Conference Chairs
- Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore
- Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research
Sponsorship Chair
- Lei Wang, Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society
Local Organisers
- Luis F. D’Haro, Institute for Infocomm Research
- Andreea I. Niculescu, Institute for Infocomm Research
- Ming Hui Dong, Chinese and Oriental Language Information Processing Society
Student Organiser
- Berrak Sisman, National University of Singapore
Webmaster
• Kheng Hui Yeo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
IWSDS Steering Committee
• Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
• Ramón López-Cózar Delgado, University of Granada, Spain
• Joseph Mariani, LIMSI & IMMI-CNRS, France
• Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany
• Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan
• Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Scientific Committee
• Jan Alexandersson, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Masahiro Araki, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
• Rafael Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Timo Baumann, Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Jérôme Bellegarda, Apple, Inc., USA
• André Berton, Daimler AG, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
• Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Eduardo Blanco, University of North Texas, USA
• Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
• Johan Boye, KTH, Sweden
• Axel Buendia, SpirOps AI, France
• Susanne Burger, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Felix Burkhard, Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation, TU, Germany
• Frédéric Béchet, Aix Marseille University, France
• Zoraida Callejas, University of Granada, Spain
• Nick Campbell, Speech Communications Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Léonardo Campillos, LIMSI-CNRS, France
• Marcela Charfuelan, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Kalid Choukri, European Language Resources Association, France
• Heriberto Cuayahuitl, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
• Luis Fernando D’Haro, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Justin Dauwels, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, France
• Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Morgan Fredriksson, Liquid Media / Nagoon, Sweden
• Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Olivier Galibert, Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais, France
• Markus Garschall, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Milica Gasic, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Edouard Geoffrois, French National Research Agency, France
• Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, USA
• Emer Gilmartin, Speech Communications Lab, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France
• David Griol, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Rainer Gruhn, Nuance Communications, Germany
• Joakim Gustafson, KTH, Sweden
• Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Google, USA
• Sunao Hara, Okayama University, Japan
• Martin Heckmann, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Germany
• Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler AG, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
• Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT Corp, Japan
• Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
• Chiori Hori, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
• David House, KTH, Sweden
• Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Jeomja Kang, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
• Hideki Kashioka, NICT, Japan
• Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan
• Hiromichi Kawanami, NAIST, Japan
• Seokhwan Kim, Adobe Research, USA
• Harksoo Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea
• Hong Kook Kim, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• Kwang-Ho Kim, Sogang University, Korea
• Kazunori Komatani, Osaka University, Japan
• Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Jürgen Königsmann, Liquid Media / Nagoon, Sweden
• Nio Lasguido, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Japan
• Gary Geunbae Lee, Postech, South Korea
• Lin-Shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Kyusong Lee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Hung-Yi Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Fabrice Lefèvre, Univ. Avignon, LIA-CERI, France
• Haizhou Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Pierre Lison, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway
• Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• José David Lopes, KTH, Sweden
• Ramón López-Cozar Delgado, University of Granada, Spain
• Joseph-Jean Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
• Yoichi Matsuyama, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Michael McTear, Ulster University, United Kingdom
• Helen Meng, The Chinese University, Hong Kong
• Etsuo Mizukami, NICT, Japan
• Samer Al Moubayed, KTH, Sweden
• Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute, Japan
• Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA
• Andreea Niculescu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Elnaz Nouri, ObEN, USA
• Elmar Nöth, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Yoo Rhee Oh, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
• Kiyonori Otake, NICT, Japan
• Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France
• Rosalind Picard, Affectiva Inc, USA
• Roberto Pieraccini, Jibo Inc, USA
• Oliver Pietquin, Google DeepMind, USA
• Zahra Rahimi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Antoine Raux, Facebook Inc, USA
• Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Jiang Ridong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
• Alexander Rudnicky, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan
• Björn Schuller, University of Passau, Germany
• Kiyohiro Shikano, NAIST, Japan
• Gabriel Skantze, KTH, Sweden
• Daniel Sonntag, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
• Svetlana Stoyanchev, Columbia University, USA
• Sebastian Stüker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• David Suendermann-Oeft, EMR.AI Inc, USA
• Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
• Mariet Theune, University of Twente, Netherlands
• David Traum, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA
• Stefan Ultes, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Marilyn Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
• Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
• Wayne Ward, University of Colorado, USA
• Ina Wechsung, Quality and Usability Lab of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU-Berlin, Germany
• Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
• Feiyu Xu, DFKI GmbH, Germany
• Koichiro Yoshino, Kyoto University, Japan
• Tiancheng Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University, USA