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# SIGDIAL 2021 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Singapore and Online, July 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 58 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

[**58** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2021/#works) · [**124** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2021/#works)**Singapore and Online** where it was held**July 2021** when

## Most cited papers

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

1. **[Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-coreference-aware-dialogue-summarization/)**Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen*48 citations · our summary*
2. **[Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A Survey](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.25/)**Vevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Bernardo Magnini*41 citations*
3. **[Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence Scoring](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.18/)**Linzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini*40 citations*
4. **[Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.13/)**Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia et al.*36 citations*
5. **[Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.10/)**Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara et al.*23 citations*
6. **[Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbot](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.1/)**Abigail See, Christopher Manning*23 citations*
7. **[Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.47/)**Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu et al.*20 citations*
8. **[Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbots](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.57/)**Yejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii et al.*19 citations*
9. **[CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.33/)**Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen et al.*19 citations*
10. **[Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.35/)**Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin et al.*16 citations*

## All accepted papers (58)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-coreference-aware-dialogue-summarization/)**Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen*48 citations · our summary*
2. **[Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A Survey](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.25/)**Vevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Bernardo Magnini*41 citations*
3. **[Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence Scoring](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.18/)**Linzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini*40 citations*
4. **[Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.13/)**Pei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia et al.*36 citations*
5. **[Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systems](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.10/)**Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara et al.*23 citations*
6. **[Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbot](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.1/)**Abigail See, Christopher Manning*23 citations*
7. **[Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.47/)**Hsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu et al.*20 citations*
8. **[Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain Chatbots](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.57/)**Yejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii et al.*19 citations*
9. **[CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and Reasoning](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.33/)**Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen et al.*19 citations*
10. **[Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.35/)**Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin et al.*16 citations*
11. **[Getting to Production with Few-shot Natural Language Generation Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.8/)**Peyman Heidari, Arash Einolghozati, Shashank Jain et al.*13 citations*
12. **[Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for Women](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.5/)**Kai-Hui Liang, Patrick Lange, Yoo Jung Oh et al.*12 citations*
13. **[Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative Response](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.17/)**Rachna Konigari, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri et al.*12 citations*
14. **[Dialogue State Tracking with Multi-Level Fusion of Predicted Dialogue States and Conversations](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.24/)**Jingyao Zhou, Haipang Wu, Zehao Lin et al.*11 citations*
15. **[Generative Conversational Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.12/)**Alexandros Papangelis, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar et al.*11 citations*
16. **[On the Need for Thoughtful Data Collection for Multi-Party Dialogue: A Survey of Available Corpora and Collection Methods](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.36/)**Khyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh*11 citations*
17. **[Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atwell-2021-where-are-we-discourse-relation/)**Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani*10 citations · our summary*
18. **[Effective Social Chatbot Strategies for Increasing User Initiative](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.11/)**Amelia Hardy, Ashwin Paranjape, Christopher Manning*9 citations*
19. **[GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.51/)**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*8 citations*
20. **[Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.52/)**Shikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi*8 citations*
21. **[Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic Variation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.43/)**Simeon Schüz, Ting Han, Sina Zarrieß*7 citations*
22. **[How Should Agents Ask Questions For Situated Learning? An Annotated Dialogue Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.37/)**Felix Gervits, Antonio Roque, Gordon Briggs et al.*7 citations*
23. **[Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response Generation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.20/)**Tianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara*7 citations*
24. **[Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text Utterances](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.19/)**Chiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda et al.*6 citations*
25. **[Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State Tracking](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.23/)**Suvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar*6 citations*

[See all 58 papers in SIGDIAL 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2021/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (3)

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

1. **[Coreference-Aware Dialogue Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-coreference-aware-dialogue-summarization/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Zhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen*2021 · 81 citations*
2. **[Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atwell-2021-where-are-we-discourse-relation/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani*2021 · 30 citations*
3. **[Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nasreen-2021-rare-class-dialogue-act-tagging/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver*2021 · 13 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Dialogue systems (2)](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/) · [Coreference resolution (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Medicine (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Ke Shi**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-shi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nancy Chen**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nancy-chen/) · [🧑‍🔬**Zhengyuan Liu**1 work here · 81 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-liu/) · [🧑‍🔬**Junyi Jessy Li**1 work here · 30 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-jessy-li/) · [🧑‍🔬**Katherine Atwell**1 work here · 30 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katherine-atwell/) · [🧑‍🔬**Malihe Alikhani**1 work here · 30 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malihe-alikhani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthew Purver**1 work here · 13 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-purver/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🔬**Institute for Infocomm Research** Singapore · Singapore 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-for-infocomm-research/) · [🔬**Jožef Stefan Institute** Ljubljana · Slovenia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/jozef-stefan-institute/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/)

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

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