Papers from the 2003 SIGdial Workshop



Workshop Final Program

Proceedings Preface


LONG
PAPERS
Understanding Information Graphics: A Discourse-Level Problem
Sandra Carberry, Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Kathleen McCoy and Daniel Chester
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Annotating Opinions in the World Press
Theresa Wilson and Janyce Wiebe
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Answering Clarification Questions
Matthew Purver, Patrick G.T. Healey, James King, Jonathan Ginzburg and Greg J. Mills
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An Information-theoretic Approach for Argument Interpretation
Sarah George and Ingrid Zukerman
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Conversational inferences: the hard way and the easy way
Yukiko Kawaguchi
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The interpretation of non-sentential utterances in dialogue
David Schlangen and Alex Lascarides
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Flexible Spoken Dialogue System based on User Models and Dynamic Generation of VoiceXML Scripts
Kazunori Komatani, Fumihiro Adachi, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara and Hiroshi G. Okuno
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Building a New Internet Chat System for Sharing Timing Information
Kanayo Ogura, Takeshi Masuda and Masato Ishizaki
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Interpreter for Highly Portable Spoken Dialogue System
Masamitsu Umeda, Satoru Kogure and Seiichi Nakagawa
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Spoken Dialogue for Virtual Advisers in a semi-immersive Command and Control environment
Dominique Estival, Michael Broughton, Andrew Zschorn and Elizabeth Pronger
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Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement- Learning based dialog management systems
Jason D. Williams and Steve Young
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Example-based Spoken Dialogue System using WOZ System Log
Hiroya Murao, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Shigeki Matsubara, Yukiko Yamaguchi and Yasuyoshi Inagaki
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video
Some empirical findings on dialogue management and domain ontologies in dialogue systems - Implications from an evaluation of  BirdQuest
Annika Flycht-Eriksson and Arne Jönsson
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Managing Dialogue Interaction: A Multi-Layered Approach
Oliver Lemon, Lawrence Cavedon and Barbara Kelly
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Ontology-based Contextual Coherence Scoring
Robert Porzel, Iryna Gurevych and Christof E. Müller
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An Annotation Tool for Multimodal Dialogue Corpora using Global Document Annotation
Kazunari Ito and Hiroaki Saito
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Multi-Level Annotation in MMAX
Christoph Müller and Michael Strube
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Domain Specific Speech Acts for Spoken Language Translation
Lori Levin, Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Donna Gates, Dorcas Wallace and Kay Peterson
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SHORT
and
DEMO
PAPERS
Turn-taking in Graphical Communication: an exploratory study
Atsue Takeoka, Atsushi Shimojima and Yasuhiro Katagiri
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video
PALinkA: A highly customisable tool for discourse annotation
Constantin Orăsan
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Speaker-independent context update rules for dialogue management
Samson de Jager, Nick Wright and Alistair Knott
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A Method for Forming Mutual Beliefs for Communication through Human-robot Multi-modal Interaction
Naoto Iwahashi
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DIPPER: Description and Formalisation of an Information-State Update Dialogue System Architecture
Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Oliver Lemon and Tetsushi Oka
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video
Learning to Speak to a Spoken Language System: Vocabulary Convergence in Novice Users
Gina-Anne Levow
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A procedure assistant for astronauts in a functional programming architecture, with step previewing and spoken correction of dialogue moves
Gregory Aist, Manny Rayner, John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Susana Early and Jim Hieronymus
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Dialog Input Ranking in a Multi-Domain Environment Using Transferable Belief Model
Hong-I Ng and Kim-Teng Lua
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Annotating emotion in dialogue
Richard Craggs and Mary McGee Wood
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Developing a Typology of Dialogue Acts: Some Boundary Problems
Tiit Hennoste, Mare Koit, Andriela Rääbis, Krista Strandson, Maret Valdisoo and Evely Vutt
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