Program Schedule
Thursday, June 19th 2008
09:00 opening remarks
09:15 1 - --------------------
* Antoine Raux and Maxine
Eakenazi. Optimizing Endpointing
Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken
Dialogue System
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09:40 2 - --------------------
* Alexander Gruenstein. Response-Based
Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
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10:05 3 - --------------------
* Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen and
Geoffrey Zweig. Learning N-Best Correction
Models from Implicit User Feedback in a
Multi-Modal Local Search Application
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10:30 coffee break
11:00 4 - --------------------
* Alex Lascarides and Nicholas
Asher. Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue
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11:25 5 - --------------------
* Rachel Baker, Alastair Gill and Justine
Cassell. Reactive Redundancy and Listener
Comprehension in Direction-Giving
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11:50 6 - --------------------
* Gregory Mills and Pat Healey. Semantic
negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of
alignment
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12:15 7 - --------------------
* Antonio Roque and David Traum. Degrees of
Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding
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12:40 lunch &
.. poster session (see below)
14:40 8 - --------------------
* zhifei li, Patrick Nguyen and Geoffrey
Zweig. Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating
Systems using POMDP Framework
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15:05 9 - --------------------
* Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Francois
Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai
Yu and Steve Young. Training and Evaluation of
the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise
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15:30 coffee break
16:00 10 - --------------------
* Kyungduk Kim, Cheongjae Lee, Sangkeun Jung
and Gary Geunbae Lee. A Frame-Based
Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog
Management Using Dialog Examples
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16:25 SIGdial business meeting
17:25 end of first day
19:00 reception
Friday, June 20th 2008
09:30 invited talk by Julia Hirschberg: "Speaking More Like You:
Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in
Spoken Dialogue Systems"
10:30 coffee break
11:00 11 - --------------------
* Swapna Somasundaran, Josef Ruppenhofer and
Janyce Wiebe. Discourse Level Opinion
Relations: An Annotation Study
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11:25 12 - --------------------
* Pierre Andrews, Suresh Manandhar and Marco
De Boni. Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue
for Automated Persuasion
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11:50 13 - --------------------
* Kornel Laskowski, Mari Ostendorf and Tanja
Schultz. Modeling Vocal Interaction for
Text-Independent Participant Characterization
in Multi-Party Conversation
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12:15 14 - --------------------
* Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Patrick
Ehlen, Matthew Purver and Stanley
Peters. Modelling and Detecting Decisions in
Multi-party Dialogue
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12:45 lunch
14:15 15 - --------------------
* Hua Ai and Fuliang Weng. User Simulation as
Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems
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14:40 16 - --------------------
* Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum. Evaluation
Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models
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15:05 17 - --------------------
* Sebastian Möller and Nigel Ward. A Framework
for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog
Systems
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15:30 coffee break
16:00 18 - --------------------
* Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Olga
Kukina. The Effect of Dialogue System Output
Style Variation on Users' Evaluation Judgments
and Input Style
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16:25 19 - --------------------
* David DeVault, David Traum and Ron
Artstein. Making Grammar-Based Generation
Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems
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16:50 closing remarks
17:00 the end
Poster Session
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Tim Paek, Sudeep Gandhe and Max Chickering. Rapidly Deploying
Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and
Back-off Grammars
Sebastian Varges, Giuseppe Riccardi and Silvia
Quarteroni. Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric
Architecture
Anna Hjalmarsson. Speaking without knowing what to say... or when
to end
Crystal Nakatsu. Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence
Realization Ranking
Fei Liu and Yang Liu. What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of
Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus
Alexander Siebert and David Schlangen. A Simple Method for
Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context
Mikio Nakano, Kotaro Funakoshi, Yuji Hasegawa and Hiroshi
Tsujino. A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based
on a Multi-Expert Model
Stefan Hamerich. From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of
Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems
Marcus Colman, Arash Eshghi and Pat Healey. Quantifying Ellipsis
in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding
Yasuhiro Katagiri, Yosuke Matsusaka, Yasuharu Den, Mika Enomoto,
Masato Ishizaki and Katsuya Takanashi. Implicit Proposal
Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations