| 9:30-9:45 |
Opening Remarks |
| Session 1: Dialogue Utterance Interpretation |
| 9:45-10:15 |
Robust Dependency Parser for Natural Language Dialog Systems in Tamil |
C J Srinivasan, N Udhayakumar, R Loganathan and C Santhosh Kumar |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Considering Multiple Options when Interpreting Spoken Utterances |
Sarah George, Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann and Yuval Marom |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea |
| Session 2: Retrieval and Summarization Approaches to Dialogue |
| 11:30–12:00 |
Dialogue Generation for Robotic Portraits |
Andrew M Olney |
| 12:00-12:30 |
First Steps towards Dialogue Modelling from an Unannotated Human-Human Corpus |
Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum |
| 12:30-13:00 |
Evaluation of a Large-scale Email Response System |
Yuval Marom and Ingrid Zukerman |
| 13:00–14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Discussion: Corpus-based Methods and Evaluation |
| Session 3: Affective Dialogue |
| 14:30-14:50 |
A tractable DDN-POMDP approach to affective dialogue modeling for general probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems |
Trung H. Bui, Mannes Poel, Anton Nijholt and Job Zwiers |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Case Based Utterance Generating for An Argument Agent |
Takahiro Tanaka, Norio Maeda, Daisuke Katagami and Katsumi Nitta |
| 15:10–15:30 |
Discussion |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/Tea |
| Session 4: Knowledge and Reasoning in Dialogue |
| 16:00–16:20 |
Multi-robot Dispatch |
Andrew M Olney |
| 16:20–16:50 |
PCQL: A Formalism for Human-Like Preference Dialogues |
Pontus Wärnestål, Lars Degerstedt and Arne Jönsson |
| 16:50–17:10 |
Using Collective Acceptance for Modelling the Conversational Common Ground: Consequences on Referent Representation and on Reference Treatment |
Sylvie Saget |
| 17:10–17:30 |
Discussion |
| 17:30–18:00 |
Final Discussion |
