SIGDial Conference (2014)

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Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) 46 papers
Proceedings of the INLG and SIGDIAL 2014 Joint Session 4 papers

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Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)
Kallirroi Georgila | Matthew Stone | Helen Hastie | Ani Nenkova

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Keynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems
Steve Young

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Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System
Raveesh Meena | Johan Boye | Gabriel Skantze | Joakim Gustafson

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Out-of-Domain Spoken Dialogs in the Car: A WoZ Study
Sven Reichel | Jasmin Sohn | Ute Ehrlich | André Berton | Michael Weber

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Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour
Teruhisa Misu | Antoine Raux | Rakesh Gupta | Ian Lane

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Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus
Koichiro Yoshino | Tatsuya Kawahara

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Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction
Alexandria Vail | Kristy Boyer

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Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling
Florian Nothdurft | Felix Richter | Wolfgang Minker

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Learning non-cooperative dialogue behaviours
Ioannis Efstathiou | Oliver Lemon

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Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation
Fabrizio Morbini | Eric Forbell | Kenji Sagae

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User Modeling by Using Bag-of-Behaviors for Building a Dialog System Sensitive to the Interlocutor’s Internal State
Yuya Chiba | Masashi Ito | Takashi Nose | Akinori Ito

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Alex: Bootstrapping a Spoken Dialogue System for a New Domain by Real Users
Ondřej Dušek | Ondřej Plátek | Lukáš Žilka | Filip Jurčíček

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InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing
Casey Kennington | Spyros Kousidis | David Schlangen

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An easy method to make dialogue systems incremental
Hatim Khouzaimi | Romain Laroche | Fabrice Lefevre

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Free on-line speech recogniser based on Kaldi ASR toolkit producing word posterior lattices
Ondřej Plátek | Filip Jurčíček

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Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models
Aysu Ezen-Can | Kristy Boyer

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Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access
Vikas Ashok | Yevgen Borodin | Svetlana Stoyanchev | IV Ramakrishnan

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Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach
Tatsuro Oya | Giuseppe Carenini

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Keynote: Language Adaptation
Lillian Lee

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Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations
Junyi Jessy Li | Ani Nenkova

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The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue
Julian Schlöder | Raquel Fernández

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In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs
Mehwish Riaz | Roxana Girju

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Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories
Reid Swanson | Elahe Rahimtoroghi | Thomas Corcoran | Marilyn Walker

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Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States
Diane Litman | Katherine Forbes-Riley

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Initiative Taking in Negotiation
Elnaz Nouri | David Traum

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Knowledge Acquisition Strategies for Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems
Aasish Pappu | Alexander Rudnicky

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Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations
Junyi Jessy Li | Ani Nenkova

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Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs
Stefan Ultes | Wolfgang Minker

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Learning to Re-rank for Interactive Problem Resolution and Query Refinement
Rashmi Gangadharaiah | Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy | Charles Elkan

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Aspectual Properties of Conversational Activities
Rebecca J. Passonneau | Boxuan Guan | Cho Ho Yeung | Yuan Du | Emma Conner

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Using Ellipsis Detection and Word Similarity for Transformation of Spoken Language into Grammatically Valid Sentences
Manuel Giuliani | Thomas Marschall | Amy Isard

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SAWDUST: a Semi-Automated Wizard Dialogue Utterance Selection Tool for domain-independent large-domain dialogue
Sudeep Gandhe | David Traum

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The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Matthew Henderson | Blaise Thomson | Jason D. Williams

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Optimizing Generative Dialog State Tracker via Cascading Gradient Descent
Byung-Jun Lee | Woosang Lim | Daejoong Kim | Kee-Eung Kim

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Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking
Jason D. Williams

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Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks
Matthew Henderson | Blaise Thomson | Steve Young

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Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking
Ronnie Smith

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Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization
Sungjin Lee

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The SJTU System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2
Kai Sun | Lu Chen | Su Zhu | Kai Yu

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Markovian Discriminative Modeling for Dialog State Tracking
Hang Ren | Weiqun Xu | Yonghong Yan

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Sequential Labeling for Tracking Dynamic Dialog States
Seokhwan Kim | Rafael E. Banchs