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Conference PROGRAM
Friday June 17, 2011 | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome | |
| 9:15 - 10:25 Invited Talk | |
| Strategic Conversation Alex Lascarides | |
| 10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 Oral Presentation Session 1 (Chair: David Schlangen) | |
| Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results Alan W Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| What System Differences Matter? Using L1/L2 Regularization to Compare Dialogue Systems José González-Brenes and Jack Mostow | |
| A Two-Stage Domain Selection Framework for Extensible Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems Mikio Nakano, Shun Sato, Kazunori Komatani, Kyoko Matsuyama, Kotaro Funakoshi and Hiroshi G. Okuno | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 Poster and Demo Madness (Chair: Dan Bohus) | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 Poster and Demo Session | |
| 16:00 - 16:25 Coffee Break | |
| 16:25 - 18:05 Oral Presentation Session 2 (Chair: Jason Williams) | |
| A Comparison of Latent Variable Models For Conversation Analysis Sourish Chaudhuri and Bhiksha Raj | |
| Toward Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Policies with Text Examples David DeVault, Anton Leuski and Kenji Sagae | |
| The Impact of Task-Oriented Feature Sets on HMMs for Dialogue Modeling Kristy Boyer, Eun Young Ha, Robert Phillips and James Lester | |
| Spoken Dialogue System based on Information Extraction using Similarity of Predicate Argument Structures Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| 18:30 - 21:30 Conference Reception and Dinner: Sponsored by Honda Research Institute | |
Saturday June 18, 2011 | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 Announcement | |
| 9:15 - 10:25 Invited Talk | |
| Common Ground and Perspective-taking in Real-time Language Processing Michael K. Tanenhaus | |
| 10:25 - 10:50 Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 - 12:30 Theme Session: Situated Dialogue (Chair: Barbara Di Eugenio) | |
| Giving instructions in virtual environments by corpus based selection Luciana Benotti and Alexandre Denis | |
| Optimising Natural Language Generation Decision Making For Situated Dialogue Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl and Jette Viethen | |
| Regulating Dialogue with Gestures
- Towards an Empirically Grounded Simulation with Conversational Agents Kirsten Bergmann, Hannes Rieser and Stefan Kopp | |
| Multiparty Turn Taking in Situated Dialog: Study, Lessons, and Directions Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Business meeting and sponsor presentations (boxed lunch included) | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 Break | |
| 14:15 - 15:55 Oral Presentation Session 4 (Chair: Mikio Nakano) | |
| Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman and Jason Williams | |
| Predicting the Micro-Timing of User Input for an Incremental Spoken Dialogue System that Completes a User’s Ongoing Turn Timo Baumann and David Schlangen | |
| An Empirical Evaluation of a Statistical Dialog System in Public Use Jason Williams | |
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"The day after the day after tomorrow?" A machine learning approach to adaptive temporal expression generation: training and evaluation with real users Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon and Xingkun Liu | |
| 15:55 - 16:20 Coffee Break | |
| 16:20 - 17:35 Oral Presentation Session 5 (Chair: Diane Litman) | |
| Detecting Levels of Interest from Spoken Dialog with Multistream Prediction Feedback and Similarity Based Hierarchical Fusion Learning William Yang Wang and Julia Hirschberg | |
| Exploring User Satisfaction in a Tutorial Dialogue System Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie Steinhauser and Gwendolyn Campbell | |
| Modeling and Predicting Quality in Spoken Human-Computer Interaction Alexander Schmitt, Benjamin Schatz and Wolfgang Minker | |
| 17:35 - 17:50 Best Paper Awards and Closing | |
Poster Session (Friday, June 17) | |
| Topics as Contextual Indicators for Word Choice in SMS Conversations Ute Winter, Roni Ben-Aharon, Daniel Chernobrov and Ron Hecht | |
| Multilingual Annotation and Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation Thomas Meyer, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Sandrine Zufferey and Bruno Cartoni | |
| Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue Anaïs Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara and Alex Lascarides | |
| Using Performance Trajectories to Analyze the Immediate Impact of User State Misclassification in an Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman | |
| Comparing Triggering Policies for Social Behaviors Rohit Kumar and Carolyn Rosé | |
| Facilitating Mental Modeling in Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction through Adverbial Cues Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz | |
| Embedded Wizardry Rebecca J. Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein, Tiziana Ligorio and Joshua Gordon | |
| Toward Construction of Spoken Dialogue System that Evokes Users' Spontaneous Backchannels Teruhisa Misu, Etsuo Mizukami, Yoshinori Shiga, Shinichi Kawamoto, Hisashi Kawai and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| Learning to Balance Grounding Rationales for Dialogue Systems Joshua Gordon, Rebecca J. Passonneau and Susan L. Epstein | |
| An Annotation Scheme for Cross-Cultural Argumentation and Persuasion Dialogues Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Angela Nazarian, Michael Rushforth, David Traum and Katia Sycara | |
| An Approach to the Automated Evaluation of Pipeline Architectures in Natural Language Dialogue Systems Eliza Margaretha and David DeVault | |
| Perception of Personality and Naturalness through Dialogues by Native Speakers of American English and Arabic Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons | |
| Multi-Policy Dialogue Management Pierre Lison | |
| A Robotic World Model Framework Designed to Facilitate Human-robot Communication Meghann Lomas, Ernest Cross, Jonathan Darvill, Robert Garrett, Michael Kopack and Kenneth Whitebread | |
| Improving Pronominal and Deictic Co-Reference Resolution with Multi-Modal Features Lin Chen, Anruo Wang and Barbara Di Eugenio | |
| Examining the Impacts of Dialogue Content and System Automation on Affect Models in a Spoken Tutorial Dialogue System Joanna Drummond and Diane Litman | |
| Error Return Plots Ron Artstein | |
| PARADISE-style Evaluation of a Human-Human Library Corpus Rebecca J. Passonneau, Irene Alvarado, Phil Crone and Simon Jerome | |
Demo Session (Friday, June 17) | |
| An Incremental Architecture for the Semantic Annotation of Dialogue Corpora with High-Level Structures. A case of study for the MEDIA corpus. Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona and Matthieu Quignard | |
| The CODA System for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation Svetlana Stoyanchev and Paul Piwek | |
| Beetle II: an adaptable tutorial dialogue system Myroslava Dzikovska, Amy Isard, Peter Bell, Johanna Moore, Natalie Steinhauser and Gwendolyn Campbell | |
| Engagement-based Multi-party Dialog with a Humanoid Robot David Klotz, Johannes Wienke, Julia Peltason, Britta Wrede, Sebastian Wrede, Vasil Khalidov and Jean-Marc Odobez | |
| POMY: A Conversational Virtual Environment for Language Learning in POSTECH Hyungjong Noh, Kyusong Lee, Sungjin Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee | |
| Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts Sudeep Gandhe, Alysa Taylor, Jillian Gerten and David Traum | |
| A Just-in-Time Document Retrieval System for Dialogues or Monologues Andrei Popescu-Belis, Majid Yazdani, Alexandre Nanchen and Philip N. Garner | |