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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
  • Data Collection for Interactive Learning through the Dialog
    Miroslav Vodolán, Filip Jurčíček
  • A Context-aware Natural Language Generation Dataset for Dialogue Systems
    Ondřej Dušek, Filip Jurčíček
  • Dead Man Tweeting
    David Nilsson, Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren


• 15:00 - 16:00 - Short Paper Session II
  • Chatbot Evaluation and Database Expansion via Crowdsourcing
    Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky
  • Framework for the Formulation of Metrics for Conversational Agent Evaluation
    Mohammed Kaleem, Omar Alobadi, James O'Shea, Keeley Crockett
  • Tracking Conversational Gestures of Extraverts and Introverts in Multimodal Interaction
    David Novick, Adriana Camacho, Ivan Gris, Laura M. Rodriguez


• 16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee break


• 16:30 - 17:00 - Long Paper Session
  • Automatic Extraction of Chatbot Training Data from Natural Dialogue Corpora
    Bayan AbuShawar, Eric Atwell


• 17:00 - 17:50 - Shared Task Presentation and Poster Session
  • Shared Task on Data Collection and Annotation
    Luis Fernando D'Haro, Bayan AbuShawar, Zhou Yu
    Shared Task Chatbot Description Reports:
  • Politician
    David Kuboň, Barbora Hladká
  • Joker Chatterbot
    Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, Vincent Letard, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Sophie Rosset
  • IRIS - Informal Response Interactive System
    Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li
  • Py-Eliza: A Python-based Implementation of the Famous Computer Therapist
    Luis Fernando D'Haro
  • TickTock
    Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky
  • 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