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Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference
Maxine Eskenazi | Michael Strube | Barbara Di Eugenio | Jason D. Williams
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Discourse Relations, Discourse Structure, Discourse Semantics
Bonnie Webber
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Expressivity and comparison of models of discourse structure
Antoine Venant | Nicholas Asher | Philippe Muller | Pascal Denis | Stergos Afantenos
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Unsupervised structured semantic inference for spoken dialog reservation tasks
Alejandra Lorenzo | Lina Rojas-Barahona | Christophe Cerisara
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Toward a Better Understanding of Causality between Verbal Events: Extraction and Analysis of the Causal Power of Verb-Verb Associations
Mehwish Riaz | Roxana Girju
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Training an integrated sentence planner on user dialogue
Brian McMahan | Matthew Stone
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Topic Independent Identification of Agreement and Disagreement in Social Media Dialogue
Amita Misra | Marilyn Walker
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Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features
Zhou Yu | David Gerritsen | Amy Ogan | Alan Black | Justine Cassell
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Stance Classification in Online Debates by Recognizing Users’ Intentions
Sarvesh Ranade | Rajeev Sangal | Radhika Mamidi
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Generating More Specific Questions for Acquiring Attributes of Unknown Concepts from Users
Tsugumi Otsuka | Kazunori Komatani | Satoshi Sato | Mikio Nakano
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Modeling Collaborative Referring for Situated Referential Grounding
Changsong Liu | Rui Fang | Lanbo She | Joyce Chai
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A quantitative view of feedback lexical markers in conversational French
Laurent Prévot | Brigitte Bigi | Roxane Bertrand
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On the contribution of discourse structure to topic segmentation
Paula Cardoso | Maite Taboada | Thiago Pardo
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Will my Spoken Dialogue System be a Slow Learner ?
Layla El Asri | Romain Laroche
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Model-free POMDP optimisation of tutoring systems with echo-state networks
Lucie Daubigney | Matthieu Geist | Olivier Pietquin
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Patterns of Importance Variation in Spoken Dialog
Nigel Ward | Karen Richart-Ruiz
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Reinforcement Learning of Two-Issue Negotiation Dialogue Policies
Kallirroi Georgila
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Dialogue Act Recognition in Synchronous and Asynchronous Conversations
Maryam Tavafi | Yashar Mehdad | Shafiq Joty | Giuseppe Carenini | Raymond Ng
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Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction
Stefan Ultes | Wolfgang Minker
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A Prolog Datamodel for State Chart XML
Stefan Radomski | Dirk Schnelle-Walka | Stephan Radeck-Arneth
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Exploring Features For Localized Detection of Speech Recognition Errors
Eli Pincus | Svetlana Stoyanchev | Julia Hirschberg
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Modelling Human Clarification Strategies
Svetlana Stoyanchev | Alex Liu | Julia Hirschberg
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Interactive Error Resolution Strategies for Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems
Rohit Kumar | Matthew Roy | Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan | Sanjika Hewavitharana | Frederick Choi
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AIDA: Artificial Intelligent Dialogue Agent
Rafael E. Banchs | Ridong Jiang | Seokhwan Kim | Arthur Niswar | Kheng Hui Yeo
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Demonstration of an Always-On Companion for Isolated Older Adults
Candace Sidner | Timothy Bickmore | Charles Rich | Barbara Barry | Lazlo Ring | Morteza Behrooz | Mohammad Shayganfar
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A Multithreaded Conversational Interface for Pedestrian Navigation and Question Answering
Srinivasan Janarthanam | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Phil Bartie | William Mackaness | Tiphaine Dalmas
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Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search
Helen Hastie | Marie-Aude Aufaure | Panos Alexopoulos | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Milica Gasic | James Henderson | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Peter Mika | Nesrine Ben Mustapha | Verena Rieser | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Yves Vanrompay
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Multi-step Natural Language Understanding
Pierrick Milhorat | Stephan Schlögl | Gérard Chollet | Jérôme Boudy
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WebWOZ: A Platform for Designing and Conducting Web-based Wizard of Oz Experiments
Stephan Schlögl | Saturnino Luz | Gavin Doherty
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Exploring the effects of gaze and pauses in situated human-robot interaction
Gabriel Skantze | Anna Hjalmarsson | Catharine Oertel
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Interpreting Situated Dialogue Utterances: an Update Model that Uses Speech, Gaze, and Gesture Information
Casey Kennington | Spyros Kousidis | David Schlangen
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Multimodality and Dialogue Act Classification in the RoboHelper Project
Lin Chen | Barbara Di Eugenio
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Verbal indicators of psychological distress in interactive dialogue with a virtual human
David DeVault | Kallirroi Georgila | Ron Artstein | Fabrizio Morbini | David Traum | Stefan Scherer | Albert Skip Rizzo | Louis-Philippe Morency
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Spoken Language Understanding for Natural Interaction
Jerome Bellegarda
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Learning Dialogue Management Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue with Parallel Dialogue and Task Streams
Eun Ha | Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Boyer | James Lester
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POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains
Milica Gašić | Catherine Breslin | Matthew Henderson | Dongho Kim | Martin Szummer | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Steve Young
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Training and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction
Simon Keizer | Mary Ellen Foster | Oliver Lemon | Andre Gaschler | Manuel Giuliani
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Evaluation of Speech Dialog Strategies for Internet Applications in the Car
Hansjörg Hofmann | Ute Ehrlich | André Berton | Angela Mahr | Rafael Math | Christian Müller
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Predicting Tasks in Goal-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems using Semantic Knowledge Bases
Aasish Pappu | Alexander Rudnicky
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Surface Text based Dialogue Models for Virtual Humans
Sudeep Gandhe | David Traum
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Speech Reduction, Intensity, and F0 Shape are Cues to Turn-Taking
Oliver Niebuhr | Karin Görs | Evelin Graupe
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Gesture Semantics Reconstruction Based on Motion Capturing and Complex Event Processing: a Circular Shape Example
Thies Pfeiffer | Florian Hofmann | Florian Hahn | Hannes Rieser | Insa Röpke
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Open-ended, Extensible System Utterances Are Preferred, Even If They Require Filled Pauses
Timo Baumann | David Schlangen
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A Four-Participant Group Facilitation Framework for Conversational Robots
Yoichi Matsuyama | Iwao Akiba | Akihiro Saito | Tetsunori Kobayashi
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Tacit Social Contracts for Wheelchairs
Daniel Couto Vale | Vivien Mast
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Laugher and Topic Transition in Multiparty Conversation
Emer Gilmartin | Francesca Bonin | Carl Vogel | Nick Campbell
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IMHO: An Exploratory Study of Hedging in Web Forums
Liliana Mamani Sanchez | Carl Vogel
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Impact of ASR N-Best Information on Bayesian Dialogue Act Recognition
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Helen Hastie | Oliver Lemon
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Investigating speaker gaze and pointing behaviour in human-computer interaction with the mint.tools collection
Spyros Kousidis | Casey Kennington | David Schlangen
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In-Context Evaluation of Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models for Tutorial Dialogue
Aysu Ezen-Can | Kristy Boyer
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Spoken Dialog Systems for Automated Survey Interviewing
Michael Johnston | Patrick Ehlen | Frederick G. Conrad | Michael F. Schober | Christopher Antoun | Stefanie Fail | Andrew Hupp | Lucas Vickers | Huiying Yan | Chan Zhang
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Open-domain Utterance Generation for Conversational Dialogue Systems using Web-scale Dependency Structures
Hiroaki Sugiyama | Toyomi Meguro | Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Yasuhiro Minami
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Evaluating State Representations for Reinforcement Learning of Turn-Taking Policies in Tutorial Dialogue
Christopher Mitchell | Kristy Boyer | James Lester
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A Semi-supervised Approach for Natural Language Call Routing
Tatiana Gasanova | Eugene Zhukov | Roman Sergienko | Eugene Semenkin | Wolfgang Minker
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Counseling Dialog System with 5W1H Extraction
Sangdo Han | Kyusong Lee | Donghyeon Lee | Gary Geunbae Lee
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Integration and test environment for an in-vehicle dialogue system in the SIMSI project
Staffan Larsson | Sebastian Berlin | Anders Eliasson | Fredrik Kronlid
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Weakly and Strongly Constrained Dialogues for Language Learning
Claire Gardent | Alejandra Lorenzo | Laura Perez-Beltrachini | Lina Rojas-Barahona
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Open-Domain Information Access with Talking Robots
Kristiina Jokinen | Graham Wilcock
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Demonstration of the EmoteWizard of Oz Interface for Empathic Robotic Tutors
Shweta Bhargava | Srinivasan Janarthanam | Helen Hastie | Amol Deshmukh | Ruth Aylett | Lee Corrigan | Ginevra Castellano
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The Map Task Dialogue System: A Test-bed for Modelling Human-Like Dialogue
Raveesh Meena | Gabriel Skantze | Joakim Gustafson
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A Robotic Agent in a Virtual Environment that Performs Situated Incremental Understanding of Navigational Utterances
Takashi Yamauchi | Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi
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Roundtable: An Online Framework for Building Web-based Conversational Agents
Eric Forbell | Nicolai Kalisch | Fabrizio Morbini | Kelly Christoffersen | Kenji Sagae | David Traum | Albert A. Rizzo
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A Data-driven Model for Timing Feedback in a Map Task Dialogue System
Raveesh Meena | Gabriel Skantze | Joakim Gustafson
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Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task
Ethan Selfridge | Iker Arizmendi | Peter Heeman | Jason Williams
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Which ASR should I choose for my dialogue system?
Fabrizio Morbini | Kartik Audhkhasi | Kenji Sagae | Ron Artstein | Doğan Can | Panayiotis Georgiou | Shri Narayanan | Anton Leuski | David Traum
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The Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Jason Williams | Antoine Raux | Deepak Ramachandran | Alan Black
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Recipe For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers: Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description
Sungjin Lee | Maxine Eskenazi
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A Simple and Generic Belief Tracking Mechanism for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge: On the believability of observed information
Zhuoran Wang | Oliver Lemon
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Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking
Jason Williams
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Structured Discriminative Model For Dialog State Tracking
Sungjin Lee
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Comparison of Bayesian Discriminative and Generative Models for Dialogue State Tracking
Lukáš Žilka | David Marek | Matěj Korvas | Filip Jurčíček
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Dialog State Tracking using Conditional Random Fields
Hang Ren | Weiqun Xu | Yan Zhang | Yonghong Yan
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Engineering Statistical Dialog State Trackers: A Case Study on DSTC
Daejoong Kim | Jaedeug Choi Choi | Kee-Eung Kim | Jungsu Lee | Jinho Sohn
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Deep Neural Network Approach for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Matthew Henderson | Blaise Thomson | Steve Young