Table of Contents

• Erratum to: Dialogues with Social RobotsKristiina Jokinen, Graham Wilcock. 1 [doi]
• DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami LanguageKristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Niklas Laxström, Ilona Rauhala, Graham Wilcock. 3-19 [doi]
• A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call RoutingRoman B. Sergienko, Muhammad Shan, Alexander Schmitt. 23-37 [doi]
• Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed MemoryLayla El Asri, Romain Laroche, Olivier Pietquin. 39-51 [doi]
• Incremental Human-Machine Dialogue SimulationHatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche, Fabrice Lefèvre. 53-66 [doi]
• Active Learning for Example-Based Dialog SystemsTakuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura 0001. 67-78 [doi]
• Question Selection Based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information Through DialogueKazunori Komatani, Tsugumi Otsuka, Satoshi Sato, Mikio Nakano. 79-91 [doi]
• Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated PlanningMary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick. 93-107 [doi]
• SimpleDS: A Simple Deep Reinforcement Learning Dialogue SystemHeriberto Cuayáhuitl. 109-118 [doi]
• Breakdown Detector for Chat-Oriented DialogueTomo Horii, Hideaki Mori, Masahiro Araki. 119-127 [doi]
• User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog SystemsFlorian Nothdurft, Pascal Bercher, Gregor Behnke, Wolfgang Minker. 129-141 [doi]
• Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker's Emotion Calculated from Acoustic FeaturesTakumi Takahashi, Kazuya Mera, Tang Ba Nhat, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Takezawa. 145-157 [doi]
• Salient Cross-Lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion RecognitionMaxim Sidorov, Christina Brester, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt. 159-169 [doi]
• Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling UncertaintyManex Serras, Naiara Perez, María Inés Torres, Arantza del Pozo. 171-182 [doi]
• Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent's PersonalityHiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka. 183-194 [doi]
• Fisher Kernels on Phase-Based Features for Speech Emotion RecognitionJun Deng, Xinzhou Xu, Zixing Zhang, Sascha Frühholz, Didier Grandjean, Björn W. Schuller. 195-203 [doi]
• Internationalisation and Localisation of Spoken Dialogue SystemsNiklas Laxström, Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen. 207-219 [doi]
• A Multi-lingual Evaluation of the vAssist Spoken Dialog System. Comparing Disco and RavenClawJavier Mikel Olaso, Pierrick Milhorat, Julia Himmelsbach, Jérôme Boudy, Gérard Chollet, Stephan Schlögl, María Inés Torres. 221-232 [doi]
• Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal Dialog FrameworkZhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Mundkowsky, Patrick L. Lange, Alexei V. Ivanov, Alan W. Black, David Suendermann-Oeft. 233-244 [doi]
• Data Collection and Synchronisation: Towards a Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue System with Metacognitive AbilitiesFasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Nick Campbell. 245-256 [doi]
• HELPR: A Framework to Break the Barrier Across Domains in Spoken Dialog SystemsMing Sun, Yun-Nung Chen, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 257-269 [doi]
• Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog SystemMaria Schmidt, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel. 271-278 [doi]
• Is Spoken Language All-or-Nothing? Implications for Future Speech-Based Human-Machine InteractionRoger K. Moore. 281-291 [doi]
• Toward a Context-Based Approach to Assess Engagement in Human-Robot Social InteractionLaurence Devillers, Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis. 293-301 [doi]
• Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Social RoboticsHelen F. Hastie, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Simon Keizer, Xingkun Liu. 303-311 [doi]
• Engagement in Dialogue with Social RobotsLoredana Cerrato, Nick Campbell. 313-319 [doi]
• Lend a Hand to Service Robots: Overcoming System Limitations by Asking HumansFelix Schüssel, Marcel Walch, Katja Rogers, Frank Honold, Michael Weber 0001. 321-329 [doi]
• Dialogue with Robots to Support Symbiotic AutonomyAndrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Emanuele Bastianelli, Guglielmo Gemignani, Roberto Basili 0001, Daniele Nardi. 331-342 [doi]
• Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami WikipediaGraham Wilcock, Niklas Laxström, Juho Leinonen, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo, Kristiina Jokinen. 343-351 [doi]
• Utterance Selection Using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue SystemsAtsushi Otsuka, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo. 355-365 [doi]
• Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality EstimationStefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker. 367-379 [doi]
• Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality EstimationLouisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker. 381-393 [doi]
• An Evaluation Method for System Response in Chat-Oriented Dialogue SystemHideaki Mori, Atsushi Yasuda, Masahiro Araki. 395-402 [doi]
• The Negotiation Dialogue GameRomain Laroche, Aude Genevay. 403-410 [doi]
• Estimation of User's Willingness to Talk About the Topic: Analysis of Interviews Between HumansYuya Chiba, Akinori Ito. 411-419 [doi]
• Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get ThereTimo Baumann, Casey Kennington, Julian Hough, David Schlangen. 421-432 [doi]
• The Fourth Dialog State Tracking ChallengeSeokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson. 435-449 [doi]
• Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-topic Dialog State TrackingHongjie Shi, Takashi Ushio, Mitsuru Endo, Katsuyoshi Yamagami, Noriaki Horii. 451-463 [doi]
• The MSIIP System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4Miao Li, Ji Wu. 465-474 [doi]
• Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large OntologiesFranck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui, Hung H. Bui. 475-485 [doi]