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Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
David Schlangen | Beth Ann Hockey

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Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System
Antoine Raux | Maxine Eskenazi

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Response-Based Confidence Annotation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Alexander Gruenstein

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Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
Dan Bohus | Xiao Li | Patrick Nguyen | Geoffrey Zweig

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Agreement and Disputes in Dialogue
Alex Lascarides | Nicholas Asher

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Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving
Rachel Baker | Alastair Gill | Justine Cassell

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Semantic negotiation in dialogue: the mechanisms of alignment
Gregory Mills | Pat Healey

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Degrees of Grounding Based on Evidence of Understanding
Antonio Roque | David Traum

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Rapidly Deploying Grammar-Based Speech Applications with Active Learning and Back-off Grammars
Tim Paek | Sudeep Gandhe | Max Chickering

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Persistent Information State in a Data-Centric Architecture
Sebastian Varges | Giuseppe Riccardi | Silvia Quarteroni

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Speaking without knowing what to say... or when to end
Anna Hjalmarsson

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Learning Contrastive Connectives in Sentence Realization Ranking
Crystal Nakatsu

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What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus
Fei Liu | Yang Liu

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A Simple Method for Resolution of Definite Reference in a Shared Visual Context
Alexander Siebert | David Schlangen

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A Framework for Building Conversational Agents Based on a Multi-Expert Model
Mikio Nakano | Kotaro Funakoshi | Yuji Hasegawa | Hiroshi Tsujino

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From GEMINI to DiaGen: Improving Development of Speech Dialogues for Embedded Systems
Stefan Hamerich

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Quantifying Ellipsis in Dialogue: an index of mutual understanding
Marcus Colman | Arash Eshghi | Pat Healey

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Implicit Proposal Filtering in Multi-Party Consensus-Building Conversations
Yasuhiro Katagiri | Yosuke Matsusaka | Yasuharu Den | Mika Enomoto | Masato Ishizaki | Katsuya Takanashi

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Optimal Dialog in Consumer-Rating Systems using POMDP Framework
Zhifei Li | Patrick Nguyen | Geoffrey Zweig

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Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise
Milica Gašić | Simon Keizer | Francois Mairesse | Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young

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A Frame-Based Probabilistic Framework for Spoken Dialog Management Using Dialog Examples
Kyungduk Kim | Cheongjae Lee | Sangkeun Jung | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Speaking More Like You: Lexical, Acoustic/Prosodic, and Discourse Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Julia Hirschberg

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Discourse Level Opinion Relations: An Annotation Study
Swapna Somasundaran | Josef Ruppenhofer | Janyce Wiebe

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Argumentative Human Computer Dialogue for Automated Persuasion
Pierre Andrews | Suresh Manandhar | Marco De Boni

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Modeling Vocal Interaction for Text-Independent Participant Characterization in Multi-Party Conversation
Kornel Laskowski | Mari Ostendorf | Tanja Schultz

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Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-party Dialogue
Raquel Fernández | Matthew Frampton | Patrick Ehlen | Matthew Purver | Stanley Peters

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User Simulation as Testing for Spoken Dialog Systems
Hua Ai | Fuliang Weng

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Evaluation Understudy for Dialogue Coherence Models
Sudeep Gandhe | David Traum

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A Framework for Model-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog Systems
Sebastian Möller | Nigel Ward

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The Effect of Dialogue System Output Style Variation on Users’ Evaluation Judgments and Input Style
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová | Olga Kukina

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Making Grammar-Based Generation Easier to Deploy in Dialogue Systems
David DeVault | David Traum | Ron Artstein