Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) General Co-chairKallirroi Georgila General Co-chairMatthew Stone Technical Program Co-ChairHelen Hastie Technical Program Co-ChairAni Nenkova June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-43 book W14-43:2014 Keynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems SteveYoung Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 1 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4301 inproceedings young:2014:W14-43 Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System RaveeshMeena JohanBoye GabrielSkantze JoakimGustafson Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 2–11 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4302 inproceedings meena-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Out-of-Domain Spoken Dialogs in the Car: A WoZ Study SvenReichel JasminSohn UteEhrlich AndréBerton MichaelWeber Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 12–21 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4303 inproceedings reichel-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour TeruhisaMisu AntoineRaux RakeshGupta IanLane Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 22–31 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4304 inproceedings misu-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus KoichiroYoshino TatsuyaKawahara Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 32–40 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4305 inproceedings yoshino-kawahara:2014:W14-43 Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction AlexandriaVail KristyBoyer Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 41–50 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4306 inproceedings vail-boyer:2014:W14-43 Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling FlorianNothdurft FelixRichter WolfgangMinker Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 51–59 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4307 inproceedings nothdurft-richter-minker:2014:W14-43 Learning non-cooperative dialogue behaviours IoannisEfstathiou OliverLemon Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 60–68 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4308 inproceedings efstathiou-lemon:2014:W14-43 Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation FabrizioMorbini EricForbell KenjiSagae Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 69–73 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4309 inproceedings morbini-forbell-sagae:2014:W14-43 User Modeling by Using Bag-of-Behaviors for Building a Dialog System Sensitive to the Interlocutor's Internal State YuyaChiba MasashiIto TakashiNose AkinoriIto Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 74–78 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4310 inproceedings chiba-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Alex: Bootstrapping a Spoken Dialogue System for a New Domain by Real Users OndřejDušek OndřejPlátek LukášŽilka FilipJurčíček Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 79–83 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4311 inproceedings duvsek-EtAl:2014:W14-43 InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing CaseyKennington SpyrosKousidis DavidSchlangen Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 84–88 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4312 inproceedings kennington-kousidis-schlangen:2014:W14-43 Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue LanboShe ShaohuaYang YuCheng YunyiJia JoyceChai NingXi Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 89–97 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4313 inproceedings she-EtAl:2014:W14-43 An easy method to make dialogue systems incremental HatimKhouzaimi RomainLaroche FabriceLefevre Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 98–107 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4314 inproceedings khouzaimi-laroche-lefevre:2014:W14-43 Free on-line speech recogniser based on Kaldi ASR toolkit producing word posterior lattices OndřejPlátek FilipJurčíček Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 108–112 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4315 inproceedings platek-jurvcivcek:2014:W14-43 Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models AysuEzen-Can KristyBoyer Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 113–122 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4316 inproceedings ezencan-boyer:2014:W14-43 Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access VikasAshok YevgenBorodin SvetlanaStoyanchev IVRamakrishnan Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 123–132 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4317 inproceedings ashok-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach TatsuroOya GiuseppeCarenini Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 133–140 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4318 inproceedings oya-carenini:2014:W14-43 Keynote: Language Adaptation LillianLee Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 141 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4319 inproceedings lee:2014:W14-431 Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi JessyLi AniNenkova Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 142–150 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4320 inproceedings li-nenkova:2014:W14-431 The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue JulianSchlöder RaquelFernández Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 151–160 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4321 inproceedings schloder-fernandez:2014:W14-43 In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs MehwishRiaz RoxanaGirju Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 161–170 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4322 inproceedings riaz-girju:2014:W14-43 Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories ReidSwanson ElaheRahimtoroghi ThomasCorcoran MarilynWalker Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 171–180 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4323 inproceedings swanson-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States DianeLitman KatherineForbes-Riley Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 181–185 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4324 inproceedings litman-forbesriley:2014:W14-43 Initiative Taking in Negotiation ElnazNouri DavidTraum Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 186–193 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4325 inproceedings nouri-traum:2014:W14-43 Knowledge Acquisition Strategies for Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems AasishPappu AlexanderRudnicky Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 194–198 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4326 inproceedings pappu-rudnicky:2014:W14-43 Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi JessyLi AniNenkova Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 199–207 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4327 inproceedings li-nenkova:2014:W14-432 Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs StefanUltes WolfgangMinker Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 208–217 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4328 inproceedings ultes-minker:2014:W14-43 Learning to Re-rank for Interactive Problem Resolution and Query Refinement RashmiGangadharaiah BalakrishnanNarayanaswamy CharlesElkan Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 218–227 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4329 inproceedings gangadharaiah-narayanaswamy-elkan:2014:W14-43 Aspectual Properties of Conversational Activities Rebecca J.Passonneau BoxuanGuan Cho HoYeung YuanDu EmmaConner Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 228–237 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4330 inproceedings passonneau-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems AlexLiu RoseSloan Mei-VernThen SvetlanaStoyanchev JuliaHirschberg ElizabethShriberg Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 238–242 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4331 inproceedings liu-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Using Ellipsis Detection and Word Similarity for Transformation of Spoken Language into Grammatically Valid Sentences ManuelGiuliani ThomasMarschall AmyIsard Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 243–250 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4332 inproceedings giuliani-marschall-isard:2014:W14-43 SAWDUST: a Semi-Automated Wizard Dialogue Utterance Selection Tool for domain-independent large-domain dialogue SudeepGandhe DavidTraum Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 251–253 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4333 inproceedings gandhe-traum:2014:W14-43 A Demonstration of Dialogue Processing in SimSensei Kiosk FabrizioMorbini DavidDeVault KallirroiGeorgila RonArtstein DavidTraum Louis-PhilippeMorency Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 254–256 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4334 inproceedings morbini-EtAl:2014:W14-43 MVA: The Multimodal Virtual Assistant MichaelJohnston JohnChen PatrickEhlen HyuckchulJung JayLieske AarthiReddy EthanSelfridge SvetlanaStoyanchev BrantVasilieff JayWilpon Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 257–259 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4335 inproceedings johnston-EtAl:2014:W14-43 The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin HelenHastie Marie-AudeAufaure PanosAlexopoulos HuguesBouchard CatherineBreslin HeribertoCuayáhuitl NinaDethlefs MilicaGašić JamesHenderson OliverLemon XingkunLiu PeterMika NesrineBen Mustapha TimPotter VerenaRieser BlaiseThomson PirrosTsiakoulis YvesVanrompay BorisVillazon-Terrazas MajidYazdani SteveYoung YanchaoYu Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 260–262 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4336 inproceedings hastie-EtAl:2014:W14-43 The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge MatthewHenderson BlaiseThomson Jason DWilliams Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 263–272 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4337 inproceedings henderson-thomson-williams:2014:W14-43 Optimizing Generative Dialog State Tracker via Cascading Gradient Descent Byung-JunLee WoosangLim DaejoongKim Kee-EungKim Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 273–281 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4338 inproceedings lee-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking Jason DWilliams Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 282–291 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4339 inproceedings williams:2014:W14-43 Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks MatthewHenderson BlaiseThomson SteveYoung Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 292–299 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4340 inproceedings henderson-thomson-young:2014:W14-43 Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking RonnieSmith Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 300–309 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4341 inproceedings smith:2014:W14-43 Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization SungjinLee Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 310–317 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4342 inproceedings lee:2014:W14-432 The SJTU System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2 KaiSun LuChen SuZhu KaiYu Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 318–326 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4343 inproceedings sun-EtAl:2014:W14-43 Markovian Discriminative Modeling for Dialog State Tracking HangRen WeiqunXu YonghongYan Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 327–331 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4344 inproceedings ren-xu-yan:2014:W14-43 Sequential Labeling for Tracking Dynamic Dialog States SeokhwanKim Rafael E.Banchs Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) June 2014

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Association for Computational Linguistics 332–336 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4345 inproceedings kim-banchs:2014:W14-43