--- title: "SIGDIAL 2012 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "SIGDIAL 2012 — accepted papers: 4 papers in the Elamur Research library (Seoul, South Korea), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [SIGDIAL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/) / 2012 # SIGDIAL 2012 — accepted papers SIGDIAL 2012 is the 2012 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Seoul, South Korea, July 2012 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 43 papers of it; our library holds 4 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**43** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/#works) · [**204** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/#works)**Seoul, South Korea** where it was held**July 2012** when ## All accepted papers (43) The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Bottom-Up Exploration of the Dimensions of Dialog State in Spoken Interaction](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1628/)**Nigel G. Ward, Alejandro Vega 2. **[A Demonstration of Incremental Speech Understanding and Confidence Estimation in a Virtual Human Dialogue System](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1618/)**David DeVault, David Traum 3. **[A Mixed-Initiative Conversational Dialogue System for Healthcare](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1620/)**Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, David DeVault et al. 4. **[A Regression-based Approach to Modeling Addressee Backchannels](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1639/)**Allison Terrell, Bilge Mutlu 5. **[A Reranking Model for Discourse Segmentation using Subtree Features](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1623/)**Ngo Xuan Bach, Nguyen Le Minh, Akira Shimazu 6. **[A Study in How NLU Performance Can Affect the Choice of Dialogue System Architecture](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1637/)**Anton Leuski, David DeVault 7. **[A Temporal Simulator for Developing Turn-Taking Methods for Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1615/)**Ethan O. Selfridge, Peter A. Heeman 8. **[A Unified Probabilistic Approach to Referring Expressions](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1633/)**Kotaro Funakoshi, Mikio Nakano, Takenobu Tokunaga et al. 9. **[Adapting to Multiple Affective States in Spoken Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1630/)**Kate Forbes-Riley, Diane Litman 10. **[An End-to-End Evaluation of Two Situated Dialog Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1602/)**Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, Alejandra Lorenzo, Claire Gardent 11. **[An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1606/)**Sungjin Lee, Maxine Eskenazi 12. **[Automatically Acquiring Fine-Grained Information Status Distinctions in German](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1632/)**Aoife Cahill, Arndt Riester 13. **[Cohesion, Entrainment and Task Success in Educational Dialog](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1627/)**Diane Litman 14. **[Combining Incremental Language Generation and Incremental Speech Synthesis for Adaptive Information Presentation](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1641/)**Hendrik Buschmeier, Timo Baumann, Benjamin Dosch et al. 15. **[Combining Verbal and Nonverbal Features to Overcome the “Information Gap” in Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1634/)**Eun Young Ha, Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Christopher Mitchell et al. 16. **[Contingency and Comparison Relation Labeling and Structure Prediction in Chinese Sentences](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1636/)**Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen 17. **[Dialog System Using Real-Time Crowdsourcing and Twitter Large-Scale Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1631/)**Fumihiro Bessho, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi 18. **[Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2012-dialogue-act-recognition-reweighted-speaker/)**Congkai Sun, Louis-Philippe Morency*our summary* 19. **[Enhancing Referential Success by Tracking Hearer Gaze](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1604/)**Alexander Koller, Konstantina Garoufi, Maria Staudte et al. 20. **[Estimating Adaptation of Dialogue Partners with Different Verbal Intelligence](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1617/)**Kseniya Zablotskaya, Fernando Fernández-Martínez, Wolfgang Minker 21. **[Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1626/)**Sungjin Lee, Maxine Eskenazi 22. **[Focused Meeting Summarization via Unsupervised Relation Extraction](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1642/)**Lu Wang, Claire Cardie 23. **[From Strangers to Partners: Examining Convergence within a Longitudinal Study of Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1612/)**Christopher M. Mitchell, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester 24. **[Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2012-global-features-shallow-discourse-parsing/)**Sucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard Johansson*our summary* 25. **[Hierarchical Conversation Structure Prediction in Multi-Party Chat](https://aclanthology.org/W12-1607/)**Elijah Mayfield, David Adamson, Carolyn Penstein Rosé [See all 43 papers in SIGDIAL 2012 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (4) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Improving Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition Through Feature Set Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2012-improving-implicit-discourse-relation-recognition/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Joonsuk Park, Claire Cardie*2012 · 165 citations* 2. **[Global Features for Shallow Discourse Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2012-global-features-shallow-discourse-parsing/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Sucheta Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi, Richard Johansson*2012 · 26 citations* 3. **[“Love ya, jerkface”: Using Sparse Log-Linear Models to Build Positive and Impolite Relationships with Teens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2012-love-ya-jerkface-sparse-log/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**William Yang Wang, Samantha Finkelstein, Amy Ogan, et al.*2012 · 7 citations* 4. **[Dialogue Act Recognition using Reweighted Speaker Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2012-dialogue-act-recognition-reweighted-speaker/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Congkai Sun, Louis-Philippe Morency*2012 · 6 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Claire Cardie**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-cardie/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joonsuk Park**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joonsuk-park/) · [🧑‍🔬**Giuseppe Riccardi**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-riccardi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Richard Johansson**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-johansson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sucheta Ghosh**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sucheta-ghosh/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alan W Black**1 work here · 7 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-w-black/) · [🧑‍🔬**Justine Cassell**1 work here · 7 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justine-cassell/) · [🧑‍🔬**William Yang Wang**1 work here · 7 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Louis-Philippe Morency**1 work here · 6 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-philippe-morency/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🔬**USC Institute for Creative Technologies** Playa Vista · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/usc-institute-for-creative-technologies/) · [🎓**University of Gothenburg** Gothenburg · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-gothenburg/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous SIGDIAL 2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2011/) - [next → SIGDIAL 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/) - [↑ back to SIGDIAL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)