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# SIGDIAL 2020 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in 1st virtual meeting, July 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 41 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.

[**41** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2020/#works) · [**387** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2020/#works)**1st virtual meeting** where it was held**July 2020** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.4/)**Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis et al.*181 citations*
2. **[Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2020-unsupervised-evaluation-interactive-dialog-dialogpt/)**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*111 citations · our summary*
3. **[Contextualized Emotion Recognition in Conversation as Sequence Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.23/)**Yan Wang, Jiayu Zhang, Jun Ma et al.*85 citations*
4. **[ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2020-convokit-toolkit-analysis-conversations/)**Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu et al.*76 citations · our summary*
5. **[Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.29/)**Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi*59 citations*
6. **[Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.35/)**Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Karthik Gopalakrishnan et al.*56 citations*
7. **[Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.2/)**Siqi Shen, Charles Welch, Rada Mihalcea et al.*42 citations*
8. **[An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.15/)**Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto et al.*34 citations*
9. **[Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.37/)**Ryuichi Takanobu, Qi Zhu, Jinchao Li et al.*34 citations*
10. **[Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cervone-2020-is-this-dialogue-coherent-learning/)**Alessandra Cervone, Giuseppe Riccardi*16 citations · our summary*

## All accepted papers (41)

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

1. **[TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.4/)**Michael Heck, Carel van Niekerk, Nurul Lubis et al.*181 citations*
2. **[Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2020-unsupervised-evaluation-interactive-dialog-dialogpt/)**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*111 citations · our summary*
3. **[Contextualized Emotion Recognition in Conversation as Sequence Tagging](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.23/)**Yan Wang, Jiayu Zhang, Jun Ma et al.*85 citations*
4. **[ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2020-convokit-toolkit-analysis-conversations/)**Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu et al.*76 citations · our summary*
5. **[Towards Unified Dialogue System Evaluation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Current Evaluation Protocols](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.29/)**Sarah E. Finch, Jinho D. Choi*59 citations*
6. **[Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.35/)**Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Karthik Gopalakrishnan et al.*56 citations*
7. **[Counseling-Style Reflection Generation Using Generative Pretrained Transformers with Augmented Context](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.2/)**Siqi Shen, Charles Welch, Rada Mihalcea et al.*42 citations*
8. **[An Attentive Listening System with Android ERICA: Comparison of Autonomous and WOZ Interactions](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.15/)**Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala, Kenta Yamamoto et al.*34 citations*
9. **[Is Your Goal-Oriented Dialog Model Performing Really Well? Empirical Analysis of System-wise Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.37/)**Ryuichi Takanobu, Qi Zhu, Jinchao Li et al.*34 citations*
10. **[Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cervone-2020-is-this-dialogue-coherent-learning/)**Alessandra Cervone, Giuseppe Riccardi*16 citations · our summary*
11. **[rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.17/)**Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand et al.*15 citations*
12. **[Multi-Action Dialog Policy Learning with Interactive Human Teaching](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.36/)**Megha Jhunjhunwala, Caleb Bryant, Pararth Shah*14 citations*
13. **[Human-Human Health Coaching via Text Messages: Corpus, Annotation, and Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.30/)**Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian Ziebart et al.*13 citations*
14. **[Retico: An incremental framework for spoken dialogue systems](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.6/)**Thilo Michael*12 citations*
15. **[A Spoken Dialogue System for Spatial Question Answering in a Physical Blocks World](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.16/)**Georgiy Platonov, Lenhart Schubert, Benjamin Kane et al.*9 citations*
16. **[A Case Study of User Communication Styles with Customer Service Agents versus Intelligent Virtual Agents](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.11/)**Timothy Hewitt, Ian Beaver*8 citations*
17. **[Agent-Based Dynamic Collaboration Support in a Smart Office Space](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.31/)**Yansen Wang, R. Charles Murray, Haogang Bao et al.*7 citations*
18. **[Commonsense Evidence Generation and Injection in Reading Comprehension](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.9/)**Ye Liu, Tao Yang, Zeyu You et al.*7 citations*
19. **[It's About Time: Turn-Entry Timing For Situated Human-Robot Dialogue](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.12/)**Felix Gervits, Ravenna Thielstrom, Antonio Roque et al.*7 citations*
20. **[Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.3/)**Lena Reed, Vrindavan Harrison, Shereen Oraby et al.*7 citations*
21. **[A unifying framework for modeling acoustic/prosodic entrainment: definition and evaluation on two large corpora](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.27/)**Ramiro H. Gálvez, Lara Gauder, Jordi Luque et al.*6 citations*
22. **[Adaptive Dialog Policy Learning with Hindsight and User Modeling](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.40/)**Yan Cao, Keting Lu, Xiaoping Chen et al.*6 citations*
23. **[Analyzing Speaker Strategy in Referential Communication](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.22/)**Brian McMahan, Matthew Stone*6 citations*
24. **[Emora STDM: A Versatile Framework for Innovative Dialogue System Development](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.32/)**James D. Finch, Jinho D. Choi*6 citations*
25. **[Boosting Naturalness of Language in Task-oriented Dialogues via Adversarial Training](https://aclanthology.org/2020.sigdial-1.33/)**Chenguang Zhu*5 citations*

[See all 41 papers in SIGDIAL 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2020/papers/)

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

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

1. **[Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2020-unsupervised-evaluation-interactive-dialog-dialogpt/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*2020 · 223 citations*
2. **[ConvoKit: A Toolkit for the Analysis of Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2020-convokit-toolkit-analysis-conversations/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Jonathan P. Chang, Caleb Chiam, Liye Fu, et al.*2020 · 137 citations*
3. **[Is this Dialogue Coherent? Learning from Dialogue Acts and Entities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cervone-2020-is-this-dialogue-coherent-learning/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Alessandra Cervone, Giuseppe Riccardi*2020 · 24 citations*
4. **[Filtering conversations through dialogue acts labels for improving corpus-based convergence studies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fuscone-2020-filtering-conversations-through-dialogue-acts/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Simone Fuscone, Benoit Favre, Laurent Prévot*2020 · 3 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/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## 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/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Maxine Eskenazi**1 work here · 223 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxine-eskenazi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Shikib Mehri**1 work here · 223 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikib-mehri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil**1 work here · 137 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristian-danescu-niculescu-mizil/) · [🧑‍🔬**Justine Zhang**1 work here · 137 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justine-zhang/) · [🧑‍🔬**Liye Fu**1 work here · 137 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liye-fu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Alessandra Cervone**1 work here · 24 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandra-cervone/) · [🧑‍🔬**Giuseppe Riccardi**1 work here · 24 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giuseppe-riccardi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Benoit Favre**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-favre/) · [🧑‍🔬**Laurent Prévot**1 work here · 3 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-prevot/)

## Top institutions

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

[🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**Institut Universitaire de France** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-universitaire-de-france/) · [🎓**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/) · [🎓**Aix-Marseille Université** Marseille · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aix-marseille-universite/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes** Marseille · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-et-systemes/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Parole et Langage** Aix-en-Provence · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-parole-et-langage/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

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