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Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Alexander Koller | Gabriel Skantze | Filip Jurcicek | Masahiro Araki | Carolyn Penstein Rose

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Keynote: The Interplay of Discussion, Cognition and Instruction in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
Frank Fischer

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Human-Machine Dialogue as a Stochastic Game
Merwan Barlier | Julien Perolat | Romain Laroche | Olivier Pietquin

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Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management
Iñigo Casanueva | Thomas Hain | Heidi Christensen | Ricard Marxer | Phil Green

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Miscommunication Recovery in Physically Situated Dialogue
Matthew Marge | Alexander Rudnicky

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Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Party Trading Dialog
Takuya Hiraoka | Kallirroi Georgila | Elnaz Nouri | David Traum | Satoshi Nakamura

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An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems
Tiancheng Zhao | Alan W Black | Maxine Eskenazi

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Exploring the Effects of Redundancy within a Tutorial Dialogue System: Restating Students’ Responses
Pamela Jordan | Patricia Albacete | Sandra Katz

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A Discursive Grid Approach to Model Local Coherence in Multi-document Summaries
Márcio Dias | Thiago Pardo

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Belief Tracking with Stacked Relational Trees
Deepak Ramachandran | Adwait Ratnaparkhi

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“So, which one is it?” The effect of alternative incremental architectures in a high-performance game-playing agent
Maike Paetzel | Ramesh Manuvinakurike | David DeVault

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Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems
Ryuichiro Higashinaka | Kotaro Funakoshi | Masahiro Araki | Hiroshi Tsukahara | Yuka Kobayashi | Masahiro Mizukami

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PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers Approach
Or Biran | Kathleen McKeown

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Which Synthetic Voice Should I Choose for an Evocative Task?
Eli Pincus | Kallirroi Georgila | David Traum

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Dialog Act Annotation for Twitter Conversations
Elina Zarisheva | Tatjana Scheffler

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Towards Improving Dialogue Topic Tracking Performances with Wikification of Concept Mentions
Seokhwan Kim | Rafael E. Banchs | Haizhou Li

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Exploiting knowledge base to generate responses for natural language dialog listening agents
Sangdo Han | Jeesoo Bang | Seonghan Ryu | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Automated Speech Recognition Technology for Dialogue Interaction with Non-Native Interlocutors
Alexei V. Ivanov | Vikram Ramanarayanan | David Suendermann-Oeft | Melissa Lopez | Keelan Evanini | Jidong Tao

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Conversational Knowledge Teaching Agent that uses a Knowledge Base
Kyusong Lee | Paul Hongsuck Seo | Junhwi Choi | Sangjun Koo | Gary Geunbae Lee

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Information Theoretical and Statistical Features for Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection
Rashedur Rahman

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A SIP of CoFee : A Sample of Interesting Productions of Conversational Feedback
Laurent Prévot | Jan Gorisch | Roxane Bertrand | Emilien Gorène | Brigitte Bigi

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Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Issue Negotiation Dialogue Policies
Alexandros Papangelis | Kallirroi Georgila

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Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
Jason D. Williams | Eslam Kamal | Mokhtar Ashour | Hani Amr | Jessica Miller | Geoff Zweig

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Multilingual WikiTalk: Wikipedia-based talking robots that switch languages.
Graham Wilcock | Kristiina Jokinen

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Modelling situated human-robot interaction using IrisTK
Gabriel Skantze | Martin Johansson

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I Couldn’t Agree More: The Role of Conversational Structure in Agreement and Disagreement Detection in Online Discussions
Sara Rosenthal | Kathy McKeown

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Memory-Based Acquisition of Argument Structures and its Application to Implicit Role Detection
Christian Chiarcos | Niko Schenk

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Generating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling
Stephanie Lukin | Lena Reed | Marilyn Walker

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Keynote: Graph-based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding
Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Processing for Time-Offset Interaction
David Traum | Kallirroi Georgila | Ron Artstein | Anton Leuski

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The Real Challenge 2014: Progress and Prospects
Maxine Eskenazi | Alan W Black | Sungjin Lee | David Traum

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Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue
Reid Swanson | Brian Ecker | Marilyn Walker

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Multilingual Summarization with Polytope Model
Natalia Vanetik | Marina Litvak

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Call Centre Conversation Summarization: A Pilot Task at Multiling 2015
Benoit Favre | Evgeny Stepanov | Jérémy Trione | Frédéric Béchet | Giuseppe Riccardi

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AllSummarizer system at MultiLing 2015: Multilingual single and multi-document summarization
Abdelkrime Aries | Djamel Eddine Zegour | Khaled Walid Hidouci

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Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain
Ahmet Aker | Emina Kurtic | Mark Hepple | Rob Gaizauskas | Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

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The University of Alicante at MultiLing 2015: approach, results and further insights
Marta Vicente | Óscar Alcón | Elena Lloret

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ExB Text Summarizer
Stefan Thomas | Christian Beutenmüller | Xose de la Puente | Robert Remus | Stefan Bordag

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MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Single and Multi-Documents, On-line Fora, and Call-center Conversations
George Giannakopoulos | Jeff Kubina | John Conroy | Josef Steinberger | Benoit Favre | Mijail Kabadjov | Udo Kruschwitz | Massimo Poesio

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Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking
Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Dongho Kim | Nikola Mrkšić | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Steve Young

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The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems
Ryan Lowe | Nissan Pow | Iulian Serban | Joelle Pineau

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Recurrent Polynomial Network for Dialogue State Tracking with Mismatched Semantic Parsers
Qizhe Xie | Kai Sun | Su Zhu | Lu Chen | Kai Yu

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Opportunities and Obligations to Take Turns in Collaborative Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction
Martin Johansson | Gabriel Skantze

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Optimising Turn-Taking Strategies With Reinforcement Learning
Hatim Khouzaimi | Romain Laroche | Fabrice Lefèvre

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Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in Slovak, Spanish, English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic comparison
Rivka Levitan | Štefan Beňuš | Agustín Gravano | Julia Hirschberg

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A statistical approach for Non-Sentential Utterance Resolution for Interactive QA System
Dinesh Raghu | Sathish Indurthi | Jitendra Ajmera | Sachindra Joshi

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The Interplay of User-Centered Dialog Systems and AI Planning
Florian Nothdurft | Gregor Behnke | Pascal Bercher | Susanne Biundo | Wolfgang Minker

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Automatic Detection of Miscommunication in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Raveesh Meena | José Lopes | Gabriel Skantze | Joakim Gustafson

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Dialogue Management based on Multi-domain Corpus
Wendong Ge | Bo Xu

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Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling
Stefan Ultes | Matthias Kraus | Alexander Schmitt | Wolfgang Minker

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Metaphor Detection in Discourse
Hyeju Jang | Seungwhan Moon | Yohan Jo | Carolyn Rosé

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User Adaptive Restoration for Incorrectly-Segmented Utterances in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Kazunori Komatani | Naoki Hotta | Satoshi Sato | Mikio Nakano

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Incremental Coordination: Attention-Centric Speech Production in a Physically Situated Conversational Agent
Zhou Yu | Dan Bohus | Eric Horvitz

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Hyper-parameter Optimisation of Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning for Statistical Dialogue Management
Lu Chen | Pei-Hao Su | Milica Gašić

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Learning Domain-Independent Dialogue Policies via Ontology Parameterisation
Zhuoran Wang | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Pei-Hao Su | Yannis Stylianou

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Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems
Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young

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Effects of Game on User Engagement with Spoken Dialogue System
Hayato Kobayashi | Kaori Tanio | Manabu Sassano

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Evaluation of Crowdsourced User Input Data for Spoken Dialog Systems
Maria Schmidt | Markus Müller | Martin Wagner | Sebastian Stüker | Alex Waibel | Hansjörg Hofmann | Steffen Werner

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A distributed cloud-based dialog system for conversational application development
Vikram Ramanarayanan | David Suendermann-Oeft | Alexei V. Ivanov | Keelan Evanini

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A TV Program Discovery Dialog System using recommendations
Deepak Ramachandran | Mark Fanty | Ronald Provine | Peter Yeh | William Jarrold | Adwait Ratnaparkhi | Benjamin Douglas

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Description of the PatientGenesys Dialogue System
Leonardo Campillos Llanos | Dhouha Bouamor | Éric Bilinski | Anne-Laure Ligozat | Pierre Zweigenbaum | Sophie Rosset

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The Cohort and Speechify Libraries for Rapid Construction of Speech Enabled Applications for Android
Tejaswi Kasturi | Haojian Jin | Aasish Pappu | Sungjin Lee | Beverley Harrison | Ramana Murthy | Amanda Stent