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Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

General Chair
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs
Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
Ingrid Zuckerman (Monash University, Australia)

Local Chair
Gabriel Skantze (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Sponsorship Chair
Mikio Nakano (Honda Research Institute, Japan)

Mentoring Chair
Alexandros Papangelis (Uber AI, USA)

Publication Chair
Stefan Ultes (Daimler AG, Germany)

Publicity Chair
Koichiro Yoshino (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

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pdf bib Front matter pages
pdf bib Deep Reinforcement Learning For Modeling Chit-Chat Dialog With Discrete Attributes
Chinnadhurai Sankar and Sujith Ravi 		pp. 1‑10
pdf bib Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
Stefan Ultes 		pp. 11‑20
pdf bib Lifelong and Interactive Learning of Factual Knowledge in Dialogues
Sahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang and Nianzu Ma 		pp. 21‑31
pdf bib Few-Shot Dialogue Generation Without Annotated Data: A Transfer Learning Approach
Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon 		pp. 32‑39
pdf bib SIM: A Slot-Independent Neural Model for Dialogue State Tracking
Chenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng and Xuedong Huang 		pp. 40‑45
pdf bib Simple, Fast, Accurate Intent Classification and Slot Labeling for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems
Arshit Gupta, John Hewitt and Katrin Kirchhoff 		pp. 46‑55
pdf bib Time Masking: Leveraging Temporal Information in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Rylan Conway and Mathias Lambert 		pp. 56‑61
pdf bib To Combine or Not To Combine? A Rainbow Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Dialog Policies
Dirk Väth and Ngoc Thang Vu 		pp. 62‑67
pdf bib Contextualized Representations for Low-resource Utterance Tagging
Bhargavi Paranjape and Graham Neubig 		pp. 68‑74
pdf bib Capturing Dialogue State Variable Dependencies with an Energy-based Neural Dialogue State Tracker
Anh Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross and John D. Kelleher 		pp. 75‑84
pdf bib Leveraging Non-Conversational Tasks for Low Resource Slot Filling: Does it help?
Samuel Louvan and Bernardo Magnini 		pp. 85‑91
pdf bib Collaborative Multi-Agent Dialogue Model Training Via Reinforcement Learning
Alexandros Papangelis, Yi-Chia Wang, Piero Molino and Gokhan Tur 		pp. 92‑102
pdf bib Scoring Interactional Aspects of Human-Machine Dialog for Language Learning and Assessment using Text Features
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Matthew Mulholland and Yao Qian 		pp. 103‑109
pdf bib 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 		pp. 110‑113
pdf bib Graph2Bots, Unsupervised Assistance for Designing Chatbots
Jean-Leon Bouraoui, Sonia Le Meitour, Romain Carbou, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Vincent Lemaire 		pp. 114‑117
pdf bib On a Chatbot Conducting Dialogue-in-Dialogue
Boris Galitsky, Dmitry Ilvovsky and Elizaveta Goncharova 		pp. 118‑121
pdf bib DeepCopy: Grounded Response Generation with Hierarchical Pointer Networks
Semih Yavuz, Abhinav Rastogi, Guan-Lin Chao and Dilek Hakkani-Tur 		pp. 122‑132
pdf bib 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 		pp. 133‑142
pdf bib Unsupervised Dialogue Spectrum Generation for Log Dialogue Ranking
Xinnuo Xu, Yizhe Zhang, Lars Liden and Sungjin Lee 		pp. 143‑154
pdf bib 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 		pp. 155‑164
pdf bib Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog
Shikib Mehri, Tejas Srinivasan and Maxine Eskenazi 		pp. 165‑177
pdf bib Flexibly-Structured Model for Task-Oriented Dialogues
Lei Shu, Piero Molino, Mahdi Namazifar, Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Huaixiu Zheng and Gokhan Tur 		pp. 178‑187
pdf bib FriendsQA: Open-Domain Question Answering on TV Show Transcripts
Zhengzhe Yang and Jinho D. Choi 		pp. 188‑197
pdf bib Foundations of Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogue: What’s in a Slot?
Philip Cohen 		pp. 198‑209
pdf bib Speaker-adapted neural-network-based fusion for multimodal reference resolution
Diana Kleingarn, Nima Nabizadeh, Martin Heckmann and Dorothea Kolossa 		pp. 210‑214
pdf bib 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 		pp. 215‑225
pdf bib Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classification
Murathan Kurfalı and Robert Östling 		pp. 226‑231
pdf bib 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 		pp. 232‑238
pdf bib TDDiscourse: A Dataset for Discourse-Level Temporal Ordering of Events
Aakanksha Naik, Luke Breitfeller and Carolyn Rose 		pp. 239‑249
pdf bib Real Life Application of a Question Answering System Using BERT Language Model
Francesca Alloatti, Luigi Di Caro and Gianpiero Sportelli 		pp. 250‑253
pdf bib Hierarchical Multi-Task Natural Language Understanding for Cross-domain Conversational AI: HERMIT NLU
Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli and Oliver Lemon 		pp. 254‑263
pdf bib Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach
Shuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, Tagyoung Chung and Dilek Hakkani-Tur 		pp. 264‑273
pdf bib Cross-Corpus Data Augmentation for Acoustic Addressee Detection
Oleg Akhtiamov, Ingo Siegert, Alexey Karpov and Wolfgang Minker 		pp. 274‑283
pdf bib A Scalable Method for Quantifying the Role of Pitch in Conversational Turn-Taking
Kornel Laskowski, Marcin Wlodarczak and Mattias Heldner 		pp. 284‑292
pdf bib 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 		pp. 293‑306
pdf bib Influence of Time and Risk on Response Acceptability in a Simple Spoken Dialogue System
Andisheh Partovi and Ingrid Zukerman 		pp. 307‑319
pdf bib Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: a Corpus Study for English and Polish
Jonathan Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li, Kexin Ren and Paweł Łupkowski 		pp. 320‑330
pdf bib From Explainability to Explanation: Using a Dialogue Setting to Elicit Annotations with Justifications
Nazia Attari, Martin Heckmann and David Schlangen 		pp. 331‑335
pdf bib Prediction of User Emotion and Dialogue Success Using Audio Spectrograms and Convolutional Neural Networks
Athanasios Lykartsis and Margarita Kotti 		pp. 336‑344
pdf bib Modelling Adaptive Presentations in Human-Robot Interaction using Behaviour Trees
Nils Axelsson and Gabriel Skantze 		pp. 345‑352
pdf bib Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences
Filip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne and Karthik Krishnamoorthi 		pp. 353‑360
pdf bib A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents
Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser 		pp. 361‑366
pdf bib A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective Negotiation
Yiheng Zhou, He He, Alan W Black and Yulia Tsvetkov 		pp. 367‑378
pdf bib 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 		pp. 379‑391
pdf bib User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System
Simon Keizer, Ondřej Dušek, Xingkun Liu and Verena Rieser 		pp. 392‑398
pdf bib Dialogue Act Classification in Team Communication for Robot Assisted Disaster Response
Tatiana Anikina and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova 		pp. 399‑410
pdf bib Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue Policies
Sarah McLeod, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bernd Kiefer 		pp. 411‑417
pdf bib B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendations
Mitchell Abrams, Luke Gessler and Matthew Marge 		pp. 418‑421
pdf bib SpaceRefNet: a neural approach to spatial reference resolution in a real city environment
Dmytro Kalpakchi and Johan Boye 		pp. 422‑431
pdf bib Which aspects of discourse relations are hard to learn? Primitive decomposition for discourse relation classification
Charlotte Roze, Chloé Braud and Philippe Muller 		pp. 432‑441
pdf bib Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional Networks
Siddharth Varia, Christopher Hidey and Tuhin Chakrabarty 		pp. 442‑452

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