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Final Workshop Program |
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Final Workshop Program |
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Saturday 7 October 2000 | |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15-10:45 | Paper Session: Annotation and Corpus Work |
| 9:15-9:45 | Japanese Dialogue Corpus of Multi-Level Annotation Shu Nakazato |
| 9:45-10:15 | ADAM: An Architecture for xml-based Dialogue Annotation on Multiple Levels Claudia Soria, Roldano Cattoni and Morena Danieli |
| 10:15-10:45 | The MATE Markup Framework Laila Dybkjær and Niels Ole Bernsen |
| 10:45-11:15 | Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Paper Session: Prosody and Dialogue |
| 11:15-11:45 | Issues in the Transcription of English Conversational Grunts Nigel Ward |
| 11:45-12:15 | Identifying Prosodic Indicators of Dialogue Structure: Some Methodological and Theoretical Considerations Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Janet Fletcher and Roger Wales |
| 12:15-14:15 | Lunch and SIGdial Business Meeting |
| 14:15-16:15 | Paper Session: Discourse |
| 14:15-14:45 | From Elementary Discourse Units to Complex Ones Holger Schauer |
| 14:45-15:15 | Abstract Anaphora Resolution in Danish Costanza Navarretta |
| 15:15-15:45 | Using Decision Trees to Select the Grammatical Relation of a Noun Phrase Simon Corston-Oliver |
| 15:45-16:15 | A Common Theory of Information Fusion from Multiple Text Sources. Step One: Cross-Document Structure Dragomir Radev |
| 16:15-16:40 | Break |
| 16:40-18:00 | Session on Cooperation |
| 16:40-17:30 | Ideal Cooperation Jens Allwood (invited speaker) |
| 17:30-18:00 | Social Goals in Conversational Cooperation Guido Boella, Rossana Damiano and Leonardo Lesmo |
Sunday 8 October 2000 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Paper Session: Dialogue Management |
| 9:00-9:30 | Dynamic User Level and Utility Measurement for Adaptive Dialog in a Help-Desk System Preetam Maloor and Joyce Chai |
| 9:30-10:00 | Dialogue Management in the Agreement Negotiation Process: A Model that Involves Natural Reasoning Mare Koit and Haldur Oim |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Paper Session: Dialogue Management (continued) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Document Transformations and Information States Staffan Larsson and Annie Zaenen |
| 11:00-11:30 | Dialogue and Domain Knowledge Management in Dialogue Systems Annika Flycht-Eriksson and Arne Jönsson |
| 11:30-12:00 | Flexible Speech Act Based Dialogue Management Eli Hagen and Fred Popowich |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Paper Session: Dialogue Systems and Tools |
| 13:30-14:00 | Dialogue Helpsystem based on Flexible Matching of User Query with Natural Language Knowledge Base Sadao Kurohashi and Wataru Higasa |
| 14:00-14:30 | WIT: A Toolkit for Building Robust and Real-Time Spoken Dialogu Systems Mikio Nakano, Noboru Miyazaki, Norihito Yasuda, Akira Sugiyama, Jun-ichi Hirasawa,Kohji Dohsaka and Kiyoaki Aikawa |
| 14:30-15:00 | Break |
| 15:00-16:30 | Session on Evaluation |
| 15:00-15:30 | Some Notes on the Complexity of Dialogues Jan Alexandersson and Paul Heisterkamp |
| 15:30-16:00 | Designing Evaluation Environment Koiti Hasida |
| 16:00-16:30 | Plenary discussion on evaluation |
| 16:30-17:00 | Closing Discussion |