| 8:55am | Opening and Welcome | |
| 9:00 | Dialogue management in the Mercury flight reservation system | Seneff & Polifroni |
| 9:10 | Discussion | Seneff & Polifroni |
| 9:30 | Task-based dialog management using an agenda | Xu & Rudnicky |
| 9:45 | Discussion | Xu & Rudnicky |
| 10:00 | Lessons learned in building spoken language collaborative interface agents | Sidner & Rich |
| 10:10 | Discussion | Sidner & Rich |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 | Natural Language Generation in the IBM Flight Information System | Axelrod |
| 10:55 | Discussion | Axelrod |
| 11:15 | Stochastic language generation for spoken dialogue systems | Oh & Rudnicky |
| 11:25 | Discussion | Oh & Rudnicky |
| 11:45 | Using Dialogue Representations for Concept-to-speech Generation | Nakatani & Chu-Carroll |
| 11:55 | Discussion | Nakatani & Chu-Carroll |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45 | NJFun: A reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system | Litman, Singh, Kearns, Walker |
| 1:55 | Discussion | Litman, Singh, Kearns, Walker |
| 2:05 | GoDiS - An accommodating dialogue system | Larsson, Ljunglöf, Cooper, Engdahl, Ericsson |
| 2:15 | Discussion | Larsson, Ljunglöf, Cooper, Engdahl, Ericsson |
| 2:25 | ||
| Phil Cohen (OGI) | ||
Panelists: | James Allen (Univ of Rochester) | |
| Salim Roucos (IBM) | ||
| David Sadek (France Telecom) | ||
| Stephanie Seneff (MIT) | ||
| 3:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:50 | Epiphenomenal grammar acquisition with GSG | Gavalda |
| 4:00 | Discussion | Gavalda |
| 4:20 | Building a Robust Dialogue System with Limited Data |
Goldwater, Bratt, Gawron, Dowding, Stent |
| 4:30 | Discussion |
Goldwater, Bratt, Gawron, Dowding, Stent |
| 4:50 | Dialogue Management in a Spoken Language Interface to a Simulated Semi-Autonomous Robot | Hockey, Rayner, James |
| 5:00 | Discussion | Hockey, Rayner, James |
| 5:15 | End of Day Comments | |
| 5:30 | End of Workshop | |