9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology

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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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