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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Tuesday September 13, 2016 | |
| 13:45–15:00 | Oral Session 1: Dialogue state tracking Spoken language understanding |
| 13:45–14:10 | Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning Tiancheng Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 14:10–14:35 | Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible Interaction Sungjin Lee and Amanda Stent |
| 14:35–15:00 | Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks Bing Liu and Ian Lane |
| 15:30–16:20 | Oral Session 2: Corpus creation |
| 15:30–15:55 | Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, Ernesto Hernandez, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker |
| 15:55–16:20 | 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 |
| 16:50–18:20 | Special Session: The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants |
| Special Session - The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants Yoichi Matsuyama and Alexandros Papangelis | |
Wednesday September 14, 2016 | |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote I |
| Keynote - More than meets the ear: Processes that shape dialogue Susan Brennan | |
| 10:10–11:10 | Poster Session 1 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura and Wolfgang Minker | |
| Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao and Phil Green | |
| Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows Yu-Hsin Chen and Jinho D. Choi | |
| Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems Mehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Jing He and Kaheer Suleman | |
| Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into Tamil Satheesh Ravi and Ron Artstein | |
| 11:10–12:25 | Oral Session 3: Discourse processing |
| 11:10–11:35 | Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays Kate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang and Diane Litman |
| 11:35–12:00 | Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse trees Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata |
| 12:00–12:25 | The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive Summarization Junyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani and Amanda Stent |
| 14:20–15:20 | Poster Session 2 |
| Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog System Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Rose and Alan W Black | |
| Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers – How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? – Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo | |
| On the Contribution of Discourse Structure on Text Complexity Assessment Elnaz Davoodi and Leila Kosseim | |
| Syntactic parsing of chat language in contact center conversation corpus Alexis Nasr, Geraldine Damnati, Aleksandra Guerraz and Frederic Bechet | |
| A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue Systems Ondřej Dušek and Filip Jurcicek | |
| 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 | |
| A framework for the automatic inference of stochastic turn-taking styles Kornel Laskowski | |
| 15:20–16:20 | Demo Session |
| Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android Koji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala, Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| Rapid Prototyping of Form-driven Dialogue Systems Using an Open-source Framework Svetlana Stoyanchev, Pierre Lison and Srinivas Bangalore | |
| LVCSR System on a Hybrid GPU-CPU Embedded Platform for Real-Time Dialog Applications Alexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft | |
| Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent Yoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao, Oscar Romeo, Sushma Akoju and Justine Cassell | |
| Selection method of an appropriate response in chat-oriented dialogue systems Hideaki Mori and Masahiro Araki | |
| 16:20–17:35 | Oral session 4: Incremental processing |
| 16:20–16:45 | Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene Descriptions Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault and David Schlangen |
| 16:45–17:10 | Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State Casey Kennington and David Schlangen |
| 17:10–17:35 | Toward incremental dialogue act segmentation in fast-paced interactive dialogue systems Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu, David Schlangen and David DeVault |
Thursday September 15, 2016 | |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote II |
| Keynote - Modeling Human Communication Dynamics Louis-Philippe Morency | |
| 10:10–11:10 | Poster Session 3 |
| On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin and Joelle Pineau | |
| 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 | |
| Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue Amita Misra, Brian Ecker and Marilyn Walker | |
| Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding Strategies Julian Hough and David Schlangen | |
| Do Characters Abuse More Than Words? Yashar Mehdad and Joel Tetreault | |
| Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of data Abhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Johnson, Alberto Gonzalez and Jason Leigh | |
| Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo | |
| 11:10–12:25 | Oral Session 5: Semantics: Learning and Inference |
| 11:10–11:35 | Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned Semantics Xiaolong Li and Kristy Boyer |
| 11:35–12:00 | Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon |
| 12:00–12:25 | Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez and Marilyn Walker |
| 14:00–15:15 | Oral Session 6: Conversational phenomena and strategies |
| 14:00–14:25 | When do we laugh? Ye Tian, Chiara Mazzocconi and Jonathan Ginzburg |
| 14:25–14:50 | Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano and Tomoaki Nakamura |
| 14:50–15:15 | Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan Black and Justine Cassell |
| 15:45–16:35 | Oral Session 7: Non-task-oriented dialogue systems |
| 15:45–16:10 | Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue Systems Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahashi |
| 16:10–16:35 | Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky |