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| 2021 | A Task-Oriented Dialogue Architecture via Transformer Neural Language Models and Symbolic Injection. | Oscar J. Romero, Antian Wang, John Zimmerman, Aaron Steinfeld, Anthony Tomasic |
| 2021 | SoDA: On-device Conversational Slot Extraction. | Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva |
| 2021 | From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems. | Niklas Rach, Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel, Johannes Daxenberger, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes |
| 2021 | Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative Response. | Konigari Rachna, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri, Manish Shrivastava |
| 2021 | Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ. | Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Zhou Yu, Chinnadhurai Sankar |
| 2021 | Do Encoder Representations of Generative Dialogue Models have sufficient summary of the Information about the task ? | Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau, Sarath Chandar |
| 2021 | A Brief Study on the Effects of Training Generative Dialogue Models with a Semantic loss. | Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mohamed A. Abdelsalam, Sarath Chandar, Joelle Pineau |
| 2021 | Generative Conversational Networks. | Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Seokhwan Kim, Gkhan Tr, Dilek Hakkani-Tr |
| 2021 | Contrastive Response Pairs for Automatic Evaluation of Non-task-oriented Neural Conversational Models. | Koshiro Okano, Yu Suzuki, Masaya Kawamura, Tsuneo Kato, Akihiro Tamura, Jianming Wu |
| 2021 | Improving Named Entity Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems by Context and Speech Pattern Modeling. | Minh Nguyen, Zhou Yu |
| 2021 | Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis. | Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver |
| 2021 | Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text Utterances. | Chiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda, Junya Ono, Hiromi Wakaki |
| 2021 | Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2021 | GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling. | Shikib Mehri, Maxine Esknazi |
| 2021 | Incremental temporal summarization in multi-party meetings. | Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Wenda Chen, Lama Nachman |
| 2021 | On the Need for Thoughtful Data Collection for Multi-Party Dialogue: A Survey of Available Corpora and Collection Methods. | Khyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh |
| 2021 | Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization. | Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy F. Chen |
| 2021 | Large-Scale Quantitative Evaluation of Dialogue Agents' Response Strategies against Offensive Users. | Haojun Li, Dilara Soylu, Christopher D. Manning |
| 2021 | Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems. | Hsien-Chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu, Carel van Niekerk, Christian Geishauser, Michael Heck, Shutong Feng, Milica Gasic |
| 2021 | Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. | Haizhou Li, Gina-Anne Levow, Zhou Yu, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Siqi Cai, David Vandyke, Nina Dethlefs, Yan Wu, Junyi Jessy Li |
| 2021 | Scikit-talk: A toolkit for processing real-world conversational speech data. | Andreas Liesenfeld, Gbor Parti, Chu-Ren Huang |
| 2021 | A Practical 2-step Approach to Assist Enterprise Question-Answering Live Chat. | Ling-Yen Liao, Tarec Fares |
| 2021 | Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women. | Kaihui Liang, Patrick L. Lange, Yoo Jung Oh, Jingwen Zhang, Yoshimi Fukuoka, Zhou Yu |
| 2021 | DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs. | Satwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu, Alborz Geramifard |