Submission of papers in all areas of spoken dialog system is encouraged, with emphasis on the following traditional topics, but not limited to:

• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Speaker/language recognition
• Spoken language understanding
• Dialog management
• User modeling / simulation
• Evaluation of dialog system
• Multi-modality / emotion recognition from speech
• Question answering from speech
• Speech data mining
• Language resource and databases
• Machine learning for spoken dialog systems
• Educational and healthcare applications

We would also like to encourage the discussion of the following special topics:

• Personal assistant with dialog systems
• Proactive and anticipatory computing
• Dialog systems connected to knowledge base
• Big data for large scale spoken dialog system