| 08:45-09:00 | Introduction |
| 09:00-10:00 | Papers 1-3:
- Paksima, Georgila, Moore: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Information Presentation in a Full End-To-End Dialogue System
- DeVault, Sagae, Traum: Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue
- op den Akker, op den Akker: Are You Being Addressed? - real-time addressee detection to support remote participants in hybrid meetings
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| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Talk 1:
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| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15-12:15 | Papers 4-6:
- Schlangen, Baumann, Atterer: Incremental Reference Resolution: The Task, Metrics for Evaluation, and a Bayesian Filtering Model that is Sensitive to Disfluencies
- Dzikovska, Callaway, Farrow, Moore, Steinhauser, Campbell: Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue
- Zukerman, Ye, Gupta, Makalic: Towards the Interpretation of Utterance Sequences in a Dialogue System
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| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Papers 7-9:
- Niekrasz, Moore: Participant Subjectivity and Involvement as a Basis for Discourse Segmentation
- Taboada, Brooke, Stede: Genre-Based Paragraph Classification for Sentiment Analysis
- Banerjee, Rudnicky: Detecting the Noteworthiness of Utterances in Human Meetings
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| 14:30-16:00 | Posters:
- Howes, Healey, Mills: A: An Experimental Investigation into ... B: ... Split Utterances
- Rieser, Poesio: Interactive Gesture in Dialogue: a PTT Model
- Zulaica-Hernandez, Gutierrez-Rexach: Tense, Temporal expressions and demonstrative licensing in natural discourse
- Clemens, Diekhaus: Prosodic turn-yielding Cues with and without optical Feedback
- Koulouri, Lauria: Exploring Miscommunication and Collaborative Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction
- Janarthanam, Lemon: A Two-tier User Simulation Model for Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies
- Meguro, Higashinaka, Dohsaka, Minami: Analysis of Listening-oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents
- Schmitt, Heinroth, Liscombe: On NoMatchs, NoInputs and BargeIns: Do Non-Acoustic Features Support Anger Detection
- Williams, Balakrishnan: Estimating probability of correctness for ASR N-Best lists
- de Marneffe, Grimm, Potts: Not a simple yes or no: Uncertainty in indirect answers
- Stoyanchev, Stent: Concept Form Adaptation in Human-Computer Dialog
Demos:
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| 16:00-16:15 | Coffee |
| 16:15-17:15 | Papers 10-12:
- D'Haro, de Cordoba, Lucas, Barra, San-Segundo: Speeding Up the Design of Dialogue Applications by Using Database Contents and Structure Information
- Engelbrecht, Gödde, Hartard, Ketabdar, Möller: Modeling User Satisfaction with Hidden Markov Models
- Rotaru, Litman: Discourse Structure and Performance Analysis: Beyond the Correlation
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| 19:00-23:00 | Conference Dinner and Thames boat trip. Embark on the Hurlingham by 19:00 at Embankment Pier (see the conference map). The easiest way to get there from the conference venue is via Underground: just take the District Line westbound from Stepney Green station to Embankment station (9 stops, which should take about 20 minutes). |
| 09:00-10:00 | Papers 13-15:
- Qu, Chai: The Role of Interactivity in Human-Machine Conversation for Automatic Word Acquisition
- Benotti: Clarification Potential of Instructions
- Zhang, Chai: What do We Know about Conversation Participants: Experiments on Conversation Entailment
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| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Talk 2:
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| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15-12:15 | Papers 16-18:
- Dohsaka, Asai, Higashinaka, Minami, Maeda: Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues
- Bohus, Horvitz: Models for Multiparty Engagement in Open-World Dialog
- Bui, Frampton, Dowding, Peters: Extracting decisions from multi-party dialogue using directed graphical models and semantic similarity
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| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch & SIGDIAL Business Meeting |
| 13:30-14:30 | Papers 19-21:
- Bohus, Horvitz: Learning to Predict Engagement with a Spoken Dialog System in Open-World Settings
- Gravano, Hirschberg: Turn-Yielding Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue
- Purver, Howes, Healey, Gregoromichelaki: Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study
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| 14:30-15:45 | Posters:
- Lefèvre, Gasic, Jurcicek, Keizer, Mairesse, Thomson, Yu, Young: k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-based Dialogue Systems
- Nguy, Žabokrtský, Novák: Comparison of Classification and Ranking Approaches to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Czech
- Litman, Forbes-Riley: Spoken Tutorial Dialogue and the Feeling of Another's Knowing
- Stent, Molina: Evaluating automatic extraction of rules for sentence plan construction
- Gustafson, Merkes: Eliciting interactional phenomena in human-human dialogues
- von der Malsburg, Baumann, Schlangen: TELIDA: A Package for Manipulation and Visualisation of Timed Linguistic Data
- Purver, Fernández, Frampton, Peters: Cascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution
- Skantze, Gustafson: Attention and interaction control in a human-human-computer dialogue setting
- Komatani, Ikeda, Fukubayashi, Ogata, Okuno: Ranking Help Message Candidates Based on Robust Grammar Verification Results and Utterance History in Spoken Dialogue Systems
- Villing: In-vehicle dialogue managment - towards distinguishing between different types of cognitive workload
- Griol, Callejas, López-Cózar: A Comparison between Dialog Corpora Acquired with Real and Simulated Users
- Granell, Pulman, Martinez-Hinarejos: Simultaneous Dialogue Act segmentation and labelling using lexical and syntactical features
- Black, Eskenazi: The Spoken Dialog Challenge
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| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee & Grand Challenge Discussion |
| 16:15-17:15 | Papers 22-24:
- Crook, Granell, Pulman: Unsupervised Classification of Dialogue Acts using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
- Suendermann, Liscombe, Dayanidhi, Pieraccini: A Handsome Set of Metrics to Measure Utterance Classification Performance in Spoken Dialog Systems
- Hu, Passonneau, Rambow: Contrasting the Interaction Structure of an Email and a Telephone Corpus: A Machine Learning Approach to Annotation of Dialogue Function Units
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| 17:15-17:35 | Close |
