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PROGRAM
July 29, 2021 | |
| 20:00–20:30 | BREAKOUT |
| 20:30–21:00 | Opening Ceremony |
| 21:00–22:15 | Keynote 1: Dialog with Robots: Perceptually Grounded Communication with Lifelong Learning Raymond J. Mooney |
| 22:30–03:00 | Special Session: Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings (SummDial) |
| 22:00–00:15 | Special Session: Safety for E2E Conversational AI (SafeConvAI) |
July 30, 2021 | |
| 12:00–13:00 Paper Session P1 | |
| Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbot Abigail See and Christopher Manning | |
| Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila and Aaron M. Alarcon | |
| DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs Satwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu and Alborz Geramifard | |
| Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus Nigel Ward | |
| 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 | |
| Improving Named Entity Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems by Context and Speech Pattern Modeling Minh Nguyen and Zhou Yu | |
| SoDA: On-device Conversational Slot Extraction Sujith Ravi and Zornitsa Kozareva | |
| 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 | |
| 13:00–14:30 Paper Session P2 | |
| ARTA: Collection and Classification of Ambiguous Requests and Thoughtful Actions Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh and Satoshi Nakamura | |
| Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara and Masahiro Mizukami | |
| Effective Social Chatbot Strategies for Increasing User Initiative Amelia Hardy, Ashwin Paranjape and Christopher Manning | |
| Generative Conversational Networks Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Gokhan Tur and Dilek Hakkani-Tur | |
| 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 | |
| Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain Adaptation Ibrahim Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan and Nancy Chen | |
| 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 | |
| A Simple yet Effective Method for Sentence Ordering Aili Shen and Timothy Baldwin | |
| Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative Response Rachna Konigari, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri and Manish Shrivastava | |
| Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence Scoring Linzi Xing and Giuseppe Carenini | |
| 14:30–15:00 | BREAKOUT |
| 15:00–16:00 Paper Session P3 | |
| Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text Utterances Chiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda, Junya Ono and Hiromi Wakaki | |
| Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response Generation Tianyu Zhao and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| 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 | |
| How does BERT process disfluency? Ye Tian, Tim Nieradzik, Sepehr Jalali and Da-shan Shiu | |
| Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State Tracking Suvodip Dey and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar | |
| Dialogue State Tracking with Multi-Level Fusion of Predicted Dialogue States and Conversations Jingyao Zhou, Haipang Wu, Zehao Lin, Guodun Li and Yin Zhang | |
| Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A Survey Vevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi and Bernardo Magnini | |
| 16:00–17:00 Demo Session | |
| Scikit-talk: A toolkit for processing real-world conversational speech data Andreas Liesenfeld, Gabor Parti and Chu-Ren Huang | |
| ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara and Pascale Fung | |
| A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara | |
| 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 | |
| 17:30–19:00 | Panel |
| 19:00–20:00 | Virtual Tour (ALL) and Dinner (Physical only) |
| 20:00–21:00 | Sponsor Session SPS1 |
| 21:00–22:15 | Keynote 2: A journey from ML and NNs to NLP and Beyond: Just more of the same isn’t enough? Jason Weston |
| 23:00–00:00 Paper Session P4 | |
| Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu and Mark Riedl | |
| 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 | |
| Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough and Matthew Purver | |
| CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and Reasoning Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea and Soujanya Poria | |
| Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition? Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li and Malihe Alikhani | |
| Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu and Chinnadhurai Sankar | |
| On the Need for Thoughtful Data Collection for Multi-Party Dialogue: A Survey of Available Corpora and Collection Methods Khyati Mahajan and Samira Shaikh | |
| How Should Agents Ask Questions For Situated Learning? An Annotated Dialogue Corpus Felix Gervits, Antonio Roque, Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz and Matthew Marge | |
July 31, 2021 | |
| 19:00–20:00 | Sponsor Session SPS2 |
| 20:00–21:00 Paper Session P5 | |
| How Will I Argue? A Dataset for Evaluating Recommender Systems for Argumentations Markus Brenneis, Maike Behrendt and Stefan Harmeling | |
| 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 | |
| What to Fact-Check: Guiding Check-Worthy Information Detection in News Articles through Argumentative Discourse Structure Tariq Alhindi, Brennan McManus and Smaranda Muresan | |
| How "open" are the conversations with open-domain chatbots? A proposal for Speech Event based evaluation A. Seza Doğruöz and Gabriel Skantze | |
| Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Maier | |
| Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic Variation Simeon Schüz, Ting Han and Sina Zarrieß | |
| DTAFA: Decoupled Training Architecture for Efficient FAQ Retrieval Haytham Assem, Sourav Dutta and Edward Burgin | |
| Projection of Turn Completion in Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems Erik Ekstedt and Gabriel Skantze | |
| 21:00–22:00 Paper Session P6 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| A Practical 2-step Approach to Assist Enterprise Question-Answering Live Chat Ling-Yen Liao and Tarec Fares | |
| A Brief Study on the Effects of Training Generative Dialogue Models with a Semantic loss Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mohamed Abdelsalam, Sarath Chandar and Joelle Pineau | |
| Do Encoder Representations of Generative Dialogue Models have sufficient summary of the Information about the task ? Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau and Sarath Chandar | |
| GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog Shikib Mehri and Maxine Eskenazi | |
| 22:00–22:30 | BREAKOUT |
| 22:30–23:45 | Keynote 3: Whom Do We Trust in Dialogue Systems? Julia Hirschberg |
| 00:00–01:00 | Business Meeting and Closing Ceremony |
Special Session: Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings (SummDial) | |
| 22:30–22:45 | Opening |
| 22:45–23:30 | Keynote 1: Who discussed what with whom: is meeting summarization a solved problem? Klaus Zechner |
| 23:30–23:35 | Break |
| 23:35–23:55 | Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi and Nancy Chen |
| 23:55–00:15 | Weakly Supervised Extractive Summarization with Attention Yingying Zhuang, Yichao Lu and Simi Wang |
| 00:15–00:35 | Incremental temporal summarization in multi-party meetings Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Wenda Chen and Lama Nachman |
| 00:35–00:45 | Break |
| 00:45–01:45 | Panel Discussion: Dialogue and Meeting Summarization: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead Ani Nenkova, Klaus Zechner, Diyi Yang, and Chenguang Zhu |
| 01:45–01:50 | Break |
| 01:50–02:10 | Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in Dialogue Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Patrick Healey and Matthew Purver |
| 02:10–02:30 | Creating a data set of abstractive summaries of turn-labeled spoken human-computer conversations Iris Hendrickx and Virginia Meijer |
| 02:30–02:50 | Dynamic Sliding Window for Meeting Summarization Zhengyuan Liu and Nancy Chen |
| 02:50–03:00 | Closing |
Special Session: Safety for E2E Conversational AI (SafeConvAI) | |
| 22:00–22:10 | Welcome by the organisers Verena Rieser |
| 22:10–22:50 | Keynote Laurence Devillers |
| 22:50–23:00 | Coffee break |
| 23:00–23:30 Paper presentations | |
| Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbots Yejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii, Andrea Madotto and Pascale Fung | |
| Large-Scale Quantitative Evaluation of Dialogue Agents’ Response Strategies against Offensive Users Haojun Li, Dilara Soylu and Christopher Manning | |
| Panel discussion Pascale Fung, Pilar Manchon, Ehud Reiter, Michelle Zhou, Emily Dinan (session chair) | |