--- title: "SIGDIAL 2014 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "SIGDIAL 2014 — accepted papers: 6 papers in the Elamur Research library (Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/) [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/) / 2014 # SIGDIAL 2014 — accepted papers SIGDIAL 2014 is the 2014 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., June 2014 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 45 papers of it; our library holds 6 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**45** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**6** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/#works) · [**519** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/#works)**Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.** where it was held**June 2014** when ## All accepted papers (45) The most cited first; 6 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Demonstration of Dialogue Processing in SimSensei Kiosk](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4334/)**Fabrizio Morbini, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila et al. 2. **[Adapting to Personality Over Time: Examining the Effectiveness of Dialogue Policy Progressions in Task-Oriented Interaction](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4306/)**Alexandria Vail, Kristy Boyer 3. **[Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4320/)**Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova 4. **[Alex: Bootstrapping a Spoken Dialogue System for a New Domain by Real Users](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4311/)**Ondřej Dušek, Ondřej Plátek, Lukáš Žilka et al. 5. **[An easy method to make dialogue systems incremental](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4314/)**Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche, Fabrice Lefevre 6. **[Aspectual Properties of Conversational Activities](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4330/)**Rebecca J. Passonneau, Boxuan Guan, Cho Ho Yeung et al. 7. **[Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4313/)**Lanbo She, Shaohua Yang, Yu Cheng et al. 8. **[Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/can-2014-combining-task-dialogue-streams-unsupervised/)**Aysu Ezen-Can, Kristy Boyer*our summary* 9. **[Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4341/)**Ronnie Smith 10. **[Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4302/)**Raveesh Meena, Johan Boye, Gabriel Skantze et al. 11. **[Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2014-detecting-inappropriate-clarification-requests-spoken/)**Alex Liu, Rose Sloan, Mei-Vern Then et al.*our summary* 12. **[Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ashok-2014-dialogue-act-modeling-non-visual/)**Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev et al.*our summary* 13. **[Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4324/)**Diane Litman, Katherine Forbes-Riley 14. **[Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oya-2014-extractive-summarization-dialogue-act-modeling/)**Tatsuro Oya, Giuseppe Carenini*our summary* 15. **[Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4342/)**Sungjin Lee 16. **[Free on-line speech recogniser based on Kaldi ASR toolkit producing word posterior lattices](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4315/)**Ondřej Plátek, Filip Jurčíček 17. **[Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4323/)**Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran et al. 18. **[Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4309/)**Fabrizio Morbini, Eric Forbell, Kenji Sagae 19. **[In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4322/)**Mehwish Riaz, Roxana Girju 20. **[Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4305/)**Koichiro Yoshino, Tatsuya Kawahara 21. **[Initiative Taking in Negotiation](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4325/)**Elnaz Nouri, David Traum 22. **[InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4312/)**Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis, David Schlangen 23. **[Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4328/)**Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Minker 24. **[Keynote: Language Adaptation](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4319/)**Lillian Lee 25. **[Keynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4301/)**Steve Young [See all 45 papers in SIGDIAL 2014 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2014/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (6) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/henderson-2014-word-based-dialog-state-tracking/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young*2014 · 432 citations* 2. **[Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2014-reducing-sparsity-improves-recognition-implicit/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Junyi Jessy Li, Ani Nenkova*2014 · 32 citations* 3. **[Extractive Summarization and Dialogue Act Modeling on Email Threads: An Integrated Probabilistic Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oya-2014-extractive-summarization-dialogue-act-modeling/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Tatsuro Oya, Giuseppe Carenini*2014 · 31 citations* 4. **[Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/can-2014-combining-task-dialogue-streams-unsupervised/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Aysu Ezen-Can, Kristy Boyer*2014 · 10 citations* 5. **[Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2014-detecting-inappropriate-clarification-requests-spoken/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Alex Liu, Rose Sloan, Mei-Vern Then, et al.*2014 · 8 citations* 6. **[Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ashok-2014-dialogue-act-modeling-non-visual/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev, et al.*2014 · 6 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Dialogue systems (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Health Professions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Svetlana Stoyanchev**2 works here · 14 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/svetlana-stoyanchev/) · [🧑‍🔬**Blaise Thomson**1 work here · 432 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/blaise-thomson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthew Henderson**1 work here · 432 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-henderson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steve Young**1 work here · 432 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ani Nenkova**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ani-nenkova/) · [🧑‍🔬**Junyi Jessy Li**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Giuseppe Carenini**1 work here · 31 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-carenini/) · [🧑‍🔬**Aysu Ezen-Can**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aysu-ezen-can/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kristy Boyer**1 work here · 10 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristy-boyer/) · [🧑‍🔬**Elizabeth Shriberg**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-shriberg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Julia Hirschberg**1 work here · 8 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-hirschberg/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🔬**International Computer Science Institute** Berkeley · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/international-computer-science-institute/) · [🎓**North Carolina State University** Raleigh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-carolina-state-university/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🎓**Stony Brook University** Stony Brook · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stony-brook-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous SIGDIAL 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2012/) - [next → SIGDIAL 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2015/) - [↑ back to SIGDIAL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)