Dialogues with Social Robots

Part I. The Northernmost Spoken Dialogue Workshop

1. DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami Language
Kristiina Jokinen, Katri Hiovain, Niklas Laxström, Ilona Rauhala, Graham Wilcock

Part II. Methods and Techniques for Spoken Dialogue Systems

2. A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing
Roman Sergienko, Muhammad Shan, Alexander Schmitt

3. Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed Memory
Layla El Asri, Romain Laroche, Olivier Pietquin

4. Incremental Human-Machine Dialogue Simulation
Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche, Fabrice Lefèvre

5. Active Learning for Example-Based Dialog Systems
Takuya Hiraoka, Graham Neubig, Koichiro Yoshino, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura

6. Question Selection Based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information Through Dialogue
Kazunori Komatani, Tsugumi Otsuka, Satoshi Sato, Mikio Nakano

7. Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated Planning
Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick

8.
SimpleDS: A Simple Deep Reinforcement Learning Dialogue System
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl

9. Breakdown Detector for Chat-Oriented Dialogue
Tomo Horii, Hideaki Mori, Masahiro Araki

10. User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems
Florian Nothdurft, Pascal Bercher, Gregor Behnke, Wolfgang Minker

Part III. Socio-Cognitive Language Processing

11. Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker’s Emotion Calculated from Acoustic Features
Takumi Takahashi, Kazuya Mera, Tang Ba Nhat, Yoshiaki Kurosawa, Toshiyuki Takezawa

12. Salient Cross-Lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition
Maxim Sidorov, Christina Brester, Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt

13. Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling Uncertainty
Manex Serras, Naiara Perez, María Inés Torres, Arantza Pozo

14. Evaluation of Question-Answering System About Conversational Agent’s Personality
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Toyomi Meguro, Ryuichiro Higashinaka

15. Fisher Kernels on Phase-Based Features for Speech Emotion Recognition
Jun Deng, Xinzhou Xu, Zixing Zhang, Sascha Frühholz, Didier Grandjean, Björn Schuller

Part IV. Towards Multilingual, Multimodal, Open Domain Spoken Dialogue Systems

16. Internationalisation and Localisation ofSpoken Dialogue Systems
Niklas Laxström, Graham Wilcock, Kristiina Jokinen

17. A Multi-lingual Evaluation of the vAssist Spoken Dialog System. Comparing Disco and RavenClaw
Javier Mikel Olaso, Pierrick Milhorat, Julia Himmelsbach, Jérôme Boudy, Gérard Chollet, Stephan Schlögl, María Inés Torres

18. Multimodal HALEF: An Open-Source Modular Web-Based Multimodal Dialog Framework
Zhou Yu, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Robert Mundkowsky, Patrick Lange, Alexei Ivanov, Alan W. Black, David Suendermann-Oeft

19. Data Collection and Synchronisation: Towards a Multiperspective Multimodal Dialogue System with Metacognitive Abilities
Fasih Haider, Saturnino Luz, Nick Campbell

20. HELPR: A Framework to Break the Barrier Across Domains in Spoken Dialog Systems
Ming Sun, Yun-Nung Chen, Alexander I. Rudnicky

21. Towards an Open-Domain Social Dialog System
Maria Schmidt, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel

Part V. Evaluation of Human–Robot Dialogue in Social Robotics

22. Is Spoken Language All-or-Nothing? Implications for Future Speech-Based Human-Machine Interaction
Roger K. Moore

23. Toward a Context-Based Approach to Assess Engagement in Human-Robot Social Interaction
Laurence Devillers, Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis

24. Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Social Robotics
Helen Hastie, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Simon Keizer, Xingkun Liu

25. Engagement in Dialogue with Social Robots
Loredana Cerrato, Nick Campbell

26. Lend a Hand to Service Robots: Overcoming System Limitations by Asking Humans
Felix Schüssel, Marcel Walch, Katja Rogers, Frank Honold, Michael Weber

27. Dialogue with Robots to Support Symbiotic Autonomy
Andrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Emanuele Bastianelli, Guglielmo Gemignani, Roberto Basili, Daniele Nardi

28. Towards SamiTalk: A Sami-Speaking Robot Linked to Sami Wikipedia
Graham Wilcock, Niklas Laxström, Juho Leinonen, Peter Smit, Mikko Kurimo, Kristiina Jokinen

Part VI. Dialogue Quality Assessment

29. Utterance Selection Using Discourse Relation Filter for Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems
Atsushi Otsuka, Toru Hirano, Chiaki Miyazaki, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Toshiro Makino, Yoshihiro Matsuo

30. Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation
Stefan Ultes, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker

31. Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation
Louisa Pragst, Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker

32. An Evaluation Method for System Response in Chat-Oriented Dialogue System
Hideaki Mori, Atsushi Yasuda, Masahiro Araki

33. The Negotiation Dialogue Game
Romain Laroche, Aude Genevay

34. Estimation of User’s Willingness to Talk About the Topic: Analysis of Interviews Between Humans
Yuya Chiba, Akinori Ito

35. Recognising Conversational Speech: What an Incremental ASR Should Do for a Dialogue System and How to Get There
Timo Baumann, Casey Kennington, Julian Hough, David Schlangen

Part VII. Dialogue State Tracking Challenge 4

36. The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D’Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson

37. Convolutional Neural Networks for Multi-topic Dialog State Tracking
Hongjie Shi, Takashi Ushio, Mitsuru Endo, Katsuyoshi Yamagami, Noriaki Horii

38. The MSIIP System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4
Miao Li, Ji Wu

39. Robust Dialog State Tracking for Large Ontologies
Franck Dernoncourt, Ji Young Lee, Trung H. Bui, Hung H. Bui

40. Erratum to: Dialogues with Social Robots
Kristiina Jokinen, Graham Wilcock

Nyckelord: Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computational Linguistics, Pattern Recognition