Workshop on Collecting and Generating Resources for Chatbots and Conversational Agents - Development and Evaluation
Workshop Technical Program (May 28, 2016)
- 13:50 - 14:00 - Welcome Message by the Organizing Team
- 14:00 - 15:00 - Short Paper Session I
- 15:00 - 16:00 - Short Paper Session II
- 16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee break
- 16:30 - 17:00 - Long Paper Session
- 17:00 - 17:50 - Shared Task Presentation and Poster Session
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Shared Task on Data Collection and Annotation
Luis Fernando D'Haro, Bayan AbuShawar, Zhou Yu
Shared Task Chatbot Description Reports:
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Politician
David Kuboň, Barbora Hladká
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Joker Chatterbot
Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Vincent Letard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Sophie Rosset
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IRIS - Informal Response Interactive System
Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li
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Py-Eliza: A Python-based Implementation of the Famous Computer Therapist
Luis Fernando D'Haro
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TickTock
Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky
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Sarah Chatbot
Bayan AbuShawar
- 17:50 - 18:00 - Concluding Remarks by the Organizing Team
Program Committee
- Björn Schuller, Imperial College London, UK
- David Suendermann, Educational Testing Service (ETS), USA
- Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Microsoft Research, USA
- Gabriel Skantze, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Haizhou Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Jason Williams, Microsoft Research, USA
- Jiang Ridong, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Kotaro Funakoshi, Honda Research Institute, Japan
- Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, France
- Luis D'Haro, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Luisa Coheur, Lisbon University, Portugal
- Matthew Henderson, Google Research, USA
- Michael McTear, University of Ulster, UK
- Mikio Nakano, Honda Research Institute, Japan
- Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, UK
- Ramón López-Cózar, University of Granada, Spain
- Sakriani Sakti, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Satoshi Nakamura, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Seokhwan Kim, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Sophie Rosset, LIMSI-CNRS, France
- Stefan Ultes, Cambridge University, UK
- Suraj Nair, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Teruhisa Misu, Honda Research Institute, USA
- Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Yasuharu Den, Chiba University, Japan
- Shiv Vitaladevuni, Amazon, USA
Shared Task Co-organizers
- Bayan Abu Shawar, Arab Open University, Jordan
- Luis Fernando D'Haro, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Zhou Yu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Workshop Organizers
- Rafael E. Banchs, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
- Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan
- Wolfgang Minker, Ulm University, Germany
- Joseph Mariani, IMMI & LIMSI-CNRS, France
- David Traum, University of Southern California, USA