SIGdial 2013

14th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

SIGdial 2013

The 14th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue was held on Aug 22-24, 2013 in Metz, France. 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 thirteen 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.

Opening, Closing

0:08:08

Welcome and conference overview

0:04:44

Conference closing

Keynotes

0:57:43

Discourse Relations, Discourse Structure, Discourse Semantics

Bonnie Webber

Discourse, semantics, and generation

0:22:31

Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure

Antoine Venant, Nicholas Asher, Philippe Muller, Pascal Denis, Stergos Afantenos

0:20:33

Unsupervised structured semantic inference for spoken dialog reservation tasks

Alejandra Lorenzo, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Christophe Cerisara

0:17:25

Verbal indicators of psychological distress in interactive dialogue with a virtual human

David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, Fabrizio Morbini, David Traum, Stefan Scherer, Albert Rizzo, Louis-Philippe Morency

0:19:57

Training an integrated sentence planner on user dialogue

Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone

Dialog and Discourse in social media, interpersonal relationships

0:20:46

Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue

Amita Misra, Marilyn Walker

0:20:32

Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features

Zhou Yu, David Gerritsen, Amy Ogan, Alan Black, Justine Cassell

0:20:15

Stance Classification in Online Debates by Recognizing Users' Intentions

Sarvesh Ranade, Rajeev Sangal, Radhika Mamidi

Situated and multi-modal dialog

0:18:32

Exploring the effects of gaze and pauses in situated human-robot interaction

Gabriel Skantze, Anna Hjalmarsson, Catharine Oertel

0:22:28

Interpreting Situated Dialogue Utterances: an Update Model that Uses Speech, Gaze, and Gesture Information

Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen

0:23:57

Multimodality and Dialogue Act Classification in the RoboHelper Project

Lin Chen, Barbara Di Eugenio

Dialog system control and evaluation

0:20:23

Learning Dialogue Management Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue with Parallel Dialogue and Task Streams

Eun Ha, Christopher Mitchell, Kristy Boye, James Lester

0:21:02

POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains

Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve Young

0:20:10

Training and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction

Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani

0:20:27

Evaluation of Speech Dialog Strategies for Internet Applications in the Car

Hansjörg Hofmann, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton, Angela Mahr, Rafael Math, Christian Müller

Models of dialog and spoken discourse

0:20:07

Predicting Tasks in Goal-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems using Semantic Knowledge Bases

Aasish Pappu, Alexander Rudnicky

0:19:51

Surface Text based Dialogue Models for Virtual Humans

Sudeep Gandhe, David Traum

0:22:13

Speech Reduction, Intensity, and F0 Shape are Cues to Turn-Taking

Oliver Niebuhr, Karin Görs, Evelin Graupe

Speech processing technology in dialog

0:18:53

A Data-driven Model for Timing Feedback in a Map Task Dialogue System

Raveesh Meena, Gabriel Skantze, Joakim Gustafson

0:18:55

Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task

Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter Heeman, Jason Williams

0:22:02

Which ASR should I choose for my dialogue system?

Fabrizio Morbini, Kartik Audhkhasi, Kenji Sagae, Ron Artstein, Dogan Can, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shri Narayanan, Anton Leuski, David Traum

Dialog state tracking

0:18:07

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge

Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachandran, Alan Black

0:15:12

Recipe For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers: Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description

Sungjin Lee, Maxine Eskenazi

0:15:40

A Simple and Generic Belief Tracking Mechanism for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge: On the believability of observed information

Zhuoran Wang, Oliver Lemon

0:15:07

Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking

Jason Williams

0:15:46

Structured Discriminative Model For Dialog State Tracking

Sungjin Lee

Dialog state tracking challenge 2

0:14:30

Dialog state tracking challenge 2

The REAL dialog challenge

0:12:51

The REAL dialog challenge