Table of Contents

• Frontmatter [doi]
• Post-processing Networks: Method for Optimizing Pipeline Task-oriented Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement LearningAtsumoto Ohashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka. 1-13 [doi]
• Reducing Model Churn: Stable Re-training of Conversational AgentsChristopher Hidey, Fei Liu, Rahul Goel. 14-25 [doi]
• Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Data Augmentation with Generative Conversational NetworksYen-Ting Lin, Alexandros Papangelis, Seokhwan Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur. 26-38 [doi]
• Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive DesignA. Stevie Bergman, Gavin Abercrombie, Shannon L. Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser. 39-52 [doi]
• Controllable User Dialogue Act Augmentation for Dialogue State TrackingChun-Mao Lai, Ming-Hao Hsu, Chao-Wei Huang, Yun-Nung Chen. 53-61 [doi]
• Developing an argument annotation scheme based on a semantic classification of argumentsLea Kawaletz, Heidrun Dorgeloh, Stefan Conrad 0001, Zeljko Bekcic. 62-67 [doi]
• Multi-Task Learning for Depression Detection in DialogsChuyuan Li, Chloé Braud, Maxime Amblard. 68-75 [doi]
• To laugh or not to laugh? The use of laughter to mark discourse structureBogdan Ludusan, Barbara Schuppler. 76-82 [doi]
• QualityAdapt: an Automatic Dialogue Quality Estimation FrameworkJohn Mendonça, Alon Lavie, Isabel Trancoso. 83-90 [doi]
• Graph Neural Network Policies and Imitation Learning for Multi-Domain Task-Oriented DialoguesThibault Cordier, Tanguy Urvoy, Fabrice Lefèvre, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona. 91-100 [doi]
• The DialPort toolsJessica Huynh, Shikib Mehri, Cathy Jiao, Maxine Eskénazi. 101-106 [doi]
• Simultaneous Job Interview System Using Multiple Semi-autonomous AgentsHaruki Kawai, Yusuke Muraki, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Tatsuya Kawahara. 107-110 [doi]
• Dialog Acts for Task Driven Embodied AgentsSpandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Patrick Lange, Dilek Hakkani-Tur. 111-123 [doi]
• Symbol and Communicative Grounding through Object Permanence with a Mobile RobotJosue Torres-Fonseca, Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington. 124-134 [doi]
• Towards Personality-Aware ChatbotsDaniel Fernau, Stefan Hillmann, Nils Feldhus, Tim Polzehl, Sebastian Möller 0001. 135-145 [doi]
• Towards Socially Intelligent Agents with Mental State Transition and Human ValueLiang Qiu 0001, Yizhou Zhao, Yuan Liang, Pan Lu, Weiyan Shi, Zhou Yu, Song Chun Zhu. 146-158 [doi]
• Automatic Verbal Depiction of a Brick Assembly for a Robot Instructing HumansRami Younes, Gérard Bailly, Frédéric Elisei, Damien Pellier. 159-171 [doi]
• Are Interaction Patterns Helpful for Task-Agnostic Dementia Detection? An Empirical ExplorationShahla Farzana, Natalie Parde. 172-182 [doi]
• EDU-AP: Elementary Discourse Unit based Argument ParserSougata Saha, Souvik Das, Rohini K. Srihari. 183-192 [doi]
• Using Transition Duration to Improve Turn-taking in Conversational AgentsCharles Threlkeld, Muhammad Umair, Jp de Ruiter. 193-203 [doi]
• DG2: Data Augmentation Through Document Grounded Dialogue GenerationQingyang Wu, Song Feng, Derek Chen, Sachindra Joshi, Luis A. Lastras, Zhou Yu. 204-216 [doi]
• When can I Speak? Predicting initiation points for spoken dialogue agentsSiyan Li, Ashwin Paranjape, Christopher D. Manning. 217-224 [doi]
• Using Interaction Style Dimensions to Characterize Spoken Dialog CorporaNigel Ward. 225-230 [doi]
• Multi-Domain Dialogue State Tracking with Top-K Slot Self AttentionLongfei Yang, Jiyi Li, Sheng Li 0010, Takahiro Shinozaki. 231-236 [doi]
• Building a Knowledge-Based Dialogue System with Text InfillingQiang Xue, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki. 237-243 [doi]
• Generating Meaningful Topic Descriptions with Sentence Embeddings and LDAJavier Miguel Sastre-Martínez, Sean Gorman, Aisling Nugent, Anandita Pal. 244-254 [doi]
• How Well Do You Know Your Audience? Toward Socially-aware Question GenerationIan Stewart, Rada Mihalcea. 255-269 [doi]
• GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative TransformersHsien-Chin Lin, Christian Geishauser, Shutong Feng, Nurul Lubis, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Milica Gasic. 270-282 [doi]
• AARGH! End-to-end Retrieval-Generation for Task-Oriented DialogTomás Nekvinda, Ondrej Dusek. 283-297 [doi]
• A Systematic Evaluation of Response Selection for Open Domain DialogueBehnam Hedayatnia, Di Jin, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur. 298-311 [doi]
• Inferring Ranked Dialog Flows from Human-to-Human ConversationsJavier Miguel Sastre-Martínez, Aisling Nugent. 312-324 [doi]
• Structured Dialogue Discourse ParsingTa-Chung Chi, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 325-335 [doi]
• "Do you follow me?": A Survey of Recent Approaches in Dialogue State TrackingLéo Jacqmin, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Benoît Favre. 336-350 [doi]
• MultiWOZ 2.4: A Multi-Domain Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset with Essential Annotation Corrections to Improve State Tracking EvaluationFanghua Ye 0001, Jarana Manotumruksa, Emine Yilmaz. 351-360 [doi]
• The Duration of a Turn Cannot be Used to Predict When It EndsCharles Threlkeld, Jan P. De Ruiter. 361-367 [doi]
• Getting Better Dialogue Context for Knowledge Identification by Leveraging Document-level Topic ShiftNhat Tran, Diane J. Litman. 368-375 [doi]
• Neural Generation Meets Real People: Building a Social, Informative Open-Domain Dialogue AgentEthan A. Chi, Ashwin Paranjape, Abigail See, Caleb Chiam, Trenton Chang, Kathleen Kenealy, Swee Kiat Lim, Amelia Hardy, Chetanya Rastogi, Haojun Li, Alexander Iyabor, Yutong He, Hari Sowrirajan, Peng Qi 0003, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan, Nguyet Minh Phu, Dilara Soylu, Jillian Tang, Avanika Narayan, Giovanni Campagna, Christopher D. Manning. 376-395 [doi]
• DeepCon: An End-to-End Multilingual Toolkit for Automatic Minuting of Multi-Party DialoguesAakash Bhatnagar, Nidhir Bhavsar, Muskaan Singh. 396-402 [doi]
• ICM : Intent and Conversational Mining from Conversation LogsSayantan Mitra, Roshni R. Ramnani, Sumit Ranjan, Shubhashis Sengupta. 403-406 [doi]
• Entity-based De-noising Modeling for Controllable Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen. 407-418 [doi]
• iEval: Interactive Evaluation Framework for Open-Domain Empathetic ChatbotsEkaterina Svikhnushina, Anastasiia Filippova, Pearl Pu. 419-431 [doi]
• Unsupervised Domain Adaptation on Question-Answering System with Conversation DataAmalia Istiqlali Adiba, Takeshi Homma, Yasuhiro Sogawa. 432-441 [doi]
• UniDU: Towards A Unified Generative Dialogue Understanding FrameworkZhi Chen 0006, Lu Chen, Bei Chen, Libo Qin, Yuncong Liu, Su Zhu, Jian-Guang Lou, Kai Yu 0004. 442-455 [doi]
• Advancing Semi-Supervised Task Oriented Dialog Systems by JSA Learning of Discrete Latent Variable ModelsYucheng Cai, Hong Liu, Zhijian Ou, Yi Huang, Junlan Feng. 456-467 [doi]
• Redwood: Using Collision Detection to Grow a Large-Scale Intent Classification DatasetStefan Larson, Kevin Leach. 468-477 [doi]
• Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement LearningNurul Lubis, Christian Geishauser, Hsien-Chin Lin, Carel van Niekerk, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic. 478-489 [doi]
• Disruptive Talk Detection in Multi-Party Dialogue within Collaborative Learning Environments with a Regularized User-Aware NetworkKyungjin Park, Hyunwoo Sohn, Wookhee Min, Bradford M. Mott, Krista D. Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, James C. Lester. 490-499 [doi]
• Generating Discourse Connectives with Pre-trained Language Models: Conditioning on Discourse Relations Helps Reconstruct the PDTBSymon Jory Stevens-Guille, Aleksandre Maskharashvili, Xintong Li, Michael White 0001. 500-515 [doi]
• Toward Self-Learning End-to-End Task-oriented Dialog SystemsXiaoying Zhang, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Helen Meng. 516-530 [doi]
• Combining Structured and Unstructured Knowledge in an Interactive Search Dialogue SystemSvetlana Stoyanchev, Suraj Pandey, Simon Keizer, Norbert Braunschweiler, Rama Sanand Doddipatla. 531-540 [doi]
• How Much Does Prosody Help Turn-taking? Investigations using Voice Activity Projection ModelsErik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze. 541-551 [doi]
• What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversationsGeorgi Karadzhov, Tom Stafford 0001, Andreas Vlachos 0001. 552-563 [doi]
• Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data AnalysisRenato Vukovic, Michael Heck, Benjamin Matthias Ruppik, Carel van Niekerk, Marcus Zibrowius, Milica Gasic. 564-581 [doi]
• Evaluating N-best Calibration of Natural Language Understanding for Dialogue SystemsRanim Khojah, Alexander Berman, Staffan Larsson. 582-594 [doi]
• LAD: Language Models as Data for Zero-Shot DialogShikib Mehri, Yasemin Altun, Maxine Eskénazi. 595-604 [doi]
• Improving Bot Response Contradiction Detection via Utterance RewritingDi Jin, Sijia Liu, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur. 605-614 [doi]
• Comparison of Lexical Alignment with a Teachable Robot in Human-Robot and Human-Human-Robot InteractionsYuya Asano, Diane J. Litman, Mingzhi Yu, Nikki G. Lobczowski, Timothy Nokes-Malach, Adriana Kovashka, Erin Walker. 615-622 [doi]
• TREND: Trigger-Enhanced Relation-Extraction Network for DialoguesPo-Wei Lin, Shang-Yu Su, Yun-Nung Chen. 623-629 [doi]
• User Satisfaction Modeling with Domain Adaptation in Task-oriented Dialogue SystemsYan Pan, Mingyang Ma, Bernhard Pflugfelder, Georg Groh. 630-636 [doi]
• N-best Response-based Analysis of Contradiction-awareness in Neural Response Generation ModelsShiki Sato, Reina Akama, Hiroki Ouchi, Ryoko Tokuhisa, Jun Suzuki, Kentaro Inui. 637-644 [doi]
• A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot ReceptionistNancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Weronika Sieinska, Angus Addlesee, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon, Jose L. Part, Yanchao Yu. 645-648 [doi]
• Demonstrating EMMA: Embodied MultiModal Agent for Language-guided Action Execution in 3D Simulated EnvironmentsAlessandro Suglia, Bhathiya Hemanthage, Malvina Nikandrou, George Pantazopoulos, Amit Parekh, Arash Eshghi, Claudio Greco 0002, Ioannis Konstas, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser. 649-653 [doi]
• GRILLBot: A multi-modal conversational agent for complex real-world tasksCarlos Gemmell, Federico Rossetto, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho, Sophie Fischer, Jeff Dalton 0001. 654-658 [doi]
• A System For Robot Concept Learning Through Situated DialogueBenjamin Kane, Felix Gervits, Matthias Scheutz, Matthew Marge. 659-662 [doi]