Table of Contents

• Front Matter [doi]
• Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement LearningTiancheng Zhao, Maxine Eskénazi. 1-10 [doi]
• Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible InteractionSungjin Lee, Amanda Stent. 11-21 [doi]
• Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural NetworksBing Liu, Ian Lane. 22-30 [doi]
• Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in DialogueShereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, Ernesto Hernandez, Ellen Riloff, Marilyn A. Walker. 31-41 [doi]
• The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line NewsEmma Barker, Monica Lestari Paramita, Ahmet Aker, Emina Kurtic, Mark Hepple, Robert J. Gaizauskas. 42-52 [doi]
• Special Session - The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal AssistantsYoichi Matsuyama, Alexandros Papangelis. 53 [doi]
• Keynote - More than meets the ear: Processes that shape dialogueSusan Brennan. 54 [doi]
• A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User EngagementZhou Yu, Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 55-63 [doi]
• Classifying Emotions in Customer Support Dialogues in Social MediaJonathan Herzig, Guy Feigenblat, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, David Konopnicki, Anat Rafaeli, Daniel Altman, David Spivak. 64-73 [doi]
• Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer InteractionJuliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Satoshi Nakamura, Wolfgang Minker. 74-79 [doi]
• Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen statesIñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao, Phil D. Green. 80-89 [doi]
• Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV ShowsYu-Hsin Chen, Jinho D. Choi. 90-100 [doi]
• Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue SystemsMehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Jing He, Kaheer Suleman. 101-110 [doi]
• Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into TamilSatheesh Ravi, Ron Artstein. 111-116 [doi]
• Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student EssaysKate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang, Diane J. Litman. 117-127 [doi]
• Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse treesKatsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nagata. 128-136 [doi]
• The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive SummarizationJunyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani, Amanda Stent. 137-147 [doi]
• Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog SystemLeah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Alan W. Black. 148-156 [doi]
• Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers - How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? -Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo. 157-165 [doi]
• On the Contribution of Discourse Structure on Text Complexity AssessmentElnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim. 166-174 [doi]
• Syntactic parsing of chat language in contact center conversation corpusAlexis Nasr, Géraldine Damnati, Aleksandra Guerraz, Frédéric Béchet. 175-184 [doi]
• A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue SystemsOndrej Dusek, Filip Jurcícek. 185-190 [doi]
• Identifying Teacher Questions Using Automatic Speech Recognition in ClassroomsNathaniel Blanchard, Patrick J. Donnelly, Andrew McGregor Olney, Borhan Samei, Brooke Ward, Xiaoyi Sun, Sean Kelly, Martin Nystrand, Sidney K. D'Mello. 191-201 [doi]
• A framework for the automatic inference of stochastic turn-taking stylesKornel Laskowski. 202-211 [doi]
• Talking with ERICA, an autonomous androidKoji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala, Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara. 212-215 [doi]
• Rapid Prototyping of Form-driven Dialogue Systems Using an Open-source FrameworkSvetlana Stoyanchev, Pierre Lison, Srinivas Bangalore. 216-219 [doi]
• LVCSR System on a Hybrid GPU-CPU Embedded Platform for Real-Time Dialog ApplicationsAlexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange, David Suendermann-Oeft. 220-223 [doi]
• Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant AgentYoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao, Oscar Romeo, Sushma Akoju, Justine Cassell. 224-227 [doi]
• Selection method of an appropriate response in chat-oriented dialogue systemsHideaki Mori, Masahiro Araki. 228-231 [doi]
• Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene DescriptionsRamesh R. Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault, David Schlangen. 232-241 [doi]
• Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction StateCasey Kennington, David Schlangen. 242-251 [doi]
• Toward incremental dialogue act segmentation in fast-paced interactive dialogue systemsRamesh R. Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu, David Schlangen, David DeVault. 252-262 [doi]
• Keynote - Modeling Human Communication DynamicsLouis-Philippe Morency. 263 [doi]
• On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance ClassificationRyan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy, Laurent Charlin, Joelle Pineau. 264-269 [doi]
• Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of EnglishDiane Litman, Steve J. Young, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate Knill, Karen Ottewell, Rogier C. van Dalen, David Vandyke. 270-275 [doi]
• Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in DialogueAmita Misra, Brian Ecker, Marilyn A. Walker. 276-287 [doi]
• Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding StrategiesJulian Hough, David Schlangen. 288-298 [doi]
• Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?Yashar Mehdad, Joel R. Tetreault. 299-303 [doi]
• Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of dataAbhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew E. Johnson, Alberto Gonzalez, Jason Leigh. 304-309 [doi]
• Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue ActsMasahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, David R. Traum, Satoshi Nakamura. 310-318 [doi]
• Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional CharactersChiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo. 319-328 [doi]
• Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned SemanticsXiaolong Li, Kristy Boyer. 329-338 [doi]
• Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meaningsYanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon. 339-349 [doi]
• Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday EventsElahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez, Marilyn A. Walker. 350-359 [doi]
• When do we laugh?Ye Tian, Chiara Mazzocconi, Jonathan Ginzburg. 360-369 [doi]
• Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue SystemsTakahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano, Tomoaki Nakamura. 370-380 [doi]
• Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog SystemRan Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan W. Black, Justine Cassell. 381-392 [doi]
• Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue SystemsMichimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi. 393-403 [doi]
• Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational SystemsZhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 404-412 [doi]