Directions. Please follow this link to open a new window with directions to the workshop, located in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Hotel Information. It has recently come to our attention that the official hotel for Interspeech 2006, The Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh, is fully booked for the night of Friday, September 15th. We anticipate that many YRR participants will need to seek alternative accommodations for that evening. Please keep in mind that YRR will be held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh where Interspeech will be held. The University of Pittsburgh maintains a list of hotels convenient to the University, some of which may be able to provide a discounted rate since you will be attending an event held at the University. The starred hotels on this list are within walking distance of the campus. We encourage you to book your room as soon as possible, as hotel rooms in all of Pittsburgh may be scarce on this evening.

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems is an annual workshop designed for students, post docs, and junior researchers working in applied spoken dialog systems research. The roundtable provides an open forum where participants can discuss their research interests, current work and future plans. The workshop is meant to foster creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialog systems research, and help create a stronger international network of young researchers working in the field.

Please note that by 'young researchers' the workshop's organizers mean to target students and researchers in the field who are at a relatively early stage of their careers, and in no way mean to imply that participants must meet certain age restrictions.

This year, the workshop will be held on September 16th, 2006, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, as a satellite workshop to Interspeech 2006 . It will be held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, a few miles from the site of Interspeech.

A poster advertising the workshop may be found here: YRR06flyer.pdf. Please post in your department!

The workshop will be held as a full-day event, consisting of multiple small-group discussions.

The day will start with a one-hour introductory session, during which participants will briefly introduce themselves and their research. Next, depending on the number of participants, there will be two or three parallel discussion sessions in the morning segment, and again in the afternoon. At the end of the each segment, all participants will reconvene and present the conclusions from their discussions. The topics for the discussion sessions will be chosen based on interests expressed during the submission process.

Please see the Call for Participation for a list of potential topics

September 2005 marked the first annual Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems. The proceedings are available online.