16th - 27th July 2007
(Registration Deadline: 8th June 2007)
This year's ELSNET Summer School will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is being hosted by Queen's University at its pleasant tree-lined campus near Belfast's buzzing city centre.
ELSNET Summer School Belfast is being organised by Computer Science at Queen's University in association with Computing and Mathematics at the University of Ulster.
The 2007 Summer School focuses on dialogue systems - covering everything from basic prompt and response systems to systems that adapt to the user's level of experience and even the user's emotional state. And the school includes guidance for assessing how well implemented systems are actually working.
Bringing together a teaching team of world experts, the school will cover industry-standard technologies, hosting environments and markup languages for building robust speech-based and multimodal dialogue systems. Alongside practical strands that teach attendees how to set about building both simple and more complex dialogue systems the school includes extensive coverage of the latest trends in dialogue development as viewed by academic and industrial dialogue specialists.
At the leading edge of dialogue system development the school considers approaches to emotion-enablement - from analysis of real-world emotionally coloured interactions to ways of conveying affect through the use of computer-generated embodied conversational agents.
In addition to the 2-week schedule of lectures and practicals the summer school will be complemented by a social programme of events and recommended excursions.
We look forward to welcoming you in Belfast this summer.
The Local Organising
Committee,
ELSNET Summer School Belfast 2007.