Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Jan Alexandersson | Alistair Knott

Adaptive Help for Speech Dialogue Systems Based on Learning and Forgetting of Speech Commands
Alexander Hof | Eli Hagen | Alexander Huber

Building Effective Question Answering Characters
Anton Leuski | Ronakkumar Patel | David Traum | Brandon Kennedy

Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Sebastian Varges | Fuliang Weng | Heather Pon-Barry

Content Recognition in Dialogue
Jonathan Ginzburg

Multidimensional Dialogue Management
Simon Keizer | Harry Bunt

DRT Representation of Degrees of Belief
Yafa Al-Raheb

Resolution of Referents Groupings in Practical Dialogues
Alexandre Denis | Guillaume Pitel | Matthieu Quignard

Tracing Actions Helps in Understanding Interactions
Bernd Ludwig

Semantic and Pragmatic Presupposition in Discourse Representation Theory
Yafa Al-Raheb

An annotation scheme for citation function
Simone Teufel | Advaith Siddharthan | Dan Tidhar

An Information State-Based Dialogue Manager for Call for Fire Dialogues
Antonio Roque | David Traum

Automatically Detecting Action Items in Audio Meeting Recordings
William Morgan | Pi-Chuan Chang | Surabhi Gupta | Jason M. Brenier

Empirical Verification of Adjacency Pairs Using Dialogue Segmentation
T. Daniel Midgley | Shelly Harrison | Cara MacNish

Multimodal Dialog Description Language for Rapid System Development
Masahiro Araki | Kenji Tachibana

Classification of Discourse Coherence Relations: An Exploratory Study using Multiple Knowledge Sources
Ben Wellner | James Pustejovsky | Catherine Havasi | Anna Rumshisky | Roser Saurí

Measuring annotator agreement in a complex hierarchical dialogue act annotation scheme
Jeroen Geertzen | Harry Bunt

Balancing Conflicting Factors in Argument Interpretation
Ingrid Zukerman | Michael Niemann | Sarah George

An Analysis of Quantitative Aspects in the Evaluation of Thematic Segmentation Algorithms
Maria Georgescul | Alexander Clark | Susan Armstrong

Discourse and Dialogue Processing in Spoken Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Diane J. Litman

A computational model of multi-modal grounding for human robot interaction
Shuyin Li | Britta Wrede | Gerhard Sagerer

Relationship between Utterances and “Enthusiasm” in Non-task-oriented Conversational Dialogue
Ryoko Tokuhisa | Ryuta Terashima