CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday July 5, 2012 | |
| 9:00 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 9:15 AM Keynote 1 (Session Chair: Alex Rudnicky) | |
| 9:15-10:15 | Multi-modal Sensing and Analysis of Poster Conversations: Toward Smart Posterboard Tatsuya Kawahara |
| 10:15 AM Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 AM Oral Presentation Session 1: Evaluation (Session Chair: Diane Litman) | |
| 10:45–11:10 | An End-to-End Evaluation of Two Situated Dialog Systems Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Alejandra Lorenzo and Claire Gardent |
| 11:10–11:35 | “Love ya, jerkface”: Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive (and Impolite) Relationships with Teens William Yang Wang, Samantha Finkelstein, Amy Ogan, Alan W. Black and Justine Cassell |
| 11:35–12:00 | Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte and Matthew Crocker |
| 12:00 PM Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM Oral Poster Session 2 (Theme Session): Coherence (Session Chair: David DeVault) | |
| 1:00–1:25 | Unsupervised Topic Modeling Approaches to Decision Summarization in Spoken Meetings Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 1:25–1:50 | An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 1:50–2:15 | Hierarchical Conversation Structure Prediction in Multi-Party Chat Elijah Mayfield, David Adamson and Carolyn Penstein Rosé |
| 2:15 PM Poster Session 1 “Madness” (Session Chair: David Schlangen) | |
| 2:30 PM Poster Session 1 | |
| 2:30–4:00 | Rapid Development Process of Spoken Dialogue Systems using Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources Masahiro Araki |
| 2:30–4:00 | The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System Milica Gasić, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Eli Tzirkel and Steve Young |
| 2:30–4:00 | Predicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts Christine Howes, Matthew Purver, Rose McCabe, Patrick G. T. Healey and Mary Lavelle |
| 2:30–4:00 | Reinforcement Learning of Question-Answering Dialogue Policies for Virtual Museum Guides Teruhisa Misu, Kallirroi Georgila, Anton Leuski and David Traum |
| 2:30–4:00 | From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Boyer and James Lester |
| 2:30-4:00 | The Structure and Generality of Spoken Route Instructions Aasish Pappu and Alexander Rudnicky |
| 2:30–4:00 | Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization Joonsuk Park and Claire Cardie |
| 2:30–4:00 | A Temporal Simulator for Developing Turn-Taking Methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems Ethan O. Selfridge and Peter A. Heeman |
| 2:30–4:00 | Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation Congkai Sun and Louis-Philippe Morency |
| 2:30–4:00 | Estimating Adaptation of Dialogue Partners with Different Verbal Intelligence Kseniya Zablotskaya, Fernando Fernández-Martínez and Wolfgang Minker |
| 2:30 PM Demo Session | |
| 2:30–4:00 | A Demonstration of Incremental Speech Understanding and Confidence Estimation in a Virtual Human Dialogue System David DeVault and David Traum |
| 2:30–4:00 | Integrating Location, Visibility, and Question-Answering in a Spoken Dialogue System for Pedestrian City Exploration Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Phil Bartie, William Mackaness, Tiphaine Dalmas and Jana Goetze |
| 2:30–4:00 | A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, David Traum and Albert Rizzo |
| 4:00 PM Sponsor Presentations 1 (Jason D. Williams) | |
| 4:25 PM Oral Presentation Session 3: Discourse Structure (Session Chair: Amanda Stent) | |
| 4:25–4:50 | Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue Changsong Liu, Rui Fang and Joyce Chai |
| 4:50–5:15 | Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing Sucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi and Richard Johansson |
| 5:15–5:40 | A Reranking Model for Discourse Segmentation using Subtree Features Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh and Akira Shimazu |
| Conference Reception and Dinner at Engineer House, SNU | |
Friday July 6, 2012 | |
| 9:00 AM Announcements | |
| 9:15 AM Oral Presentation Session 4: Statistical Models of Dialog (Session Chair: Gary Geunbae Lee) | |
| 9:15–9:40 | Landmark-Based Location Belief Tracking in a Spoken Dialog System Yi Ma, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran and Rakesh Gupta |
| 9:40–10:05 | Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge Pierre Lison |
| 10:05–10:30 | Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods Sungjin Lee and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 10:30 AM Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 AM Keynote 2 (Session Chair: David Traum) | |
| 11:00–12:00 | Cohesion, Entrainment and Task Success in Educational Dialog Diane Litman |
| 12:00 PM Lunch and Business Meeting | |
| 1:30 PM Oral Presentation Session 5: Paralinguistic Features (Session Chair: Tatsuya Kawahara) | |
| 1:30–1:55 | A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction Nigel G. Ward and Alejandro Vega |
| 1:55–2:20 | Using Group History to Identify Character-Directed Utterances in Multi-Child Interactions Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Jill F. Lehman and Jessica K. Hodgins |
| 2:20–2:45 | Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman |
| 2:45 PM Poster 2 “Madness” (Session Chair: Antoine Raux) | |
| 3:00 PM Poster Session 2 | |
| 3:00–4:00 | Dialog System Using Real-Time Crowdsourcing and Twitter Large-Scale Corpus Fumihiro Bessho, Tatsuya Harada and Yasuo Kuniyoshi |
| 3:00–4:00 | Automatically Acquiring Fine-Grained Information Status Distinctions in German Aoife Cahill and Arndt Riester |
| 3:00–4:00 | A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Takenobu Tokunaga and Ryu Iida |
| 3:00–4:00 | Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue Eun Young Ha, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer and James C. Lester |
| 3:00–4:00 | Semantic Specificity in Spoken Dialogue Requests Ben Hixon, Rebecca J. Passonneau and Susan L. Epstein |
| 3:00–4:00 | Contingency and Comparison Relation Labeling and Structure Prediction in Chinese Sentences Hen-Hsen Huang and Hsin-Hsi Chen |
| 3:00–4:00 | A Study in How NLU Performance Can Affect the Choice of Dialogue System Architecture Anton Leuski and David DeVault |
| 3:00–4:00 | Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems Ethan O. Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman and Jason D. Williams |
| 3:00–4:00 | A Regression-Based Approach to Modeling Addressee Backchannels Allison Terrell and Bilge Mutlu |
| 3:00–4:00 | Improving Sentence Completion in Dialogues with Multi-Modal Features Anruo Wang, Barbara Di Eugenio and Lin Chen |
| 4:00 PM Sponsor Presentations 2 (Jason D. Williams) | |
| 4:25 PM Oral Presentation Session 6: NLG and NLU (Session Chair: Minhwa Chung) | |
| 4:25–4:50 | Combining Incremental Language Generation and Incremental Speech Synthesis for Adaptive Information Presentation Hendrik Buschmeier, Timo Baumann, Benjamin Dosch, Stefan Kopp and David Schlangen |
| 4:50–5:15 | Focused Meeting Summarization via Unsupervised Relation Extraction Lu Wang and Claire Cardie |
| 5:15–5:40 | Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding Casey Kennington and David Schlangen |
| 5:40 PM Best Paper Awards and Concluding Remarks | |