Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants

1. Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning
Jason D. Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoff Zweig

2. News Navigation System Based on Proactive Dialogue Strategy
Koichiro Yoshino, Tatsuya Kawahara

3. Evaluation of Machine-Led Error Recovery Strategies for Domain Switches in a Spoken Dialog System
Sven Reichel, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton, Michael Weber

4. Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus
Stefan Ultes, María Jesús Platero Sánchez, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker

5. HALEF: An Open-Source Standard-Compliant Telephony-Based Modular Spoken Dialog System: A Review and An Outlook
David Suendermann-Oeft, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Moritz Teckenbrock, Felix Neutatz, Dennis Schmidt

6. Micro-Counseling Dialog System Based on Semantic Content
Sangdo Han, Yonghee Kim, G. G. Lee

7. Users’ Belief Awareness in Reinforcement Learning-Based Situated Human–Robot Dialogue Management
Emmanuel Ferreira, Grégoire Milliez, Fabrice Lefèvre, Rachid Alami

8. Scalable Summary-State POMDP Hybrid Dialog System for Multiple Goal Drifting Requests and Massive Slot Entity Instances
Sangjun Koo, Seonghan Ryu, Kyusong Lee, G. G. Lee

9. A Voice QR Code for Mobile Devices
Donghyun Lee, Minkyu Lim, Minho Ryang, Kwang-Ho Kim, Gil-Jin Jang, Jeong-Sik Park, J. -H. Kim

10. Detecting Multiple Domains from User’s Utterance in Spoken Dialog System
Seonghan Ryu, Jaiyoun Song, Sangjun Koo, Soonchoul Kwon, G. G. Lee

11. DietTalk: Diet and Health Assistant Based on Spoken Dialog System
Sohyeon Jung, Seonghan Ryu, Sangdo Han, G. G. Lee

12. Lexicon Optimization for WFST-Based Speech Recognition Using Acoustic Distance Based Confusability Measure and G2P Conversion
Nam Kyun Kim, Woo Kyeong Seong, H. K. Kim

13. Linguistic Individuality Transformation for Spoken Language
Masahiro Mizukami, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

14. A Study on Natural Expressive Speech: Automatic Memorable Spoken Quote Detection
Fajri Koto, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Mirna Adriani, Satoshi Nakamura

15. Evaluation of a Fully Automatic Cooperative Persuasive Dialogue System
Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

16. Unknown Word Detection Based on Event-Related Brain Desynchronization Responses
Takafumi Sasakura, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

17. An Analysis Towards Dialogue-Based Deception Detection
Yuiko Tsunomori, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

18. Pair Me Up: A Web Framework for Crowd-Sourced Spoken Dialogue Collection
Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault

19. Creating a Virtual Neighbor
Carina Corbin, Fabrizio Morbini, David Traum

20. Decision Making Strategies for Finite-State Bi-automaton in Dialog Management
Fabrizio Ghigi, M. Inés Torres

21. Integration of Word and Semantic Features for Theme Identification in Telephone Conversations
Yannick Estève, Mohamed Bouallegue, Carole Lailler, Mohamed Morchid, Richard Dufour, Georges Linarès, Driss Matrouf, Renato Mori

22. CLARA: A Multifunctional Virtual Agent for Conference Support and Touristic Information
Luis Fernando D’Haro, Seokhwan Kim, Kheng Hui Yeo, Ridong Jiang, Andreea I. Niculescu, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li

23. Multi-Source Hybrid Question Answering System
Seonyeong Park, Hyosup Shim, Sangdo Han, Byungsoo Kim, G. G. Lee

24. Dialogue Platform for Interactive Personal Assistant Software
Youngmin Park, Sangwoo Kang, Myungwan Koo, Jungyun Seo

25. Performance Analysis of FFNN-Based Language Model in Contrast with n-Gram
Kwang-Ho Kim, Donghyun Lee, Minkyu Lim, Minho Ryang, Gil-Jin Jang, Jeong-Sik Park, J. -H. Kim

26. GenieTutor: A Computer-Assisted Second-Language Learning System Based on Spoken Language Understanding
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, Yunkeun Lee

27. Learning Speed Improvement Using Multi-GPUs on DNN-Based Acoustic Model Training in Korean Intelligent Personal Assistant
Donghyun Lee, Kwang-Ho Kim, Hee-Eun Kang, Sang-Ho Wang, Sung-Yong Park, J. -H. Kim

Avainsanat: Computer Science, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computational Linguistics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing