9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

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This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), “Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies”. It compiles and provides a synopsis of current global research to push forward the state of the art in dialogue technologies, including advances in the context of the classical problems of language understanding, dialogue management and language generation, as well as cognitive topics related to the human nature of conversational phenomena, such as humor, empathy and social context understanding and awareness. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Attention Based Joint Model with Negative Sampling for New Slot Values Recognition (Mulan Hou, Xiaojie Wang, Caixia Yuan, Guohua Yang, Shuo Hu, Yuanyuan Shi)....Pages 3-15 Dialogue Act Classification in Reference Interview Using Convolutional Neural Network with Byte Pair Encoding (Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, Yu Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamura)....Pages 17-25 “I Think It Might Help If We Multiply, and Not Add”: Detecting Indirectness in Conversation (Pranav Goel, Yoichi Matsuyama, Michael Madaio, Justine Cassell)....Pages 27-40 Automated Classification of Classroom Climate by Audio Analysis (Anusha James, Yi Han Victoria Chua, Tomasz Maszczyk, Ana Moreno Núñez, Rebecca Bull, Kerry Lee et al.)....Pages 41-49 Automatic Turn-Level Language Identification for Code-Switched Spanish–English Dialog (Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Pugh, Yao Qian, David Suendermann-Oeft)....Pages 51-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Spoken Dialogue System for a Human-like Conversational Robot ERICA (Tatsuya Kawahara)....Pages 65-75 Dialog State Tracking for Unseen Values Using an Extended Attention Mechanism (Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Hiroshi Fujimura, Masami Akamine)....Pages 77-89 Generating Fillers Based on Dialog Act Pairs for Smooth Turn-Taking by Humanoid Robot (Ryosuke Nakanishi, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara)....Pages 91-101 Testing Strategies For Bridging Time-To-Content In Spoken Dialogue Systems (Soledad López Gambino, Sina Zarrieß, David Schlangen)....Pages 103-109 Faster Responses Are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants (Vivian Tsai, Timo Baumann, Florian Pecune, Justine Cassell)....Pages 111-118 Latent Character Model for Engagement Recognition Based on Multimodal Behaviors (Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara)....Pages 119-130 Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems (Niklas Rach, Saskia Langhammer, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes)....Pages 131-142 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 Multimodal Dialogue System Evaluation: A Case Study Applying Usability Standards (Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt)....Pages 145-159 Toward Low-Cost Automated Evaluation Metrics for Internet of Things Dialogues (Kallirroi Georgila, Carla Gordon, Hyungtak Choi, Jill Boberg, Heesik Jeon, David Traum)....Pages 161-175 Estimating User Satisfaction Impact in Cities Using Physical Reaction Sensing and Multimodal Dialogue System (Yuki Matsuda, Dmitrii Fedotov, Yuta Takahashi, Yutaka Arakawa, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker)....Pages 177-183 Automated Lexical Analysis of Interviews with Individuals with Schizophrenia (Shihao Xu, Zixu Yang, Debsubhra Chakraborty, Yasir Tahir, Tomasz Maszczyk, Yi Han Victoria Chua et al.)....Pages 185-197 Impact of Deception Information on Negotiation Dialog Management: A Case Study on Doctor-Patient Conversations (Nguyen The Tung, Koichiro Yoshino, Sakriani Sakti, Satoshi Nakamura)....Pages 199-206 Front Matter ....Pages 207-207 An End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog System with a Generative Natural Language Response Generation (Stefan Constantin, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel)....Pages 209-219 Enabling Spoken Dialogue Systems for Low-Resourced Languages—End-to-End Dialect Recognition for North Sami (Trung Ngo Trong, Kristiina Jokinen, Ville Hautamäki)....Pages 221-235 Front Matter ....Pages 237-237 Human-Robot Dialogues for Explaining Activities (Kristiina Jokinen, Satoshi Nishimura, Kentaro Watanabe, Takuichi Nishimura)....Pages 239-251 Virtual Dialogue Agent for Supporting a Healthy Lifestyle of the Elderly (Risako Ono, Yuki Nishizeki, Masahiro Araki)....Pages 253-258 A Spoken Dialogue System for the EMPATHIC Virtual Coach (M. Inés Torres, Javier Mikel Olaso, Neil Glackin, Raquel Justo, Gérard Chollet)....Pages 259-265 Stitching Together the Conversation—Considerations in the Design of Extended Social Talk (Emer Gilmartin, Brendan Spillane, Christian Saam, Carl Vogel, Nick Campbell, Vincent Wade)....Pages 267-273 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Towards an Annotation Scheme for Causes of Laughter in Dialogue (Vladislav Maraev, Christine Howes)....Pages 277-283 Humor Intelligence for Virtual Agents (Andreea I. Niculescu, Rafael E. Banchs)....Pages 285-297 Front Matter ....Pages 299-299 Chat Response Generation Based on Semantic Prediction Using Distributed Representations of Words (Kazuaki Furumai, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki)....Pages 301-306 Learning Dialogue Strategies for Interview Dialogue Systems that Can Engage in Small Talk (Tomoaki Nakamura, Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano)....Pages 307-317 Chatbol, a Chatbot for the Spanish “La Liga” (Carlos Segura, Àlex Palau, Jordi Luque, Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Rafael E. Banchs)....Pages 319-330 Improving Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems (Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Masahiro Mizukami)....Pages 331-343 Improving the Performance of Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems via Dialogue Breakdown Detection (Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi)....Pages 345-356 Automated Scoring of Chatbot Responses in Conversational Dialogue (Steven Kester Yuwono, Biao Wu, Luis Fernando D’Haro)....Pages 357-369 Subjective Annotation and Evaluation of Three Different Chatbots WOCHAT: Shared Task Report (Naomi Kong-Vega, Mingxin Shen, Mo Wang, Luis Fernando D’Haro)....Pages 371-378 Front Matter ....Pages 379-379 Detecticon: A Prototype Inquiry Dialog System (Takuya Hiraoka, Shota Motoura, Kunihiko Sadamasa)....Pages 381-387 Debate Dialog for News Question Answering System ‘NetTv’-Debate Based on Claim and Reason Estimation- (Rikito Marumoto, Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki)....Pages 389-396 Question-Answer Selection in User to User Marketplace Conversations (Girish Kumar, Matthew Henderson, Shannon Chan, Hoang Nguyen, Lucas Ngoo)....Pages 397-403 A Multimodal Dialogue Framework for Cloud-Based Companion Systems (Matthias Kraus, Marvin Schiller, Gregor Behnke, Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo, Birte Glimm et al.)....Pages 405-410 CityTalk: Robots That Talk to Tourists and Can Switch Domains During the Dialogue (Graham Wilcock)....Pages 411-417 Back Matter ....Pages 419-421