Workshop Programme
Wednesday, January 13th 2016
12:00-18:00 | Registration | |
14:00-15:00 | Lunch | |
15:00-15:30 | Session 1: Opening and Welcome (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen) | |
15:30-16:30 | Session 2: Special session: Dialogue State Tracking Challenge (Chair: Seokhwan Kim) | |
15:30-15:50 |
| Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'haro Enriquez, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams and Matthew Henderson. The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge |
15:50-16:10 |
| Hongjie Shi, Takashi Ushio, Mitsuru Endo, Katsuyoshi Yamagami and Noriaki Horii. Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-topic Dialog State Tracking |
16:10-16:30 |
| Miao Li and Ji Wu. The MSIIP System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 |
16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break | |
17:00-18:30 | Session 3: Special session: Dialogue State Tracking Challenge (Chair: Luis Fernando D'Haro) | |
17:00-17:20 |
| Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui and Hung H. Bui. Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies |
17:20-17:40 |
| Koichiro Yoshino, Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig and Satoshi Nakamura. Dialogue State Tracking using Long Short Term Memory Neural Networks |
17:40-18:00 |
| Julien Perez and Will Radford. Probabilistic matching for dialog state tracking with limited training data |
18:00-18:10 |
| Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui and Hung H. Bui. Spoken Language Understanding for DSTC 4 |
18:30-19:30 | Session 4: Invited Talk (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen) | |
18:30-19:30 |
| David Traum. The role of a lifetime: Dialogue Models for Virtual Human Role-players. |
19:30-22:00 | Welcome Reception | |
| Thursday, January 14th 2016 | ||
09:00-10:30 | Session 5: Dialogue Quality Assessment (chair: Joseph Mariani) | |
09:00-09:20 |
| Atsushi Otsuka, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino and Yoshihiro Matsuo. Utterance Selection using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems |
09:20-09:40 |
| Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker. Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation |
09:40-10:00 |
| Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Minker. Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation |
10:00-10:10 |
| Hideaki Mori, Atsushi Yasuda and Masahiro Araki. An evaluation method of system response in chat-oriented dialogue system |
10:10-10:20 |
| Romain Laroche and Aude Genevay. The Negotiation Dialogue Game |
10:20-10:30 |
| Yuya Chiba and Akinori Ito. Estimation of User's Willingness to Talk about the Topic: Analysis of Interviews between Humans |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00-12:00 | Session 6: Speech and dialogue (Chair: Mikko Kurimo) | |
11:00-11:20 |
| Timo Baumann, Casey Kennington, Julian Hough and David Schlangen. Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get There |
11:20-11:40 |
| Alexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange, David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Yao Qian, Zhou Yu and Jidong Tao. Speed vs. Accuracy: Designing an Optimal ASR System for Spontaneous Non-Native Speech in a Real-Time Application |
11:40-12:00 |
| Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche and Fabrice Lefèvre. Incremental Human-machine Dialogue Simulation |
12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30-15:30 | Session 7: Methods and contents (Chair: Satoshi Nakamura) | |
13:30-13:50 |
| Roman Sergienko, Muhammad Shan and Alexander Schmitt. A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing |
13:50-14:10 |
| Layla El Asri, Romain Laroche and Olivier Pietquin. Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed Memory |
14:10-14:30 |
| Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura. Active Learning for Example-based Dialog Systems |
14:30-14:50 |
| Kazunori Komatani, Tsugumi Otsuka, Satoshi Sato and Mikio Nakano. Question Selection based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information through Dialogue |
14:50-15:10 |
| Florian Nothdurft, Pascal Bercher, Gregor Behnke and Wolfgang Minker. User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems |
15:10-15:30 |
| Kristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Niklas Laxström, Ilona Rauhala and Graham Wilcock. DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami language |
15:30-16:30 | Session 8: Poster-Demo session (Chair: Graham Wilcock) | |
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| Balamurali Ar, Frederic Bechet and Benoit Favre. CallAn: A Tool to Analyze Call Center Conversations |
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| Heriberto Cuayahuitl. SimpleDS: A Simple Deep Reinforcement Learning Dialogue System |
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| Benoit Favre, Mickael Rouvier, Frederic Bechet and Rocio Berenguer. Speech Input for Live Performance: An Impromptu Dialogue Between the Computer and the Artist |
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| Mary Ellen Foster and Ron Petrick. Separating representation, reasoning, and implementation for interaction management |
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| Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz and Nick Campbell. Data Collection and Synchronisation: Towards A Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue System with Metacognitive Abilities |
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| Helen Hastie, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Simon Keizer and Xingkun Liu. Evaluation of NLG in an end-to-end Spoken dialogue system- is it worth it? |
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| Tomo Horii, Hideaki Mori and Masahiro Araki. A breakdown detector in chat-oriented dialogue |
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| Maria Schmidt, Jan Niehues and Alex Waibel. Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog System |
16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break | |
17:00-19:30 | Special session: Evaluation of Social Robotics (Chair: Laurence Devillers) | |
17:00-18:00 | Session 9: Oral session: Evaluation of social Human-Machine Interaction (Chair: Laurence Devillers) | |
17:00-17:15 |
| Roger Moore. Is Spoken Language All-or-Nothing? Implications for future speech-based human-machine interaction |
17:15-17:30 |
| Laurence Devillers and Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis. A Context-based Approach to Assess Engagement in Human-Robot Social Interaction |
17:30-17:45 |
| Takashi Yamaguchi, Koji Inoue, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuya Takanashi, Nigel Ward and Tatsuya Kawahara. Analysis and Prediction of Morphological Patterns of Backchannels for Attentive Listening Agents |
17:45-18:00 |
| Nick Campbell and Loredana Sundberg Cerrato. Dialogue-capable Social Robots - Skills, Techniques, and Evaluation |
18:00-18:30 | Session 10: Poster-Demo session: Interaction with robots (Chair: Laurence Devillers) | |
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| Felix Schüssel, Marcel Walch, Katja Rogers, Frank Honold and Michael Weber. Lend a Hand to Service Robots: Overcoming System Limitations by Asking Humans |
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| Andreas Wedenborn, Preben Wik, Olof Engwall and Jonas Beskow. The effect of a physical robot on vocabulary learning |
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| Graham Wilcock, Niklas Laxström, Juho Leinonen, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo and Kristiina Jokinen. Towards SamiTalk: a Sami-speaking robot linked to Sami Wikipedia |
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| Marcel Walch, Felix Schüssel, Katja Rogers, Frank Honold and Michael Weber. A low-cost Service Robot Platform for Wizard of Oz Studies in the Wild |
18:30-19:30 | Session 11: Position papers followed by panel discussion (Chair: Joseph Mariani) | |
18:30-18:40 |
| Amit Kumar Pandey, Rodolphe Gelin and Coline Le Dantec. Towards Evaluating Human Robot Dialog based Affordance Learning and the Challenges |
18:40-18:50 |
| Daniele Nardi, Roberto Basili, Emanuele Bastianelli, Danilo Croce, Guglielmo Gemignani and Andrea Vanzo. Dialog with Robots to Support Symbiotic Autonomy |
18:50-19:30 | D | iscussion: What would you propose for Social Robotics Evaluation? |
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| Nick Campbell, Laurence Devillers, Wolfgang Minker, Roger Moore and Amit Kumar Pandey |
19:30-21:00 | Dinner (Hotel Riekonlinna) | |
| Friday, January 15th 2016 | ||
08:30-15:00 | Conference Trip to Siida and Sajos | |
15:00-16:00 | Session 12: Invited Talk (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen) | |
15:00-16:00 |
| Riitta Hari. About the Primacy of Social Interaction in Human Brain Function |
16:00-17:00 | Session 13: Special session: Socio-cognitive Language Processing 1 (Chair: Björn Schuller) | |
16:00-16:05 |
| Björn Schuller. Introduction |
16:05-16:20 |
| Björn Schuller and Michael McTear. Sociocognitive Language Processing - Emphasising the Soft Factors |
16:20-16:40 |
| Takumi Takahashi, Kazuya Mera, Nhat Tang, Yoshiaki Kurosawa and Toshiyuki Takezawa. Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker's Emotion Calculated from Acoustic Features |
16:40-17:00 |
| Maxim Sidorov, Christina Brester, Stefan Ultes and Alexander Schmitt. Salient Cross-lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition |
17:00-17:30 | Coffee Break | |
17:30-19:00 | Session 14: Special session: Socio-cognitive Language Processing 2 (Chair: Björn Schuller) | |
17:30-17:50 |
| Manex Serras, Naiara Perez, María Inés Torres and Arantza Del Pozo. Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling Uncertainty |
17:50-18:10 |
| Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. Evaluation of Question-answering system for Questions about Conversational Agent's Personality |
18:10-18:25 |
| Yuiko Tsunomori, Graham Neubig, Takuya Hiraoka, Masahiro Mizukami, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda and Satoshi Nakamura. A Dialog System to Detect Deception |
18:25-18:40 |
| Jun Deng, Xinzhou Xu, Zixing Zhang, Sascha Frhüholz, Didier Grandjean and Björn Schuller. Fisher Kernels on Phase-based Features for Speech Emotion Recognition |
18:40-18:55 |
| Emer Gilmartin, Ketong Su and Nick Campbell. Exploring and Modelling the Architecture of Multiparty Social Talk |
18:55-19:00 |
| Björn Schuller. Concluding Remarks |
19:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner (Santa's Hotel Tunturi) | |
| Saturday, January 16th 2016 | ||
09:00-10:20 | Session 15: Dialogue Systems (Chair: Wolfgang Minker) | |
09:00-09:20 |
| Javier Mikel Olaso, Pierrick Milhorat, Julia Himmelsbach, Jerome Boudy, Gérard Chollet, Stephan Schlögl and María Inés Torres Torres. A Multi-lingual Evaluation of the vAssist Spoken Dialog System. Comparing Disco and RavenClaw |
09:20-09:40 |
| Niklas Laxström, Graham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen. Internationalisation and localisation of spoken dialogue systems |
09:40-10:00 |
| Ming Sun, Yun-Nung Chen and Alexander Rudnicky. HELPR: A Framework to Break the Barrier across Domains in Spoken Dialog Systems |
10:00-10:20 |
| Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Mundkowsky, Patrick Lange, Alan Black, David Suendermann-Oeft and Alexei Ivanov. Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal Dialog Framework |
10:20-10:45 | Session 16: Closing and Goodbye (Chair: Kristiina Jokinen) | |
10:45-11:15 | Coffee | |