchs, Intapp Inc., USA

Zoraida Callejas, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Laurence Devillers, LISN-CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4, France

Luis Fernando D'Haro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Kristiina Jokinen, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan

Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Joseph Mariani, LISN-CNRS, France

Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany

Satoshi Nakamura, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Kore University of Enna, Italy

Svetlana Stoyanchev, Toshiba Research Europe, UK

David Traum, University of Southern California, USA

Stefan Ultes, University of Bamberg, Germany

Program Committee:

Angus Addlesee, Heriot-Watt University

Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Ron Artstein, University of Southern California

Rafael E. Banchs, Intapp Inc.

Timo Baumann, OTH Regensburg

Leila Ben Letaifa, Université de Bordeaux

Aakash Bhatnagar, Boston University

Jacqueline Brixey, University of Southern California

Susanne Burger, 3M

Felix Burkhardt, audEERING GmbH

Leonardo Campillos-Llanos, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University

Zhangming Chan, Alibaba Group

Yun-Nung Chen, National Taiwan University

Yuya Chiba, NTT

Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull

Luis Fernando D’Haro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Christian Dondrup, Heriot-Watt University

Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University

Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Kotrao Funakoshi, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nancie Gunson, Heriot-Watt University

Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI

Daniel Hernández Garcia, Heriot-Watt University

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University / NTT

Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University

Koji Inoue, Kyoto University

Seiya Kawano, RIKEN

Casey Kennington, Boise State University

Seokhwan Kim, Amazon Alexa AI

Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University

Maria Koutsombogera, Trinity College Dublin

Staffan Larsson, University of Gothenburg

Fabrice Lefèvre, University of Avignon

Pierre Lison, Norsk Regnesentral / University of Oslo

Brielen Madureira, University of Potsdam

Khyati Mahajan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Wolfgang Maier, Mercedes-Benz AG

Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Intel Labs

Vladislav Maraev, University of Gothenburg

Joseph Mariani, LISN-CNRS

Masahiro Mizukami, NTT

Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Mikio Nakano, C4A Research Institute Inc.

Setareh Nasihati Gilani, University of Southern California

Andreea Niculescu, I2R

Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, Disney Research

Alexandros Papangelis, Amazon Alexa AI

Emily Proch Ahn, University of Washington

Jose Quesada, University of Seville

Sophie Rosset, LISN-CNRS

Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology / RIKEN

Ethan Selfridge, LivePerson

Weronika Sieińska, Heriot-Watt University

Sunayana Sitaram, Microsoft Research India

Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Hiroaki Sugiyama, NTT

Chao-Hong Tan, University of Science and Technology of China

Shohei Tanaka, RIKEN

David Traum, University of Southern California

Stefan Ultes, University of Bamberg

Carl Vogel, Trinity College Dublin

Ngoc Thang Vu, University of Stuttgart

Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz

Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso

Can Xu, Microsoft

Kheng Hui Yeo, I2R

Akishige Yuguchi, RIKEN / Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Wei-Nan Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology