Oral Papers

On the Robustness of Intent Classification and Slot Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialog Systems to Real-world Noise

Sailik Sengupta, Jason Krone and Saab Mansour

XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot

Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto, Yejin Bang, Etsuko Ishii and Pascale Fung

Collaborative Data Relabeling for Robust and Diverse Voice Apps Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants

Qian Hu, Thahir Mohamed, Wei Xiao, Zheng Gao, Xibin Gao, Radhika Arava, Xiyao Ma and Mohamed AbdelHady

PLATO-KAG: Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation via Joint Modeling

Xinxian Huang, Huang He, Siqi Bao, Fan Wang, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang

Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Joint Slot Modeling

Ting-Rui Chiang and Yi-Ting Yeh

Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI

Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao, Zheng Chen, Saurabh Gupta, Xing Fan and Chenlei Guo

Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation

Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze and Iryna Gurevych

Using Pause Information for More Accurate Entity Recognition

Sahas Dendukuri, Pooja Chitkara, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Xiao Yang, Manos Tsagkias and Stephen Pulman

Teach Me What to Say and I Will Learn What to Pick:

Unsupervised Knowledge Selection Through Response Generation with Pretrained Generative Models

Ehsan Lotfi, Maxime De Bruyn, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans

Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system

Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Yuya Chiba, Yuiko Tsunomori and Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Poster Papers

Taking Things Personally: Third Person to First Person Rephrasing

Marcel Granero Moya and Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou Filandras

Few-Shot Intent Classification by Gauging Entailment Relationship Between Utterance and Semantic Label

Jin Qu, Kazuma Hashimoto, Wenhao Liu, Caiming Xiong and Yingbo Zhou

Personalized Extractive Summarization Using an Ising Machine Towards Real-time Generation of Efficient and Coherent Dialogue Scenarios

Hiroaki Takatsu, Takahiro Kashikawa, Koichi Kimura, Ryota Ando and Yoichi Matsuyama

Multilingual Paraphrase Generation For Bootstrapping New Features in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Subhadarshi Panda, Caglar Tirkaz, Tobias Falke and Patrick Lehnen

Overcoming Conflicting Data when Updating a Neural Semantic Parser

David Gaddy, Alex Kouzemtchenko, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Prateek Kolhar and Rushin Shah

Not So Fast, Classifier – Accuracy and Entropy Reduction in Incremental Intent Classification

Lianna E. Hrycyk, Alessandra Zarcone and Luzian Hahn

Local Knowledge Powered Conversational Agents

Sashank Santhanam, Wei Ping, Raul Puri, Mohammad Shoeybi, Mostofa Patwary and Bryan Catanzaro

Amendable Generation for Dialogue State Tracking

Xin Tian, Liankai Huang, Yingzhan Lin, Siqi Bao, Huang He, Yunyi Yang, Hua Wu, Fan Wang and Shuqi Sun

What Went Wrong? Explaining Overall Dialogue Quality through Utterance-Level Impacts

James D. Finch, Sarah E. Finch and Jinho D. Choi

Semi-supervised Intent Discovery with Contrastive Learning

Xiang Shen, Yinge Sun, Yao Zhang and Mani Najmabadi

CS-BERT: a pretrained model for customer service dialogues

Peiyao Wang, Joyce Fang and Julia Reinspach

CREAD: Combined Resolution of Ellipses and Anaphora in Dialogues

Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Shruti Bhargava, Jiarui Lu, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Lin Li and Hong Yu

Learning to Learn End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog From Related Dialog Tasks

Janarthanan Rajendran, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld and Satinder Baveja

Dialogue Response Generation via Contrastive Latent Representation Learning

Shuyang Dai, Guoyin Wang, Sunghyun Park and Sungjin Lee

AuGPT: Auxiliary Tasks and Data Augmentation for End-To-End Dialogue with Pre-Trained Language Models

Jonas Kulhanek, Vojtěch Hudeček, Tomáš Nekvinda and Ondřej Dušek

Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation

Alicia Tsai, Shereen Oraby, Vittorio Perera, Jiun-Yu Kao, Yuheng Du, Anjali Narayan-Chen, Tagyoung Chung and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Think Before You Speak: Learning to Generate Implicit Knowledge for Response Generation by Self-Talk

Pei Zhou, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Seokhwan Kim, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants

Deepak Muralidharan, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Sida Gao, Xiao Yang, Justine Kao, Stephen Pulman, Atish Kothari, Ray Shen,

Yinying Pan, Vivek Kaul, Mubarak Seyed Ibrahim, Gang Xiang, Nan Dun, Yidan Zhou, Andy O, Yuan Zhang, Pooja Chitkara,

Xuan Wang, Alkesh Patel, Kushal Tayal, Roger Zheng, Peter Grasch, Jason D Williams and Lin Li

Towards Code-Mixed Hinglish Dialogue Generation

Vibhav Agarwal, Pooja Rao and Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

Rome was built in 1776: A Case Study on Factual Correctness in Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation

Sashank Santhanam, Behnam Hedayatnia, Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems

Di Jin, Shuyang Gao, Seokhwan Kim, Yang Liu and Dilek Hakkani-Tur

EMNLP Findings Poster Papers

Textual Time Travel: A Temporally Informed Approach to Theory of Mind

HAConvGNN: Hierarchical Attention Based Convolutional Graph Neural Network for Code Documentation Generation in Jupyter Notebooks

A Plug-and-Play Method for Controlled Text Generation

An animated picture says at least a thousand words: Selecting Gif-based Replies in Multimodal Dialog

ProtoInfoMax: Prototypical Networks with Mutual Information Maximization for Out-of-Domain Detection

Improving Dialogue State Tracking with Turn-based Loss Function and Sequential Data Augmentation

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models

DIRECT: Direct and Indirect Responses in Conversational Text Corpus

Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Re-entry Prediction for Online Conversations via Self-Supervised Learning

Automatic Discrimination between Inherited and Borrowed Latin Words in Romance Languages

SideControl: Controlled Open-domain Dialogue Generation via Additive Side Networks

A Discourse-Aware Graph Neural Network for Emotion Recognition in Multi-Party Conversation

Counter-Contrastive Learning for Language GANs

From None to Severe: Predicting Severity in Movie Scripts

Informed Sampling for Diversity in Concept-to-Text NLG

Speaker Turn Modeling for Dialogue Act Classification