<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***************************************************************************</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> SIGDIAL 2020 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***************************************************************************</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discourse and Dialogue</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 1-3, 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (just before ACL 02020)</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/</span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">***************************************************************************</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-left: 28.35pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[ apologies for multiple postings ]</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** Registration Site is now open; Free Registration **</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-left: 28.35pt; text-align: center; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">** </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> **</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft Research: “Neural Text Generation: Progress and Challenges “</span></div></li></ul><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh: “Argument Mining, Discourse Analysis, and Educational Applications “</span></div></li></ul><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technologies: “Conversational Turn-taking in Human-robot Interaction”</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VENUE</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGDIAL 2020 will be held virtually. Each of the three conference days features one keynote and several oral sessions, with the remaining time given to demos, a special session (RoboDial 2.0), sponsor session, mentoring activities, and participants led break-out sessions and/or social activities. In organizing the virtual conference, we decided to keep as much as possible the spirit of an in person conference. All keynotes, talks and demos are pre-recorded and made available at the beginning of the conference for participants to watch asynchronously (details to be provided on the website soon). The long and short papers are organized in thematic sessions and take into consideration the speakers' different time zones. Each session contains 3-4 pre-recorded talks that are streamed followed by a Live QA part with all the presenters in that session. For demos, we organize Live QA sessions with the demo presenters. Topic-wise we have papers on evaluation and corpora, natural language generation, task oriented dialogues, knowledge use and acquisition, behavior modeling, dialogue policy and dialogue state tracking, modeling convergence in dialogues, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Full schedule will be provided soon on the website. </span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">REGISTRATION</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration for SIGDIAL 2020 is free but you need to register by June 25, 2020 to be able to participate in the Live events and access the web conference manager system</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Please fill out the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeweqCmfV01FmUcYTNU-g0p6CzGHlKSWQbdyzOvk7X2g39Ohw/viewform" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration Form.</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> On July 1 and 2, we have ~2 hours allocated in the program for breakout sessions led by conference participants (July 1 between 12:30-14:30 GMT-6 (Boise, Idaho time); and on July 2 between 14:00-16:30 GMT-6 (Boise, Idaho time)). In the registration form, we listed a list of topics for discussion. Please select which one you are interested in participating in and which ones you would be interested in leading a discussion around. If you’d like to lead such a session (could be 30-45 min) please select that in the registration form and fill in the registration form by June 22, 2020 so we can update the schedule and the website. </span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACCEPTED PAPERS</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The list of accepted papers is available at the conference website: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><a href="https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/proceedings.html" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.sigdial.org/files/workshops/conference21/proceedings.html</span></a></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Registration Deadline: June 25, 2020 (June 22, 2020 if you are interested in leading a breakout session topic discussion)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference July 1-3, 2020</span></div></li></ul><br class=""><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For any questions, please contact the members of the organizing committee at </span><a href="mailto:conference@sigdial.org" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conference@sigdial.org</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General Chair: Olivier Pietquin, Google AI </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Program Chairs: Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University</span></div></li></ul><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Local Chair: Casey Kennington, Boise State University </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sponsorship Chair: David Vandyke, University of Cambridge </span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentoring Chair: Nina Dethlefs, University of Hull</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publication Chair: Stefan Ultes, Daimler AG, Germany</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Video-Presentation Chairs: Koji Inoue, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kyoto University, Japan</span></div></li></ul><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Erik Ekstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technologies</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The members of the executive board are</span></div><ul class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGdial President: Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGdial Vice President: Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute Japan, Japan</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGdial Secretary: Vikram Ramanarayanan, Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research, USA</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGdial Treasurer: Ethan Selfridge, Interactions, USA</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIGdial President Emeritus: Jason Williams, Apple, USA</span></div></li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>