3rd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 11 and 12, 2002
(Just following the 40th Anniversary ACL)

Workshop Programme

Thursday 11 July

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

9:15 - 9:55 General Session 1: Discourse Management

9:15 - 9:35 Kate Forbes and Bonnie Webber: A Semantic Account of Adverbials as Discourse Connectives

9:35 - 9:55 Matthew Purver: Processing Unknown Words in a Dialogue System

5 minutes to switch topics

10:00 - 11:00 Theme session 1: Annotation and tools

10:00 - 10:20 Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang and Susan E. Strayer: DialogueView - An Annotation Tool for Dialogue

10:20 - 10:40 Rashmi Prasad and Marilyn Walker: Training a Dialogue Act Tagger for Human-human and Human-computer Travel dialogues

10:40 - 11:00 Atsue Takeoka and Atsushi Shimojima: Grounding styles of aged dyads - an exploratory study

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Group discussion of issues & sample dialog from McRoy and Harper
Panel including Chu, Glass, Gurevich, Heeman, Prasad, McGeeWood and Takeoka

Sharon Chu: The prosodic transcription of a corpus of Hong Kong English - Collection Criteria, Transcription System and Preliminary Findings

Michael Glass and Barbara DiEugenio: MUP - The UIC Standoff Markup Tool

Iryna Gurevych, Robert Porzel and Michael Strube: Annotating the Semantic Consistency of Speech Recognition Hypotheses

Mary McGeeWood and Richard Craggs: Rare Dialogue Acts in Oncology Consultations

Elena Karagjosova and Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova: Conditional responses in information-seeking dialogues

12.30- 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15.30 Theme session 2: Architectures for Dialogue Systems

14:00 - 14:20 Nate Blaylock, James Allen and George Ferguson: Synchronization in an Asynchronous Agent-based architecture for Dialogue Systems

14:20 - 14:40 Kristiina Jokinen, Antti Kerminen, Mauri Kaipainen, Tommi Jauhiainen, Graham Wilcock, Markku Turunen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Jukka Kuusisto and Krista Lagus: Adaptive Dialogue Systems - Interaction with Interact

5 minute question time

14:45 - 15:05 Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Alexis Battle and Stanley Peters: Multi-tasking and Collaborative Activities in Dialogue Systems

15:05 - 15:25 Pamela Jordan and Kurt VanLehn: Discourse Processing for Explanatory Essays in Tutorial Applications

5 minute question time

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 16:45 Group discussion on Architectures for Dialogue Systems
Panel including Blaylock, Hochberg, Jokinen, Jordan, Lemon, and Smith

Judith Hochberg, Nanda Kambhatla and Salim Roukos: A Flexible Framework for Developing Mixed-Initiative Dialog Systems

Ronnie Smith, Brian Manning, Jon Rogers, Brian Adams, Mujibur Abdul and Amaury Alvarez: A Dialog Architecture for Military Story Capture

16:45 - 17.45 Demos and poster viewing of the papers & systems presented

17.45 - 18.45 SIGdial Business Meeting

19:00 - Reception

Friday 12 July

9.00 - 10:30 Theme session 3: Learning and Adaptivity in Dialog Systems

9:00 - 9:20 Ingrid Zukerman and Sarah George: A Minimum Message Length Approach for Argument Interpretation

9:20 - 9.40 Simon Keizer, Rieks op den Akker and Anton Nijholt: Dialogue Act Recognition with Bayesian Networks for Dutch Dialogues

5 minute question time

9:45 - 10:05 Krista Lagus and Jukka Kuusisto: Topic Identification in Natural Language Dialogues Using Neural Networks

10:05 - 10:25 Robert Porzel and Iryna Gurevych: Towards Context-adaptive Utterance Interpretation

5 minute question time

10:30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 Group discussion on Learning and Adaptivity
Panel including Keizer, Lagus, Lemon, Porzel, Zukerman

Oliver Lemon, Prashant Parikh and Stanley Peters: Probabilistic Dialogue Modelling

11.30- 12.30 INVITED SPEAKER:
Michael Kearns, Univ. of Pennsylvania: Reinforcement Learning in Dialogue Systems

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:55 General session 3: Questions in dialogues

14:00 - 14:20 Raquel Fernandez and Jonathan Ginzburg: Non-sentential utterances - A corpus study

14:20 - 14:40 Staffan Larsson: Issues under negotiation

14:40 - 14:55 Discussion

14:55 - 15:50 General session 4: Theories and Taxonomies

14:55 - 15:15 William Mann: Dialogue Macrogame Theory

15:15 - 15:35 Sebastian Moeller: A new Taxonomy for the Quality of Telephone Services Based on Spoken Dialogue Systems

15:35 - 15:50 Discussion

15.50. Closing

Updated 20.06.2002 Kristiina Jokinen