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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, August 22, 2013 | |
9:00 | Welcome and conference overview |
Keynote I | |
9:10 | Discourse Relations, Discourse Structure, Discourse Semantics Bonnie Webber |
10:10 | Break |
Oral session: Discourse, semantics, and generation | |
10:35 | Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure Antoine Venant, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller, Pascal Denis and Stergos Afantenos |
10:55 | Unsupervised structured semantic inference for spoken dialog reservation tasks Alejandra Lorenzo, Lina Rojas-Barahona and Christophe Cerisara |
11:15 | Verbal indicators of psychological distress in interactive dialogue with a virtual human David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Fabrizio Morbini, David Traum, Stefan Scherer, Albert (Skip) Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency |
11:35 | Training an integrated sentence planner on user dialogue Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone |
11:55 | Lunch |
Oral session: Dialog and Discourse in social media and interpersonal relationships | |
13:00 | Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue Amita Misra and Marilyn Walker |
13:20 | Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features Zhou Yu, David Gerritsen, Amy Ogan, Alan Black and Justine Cassell |
13:40 | Stance Classification in Online Debates by Recognizing Users’ Intentions Sarvesh Ranade, Rajeev Sangal and Radhika Mamidi |
Poster and demonstration session | |
14:00 | Poster “madness” (short presentations of each poster) |
14:25 | Poster session (with coffee) |
Generating More Specific Questions for Acquiring Attributes of Unknown Concepts from Users Tsugumi Otsuka, Kazunori Komatani, Satoshi Sato and Mikio Nakano | |
Modeling Collaborative Referring for Situated Referential Grounding Changsong Liu, Rui Fang, Lanbo She and Joyce Chai | |
A quantitative view of feedback lexical markers in conversational French Laurent Prévot, Brigitte Bigi and Roxane Bertrand | |
On the contribution of discourse structure to topic segmentation Paula Cardoso, Maite Taboada and Thiago Pardo | |
Will my Spoken Dialogue System be a Slow Learner ? Layla El Asri and Romain Laroche | |
Model-free POMDP optimisation of tutoring systems with echo-state networks Lucie Daubigney, Matthieu Geist and Olivier Pietquin | |
Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog Nigel Ward and Karen Richart-Ruiz | |
Reinforcement Learning of Two-Issue Negotiation Dialogue Policies Kallirroi Georgila | |
Dialogue Act Recognition in Synchronous and Asynchronous Conversations Maryam Tavafi, Yashar Mehdad, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng | |
Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Minker | |
A Prolog Datamodel for State Chart XML Stefan Radomski, Dirk Schnelle-Walka and Stephan Radeck-Arneth | |
Exploring Features For Localized Detection of Speech Recognition Errors Eli Pincus, Svetlana Stoyanchev and Julia Hirschberg | |
Modelling Human Clarification Strategies Svetlana Stoyanchev, Alex Liu and Julia Hirschberg | |
Interactive Error Resolution Strategies for Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems Rohit Kumar, Matthew Roy, Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Sanjika Hewavitharana and Frederick Choi | |
AIDA: Artificial Intelligent Dialogue Agent Rafael E. Banchs, Ridong Jiang, Seokhwan Kim, Arthur Niswar and Kheng Hui Yeo | |
Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults Candace Sidner, Timothy Bickmore, Charles Rich, Barbara Barry, Lazlo Ring, Morteza Behrooz and Mohammad Shayganfar | |
A Multithreaded Conversational Interface for Pedestrian Navigation and Question Answering Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Phil Bartie, William Mackaness and Tiphaine Dalmas | |
Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search Helen Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis and Yves Vanrompay | |
Multi-step Natural Language Understanding Pierrick Milhorat, Stephan Schlögl, Gérard Chollet and Jérôme Boudy | |
WebWOZ: A Platform for Designing and Conducting Web-based Wizard of Oz Experiments Stephan Schlögl, Saturnino Luz and Gavin Doherty | |
Oral session: Situated and multi-modal dialog | |
16:30 | Exploring the effects of gaze and pauses in situated human-robot interaction Gabriel Skantze, Anna Hjalmarsson and Catharine Oertel |
16:50 | Interpreting Situated Dialogue Utterances: an Update Model that Uses Speech, Gaze, and Gesture Information Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis and David Schlangen |
17:10 | Multimodality and Dialogue Act Classification in the RoboHelper Project Lin Chen and Barbara Di Eugenio |
Day 1 conclusion and banquet | |
17:30 | Informational announcements |
19:00 | Buses depart venue for banquet |
Friday, August 23, 2013 | |
9:00 | Day overview and informational announcements |
Keynote II | |
9:05 | Spoken Language Understanding for Natural Interaction Jerome Bellegarda |
10:05 | Break |
Oral session: Dialog system control and evaluation | |
10:30 | Learning Dialogue Management Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue with Parallel Dialogue and Task Streams Eun Ha, Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Boyer and James Lester |
10:50 | POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis and Steve Young |
11:10 | Training and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Andre Gaschler and Manuel Giuliani |
11:30 | Evaluation of Speech Dialog Strategies for Internet Applications in the Car Hansjörg Hofmann, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton, Angela Mahr, Rafael Math and Christian Müller |
11:50 | Lunch, business meeting, and sponsor talks |
Oral session: Models of dialog and spoken discourse | |
13:30 | Predicting Tasks in Goal-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems using Semantic Knowledge Bases Aasish Pappu and Alexander Rudnicky |
13:50 | Surface Text based Dialogue Models for Virtual Humans Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum |
14:10 | Speech Reduction, Intensity, and F0 Shape are Cues to Turn-Taking Oliver Niebuhr, Karin Görs and Evelin Graupe |
Poster and demonstration session | |
14:30 | Poster “madness” (short presentations of each poster) |
14:55 | Poster session (with coffee) |
Gesture Semantics Reconstruction Based on Motion Capturing and Complex Event Processing: a Circular Shape Example Thies Pfeiffer, Florian Hofmann, Florian Hahn, Hannes Rieser and Insa Röpke | |
Open-ended, Extensible System Utterances Are Preferred, Even If They Require Filled Pauses Timo Baumann and David Schlangen | |
A Four-Participant Group Facilitation Framework for Conversational Robots Yoichi Matsuyama, Iwao Akiba, Akihiro Saito and Tetsunori Kobayashi | |
Tacit Social Contracts for Wheelchairs Daniel Couto Vale and Vivien Mast | |
Laugher and Topic Transition in Multiparty Conversation Emer Gilmartin, Francesca Bonin, Carl Vogel and Nick Campbell | |
IMHO: An Exploratory Study of Hedging in Web Forums Liliana Mamani Sanchez and Carl Vogel | |
Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon | |
Investigating speaker gaze and pointing behaviour in human-computer interaction with the mint.tools collection Spyros Kousidis, Casey Kennington and David Schlangen | |
In-Context Evaluation of Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models for Tutorial Dialogue Aysu Ezen-Can and Kristy Boyer | |
Spoken Dialog Systems for Automated Survey Interviewing Michael Johnston, Patrick Ehlen, Frederick G. Conrad, Michael F. Schober, Christopher Antoun, Stefanie Fail, Andrew Hupp, Lucas Vickers, Huiying Yan and Chan Zhang | |
Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yasuhiro Minami | |
Evaluating State Representations for Reinforcement Learning of Turn-Taking Policies in Tutorial Dialogue Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Boyer and James Lester | |
A Semi-supervised Approach for Natural Language Call Routing Tatiana Gasanova, Eugene Zhukov, Roman Sergienko, Eugene Semenkin and Wolfgang Minker | |
Counseling Dialog System with 5W1H Extraction Sangdo Han, Kyusong Lee, Donghyeon Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee | |
Integration and test environment for an in-vehicle dialogue system in the SIMSI project Staffan Larsson, Sebastian Berlin, Anders Eliasson and Fredrik Kronlid | |
Weakly and Strongly Constrained Dialogues for Language Learning Claire Gardent, Alejandra Lorenzo, Laura Perez-Beltrachini and Lina Rojas-Barahona | |
Open-Domain Information Access with Talking Robots Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock | |
Demonstration of the EmoteWizard of Oz Interface for Empathic Robotic Tutors Shweta Bhargava, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett, Lee Corrigan and Ginevra Castellano | |
The Map Task Dialogue System: A Test-bed for Modelling Human-Like Dialogue Raveesh Meena, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson | |
A Robotic Agent in a Virtual Environment that Performs Situated Incremental Understanding of Navigational Utterances Takashi Yamauchi, Mikio Nakano and Kotaro Funakoshi | |
Roundtable: An Online Framework for Building Web-based Conversational Agents Eric Forbell, Nicolai Kalisch, Fabrizio Morbini, Kelly Christoffersen, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert A. Rizzo | |
Oral session: Speech processing technology in dialog | |
16:55 | A Data-driven Model for Timing Feedback in a Map Task Dialogue System Raveesh Meena, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson |
17:15 | Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman and Jason Williams |
17:35 | Which ASR should I choose for my dialogue system? Fabrizio Morbini, Kartik Audhkhasi, Kenji Sagae, Ron Artstein, Dogan Can, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shri Narayanan, Anton Leuski and David Traum |
Day 2 conclusion | |
17:55 | Informational announcements |
Saturday, August 24, 2013 | |
Oral session: Dialog state tracking | |
9:00 | Session introduction |
9:05 | The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran and Alan Black |
9:25 | Recipe For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers: Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
9:40 | A Simple and Generic Belief Tracking Mechanism for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge: On the believability of observed information Zhuoran Wang and Oliver Lemon |
9:55 | Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking Jason Williams |
10:10 | Structured Discriminative Model For Dialog State Tracking Sungjin Lee |
Poster session: Dialog state tracking | |
10:25 | Poster “madness” (short presentations of each poster) |
10:35 | Poster session (with coffee) |
Comparison of Bayesian Discriminative and Generative Models for Dialogue State Tracking Lukas Zilka, David Marek, Matej Korvas and Filip Jurcicek | |
Dialog State Tracking using Conditional Random Fields Hang Ren, Weiqun Xu, Yan Zhang and Yonghong Yan | |
Engineering Statistical Dialog State Trackers: A Case Study on DSTC Daejoong Kim, Jaedeug Choi Choi, Kee-Eung Kim, Jungsu Lee and Jinho Sohn | |
Deep Neural Network Approach for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young | |
Future challenge task information sessions | |
11:50 | Dialog state tracking challenge 2 |
12:05 | The REAL dialog challenge |
Conference closing | |
12:20 | Best paper award ceremony and closing |