4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Papers from the 2003 SIGdial Workshop

Workshop Final Program

Proceedings Preface

LONG PAPERS
	Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy and Daniel Chester	paper
	Annotating Opinions in the World Press Theresa Wilson and Janyce Wiebe	paper
	Answering Clarification Questions Matthew Purver, Patrick G.T. Healey, James King, Jonathan Ginzburg and Greg J. Mills	paper
	An Information-theoretic Approach for Argument Interpretation Sarah George and Ingrid Zukerman	paper
	Conversational inferences: the hard way and the easy way Yukiko Kawaguchi	paper
	The interpretation of non-sentential utterances in dialogue David Schlangen and Alex Lascarides	paper
	Flexible Spoken Dialogue System based on User Models and Dynamic Generation of VoiceXML Scripts Kazunori Komatani, Fumihiro Adachi, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara and Hiroshi G. Okuno	paper
	Building a New Internet Chat System for Sharing Timing Information Kanayo Ogura, Takeshi Masuda and Masato Ishizaki	paper
	Interpreter for Highly Portable Spoken Dialogue System Masamitsu Umeda, Satoru Kogure and Seiichi Nakagawa	paper
	Spoken Dialogue for Virtual Advisers in a semi-immersive Command and Control environment Dominique Estival, Michael Broughton, Andrew Zschorn and Elizabeth Pronger	paper
	Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement- Learning based dialog management systems Jason D. Williams and Steve Young	paper
	Example-based Spoken Dialogue System using WOZ System Log Hiroya Murao, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Shigeki Matsubara, Yukiko Yamaguchi and Yasuyoshi Inagaki	paper video
	Some empirical findings on dialogue management and domain ontologies in dialogue systems - Implications from an evaluation of BirdQuest Annika Flycht-Eriksson and Arne Jönsson	paper
	Managing Dialogue Interaction: A Multi-Layered Approach Oliver Lemon, Lawrence Cavedon and Barbara Kelly	paper
	Ontology-based Contextual Coherence Scoring Robert Porzel, Iryna Gurevych and Christof E. Müller	paper
	An Annotation Tool for Multimodal Dialogue Corpora using Global Document Annotation Kazunari Ito and Hiroaki Saito	paper
	Multi-Level Annotation in MMAX Christoph Müller and Michael Strube	paper
	Domain Specific Speech Acts for Spoken Language Translation Lori Levin, Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Donna Gates, Dorcas Wallace and Kay Peterson	paper

SHORT and DEMO PAPERS	Turn-taking in Graphical Communication: an exploratory study Atsue Takeoka, Atsushi Shimojima and Yasuhiro Katagiri	paper video
	PALinkA: A highly customisable tool for discourse annotation Constantin Orăsan	paper
	Speaker-independent context update rules for dialogue management Samson de Jager, Nick Wright and Alistair Knott	paper
	A Method for Forming Mutual Beliefs for Communication through Human-robot Multi-modal Interaction Naoto Iwahashi	paper
	DIPPER: Description and Formalisation of an Information-State Update Dialogue System Architecture Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Oliver Lemon and Tetsushi Oka	paper video
	Learning to Speak to a Spoken Language System: Vocabulary Convergence in Novice Users Gina-Anne Levow	paper
	A procedure assistant for astronauts in a functional programming architecture, with step previewing and spoken correction of dialogue moves Gregory Aist, Manny Rayner, John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Susana Early and Jim Hieronymus	paper
	Dialog Input Ranking in a Multi-Domain Environment Using Transferable Belief Model Hong-I Ng and Kim-Teng Lua	paper
	Annotating emotion in dialogue Richard Craggs and Mary McGee Wood	paper
	Developing a Typology of Dialogue Acts: Some Boundary Problems Tiit Hennoste, Mare Koit, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson, Maret Valdisoo and Evely Vutt	paper