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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, June 19, 2008 | |
| 9:00–9:15 | Opening Remarks |
| Session 1: Dialogue Features and Speech Processing | |
| 9:15–9:40 | Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System Antoine Raux and Maxine Eskenazi |
| 9:40–10:05 | Response-Based Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems Alexander Gruenstein |
| 10:05–10:30 | Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen and Geoffrey Zweig |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Grounding in Dialogue | |
| 11:00–11:25 | Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher |
| 11:25–11:50 | Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving Rachel Baker, Alastair Gill and Justine Cassell |
| 11:50–12:15 | Semantic negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of alignment Gregory Mills and Pat Healey |
| 12:15–12:40 | Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding Antonio Roque and David Traum |
| 12:40–14:40 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| Poster Session | |
| Rapidly Deploying Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and Back-off Grammars Tim Paek, Sudeep Gandhe and Max Chickering | |
| Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture Sebastian Varges, Giuseppe Riccardi and Silvia Quarteroni | |
| Speaking without knowing what to say... or when to end Anna Hjalmarsson | |
| Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence Realization Ranking Crystal Nakatsu | |
| What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus Fei Liu and Yang Liu | |
| A Simple Method for Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context Alexander Siebert and David Schlangen | |
| A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuji Hasegawa and Hiroshi Tsujino | |
| From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems Stefan Hamerich | |
| Quantifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding Marcus Colman, Arash Eshghi and Pat Healey | |
| Implicit Proposal Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations Yasuhiro Katagiri, Yosuke Matsusaka, Yasuharu Den, Mika Enomoto, Masato Ishizaki and Katsuya Takanashi | |
| Session 3: Probabilistic Methods | |
| 2:40–3:05 | Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating Systems using POMDP Framework Zhifei Li, Patrick Nguyen and Geoffrey Zweig |
| 3:05–3:30 | Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise Milica Gasi\'c, Simon Keizer, Francois Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu and Steve Young |
| 3:30–4:00 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00–4:25 | A Frame-Based Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog Management Using Dialog Examples Kyungduk Kim, Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung and Gary Geunbae Lee |
| 4:25–5:25 | SIGdial business meeting |
| 5:25 | End of first day |
| 7:00 | Reception, Palm House at Franklin Park Conservatory |
Friday, June 20, 2008 | |
| 9:30–10:30 | Invited Talk |
| Speaking More Like You: Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems Julia Hirschberg | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Opinions, Persuasion, and Multi-Party Dialogue | |
| 11:00–11:25 | Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study Swapna Somasundaran, Josef Ruppenhofer and Janyce Wiebe |
| 11:25–11:50 | Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue for Automated Persuasion Pierre Andrews, Suresh Manandhar and Marco De Boni |
| 11:50–12:15 | Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Participant Characterization in Multi-Party Conversation Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf and Tanja Schultz |
| 12:15–12:45 | Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-party Dialogue Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver and Stanley Peters |
| 12:45–2:15 | Lunch |
| Session 5: Evaluation | |
| 2:15–2:40 | User Simulation as Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems Hua Ai and Fuliang Weng |
| 2:40–3:05 | Evaluation Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum |
| 3:05–3:30 | A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems Sebastian Möller and Nigel Ward |
| 3:30–4:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Generation | |
| 4:00–4:25 | The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users’ Evaluation Judgments and Input Style Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Olga Kukina |
| 4:25–4:50 | Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems David DeVault, David Traum and Ron Artstein |
| 4:50–5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 | End of SIGdial 2008 |