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# SIGDIAL 2016 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2016 is the 2016 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Los Angeles, September 2016 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 49 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.

[**49** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2016/#works) · [**231** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2016/#works)**Los Angeles** where it was held**September 2016** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3601/)**Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Eskenazi*255 citations*
2. **[Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3638/)**Yashar Mehdad, Joel Tetreault*198 citations*
3. **[Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed et al.*107 citations · our summary*
4. **[Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3603/)**Bing Liu, Ian Lane*104 citations*
5. **[Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3649/)**Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black et al.*88 citations*
6. **[Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3613/)**Mehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz et al.*82 citations*
7. **[Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3628/)**Yoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao et al.*79 citations*
8. **[Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3612/)**Yu-Hsin Chen, Jinho D. Choi*60 citations*
9. **[On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3634/)**Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy et al.*57 citations*
10. **[A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3622/)**Ondřej Dušek, Filip Jurčíček*52 citations*

## All accepted papers (49)

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

1. **[Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3601/)**Tiancheng Zhao, Maxine Eskenazi*255 citations*
2. **[Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3638/)**Yashar Mehdad, Joel Tetreault*198 citations*
3. **[Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed et al.*107 citations · our summary*
4. **[Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3603/)**Bing Liu, Ian Lane*104 citations*
5. **[Strategy and Policy Learning for Non-Task-Oriented Conversational Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3649/)**Zhou Yu, Ziyu Xu, Alan W Black et al.*88 citations*
6. **[Policy Networks with Two-Stage Training for Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3613/)**Mehdi Fatemi, Layla El Asri, Hannes Schulz et al.*82 citations*
7. **[Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3628/)**Yoichi Matsuyama, Arjun Bhardwaj, Ran Zhao et al.*79 citations*
8. **[Character Identification on Multiparty Conversation: Identifying Mentions of Characters in TV Shows](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3612/)**Yu-Hsin Chen, Jinho D. Choi*60 citations*
9. **[On the Evaluation of Dialogue Systems with Next Utterance Classification](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3634/)**Ryan Lowe, Iulian Vlad Serban, Michael Noseworthy et al.*57 citations*
10. **[A Context-aware Natural Language Generator for Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3622/)**Ondřej Dušek, Filip Jurčíček*52 citations*
11. **[The Role of Discourse Units in Near-Extractive Summarization](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3617/)**Junyi Jessy Li, Kapil Thadani, Amanda Stent*49 citations*
12. **[Talking with ERICA, an autonomous android](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3625/)**Koji Inoue, Pierrick Milhorat, Divesh Lala et al.*48 citations*
13. **[A Wizard-of-Oz Study on A Non-Task-Oriented Dialog Systems That Reacts to User Engagement](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3608/)**Zhou Yu, Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Alan W Black et al.*41 citations*
14. **[Empirical comparison of dependency conversions for RST discourse trees](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3616/)**Katsuhiko Hayashi, Tsutomu Hirao, Masaaki Nagata*37 citations*
15. **[Classifying Emotions in Customer Support Dialogues in Social Media](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3609/)**Jonathan Herzig, Guy Feigenblat, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer et al.*36 citations*
16. **[Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3647/)**Ran Zhao, Tanmay Sinha, Alan Black et al.*32 citations*
17. **[Small Talk Improves User Impressions of Interview Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3646/)**Takahiro Kobori, Mikio Nakano, Tomoaki Nakamura*29 citations*
18. **[Neural Utterance Ranking Model for Conversational Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3648/)**Michimasa Inaba, Kenichi Takahashi*25 citations*
19. **[Towards a dialogue system that supports rich visualizations of data](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3639/)**Abhinav Kumar, Jillian Aurisano, Barbara Di Eugenio et al.*25 citations*
20. **[Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/litman-2016-conversations-spoken-dialogue-systems-automated/)**Diane Litman, Steve Young, Mark Gales et al.*23 citations · our summary*
21. **[Investigating Fluidity for Human-Robot Interaction with Real-time, Real-world Grounding Strategies](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3637/)**Julian Hough, David Schlangen*20 citations*
22. **[Measuring the Similarity of Sentential Arguments in Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3636/)**Amita Misra, Brian Ecker, Marilyn Walker*20 citations*
23. **[Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3610/)**Juliana Miehle, Koichiro Yoshino, Louisa Pragst et al.*19 citations*
24. **[Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible Interaction](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3602/)**Sungjin Lee, Amanda Stent*19 citations*
25. **[The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line News](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3605/)**Emma Barker, Monica Lestari Paramita, Ahmet Aker et al.*18 citations*

[See all 49 papers in SIGDIAL 2016 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2016/papers/)

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

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

1. [**Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue**Shereen Oraby, Vrindavan Harrison, Lena Reed, et al.*2016 · 163 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oraby-2016-creating-characterizing-diverse-corpus-sarcasm/)
2. **[Towards Using Conversations with Spoken Dialogue Systems in the Automated Assessment of Non-Native Speakers of English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/litman-2016-conversations-spoken-dialogue-systems-automated/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Diane Litman, Steve Young, Mark Gales, et al.*2016 · 26 citations*
3. **[Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizukami-2016-analyzing-effect-entrainment-dialogue-acts/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig, et al.*2016 · 23 citations*
4. **[Toward incremental dialogue act segmentation in fast-paced interactive dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/manuvinakurike-2016-incremental-dialogue-act-segmentation-fast/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu, et al.*2016 · 19 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Dialogue systems (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [English (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/)

## 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/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Ellen Riloff**1 work here · 163 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellen-riloff/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marilyn Walker**1 work here · 163 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marilyn-walker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shereen Oraby**1 work here · 163 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shereen-oraby/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vrindavan Harrison**1 work here · 163 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vrindavan-harrison/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Vandyke**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vandyke/) · [🧑‍🔬**Diane Litman**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diane-litman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Mark Gales**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-gales/) · [🧑‍🔬**Steve Young**1 work here · 26 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-young/) · [🧑‍🔬**David Traum**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-traum/) · [🧑‍🔬**Graham Neubig**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) · [🧑‍🔬**Koichiro Yoshino**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/koichiro-yoshino/) · [🧑‍🔬**Masahiro Mizukami**1 work here · 23 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masahiro-mizukami/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Uppsala University** Uppsala · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**Bielefeld University** Bielefeld · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bielefeld-university/) · [🎓**University of Utah** Salt Lake City · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-utah/) · [🔬**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/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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