Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI

Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor 2019-08 Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy text conference publication ws-2019-nlp-conversational https://aclanthology.org/W19-4100/ A Repository of Conversational Datasets Matthew Henderson author Paweł Budzianowski author Iñigo Casanueva author Sam Coope author Daniela Gerz author Girish Kumar author Nikola Mrkšić author Georgios Spithourakis author Pei-Hao Su author Ivan Vulić author Tsung-Hsien Wen author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication henderson-etal-2019-repository 10.18653/v1/W19-4101 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4101/ 2019-08 1 10 A Simple but Effective Method to Incorporate Multi-turn Context with BERT for Conversational Machine Comprehension Yasuhito Ohsugi author Itsumi Saito author Kyosuke Nishida author Hisako Asano author Junji Tomita author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication ohsugi-etal-2019-simple 10.18653/v1/W19-4102 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4102/ 2019-08 11 17 Augmenting Neural Response Generation with Context-Aware Topical Attention Nouha Dziri author Ehsan Kamalloo author Kory Mathewson author Osmar Zaiane author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication dziri-etal-2019-augmenting 10.18653/v1/W19-4103 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4103/ 2019-08 18 31 Building a Production Model for Retrieval-Based Chatbots Kyle Swanson author Lili Yu author Christopher Fox author Jeremy Wohlwend author Tao Lei author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication swanson-etal-2019-building 10.18653/v1/W19-4104 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4104/ 2019-08 32 41 Co-Operation as an Asymmetric Form of Human-Computer Creativity. Case: Peace Machine Mika Hämäläinen author Timo Honkela author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication hamalainen-honkela-2019-co 10.18653/v1/W19-4105 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4105/ 2019-08 42 50 Conversational Response Re-ranking Based on Event Causality and Role Factored Tensor Event Embedding Shohei Tanaka author Koichiro Yoshino author Katsuhito Sudoh author Satoshi Nakamura author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication tanaka-etal-2019-conversational 10.18653/v1/W19-4106 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4106/ 2019-08 51 59 DSTC7 Task 1: Noetic End-to-End Response Selection Chulaka Gunasekara author Jonathan K Kummerfeld author Lazaros Polymenakos author Walter Lasecki author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication gunasekara-etal-2019-dstc7 10.18653/v1/W19-4107 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4107/ 2019-08 60 67 End-to-End Neural Context Reconstruction in Chinese Dialogue Wei Yang author Rui Qiao author Haocheng Qin author Amy Sun author Luchen Tan author Kun Xiong author Ming Li author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication yang-etal-2019-end-end-neural 10.18653/v1/W19-4108 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4108/ 2019-08 68 76 Energy-Based Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking Anh Duong Trinh author Robert Ross author John Kelleher author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication trinh-etal-2019-energy 10.18653/v1/W19-4109 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4109/ 2019-08 77 86 Evaluation and Improvement of Chatbot Text Classification Data Quality Using Plausible Negative Examples Kit Kuksenok author Andriy Martyniv author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication kuksenok-martyniv-2019-evaluation 10.18653/v1/W19-4110 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4110/ 2019-08 87 95 Improving Long Distance Slot Carryover in Spoken Dialogue Systems Tongfei Chen author Chetan Naik author Hua He author Pushpendre Rastogi author Lambert Mathias author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication chen-etal-2019-improving-long 10.18653/v1/W19-4111 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4111/ 2019-08 96 105 Insights from Building an Open-Ended Conversational Agent Khyatti Gupta author Meghana Joshi author Ankush Chatterjee author Sonam Damani author Kedhar Nath Narahari author Puneet Agrawal author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication gupta-etal-2019-insights 10.18653/v1/W19-4112 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4112/ 2019-08 106 112 Learning to Explain: Answering Why-Questions via Rephrasing Allen Nie author Erin Bennett author Noah Goodman author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication nie-etal-2019-learning 10.18653/v1/W19-4113 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4113/ 2019-08 113 120 Multi-turn Dialogue Response Generation in an Adversarial Learning Framework Oluwatobi Olabiyi author Alan O Salimov author Anish Khazane author Erik Mueller author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication olabiyi-etal-2019-multi 10.18653/v1/W19-4114 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4114/ 2019-08 121 132 Relevant and Informative Response Generation using Pointwise Mutual Information Junya Takayama author Yuki Arase author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication takayama-arase-2019-relevant 10.18653/v1/W19-4115 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4115/ 2019-08 133 138 Responsive and Self-Expressive Dialogue Generation Kozo Chikai author Junya Takayama author Yuki Arase author 2019-08 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI Yun-Nung Chen editor Tania Bedrax-Weiss editor Dilek Hakkani-Tur editor Anuj Kumar editor Mike Lewis editor Thang-Minh Luong editor Pei-Hao Su editor Tsung-Hsien Wen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Florence, Italy conference publication chikai-etal-2019-responsive 10.18653/v1/W19-4116 https://aclanthology.org/W19-4116/ 2019-08 139 149