Program Schedule

Thursday, June 19th 2008

09:00	opening remarks
09:15	1  - 		--------------------
		       * Antoine Raux and Maxine
		       Eakenazi. Optimizing Endpointing 
   		       Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken
		       Dialogue System  
		       --------------------
09:40	2  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Alexander Gruenstein. Response-Based
		       Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
		       --------------------
10:05	3  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen and
		       Geoffrey Zweig. Learning N-Best Correction
		       Models from Implicit User Feedback in a
		       Multi-Modal Local Search Application  
		       --------------------
10:30	coffee break
11:00 	4  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Alex Lascarides and Nicholas
		       Asher. Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue 
		       --------------------
11:25	5  - 		--------------------
		       * Rachel Baker, Alastair Gill and Justine
		       Cassell. Reactive Redundancy and Listener
		       Comprehension in Direction-Giving  
		       --------------------
11:50	6  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Gregory Mills and Pat Healey. Semantic
		       negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of
		       alignment  
		       --------------------
12:15	7  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Antonio Roque and David Traum. Degrees of
		       Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding 
		       --------------------
12:40	lunch & 
        .. poster session (see below)
14:40	8  - 		--------------------
	     	       * zhifei li, Patrick Nguyen and Geoffrey
		       Zweig. Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating
		       Systems using POMDP Framework  
		       --------------------
15:05   9  - 		--------------------
	     	       * Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Francois
		       Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai
		       Yu and Steve Young. Training and Evaluation of 
   		       the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise 
		       --------------------
15:30	coffee break
16:00	10  - 		--------------------
	      	       * Kyungduk Kim, Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung
		       and Gary Geunbae Lee. A Frame-Based
		       Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog
		       Management Using Dialog Examples 
		       --------------------
16:25   SIGdial business meeting
17:25	end of first day

19:00   reception


Friday, June 20th 2008

09:30	invited talk by Julia Hirschberg: "Speaking More Like You:
            Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in
            Spoken Dialogue Systems" 
10:30	coffee break
11:00	11 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Swapna Somasundaran, Josef Ruppenhofer and
		       Janyce Wiebe. Discourse Level Opinion
		       Relations: An Annotation Study  
		       --------------------
11:25	12 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Pierre Andrews, Suresh Manandhar and Marco
		       De Boni. Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue
		       for Automated Persuasion  
		       --------------------
11:50	13 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf and Tanja
		       Schultz. Modeling Vocal Interaction for
		       Text-Independent Participant Characterization
		       in Multi-Party Conversation 
		       --------------------
12:15	14 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Patrick
		       Ehlen, Matthew Purver and Stanley
		       Peters. Modelling and Detecting Decisions in
		       Multi-party Dialogue  
		       --------------------
12:45	lunch
14:15   15 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Hua Ai and Fuliang Weng. User Simulation as
		       Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems 
		       --------------------
14:40	16 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum. Evaluation
		       Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models 
		       --------------------
15:05	17 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Sebastian Möller and Nigel Ward. A Framework
		       for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog
		       Systems 
		       --------------------
15:30	coffee break
16:00	18 - 		--------------------
	     	       * Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Olga
		       Kukina. The Effect of Dialogue System Output
		       Style Variation on Users' Evaluation Judgments
		       and Input Style 
		       --------------------
16:25	19 - 		--------------------
	     	       * David DeVault, David Traum and Ron
		       Artstein. Making Grammar-Based Generation
		       Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems  
		       --------------------
16:50	closing remarks
17:00	the end


Poster Session
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 Tim Paek, Sudeep Gandhe and Max Chickering. Rapidly Deploying
       Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and
       Back-off Grammars 

 Sebastian Varges, Giuseppe Riccardi and Silvia
       Quarteroni. Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric 
       Architecture 

 Anna Hjalmarsson. Speaking without knowing what to say... or when
       to end 

 Crystal Nakatsu. Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence
       Realization Ranking 

  Fei Liu and Yang Liu. What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of
       Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus

 Alexander Siebert and David Schlangen. A Simple Method for
       Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context 

 Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuji Hasegawa and Hiroshi
       Tsujino. A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based
       on a Multi-Expert Model 

 Stefan Hamerich. From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of
       Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems

 Marcus Colman, Arash Eshghi and Pat Healey. Quantifying Ellipsis
       in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding

 Yasuhiro Katagiri, Yosuke Matsusaka, Yasuharu Den, Mika Enomoto,
       Masato Ishizaki and Katsuya Takanashi. Implicit Proposal
       Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations