SIGdial 2012

13th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

SIGdial 2012

The 13th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue was held on July 5-6, 2012 at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in discourse and dialogue to both academic and industry researchers. Continuing with a series of twelve successful previous meetings, this conference spans the research interest areas of discourse and dialogue. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization, which serves as the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for both ACL and ISCA.

Keynotes

0:52:10

Multi-modal Sensing and Analysis of Poster Conversations: Toward Smart Posterboard

Tatsuya Kawahara

0:57:28

Cohesion, Entrainment and Task Success in Educational Dialog

Diane Litman

SESSION 1: Evaluation

0:25:09

An End-to-End Evaluation of Two Situated Dialog Systems

Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Alejandra Lorenzo, Claire Gardent

0:18:58

"Love ya, jerkface": Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive (and Impolite) Relationships with Teens

William Yang Wang, Samantha Finkelstein, Amy Ogan, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell

0:27:00

Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze

Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte, Matthew Crocker

SESSION 2: Coherence

0:25:37

Unsupervised Topic Modeling Approaches to Decision Summarization in Spoken Meetings

Lu Wang, Claire Cardie

0:24:44

An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems

Sungjin Lee, Maxine Eskenazi

0:20:15

Hierarchical Conversation Structure Prediction in Multi-Party Chat

Elijah Mayfield, David Adamson, Carolyn Penstein Rosé

SESSION 3: Discourse Structure

0:16:07

Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue

Changsong Liu, Rui Fang, Joyce Chai

0:22:06

A Reranking Model for Discourse Segmentation using Subtree Features

Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh, Akira Shimazu

SESSION 4: Statistical Models of Dialog

0:25:21

Landmark-Based Location Belief Tracking in a Spoken Dialog System

Yi Ma, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, Rakesh Gupta

0:24:42

Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge

Pierre Lison

0:22:19

Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods

Sungjin Lee, Maxine Eskenazi

SESSION 5: Paralinguistic Features

0:25:36

A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction

Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega

0:24:32

Using Group History to Identify Character-Directed Utterances in Multi-Child Interactions

Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Jill F. Lehman, Jessica K. Hodgins

0:27:05

Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue

Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman

SESSION 6: NLG and NLU

0:25:50

Combining Incremental Language Generation and Incremental Speech Synthesis for Adaptive Information Presentation

Hendrik Buschmeier, Timo Baumann, Benjamin Dosch, Stefan Kopp, David Schlangen

0:16:20

Focused Meeting Summarization via Unsupervised Relation Extraction

Lu Wang, Claire Cardie

0:24:51

Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding

Casey Kennington, David Schlangen