Natural language, dialog and speech (NDS) researchers focus on communication between people and computers using human languages both in written and spoken forms. They develop models for analyzing the structure and content of human conversation and create artificial agents who can engage in human-like interaction with people and other agents.

This Symposium will address areas including dialog systems, spoken and natural language understanding, natural language generation and speech synthesis. It will feature Keynote Presentations from leading researchers and short, early career investigator presentations selected from among the submitted abstracts.