SIGdial 2015

16th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

SIGdial 2015

The 16th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2015) was held on September 2-4 in Prague, Czech Republic. 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 fifteen 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

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Graph-based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding

Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Oral Session 1: Dialogue Management

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Human-Machine Dialogue as a Stochastic Game

Merwan Barlier, Julien Perolat, Romain Laroche and Olivier Pietquin

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Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management

Inigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Heidi Christensen, Ricard Marxer and Phil Green

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Miscommunication Recovery in Physically Situated Dialogue

Matthew Marge and Alexander Rudnicky

Oral Session 2: Discourse Strategy

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Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Party Trading Dialog

Takuya Hiraoka, Kallirroi Georgila, Elnaz Nouri, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura

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An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems

Tiancheng Zhao, Alan W Black and Maxine Eskenazi

Oral Session 3: Perspective and Point of View

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I Couldn’t Agree More: The Role of Conversational Structure in Agreement and Disagreement Detection in Online Discussions

Sara Rosenthal and Kathy McKeown

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Memory-Based Acquisition of Argument Structures and its Application to Implicit Role Detection

Christian Chiarcos and Niko Schen

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Generating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling

Stephanie Lukin, Lena Reed and Marilyn Walker

Oral Session 4: New directions

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Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Processing for Time-Offset Interaction

David Traum, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski

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THE REAL CHALLENGE 2014: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS

Maxine Eskenazi, Alan W Black, Sungjin Lee and David Traum

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Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue

Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker and Marilyn Walker

Oral Session 5: Neural Network for dialogue processing

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Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking

Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Nikola Mrksic, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke and Steve Young

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The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems

Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban and Joelle Pineau

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Recurrent Polynomial Network for Dialogue State Tracking with Mismatched Semantic Parsers

Qizhe Xie, Kai Sun, Su Zhu, Lu Chen and Kai Yu

Special session (MultiLing 2015) and Open Space

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Multilingual Summarization with Polytope Model

Natalia Vanetik and Marina Litvak

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Call Centre Conversation Summarization: A Pilot Task at Multiling 2015

Benoit Favre, Evgeny Stepanov, Jeremy Trione, Frederic Bechet and Giuseppe Riccardi

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AllSummarizer system at MultiLing 2015: Multilingual single and multi-document summarization

Abdelkrime Aries, Djamel Eddine Zegour and Khaled Walid Hidouci

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Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain

Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple, Rob Gaizauskas and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

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The University of Alicante at MultiLing 2015: approach, results and further insights

Marta Vicente, Oscar Alcon and Elena Lloret

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ExB Text Summarizer

Stefan Thomas, Christian Beutenmuller, Xose de la Puente, Robert Remus and Stefan Bordag

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Multilingual Multi-document Summarization Task in MultiLing 2015

George Giannakopoulos

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ONFORUMS: A Shared Task on Online Forum Summarization

Josef Steinberger, Mijail Kabadjov, Udo Kruschwitz and Massimo Poesio

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MultiLing 2015: Multi-lingual Single Document Summary (MSS) Overview

Jeff Kubina and John Conroy

Closing ceremony

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Best paper award ceremony and closing