Wednesday, September 2, 2015 |
| 09:10–10:10 | Keynote I |
| | Keynote: The Interplay of Discussion, Cognition and Instruction in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
Frank Fischer |
| 10:35–11:50 | Oral Session 1: Dialogue Management |
| | Human-Machine Dialogue as a Stochastic Game
Merwan Barlier, Julien Perolat, Romain Laroche and Olivier Pietquin |
| | Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management
Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Heidi Christensen, Ricard Marxer and Phil Green |
| | Miscommunication Recovery in Physically Situated Dialogue
Matthew Marge and Alexander Rudnicky |
| 13:00–13:50 | Oral Session 2: Discourse Strategy |
| | Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Party Trading Dialog
Takuya Hiraoka, Kallirroi Georgila, Elnaz Nouri, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura |
| | An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems
Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W Black and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 13:50–14:10 | Poster madness |
| 14:10–16:30 | Poster session 1 |
| | Exploring the Effects of Redundancy within a Tutorial Dialogue System: Restating Students’ Responses
Pamela Jordan, Patricia Albacete and Sandra Katz |
| | A Discursive Grid Approach to Model Local Coherence in Multi-document Summaries
Márcio Dias and Thiago Pardo |
| | Belief Tracking with Stacked Relational Trees
Deepak Ramachandran and Adwait Ratnaparkhi |
| | “So, which one is it?” The effect of alternative incremental architectures in a high-performance game-playing agent
Maike Paetzel, Ramesh Manuvinakurike and David DeVault |
| | Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Yuka Kobayashi and Masahiro Mizukami |
| | PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers Approach
Or Biran and Kathleen McKeown |
| | Which Synthetic Voice Should I Choose for an Evocative Task?
Eli Pincus, Kallirroi Georgila and David Traum |
| | Dialog Act Annotation for Twitter Conversations
Elina Zarisheva and Tatjana Scheffler |
| | Towards Improving Dialogue Topic Tracking Performances with Wikification of Concept Mentions
Seokhwan Kim, Rafael E. Banchs and Haizhou Li |
| | Exploiting knowledge base to generate responses for natural language dialog listening agents
Sangdo Han, Jeesoo Bang, Seonghan Ryu and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| | Automated Speech Recognition Technology for Dialogue Interaction with Non-Native Interlocutors
Alexei V. Ivanov, Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Melissa Lopez, Keelan Evanini and Jidong Tao |
| | Conversational Knowledge Teaching Agent that uses a Knowledge Base
Kyusong Lee, Paul Hongsuck Seo, Junhwi Choi, Sangjun Koo and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| | Information Theoretical and Statistical Features for Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection
Rashedur Rahman |
| | A SIP of CoFee : A Sample of Interesting Productions of Conversational Feedback
Laurent Prévot, Jan Gorisch, Roxane Bertrand, Emilien Gorene and Brigitte Bigi |
| | Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Issue Negotiation Dialogue Policies
Alexandros Papangelis and Kallirroi Georgila |
| | Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
Jason D Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller and Geoff Zweig |
| | Multilingual WikiTalk: Wikipedia-based talking robots that switch languages.
Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen |
| | Modelling situated human-robot interaction using IrisTK
Gabriel Skantze and Martin Johansson |
| 16:30–17:45 | Oral Session 3: Perspective and Point of View |
| | I Couldn’t Agree More: The Role of Conversational Structure in Agreement and Disagreement Detection in Online Discussions
Sara Rosenthal and Kathy McKeown |
| | Memory-Based Acquisition of Argument Structures and its Application to Implicit Role Detection
Christian Chiarcos and Niko Schenk |
| | Generating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling
Stephanie Lukin, Lena Reed and Marilyn Walker |
Thursday, September 3, 2015 |
| 09:05–10:05 | Keynote II |
| | Keynote: Graph-based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding
Dilek Hakkani-Tur |
| 10:30–11:45 | Oral Session 4: New directions |
| | Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Processing for Time-Offset Interaction
David Traum, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski |
| | THE REAL CHALLENGE 2014: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS
Maxine Eskenazi, Alan W Black, Sungjin Lee and David Traum |
| | Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue
Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker and Marilyn Walker |
| 11:45–13:30 | Lunch, business meeting, and sponsor talks |
| 13:30–17:30 | Special session (MultiLing 2015) and Open Space |
| | Multilingual Summarization with Polytope Model
Natalia Vanetik and Marina Litvak |
| | Call Centre Conversation Summarization: A Pilot Task at Multiling 2015
Benoit Favre, Evgeny Stepanov, Jérémy Trione, Frederic Bechet and Giuseppe Riccardi |
| | AllSummarizer system at MultiLing 2015: Multilingual single and multi-document summarization
Abdelkrime Aries, Djamel Eddine Zegour and Khaled Walid Hidouci |
| | Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain
Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple, Rob Gaizauskas and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio |
| | The University of Alicante at MultiLing 2015: approach, results and further insights
Marta Vicente, Oscar Alcón and Elena Lloret |
| | ExB Text Summarizer
Stefan Thomas, Christian Beutenmüller, Xose de la Puente, Robert Remus and Stefan Bordag |
| | MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Single and Multi-Documents, On-line Fora, and Call-center Conversations
George Giannakopoulos, Jeff Kubina, John Conroy, Josef Steinberger, Benoit Favre, Mijail Kabadjov, Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio |
Friday, September 4, 2015 |
| 09:05–10:20 | Oral Session 5: Neural Network for dialogue processing |
| | Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking
Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke and Steve Young |
| | The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems
Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban and Joelle Pineau |
| | Recurrent Polynomial Network for Dialogue State Tracking with Mismatched Semantic Parsers
Qizhe Xie, Kai Sun, Su Zhu, Lu Chen and Kai Yu |
| 10:20–10:40 | Poster madness |
| 10:40–12:40 | Poster session 2 |
| | Opportunities and Obligations to Take Turns in Collaborative Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
Martin Johansson and Gabriel Skantze |
| | Optimising Turn-Taking Strategies With Reinforcement Learning
Hatim KHOUZAIMI, Romain Laroche and Fabrice Lefevre |
| | Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in Slovak, Spanish, English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic comparison
Rivka Levitan, Štefan Beňuš, Agustin Gravano and Julia Hirschberg |
| | A statistical approach for Non-Sentential Utterance Resolution for Interactive QA System
Dinesh Raghu, Sathish Indurthi, Jitendra Ajmera and Sachindra Joshi |
| | The Interplay of User-Centered Dialog Systems and AI Planning
Florian Nothdurft, Gregor Behnke, Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo and Wolfgang Minker |
| | Automatic Detection of Miscommunication in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Raveesh Meena, Jose Lopes, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson |
| | Dialogue Management based on Multi-domain Corpus
wendong ge and Bo Xu |
| | Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling
Stefan Ultes, Matthias Kraus, Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker |
| | Metaphor Detection in Discourse
Hyeju Jang, Seungwhan Moon, Yohan Jo and Carolyn Rose |
| | User Adaptive Restoration for Incorrectly-Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani, Naoki Hotta, Satoshi Sato and Mikio Nakano |
| | Incremental Coordination: Attention-Centric Speech Production in a Physically Situated Conversational Agent
Zhou Yu, Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz |
| | Hyper-parameter Optimisation of Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning for Statistical Dialogue Management
Lu Chen, Pei-Hao Su and Milica Gasic |
| | Learning Domain-Independent Dialogue Policies via Ontology Parameterisation
Zhuoran Wang, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Pei-Hao Su and Yannis Stylianou |
| | Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gasic, Nikola Mrksic, Tsung-Hsien Wen and Steve Young |
| | Effects of Game on User Engagement with Spoken Dialogue System
Hayato Kobayashi, Kaori Tanio and Manabu Sassano |
| | Evaluation of Crowdsourced User Input Data for Spoken Dialog Systems
Maria Schmidt, Markus Müller, Martin Wagner, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel, Hansjörg Hofmann and Steffen Werner |
| | A distributed cloud-based dialog system for conversational application development
Vikram Ramanarayanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Alexei V. Ivanov and Keelan Evanini |
| | A TV Program Discovery Dialog System using recommendations
Deepak Ramachandran, Mark Fanty, Ronald Provine, Peter Yeh, William Jarrold, Adwait Ratnaparkhi and Benjamin Douglas |
| | Description of the PatientGenesys Dialogue System
Leonardo Campillos Llanos, Dhouha Bouamor, Éric Bilinski, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Pierre Zweigenbaum and Sophie Rosset |
| | The Cohort and Speechify Libraries for Rapid Construction of Speech Enabled Applications for Android
Tejaswi Kasturi, Haojian Jin, Aasish Pappu, Sungjin Lee, Beverley Harrison, Ramana Murthy and Amanda Stent |
| 12:40–13:00 | Best paper award ceremony and closing |