Best paper:

Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Language Models on Dialog Evaluation
Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D’haro, Thomas Friedrichs, Haizhou Li and Yiming Chen

Best paper runner up

SUPPLE: A Dialogue Management Approach based on Conversation Patterns
Florian Kunneman and Koen Hindriks

Best Paper Nominees

  • Out-of-Scope Domain and Intent Classification through Hierarchical Joint Modeling
    Pengfei Liu, Kun Li and Helen Meng
    (Natural Language Understanding Session, Day 1)
  • Can we predict how challenging Spoken Language Understanding corpora are across sources, languages and domains?
    Frederic Bechet, Christian Raymond, Achraf Hamane, Rim Abrougui, Gabriel Marzinotto and Géraldine Damnati (Natural Language Understanding Session, Day 1)
  • Modeling Performance in Open-Domain Dialogue with PARADISE
    Marilyn Walker, Colin Harmon, James Graupera, Vrindavan Harrison and Stephen Whittaker
    (Evaluation Session, Day 2)
  • SUPPLE: A Dialogue Management Approach based on Conversation Patterns
    Florian Kunneman and Koen Hindriks
    (Dialogue Modelling and Applications Session, Day 3)
  • Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Language Models on Dialog Evaluation
    Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D’haro, Thomas Friedrichs, Haizhou Li and Yiming Chen
    (WOCHAT Special Session, Day 3)