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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
July 12 | |
| 09:00–09:30 | Welcome session and Introduction |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote 1 Mari Ostendorf |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:15 | Oral 1 - Generation1 |
| Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions Tiancheng Zhao and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks Louisa Pragst and Stefan Ultes | |
| Modeling Linguistic and Personality Adaptation for Natural Language Generation Zhichao Hu, Jean Fox Tree and Marilyn Walker | |
| 12:15–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–14:30 | Poster 1 |
| Estimating User Interest from Open-Domain Dialogue Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahashi | |
| Does Ability Affect Alignment in Second Language Tutorial Dialogue? Arabella Sinclair, Adam Lopez, C. G. Lucas and Dragan Gasevic | |
| Just Talking - Modelling Casual Conversation Emer Gilmartin, Christian Saam, Carl Vogel, Nick Campbell and Vincent Wade | |
| Neural User Simulation for Corpus-based Policy Optimisation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Florian Kreyssig, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski and Milica Gasic | |
| Introduction method for argumentative dialogue using paired question-answering interchange about personality Kazuki Sakai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Junji Tomita | |
| Automatic Token and Turn Level Language Identification for Code-Switched Text Dialog: An Analysis Across Language Pairs and Corpora Vikram Ramanarayanan and Robert Pugh | |
| A Situated Dialogue System for Learning Structural Concepts in Blocks World Ian Perera, James Allen, Choh Man Teng and Lucian Galescu | |
| Pardon the Interruption: Managing Turn-Taking through Overlap Resolution in Embodied Artificial Agents Felix Gervits and Matthias Scheutz | |
| Consequences and Factors of Stylistic Differences in Human-Robot Dialogue Stephanie Lukin, Kimberly Pollard, Claire Bonial, Matthew Marge, Cassidy Henry, Ron Artstein, David Traum and Clare Voss | |
| Turn-Taking Strategies for Human-Robot Peer-Learning Dialogue Ranjini Das and Heather Pon-Barry | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00–17:15 | Special Session - Physically Situated Dialogue |
| Predicting Perceived Age: Both Language Ability and Appearance are Important Sarah Plane, Ariel Marvasti, Tyler Egan and Casey Kennington | |
| Multimodal Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Policy for Task-Oriented Visual Dialog Jiaping Zhang, Tiancheng Zhao and Zhou Yu | |
| Language-Guided Adaptive Perception for Efficient Grounded Communication with Robotic Manipulators in Cluttered Environments Siddharth Patki and Thomas Howard | |
| 17:15–18:00 | Sponsor Session |
| 18:15–19:30 | Reception |
July 13 | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote 2 Manfred Stede |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:15 | Oral 2 - Generation 2 |
| Unsupervised Counselor Dialogue Clustering for Positive Emotion Elicitation in Neural Dialogue System Nurul Lubis, Sakriani Sakti, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| Discovering User Groups for Natural Language Generation Nikos Engonopoulos, Christoph Teichmann and Alexander Koller | |
| Controlling Personality-Based Stylistic Variation with Neural Natural Language Generators Shereen Oraby, Lena Reed, Shubhangi Tandon, Sharath T.S., Stephanie Lukin and Marilyn Walker | |
| 12:15–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–15:00 | Poster 2 and Interactive demos |
| A Context-aware Convolutional Natural Language Generation model for Dialogue Systems Sourab Mangrulkar, Suhani Shrivastava, Veena Thenkanidiyoor and Dileep Aroor Dinesh | |
| A Unified Neural Architecture for Joint Dialog Act Segmentation and Recognition in Spoken Dialog System Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| Cost-Sensitive Active Learning for Dialogue State Tracking Kaige Xie, Cheng Chang, Liliang Ren, Lu Chen and Kai Yu | |
| Discourse Coherence in the Wild: A Dataset, Evaluation and Methods Alice Lai and Joel Tetreault | |
| Neural Dialogue Context Online End-of-Turn Detection Ryo Masumura, Tomohiro Tanaka, Atsushi Ando, Ryo Ishii, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yushi Aono | |
| Spoken Dialogue for Information Navigation Alexandros Papangelis, Panagiotis Papadakos, Yannis Stylianou and Yannis Tzitzikas | |
| Improving User Impression in Spoken Dialog System with Gradual Speech Form Control Yukiko Kageyama, Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose and Akinori Ito | |
| A Bilingual Interactive Human Avatar Dialogue System Dana Abu Ali, Muaz Ahmad, Hayat Al Hassan, Paula Dozsa, Ming Hu, Jose Varias and Nizar Habash | |
| DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment Kyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W Black and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| Leveraging Multimodal Dialog Technology for the Design of Automated and Interactive Student Agents for Teacher Training David Pautler, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Kirby Cofino, Patrick Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft | |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30–17:10 | Oral 3 - Dialogue |
| An Empirical Study of Self-Disclosure in Spoken Dialogue Systems Abhilasha Ravichander and Alan W Black | |
| Role play-based question-answering by real users for building chatbots with consistent personalities Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Mizukami, Hidetoshi Kawabata, Emi Yamaguchi, Noritake Adachi and Junji Tomita | |
| Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model Stefan Ultes, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yen-chen Wu, Steve Young and Milica Gasic | |
| Conversational Image Editing: Incremental Intent Identification in a New Dialogue Task Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Trung Bui, Walter Chang and Kallirroi Georgila | |
| 18:15–21:00 | Banquet |
July 14 | |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote 3 Ingrid Zukerman |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00–12:15 | Oral 4 - Discourse |
| Fine-Grained Discourse Structures in Continuation Semantics Timothée Bernard | |
| Automatic Extraction of Causal Relations from Text using Linguistically Informed Deep Neural Networks Tirthankar Dasgupta, Rupsa Saha, Lipika Dey and Abir Naskar | |
| Toward zero-shot Entity Recognition in Task-oriented Conversational Agents Marco Guerini, Simone Magnolini, Vevake Balaraman and Bernardo Magnini | |
| 12:15–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–14:30 | Poster 3 |
| Identifying Explicit Discourse Connectives in German Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede | |
| Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Florian Kreyssig, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Yen-chen Wu and Milica Gasic | |
| Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Florian Kreyssig, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Yen-chen Wu, Stefan Ultes and Milica Gasic | |
| Coherence Modeling Improves Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Noriki Nishida and Hideki Nakayama | |
| Adversarial Learning of Task-Oriented Neural Dialog Models Bing Liu and Ian Lane | |
| Constructing a Lexicon of English Discourse Connectives Debopam Das, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede | |
| Maximizing SLU Performance with Minimal Training Data Using Hybrid RNN Plus Rule-based Approach Takeshi Homma, Adriano S. Arantes, Maria Teresa Gonzalez Diaz and Masahito Togami | |
| An Analysis of the Effect of Emotional Speech Synthesis on Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue System Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose, Taketo Kase, Mai Yamanaka and Akinori Ito | |
| Multi-task Learning for Joint Language Understanding and Dialogue State Tracking Abhinav Rastogi, Raghav Gupta and Dilek Hakkani-Tur | |
| Weighting Model Based on Group Dynamics to Measure Convergence in Multi-party Dialogue Zahra Rahimi and Diane Litman | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00–16:15 | Oral 5 - State Tracking |
| Concept Transfer Learning for Adaptive Language Understanding Su Zhu and Kai Yu | |
| Cogent: A Generic Dialogue System Shell Based on a Collaborative Problem Solving Model Lucian Galescu, Choh Man Teng, James Allen and Ian Perera | |
| Identifying Domain Independent Update Intents in Task Based Dialogs Prakhar Biyani, Cem Akkaya and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis | |
| 16:15–17:30 | Buisiness Meeting, Awards, Closing |