Friday, 11th September, 2009 |
| 8:45–9:00 | Introduction |
| 9:00–10:00 | Papers 1-3: |
| | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Information Presentation in a Full End-To-End Dialogue System
Taghi Paksima, Kallirroi Georgila and Johanna Moore |
| | Can I Finish? Learning When to Respond to Incremental Interpretation Results in Interactive Dialogue
David DeVault, Kenji Sagae and David Traum |
| | Are You Being Addressed? - Real-Time Addressee Detection to Support Remote Participants in Hybrid Meetings
Harm op den Akker and Rieks op den Akker |
| 10:00–11:00 | Invited Talk 1: |
| | What’s Unique About Dialogue?
Janet Bavelas |
| 11:00–11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15–12:15 | Papers 4-6: |
| | Incremental Reference Resolution: The Task, Metrics for Evaluation, and a Bayesian Filtering Model that is Sensitive to Disfluencies
David Schlangen, Timo Baumann and Michaela Atterer |
| | Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue
Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Johanna Moore, Natalie Steinhauser and Gwendolyn Campbell |
| | Towards the Interpretation of Utterance Sequences in a Dialogue System
Ingrid Zukerman, Patrick Ye, Kapil Kumar Gupta and Enes Makalic |
| 12:15–1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30–2:30 | Papers 7-9: |
| | Participant Subjectivity and Involvement as a Basis for Discourse Segmentation
John Niekrasz and Johanna Moore |
| | Genre-Based Paragraph Classification for Sentiment Analysis
Maite Taboada, Julian Brooke and Manfred Stede |
| | Detecting the Noteworthiness of Utterances in Human Meetings
Satanjeev Banerjee and Alexander Rudnicky |
| 2:30–4:00 | Poster Session 1: |
| | A: An Experimental Investigation into... B: ...Split Utterances
Christine Howes, Patrick Healey and Gregory Mills |
| | Interactive Gesture in Dialogue: a PTT Model
Hannes Rieser and Massimo Poesio |
| | Tense, Temporal Expressions and Demonstrative Licensing in Natural Discourse.
Iker Zulaica-Hernández and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach |
| | Prosodic Turn-Yielding Cues With and Without Optical Feedback
Caroline Clemens and Christoph Diekhaus |
| | Exploring Miscommunication and Collaborative Behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction
Theodora Koulouri and Stanislao Lauria |
| | A Two-Tier User Simulation Model for Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies
Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon |
| | Analysis of Listening-Oriented Dialogue for Building Listening Agents
Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Hideki Isozaki |
| | On NoMatchs, NoInputs and BargeIns: Do Non-Acoustic Features Support Anger Detection?
Alexander Schmitt, Tobias Heinroth and Jackson Liscombe |
| | Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists
Jason Williams and Suhrid Balakrishnan |
| | Not a Simple Yes or No: Uncertainty in Indirect Answers
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Scott Grimm and Christopher Potts |
| | Concept Form Adaptation in Human-Computer Dialog
Svetlana Stoyanchev and Amanda Stent |
| + | Demos: |
| | Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the iPhone
Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu and Oliver Lemon |
| | Dialog System for Mixed Initiative One-Turn Address Entry and Error Recovery
Rajesh Balchandran, Leonid Rachevsky, Larry Sansone and Roberto Sicconi |
| | Leveraging POMDPs Trained with User Simulations and Rule-based Dialogue Management in a Spoken Dialogue System
Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Riccardi, Alexei Ivanov and Pierluigi Roberti |
| 4:00–4:15 | Coffee |
| 4:15–5:15 | Papers 10-12: |
| | Speeding Up the Design of Dialogue Applications by Using Database Contents and Structure Information
Luis Fernando D’Haro, Ricardo de Cordoba, Juan Manuel Lucas, Roberto Barra-Chicote and Ruben San-Segundo |
| | Modeling User Satisfaction with Hidden Markov Models
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Florian Gödde, Felix Hartard, Hamed Ketabdar and Sebastian Möller |
| | Discourse Structure and Performance Analysis: Beyond the Correlation
Mihai Rotaru and Diane Litman |
| 7:00–11:00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, 12th September, 2009 |
| 9:00–10:00 | Papers 13-15: |
| | The Role of Interactivity in Human-Machine Conversation for Automatic Word Acquisition
Shaolin Qu and Joyce Chai |
| | Clarification Potential of Instructions
Luciana Benotti |
| | What do We Know about Conversation Participants: Experiments on Conversation Entailment
Chen Zhang and Joyce Chai |
| 10:00–11:00 | Invited Talk 2: |
| | Artificial Companions as Dialogue Agents
Yorick Wilks |
| 11:00–11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15–12:15 | Papers 16-18: |
| | Effects of Conversational Agents on Human Communication in Thought-Evoking Multi-Party Dialogues
Kohji Dohsaka, Ryota Asai, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yasuhiro Minami and Eisaku Maeda |
| | Models for Multiparty Engagement in Open-World Dialog
Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz |
| | Extracting Decisions from Multi-Party Dialogue Using Directed Graphical Models and Semantic Similarity
Trung Bui, Matthew Frampton, John Dowding and Stanley Peters |
| 12:15–1:30 | Lunch & SIGDIAL Business Meeting |
| 1:30–2:30 | Papers 19-21: |
| | Learning to Predict Engagement with a Spoken Dialog System in Open-World Settings
Dan Bohus and Eric Horvitz |
| | Turn-Yielding Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Agustín Gravano and Julia Hirschberg |
| | Split Utterances in Dialogue: a Corpus Study
Matthew Purver, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki and Patrick Healey |
| 2:30–3:45 | Poster Session 2: |
| | k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems
Fabrice Lefèvre, Milica Gašić, Filip Jurčíček, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young |
| | Comparison of Classification and Ranking Approaches to Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Czech
Giang Linh Nguy, Václav Novák and Zdeněk Žabokrtský |
| | Spoken Tutorial Dialogue and the Feeling of Another’s Knowing
Diane Litman and Kate Forbes-Riley |
| | Evaluating Automatic Extraction of Rules for Sentence Plan Construction
Amanda Stent and Martin Molina |
| | Eliciting Interactional Phenomena in Human-Human Dialogues
Joakim Gustafson and Miray Merkes |
| | TELIDA: A Package for Manipulation and Visualization of Timed Linguistic Data
Titus von der Malsburg, Timo Baumann and David Schlangen |
| | Cascaded Lexicalised Classifiers for Second-Person Reference Resolution
Matthew Purver, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton and Stanley Peters |
| | Attention and Interaction Control in a Human-Human-Computer Dialogue Setting
Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson |
| | Ranking Help Message Candidates Based on Robust Grammar Verification Results and Utterance History in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani, Satoshi Ikeda, Yuichiro Fukubayashi, Tetsuya Ogata and Hiroshi Okuno |
| | Dialogue Behaviour under High Cognitive Load
Jessica Villing |
| | A Comparison between Dialog Corpora Acquired with Real and Simulated Users
David Griol, Zoraida Callejas and Ramón López-Cózar |
| | Simultaneous Dialogue Act Segmentation and Labelling using Lexical and Syntactic Features
Ramon Granell, Stephen Pulman and Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos |
| | The Spoken Dialogue Challenge
Alan Black and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 3:45–4:15 | Coffee & Grand Challenge Discussion |
| 4:15–5:15 | Papers 22-24: |
| | Unsupervised Classification of Dialogue Acts using a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model
Nigel Crook, Ramon Granell and Stephen Pulman |
| | A Handsome Set of Metrics to Measure Utterance Classification Performance in Spoken Dialog Systems
David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe, Krishna Dayanidhi and Roberto Pieraccini |
| | Contrasting the Interaction Structure of an Email and a Telephone Corpus: A Machine Learning Approach to Annotation of Dialogue Function Units
Jun Hu, Rebecca Passonneau and Owen Rambow |
| 5:15–5:35 | Close |