Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

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Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

General Chair
Olivier Pietquin (Google Research, France)

Program Co-Chairs
Smaranda Muresan (Data Science Institute, Columbia University, USA)
Vivian Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Local / Virtual Chair
Casey Kennington (Boise State University, USA)

Sponsoring Chair
David Vandyke (Apple Inc., UK)

Mentoring Chair
Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK)

Video Presentation Co-Chairs
Koji Inoue (Kyoto University, Japan)
Erik Ekstedt (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Publication Chair
Stefan Ultes (Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany)

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pdf	bib	Front matter	pages
pdf	bib	Semantic Guidance of Dialogue Generation with Reinforcement Learning Cheng-Hsun Hsueh and Wei-Yun Ma	pp. 1‑9
pdf	bib	Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context Siqi Shen, Charles Welch, Rada Mihalcea and Verónica Pérez-Rosas	pp. 10‑20
pdf	bib	Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Marilyn Walker	pp. 21‑34
pdf	bib	TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi and Milica Gasic	pp. 35‑44
pdf	bib	Conversational Agents for Intelligent Buildings Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Nancie Gunson and Oliver Lemon	pp. 45‑48
pdf	bib	Retico: An incremental framework for spoken dialogue systems Thilo Michael	pp. 49‑52
pdf	bib	MC-Saar-Instruct: a Platform for Minecraft Instruction Giving Agents Arne Köhn, Julia Wichlacz, Christine Schäfer, Álvaro Torralba, Joerg Hoffmann and Alexander Koller	pp. 53‑56
pdf	bib	ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, Andrew Wang, Justine Zhang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil	pp. 57‑60
pdf	bib	Commonsense Evidence Generation and Injection in Reading Comprehension Ye Liu, Tao Yang, Zeyu You, Wei Fan and Philip S. Yu	pp. 61‑73
pdf	bib	Identifying Collaborative Conversations using Latent Discourse Behaviors Ayush Jain, Maria Pacheco, Steven Lancette, Mahak Goindani and Dan Goldwasser	pp. 74‑78
pdf	bib	A Case Study of User Communication Styles with Customer Service Agents versus Intelligent Virtual Agents Timothy Hewitt and Ian Beaver	pp. 79‑85
pdf	bib	It’s About Time: Turn-Entry Timing For Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Felix Gervits, Ravenna Thielstrom, Antonio Roque and Matthias Scheutz	pp. 86‑96
pdf	bib	Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays David McNeill and Casey Kennington	pp. 97‑106
pdf	bib	Learning and Reasoning for Robot Dialog and Navigation Tasks Keting Lu, Shiqi Zhang, Peter Stone and Xiaoping Chen	pp. 107‑117
pdf	bib	An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara	pp. 118‑127
pdf	bib	A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart Schubert, Benjamin Kane and Aaron Gindi	pp. 128‑131
pdf	bib	rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns and David McNeill	pp. 132‑135
pdf	bib	Discovering Knowledge Graph Schema from Short Natural Language Text via Dialog Subhasis Ghosh, Arpita Kundu, Aniket Pramanick and Indrajit Bhattacharya	pp. 136‑146
pdf	bib	User Impressions of Questions to Acquire Lexical Knowledge Kazunori Komatani and Mikio Nakano	pp. 147‑156
pdf	bib	Simulating Turn-Taking in Conversations with Delayed Transmission Thilo Michael and Sebastian Möller	pp. 157‑161
pdf	bib	Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities Alessandra Cervone and Giuseppe Riccardi	pp. 162‑174
pdf	bib	Analyzing Speaker Strategy in Referential Communication Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone	pp. 175‑185
pdf	bib	Contextualized Emotion Recognition in Conversation as Sequence Tagging Yan Wang, Jiayu Zhang, Jun Ma, Shaojun Wang and Jing Xiao	pp. 186‑195
pdf	bib	How Self-Attention Improves Rare Class Performance in a Question-Answering Dialogue Agent Adam Stiff, Qi Song and Eric Fosler-Lussier	pp. 196‑202
pdf	bib	Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies Simone Fuscone, Benoit Favre and Laurent Prévot	pp. 203‑208
pdf	bib	Nontrivial Lexical Convergence in a Geography-Themed Game Amanda Bergqvist, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Deepthi Karkada and Maike Paetzel	pp. 209‑214
pdf	bib	A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora Ramiro H. Gálvez, Lara Gauder, Jordi Luque and Agustín Gravano	pp. 215‑224
pdf	bib	Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi	pp. 225‑235
pdf	bib	Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols Sarah E. Finch and Jinho D. Choi	pp. 236‑245
pdf	bib	Human-Human Health Coaching via Text Messages: Corpus, Annotation, and Analysis Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Aiswarya Baiju, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Nadia Nabulsi and Mary Smart	pp. 246‑256
pdf	bib	Agent-Based Dynamic Collaboration Support in a Smart Office Space Yansen Wang, R. Charles Murray, Haogang Bao and Carolyn Rose	pp. 257‑260
pdf	bib	Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development James D. Finch and Jinho D. Choi	pp. 261‑264
pdf	bib	Boosting Naturalness of Language in Task-oriented Dialogues via Adversarial Training Chenguang Zhu	pp. 265‑271
pdf	bib	A Sequence-to-sequence Approach for Numerical Slot-filling Dialog Systems Hongjie Shi	pp. 272‑277
pdf	bib	Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur	pp. 278‑289
pdf	bib	Multi-Action Dialog Policy Learning with Interactive Human Teaching Megha Jhunjhunwala, Caleb Bryant and Pararth Shah	pp. 290‑296
pdf	bib	Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation Ryuichi Takanobu, Qi Zhu, Jinchao Li, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao and Minlie Huang	pp. 297‑310
pdf	bib	Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Maier	pp. 311‑322
pdf	bib	Collection and Analysis of Dialogues Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One Tsunehiro Arimoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kou Tanaka, Takahito Kawanishi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Sawada and Hiroshi Ishiguro	pp. 323‑328
pdf	bib	Adaptive Dialog Policy Learning with Hindsight and User Modeling Yan Cao, Keting Lu, Xiaoping Chen and Shiqi Zhang	pp. 329‑338
pdf	bib	Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games through Multimodal Communication Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub, Aishan Liu, Sweekar Sudhakara, Alan Wagner and Rebecca Passonneau	pp. 339‑351

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