Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Olivier Pietquin editor Smaranda Muresan editor Vivian Chen editor Casey Kennington editor David Vandyke editor Nina Dethlefs editor Koji Inoue editor Erik Ekstedt editor Stefan Ultes editor 2020-jul Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting text conference publication sigdial-2020-special https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.0 Semantic Guidance of Dialogue Generation with Reinforcement Learning Cheng-Hsun Hsueh author Wei-Yun Ma author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication hsueh-ma-2020-semantic https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.1 2020-jul 1 9 Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context Siqi Shen author Charles Welch author Rada Mihalcea author Verónica Pérez-Rosas author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication shen-etal-2020-counseling https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.2 2020-jul 10 20 Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation Lena Reed author Vrindavan Harrison author Shereen Oraby author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author Marilyn Walker author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication reed-etal-2020-learning https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.3 2020-jul 21 34 TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking Michael Heck author Carel van Niekerk author Nurul Lubis author Christian Geishauser author Hsien-Chin Lin author Marco Moresi author Milica Gasic author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication heck-etal-2020-trippy https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.4 2020-jul 35 44 Conversational Agents for Intelligent Buildings Weronika Sieińska author Christian Dondrup author Nancie Gunson author Oliver Lemon author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication sieinska-etal-2020-conversational https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.5 2020-jul 45 48 Retico: An incremental framework for spoken dialogue systems Thilo Michael author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication michael-2020-retico https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.6 2020-jul 49 52 MC-Saar-Instruct: a Platform for Minecraft Instruction Giving Agents Arne Köhn author Julia Wichlacz author Christine Schäfer author Álvaro Torralba author Joerg Hoffmann author Alexander Koller author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication kohn-etal-2020-mc https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.7 2020-jul 53 56 ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations Jonathan P Chang author Caleb Chiam author Liye Fu author Andrew Wang author Justine Zhang author Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication chang-etal-2020-convokit https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.8 2020-jul 57 60 Commonsense Evidence Generation and Injection in Reading Comprehension Ye Liu author Tao Yang author Zeyu You author Wei Fan author Philip S Yu author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication liu-etal-2020-commonsense https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.9 2020-jul 61 73 Identifying Collaborative Conversations using Latent Discourse Behaviors Ayush Jain author Maria Pacheco author Steven Lancette author Mahak Goindani author Dan Goldwasser author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication jain-etal-2020-identifying https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.10 2020-jul 74 78 A Case Study of User Communication Styles with Customer Service Agents versus Intelligent Virtual Agents Timothy Hewitt author Ian Beaver author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication hewitt-beaver-2020-case https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.11 2020-jul 79 85 It’s About Time: Turn-Entry Timing For Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Felix Gervits author Ravenna Thielstrom author Antonio Roque author Matthias Scheutz author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication gervits-etal-2020-time https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.12 2020-jul 86 96 Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays David McNeill author Casey Kennington author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication mcneill-kennington-2020-learning https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.13 2020-jul 97 106 Learning and Reasoning for Robot Dialog and Navigation Tasks Keting Lu author Shiqi Zhang author Peter Stone author Xiaoping Chen author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication lu-etal-2020-learning https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.14 2020-jul 107 117 An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions Koji Inoue author Divesh Lala author Kenta Yamamoto author Shizuka Nakamura author Katsuya Takanashi author Tatsuya Kawahara author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication inoue-etal-2020-attentive https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.15 2020-jul 118 127 A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World Georgiy Platonov author Lenhart Schubert author Benjamin Kane author Aaron Gindi author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication platonov-etal-2020-spoken https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.16 2020-jul 128 131 rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System Casey Kennington author Daniele Moro author Lucas Marchand author Jake Carns author David McNeill author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication kennington-etal-2020-rrsds https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.17 2020-jul 132 135 Discovering Knowledge Graph Schema from Short Natural Language Text via Dialog Subhasis Ghosh author Arpita Kundu author Aniket Pramanick author Indrajit Bhattacharya author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication ghosh-etal-2020-discovering https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.18 2020-jul 136 146 User Impressions of Questions to Acquire Lexical Knowledge Kazunori Komatani author Mikio Nakano author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication komatani-nakano-2020-user https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.19 2020-jul 147 156 Simulating Turn-Taking in Conversations with Delayed Transmission Thilo Michael author Sebastian Möller author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication michael-moller-2020-simulating https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.20 2020-jul 157 161 Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities Alessandra Cervone author Giuseppe Riccardi author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication cervone-riccardi-2020-dialogue https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.21 2020-jul 162 174 Analyzing Speaker Strategy in Referential Communication Brian McMahan author Matthew Stone author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication mcmahan-stone-2020-analyzing https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.22 2020-jul 175 185 Contextualized Emotion Recognition in Conversation as Sequence Tagging Yan Wang author Jiayu Zhang author Jun Ma author Shaojun Wang author Jing Xiao author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication wang-etal-2020-contextualized https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.23 2020-jul 186 195 How Self-Attention Improves Rare Class Performance in a Question-Answering Dialogue Agent Adam Stiff author Qi Song author Eric Fosler-Lussier author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication stiff-etal-2020-self https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.24 2020-jul 196 202 Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies Simone Fuscone author Benoit Favre author Laurent Prévot author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting 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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.27 2020-jul 215 224 Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT Shikib Mehri author Maxine Eskenazi author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication mehri-eskenazi-2020-unsupervised https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.28 2020-jul 225 235 Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols Sarah E Finch author Jinho D Choi author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication finch-choi-2020-towards https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.29 2020-jul 236 245 Human-Human Health Coaching via Text Messages: Corpus, Annotation, and Analysis Itika Gupta author Barbara Di Eugenio author Brian Ziebart author Aiswarya Baiju author Bing Liu author Ben Gerber author Lisa Sharp author Nadia Nabulsi author Mary Smart author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication gupta-etal-2020-human https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.30 2020-jul 246 256 Agent-Based Dynamic Collaboration Support in a Smart Office Space Yansen Wang author R Charles Murray author Haogang Bao author Carolyn Rose author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication wang-etal-2020-agent https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.31 2020-jul 257 260 Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development James D Finch author Jinho D Choi author 2020-jul text 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https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.34 2020-jul 272 277 Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Seokhwan Kim author Mihail Eric author Karthik Gopalakrishnan author Behnam Hedayatnia author Yang Liu author Dilek Hakkani-Tur author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication kim-etal-2020-beyond https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.35 2020-jul 278 289 Multi-Action Dialog Policy Learning with Interactive Human Teaching Megha Jhunjhunwala author Caleb Bryant author Pararth Shah author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication jhunjhunwala-etal-2020-multi https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.36 2020-jul 290 296 Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation Ryuichi Takanobu author Qi Zhu author Jinchao Li author Baolin Peng author Jianfeng Gao author Minlie Huang author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication takanobu-etal-2020-goal https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.37 2020-jul 297 310 Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison Stefan Ultes author Wolfgang Maier author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication ultes-maier-2020-similarity https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.38 2020-jul 311 322 Collection and Analysis of Dialogues Provided by Two Speakers Acting as One Tsunehiro Arimoto author Ryuichiro Higashinaka author Kou Tanaka author Takahito Kawanishi author Hiroaki Sugiyama author Hiroshi Sawada author Hiroshi Ishiguro author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication arimoto-etal-2020-collection https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.39 2020-jul 323 328 Adaptive Dialog Policy Learning with Hindsight and User Modeling Yan Cao author Keting Lu author Xiaoping Chen author Shiqi Zhang author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication cao-etal-2020-adaptive https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.40 2020-jul 329 338 Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games through Multimodal Communication Maryam Zare author Ali Ayub author Aishan Liu author Sweekar Sudhakara author Alan Wagner author Rebecca Passonneau author 2020-jul text Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Association for Computational Linguistics 1st virtual meeting conference publication zare-etal-2020-dialogue https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sigdial-1.41 2020-jul 339 351