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# SIGDIAL 2015 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2015 is the 2015 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 2015 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 61 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.

[**61** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2015/#works) · [**760** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2015/#works)**Prague, Czech Republic** where it was held**September 2015** when

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/)**Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban et al.*199 citations · our summary*
2. **[Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2015-stochastic-language-generation-dialogue-recurrent/)**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim et al.*151 citations · our summary*
3. **[Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4631/)**Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker, Marilyn Walker*111 citations*
4. **[I Couldn't Agree More: The Role of Conversational Structure in Agreement and Disagreement Detection in Online Discussions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4625/)**Sara Rosenthal, Kathy McKeown*73 citations*
5. **[MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Single and Multi-Documents, On-line Fora, and Call-center Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4638/)**George Giannakopoulos, Jeff Kubina, John Conroy et al.*67 citations*
6. **[Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4611/)**Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki et al.*66 citations*
7. **[Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4622/)**Jason D. Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour et al.*60 citations*
8. **[Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4603/)**Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Heidi Christensen et al.*58 citations*
9. **[Exploiting knowledge base to generate responses for natural language dialog listening agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4616/)**Sangdo Han, Jeesoo Bang, Seonghan Ryu et al.*52 citations*
10. **[Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4655/)**Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gašić et al.*42 citations*

## All accepted papers (61)

The most cited first; 4 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/)**Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban et al.*199 citations · our summary*
2. **[Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2015-stochastic-language-generation-dialogue-recurrent/)**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim et al.*151 citations · our summary*
3. **[Argument Mining: Extracting Arguments from Online Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4631/)**Reid Swanson, Brian Ecker, Marilyn Walker*111 citations*
4. **[I Couldn't Agree More: The Role of Conversational Structure in Agreement and Disagreement Detection in Online Discussions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4625/)**Sara Rosenthal, Kathy McKeown*73 citations*
5. **[MultiLing 2015: Multilingual Summarization of Single and Multi-Documents, On-line Fora, and Call-center Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4638/)**George Giannakopoulos, Jeff Kubina, John Conroy et al.*67 citations*
6. **[Towards Taxonomy of Errors in Chat-oriented Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4611/)**Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kotaro Funakoshi, Masahiro Araki et al.*66 citations*
7. **[Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4622/)**Jason D. Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mokhtar Ashour et al.*60 citations*
8. **[Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4603/)**Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Heidi Christensen et al.*58 citations*
9. **[Exploiting knowledge base to generate responses for natural language dialog listening agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4616/)**Sangdo Han, Jeesoo Bang, Seonghan Ryu et al.*52 citations*
10. **[Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4655/)**Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Milica Gašić et al.*42 citations*
11. **[Metaphor Detection in Discourse ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4650/)**Hyeju Jang, Seungwhan Moon, Yohan Jo et al.*30 citations*
12. **[Acoustic-prosodic entrainment in Slovak, Spanish, English and Chinese: A cross-linguistic comparison ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4644/)**Rivka Levitan, Štefan Beňuš, Agustín Gravano et al.*29 citations*
13. **[Incremental Coordination: Attention-Centric Speech Production in a Physically Situated Conversational Agent ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4652/)**Zhou Yu, Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz*29 citations*
14. **[Automatic Detection of Miscommunication in Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4647/)**Raveesh Meena, José Lopes, Gabriel Skantze et al.*28 citations*
15. **[Opportunities and Obligations to Take Turns in Collaborative Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4642/)**Martin Johansson, Gabriel Skantze*27 citations*
16. **[Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Processing for Time-Offset Interaction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4629/)**David Traum, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein et al.*26 citations*
17. **[Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4649/)**Stefan Ultes, Matthias Kraus, Alexander Schmitt et al.*24 citations*
18. **[“So, which one is it?” The effect of alternative incremental architectures in a high-performance game-playing agent ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4610/)**Maike Paetzel, Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault*24 citations*
19. **[Human-Machine Dialogue as a Stochastic Game ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4602/)**Merwan Barlier, Julien Perolat, Romain Laroche et al.*22 citations*
20. **[Learning Domain-Independent Dialogue Policies via Ontology Parameterisation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4654/)**Zhuoran Wang, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Pei-Hao Su et al.*22 citations*
21. **[PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/biran-2015-pdtb-discourse-parsing-as-tagging/)**Or Biran, Kathleen McKeown*21 citations · our summary*
22. **[AllSummarizer system at MultiLing 2015: Multilingual single and multi-document summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4634/)**Abdelkrime Aries, Djamel Eddine Zegour, Khaled Walid Hidouci*20 citations*
23. **[Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Issue Negotiation Dialogue Policies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4621/)**Alexandros Papangelis, Kallirroi Georgila*20 citations*
24. **[Generating Sentence Planning Variations for Story Telling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4627/)**Stephanie Lukin, Lena Reed, Marilyn Walker*19 citations*
25. **[Call Centre Conversation Summarization: A Pilot Task at Multiling 2015 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-4633/)**Benoit Favre, Evgeny Stepanov, Jérémy Trione et al.*18 citations*

[See all 61 papers in SIGDIAL 2015 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2015/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2015-ubuntu-dialogue-corpus-large-dataset/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian Serban, et al.*2015 · 486 citations*
2. **[Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2015-stochastic-language-generation-dialogue-recurrent/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Tsung-Hsien Wen, Milica Gašić, Dongho Kim, et al.*2015 · 216 citations*
3. **[PDTB Discourse Parsing as a Tagging Task: The Two Taggers Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/biran-2015-pdtb-discourse-parsing-as-tagging/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Or Biran, Kathleen McKeown*2015 · 32 citations*
4. **[Dialog Act Annotation for Twitter Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zarisheva-2015-dialog-act-annotation-twitter-conversations/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Elina Zarisheva, Tatjana Scheffler*2015 · 26 citations*

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Dialogue systems (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Discourse analysis (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Information retrieval & search (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## 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.

[🧑‍🔬**Iulian Vlad Serban**1 work here · 486 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iulian-vlad-serban/) · [🧑‍🔬**Joelle Pineau**1 work here · 486 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joelle-pineau/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ryan Lowe**1 work here · 486 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-lowe/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Vandyke**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vandyke/) · [🧑‍🔬**Milica Gašić**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milica-gasic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nikola Mrkšić**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-mrksic/) · [🧑‍🔬**Pei-Hao Su**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pei-hao-su/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steve Young**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tsung-Hsien Wen**1 work here · 216 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsung-hsien-wen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kathleen McKeown**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathleen-mckeown/) · [🧑‍🔬**Or Biran**1 work here · 32 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/or-biran/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tatjana Scheffler**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatjana-scheffler/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🔬**Hasso Plattner Institute** Potsdam · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/hasso-plattner-institute/) · [🎓**University of Potsdam** Potsdam · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-potsdam/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/)

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