Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

General Co-Chairs
Raquel Fernández
Wolfgang Minker

Program Co-Chairs
Giuseppe Carenini
Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Local Chairs
Ron Artstein
Alesia Gainer

Full proceedings volume (PDF)

pdf	bib	Front matter	pages
pdf	bib	Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning Tiancheng Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi	pp. 1–10
pdf	bib	Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible Interaction Sungjin Lee and Amanda Stent	pp. 11–21
pdf	bib	Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks Bing Liu and Ian Lane	pp. 22–30
pdf	bib	Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, Ernesto Hernandez, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker	pp. 31–41
pdf	bib	The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line News Emma Barker, Monica Lestari Paramita, Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple and Robert Gaizauskas	pp. 42–52
pdf	bib	Special Session - The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants Yoichi Matsuyama and Alexandros Papangelis	pp. 53–53
pdf	bib	Keynote - More than meets the ear: Processes that shape dialogue Susan Brennan	pp. 54–54
pdf	bib	A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User Engagement Zhou Yu, Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky	pp. 55–63
pdf	bib	Classifying Emotions in Customer Support Dialogues in Social Media Jonathan Herzig, Guy Feigenblat, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, David Konopnicki, Anat Rafaeli, Daniel Altman and David Spivak	pp. 64–73
pdf	bib	Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura and Wolfgang Minker	pp. 74–79
pdf	bib	Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao and Phil Green	pp. 80–89
pdf	bib	Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows Yu-Hsin Chen and Jinho D. Choi	pp. 90–100
pdf	bib	Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems Mehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Jing He and Kaheer Suleman	pp. 101–110
pdf	bib	Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into Tamil Satheesh Ravi and Ron Artstein	pp. 111–116
pdf	bib	Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays Kate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang and Diane Litman	pp. 117–127
pdf	bib	Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse trees Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata	pp. 128–136
pdf	bib	The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive Summarization Junyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani and Amanda Stent	pp. 137–147
pdf	bib	Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog System Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Rose and Alan W Black	pp. 148–156
pdf	bib	Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers – How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? – Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo	pp. 157–165
pdf	bib	On the Contribution of Discourse Structure on Text Complexity Assessment Elnaz Davoodi and Leila Kosseim	pp. 166–174
pdf	bib	Syntactic parsing of chat language in contact center conversation corpus Alexis Nasr, Geraldine Damnati, Aleksandra Guerraz and Frederic Bechet	pp. 175–184
pdf	bib	A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue Systems Ondřej Dušek and Filip Jurcicek	pp. 185–190
pdf	bib	Identifying Teacher Questions Using Automatic Speech Recognition in Classrooms Nathaniel Blanchard, Patrick Donnelly, Andrew M. Olney, Samei Borhan, Brooke Ward, Xiaoyi Sun, Sean Kelly, Martin Nystrand and Sidney K. D’Mello	pp. 191–201
pdf	bib	A framework for the automatic inference of stochastic turn-taking styles Kornel Laskowski	pp. 202–211
pdf	bib	Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android Koji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala, Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara	pp. 212–215
pdf	bib	Rapid Prototyping of Form-driven Dialogue Systems Using an Open-source Framework Svetlana Stoyanchev, Pierre Lison and Srinivas Bangalore	pp. 216–219
pdf	bib	LVCSR System on a Hybrid GPU-CPU Embedded Platform for Real-Time Dialog Applications Alexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft	pp. 220–223
pdf	bib	Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent Yoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao, Oscar Romeo, Sushma Akoju and Justine Cassell	pp. 224–227
pdf	bib	Selection method of an appropriate response in chat-oriented dialogue systems Hideaki Mori and Masahiro Araki	pp. 228–231
pdf	bib	Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene Descriptions Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault and David Schlangen	pp. 232–241
pdf	bib	Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State Casey Kennington and David Schlangen	pp. 242–251
pdf	bib	Toward incremental dialogue act segmentation in fast-paced interactive dialogue systems Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu, David Schlangen and David DeVault	pp. 252–262
pdf	bib	Keynote - Modeling Human Communication Dynamics Louis-Philippe Morency	pp. 263–263
pdf	bib	On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin and Joelle Pineau	pp. 264–269
pdf	bib	Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English Diane Litman, Steve Young, Mark Gales, Kate Knill, Karen Ottewell, Rogier van Dalen and David Vandyke	pp. 270–275
pdf	bib	Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue Amita Misra, Brian Ecker and Marilyn Walker	pp. 276–287
pdf	bib	Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding Strategies Julian Hough and David Schlangen	pp. 288–298
pdf	bib	Do Characters Abuse More Than Words? Yashar Mehdad and Joel Tetreault	pp. 299–303
pdf	bib	Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of data Abhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Johnson, Alberto Gonzalez and Jason Leigh	pp. 304–309
pdf	bib	Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura	pp. 310–318
pdf	bib	Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo	pp. 319–328
pdf	bib	Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned Semantics Xiaolong Li and Kristy Boyer	pp. 329–338
pdf	bib	Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon	pp. 339–349
pdf	bib	Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez and Marilyn Walker	pp. 350–359
pdf	bib	When do we laugh? Ye Tian, Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg	pp. 360–369
pdf	bib	Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano and Tomoaki Nakamura	pp. 370–380
pdf	bib	Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan Black and Justine Cassell	pp. 381–392
pdf	bib	Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue Systems Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahashi	pp. 393–403
pdf	bib	Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky	pp. 404–412

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