| | Automatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations
Majid Laali and Leila Kosseim |
| | Towards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTB
Rashmi Prasad, Katherine Forbes-Riley and Alan Lee |
| | User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems
Staffan Larsson |
| | A Multimodal Dialogue System for Medical Decision Support inside Virtual Reality
Alexander Prange, Margarita Chikobava, Peter Poller, Michael Barz and Daniel Sonntag |
| | Generative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability
Tiancheng Zhao, Allen Lu, Kyusong Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
| | Key-Value Retrieval Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Mihail Eric and Christopher D. Manning |
| | Lexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues
Kohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano and Kazunori Komatani |
| | Utterance Intent Classification of a Spoken Dialogue System with Efficiently Untied Recursive Autoencoders
Tsuneo Kato, Atsushi Nagai, Naoki Noda, Ryosuke Sumitomo, Jianming Wu and Seiichi Yamamoto |
| | Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic and Steve Young |
| | Automatic Measures to Characterise Verbal Alignment in Human-Agent Interaction
Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Chloé Clavel and Frédéric Landragin |
| | Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks
Jason D Williams and Lars Liden |
| | Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Iñigo Casanueva, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Milica Gasic |
| | MACA: A Modular Architecture for Conversational Agents
Hoai Phuoc Truong, Prasanna Parthasarathi and Joelle Pineau |
| | Sequential Dialogue Context Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding
Ankur Bapna, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Larry Heck |
| | Redundancy Localization for the Conversationalization of Unstructured Responses
Sebastian Krause, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Eric Malmi and Daniele Pighin |
| | Attentive listening system with backchanneling, response generation and flexible turn-taking
Divesh Lala, Pierrick Milhorat, Koji Inoue, Masanari Ishida, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara |
| | Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural?
Patricia Braunger and Wolfgang Maier |
| | Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management
Pei-Hao Su, Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic and Steve Young |
| | A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset
Shubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman |
| | Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories
Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes |
| | DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development
Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Yulun Du, Edward Cai, Allen Lu, Eli Pincus, David Traum, Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Milica Gasic, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi |
| | Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Services for Conversational Question Answering Systems
Daniel Braun, Adrian Hernandez-Mendez, Florian Matthes and Manfred Langen |
| | The Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions
Debanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri and Smaranda Muresan |
| | VOILA: An Optimised Dialogue System for Interactively Learning Visually-Grounded Word Meanings (Demonstration System)
Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon |
| | The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation
Jekaterina Novikova, Ondřej Dušek and Verena Rieser |
| | Frames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems
Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, Jeremie Zumer, Justin Harris, Emery Fine, Rahul Mehrotra and Kaheer Suleman |
| | Towards a General, Continuous Model of Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks
Gabriel Skantze |
| | Neural-based Natural Language Generation in Dialogue using RNN Encoder-Decoder with Semantic Aggregation
Van-Khanh Tran and Le-Minh Nguyen |
| | Beyond On-hold Messages: Conversational Time-buying in Task-oriented Dialogue
Soledad López Gambino, Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen |
| | Neural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification
Daniel Ortega and Ngoc Thang Vu |
| | Predicting Success in Goal-Driven Human-Human Dialogues
Michael Noseworthy, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Joelle Pineau |
| | Generating and Evaluating Summaries for Partial Email Threads: Conversational Bayesian Surprise and Silver Standards
Jordon Johnson, Vaden Masrani, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng |
| | Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users
Ramin Yaghoubzadeh and Stefan Kopp |
| | Adversarial evaluation for open-domain dialogue generation
Elia Bruni and Raquel Fernandez |
| | Exploring Joint Neural Model for Sentence Level Discourse Parsing and Sentiment Analysis
Bita Nejat, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond Ng |
| | Predicting Causes of Reformulation in Intelligent Assistants
Shumpei Sano, Nobuhiro Kaji and Manabu Sassano |
| | Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog
Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker |
| | Finding Structure in Figurative Language: Metaphor Detection with Topic-based Frames
Hyeju Jang, Keith Maki, Eduard Hovy and Carolyn Rose |
| | Using Reinforcement Learning to Model Incrementality in a Fast-Paced Dialogue Game
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault and Kallirroi Georgila |
| | Inferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films
Zhichao Hu and Marilyn Walker |
| | Lessons in Dialogue System Deployment
Anton Leuski and Ron Artstein |
| | Information Navigation System with Discovering User Interests
Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki and Satoshi Nakamura |
| | Modelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative
Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker |
| | SHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for Sexual Health Information on HIV/AIDS
Jacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski |
| | How Would You Say It? Eliciting Lexically Diverse Dialogue for Supervised Semantic Parsing
Abhilasha Ravichander, Thomas Manzini, Matthias Grabmair, Graham Neubig, Jonathan Francis and Eric Nyberg |
| | Not All Dialogues are Created Equal: Instance Weighting for Neural Conversational Models
Pierre Lison and Serge Bibauw |
| | A data-driven model of explanations for a chatbot that helps to practice conversation in a foreign language
Sviatlana Höhn |