Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor 2023-09 Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia text conference publication sigdial-2023-special https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.0/ Sources of Noise in Dialogue and How to Deal with Them Derek Chen author Zhou Yu author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication chen-yu-2023-sources 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.1/ 2023-09 1 20 Investigating Explicitation of Discourse Connectives in Translation using Automatic Annotations Frances Yung author Merel Scholman author Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski author Christina Pollkläsener author Vera Demberg author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication yung-etal-2023-investigating 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.2/ 2023-09 21 30 What’s Hard in English RST Parsing? Predictive Models for Error Analysis Yang Janet Liu author Tatsuya Aoyama author Amir Zeldes author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication liu-etal-2023-whats 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.3/ 2023-09 31 42 Grounded Complex Task Segmentation for Conversational Assistants Rafael Ferreira author David Semedo author Joao Magalhaes author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ferreira-etal-2023-grounded 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.4/ 2023-09 43 54 A Statistical Approach for Quantifying Group Difference in Topic Distributions Using Clinical Discourse Samples Grace O Lawley author Peter A Heeman author Jill K Dolata author Eric Fombonne author Steven Bedrick author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication lawley-etal-2023-statistical 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.5/ 2023-09 55 65 OpinionConv: Conversational Product Search with Grounded Opinions Vahid Sadiri Javadi author Martin Potthast author Lucie Flek author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication sadiri-javadi-etal-2023-opinionconv 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.6/ 2023-09 66 76 Dial-M: A Masking-based Framework for Dialogue Evaluation Suvodip Dey author Maunendra Sankar Desarkar author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication dey-desarkar-2023-dial 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.7/ 2023-09 77 84 From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue Shutong Feng author Nurul Lubis author Benjamin Ruppik author Christian Geishauser author Michael Heck author Hsien-chin Lin author Carel van Niekerk author Renato Vukovic author Milica Gasic author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication feng-etal-2023-chatter 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.8/ 2023-09 85 103 Analyzing Differences in Subjective Annotations by Participants and Third-party Annotators in Multimodal Dialogue Corpus Kazunori Komatani author Ryu Takeda author Shogo Okada author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication komatani-etal-2023-analyzing 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.9/ 2023-09 104 113 Frame-oriented Summarization of Argumentative Discussions Shahbaz Syed author Timon Ziegenbein author Philipp Heinisch author Henning Wachsmuth author Martin Potthast author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication syed-etal-2023-frame 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.10/ 2023-09 114 129 Towards Multilingual Automatic Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation John Mendonca author Alon Lavie author Isabel Trancoso author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication mendonca-etal-2023-towards 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.11/ 2023-09 130 141 Dialog Action-Aware Transformer for Dialog Policy Learning Huimin Wang author Wai Chung Kwan author Kam-Fai Wong author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication wang-etal-2023-dialog 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.12/ 2023-09 142 148 The Wizard of Curiosities: Enriching Dialogues with Fun Facts Frederico Vicente author Rafael Ferreira author David Semedo author Joao Magalhaes author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication vicente-etal-2023-wizard 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.13/ 2023-09 149 155 The Road to Quality is Paved with Good Revisions: A Detailed Evaluation Methodology for Revision Policies in Incremental Sequence Labelling Brielen Madureira author Patrick Kahardipraja author David Schlangen author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication madureira-etal-2023-road 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.14/ 2023-09 156 167 The effect of conversation type on entrainment: Evidence from laughter Bogdan Ludusan author Petra Wagner author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ludusan-wagner-2023-effect 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.15 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.15/ 2023-09 168 174 ‘What are you referring to?’ Evaluating the Ability of Multi-Modal Dialogue Models to Process Clarificational Exchanges Javier Chiyah-Garcia author Alessandro Suglia author Arash Eshghi author Helen Hastie author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication chiyah-garcia-etal-2023-referring 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.16 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.16/ 2023-09 175 182 PGTask: Introducing the Task of Profile Generation from Dialogues Rui Ribeiro author Joao Paulo Carvalho author Luisa Coheur author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ribeiro-etal-2023-pgtask 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.17 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.17/ 2023-09 183 189 Question Generation to Elicit Users’ Food Preferences by Considering the Semantic Content Jie Zeng author Yukiko Nakano author Tatsuya Sakato author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication zeng-etal-2023-question 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.18/ 2023-09 190 196 Roll Up Your Sleeves: Working with a Collaborative and Engaging Task-Oriented Dialogue System Lingbo Mo author Shijie Chen author Ziru Chen author Xiang Deng author Ashley Lewis author Sunit Singh author Samuel Stevens author Chang-You Tai author Zhen Wang author Xiang Yue author Tianshu Zhang author Yu Su author Huan Sun author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication mo-etal-2023-roll 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.19 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.19/ 2023-09 197 201 Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis Sarah E Finch author Ellie S Paek author Jinho D Choi author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication finch-etal-2023-leveraging 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.20 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.20/ 2023-09 202 215 Are Large Language Models All You Need for Task-Oriented Dialogue? Vojtěch Hudeček author Ondrej Dusek author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication hudecek-dusek-2023-large 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.21 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.21/ 2023-09 216 228 Multi-party Goal Tracking with LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering Angus Addlesee author Weronika Sieińska author Nancie Gunson author Daniel Hernandez Garcia author Christian Dondrup author Oliver Lemon author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication addlesee-etal-2023-multi 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.22 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.22/ 2023-09 229 241 ChatGPT vs. Crowdsourcing vs. Experts: Annotating Open-Domain Conversations with Speech Functions Lidiia Ostyakova author Veronika Smilga author Kseniia Petukhova author Maria Molchanova author Daniel Kornev author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ostyakova-etal-2023-chatgpt 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.23 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.23/ 2023-09 242 254 DiactTOD: Learning Generalizable Latent Dialogue Acts for Controllable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems Qingyang Wu author James Gung author Raphael Shu author Yi Zhang author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication wu-etal-2023-diacttod 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.24 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.24/ 2023-09 255 267 Approximating Online Human Evaluation of Social Chatbots with Prompting Ekaterina Svikhnushina author Pearl Pu author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication svikhnushina-pu-2023-approximating 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.25 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.25/ 2023-09 268 281 Dialogue Response Generation Using Completion of Omitted Predicate Arguments Based on Zero Anaphora Resolution Ayaka Ueyama author Yoshinobu Kano author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ueyama-kano-2023-dialogue 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.26 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.26/ 2023-09 282 296 Syndicom: Improving Conversational Commonsense with Error-Injection and Natural Language Feedback Christopher Richardson author Anirudh Sundar author Larry Heck author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication richardson-heck-2023-syndicom 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.27 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.27/ 2023-09 297 308 “What do others think?”: Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge Chao Zhao author Spandana Gella author Seokhwan Kim author Di Jin author Devamanyu Hazarika author Alexandros Papangelis author Behnam Hedayatnia author Mahdi Namazifar author Yang Liu author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication zhao-etal-2023-others 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.28 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.28/ 2023-09 309 323 UD_Japanese-CEJC: Dependency Relation Annotation on Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation Mai Omura author Hiroshi Matsuda author Masayuki Asahara author Aya Wakasa author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication omura-etal-2023-ud 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.29 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.29/ 2023-09 324 335 Unravelling Indirect Answers to Wh-Questions: Corpus Construction, Analysis, and Generation Zulipiye Yusupujiang author Jonathan Ginzburg author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication yusupujiang-ginzburg-2023-unravelling 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.30 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.30/ 2023-09 336 348 A New Dataset for Causality Identification in Argumentative Texts Khalid Al Khatib author Michael Voelske author Anh Le author Shahbaz Syed author Martin Potthast author Benno Stein author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication al-khatib-etal-2023-new 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.31 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.31/ 2023-09 349 354 Controllable Generation of Dialogue Acts for Dialogue Systems via Few-Shot Response Generation and Ranking Angela Ramirez author Kartik Agarwal author Juraj Juraska author Utkarsh Garg author Marilyn Walker author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication ramirez-etal-2023-controllable 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.32 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.32/ 2023-09 355 369 Reference Resolution and New Entities in Exploratory Data Visualization: From Controlled to Unconstrained Interactions with a Conversational Assistant Abari Bhattacharya author Abhinav Kumar author Barbara Di Eugenio author Roderick Tabalba author Jillian Aurisano author Veronica Grosso author Andrew Johnson author Jason Leigh author Moira Zellner author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication bhattacharya-etal-2023-reference 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.33 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.33/ 2023-09 370 380 CONVERSER: Few-shot Conversational Dense Retrieval with Synthetic Data Generation Chao-Wei Huang author Chen-Yu Hsu author Tsu-Yuan Hsu author Chen-An Li author Yun-Nung Chen author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication huang-etal-2023-converser 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.34 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.34/ 2023-09 381 387 Speaker Role Identification in Call Centre Dialogues: Leveraging Opening Sentences and Large Language Models Minh-Quoc Nghiem author Nichola Roberts author Dmitry Sityaev author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication nghiem-etal-2023-speaker 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.35 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.35/ 2023-09 388 392 Synthesising Personality with Neural Speech Synthesis Shilin Gao author Matthew P Aylett author David A Braude author Catherine Lai author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication gao-etal-2023-synthesising 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.36 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.36/ 2023-09 393 399 Prompting, Retrieval, Training: An exploration of different approaches for task-oriented dialogue generation Gonçalo Raposo author Luisa Coheur author Bruno Martins author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication raposo-etal-2023-prompting 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.37 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.37/ 2023-09 400 412 Bootstrapping a Conversational Guide for Colonoscopy Prep Pulkit Arya author Madeleine Bloomquist author Subhankar Chakraborty author Andrew Perrault author William Schuler author Eric Fosler-Lussier author Michael White author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication arya-etal-2023-bootstrapping 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.38 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.38/ 2023-09 413 420 Applying Item Response Theory to Task-oriented Dialogue Systems for Accurately Determining User’s Task Success Ability Ryu Hirai author Ao Guo author Ryuichiro Higashinaka author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication hirai-etal-2023-applying 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.39 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.39/ 2023-09 421 427 An Open-Domain Avatar Chatbot by Exploiting a Large Language Model Takato Yamazaki author Tomoya Mizumoto author Katsumasa Yoshikawa author Masaya Ohagi author Toshiki Kawamoto author Toshinori Sato author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication yamazaki-etal-2023-open 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.40 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.40/ 2023-09 428 432 Learning Multimodal Cues of Children’s Uncertainty Qi Cheng author Mert Inan author Rahma Mbarki author Grace Grmek author Theresa Choi author Yiming Sun author Kimele Persaud author Jenny Wang author Malihe Alikhani author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication cheng-etal-2023-learning 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.41 https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigdial-1.41/ 2023-09 433 443 Grounding Description-Driven Dialogue State Trackers with Knowledge-Seeking Turns Alexandru Coca author Bo-Hsiang Tseng author Jinghong Chen author Weizhe Lin author Weixuan Zhang author Tisha Anders author Bill Byrne author 2023-09 text Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Svetlana Stoyanchev editor Shafiq Joty editor David Schlangen editor Ondrej Dusek editor Casey Kennington editor Malihe Alikhani editor Association for Computational Linguistics Prague, Czechia conference publication coca-etal-2023-grounding 10.18653/v1/2023.sigdial-1.42 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