SIGDIAL 2010: Program

Friday, 24 Sept 2010
9:00-9:20    Introduction
9:20-10:00    Papers 1-2
   Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Dialogue Systems
Gabriel Skantze and Anna Hjalmarsson
KTH
   Comparing Local and Sequential Models for Statistical Incremental Natural Language Understanding
Silvan Heintze,  Timo Baumann,  David Schlangen
University of Potsdam, Germany
10:00-11:00    Invited Talk: Marilyn Walker
   Dynamic Adaptation in Dialog Systems
Marilyn Walker
UC Santa Cruz
11:00-11:20    Coffee break
11:20-12:20    Papers 3-5
   Modeling User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues from Overall Ratings
Ryuichiro Higashinaka,  Yasuhiro Minami,  Kohji Dohsaka,  Toyomi Meguro
NTT Corporation
   Evaluation Metrics For End-to-End Coreference Resolution Systems
Jie Cai and Michael Strube
HITS gGmbH
   Probabilistic Ontology Trees for Belief Tracking in Dialog Systems
Neville Mehta1,  Rakesh Gupta2,  Antoine Raux2,  Deepak Ramachandran2,  Stefan Krawczyk3
1Oregon State University, 2Honda Research Institute, 3Stanford University
12:20-13:30    Lunch & SIGDIAL Business Meeting
13:30-15:00    Short Paper Poster Session 1
15:00-16:00    Papers 6-8
   Sparse Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dialog Management
Senthilkumar Chandramohan,,  Matthieu Geist,  Olivier Pietquin
Supelec
   Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation
Simon Keizer,  Milica Gasic,  Filip Jurcicek,  Francois Mairesse,  Blaise Thomson,  Kai Yu,  Steve Young
University of Cambridge
   Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with Real Users
Srinivasan Janarthanam1 and Oliver Lemon2
1University of Edinburgh, 2Heriot-Watt University
16:00-16:20    Coffee break
16:20-17:20    Papers 9-11
   A unified account of the semantics of discourse particles
Markus Egg
Humboldt-Universität Berlin
   The Effects of Discourse Connectives Prediction on Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
Zhi Min Zhou1,  Man Lan1,  Yu Xu1,  Zheng Yu Niu2,  Jian Su3
1East China Normal University, 2Baidu.com Inc., 3Institute for Infocomm Research
   Discourse indicators for content selection in summarization
Annie Louis,  Aravind Joshi,  Ani Nenkova
University of Pennsylvania
19:00-22:00    Conference Dinner
Saturday, 25 Sept 2010
9:20-10:00    Papers 12-13
   Comparing Spoken Language Route Instructions for Robots across Environment Representations
Matthew Marge and Alexander Rudnicky
Carnegie Mellon University
   The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction
Antoine Raux1 and Mikio Nakano2
1Honda Research Institute USA, 2Honda Research Institute Japan
10:00-11:00    Invited Talk: Hiroshi Ishiguro
   Understanding Humans by Building Androids
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Osaka University
11:00-11:20    Coffee break
11:20-12:20    Papers 14-16
   Non-humanlike Spoken Dialogue: A Design Perspective
Kotaro Funakoshi1,  Mikio Nakano1,  Kazuki Kobayashi2,  Takanori Komatsu2,  Seiji Yamada3
1Honda Research Institute Japan Co. Ltd., 2Shinshu University, 3National Institute of Informatics
   Enhanced Monitoring Tools and Online Dialogue Optimisation Merged into a New Spoken Dialogue System Design Experience
Ghislain PUTOIS,  Romain LAROCHE,  Philippe BRETIER
Orange Labs
   Don’t tell anyone! Two Experiments on Gossip Conversations
Jenny Brusk1,  Ron Artstein2,  David Traum2
1School of informatics and humanities, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden, 2USC Institute for Creative Technologies, 13274 Fiji Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292
12:20-13:00    Lunch & Spoken Dialogue Challenge Report
13:00-14:40    Short Paper Poster Session 2 & Demo Session
14:40-16:00    Papers 17-20
   F2 - New Technique for Recognition of User Emotional States in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ramón López-Cózar1,  Jan Silovsky2,  David Griol3
1University of Granada, Spain, 2University of Liberec, Czech Republic, 3Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
   Online Error Detection of Barge-In Utterances by Using Individual Users' Utterance Histories in Spoken Dialogue System
Kazunori Komatani and Hiroshi G. Okuno
Kyoto University
   Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
Kristy Boyer,  Eun Young Ha,  Robert Phillips,  Michael Wallis,  Mladen Vouk,  James Lester
NC State University
   Hand Gestures in Disambiguating Types of You Expressions in Multiparty Meetings
Tyler Baldwin1,  Joyce Chai1,  Katrin Kirchhoff2
1Michigan State University, 2University of Washington
16:00-16:20    Coffee break
16:20-17:20    Papers 21-23
   User-adaptive Coordination of Agent Communicative Behavior in Spoken Dialogue
Kohji Dohsaka1,  Atsushi Kanemoto2,  Ryuichiro Higashinaka1,  Yasuhiro Minami1,  Eisaku Maeda1
1NTT Corporation, 2Osaka University
   Towards an Empirically Motivated Typology of Follow-Up Questions: The Role of Dialogue Context
Manuel Kirschner and Raffaella Bernardi
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
   Assessing the effectiveness of conversational features for dialogue segmentation in medical team meetings and in the AMI corpus
Saturnino Luz and Jing Su
Trinity College Dublin
17:20-17:50    Best Paper Awards & Closing
Short Paper Poster Session 1 (Friday 24)
   ‘How was your day?’ An architecture for multimodal ECA systems
Raúl Santos de la Cámara1,  Markku Turunen2,  Jaakko Hakulinen2,  Debora Field3
1Telefónica I+D, Spain, 2Tampere University, Finland, 3University of Sheffield, UK
   Middleware for Incremental Processing in Conversational Agents
David Schlangen1,  Timo Baumann1,  Hendrik Buschmeier2,  Okko Buß1,  Stefan Kopp2,  Gabriel Skantze3,  Ramin Yaghoubzadeh2
1University of Potsdam, Germany, 2Bielefeld University, 3KTH, Stockholm
   Autism and Interactional Aspects of Dialogue
Peter Heeman,  Rebecca Lunsford,  Ethan Selfridge,  Lois Black,  Jan van Santen
OHSU
   Using entity features to classify implicit discourse relations
Annie Louis,  Aravind Joshi,  Rashmi Prasad,  Ani Nenkova
University of Pennsylvania
   Same and Elaboration Relations in the Discourse Graphbank
Irina Borisova1 and Gisela Redeker2
1University of Groningen - Saarland University, 2University of Groningen
   Negotiating causal implicatures
Luciana Benotti1 and Patrick Blackburn2
1Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina, 2INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France
   Presupposition accommodation as exception handling
Ekaterina Lebedeva and Philippe de Groote
INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
   Exploring the Effectiveness of Lexical Ontologies for Modeling Temporal Relations with Markov Logic
Eun Ha,  Alok Baikadi,  Carlyle Licata,  Bradford Mott,  James Lester
Dept. of Computer Science, North Carolina State Univ.
   Reference reversibility with Reference Domain Theory
Alexandre Denis
CNRS
   Utilizing Review Summarization in a Spoken Recommendation System
Jingjing Liu,  Stephanie Seneff,  Victor Zue
MIT CSAIL
   Dialogue Management Based on Entities and Constraints
Yushi Xu and Stephanie Seneff
Spoken Language Systems Group, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
   Towards Improving the Naturalness of Social Conversations with Dialogue Systems
Matthew Marge,  João Miranda,  Alan Black,  Alexander Rudnicky
Carnegie Mellon University
   Route Communication in Dialogue: a Matter of Principles
Theodora Koulouri and Stanislao Lauria
Brunel University
   The Impact of Dimensionality on Natural Language Route Directions in Unconstrained Dialogue
Vivien Mast,  Jan Smeddinck,  Anna Strotseva,  Thora Tenbrink
University of Bremen
   Learning Dialogue Strategies from Older and Younger Simulated Users
Kallirroi Georgila1,  Maria Wolters2,  Johanna Moore2
1Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 2School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Short Paper Poster Session 2 (Saturday 25)
   Gaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers
Milica Gasic,  Filip Jurcicek,  Simon Keizer,  Francois Mairesse,  Blaise Thomson,  Kai Yu,  Steve Young
University of Cambridge
   Coherent Back-Channel Feedback Tagging of In-Car Spoken Dialogue Corpus
Yuki Kamiya,  Tomohiro Ohno,  Shigeki Matsubara
Nagoya University
   Representing Uncertainty about Complex User Goals in Statistical Dialogue Systems
Paul A. Crook and Oliver Lemon
Interaction Lab, Heriot-Watt University
   Investigating Clarification Strategies in a Hybrid POMDP Dialog Manager
Sebastian Varges,  Silvia Quarteroni,  Giuseppe Riccardi,  Alexei Ivanov
University of Trento
   Cooperative User Models in Statistical Dialog Simulators
Meritxell González1,  Silvia Quarteroni2,  Giuseppe Riccardi2,  Sebastian Varges2
1Technical University of Catalonia, University of Trento, 2University of Trento
   Modeling Spoken Decision Making Dialogue and Optimization of its Dialogue Strategy
Teruhisa Misu,  Komei Sugiura,  Kiyonori Ohtake,  Chiori Hori,  Hideki Kashioka,  Hisashi Kawai,  Satoshi Nakamura
NICT
   The vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in dialogue
Anna Hjalmarsson
Department of Speech Music and Hearing, KTH
   Pamini: A framework for assembling mixed-initiative human-robot interaction from generic interaction patterns
Julia Peltason and Britta Wrede
Bielefeld University, Germany
   Collaborating on Utterances with a Spoken Dialogue System Using an ISU-based Approach to Incremental Dialogue Management
Okko Buß,  Timo Baumann,  David Schlangen
University of Potsdam
   Cross-Domain Speech Disfluency Detection
Kallirroi Georgila,  Ning Wang,  Jonathan Gratch
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
   Validation of a Dialog System for Language Learners
Alicia Sagae,  W. Lewis Johnson,  Stephen Bodnar
Alelo
   I've said it before, and I'll say it again: An empirical investigation of the upper bound of the selection approach to dialogue
Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum
ICT/USC
   Towards Semi-Supervised Classification of Discourse Relations using Feature Correlations
Hugo Hernault,  Danushka Bollegala,  Mitsuru Ishizuka
The University of Tokyo
   Detection of time-pressure induced stress in speech via acoustic indicators
Matthew Frampton,  Sandeep Sripada,  Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann Bion,  Stanley Peters
Stanford University
   How to Drink from a Fire Hose: One Person Can Annoscribe One Million Utterances in One Month
David Suendermann,  Jackson Liscombe,  Roberto Pieraccini
SpeechCycle, New York, USA
Demos (Saturday 25)
   Advances in the Witchcraft Workbench Project
Alexander Schmitt1,  Nada Sharaf2,  Wolfgang Minker1
1Ulm University, Germany, 2German University in Cairo, Egypt
   MPOWERS: a Multi Points Of VieW Evaluation Refine Studio
Marianne Laurent and Philippe Bretier
Orange Labs
   Statistical Dialog Management Methodologies for Real Applications
David Griol1,  Zoraida Callejas2,  Ramon Lopez-Cozar2
1Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2Universidad de Granada
   YouBot: A Simple Framework for Building Virtual Networking Agents
Seiji Takegata and Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
   ‘How was your day?’ An Affective Companion ECA Prototype
Marc Cavazza1,  Raúl Santos de la Cámara2,  Markku Turunen3,  José Relaño Gil2,  Jaakko Hakulinen3,  Nigel Crook4,  Debora Field5
1Teesside University, United Kingdom, 2Telefónica I+D, Spain, 3University of Tampere, Finland, 4Oxford University, 5Sheffield University