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Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Gary Geunbae Lee | Jonathan Ginzburg | Claire Gardent | Amanda Stent
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Multi-modal Sensing and Analysis of Poster Conversations: Toward Smart Posterboard
Tatsuya Kawahara
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An End-to-End Evaluation of Two Situated Dialog Systems
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Alejandra Lorenzo | Claire Gardent
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“Love ya, jerkface”: Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive and Impolite Relationships with Teens
William Yang Wang | Samantha Finkelstein | Amy Ogan | Alan W Black | Justine Cassell
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Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze
Alexander Koller | Konstantina Garoufi | Maria Staudte | Matthew Crocker
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Unsupervised Topic Modeling Approaches to Decision Summarization in Spoken Meetings
Lu Wang | Claire Cardie
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An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems
Sungjin Lee | Maxine Eskenazi
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Hierarchical Conversation Structure Prediction in Multi-Party Chat
Elijah Mayfield | David Adamson | Carolyn Penstein Rosé
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Rapid Development Process of Spoken Dialogue Systems using Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources
Masahiro Araki
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The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System
Milica Gašić | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Matthew Henderson | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Eli Tzirkel | Steve Young
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Predicting Adherence to Treatment for Schizophrenia from Dialogue Transcripts
Christine Howes | Matthew Purver | Rose McCabe | Patrick G. T. Healey | Mary Lavelle
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Reinforcement Learning of Question-Answering Dialogue Policies for Virtual Museum Guides
Teruhisa Misu | Kallirroi Georgila | Anton Leuski | David Traum
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From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue
Christopher M. Mitchell | Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | James C. Lester
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The Structure and Generality of Spoken Route Instructions
Aasish Pappu | Alexander Rudnicky
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Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization
Joonsuk Park | Claire Cardie
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A Temporal Simulator for Developing Turn-Taking Methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Ethan O. Selfridge | Peter A. Heeman
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Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation
Congkai Sun | Louis-Philippe Morency
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Estimating Adaptation of Dialogue Partners with Different Verbal Intelligence
Kseniya Zablotskaya | Fernando Fernández-Martínez | Wolfgang Minker
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A Demonstration of Incremental Speech Understanding and Confidence Estimation in a Virtual Human Dialogue System
David DeVault | David Traum
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Integrating Location, Visibility, and Question-Answering in a Spoken Dialogue System for Pedestrian City Exploration
Srinivasan Janarthanam | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Phil Bartie | William Mackaness | Tiphaine Dalmas | Jana Goetze
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A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare
Fabrizio Morbini | Eric Forbell | David DeVault | Kenji Sagae | David Traum | Albert Rizzo
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Towards Mediating Shared Perceptual Basis in Situated Dialogue
Changsong Liu | Rui Fang | Joyce Chai
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Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing
Sucheta Ghosh | Giuseppe Riccardi | Richard Johansson
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A Reranking Model for Discourse Segmentation using Subtree Features
Ngo Xuan Bach | Nguyen Le Minh | Akira Shimazu
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Landmark-Based Location Belief Tracking in a Spoken Dialog System
Yi Ma | Antoine Raux | Deepak Ramachandran | Rakesh Gupta
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Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge
Pierre Lison
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Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods
Sungjin Lee | Maxine Eskenazi
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Cohesion, Entrainment and Task Success in Educational Dialog
Diane Litman
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A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction
Nigel G. Ward | Alejandro Vega
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Using Group History to Identify Character-Directed Utterances in Multi-Child Interactions
Hannaneh Hajishirzi | Jill F. Lehman | Jessica K. Hodgins
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Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue
Kate Forbes-Riley | Diane Litman
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Dialog System Using Real-Time Crowdsourcing and Twitter Large-Scale Corpus
Fumihiro Bessho | Tatsuya Harada | Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Automatically Acquiring Fine-Grained Information Status Distinctions in German
Aoife Cahill | Arndt Riester
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A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions
Kotaro Funakoshi | Mikio Nakano | Takenobu Tokunaga | Ryu Iida
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Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Eun Young Ha | Joseph F. Grafsgaard | Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Elizabeth Boyer | James C. Lester
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Semantic Specificity in Spoken Dialogue Requests
Ben Hixon | Rebecca J. Passonneau | Susan L. Epstein
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Contingency and Comparison Relation Labeling and Structure Prediction in Chinese Sentences
Hen-Hsen Huang | Hsin-Hsi Chen
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A Study in How NLU Performance Can Affect the Choice of Dialogue System Architecture
Anton Leuski | David DeVault
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Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems
Ethan O. Selfridge | Iker Arizmendi | Peter A. Heeman | Jason D. Williams
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A Regression-based Approach to Modeling Addressee Backchannels
Allison Terrell | Bilge Mutlu
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Improving Sentence Completion in Dialogues with Multi-Modal Features
Anruo Wang | Barbara Di Eugenio | Lin Chen
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Combining Incremental Language Generation and Incremental Speech Synthesis for Adaptive Information Presentation
Hendrik Buschmeier | Timo Baumann | Benjamin Dosch | Stefan Kopp | David Schlangen
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Focused Meeting Summarization via Unsupervised Relation Extraction
Lu Wang | Claire Cardie
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Markov Logic Networks for Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding
Casey Kennington | David Schlangen