Simple, Fast, Accurate Intent Classification and Slot Labeling for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Arshit Gupta, John Hewitt and Katrin Kirchhoff
FriendsQA: Open-Domain Question Answering on TV Show Transcripts
Zhengzhe Yang and Jinho D. Choi
A Large-Scale User Study of an Alexa Prize Chatbot: Effect of TTS Dynamism on Perceived Quality of Social Dialog
Michelle Cohn, Chun-Yen Chen and Zhou Yu
Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach
Shuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, Tagyoung Chung and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Foundations of Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogue, Part I: What's in a Slot?
Philip Cohen
Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
Stefan Ultes
Prediction of User Emotion and Dialogue Success Using Audio Spectrograms and Convolutional Neural Networks
Athanasios Lykartsis and Margarita Kotti
Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog
Shikib Mehri, Tejas Srinivasan and Maxine Eskenazi
Flexibly-Structured Model for Task-Oriented Dialogues
Lei Shu, Piero Molino, Mahdi Namazifar, Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Huaixiu Zheng and Gokhan Tur
Influence of Time and Risk on Response Acceptability in a Simple Spoken Dialogue System
Andisheh Partovi and Ingrid Zukerman
Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional Networks
Siddharth Varia, Christopher Hidey and Tuhin Chakrabarty
Hierarchical Multi-Task Natural Language Understanding for Cross-domain Conversational AI: HERMIT NLU
Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli and Oliver Lemon
Unsupervised Dialogue Spectrum Generation for Log Dialogue Ranking
Xinnuo Xu, Yizhe Zhang, Lars Liden and Sungjin Lee
Learning Question-Guided Video Representation for Multi-Turn Video Question Answering
Guan-Lin Chao, Abhinav Rastogi, Semih Yavuz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Jindong Chen and Ian Lane
SpaceRefNet: a neural approach to spatial reference resolution in a real city environment
Dmytro Kalpakchi and Johan Boye
Capturing Dialogue State Variable Dependencies with an Energy-based Neural Dialogue State Tracker
Anh Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross and John D. Kelleher
Towards End-to-End Learning for Efficient Dialogue Agent by Modeling Looking-ahead Ability
Zhuoxuan Jiang, Xian-Ling Mao, Ziming Huang, Jie Ma and Shaochun Li
Cross-Corpus Data Augmentation for Acoustic Addressee Detection
Oleg Akhtiamov, Ingo Siegert, Alexey Karpov and Wolfgang Minker
Which aspects of discourse relations are hard to learn? Primitive decomposition for discourse relation classification
Charlotte Roze, Chloé Braud and Philippe Muller
Deep Reinforcement Learning For Modeling Chit-Chat Dialog With Discrete Attributes
Chinnadhurai Sankar and Sujith Ravi
Tree-Structured Semantic Encoder with Knowledge Sharing for Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Generation
Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Paweł Budzianowski, Yen-chen Wu and Milica Gasic
A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective Negotiation
Yiheng Zhou, He He, Alan W Black and Yulia Tsvetkov
Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple References
Prakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Tiancheng Zhao, Amy Pavel, Maxine Eskenazi and Jeffrey Bigham
Collaborative Multi-Agent Dialogue Model Training Via Reinforcement Learning
Alexandros Papangelis, Yi-Chia Wang, Piero Molino and Gokhan Tur
A Scalable Method for Quantifying the Role of Pitch in Conversational Turn-Taking
Kornel Laskowski, Marcin Wlodarczak and Mattias Heldner
Dialogue Act Classification in Team Communication for Robot Assisted Disaster Response
Tatiana Anikina and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
TDDiscourse: A Dataset for Discourse-Level Temporal Ordering of Events
Aakanksha Naik, Luke Breitfeller and Carolyn Rose
Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: a Corpus Study for English and Polish
Jonathan Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li, Kexin Ren and Paweł Łupkowski
Interactive Factual Knowledge Learning in Dialogues
Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang and Nianzu Ma
DeepCopy: Grounded Response Generation with Hierarchical Pointer Networks
Semih Yavuz, Abhinav Rastogi, Guan-Lin Chao and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
Few-Shot Dialogue Generation Without Annotated Data: A Transfer Learning Approach
Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon
SIM: A Slot-Independent Neural Model for Dialogue State Tracking
Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng and Xuedong Huang
From Explainability to Explanation: Using a Dialogue Setting to Elicit Annotations with Justifications
Nazia Attari, Martin Heckmann and David Schlangen
Time Masking: Leveraging Temporal Information in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Rylan Conway and Mathias Lambert
Speaker-adapted neural-network-based fusion for multimodal reference resolution
Diana Kleingarn, Nima Nabizadeh, Martin Heckmann and Dorothea Kolossa
Scoring Interactional Aspects of Human-Machine Dialog for Language Learning and Assessment using Text Features
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Matthew Mulholland and Yao Qian
To Combine or Not To Combine? A Rainbow Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Dialog Policies
Dirk Väth and Ngoc Thang Vu
Contextualized Representations for Low-resource Utterance Tagging
Bhargavi Paranjape and Graham Neubig
A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents
Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser
Leveraging Non-Conversational Tasks for Low Resource Slot Filling: Does it help?
Samuel Louvan and Bernardo Magnini
Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification
Murathan Kurfalı and Robert Östling
User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System
Simon Keizer, Ondřej Dušek, Xingkun Liu and Verena Rieser
A Quantitative Analysis of Patients’ Narratives of Heart Failure
Sabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Pantea Habibi, Carolyn Dickens, Haleh Vatani and Amer Ardati
Modelling Adaptive Presentations in Human-Robot Interaction using Behaviour Trees
Nils Axelsson and Gabriel Skantze
Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences
Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne and Karthik Krishnamoorthi
Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised
Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue Policies
Sarah McLeod, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bernd Kiefer
Predictive Turn-Taking using POMDPs
Matthew Roddy, Naomi Harte
Domain-Independent Turn-level Dialogue Quality Estimation via User Satisfaction
Estimation
Praveen Bodigutla, Spyros Matsoukas, Alborz Geramifar, Longshaokan Wang, Kate Ridgeway, Joshua Levy, Swanand Joshi
Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge
Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Pascal Bellec, Benoit Besset, Martinho Dossantos, Johannes Heinecke, Munshi Asadullah, Olivier Leblouch, Jeanyves. Lancien, Geraldine Damnati, Emmanuel Mory and Frederic Herledan
Graph2Bots, Unsupervised Assistance for Designing Chatbots
Jean-Leon Bouraoui, Sonia Le Meitour, Romain Carbou, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Vincent Lemaire
B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendations
Mitchell Abrams, Luke Gessler and Matthew Marge
Real Life Application of a Question Answering System Using BERT Language Model
Francesca Alloatti, Luigi Di Caro and Gianpiero Sportelli
On a Chatbot Conducting Dialogue-in-Dialogue
Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky and Elizaveta Goncharova
Real-time Generation of Unambiguous Spatial Referring Expressions
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Sinan Kalkan and Iolanda Leite