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Tuesday 13th September 2016
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Welcome and conference overview |
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Oral Session 1: Dialogue state tracking & Spoken language understanding
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Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tiancheng Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi
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Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible Interaction
Sungjin Lee and Amanda Stent
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Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks
Bing Liu and Ian Lane
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Oral Session 2: Corpus Creation
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Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue
Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Ernesto Hernandez, Lena Reed, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn Walker
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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
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| 16:50 |
Special Session: The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants
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Introduction by organizers
Yoichi Matsuyama and Alexandros Papangelis
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Panel Discussion
Steve Young, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Thomas Schaaf, and Zhuoran Wang
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| 19:00 |
Banquet (Thanks to Xerox)
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Wednesday 14th September 2016
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| 09:00 |
Keynote I:
Susan Brennan
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Poster Session + Break
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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
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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
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Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction
Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura and Wolfgang Minker
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Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states
Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao and Phil Green
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Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows
Yu-Hsin Chen and Jinho D. Choi
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Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems
Mehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Jing He and Kaheer Suleman
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Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into Tamil
Satheesh Ravi and Ron Artstein
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Oral Session 3: Discourse processing
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Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays
Kate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang and Diane Litman
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Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse trees
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao and Masaaki Nagata
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The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive Summarization
Junyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani and Amanda Stent
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Lunch (Thanks to Intel) |
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| 14:00 |
Poster and Demo Madness
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Poster Session + Break
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Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog System
Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Rose and Alan W Black
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Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers – How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue?
Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo
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On the Contribution of Discourse Structure on Text Complexity Assessment
Elnaz Davoodi and Leila Kosseim
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Syntactic parsing of chat language in contact center conversation corpus
Alexis Nasr, Geraldine Damnati, Aleksandra Guerraz and Frederic Bechet
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A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue Systems
Ondřej Dušek and Filip Jurcicek
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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
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A framework for the automatic inference of stochastic turn-taking styles
Kornel Laskowski
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Demo Session + Break
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Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android
Koji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala, Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara
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Rapid Prototyping of Form-driven Dialogue Systems Using an Open-source Framework
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Pierre Lison and Srinivas Bangalore
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LVCSR System on a Hybrid GPU-CPU Embedded Platform for Real-Time Dialog Applications
Alexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft
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Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent
Yoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao, Oscar Romeo, Sushma Akoju and Justine Cassell
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Selection method of an appropriate response in chat-oriented dialogue systems
Hideaki Mori and Masahiro Araki
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| 16:20 |
Oral Session 4: Incremental Processing
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Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene Descriptions
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault and David Schlangen
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Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State
Casey Kennington and David Schlangen
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Toward incremental dialogue act segmentation in fast-paced interactive dialogue systems
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu, David Schlangen and David DeVault
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Thursday 15th September 2016
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Keynote II:
Louis-Philippe Morency
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Poster Session + Break
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On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification
Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin and Joelle Pineau
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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
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Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue
Amita Misra, Brian Ecker and Marilyn Walker
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Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding Strategies
Julian Hough and David Schlangen
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Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?
Yashar Mehdad and Joel Tetreault
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Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of data
Abhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Johnson, Alberto Gonzalez and Jason Leigh
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Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts
Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura
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Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters
Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yoshihiro Matsuo
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Oral Session 5: Semantics: Learning and Inference
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Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned Semantics
Xiaolong Li and Kristy Boyer
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Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings
Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon
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Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events
Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez and Marilyn Walker
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Sponsor Session with Lunch (Thanks to Microsoft) + Business meeting
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Oral Session 6: Conversational phenomena and strategies
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When do we laugh?
Chiara Mazzocconi, Ye Tian and Jonathan Ginzburg
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Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems
Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano and Tomoaki Nakamura
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Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System
Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan Black and Justine Cassell
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Oral Session 7: Non-task-oriented dialogue systems
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Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue Systems
Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahashi
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Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems
Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black and Alexander Rudnicky
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Closing Ceremony + Best Paper Award |
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