right
one of their to send things in and disposition is to think that all this
hard work and intensive and exciting time is a about to finish
what is a also interesting is that some
i think that this take a dial meeting has to be in very special in
the many ways so i already mentioned that the whole organization start it ninety seven
so this was the twentieth anniversary of their six died community
and it has drone up from a very small so the birds of feathers meeting
to these events that we had today we had the about hundred seventy participants and
serve combining to conference he so that's it is
quite a big achievement
well so i think it'd this term
kind of error closing session is to is also kind of erm
kind of relief because there you can say that's okay everything basically worked fine so
that people found here ford was there was enough for which nobody codes kind of
lost a or locked in this deal work et al and basically everything went so
when fine
and of course it it's is there a big care if for effort to everybody
who has been organising this
so first i was really give a big thanks to our host and local a
codebook noises
so there is all gonna
even now
and so the whole university or for a song lens and i think you we
have been a very well the sort of getting older facilities here and so i
think there is g cheek local
thank you to almost klein bauer sh and in march steiner edge i think they
are not here
also there is a really good team of students are assistance
so if all these students
who are now here present so please stand up there is ask and just leave
me
go up
i not yet the weakest link all together or more in a
and so marguerite a sure chris dove
she are you
no idea
thank you that's really great job so thank you
also there organization sort of verb from the house of administrative point of view was
a really well organise we want to a thank is based at the university of
silence or knowledge and technology transfer centre and to then is my our country no
hand so and till be a senator
so thanks for them i don't think any of them is over okay sorry i'm
sorry thank you
and so also this was the first or conference o where we had zero family
friendly conference or with the child care's and set michelle for a second from the
universities
families centre organise that's so we want to give thanks
do version as well
okay but
that was the one person
i was a really making the whole conference move
we had to a conference is sick dial and stammered i'll and so that she
really made organizations move between the two communities are tirelessly sort of organising things taking
care of and thinking that so the organizers weight one three different continents
all got always seem to be on the right time so
so we really want to thank you for all these and sweet like you to
come here
i
i like to sort of continue
with the organises i think here we have to give a big towns therefore our
program much as you would put a together sh no most work to get this
wonderful the program we had to hear on the sig dial side of david evolves
and to an e
and then on seemed same dialogue technical changes all go and sit here so thank
you so much
and sit also would like to arm thank our mentoring chair that so one of
the sort of services that way to a house for used many years serve in
the second i'll do all first kind of help in the set of getting your
papers mentored
and say this year explicitly we want to thank even for other the great so
sponsorship but works that you did so getting all the greats sponsors to comment supports
our conference
and so on my side i want to thank you very much or four hours
support and set i should continue thank you well
the they are i guess like
running a conference you realise that
you need help from like top-down bottom-up
every direction possible so
are we like to thank the general chairs for all the advice then input casino
jump in and markets data
so that like to go
and that's the we had three special section
and the special session organizers i did a great deal of work publicising those special
sessions kind of putting out calls in having like a panel and kind of designing
the schedule and contributing to the acceptance decisions with those papers
so
this is our opportunity to thank all the organizers for the joint session a negotiation
dialogue the natural language generation for dialogue systems and the second war chat special section
on chat bots and conversational agent
so we hope that these special sessions will encourage even more submissions on topics of
current and recent interest to be submitted to signal in future years so we'd like
to give a round of applause to audio
and of course a conference doesn't happen with all of you submitting people's the program
committee hua review the people is who spent so much time kind of making recommendations
and or if you will present here and the sig doll board an egg sack
who offered us
help whenever we
and extending about them so we're a time will tell if you for making this
conference a big success
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