ICT Workshop on Dialogue Research
May 15-16, 2008
ICT 6th Floor Conference Room (unless otherwise noted)
Abstracts
Thursday, May 15, 2008    
9:30 AM 10:15 AM Welcome and Overview of ICT Dialogue Reseach David Traum, Research Assistant Professor, USC
10:15 AM 11:15 AM The DICO Project Staffan Larsson, Researcher and lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Gšteborg University
11:15 AM 11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM 12:30 PM Using Degrees of Grounding for Dialogue Management Antonio Roque, Graduate Research Assistant, USC
12:30 PM 1:30 PM LUNCH & TACQ DEMO Antonio Roque, Sudeep Gandhe, PhD Students, USC
1:30pm 1:50 PM 0:20 This Is CCT Dr. David Traum-
Research Assistant Professor		 1st Floor Virtual Reality (VR) Theater
1:50 PM 2:15 PM 0:25 Army Excellence in Leadership Mr. Kevin Feeley- Special Project Manager 1st Floor Screening Room
2:15 PM 2:40 PM 0:25 Radiobots Dr. David Traum-
Research Assistant Professor		 1st Floor Virtual Reality (VR) Theater
2:40 PM 2:50 PM 0:10 Go To McConnell  
2:50 PM 3:30 PM 3:30 FlatWorld/Sergeant Star/C3IT Mr. Joshua Williams - Lead Demonstrator 5318 McConnell Ave.
3:30 PM 3:40 PM 0:10 Return to ICT    
3:40 PM 4:15 PM 0:10 Integrated Virtual Humans Mr. Patrick Kenny-Computer Scientist
Mr. Arno Hartholt-Research Programmer 		1st Floor Virtual Reality (VR) Theater
4:15 PM 4:25 PM break
4:25 PM 4:50 PM A Common Ground for Virtual Humans: Using an Ontology in a Natural Language Oriented Virtual Human Architecture Arno Hartholt, Research Programmer, USC
4:50 PM 7:00 PM A Computational Model of the Collaborative Use of Natural Language despite Private Uncertainty in Dialogue
 David Devault, Visiting Research Assistant, PhD Student Rutgers U.
Friday, May 16, 2008      
9:15 AM 10:00 AM Field Testing of an Interactive Question-Answering Character Ron Artstein, Manager of Corpus Development, USC
10:00 AM 11:00 AM Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-party Human-Human Meetings Raquel Fernandez, Stanford University
11:10 AM 11:40 AM Tracking Dragon-Hunters with Language Models Anton Leuski, Research Scientist, USC
11:50 AM 12:35 PM cross-cultural perceptions of multiparty interaction David Herrera, PhD Student UTEP
12:35 PM 1:10 PM Virtual Extras: Multiparty Dialog Simulation for Background Virtual Humans Dusan Jan, Graduate Research Assistant, USC
1:10 PM 2:15 PM Lunch and discussion
2:15 PM 4:30 PM Towards a formal treatment of corrective feedback Robin Cooper, Professor Gšteborg University Staffan Larsson, Researcher and lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Gšteborg University
4:30 PM 5:35 PM Unsupervised Methods for Creating and Evaluating Dialogue Models Sudeep Gandhe, Graduate Research Assistant
5:35 PM 7:00 PM Computational Models of Non-cooperative dialogue David Traum, Research Assistant Professor, USC
7:00 PM 7:30 PM Open discussion