SemDial 2021
Programme
| PDT (-07) | EDT (-04) | CEST | JST (+09) | Mon, 20.9. | Tue, 21.9. | Wed, 22.09. | CEST | |||
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| 23:30 | 02:30 | 08:30 | 15:30 | Registration | 08:30 | |||||
| 00:00 | 03:00 | 09:00 | 16:00 | Registration | 09:00 | |||||
| 00:30 | 03:30 | 09:30 | 16:30 | Keynote 2: How to Escape the Encodingism Stranglehold: Dynamic Syntax, Process and Interaction Ruth Kempson Chair: Robin Cooper |
Keynote 3: Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to realize a character-like chatbot Ryuichiro Higashinaka Chair: Kallirroi Georgila |
09:30 | ||||
| 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 | 10:00 | ||||||
| 01:30 | 04:30 | 10:30 | 17:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | 10:30 | ||||
| 02:00 | 05:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 | Session 2 Chair: Christine Howes |
Challenging evidential non-challengeability Vesela Simeonova |
Session 4 Chair: Julian Hough |
Speaker intimacy in chat-talks: Analysis and recognition based on verbal and non-verbal information Yuya Chiba, Yoshihiro Yamazaki and Akinori Ito |
11:00 | ||
| 02:30 | 05:30 | 11:30 | 18:30 | The role of definitions in coordinating on perceptual meanings Staffan Larsson |
Dialogue act classification is a laughing matter Vladislav Maraev, Bill Noble, Chiara Mazzocconi and Christine Howes |
11:30 | ||||
| 03:00 | 06:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 | Registration | Construction coordination in first and second language acquisition Arabella Sinclair and Raquel Fernández |
Justifiable reasons for everyone: Dialogical reasoning in patients with schizophrenia Christine Howes, Ellen Breitholtz, Mary Lavelle and Robin Cooper |
12:00 | |||
| 03:30 | 06:30 | 12:30 | 19:30 | Lunch break | Lunch break | 12:30 | ||||
| 04:00 | 07:00 | 13:00 | 20:00 | 13:00 | ||||||
| 04:30 | 07:30 | 13:30 | 20:30 | Welcome | Poster Session 1 | Session 5 Chair: Raquel Fernández |
The language of persuasion, negotiation and trust José David Lopes and Helen Hastie |
13:30 | ||
| 05:00 | 08:00 | 14:00 | 21:00 | Session 1 Chair: Malihe Alikhani |
The red cup on the left: Reference, coreference and attention in visual dialogue Simon Dobnik and Vera Silfversparre |
Don't you think that a rhetorical question can convey an argument? Denis Ioussef, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes |
14:00 | |||
| 05:30 | 08:30 | 14:30 | 21:30 | Detecting interlocutor confusion in situated human-avatar dialogue: A pilot study Na Li, John D. Kelleher and Robert Ross |
What do you mean by negotiation? Annotating social media discussions about word meaning Bill Noble, Kate Viloria, Staffan Larsson and Asad Sayeed |
14:30 | ||||
| 06:00 | 09:00 | 15:00 | 22:00 | Generating personalized dialogue via multi-task meta-learning Jing Yang Lee, Kong Aik Lee and Woon Seng Gan |
Coffee break | Goodbye // Coffee Break | 15:00 | |||
| 06:30 | 09:30 | 15:30 | 22:30 | Context is key: Annotating situated dialogue relations in multi-floor dialogue Claire Bonial, Mitchell Abrams, Anthony L. Baker, Taylor Hudson, Stephanie M. Lukin, David Traum and Clare R. Voss |
Session 3 Chair: Ellen Breitholtz |
"By the way, do you like Spider Man?" --- Towards a social planning model for rapport Alafate Abulimiti, Jonathan Ginzburg and Justine Cassell |
15:30 | |||
| 07:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 23:00 | Coffee break | Speech planning interferes with language comprehension: Evidence from semantic illusions in question-response sequences Mathias Barthel |
16:00 | ||||
| 07:30 | 10:30 | 16:30 | 23:30 | Keynote 1: Human-aware conversational agents Stefan Kopp Chair: David Schlangen |
Poster Session 2 | 16:30 | ||||
| 08:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 00:00 | 17:00 | ||||||
| 08:30 | 12:00 | 17:30 | 00:30 | BoF / Unconference | Business Meeting | 17:30 | ||||
| 09:00 | 12:30 | 18:00 | 01:00 | Social event |
18:00 | |||||
| 09:30 | 13:00 | 18:30 | 01:30 | Social event |
18:30 | |||||
| 10:00 | 13:30 | 19:00 | 02:00 | 19:00 | ||||||
| 10:30 | 14:00 | 19:30 | 02:30 | 19:30 | ||||||
| 11:00 | 14:30 | 20:00 | 03:00 | 20:00 | ||||||
Invited speakers
Ryuichiro Higashinaka
Professor at Nagoya University
Leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to realize a character-like chatbot
Ruth Kempson
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at King’s College London
How to Escape the Encodingism Stranglehold: Dynamic Syntax, Process and Interaction
Stefan Kopp
Head of the Social Cognitive Systems Group at the Faculty of Technology and the Research Center on “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC) at Bielefeld University
Human-aware conversational agents
Accepted Long Papers
“By the way, do you like Spider Man?” — Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport
Alafate Abulimiti, Jonathan Ginzburg and Justine Cassell | pdf | slides
Speech Planning Interferes with Language Comprehension: Evidence from Semantic Illusions in Question-Response Sequences
Mathias Barthel | pdf
Context Is Key: Annotating Situated Dialogue Relations in Multi-floor Dialogue
Claire Bonial, Mitchell Abrams, Anthony L. Baker, Taylor Hudson, Stephanie M. Lukin, David Traum and Clare R. Voss | pdf | slides
Speaker Intimacy in Chat-Talks: Analysis and Recognition based on Verbal and Non-Verbal Information
Yuya Chiba, Yoshihiro Yamazaki and Akinori Ito | pdf
The Red Cup on the Left: Reference, Coreference and Attention in Visual Dialogue
Simon Dobnik and Vera Silfversparre | pdf | slides
Justifiable Reasons for Everyone: Dialogical Reasoning in Patients with Schizophrenia
Christine Howes, Ellen Breitholtz, Mary Lavelle and Robin Cooper | pdf | slides | video
Don’t You Think that a Rhetorical Question Can Convey an Argument?
Denis Ioussef, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes | pdf | slides | video
The Role of Definitions in Coordinating on Perceptual Meanings
Staffan Larsson | pdf | slides
Generating Personalized Dialogue via Multi-Task Meta-Learning
Jing Yang Lee, Kong Aik Lee and Woon Seng Gan | pdf | slides | video
Detecting Interlocutor Confusion in Situated Human-Avatar Dialogue: A Pilot Study
Na Li, John D. Kelleher and Robert Ross | pdf | slides | video
The Language of Persuasion, Negotiation and Trust
José David Lopes and Helen Hastie | pdf | slides
Dialogue Act Classification is a Laughing Matter
Vladislav Maraev, Bill Noble, Chiara Mazzocconi and Christine Howes | pdf | slides | video
What Do You Mean by Negotiation? Annotating Social Media Discussions About Word Meaning
Bill Noble, Kate Viloria, Staffan Larsson and Asad Sayeed | pdf | slides | video
Challenging Evidential Non-Challengeability
Vesela Simeonova | pdf | slides
Construction Coordination in First and Second Language Acquisition
Arabella Sinclair and Raquel Fernández | pdf | slides
Accepted Poster Abstracts
Annotating Events and Entities in Dialogue
Tatiana Anikina and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová | pdf | poster
What Do You Mean? Eliciting Enthymemes in Text-Based Dialogue
Ebba Axelsson Nord, Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz and Christine Howes | pdf | poster
The Deictic Nature of Speech Act Reference
Friederike Buch | pdf | poster
Identity Models for Role-Play Dialogue Characters
Patricia Chaffey and David Traum | pdf | poster
Can Rule-Based Chatbots Outperform Neural Models Without Pre-Training in Small Data Situations?: A Preliminary Comparison of AIML and Seq2Seq
Md Mabrur Husan Dihyat and Julian Hough | pdf | poster
From Local Hesitations to Global Impressions of a Speaker’s Feeling of Knowing
Tanvi Dinkar, Beatrice Biancardi and Chloé Clavel | pdf | poster
Exploring the Personality of Virtual Tutors in Conversational Foreign Language Practice
Johanna Dobbriner, Cathy Ennis and Robert Ross | pdf | poster
Getting from A to B: Exploring Floor State Transitions in Conversation
Emer Gilmartin and Marcin Włodarczak | pdf | poster
Annotating Low-Confidence Questions Improves Classifier Performance
Stephanie Hernandez and Ron Artstein | pdf | poster
Situated UMR for Multimodal Interactions
Kenneth Lai, Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli and James Pustejovsky | pdf | poster
Investigating non lexical markers of the language of schizophrenia in spontaneous conversations
Chuyuan Li, Maxime Amblard, Chloé Braud, Caroline Demily, Nicolas Franck and Michel Musiol (non-archival) | poster
Challenges for the Conversational Entity Dialog Model
Wolfgang Maier and Stefan Ultes | pdf | poster
Conflict Search Graph for Common Ground Consistency Checks in Dialogue Systems
Maria Di Maro, Antonio Origlia and Francesco Cutugno | pdf | poster
Slurring Speech and Invited Inference
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (non-archival) | poster