Table of Contents

• Deep Reinforcement Learning For Modeling Chit-Chat Dialog With Discrete AttributesChinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi. 1-10 [doi]
• Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy LearningStefan Ultes. 11-20 [doi]
• Lifelong and Interactive Learning of Factual Knowledge in DialoguesSahisnu Mazumder, Bing Liu 0001, Shuai Wang, Nianzu Ma. 21-31 [doi]
• Few-Shot Dialogue Generation Without Annotated Data: A Transfer Learning ApproachIgor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon. 32-39 [doi]
• SIM: A Slot-Independent Neural Model for Dialogue State TrackingChenguang Zhu, Michael Zeng, Xuedong Huang. 40-45 [doi]
• Simple, Fast, Accurate Intent Classification and Slot Labeling for Goal-Oriented Dialogue SystemsArshit Gupta, John Hewitt, Katrin Kirchhoff. 46-55 [doi]
• Time Masking: Leveraging Temporal Information in Spoken Dialogue SystemsRylan Conway, Lambert Mathias. 56-61 [doi]
• To Combine or Not To Combine? A Rainbow Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent for Dialog PoliciesDirk Väth, Ngoc Thang Vu. 62-67 [doi]
• Contextualized Representations for Low-resource Utterance TaggingBhargavi Paranjape, Graham Neubig. 68-74 [doi]
• Capturing Dialogue State Variable Dependencies with an Energy-based Neural Dialogue State TrackerAnh-Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross, John D. Kelleher. 75-84 [doi]
• Leveraging Non-Conversational Tasks for Low Resource Slot Filling: Does it help?Samuel Louvan, Bernardo Magnini. 85-91 [doi]
• Collaborative Multi-Agent Dialogue Model Training Via Reinforcement LearningAlexandros Papangelis, Yi-Chia Wang, Piero Molino, Gökhan Tür. 92-102 [doi]
• Scoring Interactional Aspects of Human-Machine Dialog for Language Learning and Assessment using Text FeaturesVikram Ramanarayanan, Matthew Mulholland, Yao Qian. 103-109 [doi]
• Spoken Conversational Search for General KnowledgeLina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pascal Bellec, Benoit Besset, Martinho Dos-Santos, Johannes Heinecke, Munshi Asadullah, Olivier Le Blouch, Jean Y. Lancien, Géraldine Damnati, Emmanuel Mory, Frédéric Herledan. 110-113 [doi]
• Graph2Bots, Unsupervised Assistance for Designing ChatbotsJean Léon Bouraoui, Sonia Le Meitour, Romain Carbou, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Vincent Lemaire. 114-117 [doi]
• On a Chatbot Conducting Dialogue-in-DialogueBoris Galitsky, Dmitry I. Ilvovsky, Elizaveta Goncharova. 118-121 [doi]
• DeepCopy: Grounded Response Generation with Hierarchical Pointer NetworksSemih Yavuz, Abhinav Rastogi, Guan-Lin Chao, Dilek Hakkani-Tür. 122-132 [doi]
• Towards End-to-End Learning for Efficient Dialogue Agent by Modeling Looking-ahead AbilityZhuoxuan Jiang, Xian-Ling Mao, Ziming Huang, Jie Ma, Shaochun Li. 133-142 [doi]
• Unsupervised Dialogue Spectrum Generation for Log Dialogue RankingXinnuo Xu, Yizhe Zhang, Lars Liden, Sungjin Lee. 143-154 [doi]
• Tree-Structured Semantic Encoder with Knowledge Sharing for Domain Adaptation in Natural Language GenerationBo-Hsiang Tseng, Pawel Budzianowski, Yen-Chen Wu, Milica Gasic. 155-164 [doi]
• Structured Fusion Networks for DialogShikib Mehri, Tejas Srinivasan, Maxine Eskénazi. 165-177 [doi]
• Flexibly-Structured Model for Task-Oriented DialoguesLei Shu 0004, Piero Molino, Mahdi Namazifar, Hu Xu, Bing Liu 0001, Huaixiu Zheng, Gökhan Tür. 178-187 [doi]
• FriendsQA: Open-Domain Question Answering on TV Show TranscriptsZhengzhe Yang, Jinho D. Choi. 188-197 [doi]
• Foundations of Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogue: What's in a Slot?Philip Cohen. 198-209 [doi]
• Speaker-adapted neural-network-based fusion for multimodal reference resolutionDiana Kleingarn, Nima Nabizadeh, Martin Heckmann, Dorothea Kolossa. 210-214 [doi]
• Learning Question-Guided Video Representation for Multi-Turn Video Question AnsweringGuan-Lin Chao, Abhinav Rastogi, Semih Yavuz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Jindong Chen, Ian Lane. 215-225 [doi]
• Zero-shot transfer for implicit discourse relation classificationMurathan Kurfali, Robert Östling. 226-231 [doi]
• A Quantitative Analysis of Patients' Narratives of Heart FailureSabita Acharya, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew D. Boyd, Richard Cameron, Karen Dunn Lopez, Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Pantea Habibi, Carolyn Dickens, Haleh Vatani, Amer Ardati. 232-238 [doi]
• TDDiscourse: A Dataset for Discourse-Level Temporal Ordering of EventsAakanksha Naik, Luke Breitfeller, Carolyn Penstein Rosé. 239-249 [doi]
• Real Life Application of a Question Answering System Using BERT Language ModelFrancesca Alloatti, Luigi Di Caro, Gianpiero Sportelli. 250-253 [doi]
• Hierarchical Multi-Task Natural Language Understanding for Cross-domain Conversational AI: HERMIT NLUAndrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, Oliver Lemon. 254-263 [doi]
• Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension ApproachShuyang Gao, Abhishek Sethi, Sanchit Agarwal, Tagyoung Chung, Dilek Hakkani-Tür. 264-273 [doi]
• Cross-Corpus Data Augmentation for Acoustic Addressee DetectionOleg Akhtiamov, Ingo Siegert, Alexey Karpov 0001, Wolfgang Minker. 274-283 [doi]
• A Scalable Method for Quantifying the Role of Pitch in Conversational Turn-TakingKornel Laskowski, Marcin Wlodarczak, Mattias Heldner. 284-292 [doi]
• A Large-Scale User Study of an Alexa Prize Chatbot: Effect of TTS Dynamism on Perceived Quality of Social DialogMichelle Cohn, Chun-Yen Chen, Zhou Yu. 293-306 [doi]
• Influence of Time and Risk on Response Acceptability in a Simple Spoken Dialogue SystemAndisheh Partovi, Ingrid Zukerman. 307-319 [doi]
• Characterizing the Response Space of Questions: a Corpus Study for English and PolishJonathan Ginzburg, Zulipiye Yusupujiang, Chuyuan Li, Kexin Ren, Pawel Lupkowski. 320-330 [doi]
• From Explainability to Explanation: Using a Dialogue Setting to Elicit Annotations with JustificationsNazia Attari, Martin Heckmann, David Schlangen. 331-335 [doi]
• Prediction of User Emotion and Dialogue Success Using Audio Spectrograms and Convolutional Neural NetworksAthanasios Lykartsis, Margarita Kotti. 336-344 [doi]
• Modelling Adaptive Presentations in Human-Robot Interaction using Behaviour TreesNils Axelsson, Gabriel Skantze. 345-352 [doi]
• Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie PreferencesFilip Radlinski, Krisztian Balog, Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi. 353-360 [doi]
• A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational AgentsAmanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser. 361-366 [doi]
• A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective NegotiationYiheng Zhou, He He, Alan W. Black, Yulia Tsvetkov. 367-378 [doi]
• Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple ReferencesPrakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Tiancheng Zhao, Amy Pavel, Maxine Eskénazi, Jeffrey P. Bigham. 379-391 [doi]
• User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue SystemSimon Keizer, Ondrej Dusek, Xingkun Liu, Verena Rieser. 392-398 [doi]
• Dialogue Act Classification in Team Communication for Robot Assisted Disaster ResponseTatjana Anikina, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová. 399-410 [doi]
• Multi-Task Learning of System Dialogue Act Selection for Supervised Pretraining of Goal-Oriented Dialogue PoliciesSarah McLeod, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Bernd Kiefer. 411-417 [doi]
• B. Rex: a dialogue agent for book recommendationsMitchell Abrams, Luke Gessler, Matthew Marge. 418-421 [doi]
• SpaceRefNet: a neural approach to spatial reference resolution in a real city environmentDmytro Kalpakchi, Johan Boye. 422-431 [doi]
• Which aspects of discourse relations are hard to learn? Primitive decomposition for discourse relation classificationCharlotte Roze, Chloé Braud, Philippe Muller. 432-441 [doi]
• Discourse Relation Prediction: Revisiting Word Pairs with Convolutional NetworksSiddharth Varia, Christopher Hidey, Tuhin Chakrabarty. 442-452 [doi]