SIGdial 2014

15th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

SIGdial 2014

The 15th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue was held on June 18-20, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 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 fourteen 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.

Welcome and conference overview

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Welcome and conference overview

Keynotes

1:00:37

Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue System

Steve Young

1:00:26

Language Adaptation

Lillian Lee

Oral Session 1: Situated Spoken Dialog Systems in Motion

0:24:16

Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System

Raveesh Meena, Johan Boye, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson

0:23:59

Out-of-Domain Spoken Dialogs in the Car: A WoZ Study

Sven Reichel, Jasmin Sohn, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton and Michael Weber

0:23:40

Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour

Teruhisa Misu, Antoine Raux, Rakesh Gupta and Ian Lane

Oral Session 2: Adaptive Dialog Systems

0:25:41

Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus

Koichiro Yoshino and Tatsuya Kawahara

0:23:52

Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction

Alexandria Vail and Kristy Boyer

0:20:33

Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling

Florian Nothdurft, Felix Richter and Wolfgang Minker

Oral Session 3: Dialog Act Modelling

0:24:20

Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models

Aysu Ezen-Can and Kristy Boyer

0:23:33

Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access

Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev and IV Ramakrishnan

0:22:10

Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach

Tatsuro Oya and Giuseppe Carenini

Oral Session 4: Discourse

0:24:31

Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations

Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova

0:26:54

The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue

Julian Schlöder and Raquel Fernandez

0:28:54

Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories

Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran and Marilyn Walker

0:23:32

Crowdsourcing Language Generation Templates for Dialog Systems

Margaret Mitchell, Dan Bohus and Ece Kamar

0:26:09

Generating Effective Referring Expressions Using Charts

Nikolaos Engonopoulos and Alexander Koller

0:22:00

Modeling Blame to Avoid Positive Face Threats in Natural Language Generation

Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz

DSTC Special Session

0:14:25

The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Jason Williams

0:15:58

Optimizing Generative Dialog State Tracker via Cascading Gradient Descent

Byung-Jun Lee, Woosang Lim, Daejoong Kim and Kee-Eung Kim

0:18:50

Web-style Ranking and SLU Combination for Dialog State tracking

Jason D Williams

0:15:30

Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young

0:18:42

Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking

Ronnie Smith

0:22:17

Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization

Sungjin Lee