Workshop Programme
Day 1 (Jan 11)
| Time | Program | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00~18:30 | Registration | Sydney Room |
| 14:00~17:00 | Tutorial : Siri, Watson and Natural Language Processing - Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea | Sydney Room |
| 18:30~20:00 | Welcome Reception | Capri Room |
Day 2 (Jan 12)
| Time | Program | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 06:30~09:00 | Breakfast | Escoffier |
| 09:00~18:30 | Registration | Capri Room |
| 09:15~09:30 | Workshop Opening - Open Remark -- Workshop Chair : Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea - Conglatulatory Remark -- Byunggon Yang, President of KSSS, Korea | Capri Room |
| 09:30~10:30 | Keynote 1 : The Rise of Intelligent Systems - Mazin Gibert, AT&T Labs, USA -- Chair : Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea | Capri Room |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00~12:30 | Oral Session 1 : Human-Human Dialog and Spoken Language Processing -- Chair : Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany | Capri Room |
| Toward Adaptive Generation of Backchannels for Attentive Listening Agents [PDF] - Tatsuya Kawahara, Miki Uesato, Koichiro Yoshino and Katsuya Takanashi | ||
| Integration of Word and Semantic Features for Theme Identification in Telephone Conversations [PDF] - Yannick Estève, Mohamed Bouallegue, Carole Lailler, Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Georges Linarès and Renato De Mori | ||
| A Study On Natural Expressive Speech: Automatic Memorable Spoken Quote Detection [PDF] - Fajri Koto, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Mirna Adriani and Satoshi Nakamura | ||
| 12:30~14:00 | Lunch | Sicily Room |
| 13:20~14:00 | Sponsor Talk 1,2 (Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics) -- Chair : Ji-Hwan Kim, Sogang University, Korea | |
| 14:00~15:30 | Oral Session 2 : Corpus and Dialog System Development -- Chair : Satoshi Nakamura, NAIST, Japan | Capri Room |
| Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus [PDF] - Stefan Ultes, María Jesús Platero Sánchez, Alexander Schmitt and Wolfgang Minker | ||
| Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning [PDF] - Jason Williams, Nobal Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, and Geoff Zweig | ||
| Pair Me Up: A Web Framework for Crowd-Sourced Spoken Dialogue Collection [PDF] - Ramesh Manuvinakurike and David Devault | ||
| 15:30~16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00~18:00 | Poster and Demo Session 1 - Applications and Demos with Dialog Systems -- Chair : Yongjoong Ko, Dong-A University, Korea | Capri Room |
| Poster | Evaluation of Machine-led Error Recovery Strategies for Domain Switches in a Spoken Dialog System [PDF] - Sven Reichel, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton, and Michael Weber | |
| HALEF: An Open-source Standard-compliant Telephony-based Modular Spoken Dialog System -- A Review and an Outlook [PDF] - David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Moritz Teckenbrock, Felix Neutatz, and Dennis Schmidt | ||
| DietTalk: Diet and Health Assistant Based on Spoken Dialog System [PDF] - Sohyeon Jung, Seonghan Ryu, Sangdo Han, and Gary Geunbae Lee | ||
| Creating a Virtual Neighbor [PDF] - Carina Corbin, Fabrizio Morbini and David Traum | ||
| Demo | CLARA: A Multifunctional Virtual Agent for Conference Support and Touristic Information [PDF] - Luis Fernando D'Haro, Seokhwan Kim, Kheng Hui Yeo, Ridong Jiang, Andreea I. Niculescu, Rafael E. Banchs, and Haizhou Li | |
| Multi-Source Hybrid Question Answering System [PDF] - SeonYeong Park, Hyosup Shim, Sangdo Han, Byeongsoo Kim, and Gary Geunbae Lee | ||
| Dialogue Platform for Interactive Personal Assistant Software [PDF] - Youngmin Park, Sangwoo Kang, Jungyun Seo, and Myungwan Koo | ||
| An Overview of MightyVoice Pro Systems [PDF] - Sang-ha Kim, Jeh-seon Youn, and Kyeong-sun Kim | ||
| GenieTutor: a Computer Assisted Second-language Learning system based on Spoken language Understanding [PDF] - Oh-Woog Kwon, Kiyoung Lee, Yoon-Hyung Roh, Jin-Xia Huang, Sung-Kwon Choi, Young-Kil Kim, Hyung Bae Jeon, Yoo Rhee Oh, Yun-Kyung Lee, Byung Ok Kang, Euisok Chung, Jeon Gue Park, and Yunkeun Lee | ||
| Voice Control on Smart TV Using Farsi Speech Recognition [PDF] - Woo Kyeong Seong, Jang Won Lee, Dae Hyun Kim, Hong Kook Kim, Sung Hwan Shin, Ji Hun Park, and Myung Jae Kim | ||
| Demo paper: An Unlimited Vocabulary Korean Voice Interface by Using Grid Engine-based Learning Speed Improvement [PDF] - Hee-Eun Kang, Donghyun Lee, Shang-Ho Wang, Kwang-Ho Kim, Sung-Yong Park, Ji-Hwan Kim | ||
| 18:30~21:30 | Banquet - Haeundae Amso Galbi (Haeundae Rib Barbeque Restaurant) |
Day 3 (Jan 13)
| Time | Program | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 06:30~09:00 | Breakfast | Escoffier |
| 09:00~12:00 | Registration | Capri Room |
| 09:30~10:30 | Keynote 2 : Conversational Agent : First Baby Steps Towards Artificial Intelligence and Cognition - Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore -- Chair : Minnwoo Jeong, Microsoft, USA | Capri Room |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00~12:30 | Oral Session 3: Dialog System and Application -- Chair : Joseph Mariani, LMSI&IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France | Capri Room |
| Evaluation of a Fully Automatic Cooperative Persuasive Dialogue System [PDF] - Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura | ||
| Detecting Multiple Domains from User’s Utterance in Spoken Dialog System [PDF] - Seonghan Ryu, Jaiyoun Song, Sangjun Koo, Soonchoul Kwon, and Gary Geunbae Lee | ||
| News Navigation System based on Proactive Dialogue Strategy [PDF] - Koichiro Yoshino and Tatsuya Kawahara | ||
| 12:30~14:00 | Lunch | Sicily Room |
| 13:20~14:00 | Sponsor Talk 3,4 (SK Telecom, Naver) -- Chair : Young-sun Yun, Hannam University, Korea | |
| 14:00~15:30 | Poster Session 2 : Dialog System Technology -- Chair : Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NTT, Japan | Capri Room |
| Micro-Counseling Dialog System based on Semantic Content [PDF] - Sangdo Han, Yonghee Kim, and Gary Geunbae Lee | ||
| Users' Belief Awareness in Reinforcement Learning-based Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Management - Emmanuel Ferreira, Gregoire Milliez, Fabrice Lefèvre, and Rachid Alami [PDF] | ||
| Scalable Summary-state Pomdp Hybrid Dialog System for Multiple Goal Drifting Requests and Massive Slot Entity Instances [PDF] - Sangjun Koo, Seonghan Ryu, Kyusong Lee, and Gary Geunbae Lee | ||
| Lexicon Optimization for WFST-Based Speech Recognition Using Acoustic Distance Based Confusability Measure and G2P Conversion [PDF] - Nam Kyun Kim, Woo Kyeong Seong, and Hong Kook Kim | ||
| Linguistic Individuality Transformation for Spoken Language [PDF] - Masahiro Mizukami, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura | ||
| Unknown Word Detection based on Event-Related Brain Desynchronization Responses [PDF] - Takafumi Sasakura, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura | ||
| An Analysis Towards Dialogue-based Deception Detection [PDF] - Yuiko Tsunomori, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, and Satoshi Nakamura | ||
| Decision Making Strategies for Finite-State Bi-Automaton in Dialog Management [PDF] - Fabrizio Ghigi and Maria Ines Torres | ||
| 15:30~16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00~17:30 | Panel Session : Next Generation Dialog-Based Intelligent Assistant - Panel List : Gary Guenbae Lee (Postech, Korea), Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm Univ, Germany), Jason Williams (Microsoft, USA), Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT, Japan), Laurence Devillers (LIMSI, France), David Traum (USC, USA) -- Chair : Minwoo Jeong, Microsoft, USA | Capri Room |
| 17:30~17:45 | Workshop Closing - Moderator : Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea | Capri Room |