Program
Slots for oral presentations are 30 minutes long; speakers should plan to talk for about 20–22 minutes, in order to leave time for questions and transition between speakers.
Full proceedings volume (PDF, 14 MB)
Printable program tri-fold (PDF, 344 KB)
Schedule at a glance
| Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Arrival and Welcome | Hobbs | Schlangen |
| 09:30 | Schubert | ||
| 10:00 | Break | Break | |
| 10:30 | Break | Malamud et al. | Cooper et al. |
| 11:00 | Rieser | Crespo et al. | Larsson |
| 11:30 | Johansson et al. | Byram-Washburn et al. | Breitholtz et al. |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 12:30 | |||
| 13:00 | Posters | ||
| 13:30 | Ward | Healey | |
| 14:00 | Benz et al. | Witt | |
| 14:30 | Posters | Posters | Katz et al. |
| 15:00 | Optional ICT tour | ||
| 15:30 | |||
| 16:00 | Buss et al. | Chukharev-Hudilainen | |
| 16:30 | Lundholm Fors et al. | Kunert et al. | |
| 17:00 | Pluss et al. | Bahtina | |
| 17:30 | Reception | ||
| 18:00 | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner (till 22:00) | ||
| 19:00 |
The Reception on Wednesday will be held at the Doubletree, a short walk (800m) from the workshop site. We will walk there together after the last talk.
Dinner on Thursday will be on board the Zumbrota in Marina del Rey. The cruise includes a sit-down dinner with soft drinks, with a cash bar for alcoholic beverages.
Participants should be ready to board the boat at Fisherman’s Village by 6:45 PM. Transportation will leave ICT at 6:15 PM; participants who wish to stop at their hotels before dinner should arrange their own transportation to the boat landing (cab fare should be around $20). The dinner is expected to last until approximately 10 PM, and we will provide transportation back to ICT and the hotels.
Extra tickets for the dinner cruise, for guests who are not registered for SemDial, can be bought for $75 (dinner is already included for registered participants). Please contact us by email if you are interested.
Wednesday, September 21
- 9:00: Arrival and Welcome
- 9:30: Invited speaker: Lenhart K. Schubert. What Would a Human-Like Dialogue Agent Need to Know? semdial2011_schubert.pdf
- 10:30: Break
- 11:00: Gestures Indicating Dialogue Structure. semdial2011_rieser.pdf
- 11:30: Understanding Route Directions in Human-Robot Dialogue. semdial2011_johansson.pdf
- 12:00: Lunch
- 13:30: Temporal Distributional Analysis. semdial2011_ward.pdf
- 14:00: A decision-theoretic approach to finding optimal responses to over-constrained queries in a conceptual search space. semdial2011_benz.pdf
- 14:30: Posters
- 16:00: DIUM – An Incremental Dialogue Manager That Can Produce Self-Corrections. semdial2011_buss.pdf
- 16:30: Reducing cognitive load in in-vehicle dialogue system interaction. semdial2011_lundholm_1.pdf
- 17:00: Toward Rapid Development of Multi-Party Virtual Human Negotiation Scenarios. semdial2011_pluss_1.pdf
- 17:30: Reception at the Doubletree
- 19:00: End
Thursday, September 22
- 9:00: Invited speaker: Jerry R. Hobbs. Structures in Three-Person Decision-Making Dialogues. semdial2011_hobbs.pdf
- 10:00: Break
- 10:30: Three Ways to Avoid Commitments: Declarative Force Modifiers in the Conversational Scoreboard. semdial2011_malamud.pdf
- 11:00: Expressing Taste in Dialogue. semdial2011_crespo.pdf
- 11:30: Focus Facilitation and Non-associative Sets. semdial2011_byram-washburn.pdf
- 12:00: Lunch
- 13:30: Invited speaker: Patrick G. T. Healey. Structural Divergence in Dialogue. semdial2011_healey.pdf
- 14:30: Posters
- 16:00: Local Discourse Structure of Chat Dialogues: Evidence from Keystroke Logging. semdial2011_chukharev-hudilainen.pdf
- 16:30: Adaptation in Child Directed Speech: Evidence from Corpora. semdial2011_kunert.pdf
- 17:00: Lingua Receptiva: Explicit Alignment in Estonian-Russian Communication. semdial2011_bahtina.pdf
- 17:30: End
- 18:15: Dinner Cruise (Marina del Rey)
Friday, September 23
- 9:00: Invited speaker: David Schlangen. Incremental Dialogue Processing. semdial2011_schlangen.pdf
- 10:00: Break
- 10:30: Negation in Dialogue. semdial2011_cooper.pdf
- 11:00: The TTR perceptron: Dynamic perceptual meanings and semantic coordination. semdial2011_larsson.pdf
- 11:30: Enthymemes as Rhetorical Resources. semdial2011_breitholtz.pdf
- 12:00: Lunch
- 13:00: Posters
- 14:00: A global experience metric for dialog management in spoken dialog systems. semdial2011_witt.pdf
- 14:30: Dialogue Analysis to Inform the Development of a Natural-language Tutoring System for Physics. semdial2011_katz.pdf
- 15:00: End; optional tour
Wednesday Posters
- Dialog Acts from the Processing Perspective in Task Oriented Dialog Systems. semdial2011_berg.pdf
- Unveiling the Information State with a Bayesian Model of the Listener. semdial2011_buschmeier.pdf
- Natural Language Explanations of Planning Failure.
- Gestures Supporting Dialogue Structure and Interaction in the Bielefeld Speech and Gesture Alignment Corpus (SaGA). semdial2011_hahn.pdf
- Cognitive Models of Failure and Recovery in Natural Language Interactions – A Joint Actions Approach. semdial2011_murugesan.pdf
- Tracking Communication and Belief in Virtual Worlds. semdial2011_roque.pdf
- Towards Speaker Adaptation for Dialogue Act Recognition. semdial2011_sun.pdf
- A Smart Interaction Device for Multi-Modal Human-Robot Dialogue. semdial2011_taylor.pdf
Thursday Posters
- Effects of 2D and 3D Displays on Turn-taking Behavior in Multiparty Human-Computer Dialog. semdial2011_al_moubayed.pdf
- Optional visual information affects conversation content. semdial2011_andersson.pdf
- How deeply rooted are the turns we take?. semdial2011_edlund.pdf
- Pause length variations within and between speakers over time. semdial2011_lundholm_2.pdf
- The impact of gender and bilingualism on cognition: the case of spatial perspective-taking. semdial2011_ryskin.pdf
- Timing in turn-taking: Children’s responses to their parents’ questions. semdial2011_tice_1.pdf
- Eye gaze of 3rd party observers reflects turn-end boundary projection. semdial2011_tice_2.pdf
Friday Posters
- The Structure of Greetings and Farewells/Thankings in MSNBC Political News Interviews. semdial2011_duchaj.pdf
- Concern Alignment in Consensus Building Conversations. semdial2011_katagiri.pdf
- The emergence of procedural conventions in dialogue. semdial2011_mills.pdf
- Modelling Non-Cooperative Dialogue: the Role of Conversational Games and Discourse Obligations. semdial2011_pluss_2.pdf