Workshop Programme
December 9
Registration, 09:00-09:25
Workshop Opening, 09:25-09:30
Speech Recognition and Semantic Analysis (a), 09:30-10:30
- Pronunciation Variation Dependent Acoustic and Pronunciation Model Adaptation for Non-Native Noisy Speech Recognition,
Yoo Rhee Oh, Hong Kook Kim - Multilingual Speech Interfaces for Resource-constrained Dialog Systems,
Martin Raab, Rainer Gruhn, Elmar Nöth
Break - Coffee and Tea, 10:30-11:00
Keynote I, 11:00-12:00 Mike McTear
Speech Recognition and Semantic Analysis (b), 12:00-12:30
- Isolated Word Recognition Based on Inter and Intra Phonetic Classifiers,
Daniel Vasquez, Guillermo Aradilla, Rainer Gruhn, Wolfgang Minker
Lunch, 12:30-14:00
Adaptive Dialogue Modelling, 14:00-15:30
- Ontology-based Spoken Dialogue Modelling,
Tobias Heinroth, Dan Denich, Gregor Bertrand - Test of Spoken Dialogue Systems By Simulating Different Levels of User Cooperativeness,
Ramón López-Cózar, Gonzalo Espejo, Zoraida Callejas, Ana Gutiérrez, David Griol - Finding paraphrases for dialogue utterances using a multilingual parallel movie subtitle corpus,
Rob Koeling, Marco De-Boni, Martijn Spitters, Jakub Zavrel
Postersession I (incl. Coffeebreak), 15:30-17:30
The session starts with a 2 min. short presentation by each poster or demo author.
- Attention Directed Dialogue System for a Social Robot,
Ridong Jiang, Yeow Kee Tan, Dilip Limbu Kumar, Nguyen Trung Hiew, Boon Siew Han, Chern Yuen Wong, Liyuan Li, Kah Eng Hoe, Xinguo Yu, Li Dong, Haizhou Li - Usability Engineering for Spoken Dialogue Systems via Statistical User Models,
Sebastian Möller, Robert Schleicher, Dmitry Butenkov, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Florian Gödde, Tatjana Scheffler, Roland Roller, Norbert Reithinger - Importing Human Tutor's Conversation Strategy into Dialog Systems for Language Learning using Fuzzy Logic,
Sungjin Lee, Hyungjong Noh, Jonghoon Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee - Training Bayesian networks for realistic man-machine spoken dialogue simulation,
Olivier Pietquin, Stéphane Rossignol, Michel Ianotto - Effects of Personality Traits on Listening-oriented Dialogue,
Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Yasuhiro Minami, Hideki Isozaki - An Exploratory Analysis on Users\' Communication Styles affecting Subjective Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems,
Etsuo Mizukami, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura - Cognitive Memory Modeling for Interactive Systems in Dynamic Environments,
Felix Putze, Tanja Schultz - Prediction of Turn-wise User Judgments from Acoustic Features of User Utterances,
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Felix Burkhardt, Sebastian Möller
Social Programme and Welcome Reception, 17:30-20:00
Dinner, 20:00
December 10
Keynote II, 09:00-10:00 Sebastian Möller
Multi-modality, 10:00-11:00
- Classification of Utterances into Command Expressions and Conversational Expressions in Virtual Space Operation Task,
Sho Otani, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Kazuya Mera, Toshiyuki Takezawa - Towards Implementing Proactive Conversational Agent for Virtual Space Guidance,
Tomohiro MUKAI, Yoshiaki KUROSAWA, Kazuya MERA, Toshiyuki TAKEZAWA
Break - Coffee and Tea, 11:00-11:30
Recognition of Emotions, 11:30-13:00
- Comparing Features for Acoustic Anger Classification in German and English IVR Portals,
Tim Polzehl, Alexander Schmitt, Florian Metze - A Psychomime Classification Method using a Self-Organization Map Algorithm for Implementing Emotional Spoken Dialog System,
Yoshiaki KUROSAWA, Kazuya MERA, Toshiyuki TAKEZAWA - Approaching emotion in human computer interaction,
Stefan Scherer, Edmondo Trentin, Friedhelm Schwenker, Guenther Palm
Lunch, 13:00-14:00
Dialogue Management I, 14:00-15:30
- Online Learning of Bayes Risk-Based Optimization of Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval Systems with Speech Interfac,
Teruhisa Misu, Komei Sugiura, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kiyonori Ohtake, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura - trindikit.py: An open-source Python library for developing ISU-based dialogue systems,
Peter Ljunglöf - Efficiency of Optimization for Weighted Finite State Transducer based Dialog Management,
Chiori Hori, Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura
Postersession II (incl. Coffeebreak), 15:30-16:30
The session starts with a 2 min. short presentation by each poster or demo author.
- Reduction of the Temporal Complexity of N-gram Transducers for Dialogue Annotation,
Vicent Tamarit, Carlos-D. Martínez-Hinarejos, José-Miguel Benedí - A Wizard-of-Oz interface to study Information Presentation strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems,
Xingkun Liu, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon - Spoken Dialog System with Statistical Dialog Management for Next Generation Knowledge Access,
hideki kashioka, kiyonori ohtake, teruhisa misu, chiori hori, satoshi nakamura - Proposal of a Practical Spoken Dialogue System Development Method: Data-management Centered Approach,
Masahiro Araki
Dialogue Management II, 16:30-18:00
- Dialogue Control Algorithm for Ambient Intelligence based on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes,
Yasuhiro Minami, Akira Mori, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda - Practical Experience of Using ADiEU Score for Domain-based Evaluation of Spoken Dialog,
Jan Kleindienst, Jan Curin, Martin Labsky - A Bidding Approach to Turn-Taking,
Ethan Selfridge, Peter Heeman
Conference Dinner, 20:00-00:00
December 11
Databases, Corpora and User Modelling, 09:00-10:30
- Dialogue Acts Annotation to Construct Dialogue Systems for Consulting,
Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Hideki Kashioka, Satoshi Nakamura - MOUNTAIN: A Translation-based Approach to Natural Language Generation for Dialog Systems,
Brian Langner, Alan W Black - Using Collaborative Filtering to Predict User Utterances in Dialogue,
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Noriaki Kawamae, Kohji Dohsaka, Hideki Isozaki
Break - Coffee and Tea, 10:30-11:00
Prototypes, Products and Evaluation, 11:00-12:30
- Supporting a Rapid Dialogue System Engineering Process,
Daniel Sonntag, Robert Neßelrath, Gerhard Sonnenberg, Gerd Herzog - NADIA - A Natural Language Spoken Dialog System for Automotive Infotainment Applications,
Mark Pleschka, Stefan Schulz, Julia Ahlers, Benjamin Weiss, Sebastian Möller - Identifying Spoken Dialogue Systems Differences,
José González-Brenes, Alan Black, Maxine Eskenazi
Lunch, 12:30-14:00
End of Workshop and Departure, 14:00