Table of Contents

• Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and DialogueHaizhou Li 0001, Gina-Anne Levow, Zhou Yu, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Siqi Cai, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Yan Wu, Junyi Jessy Li. [doi]
• Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbotAbigail See, Christopher D. Manning. 1-12 [doi]
• Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken DialogNigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon. 13-20 [doi]
• DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented DialogsSatwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu, Alborz Geramifard. 21-26 [doi]
• Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat CorpusNigel Ward. 27-31 [doi]
• Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for WomenKaihui Liang, Patrick L. Lange, Yoo Jung Oh, Jingwen Zhang, Yoshimi Fukuoka, Zhou Yu. 32-44 [doi]
• Improving Named Entity Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems by Context and Speech Pattern ModelingMinh Nguyen, Zhou Yu. 45-55 [doi]
• SoDA: On-device Conversational Slot ExtractionSujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva. 56-65 [doi]
• Getting to Production with Few-shot Natural Language Generation ModelsPeyman Heidari, Arash Einolghozati, Shashank Jain, Soumya Batra, Lee Callender, Ankit Arun, Shawn Mei, Sonal Gupta, Pinar Donmez, Vikas Bhardwaj, Anuj Kumar, Michael White 0001. 66-76 [doi]
• ARTA: Collection and Classification of Ambiguous Requests and Thoughtful ActionsShohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh, Satoshi Nakamura 0001. 77-88 [doi]
• Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systemsRyuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Masahiro Mizukami. 89-98 [doi]
• Effective Social Chatbot Strategies for Increasing User InitiativeAmelia Hardy, Ashwin Paranjape, Christopher D. Manning. 99-110 [doi]
• Generative Conversational NetworksAlexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür. 111-120 [doi]
• Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical StudyPei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan 0001, Behnam Hedayatnia, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren 0001, Yang Liu 0180, Dilek Hakkani-Tür. 121-132 [doi]
• Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain AdaptationTaha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan, Nancy F. Chen. 133-143 [doi]
• An Analysis of State-of-the-Art Models for Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC)Satwik Kottur, Paul A. Crook, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon Cho, Rajen Subba, Alborz Geramifard. 144-153 [doi]
• A Simple yet Effective Method for Sentence OrderingAili Shen, Timothy Baldwin. 154-160 [doi]
• Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative ResponseKonigari Rachna, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri, Manish Shrivastava 0001. 161-166 [doi]
• Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence ScoringLinzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini. 167-177 [doi]
• Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text UtterancesChiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda, Junya Ono, Hiromi Wakaki. 178-189 [doi]
• Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response GenerationTianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara. 190-201 [doi]
• Contrastive Response Pairs for Automatic Evaluation of Non-task-oriented Neural Conversational ModelsKoshiro Okano, Yu Suzuki, Masaya Kawamura, Tsuneo Kato, Akihiro Tamura, Jianming Wu. 202-207 [doi]
• How does BERT process disfluency?Ye Tian, Tim Nieradzik, Sepehr Jalali, Da-shan Shiu. 208-217 [doi]
• Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State TrackingSuvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar. 218-227 [doi]
• Dialogue State Tracking with Multi-Level Fusion of Predicted Dialogue States and ConversationsJingyao Zhou, Haipang Wu, Zehao Lin, Guodun Li, Yin Zhang. 228-238 [doi]
• Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A SurveyVevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Bernardo Magnini. 239-251 [doi]
• Scikit-talk: A toolkit for processing real-world conversational speech dataAndreas Liesenfeld, Gábor Parti, Chu-Ren Huang. 252-256 [doi]
• ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 QuarantineEtsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara, Pascale Fung. 257-260 [doi]
• A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participantsKoji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara. 261-264 [doi]
• A Cloud-based User-Centered Time-Offset Interaction ApplicationAlberto Chierici, Tyeece Kiana Fredorcia Hensley, Wahib Kamran, Kertu Koss, Armaan Agrawal, Erin Meekhof, Goffredo Puccetti, Nizar Habash. 265-268 [doi]
• Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character RelationsWai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark Riedl. 269-275 [doi]
• Summarizing Behavioral Change Goals from SMS Exchanges to Support Health CoachesItika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian D. Ziebart, Bing Liu 0001, Ben S. Gerber, Lisa K. Sharp. 276-289 [doi]
• Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease DiagnosisShamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver. 290-300 [doi]
• CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and ReasoningDeepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen, Navonil Majumder, Rada Mihalcea, Soujanya Poria. 301-313 [doi]
• Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani. 314-325 [doi]
• Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZKun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu, Chinnadhurai Sankar. 326-337 [doi]
• On the Need for Thoughtful Data Collection for Multi-Party Dialogue: A Survey of Available Corpora and Collection MethodsKhyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh. 338-352 [doi]
• How Should Agents Ask Questions For Situated Learning? An Annotated Dialogue CorpusFelix Gervits, Antonio Roque, Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz, Matthew Marge. 353-359 [doi]
• How Will I Argue? A Dataset for Evaluating Recommender Systems for ArgumentationsMarkus Brenneis, Maike Behrendt, Stefan Harmeling. 360-367 [doi]
• From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue SystemsNiklas Rach, Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel, Johannes Daxenberger, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes. 368-379 [doi]
• What to Fact-Check: Guiding Check-Worthy Information Detection in News Articles through Argumentative Discourse StructureTariq Alhindi, Brennan Xavier McManus, Smaranda Muresan. 380-391 [doi]
• How "open" are the conversations with open-domain chatbots? A proposal for Speech Event based evaluationA. Seza Dogruöz, Gabriel Skantze. 392-402 [doi]
• Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple RewardsStefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier. 403-410 [doi]
• Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic VariationSimeon Schüz, Ting Han, Sina Zarrieß. 411-422 [doi]
• DTAFA: Decoupled Training Architecture for Efficient FAQ RetrievalHaytham Assem, Sourav Dutta, Edward Burgin. 423-430 [doi]
• Projection of Turn Completion in Incremental Spoken Dialogue SystemsErik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze. 431-437 [doi]
• A Task-Oriented Dialogue Architecture via Transformer Neural Language Models and Symbolic InjectionOscar J. Romero, Antian Wang, John Zimmerman, Aaron Steinfeld, Anthony Tomasic. 438-444 [doi]
• Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue SystemsHsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic. 445-456 [doi]
• A Practical 2-step Approach to Assist Enterprise Question-Answering Live ChatLing-Yen Liao, Tarec Fares. 457-468 [doi]
• A Brief Study on the Effects of Training Generative Dialogue Models with a Semantic lossPrasanna Parthasarathi, Mohamed AbdElSalam, Sarath Chandar, Joelle Pineau. 469-476 [doi]
• Do Encoder Representations of Generative Dialogue Models have sufficient summary of the Information about the task ?Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau, Sarath Chandar. 477-488 [doi]
• GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot FillingShikib Mehri, Maxine Eskénazi. 489-498 [doi]
• Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot DialogShikib Mehri, Maxine Eskénazi. 499-508 [doi]
• Coreference-Aware Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen. 509-519 [doi]
• Weakly Supervised Extractive Summarization with AttentionYingying Zhuang, Yichao Lu, Simi Wang. 520-529 [doi]
• Incremental temporal summarization in multi-party meetingsRamesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Wenda Chen, Lama Nachman. 530-541 [doi]
• Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in DialogueMladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Patrick Healey, Matthew Purver. 542-547 [doi]
• Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain ChatbotsYejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii, Andrea Madotto, Pascale Fung. 548-555 [doi]
• Large-Scale Quantitative Evaluation of Dialogue Agents' Response Strategies against Offensive UsersHaojun Li, Dilara Soylu, Christopher D. Manning. 556-561 [doi]