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title: "SIGDIAL 2016 — all accepted papers — the most cited first"
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# SIGDIAL 2016: all accepted papers

49 papers · the most cited first · [← SIGDIAL 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2016/)

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*
26. **[Identifying Teacher Questions Using Automatic Speech Recognition in Classrooms ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3623/)**Nathaniel Blanchard, Patrick Donnelly, Andrew M. Olney et al.*17 citations*
27. **[Analyzing the Effect of Entrainment on Dialogue Acts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizukami-2016-analyzing-effect-entrainment-dialogue-acts/)**Masahiro Mizukami, Koichiro Yoshino, Graham Neubig et al.*16 citations · our summary*
28. **[Learning Fine-Grained Knowledge about Contingent Relations between Everyday Events ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3644/)**Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Ernesto Hernandez, Marilyn Walker*14 citations*
29. **[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/)**Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Maike Paetzel, Cheng Qu et al.*14 citations · our summary*
30. **[Towards an Entertaining Natural Language Generation System: Linguistic Peculiarities of Japanese Fictional Characters ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3641/)**Chiaki Miyazaki, Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka et al.*14 citations*
31. **[When do we laugh? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3645/)**Ye Tian, Chiara Mazzocconi, Jonathan Ginzburg*14 citations*
32. **[On the Contribution of Discourse Structure on Text Complexity Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3620/)**Elnaz Davoodi, Leila Kosseim*12 citations*
33. **[Rapid Prototyping of Form-driven Dialogue Systems Using an Open-source Framework ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3626/)**Svetlana Stoyanchev, Pierre Lison, Srinivas Bangalore*10 citations*
34. **[Syntactic parsing of chat language in contact center conversation corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3621/)**Alexis Nasr, Geraldine Damnati, Aleksandra Guerraz et al.*9 citations*
35. **[Extracting PDTB Discourse Relations from Student Essays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3615/)**Kate Forbes-Riley, Fan Zhang, Diane Litman*8 citations*
36. **[Real-Time Understanding of Complex Discriminative Scene Descriptions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3630/)**Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Casey Kennington, David DeVault et al.*8 citations*
37. **[Supporting Spoken Assistant Systems with a Graphical User Interface that Signals Incremental Understanding and Prediction State ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3631/)**Casey Kennington, David Schlangen*7 citations*
38. **[Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3643/)**Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon*7 citations*
39. **[Reference Resolution in Situated Dialogue with Learned Semantics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3642/)**Xiaolong Li, Kristy Boyer*6 citations*
40. **[Analyzing Post-dialogue Comments by Speakers – How Do Humans Personalize Their Utterances in Dialogue? – ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3619/)**Toru Hirano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Yoshihiro Matsuo*5 citations*
41. **[Selection method of an appropriate response in chat-oriented dialogue systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3629/)**Hideaki Mori, Masahiro Araki*5 citations*
42. **[A framework for the automatic inference of stochastic turn-taking styles ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3624/)**Kornel Laskowski*3 citations*
43. **[Using phone features to improve dialogue state tracking generalisation to unseen states ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3611/)**Iñigo Casanueva, Thomas Hain, Mauro Nicolao et al.*2 citations*
44. **[Initiations and Interruptions in a Spoken Dialog System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3618/)**Leah Nicolich-Henkin, Carolyn Rosé, Alan W Black*1 citation*
45. **[Language Portability for Dialogue Systems: Translating a Question-Answering System from English into Tamil ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3614/)**Satheesh Ravi, Ron Artstein*1 citation*
46. **[Keynote - Modeling Human Communication Dynamics ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3633/)**Louis-Philippe Morency
47. **[Keynote - More than meets the ear: Processes that shape dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3607/)**Susan Brennan
48. **[LVCSR System on a Hybrid GPU-CPU Embedded Platform for Real-Time Dialog Applications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3627/)**Alexei V. Ivanov, Patrick L. Lange, David Suendermann-Oeft
49. **[Special Session - The Future Directions of Dialogue-Based Intelligent Personal Assistants ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-3606/)**Yoichi Matsuyama, Alexandros Papangelis
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