Accepted Papers

Full Talks:

Chinnadhurai Sankar and Sujith Ravi. Conditional Utterance Generation With Discrete Dialog Attributes In Open-Domain Dialog Systems
Parag Agrawal, Anshuman Suri and Tulasi Menon. A Trustworthy, Responsible and Interpretable System to Handle Chit-Chat in Conversational Bots http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.07600
Ryo Nakamura, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura. Another Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Dialogue Generation,?https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08100v1
Philip Cohen. Back to the Future for Dialogue Research -- A Position Paper.
Mengting Wan and Xin Chen. Beyond "How may I help you?'': Assisting Customer Service Agents with Proactive Responses, http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10686.
Libby Ferland, Thomas Huffstutler, Jacob Rice, Joan Zheng, Shi Ni and Maria Gini. Evaluating Older Users' Experiences with Commercial Dialogue Systems: Implications for Future Design and Development
Amit Sangroya, Aishwarya Chhabra and C. Anantaram. Learning Latent Beliefs and Performing Epistemic Reasoning for Efficient and Meaningful Dialog Management, http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10238

Hisao Katsumi, Takuya Hiraoka, Koichiro Yoshino, Kazeto Yamamoto, Shota Motoura, Kunihiko Sadamasa and Satoshi Nakamura, Optimization of Information-Seeking Dialogue Strategy for Argumentation-Based Dialogue System, http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10728
Teakgyu Hong, Oh-Woog Kwon and Young-Kil Kim, An End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialog System with Human Feedback
Trung Ngo Trong and Kristiina Jokinen, What Should We Talk about? – Models for Topics, Laughter and Body Movements in First Encounters
Xiang Kong, Bohan Li, Graham Neubig, Eduard Hovy and Yiming Yang, An Adversarial Approach to High-Quality, Sentiment-Controlled Neural Dialogue Generation
Adi Botea, Christian Muise, Shubham Agarwal, Oznur Alkan, Ondrej Bajgar, Elizabeth Daly, Akihiro Kishimoto, Luis Lastras, Radu Marinescu, Josef Ondrej, Pablo Pedemonte and Miroslav Vodolan, Generating Dialogue Agents via Automated Planning