Friday, September 24, 2010 |
| 9:00-9:20 | Introduction |
| 9:20-10:00 | Papers 1-2: |
| | Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Dialogue Systems
Gabriel Skantze and Anna Hjalmarsson |
| | Comparing Local and Sequential Models for Statistical Incremental Natural Language Understanding
Silvan Heintze, Timo Baumann and David Schlangen |
| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Talk 1: |
| | Dynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems
Marilyn Walker |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20-12:20 | Papers 3-5: |
| | Modeling User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues from Overall Ratings
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Kohji Dohsaka and Toyomi Meguro |
| | Evaluation Metrics For End-to-End Coreference Resolution Systems
Jie Cai and Michael Strube |
| | Probabilistic Ontology Trees for Belief Tracking in Dialog Systems
Neville Mehta, Rakesh Gupta, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran and Stefan Krawczyk |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch & SIGDIAL Business Meeting |
| 13:30-15:00 | Short Paper Poster Session 1 |
| | How was your day? An architecture for multimodal ECA systems
Raúl Santos de la Cámara, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen and Debora Field |
| | Middleware for Incremental Processing in Conversational Agents
David Schlangen, Timo Baumann, Hendrik Buschmeier, Okko Buß, Stefan Kopp, Gabriel Skantze and Ramin Yaghoubzadeh |
| | Towards Semi-Supervised Classification of Discourse Relations using Feature Correlations
Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala and Mitsuru Ishizuka |
| | Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations
Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi, Rashmi Prasad and Ani Nenkova |
| | Same and Elaboration Relations in the Discourse Graphbank
Irina Borisova and Gisela Redeker |
| | Negotiating causal implicatures
Luciana Benotti and Patrick Blackburn |
| | Presupposition Accommodation as Exception Handling
Philippe de Groote and Ekaterina Lebedeva |
| | Exploring the Effectiveness of Lexical Ontologies for Modeling Temporal Relations with Markov Logic
Eun Y. Ha, Alok Baikadi, Carlyle Licata, Bradford Mott and James Lester |
| | Reference reversibility with Reference Domain Theory
Alexandre Denis |
| | Utilizing Review Summarization in a Spoken Recommendation System
Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff and Victor Zue |
| | Dialogue Management Based on Entities and Constraints
Yushi Xu and Stephanie Seneff |
| | Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
Matthew Marge, João Miranda, Alan Black and Alexander Rudnicky |
| | Route Communication in Dialogue: a Matter of Principles
Theodora Koulouri and Stanislao Lauria |
| | The Impact of Dimensionality on Natural Language Route Directions in Unconstrained Dialogue
Vivien Mast, Jan Smeddinck, Anna Strotseva and Thora Tenbrink |
| | Learning Dialogue Strategies from Older and Younger Simulated Users
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters and Johanna Moore |
| 15:00-16:00 | Papers 6-8: |
| | Sparse Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dialog Management
Senthilkumar Chandramohan, Matthieu Geist and Olivier Pietquin |
| | Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation
Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcicek, Francois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young |
| | Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with Real Users
Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20-17:20 | Papers 9-11: |
| | A unified account of the semantics of discourse particles
Markus Egg |
| | The Effects of Discourse Connectives Prediction on Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Zhi Min Zhou, Man Lan, Zheng Yu Niu, Yu Xu and Jian Su |
| | Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization
Annie Louis, Aravind Joshi and Ani Nenkova |
| 19:00-22:00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, September 25, 2010 |
| 9:20-10:00 | Papers 12-13 |
| | Comparing Spoken Language Route Instructions for Robots across Environment Representations
Matthew Marge and Alexander Rudnicky |
| | The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction
Antoine Raux and Mikio Nakano |
| 10:00-11:00 | Invited Talk 2: |
| | Understanding Humans by Building Androids
Hiroshi Ishiguro |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20-12:20 | Papers 14-16 |
| | Non-humanlike Spoken Dialogue: A Design Perspective
Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Kazuki Kobayashi, Takanori Komatsu and Seiji Yamada |
| | Enhanced Monitoring Tools and Online Dialogue Optimisation Merged into a New Spoken Dialogue System Design Experience
Ghislain Putois, Romain Laroche and Philippe Bretier |
| | Don't tell anyone! Two Experiments on Gossip Conversations
Jenny Brusk, Ron Artstein and David Traum |
| 12:20-13:00 | Lunch & Spoken Dialogue Challenge Report |
| 13:00-14:40 | Short Paper Poster Session 2 & Demo Session |
| | Gaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers
Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcicek, Simon Keizer, Francois Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young |
| | Coherent Back-Channel Feedback Tagging of In-Car Spoken Dialogue Corpus
Yuki Kamiya, Tomohiro Ohno and Shigeki Matsubara |
| | Representing Uncertainty about Complex User Goals in Statistical Dialogue Systems
Paul A. Crook and Oliver Lemon |
| | Investigating Clarification Strategies in a Hybrid POMDP Dialog Manager
Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Riccardi and Alexei Ivanov |
| | Cooperative User Models in Statistical Dialog Simulators
Meritxell González, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Riccardi and Sebastian Varges |
| | Modeling Spoken Decision Making Dialogue and Optimization of its Dialogue Strategy
Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Hisashi Kawai and Satoshi Nakamura |
| | The vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in dialogue
Anna Hjalmarsson |
| | Pamini: A framework for assembling mixed-initiative human-robot interaction from generic interaction patterns
Julia Peltason and Britta Wrede |
| | Collaborating on Utterances with a Spoken Dialogue System Using an ISU-based Approach to Incremental Dialogue Management
Okko Buß, Timo Baumann and David Schlangen |
| | Cross-Domain Speech Disfluency Detection
Kallirroi Georgila, Ning Wang and Jonathan Gratch |
| | Validation of a Dialog System for Language Learners
Alicia Sagae, W. Lewis Johnson and Stephen Bodnar |
| | I've said it before, and I'll say it again: An empirical investigation of the upper bound of the selection approach to dialogue
Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum |
| | Autism and Interactional Aspects of Dialogue
Peter Heeman, Rebecca Lunsford, Ethan Selfridge, Lois Black and Jan van Santen |
| | Detection of time-pressure induced stress in speech via acoustic indicators
Matthew Frampton, Sandeep Sripada, Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann Bion and Stanley Peters |
| | How to Drink from a Fire Hose: One Person Can Annoscribe One Million Utterances in One Month
David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe and Roberto Pieraccini |
| Demos: |
| | Advances in the Witchcraft Workbench Project
Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker and Nada Sharaf |
| | MPOWERS: a Multi Points Of VieW Evaluation Refine Studio
Marianne Laurent and Philippe Bretier |
| | Statistical Dialog Management Methodologies for Real Applications
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas and Ramón López-Cózar |
| | YouBot: A Simple Framework for Building Virtual Networking Agents
Seiji Takegata and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii |
| | How was your day? An Affective Companion ECA Prototype
Marc Cavazza, Raúl Santos de la Cámara, Markku Turunen, José Relaño Gil, Jaakko Hakulinen, Nigel Crook and Debora Field |
| 14:40-16:00 | Papers 17-20 |
| | $F^2$ - New Technique for Recognition of User Emotional States in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ramón López-Cózar, Jan Silovsky and David Griol |
| | Online Error Detection of Barge-In Utterances by Using Individual Users' Utterance Histories in Spoken Dialogue System
Kazunori Komatani and Hiroshi G. Okuno |
| | Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
Kristy Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips, Michael Wallis, Mladen Vouk and James Lester |
| | Hand Gestures in Disambiguating Types of You Expressions in Multiparty Meetings
Tyler Baldwin, Joyce Chai and Katrin Kirchhoff |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20-17:20 | Papers 21-23 |
| | User-adaptive Coordination of Agent Communicative Behavior in Spoken Dialogue
Kohji Dohsaka, Atsushi Kanemoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Eisaku Maeda |
| | Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi |
| | Assessing the effectiveness of conversational features for dialogue segmentation in medical team meetings and in the AMI corpus
Saturnino Luz and Jing Su |
| 17:20-17:50 | Best Paper Awards & Closing |