Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

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Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

General Chair
Haizhou Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Program Chairs
Gina-Anne Levow (University of Washington, USA)
Zhou Yu (Columbia University, USA)

Local Arrangement Chairs
Chitralekha Gupta (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Berrak Sisman (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Siqi Cai (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Sponsorship Chair
David Vandyke (Apple, UK)

Mentoring Chair
Nina Dethlefs (University of Hull, UK)

Finance Chair
Yan Wu (A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Publication Chair
Junyi Jessy Li (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

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pdf	bib	Front matter	pages
pdf	bib	Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbot Abigail See and Christopher Manning	pp. 1‑12
pdf	bib	Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila and Aaron M. Alarcon	pp. 13‑20
pdf	bib	DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs Satwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu and Alborz Geramifard	pp. 21‑26
pdf	bib	Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus Nigel Ward	pp. 27‑31
pdf	bib	Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women Kai-Hui Liang, Patrick Lange, Yoo Jung Oh, Jingwen Zhang, Yoshimi Fukuoka and Zhou Yu	pp. 32‑44
pdf	bib	Improving Named Entity Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems by Context and Speech Pattern Modeling Minh Nguyen and Zhou Yu	pp. 45‑55
pdf	bib	SoDA: On-device Conversational Slot Extraction Sujith Ravi and Zornitsa Kozareva	pp. 56‑65
pdf	bib	Getting to Production with Few-shot Natural Language Generation Models Peyman Heidari, Arash Einolghozati, Shashank Jain, Soumya Batra, Lee Callender, Ankit Arun, Shawn Mei, Sonal Gupta, Pinar Donmez, Vikas Bhardwaj, Anuj Kumar and Michael White	pp. 66‑76
pdf	bib	ARTA: Collection and Classification of Ambiguous Requests and Thoughtful Actions Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura	pp. 77‑88
pdf	bib	Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara and Masahiro Mizukami	pp. 89‑98
pdf	bib	Effective Social Chatbot Strategies for Increasing User Initiative Amelia Hardy, Ashwin Paranjape and Christopher Manning	pp. 99‑110
pdf	bib	Generative Conversational Networks Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tur	pp. 111‑120
pdf	bib	Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur	pp. 121‑132
pdf	bib	Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain Adaptation Ibrahim Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy Chen	pp. 133‑143
pdf	bib	An Analysis of State-of-the-Art Models for Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC) Satwik Kottur, Paul Crook, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon Cho, Rajen Subba and Alborz Geramifard	pp. 144‑153
pdf	bib	A Simple yet Effective Method for Sentence Ordering Aili Shen and Timothy Baldwin	pp. 154‑160
pdf	bib	Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative Response Rachna Konigari, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri and Manish Shrivastava	pp. 161‑166
pdf	bib	Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence Scoring Linzi Xing and Giuseppe Carenini	pp. 167‑177
pdf	bib	Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text Utterances Chiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda, Junya Ono and Hiromi Wakaki	pp. 178‑189
pdf	bib	Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response Generation Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara	pp. 190‑201
pdf	bib	Contrastive Response Pairs for Automatic Evaluation of Non-task-oriented Neural Conversational Models Koshiro Okano, Yu Suzuki, Masaya Kawamura, Tsuneo Kato, Akihiro Tamura and Jianming Wu	pp. 202‑207
pdf	bib	How does BERT process disfluency? Ye Tian, Tim Nieradzik, Sepehr Jalali and Da-shan Shiu	pp. 208‑217
pdf	bib	Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State Tracking Suvodip Dey and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar	pp. 218‑227
pdf	bib	Dialogue State Tracking with Multi-Level Fusion of Predicted Dialogue States and Conversations Jingyao Zhou, Haipang Wu, Zehao Lin, Guodun Li and Yin Zhang	pp. 228‑238
pdf	bib	Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A Survey Vevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi and Bernardo Magnini	pp. 239‑251
pdf	bib	Scikit-talk: A toolkit for processing real-world conversational speech data Andreas Liesenfeld, Gabor Parti and Chu-Ren Huang	pp. 252‑256
pdf	bib	ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara and Pascale Fung	pp. 257‑260
pdf	bib	A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara	pp. 261‑264
pdf	bib	A Cloud-based User-Centered Time-Offset Interaction Application Alberto Chierici, Tyeece Kiana Fredorcia Hensley, Wahib Kamran, Kertu Koss, Armaan Agrawal, Erin Meekhof, Goffredo Puccetti and Nizar Habash	pp. 265‑268
pdf	bib	Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark Riedl	pp. 269‑275
pdf	bib	Summarizing Behavioral Change Goals from SMS Exchanges to Support Health Coaches Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian D. Ziebart, Bing Liu, Ben S. Gerber and Lisa K. Sharp	pp. 276‑289
pdf	bib	Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver	pp. 290‑300
pdf	bib	CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and Reasoning Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea and Soujanya Poria	pp. 301‑313
pdf	bib	Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition? Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li and Malihe Alikhani	pp. 314‑325
pdf	bib	Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu and Chinnadhurai Sankar	pp. 326‑337
pdf	bib	On the Need for Thoughtful Data Collection for Multi-Party Dialogue: A Survey of Available Corpora and Collection Methods Khyati Mahajan and Samira Shaikh	pp. 338‑352
pdf	bib	How Should Agents Ask Questions For Situated Learning? An Annotated Dialogue Corpus Felix Gervits, Antonio Roque, Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz and Matthew Marge	pp. 353‑359
pdf	bib	How Will I Argue? A Dataset for Evaluating Recommender Systems for Argumentations Markus Brenneis, Maike Behrendt and Stefan Harmeling	pp. 360‑367
pdf	bib	From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems Niklas Rach, Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel, Johannes Daxenberger, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes	pp. 368‑379
pdf	bib	What to Fact-Check: Guiding Check-Worthy Information Detection in News Articles through Argumentative Discourse Structure Tariq Alhindi, Brennan McManus and Smaranda Muresan	pp. 380‑391
pdf	bib	How "open" are the conversations with open-domain chatbots? A proposal for Speech Event based evaluation A. Seza Doğruöz and Gabriel Skantze	pp. 392‑402
pdf	bib	Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Maier	pp. 403‑410
pdf	bib	Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic Variation Simeon Schüz, Ting Han and Sina Zarrieß	pp. 411‑422
pdf	bib	DTAFA: Decoupled Training Architecture for Efficient FAQ Retrieval Haytham Assem, Sourav Dutta and Edward Burgin	pp. 423‑430
pdf	bib	Projection of Turn Completion in Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems Erik Ekstedt and Gabriel Skantze	pp. 431‑437
pdf	bib	A Task-Oriented Dialogue Architecture via Transformer Neural Language Models and Symbolic Injection Oscar J Romero, Antian Wang, John Zimmerman, Aaron Steinfeld and Anthony Tomasic	pp. 438‑444
pdf	bib	Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng and Milica Gasic	pp. 445‑456
pdf	bib	A Practical 2-step Approach to Assist Enterprise Question-Answering Live Chat Ling-Yen Liao and Tarec Fares	pp. 457‑468
pdf	bib	A Brief Study on the Effects of Training Generative Dialogue Models with a Semantic loss Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mohamed Abdelsalam, Sarath Chandar and Joelle Pineau	pp. 469‑476
pdf	bib	Do Encoder Representations of Generative Dialogue Models have sufficient summary of the Information about the task ? Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau and Sarath Chandar	pp. 477‑488
pdf	bib	GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi	pp. 489‑498
pdf	bib	Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi	pp. 499‑508
pdf	bib	Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi and Nancy Chen	pp. 509‑519
pdf	bib	Weakly Supervised Extractive Summarization with Attention Yingying Zhuang, Yichao Lu and Simi Wang	pp. 520‑529
pdf	bib	Incremental temporal summarization in multi-party meetings Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Wenda Chen and Lama Nachman	pp. 530‑541
pdf	bib	Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in Dialogue Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Patrick Healey and Matthew Purver	pp. 542‑547
pdf	bib	Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbots Yejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii, Andrea Madotto and Pascale Fung	pp. 548‑555
pdf	bib	Large-Scale Quantitative Evaluation of Dialogue Agents’ Response Strategies against Offensive Users Haojun Li, Dilara Soylu and Christopher Manning	pp. 556‑561

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