Conversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction

1. Out-of-Scope Domain and Intent Classification through Hierarchical Joint Modeling,<div>Pengfei Liu, Kun Li and Helen Meng</div><div>2. Segmentation-Based Formulation of Slot Filling Task for Better Generative Modeling,</div><div>Kei Wakabayashi, Johane Takeuchi and Mikio Nakano</div><div>3. Can we predict how challenging Spoken Language Understanding corpora are across sources, languages and domains?</div><div>Frederic Bechet, Christian Raymond, Achraf Hamane, Rim Abrougui, Gabriel Marzinotto and Géraldine Damnati&nbsp;</div><div>Personalisation and Generation</div><div>4. Personalized Extractive Summarization with Discourse Structure Constraints Towards Efficient and Coherent Dialog-based News Delivery,&nbsp;</div><div>Hiroaki Takatsu, Ryota Ando, Hiroshi Honda, Yoichi Matsuyama and Tetsunori Kobayashi</div><div>5. Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge,&nbsp;</div><div>Ye Liu, Wolfgang Maier, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes</div><div>6. Towards Handling Unconstrained User Preferences,</div><div>Suraj Pandey, Svetlana Stoyanchev and Rama Doddipatla</div><div>7. Jurassic is (almost) All You Need: Few-Shot Meaning-to-Text Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue,</div><div>Lena Reed, Cecilia Li, Angela Ramirez, Liren Wu and Marilyn Walker</div><div>Spoken and Multimodal Interaction</div><div>8. Comparison of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems,</div><div>Joshua Kim, Chunfeng Liu, Rafael A. Calvo, Kathryn McCabe, Silas C.R. Taylor, Björn W. Schuller and Kaihang Wu</div><div>9. Multimodal Dialogue Response Timing Estimation Using Dialogue Context Encoder,</div><div>Ryota Yahagi, Yuya Chiba, Takashi Nose and Akinori Ito</div><div>10. Eliciting Cooperative Persuasive Dialogue by Multimodal Emotional Robot,</div><div>Sara Asai, Koichiro Yoshino, Seitaro Shinagawa, Sakriani Sakti and Satoshi Nakamura</div><div>Dialogue Evaluation</div><div>11. Design Guidelines for Developing Systems for Dialogue System Competitions,</div><div>Kazunori Komatani, Ryu Takeda, Keisuke Nakashima, Mikio Nakano&nbsp;</div><div>12. Understanding How People Rate Their Conversations,&nbsp;</div><div>Alexandros Papangelis, Nicole Chartier, Pankaj Rajan, Julia Hirschberg and Dilek Hakkani-Tur</div><div>Dialogue Modelling and Applications</div><div>13. A WoZ Study for an Incremental Proficiency Scoring Interview Agent Eliciting Ratable Samples,</div><div>Mao Saeki, Weronika Demkow, Tetsunori Kobayashi and Yoichi Matsuyama</div>14. SUPPLE: A Dialogue Management Approach based on Conversation Patterns,<div>Florian Kunneman and Koen Hindriks</div><div>15. Dialogue Management as Graph Transformations,</div><div>Nicholas Walker, Torbjørn Dahl and Pierre Lison</div><div>Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies</div><div>16. Data Collection for Detecting the Unwillingness to Answer Questions in Dialogue</div><div>Kazumi Nagao, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Kazuto Ataka</div><div>17. Enhancing Self-Disclosure In Neural Conversation Models By Response Candidate Re-ranking</div><div>Mayank Soni, Benjamin Cowan and Vincent Wade</div><div>18. On the Impact of Self-efficacy on Assessment of User Experience in Customer Service Chatbot Conversations</div><div>Yuexin Cao, Vicente Ivan Sanchez Carmona, Xiaoyi Liu, Changjian Hu, Neslihan Iskender, André Beyer, Sebastian Möller and Tim Polzehl</div><div>19. Learning to ask specific questions naturally in chat-oriented dialogue systems,</div><div>Sota Horiuchi and Ryuichiro Higashinaka</div><div>20. Fine-tuning a pre-trained Transformer-based encoder-decoder model with user-generated question-answer pairs to realize character-like chatbots,</div><div>Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami, Tetsuya Kinebuchi, Ryuta Nakamura, Noritake Adachi and Hidetoshi Kawabata</div><div>21. Investigating the Impact of Pre-trained Language Models on Dialog Evaluation,</div><div>Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D’haro, Thomas Friedrichs, Haizhou Li and Yiming Chen</div><div><br></div>