Workshop Programme
January 17, 2014
18:30-19:30 | Registration |
19:30 | Dinner |
January 18, 2014
9:15-9:30 | Workshop opening |
9:30-10:30 | Keynote 1: Hierarchical Utterance Understanding for Robust Human-Robot Spoken Dialogues Kazunori Komatani Nagoya University, Japan |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-13:00 | Oral session 1: Understanding (Chairperson: Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany) |
A Turbo-Decoding Weighted Forward-Backward Algorithm for Multimodal Speech Recognition Simon Receveur, David Scheler and Tim Fingscheidt Institute for Communications Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany | |
Engine-independent ASR Error Management for Dialog Systems Junhwi Choi1, Donghyeon Lee1, Seounghan Ryu1, Kyusong Lee1, Kyungduk Kim1, Hyungjong Noh2, and Gary Geunbae Lee1 1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology and 2Samsung Electronics, Korea | |
Restoring Incorrectly Segmented Keywords and Turn-Taking Caused by Short Pauses Kazunori Komatani, Naoki Hotta, and Satoshi Sato Nagoya University, Japan | |
Investigating Critical Speech Recognition Errors in Spoken Short Messages Aasish Pappu1, Teruhisa Misu2, and Rakesh Gupta2 1Carnegie Mellon University and 2Honda Research Institute, USA | |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:00 | Keynote 2: Situated Interaction: Opportunities and Challenges Dan Bohus Microsoft Research, USA |
15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30-17:30 | Oral session 2: Dialog Management (Chairperson: Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea) |
Evaluation of Statistical POMDP-based Dialogue Systems in Noisy Environments Steve Young1, Catherine Breslin1, Milica Gasic1, Matthew Henderson1, Dongho Kim1, Martin Szummer1, Blaise Thomson1, Pirros Tsiakoulis1, and Eli Tzirkel Hancock2 1Cambridge University, Engineering Department, UK and 2General Motors Advanced Technical CenterMedia, Israel | |
Evaluating Model that Predicts When People will Speak to a Humanoid Robot and Handling Variations of Individuals and Instructions Takaaki Sugiyama, Kazunori Komatani, and Satoshi Sato Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan | |
Integrated Interpretation and Generation of Task-Oriented Dialog Alfredo Gabaldon1, Ben Meadows2, and Pat Langley1 1Silicon Valley Campus, Carnegie Mellon Universitym, USA and 2Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand | |
Detecting 'Request Alternatives' User Dialog Acts from Dialog Context Yi Ma and Eric Fosler-Lussier Ohio State University, USA | |
17:30 | End of day 1 |
18:30 | Dinner at Artesa Winery |
January 19, 2014
9:00-10:00 | Keynote 3: Modeling Human Communication Dynamics Louis-Philippe Morency Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA |
10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
10:30-12:30 | Oral session 3: Generation (Chairperson: Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan) |
Entrainment in Pedestrian Direction Giving: How many kinds of entrainment? Zhichao Hu, Gabrielle Halberg, Carolynn R. Jimenez and Marilyn A. Walker University of California Santa Cruz, Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab, USA | |
Evaluation of In-Car SDS Notification Concepts for Incoming Proactive Events Hansjörg Hofmann1, Mario Hermanutz1, Vanessa Tobisch1, Ute Ehrlich1, André Berton, and Wolfgang Minker2 1Daimler AG and 2Ulm University, Germany | |
Syntactic Filtering and Content-based Retrieval of Twitter Sentences for the Generation of System Utterances in Dialogue Systems Ryuichiro Higashinaka1, Nozomi Kobayashi1, Toru Hirano1, Chiaki Miyazaki1, Toyomi Meguro2, Toshiro Makino1, and Yoshihiro Matsuo1 1NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories and 2NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan | |
Chat-like Conversational System based on Selection of Reply Generating Module with Reinforcement Learning Tomohide Shibata, Yusuke Egashira and Sadao Kurohashi Kyoto University, Japan | |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch/Poster/Demo |
Dialogue Management for User-centered Adaptive Dialogue Stefan Ultes, Huseyin Dikme, and Wolfgang Minker Ulm University, Germany | |
A semi-automated evaluation metric for dialogue model coherence Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, USA | |
Justification and Transparency Explanations in Dialogue Systems to Maintain Human-Computer Trust Florian Nothdurft and Wolfgang Minker Ulm University, Germany | |
Situated Interaction in a Multilingual Spoken Information Access Framework Niklas Laxstrom, Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock University of Helsinki, Finland | |
WFSTDM Builder - Network-based Spoken Dialogue System Builder for Easy Prototyping Etsuo Mizukami and Chiori Hori National Institute of Communications and Information Technology, Japan | |
A demonstration of a natural-language pedestrian routing system Johan Boye1, Morgan Fredriksson2, Jana Götze1, Jürgen Königsmann2 1KTH, School of Computer Science and 2Communication and Liquid Media, Hammarby, Sweden | |
Web-based Multimodal Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System Ridong Jiang, Rafael E. Banchs, Seokhwan Kim, Kheng Hui Yeo, Arthur Niswar, and Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore | |
A Framework for Domain-specific Multi-modal Dialog System Creation Silke Witt, Farzad Ehsani, Demitrios Master, and Eryk Warren Fluential, USA | |
A Trialogue-Based Spoken Dialogue System for Assessment of English Language Learners Christopher M. Mitchell1, Keelan Evanini2, and Klaus Zechner2 1Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University and 2Educational Testing Service, USA | |
14:00-15:30 | Oral session 4: Human-Human Dialog (Chairperson: Marylin Walker, University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
The HRI-CMU Corpus of Situated In-Car Interactions David Cohen1, Akshay Chandrashekaran1, Ian Lane1, and Antoine Raux2 1Carnegie Mellon University and 2Honda Research Institute, USA | |
Construction and Analysis of a Persuasive Dialogue Corpus Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan | |
Emotion and Its Triggers in Human Spoken Dialogue: Recognition and Analysis Nurul Lubis12, Sakriani Sakti1, Graham Neubig1, Tomoki Toda1, Ayu Purwarianti2, and Satoshi Nakamura1 1Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan and 2Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | Panel session |
17:00-17:15 | Closing |
January 20, 2014
Silicon Valley tour |