Program

Welcome [See Presentations, Papers, Photos]

T-1,A-7: Keynote Talk #1

Towards Collaborative Dialogue - Dr. Phil Cohen, Monash University;

Back to the Future for Dialogue Research -- A Position Paper, http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01144

Paper Spotlights 1

A-1: Chinnadhurai Sankar and Sujith Ravi. Conditional Utterance Generation With Discrete Dialog Attributes In Open-Domain Dialog Systems

A-2: 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

*** Coffee Break ***

Summary of DSTC7 and AAAI 2019 Workshop

Koichiro Yoshino, Co-organizer DSTC7

Paper Spotlights 2

A-3: Ryo Nakamura, Katsuhito Sudoh, Koichiro Yoshino and Satoshi Nakamura. Another Diversity-Promoting Objective Function for Neural Dialogue Generation, https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08100v1

Lightning talks:

1. SA-1: 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

2. SA-2: Teakgyu Hong, Oh-Woog Kwon and Young-Kil Kim, An End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialog System with Human Feedback

3. SA-3: Trung Ngo Trong and Kristiina Jokinen, What Should We Talk about? – Models for Topics, Laughter and Body Movements in First Encounters

4. SA-4: Xiang Kong, Bohan Li, Graham Neubig, Eduard Hovy and Yiming Yang, An Adversarial Approach to High-Quality, Sentiment-Controlled Neural Dialogue Generation

5. SA-5: 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, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00771

*** Lunch ***

T-2: Keynote Talk #2

Using Conversation Agents for Customer Support at Scale - the IBM Case Study,

Jim Dewan, IBM

T-3: Keynote Talk #3

Towards smart chatbots for enhanced health: using multisensory sensing, semantic-cognitive-perceptual computing for monitoring, appraisal, adherence to intervention,

Prof. Amit Sheth, Wright State University

*** Coffee Break ***

*** Poster *** (overlapping)

Paper Spotlights 3

A-4: Mengting Wan and Xin Chen. Beyond "How may I help you?'': Assisting Customer Service Agents with Proactive Responses, http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10686

A-5: 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

A-6: 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

Demo and Competition Review

Panel discussion: “Challenges in Building High-Quality Conversation Agents Quickly that People Actually Want to Use”

Closing comments