| 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome |
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9:15 - 10:25 Invited Talk: Strategic Conversation Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh |
| 10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break |
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10:45 - 12:00
Oral Presentation Session 1 Chair: David Schlangen |
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Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results
Alan W Black1, Susanne Burger1, Alistair Conkie2, Helen Hastie3, Simon Keizer4, Oliver Lemon3, Nicolas Merigaud3, Gabriel Parent1, Gabriel Schubiner1, Blaise Thomson4, Jason D. Williams2, Kai Yu4, Steve Young4, Maxine Eskenazi1 1CMU, 2AT&T Labs -- Research, 3Heriot Watt University, 4Cambridge University |
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What System Differences Matter? Using L1/L2 Regularization to Compare Dialogue Systems
José González-Brenes and Jack Mostow Carnegie Mellon University |
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A Two-Stage Domain Selection Framework for Extensible Multi-Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems
Mikio Nakano1, Shun Sato2, Kazunori Komatani3, Kyoko Matsuyama4, Kotaro Funakoshi1, Hiroshi G. Okuno4 1Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd., 2Tokyo Denki University, 3Nagoya University, 4Kyoto University |
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12:00 - 12:30 Poster and Demo
Madness Chair: Dan Bohus |
| 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch |
| 14:30 - 16:00 Poster and Demo Session |
| 16:00 - 16:25 Coffee Break |
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16:25 - 18:05 Oral Presentation Session 2 Chair: Jason Williams |
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A Comparison of Latent Variable Models For Conversation Analysis
Sourish Chaudhuri and Bhiksha Raj CMU |
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Toward Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Policies with Text Examples
David DeVault, Anton Leuski, Kenji Sagae University of Southern California |
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The Impact of Task-Oriented Feature Sets on HMMs for Dialogue Modeling
Kristy Boyer, Eun Young Ha, Robert Phillips, James Lester North Carolina State University |
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Spoken Dialogue System based on Information Extraction using Similarity of Predicate Argument Structures
Koichiro Yoshino, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya Kawahara School of Informatics, Kyoto University |
18:30 - 21:30 Conference Reception and Dinner:  Sponsored by Honda Research Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:15 Announcements |
| 9:15 - 10:25 Invited Talk: | Common
ground and perspective-taking in real-time language processing | |
| Michael K. Tanenhaus, University of Rochester | ||
| 10:25 - 10:50 Coffee Break |
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10:50 - 12:30 Theme Session: Situated Dialogue Chair: Barbara DiEugenio |
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Giving instructions in virtual environments by corpus based selection
Luciana Benotti1 and Alexandre Denis2 1National University of Cordoba, Argentina, 2CNRS/LORIA, France |
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Optimising Natural Language Generation Decision Making For Situated Dialogue
Nina Dethlefs1, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl2, Jette Viethen3 1University of Bremen, 2German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, 3Macquarie University |
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Regulating Dialogue with Gestures—Towards an Empirically Grounded Simulation with Conversational Agents
Kirsten Bergmann, Hannes Rieser, Stefan Kopp Bielefeld University |
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Multiparty Turn Taking in Situated Dialog: Study, Lessons, and Directions
Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research |
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12:30 - 14:00 Business meeting & sponsor presentations (boxed lunch provided) |
| 14:00 - 14:15 Break |
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14:15 - 15:55 Oral Presentation Session 4 Chair: Mikio Nakano |
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Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition
Ethan Selfridge1, Iker Arizmendi2, Peter Heeman1, Jason Williams2 1Oregon Health & Science University, 2AT&T Labs |
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Predicting the Micro-Timing of User Input for an Incremental Spoken Dialogue System that Completes a User's Ongoing Turn
Timo Baumann1 and David Schlangen2 1University of Potsdam, 2University of Bielefeld |
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An Empirical Evaluation of a Statistical Dialog System in Public Use
Jason Williams AT&T Labs - Research |
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“The day after the day after tomorrow?” A machine learning approach to adaptive temporal expression generation: training and evaluation with real users
Srinivasan Janarthanam1, Helen Hastie2, Oliver Lemon2, Xingkun Liu2 1University of Edinburgh, 2Heriot-Watt University |
| 15:55 - 16:20 Coffee Break |
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16:20 - 17:35 Oral Presentation Session 5 Chair: Diane Litman |
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Detecting Levels of Interest from Spoken Dialog with Multistream Prediction Feedback and Similarity Based Hierarchical Fusion Learning
William Yang Wang and Julia Hirschberg Columbia University |
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Exploring User Satisfaction in a Tutorial Dialogue System
Myroslava O. Dzikovska1, Johanna D. Moore1, Natalie Steinhauser2, Gwendolyn Campbell2 1University of Edinburgh, 2Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division, Orlando, Florida, USA |
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Modeling and Predicting Quality in Spoken Human-Computer Interaction
Alexander Schmitt, Benjamin Schatz, Wolfgang Minker Ulm University |
| 17:35 - 17:50 Best Paper Awards and Closing |
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Topics as Contextual Indicators for Word Choice in SMS Conversations
Ute Winter1, Roni Ben-Aharon2, Daniel Chernobrov2, Ron Hecht1 1GM Advanced Technical Center - Israel, 2 |
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Multilingual Annotation and Disambiguation of Discourse Connectives for Machine Translation
Thomas Meyer1, Andrei Popescu-Belis1, Sandrine Zufferey2, Bruno Cartoni2 1Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, 2Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
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Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue
Anaïs Cadilhac1, Nicholas Asher2, Farah Benamara1, Alex Lascarides3 1IRIT, Université de Toulouse, 2IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, 3School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh |
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Using Performance Trajectories to Analyze the Immediate Impact of User State Misclassification in an Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System
Kate Forbes-Riley and Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh |
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Comparing Triggering Policies for Social Behaviors
Rohit Kumar and Carolyn Rosé Carnegie Mellon University |
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Facilitating Mental Modeling in Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction through Adverbial Cues
Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz Tufts University |
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Embedded Wizardry
Rebecca J. Passonneau1, Susan L. Epstein2, Tiziana Ligorio2, Joshua Gordon1 1Columbia University, 2City University of New York |
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Toward Construction of Spoken Dialogue System that Evokes Users’ Spontaneous Backchannels
Teruhisa Misu, Etsuo Mizukami, Yoshinori Shiga, Shinichi Kawamoto, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
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Learning to Balance Grounding Rationales for Dialogue Systems
Joshua Gordon1, Rebecca J. Passonneau1, Susan L. Epstein2 1Columbia University, 2Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York |
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An Annotation Scheme for Cross-Cultural Argumentation and Persuasion Dialogues
Kallirroi Georgila1, Ron Artstein1, Angela Nazarian1, Michael Rushforth1, David Traum1, Katia Sycara2 1Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 2Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
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An Approach to the Automated Evaluation of Pipeline Architectures in Natural Language Dialogue Systems
Eliza Margaretha1 and David DeVault2 1Saarland University, 2USC Institute for Creative Technologies |
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Perception of Personality and Naturalness through Dialogues by Native Speakers of American English and Arabic
Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University |
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Multi-Policy Dialogue Management
Pierre Lison University of Oslo, Department of Informatics |
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A Robotic World Model Framework Designed to Facilitate Human-robot Communication
Meghann Lomas, Ernest Cross, Jonathan Darvill, Robert Garrett, Michael Kopack, Kenneth Whitebread Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories |
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Improving Pronominal and Deictic Co-Reference Resolution with Multi-Modal Features
Lin Chen, Anruo Wang, Barbara Di Eugenio University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Examining the Impacts of Dialogue Content and System Automation on Affect Models in a Spoken Tutorial Dialogue System
Joanna Drummond and Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh |
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Error Return Plots
Ron Artstein USC Institute for Creative Technologies |
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PARADISE-style Evaluation of a Human-Human Library Corpus
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Irene Alvarado, Phil Crone, Simon Jerome Columbia University |
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An Incremental Architecture for the Semantic Annotation of Dialogue Corpora with High-Level Structures. A case of study for the MEDIA corpus.
Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona and Matthieu Quignard LORIA |
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The CODA System for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation
Svetlana Stoyanchev and Paul Piwek The Open University |
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Beetle II: an adaptable tutorial dialogue system
Myroslava Dzikovska1, Amy Isard1, Peter Bell1, Johanna Moore1, Natalie Steinhauser2, Gwendolyn Campbell2 1University of Edinburgh, 2Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division, Orlando, FL, USA |
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Engagement-based Multi-party Dialog with a Humanoid Robot
David Klotz1, Johannes Wienke1, Julia Peltason1, Britta Wrede1, Sebastian Wrede1, Vasil Khalidov2, Jean-Marc Odobez2 1Bielefeld University, 2IDIAP Research Institute |
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POMY: A Conversational Virtual Environment for Language Learning in POSTECH
Hyungjong Noh, Kyusong Lee, Sungjin Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH |
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Rapid Development of Advanced Question-Answering Characters by Non-experts
Sudeep Gandhe, Alysa Taylor, Jillian Gerten, David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies |
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A Just-in-Time Document Retrieval System for Dialogues or Monologues
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Majid Yazdani, Alexandre Nanchen, Philip N. Garner Idiap Research Institute |