The Aims and Purposes of SIGdial
SIGdial
aims to encourage researchers and educators to:
- promote development
and distribution of reusable discourse processing
components;
- explore techniques
for
evaluation of dialogue
systems;
- share
resources and
data
among the international community;
- encourage empirical
methods
in
research;
- agree upon standards for discourse
transcription, segmentation, and annotation;
- promote collaboration among developers of
various dialogue system components
- support student
participation in the discourse and dialogue
community.
Functions and activities of SIGdial
SIGdial
performs and encourages the following functions and
activities:
- promotion and
development of the field and avenues for
publication;
- provision
and coordination of a library of
discourse processing development tools, software,
data, bibliographic references, publications, and
links to related web pages;
- facilitation
of communication between
researchers in this field;
- provision
of information about
relevant research and resources; and,
development of standard corpora and
interface formats for coordination of the
organization of workshops and symposia liaison
with other SIGs, funding organizations, etc.
About
this WebSite
- The
design and initial setup of the SIGdial Site was
done by Lisa Harper.
- Maintenance
of the site is currently being handled by a temporary
team.
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