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PROGRAM
Wednesday, 1 July 2020 | |
| 7:30–7:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 7:45–8:30 | Keynote 1: Conversational Turn-taking in Human-robot Interaction Gabriel Skantze |
| 8:30–9:00 | Keynote 1: live QA Gabriel Skantze |
| 9:00–9:30 | Break |
| 9:30–10:20 Generation + Task-Oriented Dialogues (1) | |
| Semantic Guidance of Dialogue Generation with Reinforcement Learning Cheng-Hsun Hsueh and Wei-Yun Ma | |
| Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context Siqi Shen, Charles Welch, Rada Mihalcea and Verónica Pérez-Rosas | |
| Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Marilyn Walker | |
| TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Marco Moresi and Milica Gasic | |
| 10:20–10:45 Generation + Task-Oriented Dialogues (1) live QA | |
| 10:45–11:30 Demo (1) pre-recorded presentations + live QA | |
| Conversational Agents for Intelligent Buildings Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Nancie Gunson and Oliver Lemon | |
| Retico: An incremental framework for spoken dialogue systems Thilo Michael | |
| MC-Saar-Instruct: a Platform for Minecraft Instruction Giving Agents Arne Köhn, Julia Wichlacz, Christine Schäfer, Álvaro Torralba, Joerg Hoffmann and Alexander Koller | |
| ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, Andrew Wang, Justine Zhang and Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | |
| 11:30–11:50 | Break |
| 11:50–12:20 Knowledge Acquisition/Use and Behaviour Modeling (1) | |
| Commonsense Evidence Generation and Injection in Reading Comprehension Ye Liu, Tao Yang, Zeyu You, Wei Fan and Philip S. Yu | |
| Identifying Collaborative Conversations using Latent Discourse Behaviors Ayush Jain, Maria Pacheco, Steven Lancette, Mahak Goindani and Dan Goldwasser | |
| A Case Study of User Communication Styles with Customer Service Agents versus Intelligent Virtual Agents Timothy Hewitt and Ian Beaver | |
| 12:20–12:40 Knowledge Acquisition/Use and Behaviour Modeling (1) live QA | |
| 12:40–15:30 | Breakout Discussion Sessions |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break |
| 16:00–17:00 Special Session: Greetings and Talks | |
| It’s About Time: Turn-Entry Timing For Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Felix Gervits, Ravenna Thielstrom, Antonio Roque and Matthias Scheutz | |
| Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays David McNeill and Casey Kennington | |
| Learning and Reasoning for Robot Dialog and Navigation Tasks Keting Lu, Shiqi Zhang, Peter Stone and Xiaoping Chen | |
| An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| 17:00–17:30 Demo (2) pre-recorded presentations + live QA | |
| A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart Schubert, Benjamin Kane and Aaron Gindi | |
| rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns and David McNeill | |
| 17:30–18:15 Special Session: live QA | |
| 18:15–19:15 Special Session: Late-breaking | |
| 19:15–19:30 | Break |
| 19:30–20:15 | Breakouts Discussion Sessions |
Thursday, 2 July 2020 | |
| 5:00–5:35 Knowledge Acquisition/Use and Behaviour Modeling (2) | |
| Discovering Knowledge Graph Schema from Short Natural Language Text via Dialog Subhasis Ghosh, Arpita Kundu, Aniket Pramanick and Indrajit Bhattacharya | |
| User Impressions of Questions to Acquire Lexical Knowledge Kazunori Komatani and Mikio Nakano | |
| Simulating Turn-Taking in Conversations with Delayed Transmission Thilo Michael and Sebastian Möller | |
| 5:35–6:00 Knowledge Acquisition/Use and Behaviour Modeling (2) live QA | |
| 6:00–6:45 Semantic and Pragmatics Modeling | |
| Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities Alessandra Cervone and Giuseppe Riccardi | |
| Analyzing Speaker Strategy in Referential Communication Brian McMahan and Matthew Stone | |
| Contextualized Emotion Recognition in Conversation as Sequence Tagging Yan Wang, Jiayu Zhang, Jun Ma, Shaojun Wang and Jing Xiao | |
| How Self-Attention Improves Rare Class Performance in a Question-Answering Dialogue Agent Adam Stiff, Qi Song and Eric Fosler-Lussier | |
| 6:45–7:10 Semantic and Pragmatics Modeling live QA | |
| 7:10–7:30 | Break |
| 7:30–8:00 Modeling Convergence | |
| Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies Simone Fuscone, Benoit Favre and Laurent Prévot | |
| Nontrivial Lexical Convergence in a Geography-Themed Game Amanda Bergqvist, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Deepthi Karkada and Maike Paetzel | |
| A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora Ramiro H. Gálvez, Lara Gauder, Jordi Luque and Agustín Gravano | |
| 8:00–8:20 Modeling Convergence live QA | |
| 8:20–8:45 | Break |
| 8:45–9:30 | Sponsor Booth |
| 9:30–10:15 | Breakout Discussion Sessions |
| 10:15–10:45 | Break |
| 10:45–11:25 Evaluation + Corpora (1) | |
| Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols Sarah E. Finch and Jinho D. Choi | |
| Human-Human Health Coaching via Text Messages: Corpus, Annotation, and Analysis Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart, Aiswarya Baiju, Bing Liu, Ben Gerber, Lisa Sharp, Nadia Nabulsi and Mary Smart | |
| 11:25–11:50 Evaluation + Corpora (1) live QA | |
| 11:50–12:30 | Break |
| 12:30–13:00 Demo (3) pre-recorded presentations + live QA | |
| Agent-Based Dynamic Collaboration Support in a Smart Office Space Yansen Wang, R. Charles Murray, Haogang Bao and Carolyn Rose | |
| Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development James D. Finch and Jinho D. Choi | |
| 13:00–16:30 | Breakout Discussion Sessions |
| 16:30–17:00 | Break |
| 17:00–17:45 | Keynote 2: Neural Text Generation: Progress and Challenges Asli Celikyilmaz |
| 17:45–18:15 | Keynote 2: live QA Asli Celikyilmaz |
| 18:15–18:35 | Break |
| 18:35–19:15 Generation + Task-Oriented Dialogues (2) | |
| Boosting Naturalness of Language in Task-oriented Dialogues via Adversarial Training Chenguang Zhu | |
| A Sequence-to-sequence Approach for Numerical Slot-filling Dialog Systems Hongjie Shi | |
| Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur | |
| Multi-Action Dialog Policy Learning with Interactive Human Teaching Megha Jhunjhunwala, Caleb Bryant and Pararth Shah | |
| 19:15–19:40 Generation + Task-Oriented Dialogues (2) live QA | |
Friday, 3 July 2020 | |
| 5:30–6:05 Evaluation + Corpora (2) | |
| Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation Ryuichi Takanobu, Qi Zhu, Jinchao Li, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao and Minlie Huang | |
| Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Maier | |
| Collection and Analysis of Dialogues Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One Tsunehiro Arimoto, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kou Tanaka, Takahito Kawanishi, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Sawada and Hiroshi Ishiguro | |
| 6:05–6:30 Evaluation + Corpora (2) live QA | |
| 6:30–6:55 Dialogue Policy | |
| Adaptive Dialog Policy Learning with Hindsight and User Modeling Yan Cao, Keting Lu, Xiaoping Chen and Shiqi Zhang | |
| Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games through Multimodal Communication Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub, Aishan Liu, Sweekar Sudhakara, Alan Wagner and Rebecca Passonneau | |
| 6:55–7:10 Dialogue Policy live QA | |
| 7:10–7:30 | Break |
| 7:30–8:15 | Keynote 3: Argument Mining, Discourse Analysis, and Educational Applications Diane Litman |
| 8:15–8:45 | Keynote 3: live QA Diane Litman |
| 8:45–9:45 | Business Meeting, Awards, Closing (live) |