| MONDAY, JUNE 4 |
8:45 |
8:50 |
WELCOME |
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8:50 |
9:45 |
Invited Talk: Learning, Adaptation, and Personalization in Two (Very) Different Dialogue Systems |
Michael Kearns |
| Adaptation in Interaction |
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9:45 |
10:10 |
Adaptive Processing in a Medical Intelligent Tutoring System |
Reva Freedman, Byung-In Cho, Michael Glass, Yujian Zhou, Jung Hee Kim, Bruce Mills, Feng-Jen Yang and Martha Evens |
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10:30 |
10:55 |
A Decision-Theoretic Approach for Selecting Tutorial Discourse Actions |
R. Charles Murray, Kurt VanLehn and Jack Mostow |
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10:55 |
11:20 |
Modeling Informational Novelty in a Conversational System with a Hybrid Statistical and Grammar-Based Approach to Surface Natural Language Generation |
Adwait Ratnaparkhi |
11:20 |
11:35 |
BREAK |
11:35 |
12:25 |
PANEL |
12:25 |
1:30 |
LUNCH |
| Adaptation via On-Line Inference |
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1:30 |
1:55 |
Real-time Handling of Fragmented Utterances |
Linda Bell, Johan Boye and Joakim Gustafson |
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1:55 |
2:20 |
Initiative Management for Tutorial Dialogue |
Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore and Claus W. Zinn |
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2:20 |
2:45 |
A Comparison of Classification Techniques for the Automatic Detection of Error Corrections in Human-Computer Dialogues |
Katrin Kirchhoff |
2:45 |
3:00 |
BREAK |
| Learning and Evaluation in Adaptive Dialogue Systems |
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3:00 |
3:25 |
Learning Task Models for Collaborative Discourse |
Andrew Garland, Neal Lesh and Candace Sidner |
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3:25 |
3:50 |
The Impact of Syntactic and Planning Features on the Performance of a Trainable Sentence Planner |
Monica Rogati, Marilyn A. Walker and Owen Rambow |
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3:50 |
4:15 |
Corpus-Based Dialogue Simulation for Automatic Strategy Learning and Evaluation |
Konrad Scheffler and Steve Young |
4:15 |
4:35 |
BREAK |
| Short Talks |
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4:35 |
4:42 |
Dialogue Pattern Generation Algorithm in Database Search Task |
Masahiro Araki, Tasuku Ono, Kiyoshi Ueda, Takuya Nishimoto and Yasuhisa Niimi |
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4:42 |
4:49 |
Articulatory Adaptation in Multimodal Communicative Action |
Melanie Baljko |
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4:49 |
4:56 |
Anticipatory Planning for Decision-Theoretic Grounding and Task Advancement in Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems |
Rossana Damiano and David Traum |
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4:56 |
5:03 |
Dialogue as Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Case of Mixed-Initiative AI Systems |
Michael Fleming and Robin Cohen |
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5:03 |
5:10 |
Adaptive Modeling of Dialogue Initiative |
Peter A. Heeman and Susan E. Strayer |
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5:10 |
5:17 |
Improving Spoken Dialogue System Performance via Adaptation |
Diane J. Litman |
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5:17 |
5:24 |
A Corpus-Based Approach Towards Automatic Correction of Pitch Tracker Errors |
Kathleen Murray |
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5:24 |
5:30 |
Machine Learning for User Modeling in Conversational Recommendation Systems |
Cynthia A. Thompson |