Accepted Papers
Long Papers
Learning to Rank Intents in Voice Assistants. Raviteja Anantha Ramesh, Srinivas Chappidi and William Dawoodi (Video)
Caption Generation of Robot Behaviors based on Unsupervised Learning of Action Segments. Koichiro Yoshino, Kohei Wakimoto, Yuta Nishimura and Satoshi Nakamura (Video)
Response generation to out-of-database questions for example-based dialogue systems. Sota Isonishi, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara (Video)
A Character Expression Model Affecting Spoken Dialogue Behaviors. Kenta Yamamoto, Koji Inoue, Shizuka Nakamura, Katsuya Takanashi and Tatsuya Kawahara (Video)
Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants. Juliana Miehle, Nicolas Wagner, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Packing, Stacking, and Tracking: An Empirical Study of Online User Adaptation. Jean-Sebastien Laperriere, Darryl Lam and Kotaro Funakoshi (Video)
Dialog State Tracking with Incorporation of Target Value in Attention Models. Takami Yoshida, Kenji Iwata, Yuka Kobayashi and Hiroshi Fujimura
Authoring Negotiation Content and Programming Simulated Patients. Volha Petukhova, Firuza Sharifullaeva and Dietrich Klakow (Video)
Deep AM-FM: Toolkit For Automatic Dialogue Evaluation. Chen Zhang, Luis Fernando D’haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li and Thomas Friedrichs (Video)
Delay Mitigation for Backchannel Prediction in Spoken Dialog System. Amalia Adiba, Takeshi Homma, Dario Bertero, Takashi Sumiyoshi and Kenji Nagamatsu
The Influence of Syntax on the Perception of In-Vehicle Prompts and Driving Performance. Daniela Stier, Ulrich Heid, Patricia Kittel, Maria Schmidt and Wolfgang Minker
Towards Similar User Utterance Augmentation for Out-of-Domain Detection. Andoni Azpeitia, Manex Serras, Laura García-Sardiña, Mikel D. Fernández-Bhogal and Arantza del Pozo
Towards Personalization of Spoken Dialogue System Communication Strategies. Carla Gordon, Kallirroi Georgila, Volodymyr Yanov and David Traum (Video)
Short, Demo and Position Papers
A Script Knowledge Based Dialogue System for Indoor Navigation. Juliana Miehle, Isabel Feustel, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Learning Grammar in Confined Worlds. Graham Spinks, Ruben Cartuyvels and Marie-Francine Moens (Video)
Towards a Humorous Chat-bot Companion for Senior Citizens. Ria Mundhra, Ting Jen Lim, Hong Ngan Duong, Kheng Hui Yeo and Andreea Niculescu (Video)
Data Collection Design for Dialogue System for Low-resource Languages. Zulipiye Yusupujiang and Jonathan Ginzburg
Nudges with a conversational agent or social robot: a first experiment with children at a primary school. Hugues Ali Mehenni, Sofiya Kobylyanskaya, Ioana Vasilescu and Laurence Devillers (Video)
MixOut : A Simple Yet Effective Data Augmentation Scheme for Slot-Filling. Mihir Kale and Aditya Siddhant
Exploring Boundaries among Interacting Robots and Humans. Kristiina Jokinen (Video)
E-HEALTH: Special Session on Dialogue systems for mental e-health
A Content and Knowledge Management System Supporting Emotion Detection from Speech. Binh Vu, Mikel Develasco, Paul Mc Kevitt, Raymond Bond, Robin Turkington, Frederick Booth, Maurice Mulvenna, Michael Fuchs, and Matthias Hemmje
Analysis of Prosodic Features during Cognitive Load in Patients with Depression. Carmen Martínez Antón, Spyridon Kontaxis, Mar Posadas-de Miguel, Esther García, Sara Siddi, Jordi Aguiló, Josep Maria Haro, Concepción de la Cámara, Raquel Bailón and Alfonso Ortega (Video)
Co-creating requirements and assessing end-user acceptability of a voice-based chatbot to support mental health: A thematic analysis of a living lab workshop. Antonio Benítez-Guijarro, Raymond Bond, Frederick Booth, Zoraida Callejas, Edel Ennis, Anna Esposito, Matthias Kraus, Gavin McConvey, Michael McTear, Maurice Mulvenna, Courtney Potts, Louisa Pragst, Robin Turkington, Nicolas Wagner and Huiru Zheng
Development of a dialogue system that supports recovery for patients with schizophreni. Oshiyama Chiaki, Niwa Shin-Ichi, Kristiina Jokinen and Nishimura Takuichi (Video)
SLCTIL: Special Session on Speech Language and Conversation Technologies for Iberian Languages
On the Use of Phonotactic Vector Representations with FastText for Language Identification. David Romero and Christian Salamea (Video)
A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly. Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, Javier Mikel Olaso, Asier López-Zorrilla, Mikel Develasco, Alain Vázquez and M. Inés Torres (Video)
Towards a natural human-robot interaction in an industrial environment. Ander González-Docasal, Cristina Aceta, Haritz Arzelus, Aitor Álvarez, Izaskun Fernández and Johan Kildal (Video)
Conversational systems research in Spain: A bibliometric survey. David Griol and Zoraida Callejas
WOCHAT + DBDC5: Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agents and Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge
ToxicBot: A Conversational Agent to Fight Online Hate Speech. Agustín Manuel de Los Riscos Mayorga and Luis Fernando D'Haro (Video)
Automatic Evaluation of Non-Task Oriented Dialog Systems by using Sentence Embeddings Projections and their Dynamics. Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar, Luis Fernando D’Haro and Fernando Matía (Video)
Masheli: A Choctaw-English bilingual chatbot. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum (Video)
Improving Dialogue Breakdown Detection with Semi-Supervised Learning. Nathan Ng, Narendran Thangarajan, Jiacheng Pan, Marzyeh Ghassemi and Qi Guo
Overview of Dialogue Breakdown Detection Challenge 5. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yuiko Tsunomori, Tetsuro Takahashi, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Masahiro Araki, Joao Sedoc, Rafael E. Banchs, Luis F. D’Haro
Award Finalists
Best Paper Award:
The Influence of Syntax on the Perception of In-Vehicle Prompts and Driving Performance. Daniela Stier, Ulrich Heid, Patricia Kittel, Maria Schmidt and Wolfgang Minker
Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants. Juliana Miehle, Nicolas Wagner, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Caption Generation of Robot Behaviors based on Unsupervised Learning of Action Segments. Koichiro Yoshino, Kohei Wakimoto, Yuta Nishimura and Satoshi Nakamura
Best Video Awards
Analysis of prosodic features during cognitive load in patients with depression. Carmen Martínez Antón, Spyridon Kontaxis, Mar Posadas-de Miguel, Esther García, Sara Siddi, Jordi Aguiló, Josep Maria Haro, Concepción de la Cámara, Raquel Bailón and Alfonso Ortega
Caption Generation of Robot Behaviors based on Unsupervised Learning of Action Segments. Koichiro Yoshino, Kohei Wakimoto, Yuta Nishimura and Satoshi Nakamura
Masheli: A Choctaw-English bilingual chatbot. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum
Best Paper Winner
Caption Generation of Robot Behaviors based on Unsupervised Learning of Action Segments. Koichiro Yoshino, Kohei Wakimoto, Yuta Nishimura and Satoshi Nakamura