Long Papers
- Generating Fillers based on Dialog Act Pairs for Smooth Turn-Taking by Humanoid Robot
Ryosuke Nakanishi, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara - Dialog State Tracking for Unseen Values using an Extended Attention Mechanism
Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura and Masami Akamine - Multimodal Dialogue System Evaluation: a Case Study Applying Usability Standards
Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova and Harry Bunt - Toward Low-Cost Automated Evaluation Metrics for Internet of Things Dialogues
Kallirroi Georgila, Carla Gordon, Hyungtak Choi, Jill Boberg, Heesik Jeon and David Traum - Enabling Spoken Dialogue Systems for Low-resourced Languages: End-to-end Dialect Recognition for North Sami (BEST PAPER AWARD)
Trung Ngo Trong, Kristiina Jokinen and Ville Hautamäki - Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
Niklas Rach, Saskia Langhammer, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes - Dialogue Act Classification in Reference Interview Using Convolutional Neural Network with Byte Pair Encoding
Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki and Satoshi Nakamura - Automated Lexical Analysis of Interviews with Schizophrenic Patients
Shihao Xu, Zixu Yang, Debsubhra Chakraborty, Yasir Tahir, Tomasz Maszczyk, Victoria Chua Yi Han, Justin Dauwels, Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Bhing-Leet Tan and Jimmy Lee - Attention Based Joint Model with Negative Sampling for New Slot Values Recognition
Mulan Hou, Xiaojie Wang, Caixia Yuan, Guohua Yang, Shuo Hu and Yuanyuan Shi - An End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog System with a Generative Natural Language Response Generation
Stefan Constantin, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel - Automatic Turn-Level Language Identification for Code-Switched Spanish-English Dialog
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Pugh, Yao Qian and David Suendermann-Oeft - Latent Character Model for Engagement Recognition Based on Multimodal Behaviors
Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara - “I think it might help if we multiply, and not add”: Detecting Indirectness in Conversation
Pranav Goel, Yoichi Matsuyama, Michael Madaio and Justine Cassell
Short, Demo and Position Papers
- Testing Strategies For Bridging Time-To-Content In Spoken Dialogue Systems
Soledad López Gambino, Sina Zarrieß and David Schlangen - Impact of deception information on negotiation dialog
The Tung Nguyen, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakti Sakriani and Satoshi Nakamura - Automated Classification of Classroom Climate by Audio Analysis
Anusha James, Victoria Yi Han Chua, Tomasz Maszczyk, Justin Dauwels, Rebecca Bull, Kerry Lee and Ana Moreno-Núñez - Debate Dialog for News Question Answering System “NetTv”: Debate Based on Claim and Reason Estimation
Rikito Marumoto, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki - Estimating User Satisfaction Impact in Cities using Physical Reaction Sensing and Multimodal Dialogue System
Yuki Matsuda, Dmitrii Fedotov, Yuta Takahashi, Yutaka Arakawa, Keiichi Yasumoto and Wolfgang Minker - Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants
Vivian Tsai, Timo Baumann, Florian Pecune and Justine Cassell - Detecticon: A Prototype Inquiry Dialog System (demo)
Takuya Hiraoka, Shota Motoura and Kunihiko Sadamasa - Question-Answer Selection in User to User Marketplace Conversations (demo)
Girish Kumar, Matthew Henderson, Hoang Nguyen, Shannon Chan and Lucas Ngoo - A Multimodal Dialogue Framework for Cloud-Based Companion Systems (demo)
Matthias Kraus, Marvin Schiller, Gregor Behnke, Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo-Stephan, Birte Glimm and Wolfgang Minker - CityTalk: Robots that talk to tourists and can switch domains during the dialogue (demo)
Graham Wilcock
EMPATHIC: Special Session on Empathic Dialog Systems for Elderly Assistance
- Human-Robot Dialogues for Explaining Activities
Kristiina Jokinen, Satoshi Nishimura, Kentaro Watanabe and Takuichi Nishimura - Virtual Dialogue Agent for Supporting a Healthy Lifestyle of the Elderly
Risako Ono, Yuki Nishizeki and Masahiro Araki - An Spoken Dialog System for the Empathic Virtual Coach
M. Inés Torres, Cornelius Glackin, Raquel Justo and Gérard Chollet - Stitching Together the Conversation: Considerations in the Design of Extended Talk
Emer Gilmartin, Carl Vogel and Nick Campbell
HUMIC-DIAL: Special Session on Designing Humor in HCI with Focus on Dialogue Technology
- Towards an Annotation Scheme for Causes of Laughter in Dialogue
Vladislav Maraev and Christine Howes - Humor Intelligence for Virtual Agents
Andreea Niculescu and Rafael Banchs
WOCHAT: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies
- Automated Scoring of Chatbot Responses in Conversational Dialogue
Steven Kester Yuwono, Biao Wu and Luis Fernando D’Haro - Improving the Performance of Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems via Dialogue Breakdown Detection
Michimasa Inaba and Kenichi Takahasi - Learning Dialogue Strategies for Interview Dialogue Systems That Can Engage in Small Talk
Tomoaki Nakamura, Takahiro Kobori and Mikio Nakano - Subjective Annotation and Evaluation of Three Different Chatbots WOCHAT: Shared Task Report
Naomi Kong-Vega, Mo Wang, Mingxin Shen and Luis Fernando D’Haro - Chat Response Generation Based on Semantic Prediction Using Distributed Representations of Words
Kazuaki Furumai, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki - Chatbol, a chatbot for the Spanish “La Liga”
Carlos Segura Perales, Àlex Palau Domenech, Jordi Luque Serrano, Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà and Rafael E. Banchs - Improving Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara and Masahiro Mizukami