February 21-24, 2023
IWSDS 2023
Los Angeles, USA
University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies
Accepted Papers:
Factors in Crowdsourcing for Evaluation of Complex Dialogue Systems
Annalena Aicher, Stefan Hillmann, Isabel Feustel, Thilo Michael, Sebastian Möller and Wolfgang Minker
Fostering User Engagement in the Critical Reflection of Arguments
Klaus Weber, Annalena Aicher, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes and Elisabeth André
Improving Open-Domain Dialogue Evaluation with a Causal Inference Model
Cat P. Le, Luke Dai, Michael Johnston, Yang Liu, Marilyn Walker and Reza Ghanadan
FCC: Fusing Conversation History and Candidate Provenance for Contextual Response Ranking in Dialogue Systems
Zihao Wang, Eugene Agichtein and Jinho Choi
Module Selection: A new task for Dialog Systems
Jan Nehring, Akhyar Ahmed and Lena A. Jäger
An investigation on how zero-shot slot filling benefits the task-oriented dialogue system
Sixia Li and Shogo Okada
Language-agnostic Code-Switching in Sequence-To-Sequence Speech Recognition
Enes Yavuz Ugan, Christian Huber, Juan Hussain and Alexander Waibel
Understanding the Effectiveness of Very Large Language Models on Dialog Evaluation
Jessica Huynh, Cathy Jiao, Prakhar Gupta, Shikib Mehri, Payal Bajaj, Vishrav Chaudhary and Maxine Eskenazi
Data Collection for Multi-party Task-based Dialogue in Social Robotics
Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon
Analysis of Face Acts in Japanese Multimodal Persuasive Dialogue Corpus
Seiya Kawano, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi and Koichiro Yoshino
Semi-autonomous Guide Agents with Simultaneous Handling of Multiple Users
Yusuke Muraki, Haruki Kawai, Kenta Yamamoto, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala and Tatsuya Kawahara
The prosodic expressions of negative micro-sentiment vary across corpora
Dimitri E. Lyon and Nigel G. Ward
Batch-level GANs to promote dialogue response variety
Asier López Zorrilla, Alain Vázquez and M. Inés Torres
How Should We Represent Dialog Acts to Leverage Pretrained Natural Language Generators?
Alain Vázquez, Asier López Zorrilla and M. Inés Torres
Comparing Multi-User Interaction Strategies in Human-Robot Teamwork
Nicolas Wagner, Matthias Kraus, Niklas Lindemann and Wolfgang Minker
Modeling Multiple User Interests using Hierarchical Knowledge for Conversational Recommender System
Yuka Okuda, Katsuhito Sudoh, Seitaro Shinagawa and Satoshi Nakamura
Clarifying characteristics of dialogue summary in dialogue format
Sanae Yamashita and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
Improving Empathetic Response Generation with Retrieval based on Emotion Recognition
Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto, Chenhui Chu and Tatsuya Kawahara
GraphWOZ: Dialogue Management with Conversational Knowledge Graphs
Nicholas Thomas Walker, Stefan Ultes and Pierre Lison
Developing a spoken dialogue system for the Choctaw language
Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum
Towards interactive explanations of machine learning methods through dialogue systems
Isabel Feustel, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes
Investigation of Naming in Process of Building Common Ground through Collaborative Dialogues
Yu Saito, Koh Mitsuda, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yasuhiro Minami
The Importance of Data Diversity for Engagement Recognition Systems: a Cross-cultural Study
Denis Dresvyanskiy, Alexey Karpov and Wolfgang Minker
MEM-BERT: Masked Entity Model-Based Transformers for Realtime Personalization
Qingxiaoyang Zhu, Nehal Bengre and Tapas Kanungo
First Impressions Matter: A Voice Assistant Study Using Log-Based Predictive Metrics
Tapas Kanungo, Nehal Bengre, Stephen Walsh, Qingxiaoyang Zhu and Dmitrii Siakov
Investigating Reinforcement Learning for Communication Strategies in a Task-Initiative Setting
Baber Khalid and Matthew Stone
Impact of synthetic voice and avatar animation on the usability of a dialogue agent for digital health monitoring
Hardik Kothare, Doug Habberstad, Michael Neumann, Sarah White, David Pautler and Vikram Ramanarayanan
Towards integrating eye gaze tracking into a multimodal dialog agent for remote patient assessment
Daniel Tisdale, Jackson Liscombe, David Pautler and Vikram Ramanarayanan
Pathology-specific settings for voice activity detection in a multimodal dialog agent for digital health monitoring
Jackson Liscombe, Hardik Kothare, Michael Neumann, David Pautler and Vikram Ramanarayanan
Learning to quide questions in chat-oriented dialogue by using combination of question-guiding corpora
Sota Horiuchi and Ryuichiro Higashinaka
Voice Assistant Accessibility
Angus Addlesee
A Transformer-based Response Evaluator for Open-Domain Spoken Conversation
Davan Harrison, Rishi Rajasekaran and Marilyn Walker
Let’s Get Personal: Personal Questions Improve SocialBot Performance in the Alexa Prize
Kevin K. Bowden and Marilyn Walker
Effective Dialogue-Context Retriever for Long-Term Open-Domain Conversation
Meguru Takasaki, Naoki Yoshinaga and Masashi Toyoda
Controlling Personality Style in Dialogue with Zero-Shot Prompt-Based Learning
Angela Ramirez, Mamon Alsalihy, Kartik Aggarwal, Cecilia Li, Liren Wu and Marilyn Walker
Dependency Dialogue Acts — Annotation Scheme and Case Study
Jon Z. Cai, Brendan King, Margaret Perkoff, Shiran Dudy, Jie Cao, Marie Grace, Natalia Wojarnik, Ananya Ganesh, James H. Martin, Martha Palmer, Marilyn Walker and Jeffrey Flanigan
Language portability strategies for open-domain dialogue with pre-trained language models from high to low resource languages
Ahmed Njifenjou, Virgile Sucal, Bassam Jabaian and Fabrice Lefèvre
Modeling Speaker-Listener Interaction for Backchannel Prediction
Daniel Ortega, Sarina Meyer, Antje Schweitzer and Ngoc Thang Vu
Character adaptation of spoken dialogue systems based on user personalities
Kenta Yamamoto, Koji Inoue and Tatsuya Kawahara