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good afternoon
good afternoon everybody
just before we start this an x session all the speakers please be reminded and
everybody is attending that as has been the case for several years we're recording the
talks
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so welcome to the joint sig dial same dial a special session a negotiation dialog
organised by myself amanda stance lynn walker is over there actually sh papa and diane
litman
we have a website for the special session and we encourage you just to see
the website where we have a list of useful resources
this session of feature three papers to from seven dial and one from sick dial
as well as for short position paper presentations and then a panel featuring the presenter
is that the position papers
and the position papers are available on the website for the special session
why this special session right now
well researchers as you heard from all over this morning researchers are starting to look
at more
advanced applications that we're going back to looking at more advanced applications for dialogue system
so there's beginning to be an assortment of interesting systems there's also quite a lot
of available data now some of which you can see from the special session website
and there is multiplicity of approaches from the more discourse and the more engineering and
of the spectrum
so we after the papers have been presented we're going to be asking our panelists
the following questions which will come back to and while you're listening to the presentations
feel free to think of questions on your own as well
so the first paper in the session
will be presented by cover our nicholas
it's online learning in transfer for user adaptation in dialogue systems and this is assumed
a paper