Welcome to the "Dialogs on Dialogs" Reading Group homepage.
 

Manifesto

"Dialogs on Dialogs" is a student reading group focused on research in the areas of Spoken Dialog Systems/Conversational agents, with an accent on the upper levels of these systems: dialog management and connected topics (i.e. natural language understanding, natural language generation). The group meetings are meant to be highly informal. The idea is to create a setting in which we can present / discuss / validate / challenge / criticize / provide and obtain feedback on our own research ideas and work. We will also have more traditional reading group sessions, where we take turns in presenting and discussing recent work in these areas by other people in the field.  Although the group originated and is based at Carnegie Mellon, it currently has a number of active participants from other sites. The group is always looking for and will be open to new members. Currently, participants from outside CMU can join our meetings through a teleconferencing setup which is accessible on a 1-800 phone number. Slides for the discussions are usually posted on the web-site before the meetings. If you are interested in joining us, please email anto...@cs.cmu.edu. To reach all the group members by email, use the dial...@cs.cmu.edu mailing list. This semester the group meets weekly on Fridays, 11:00am-12:30pm EST. The meetings are generally held in the speech lab -- Wean Hall 3123 unless announced otherwise.

Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems

The third edition of the Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems, was held in Antwerp on Sept 3, 2007, as a satellite event of Interspeech 2007. It was a great success, allowing participants to meet other students sharing the same research interests and yielding fruitful discussions on topics as diverse as Dialog evaluation, Emotions, or Dialog and Question Answering. We look forward to the 2008 edition!

Next meeting [for a list of past and future planned meetings, click here]

	12-07-07	Learning Dialog Structure of Task-Oriented Conversations from the Corpus (Moss)
News [to post stuff on this page, send me email]
	10-18-07	We now have a Dialogs on Dialogs Google calendar that contains the planned (and past) talks: click here.
	09-28-07	Good news! After a long break, Dialogs on Dialogs meetings are starting again. This semester, we'll be meeting at 11am to allow people from the US West Coast to attend without waking up too early... Today we also decided on some of the topics to be discussed later in the Fall, check the schedule
	02-17-05	Since this semester we have a larger number of participants, Antoine has looked into booking other, larger rooms for the rest of the semester. Here's what we got: NSH 1505 for Feb 25 and March 18, and WeH 4623 for March 4, 11, 25 and thereafter.
	01-18-05	After an exciting meeting last week in which we collected a large number of topics for future presentations we decided that given the abundance of topics this semester we will meet on a weekly basis.
	11-29-04	We had a productive meeting with Alan today on the YRR workshop; various tasks were assigned, and by the end of the week we should have a solid draft of the proposal materials.
	11-25-04	Spoken dialogue systems in the news: click here. Thanks Mihai for the heads up.
	10-05-04	RoomLine is now connected to the campus Corporate Time server and provides real room information. Call it at 412-268-1084 each time you need to check conference room availability, and more. We can use the data :). Soon it will be able to actually record reservations with the server. [RoomLine is a spoken dialogue system for performing conference room reservations within the School of Computer Science at CMU; more details at here] -Dan.
	10-29-03	First successful teleconference. Jason was in from the UK! We were also video-streaming over the internet. This seems to be working. Cool! (the sessions were also recorded, and if everyone agrees we can make them available over the net)
	09-26-03	**The meeting today will take place in WeH 5320B**
	09-24-03	Our first meeting this semester will be on Friday 11-1pm. Let's plan to meet in WeH5302 as usual. I am meeting today to talk to Emanuel about videoconferencing so we might change rooms in the end. I'll keep you posted.
	04-16-03	Changed meeting time to 3-5pm on Fridays. New location is Speech Lab (WeH 5302)
	04-04-03	Meeting today at **2pm in Speech Lab**
	03-25-03	**The meeting today will be in the Speech Lab (7220 is taken)
	02-14-03	Started the "Dialogs on Dialogs" book project. We'll have brief Fridays meetings to discuss progress on that.
	01-16-03	WeH7220 this semester too !
	10-08-02	We got WeH7220 (nice view!!!) for the whole semester.
	10-04-02	First meeting for Fall semester : Friday, Oct 4th, 10am, WeH 7220
	04-15-02	**Room change**. Our meeting on April 24th will be held in NSH 4513
	02-02-02	Diane Litman is teaching a Dialog Systems seminar at Pitt. Here's a link to the web page, you might wanna check it out.
	02-02-02	The last number of AI Magazine (Vol 22 Nr 4 Winter 2001) is dedicated to Intelligent User Interfaces; several articles might be of interest to the group. The magazine is available at the E&S library; I also have a copy which you can borrow if you want to.
	01-31-02	Administrative meeting. We agreed we will meet on biweekly Wednesdays at 11:30-1pm

Please send comments to antoine+dod@cs.cmu.edu