Thursday July 5, 2012 |
| | 9:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| | 9:15 AM Keynote 1 |
| | Multi-modal Sensing and Analysis of Poster Conversations: Toward Smart Posterboard
Tatsuya Kawahara |
| | 10:15 AM Coffee Break |
| | 10:45 AM Oral Presentation Session 1: Evaluation |
| 10:45 | An End-to-End Evaluation of Two Situated Dialog Systems
Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Alejandra Lorenzo and Claire Gardent |
| 11:10 | "Love ya, jerkface": Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive and Impolite Relationships with Teens
William Yang Wang, Samantha Finkelstein, Amy Ogan, Alan W. Black and Justine Cassell |
| 11:35 | Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze
Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker |
| | 12:00 PM Lunch |
| | 1:00 PM Oral Presentation Session 2 (Theme Session): Coherence |
| 1:00 | Unsupervised Topic Modeling Approaches to Decision Summarization in Spoken Meetings
Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 1:25 | An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 1:50 | Hierarchical Conversation Structure Prediction in Multi-Party Chat
Elijah Mayfield, David Adamson and Carolyn Penstein Rosé |
| | 2:15 PM Poster Session 1 “Madness” |
| | 2:30 PM Poster Session 1 |
| | Rapid Development Process of Spoken Dialogue Systems using Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
Masahiro Araki |
| | The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System
Milica Gasić, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Eli Tzirkel and Steve Young |
| | Predicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts
Christine Howes, Matthew Purver, Rose McCabe, Patrick G. T. Healey and Mary Lavelle |
| | Reinforcement Learning of Question-Answering Dialogue Policies for Virtual Museum Guides
Teruhisa Misu, Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski and David Traum |
| | From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue
Christopher M. Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer and James C. Lester |
| | The Structure and Generality of Spoken Route Instructions
Aasish Pappu and Alexander Rudnicky |
| | Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization
Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie |
| | A Temporal Simulator for Developing Turn-Taking Methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ethan O. Selfridge and Peter A. Heeman |
| | Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation
Congkai Sun and Louis-Philippe Morency |
| | Estimating Adaptation of Dialogue Partners with Different Verbal Intelligence
Kseniya Zablotskaya, Fernando Fernández-Martínez and Wolfgang Minker |
| | 2:30 PM Demo Session |
| | A Demonstration of Incremental Speech Understanding and Confidence Estimation in a Virtual Human Dialogue System
David DeVault and David Traum |
| | Integrating Location, Visibility, and Question-Answering in a Spoken Dialogue System for Pedestrian City Exploration
Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Phil Bartie, William Mackaness, Tiphaine Dalmas and Jana Goetze |
| | A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare
Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert Rizzo |
| | 4:00 PM Sponsor Presentations 1 |
| | 4:25 PM Oral Presentation Session 3: Discourse Structure |
| 4:25 | Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue
Changsong Liu, Rui Fang and Joyce Chai |
| 4:50 | Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing
Sucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi and Richard Johansson |
| 5:15 | A Reranking Model for Discourse Segmentation using Subtree Features
Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh and Akira Shimazu |
| | Conference Reception and Dinner |
Friday July 6, 2012 |
| | 9:00 AM Announcements |
| | 9:15 AM Oral Presentation Session 4: Statistical Models of Dialog |
| 9:15 | Landmark-Based Location Belief Tracking in a Spoken Dialog System
Yi Ma, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran and Rakesh Gupta |
| 9:40 | Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge
Pierre Lison |
| 10:05 | Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods
Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
| | 10:30 AM Coffee Break |
| | 11:00 AM Keynote 2 |
| | Cohesion, Entrainment and Task Success in Educational Dialog
Diane Litman |
| | 12:00 PM Lunch and Business Meeting |
| | 1:30 PM Oral Presentation Session 5: Paralinguistic Features |
| 1:30 | A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction
Nigel G. Ward and Alejandro Vega |
| 1:55 | Using Group History to Identify Character-Directed Utterances in Multi-Child Interactions
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Jill F. Lehman and Jessica K. Hodgins |
| 2:20 | Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman |
| | 2:45 PM Poster 2 “Madness” |
| | 3:00 PM Poster Session 2 |
| | Dialog System Using Real-Time Crowdsourcing and Twitter Large-Scale Corpus
Fumihiro Bessho, Tatsuya Harada and Yasuo Kuniyoshi |
| | Automatically Acquiring Fine-Grained Information Status Distinctions in German
Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester |
| | A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions
Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Takenobu Tokunaga and Ryu Iida |
| | Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Eun Young Ha, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer and James C. Lester |
| | Semantic Specificity in Spoken Dialogue Requests
Ben Hixon, Rebecca J. Passonneau and Susan L. Epstein |
| | Contingency and Comparison Relation Labeling and Structure Prediction in Chinese Sentences
Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen |
| | A Study in How NLU Performance Can Affect the Choice of Dialogue System Architecture
Anton Leuski and David DeVault |
| | Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems
Ethan O. Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman and Jason D. Williams |
| | A Regression-based Approach to Modeling Addressee Backchannels
Allison Terrell and Bilge Mutlu |
| | Improving Sentence Completion in Dialogues with Multi-Modal Features
Anruo Wang, Barbara Di Eugenio and Lin Chen |
| | 4:00 PM Sponsor Presentations 2 |
| | 4:25 PM Oral Presentation Session 6: NLG and NLU |
| 4:25 | Combining Incremental Language Generation and Incremental Speech Synthesis for Adaptive Information Presentation
Hendrik Buschmeier, Timo Baumann, Benjamin Dosch, Stefan Kopp and David Schlangen |
| 4:50 | Focused Meeting Summarization via Unsupervised Relation Extraction
Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 5:15 | Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen |
| | 5:40 PM Best Paper Awards and Concluding Remarks |