jason williams ibvalumniprincetonedu apologies advance receive deadline extended 15 july 2005 note workshop attendance limited 45 people submissions accepted rolling basis c l l f r p r c p n young researchers roundtable spoken dialogue systems isca event conjunction interspeecheurospeech 2005 9th european conference speech communication technology lisbon portugal thursday september 1st 2005 website wwwcscmuedudodroundtable contact hufkvhxafawhfcscmuedu workshop overview young researchers roundtable spoken dialog systems bring together students post docs junior researchers different countries different research institutions different disciplines share interest applied dialog systems research provide setting participants discuss research work obtain feedback others similar level working similar problems also provide forum discussing recent papers talks eye toward 1 solving problems participants currently face work 2 identifying issues likely important coming years perhaps importantly event help create permanent international network young researchers working spoken dialog systems workshop fullday event consisting multiple smallgroup discussions topics chosen based suggestions submitted participants potential roundtable discussion topics could include best practices conducting evaluating user studies spoken dialog systems users made aware capabilities limitations spoken dialog systems spoken dialog systems robots issues challenges skills must dialog agent able engage multiparticipant conversation spoken dialog systems significant impact world best practices rapidly deploying dialog systems real world humancomputer communication mimic humanhuman communication dialog system learn experience automatically smallgroup discussions groups present summary rest participants hope discussion format foster creative thinking current issues spoken dialog systems research setting stage colocated conferences sigdial interspeech invite participation students post docs junior researchers currently working applied spoken dialog systems research also invite participation working related fields human factors speech recognition artificial intelligence speech synthesis applied spoken dialog systems potential participants submit 2page paper following template provided wwwcscmuedudodroundtablecfphtml paper include statement research interests overview past current future work discussion consider compelling issues spoken dialog systems short biographical sketch accepted papers collated distributed participants cdrom andor paper format also plan publish position papers presentations workshop web subject sponsor publisher constraints fees euro students eur 4000 postdocs junior researchers eur 6000 lunch light refreshments included registration fee important dates note participation limited 45 people submissions accepted rolling basis beginning march 1st 2005 submissions longer accepted july 15th 2005 workshop date full day september 1st 2005 wed 06 aug 2008 140354 0100 uai cfp young researchers roundtable spoken dialogue systems