Friday — November 9th

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Keynote
Olivier Pietquin
“Guesswhat?! – Learning strategies for visually grounded dialogue”
10:00-10:30 Ting Han, Sina Zarieß, Kazunori Komatani and David Schlangen Learning to describe multimodally from parallel unimodal data? A pilot study on verbal and sketched object descriptions
10:30-11:00   Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev and Jonathan Ginzburg Laughter Repair
11:30-12:00 Poulami Debnath, Shubhashis Sengupta and Harshawardhan Madhukar Wabgaonkar Identifying, Classifying and Resolving Non-Sentential Utterances in Customer Support Systems
12:00-12:30 Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tetsuro Takahashi and Michimasa Inaba Evaluating dialogue breakdown detection in chat-oriented dialogue systems
12:30-13:45   Lunch Break
13:45-15:15   Posters – Session 1
15:15-15:30   Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Igor Shalyminov, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon. Multi-Task Learning for Domain-General Spoken Disfluency Detection in Dialogue Systems
16:00-16:30 Jiaying Shen, Hendrik Harkema, Richard Crouch, Peng Yu and Ciaran O’Reilly. Layered Semantic Graphs for Dialogue Management
16:30-17:00 Carla Gordon, Kallirroi Georgila, Hyungtak Choi, Jill Boberg and David Traum. Evaluating Subjective User Feedback for Internet of Things Dialogues
17:00-17:30 Vladislav Maraev, Jonathan Ginzburg, Staffan Larsson, Ye Tian and Jean-Philippe Bernardy Towards KoS/TTR-based proof-theoretic dialogue management
17:30-18:00 Raquel Fernández and David Schlangen

SEMDIAL Business Meeting

19:00  

Social Dinner

(Hotel Aquabella)