SIGDial Conference (2007)

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Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue 51 papers

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Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Harry Bunt | Simon Keizer | Tim Paek

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Rationality and Conversation
Herbert H. Clark

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Collective States of Understanding
Arash Eshghi | Patrick G.T. Healey

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Contrasting the Automatic Identification of Two Discourse Markers in Multiparty Dialogues
Andrei Popescu-Belis | Sandrine Zufferey

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Detecting Arguing and Sentiment in Meetings
Swapna Somasundaran | Josef Ruppenhofer | Janyce Wiebe

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A Model of Compliance and Emotion for Potentially Adversarial Dialogue Agents
Antonio Roque | David Traum

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Acquiring and Evaluating a Dialog Corpus through a Dialog Simulation Technique
David Griol | Lluis F. Hurtado | Emilio Sanchis | Encarna Segarra

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An Empirical View on IQA Follow-up Questions
Manuel Kirschner | Raffaella Bernardi

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An Implemented Method for Distributed Collection and Assessment of Speech Data
Alexander Siebert | David Schlangen | Raquel Fernández

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Beyond Repair – Testing the Limits of the Conversational Repair System
David Schlangen | Raquel Fernández

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Dialogue Policy Learning for Combinations of Noise and User Simulation: Transfer Results
Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu

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Dynamic n-best Selection and Its Application in Dialog Act Detection
Junling Hu | Fabrizio Morbini | Fuliang Weng | Xue Liu

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Emergent Conversational Recommendations: A Dialogue Behavior Approach
Pontus Wärnestal | Lars Degerstedt | Arne Jönsson

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Exploiting Semantic and Pragmatic Information for the Automatic Resolution of Spatial Linguistic Expressions
Andrea Corradini

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Identifying Formal and Functional Zones in Film Reviews
Heike Bieler | Stefanie Dipper | Manfred Stede

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Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
Ivan Tashev | Michael Seltzer | Yun-Cheng Ju | Dong Yu | Alex Acero

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Corpus-Based Training of Action-Specific Language Models
Lars Schillingmann | Sven Wachsmuth | Britta Wrede

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Negotiating Spatial Goals with a Wheelchair
Thora Tenbrink | Hui Shi

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Releasing a Multimodal Dialogue System into the Wild: User Support Mechanisms
Alexander Gruenstein | Stephanie Seneff

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Comparing Spoken Dialog Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users
Hua Ai | Antoine Raux | Dan Bohus | Maxine Eskenazi | Diane Litman

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Dealing with DEAL: A Dialogue System for Conversation Training
Anna Hjalmarsson | Preben Wik | Jenny Brusk

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Referring under Restricted Interactivity Conditions
Raquel Fernández | Tatjana Lucht | David Schlangen

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A Multidimensional Approach to Utterance Segmentation and Dialogue Act Classification
Jeroen Geertzen | Volha Petukhova | Harry Bunt

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Accented Pronouns and Unusual Antecedents: A Corpus Study
Anubha Kothari

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Evaluating Combinations of Dialogue Acts for Generation
Simon Keizer | Harry Bunt

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Measuring Adaptation Between Dialogs
Svetlana Stenchikova | Amanda Stent

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Token-based Chunking of Turn-internal Dialogue Act Sequences
Piroska Lendvai | Jeroen Geertzen

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A Comprehensive Disfluency Model for Multi-Party Interaction
Jana Besser | Jan Alexandersson

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Experimental Modeling of Human-human Multi-threaded Dialogues in the Presence of a Manual-visual Task
Alexander Shyrokov | Andrew Kun | Peter Heeman

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Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Classification of Conversation Type
Kornel Laskowski | Mari Ostendorf | Tanja Schultz

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Introducing Utterance Verification in Spoken Dialogue System to Improve Dynamic Help Generation for Novice Users
Kazunori Komatani | Yuichiro Fukubayashi | Tetsuya Ogata | Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Making Grounding Decisions: Data-driven Estimation of Dialogue Costs and Confidence Thresholds
Gabriel Skantze

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On the Training Data Requirements for an Automatic Dialogue Annotation Technique
Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos

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Practical Dialogue Manager Development using POMDPs
Trung H. Bui | Boris van Schooten | Dennis Hofs

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Problem-Sensitive Response Generation in Human-Robot Dialogs
Petra Gieselmann | Mari Ostendorf

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Rapid Development of Dialogue Systems by Grammar Compilation
Björn Bringert

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Resolving “You” in Multi-Party Dialog
Surabhi Gupta | John Niekrasz | Matthew Purver | Dan Jurafsky

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ScIML: Model-based Design of Voice User Interfaces
Jörn Kreutel

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Tutoring in a Spoken Language Dialogue System
Jaakko Hakulinen | Markku Turunen | Kari-Jouko Räihä

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Using Speech Acts in Logic-Based Rhetorical Structuring for Natural Language Generation in Human-Computer Dialogue
Vladimir Popescu | Jean Caelen | Corneliu Burileanu

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Dialogue Management for Automatic Troubleshooting and other Problem-solving Applications
Johan Boye

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Implicitly-supervised Learning in Spoken Language Interfaces: an Application to the Confidence Annotation Problem
Dan Bohus | Alexander Rudnicky

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Planning Dialog Actions
Mark Steedman | Ronald Petrick

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Statistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda
Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Steve Young

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An Empirically Based Computational Model of Grounding in Dialogue
Harry Bunt | Roser Morante | Simon Keizer

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Pragmatic Usage of Linear Regression Models for the Prediction of User Judgments
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht | Sebastian Möller