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SIGDIAL\/SemDial 2017: Program<\/h2>\n

SemDial will be co-located with SIGdial 2017<\/a>, the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. SIGDIAL and SemDial will run concurrently on August 15-17 and will share three keynote speakers, two joint special sessions, and two joint poster\/demo
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The conference will take place in E 1.3 and E 2.2 buildings, Uni Ost – E green sector on the Interactive Campus Map.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Tuesday 15th August 2017<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nSIGDIAL<\/b><\/td>\nSemDial<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08:00<\/td>\nRegistration (E 2.2 foyer, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08:45<\/td>\n\u00a0 Opening: Welcome and Conferences Overview <\/b>
\n(E2.2 G\u00fcnter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor)
\n SIGDIAL: Kristiina Jokinen, David DeVault, Annie Louis <\/i>
\n SemDial: Volha Petukhova, Ye Tian <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00<\/td>\nKeynote Speaker: Oliver Lemon<\/b>
\nChallenges for Data-driven dialogue systems finding the goldilocks zone for conversational data<\/a>
\n(E2.2 G\u00fcnter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor)
\n Chair: Volha Petukhova <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOral Session 1 <\/b>
\nTask-Oriented Dialogue Systems<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)
\n Chair: Pierre Lison <\/i><\/td>\n		Oral Session 1 <\/b>
\nSemantic\/Pragmatic Interpretation<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 001 room)
\n Chair: Simon Dobnik <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30<\/td>\nKey-Value Retrieval Networks for Task-Oriented Dialogue<\/b>
\nMihail Eric and Christopher D. Manning<\/td>\n		Referring Expressions and Communicative Success in Task-oriented Dialogues<\/b>
\nLaura Aina, Natalia Philippova, Valentin Vogelmann and Raquel Fern\u00e1ndez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:55<\/td>\nGenerative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability<\/b>
\nTiancheng Zhao, Allen Lu, Kyusong Lee and Maxine Eskenazi<\/td>\n		Negotiation of discourse moves: right periphery tags<\/b>
\nAdriana Osa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:20<\/td>\nSample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management<\/b>
\nPei-Hao Su, Pawe\u0142 Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Milica Gasic and Steve Young<\/td>\n		Meta-conversational since when-questions and the common ground<\/b>
\nAngelika Kiss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45<\/td>\nLunch (served, E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n Joint Special Session on Negotiation Dialog <\/b>
\n(E1.3 H002)
\n Session Chair: Amanda Stent <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00<\/td>\nIntroduction to the Special Session <\/b>
\nSession Organizers: Amanda Stent, Aasish Pappu, Diane Litman, and Marilyn Walker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:05<\/td>\nOnline learning and transfer for user adaptation in
\ndialogue systems<\/b>
\nCarrara Nicolas, Romain Laroche and
\nOlivier Pietquin (SemDial paper)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:30<\/td>\nAutomatic Measures to Characterise Verbal Alignment in
\nHuman-Agent Interaction<\/b>
\nGuillaume Dubuisson
\nDuplessis, Chlo\u00e9 Clavel and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Landragin (SIGDIAL paper)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:55<\/td>\n Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media<\/b>
\nAmita Misra, Shereen Oraby, Shubhangi Tandon, Sharath Ts, Pranav Anand and
\nMarilyn Walker (SemDial paper)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:20<\/td>\nPosition Paper Short Talks<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHeated discussion: A proposal for eliciting negotiation
\ndata with realistic emotional investment<\/b>
\nBeth Ann
\nHockey and Christine Doran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Complex Negotiation Dialogue Game<\/b>
\nRomain Laroche<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBuilding an ontology of (dis)agreement space for argument mining<\/b>
\nElena Musi, Debanjan Ghosh, Mark Aakhus, Smaranda Muresan, and Nina Wacholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMetalogue Multi-Issue Bargaining Corpus<\/b>
\nVolha Petukhova, Andrei Malchanau, Youssef Oualil, Dietrich Klakow, Christopher Stevens, Harmen de Weerd, Niels Taatgen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:35<\/td>\n Discussion & Next Steps <\/b>
\nSession Organizers: Amanda Stent, Aasish Pappu, Diane Litman, and Marilyn Walker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30<\/td>\n Joint Poster Session<\/b>
\n(E 1.3 open area, ground floor)
\n Chairs: Volha Petukhova, David DeVault <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n 12 SIGDIAL Posters <\/b><\/td>\n 8 SemDial Posters <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeyond On-hold Messages: Conversational Time-buying in Task-oriented Dialogue<\/b>
\nSoledad L\u00f3pez Gambino, Sina Zarrie\u00df and David SchlangenEnabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users
\nRamin Yaghoubzadeh and Stefan KoppExploring Joint Neural Model for Sentence Level Discourse Parsing and Sentiment Analysis<\/b>
\nBita Nejat, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond NgFinding Structure in Figurative Language: Metaphor Detection with Topic-based Frames<\/b>
\nHyeju Jang, Keith Maki, Eduard Hovy and Carolyn RoseInferring Narrative Causality between Event Pairs in Films<\/b>
\nZhichao Hu and Marilyn WalkerInteraction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories<\/b>
\nNiklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan UltesNeural-based Context Representation Learning for Dialog Act Classification<\/b>
\nDaniel Ortega and Ngoc Thang Vu<\/p>\n

Predicting Success in Goal-Driven Human-Human Dialogues<\/b>
\nMichael Noseworthy, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung and Joelle Pineau<\/p>\n

Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning<\/b>
\nStefan Ultes, Pawe\u0142 Budzianowski, I\u00f1igo Casanueva, Nikola Mrk\u0161i\u0107, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gasic and Steve Young<\/p>\n

Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning<\/b>
\nPawe\u0142 Budzianowski, Stefan Ultes, Pei-Hao Su, Nikola Mrk\u0161i\u0107, Tsung-Hsien Wen, I\u00f1igo Casanueva, Lina M. Rojas Barahona and Milica Gasic<\/p>\n

User-initiated Sub-dialogues in State-of-the-art Dialogue Systems<\/b>
\nStaffan Larsson<\/p>\n

Utterance Intent Classification of a Spoken Dialogue System with Efficiently Untied Recursive Autoencoders<\/b>
\nTsuneo Kato, Atsushi Nagai, Naoki Noda, Ryosuke Sumitomo, Jianming Wu and Seiichi Yamamoto<\/td>\n

A Phonetic Adaptation Module for Spoken Dialogue Systems<\/b>
\nEran Raveh and Ingmar Steiner<\/p>\n

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Towards Learning Transferable Conversational Skills using Multi-dimensional Dialogue Modelling<\/strong>
\nSimon Keizer and Verena Rieser<\/p>\n

Towards a Dialogue System with Long-term, Episodic Memory<\/b>
\nDaniel Kondratyuk and Casey Kennington<\/p>\n

Towards End-to-End Modeling of Spoken Language Understanding in a Cloud-based Spoken Dialog System<\/b>
\nYao Qian, Rutuja Ubale, Vikram Ramanaryanan, David Suendermann-Oeft, Keelan Evanini, Patrick Lange and Eugene Tsuprun<\/p>\n

Concern-Alignment for Negotiation and Joint Inquiry in Dialogues<\/b>
\nYasuhiro Katagiri, Katsuya Takanashi, Masato Ishizaki, Mika Enomoto and Yasuharu Den<\/p>\n

Training Argumentation Skills with Argumentative Writing Support<\/b>
\nChristian Stab and Iryna Gurevych<\/p>\n

Syntactic Priming by Japanese EFL Learners in Dialogue Contexts based on Different Task Types<\/b>
\nMiwa Morishita and Yasunari Harada<\/p>\n

A transferentive connective marker -etaka in Korean: Perspectives of Grammaticalilzation and Pragmatics<\/b>
\nSunhee Yae<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

17:00<\/td>\nSponsor Session<\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS002)
\n Chair: Ethan Selfridge <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:45<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:15<\/td>\nWelcome Reception (E2.2 back yard)<\/b><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Wednesday 16th August 2017<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nSIGDIAL<\/b><\/td>\nSemDial<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00<\/td>\nKeynote Speaker: Elisabeth Andr\u00e9<\/b>
\nEmpowering Human-Robot Dialogue by Affective Computing Research<\/a>
\n(E2.2 G\u00fcnter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor)
\n Chair: David DeVault <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOral Session 2 <\/b>
\nTurn-Taking and Real-Time Interaction<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)
\n Chair: Kristiina Jokinen <\/i><\/td>\n		Oral Session 2 <\/b>
\nMultimodality<\/i><\/b>
\n(E.3 HS 001 room)
\n Chair: Ichiro Umata <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30<\/td>\nTowards a General, Continuous Model of Turn-taking in Spoken Dialogue using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks<\/b>
\nGabriel Skantze<\/td>\n		Unimodal and Bimodal Backchannels in Conversational English<\/b>
\nGaelle Ferre and Suzanne Renaudier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:55<\/td>\nAttentive listening system with backchanneling, response generation and flexible turn-taking<\/b>
\nDivesh Lala, Pierrick Milhorat, Koji Inoue, Masanari Ishida, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara<\/td>\n		Multimodal Coreference Resolution for Exploratory Data Visualization Dialogue: Context-Based Annotation and Gesture Identification<\/b>
\nAbhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio, Andrew Johnson, Abeer Alsaiari, Nigel Flowers, Alberto Gonzalez and Jason Leigh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:20<\/td>\nUsing Reinforcement Learning to Model Incrementality in a Fast-Paced Dialogue Game<\/b>
\nRamesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault and Kallirroi Georgila<\/td>\n		 (Perceptual) grounding as interaction<\/b>
\nSimon Dobnik and Amelie \u00c5stbom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45<\/td>\nLunch (D 4.1 Uni Mensa)*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSpecial Session: Natural Language Generation for Dialogue Systems<\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)
\n Chair: Vera Demberg <\/i><\/td>\n		Oral Session 3<\/b>
\nComputational Dialogue Modelling<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 001 room)
\n Chair: Staffan Larsson <\/i><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:00-
\n13:10<\/td>\n		Introduction to the Special Session <\/b>
\nSession Organizers: Marilyn Walker, Verena Rieser, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, David M. Howcroft, Shereen Oraby<\/td>\n		Challenging Neural Dialogue Models with Natural Data: Memory Networks Fail on Incremental Phenomena<\/b>
\nIgor Shalyminov, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon<\/td>\n		13:00-
\n13:25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:10-
\n13:35<\/td>\n		Redundancy Localization for the Conversationalization of Unstructured Responses<\/b>
\nSebastian Krause, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Eric Malmi and Daniele Pighin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Computing negotiation update semantics in multi-issue bargaining dialogues<\/b>
\nVolha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Andrei Malchanau<\/td>\n		13:25-
\n13:50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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13:35-
\n14:00<\/td>\n		Neural Language Generation in Dialogue using RNN Encoder-Decoder with Semantic Aggregation<\/b>
\nVan-Khanh Tran and Le-Minh Nguyen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Dialogue Act Semantic Representation and Classification Using Recurrent Neural Networks<\/b>
\nPinelopi Papalampidi, Elias Iosif and Alexandros Potamianos<\/td>\n		13:50-
\n14:15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:00-
\n14:05<\/td>\n		The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation<\/b>
\nJekaterina Novikova, Ond\u0159ej Du\u0161ek and Verena Rieser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:05-
\n14:10<\/td>\n		A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset<\/b>
\nShubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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14:10-
\n15:00<\/td>\n		Panel\/Discussion<\/b>
\nVerena Rieser, Hadar Shemtov, Amanda Stent, Milica Gasic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Resuscitation procedures as multi-party dialogue<\/b>
\nErnisa Marzuki, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Gareth Clegg and Holly Branigan<\/td>\n		14:15-
\n14:40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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15:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-
\n17:30<\/td>\n		Joint Poster\/Demo Session<\/b>
\n(E1.3 open area, ground floor – posters; E 1.3 014, 015 and 016 rooms – demos)
\n Poster Chairs: Ye Tian, Annie Louis <\/i>
\n Demo Chairs: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov\u00e1, Volha Petukhova <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n10 SIGDIAL Posters<\/b><\/td>\n5 SemDial Posters<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-
\n17:30<\/td>\n		A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset<\/b>
\nShubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman (Part of NLG special session)Adversarial evaluation for open-domain dialogue generation<\/b>
\nElia Bruni and Raquel Fernandez (Part of WOCHAT special session)Are you serious?: Rhetorical Questions and Sarcasm in Social Media Dialog<\/b>
\nShereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Amita Misra, Ellen Riloff and Marilyn WalkerAutomatic Mapping of French Discourse Connectives to PDTB Discourse Relations<\/b>
\nMajid Laali and Leila KosseimGenerating and Evaluating Summaries for Partial Email Threads: Conversational Bayesian Surprise and Silver Standards<\/b>
\nJordon Johnson, Vaden Masrani, Giuseppe Carenini and Raymond NgHow Would You Say It? Eliciting Lexically Diverse Dialogue for Supervised Semantic Parsing<\/b>
\nAbhilasha Ravichander, Thomas Manzini, Matthias Grabmair, Graham Neubig, Jonathan Francis and Eric NybergMACA: A Modular Architecture for Conversational Agents<\/b>
\nHoai Phuoc Truong, Prasanna Parthasarathi and Joelle Pineau<\/p>\n

Natural Language Input for In-Car Spoken Dialog Systems: How Natural is Natural?<\/b>
\nPatricia Braunger and Wolfgang Maier<\/p>\n

Predicting Causes of Reformulation in Intelligent Assistants<\/b>
\nShumpei Sano, Nobuhiro Kaji and Manabu Sassano<\/p>\n

The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation<\/b>
\nJekaterina Novikova, Ond\u0159ej Du\u0161ek and Verena Rieser
\n(Part of NLG special session)<\/td>\n

Factor Analysis of Gazing Activities in Native and Second Language Conversations<\/b>
\nIchiro Umata, Koki Ijuin and Seiichi Yamamoto <\/p>\n

Incremental Processing for Neural Conversation Models<\/b>
\nPierre Lison and Casey Kennington<\/p>\n

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Incremental Joint Modelling for Dialogue State Tracking<\/b>
\nAnh Duong Trinh, Robert J. Ross and John D. Kelleher<\/p>\n

An Open Source Standards-Compliant Voice Browser with Support for Multiple Language Understanding Implementations<\/b>
\nDirk Schnelle-Walka, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Stefan Radomski, Patrick Lange and David Suendermann-Oeft<\/p>\n

Towards a Natural User Interface for Small Groups in Real Museum Environments<\/b>
\nMarco Valentino, Maria Di Maro and Franco Cutugno<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\n7 SIGDIAL Demos<\/b><\/td>\n2 SemDial Poster\/Demos<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30-
\n17:30<\/td>\n		A Multimodal Dialogue System for Medical Decision Support inside Virtual Reality<\/b>
\nAlexander Prange, Margarita Chikobava, Peter Poller, Michael Barz and Daniel SonntagDemonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks<\/b>
\nJason D Williams and Lars LidenDialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development<\/b>
\nKyusong Lee, Tiancheng Zhao, Yulun Du, Edward Cai, Allen Lu, Eli Pincus, David Traum, Stefan Ultes, Lina M. Rojas Barahona, Milica Gasic, Steve Young and Maxine EskenaziLearning how to learn: an adaptive dialogue agent for incrementally learning visually grounded word meanings<\/b>
\nYanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver LemonLessons in Dialogue System Deployment<\/b>
\nAnton Leuski and Ron ArtsteinInformation Navigation System with Discovering User Interests<\/b>
\nKoichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki and Satoshi NakamuraSHIHbot: A Facebook chatbot for Sexual Health Information on HIV\/AIDS<\/b>
\nJacqueline Brixey, Rens Hoegen, Wei Lan, Joshua Rusow, Karan Singla, Xusen Yin, Ron Artstein and Anton Leuski<\/td>\n		An Intelligent Digital Assistant for Clinical Operating Rooms<\/b>
\nJuliana Miehle, Nadine Gerstenlauer, Daniel Ostler, Hubertus Feu\u00dfner, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
\nArgumentative dialogue system based on argumentation structures<\/b>
\nRyuichiro Higashinaka, Kazuki Sakai, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu, Tsunehiro Arimoto, Takaaki Fukutomi, Kiyoaki Matsui, Yusuke Ijima, Hiroaki Ito, Shoko Araki, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Yoshihiro Matsuo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:30<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:40<\/td>\nBus to Voelklingen<\/b> (outside E1.3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:25<\/td>\nVoelklingen Huette Excursion<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20:15<\/td>\nDinner<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Thursday 17th August 2017<\/span><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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<\/td>\nSIGDIAL<\/b><\/td>\nSemDial<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00<\/td>\nKeynote Speaker: Andrew Kehler<\/b>
\nConversational Eliciture in a Bayesian Model of Language Interpretation<\/a>
\n(E2.2 G\u00fcnter Hotz Lecture Hall, ground floor)
\n Chair: Annie Louis <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOral Session 3 <\/b>
\nModeling Semantics and Pragmatics<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)<\/td>\n		Oral Session 4 <\/b>
\nLearning\/child-adult interactions<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 001 room)
\n Chair: Barbara Di Eugenio <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30<\/td>\nFrames: a corpus for adding memory to goal-oriented dialogue systems<\/b>
\nLayla El Asri, Hannes Schulz, Shikhar Sharma, Jeremie Zumer, Justin Harris, Emery Fine, Rahul Mehrotra and Kaheer Suleman<\/td>\n		Finding the Zone of Proximal Development: Student-Tutor Second Language Dialogue Interactions<\/b>
\nArabella Sinclair, Jon Oberlander and Dragan Gasevic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:55<\/td>\nModelling Protagonist Goals and Desires in First-Person Narrative<\/b>
\nElahe Rahimtoroghi, Jiaqi Wu, Ruimin Wang, Pranav Anand and Marilyn Walker<\/td>\n		Dialogue Acts and Updates for Semantic Coordination<\/b>
\nStaffan Larsson and Jenny Myrendal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:20<\/td>\nThe Role of Conversation Context for Sarcasm Detection in Online Interactions<\/b>
\nDebanjan Ghosh, Alexander Richard Fabbri and Smaranda Muresan<\/td>\n		Designing interactive, automated dialogues for L2 pragmatics learning<\/b>
\nVeronika Timpe-Laughlin, Keelan Evanini, Ashley Green, Ian Blood, Judit Dombi and Vikram Ramanarayanan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45<\/td>\nLunch (D4.1 Uni Mensa)*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n Second WOCHAT Special Session on Chatbots and
\nConversational Agents (WOCHAT-SS)<\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002)
\n Session Chair: Ryuichiro Higashinaka <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00<\/td>\nIntroduction to the Special Session <\/b>
\nSession Organizers: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ron Artstein, Rafael E. Banchs, Wolfgang Minker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:10<\/td>\nLexical Acquisition through Implicit Confirmations over Multiple Dialogues<\/b>
\nKohei Ono, Ryu Takeda, Eric Nichols, Mikio Nakano and Kazunori Komatani<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:35<\/td>\nEvaluating Natural Language Understanding Services for Conversational Question Answering Systems<\/b>
\nDaniel Braun, Adrian Hernandez-Mendez, Florian Matthes and Manfred Langen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:00<\/td>\nA data-driven model of explanation sequences for a chatbot that helps to practice conversation in a foreign language<\/b>
\nSviatlana H\u00f6hn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:25<\/td>\nShared Task Update Report<\/b>
\nRyuichiro Higashinaka<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:40<\/td>\nWrap-up Discussion and Future Plans<\/b>
\nSession Organizers: Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ron Artstein, Rafael E. Banchs, Wolfgang Minker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:00<\/td>\nCoffee Break (E 1.3 open area, ground floor)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30<\/td>\nOral Session 4<\/b>
\nContext in Discourse and Dialogue<\/i><\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)<\/td>\n		SemDial <\/b>Closing<\/strong>
\n(E1.3 HS 001 room)
\nVolha Petukhova, Ye Tian <\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:30<\/td>\nTowards Full Text Shallow Discourse Relation Annotation: Experiments with Cross-Paragraph Implicit Relations in the PDTB<\/b>
\nRashmi Prasad, Katherine Forbes-Riley and Alan Lee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:55<\/td>\nHierarchical Dialogue Context Modeling for Conversational Language Understanding<\/b>
\nAnkur Bapna, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Larry Heck<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:20<\/td>\nNot All Dialogues are Created Equal: Instance Weighting for Neural Conversational Models<\/b>
\nPierre Lison and Serge Bibauw<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:50<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:00<\/td>\nSIGDIAL Business Meeting<\/b>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)
\n Chairs: Jason Williams, Ethan Selfridge <\/i><\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17:40<\/td>\nSIGDIAL Best Paper Awards<\/b>
\n David DeVault, Annie Louis <\/i>
\n SIGDIAL Closing <\/b>
\n Kristiina Jokinen, Manfred Stede <\/i>
\n(E1.3 HS 002 room)<\/td>\n		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:10<\/td>\nEnd of Conference<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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