Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

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Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Chairs
Kallirroi Georgila, General Co-chair (University of Southern California, USA)
Matthew Stone, General Co-chair (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Helen Hastie, Technical Program Co-Chair (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
Ani Nenkova, Technical Program Co-Chair (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

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pdf	bib	Front matter	pages
pdf	bib	Keynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems Steve Young	pp. 1–1
pdf	bib	Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System Raveesh Meena, Johan Boye, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson	pp. 2–11
pdf	bib	Out-of-Domain Spoken Dialogs in the Car: A WoZ Study Sven Reichel, Jasmin Sohn, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton and Michael Weber	pp. 12–21
pdf	bib	Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour Teruhisa Misu, Antoine Raux, Rakesh Gupta and Ian Lane	pp. 22–31
pdf	bib	Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus Koichiro Yoshino and Tatsuya Kawahara	pp. 32–40
pdf	bib	Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction Alexandria Vail and Kristy Boyer	pp. 41–50
pdf	bib	Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling Florian Nothdurft, Felix Richter and Wolfgang Minker	pp. 51–59
pdf	bib	Learning Non-Cooperative Dialogue Behaviours Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon	pp. 60–68
pdf	bib	Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell and Kenji Sagae	pp. 69–73
pdf	bib	User Modeling by Using Bag-of-Behaviors for Building a Dialog System Sensitive to the Interlocutor’s Internal State Yuya Chiba, Masashi Ito, Takashi Nose and Akinori Ito	pp. 74–78
pdf	bib	Alex: Bootstrapping a Spoken Dialogue System for a New Domain by Real Users Ondřej Dušek, Ondřej Plátek, Lukáš Žilka and Filip Jurčíček	pp. 79–83
pdf	bib	InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis and David Schlangen	pp. 84–88
pdf	bib	Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Lanbo She, Shaohua Yang, Yu Cheng, Yunyi Jia, Joyce Chai and Ning Xi	pp. 89–97
pdf	bib	An Easy Method to Make Dialogue Systems Incremental Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche and Fabrice Lefevre	pp. 98–107
pdf	bib	Free On-line Speech Recogniser Based on Kaldi ASR Toolkit Producing Word Posterior Lattices Ondřej Plátek and Filip Jurčíček	pp. 108–112
pdf	bib	Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models Aysu Ezen-Can and Kristy Boyer	pp. 113–122
pdf	bib	Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev and IV Ramakrishnan	pp. 123–132
pdf	bib	Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach Tatsuro Oya and Giuseppe Carenini	pp. 133–140
pdf	bib	Keynote: Language Adaptation Lillian Lee	pp. 141–141
pdf	bib	Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova	pp. 142–150
pdf	bib	The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue Julian Schlöder and Raquel Fernández	pp. 151–160
pdf	bib	In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs Mehwish Riaz and Roxana Girju	pp. 161–170
pdf	bib	Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran and Marilyn Walker	pp. 171–180
pdf	bib	Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States Diane Litman and Katherine Forbes-Riley	pp. 181–185
pdf	bib	Initiative Taking in Negotiation Elnaz Nouri and David Traum	pp. 186–193
pdf	bib	Knowledge Acquisition Strategies for Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems Aasish Pappu and Alexander Rudnicky	pp. 194–198
pdf	bib	Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova	pp. 199–207
pdf	bib	Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Minker	pp. 208–217
pdf	bib	Learning to Re-rank for Interactive Problem Resolution and Query Refinement Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy and Charles Elkan	pp. 218–227
pdf	bib	Aspectual Properties of Conversational Activities Rebecca J. Passonneau, Boxuan Guan, Cho Ho Yeung, Yuan Du and Emma Conner	pp. 228–237
pdf	bib	Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems Alex Liu, Rose Sloan, Mei-Vern Then, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Julia Hirschberg and Elizabeth Shriberg	pp. 238–242
pdf	bib	Using Ellipsis Detection and Word Similarity for Transformation of Spoken Language into Grammatically Valid Sentences Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Marschall and Amy Isard	pp. 243–250
pdf	bib	SAWDUST: a Semi-Automated Wizard Dialogue Utterance Selection Tool for Domain-Independent Large-Domain Dialogue Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum	pp. 251–253
pdf	bib	A Demonstration of Dialogue Processing in SimSensei Kiosk Fabrizio Morbini, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, David Traum and Louis-Philippe Morency	pp. 254–256
pdf	bib	MVA: The Multimodal Virtual Assistant Michael Johnston, John Chen, Patrick Ehlen, Hyuckchul Jung, Jay Lieske, Aarthi Reddy, Ethan Selfridge, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Brant Vasilieff and Jay Wilpon	pp. 257–259
pdf	bib	The PARLANCE Mobile Application for Interactive Search in English and Mandarin Helen Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Catherine Breslin, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gašić, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve Young and Yanchao Yu	pp. 260–262
pdf	bib	The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Jason D Williams	pp. 263–272
pdf	bib	Optimizing Generative Dialog State Tracker via Cascading Gradient Descent Byung-Jun Lee, Woosang Lim, Daejoong Kim and Kee-Eung Kim	pp. 273–281
pdf	bib	Web-style Ranking and SLU Combination for Dialog State Tracking Jason D Williams	pp. 282–291
pdf	bib	Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young	pp. 292–299
pdf	bib	Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking Ronnie Smith	pp. 300–309
pdf	bib	Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization Sungjin Lee	pp. 310–317
pdf	bib	The SJTU System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2 Kai Sun, Lu Chen, Su Zhu and Kai Yu	pp. 318–326
pdf	bib	Markovian Discriminative Modeling for Dialog State Tracking Hang Ren, Weiqun Xu and Yonghong Yan	pp. 327–331
pdf	bib	Sequential Labeling for Tracking Dynamic Dialog States Seokhwan Kim and Rafael E. Banchs	pp. 332–336

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