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title: "SIGDIAL 2021 — all accepted papers — the most cited first"
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# SIGDIAL 2021: all accepted papers

58 papers · the most cited first · [← SIGDIAL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2021/)

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*
26. **[How “open” are the conversations with open-domain chatbots? A proposal for Speech Event based evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.41/)**A. Seza Doğruöz, Gabriel Skantze*6 citations*
27. **[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/)**Shamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver*6 citations · our summary*
28. **[Telling Stories through Multi-User Dialogue by Modeling Character Relations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.30/)**Wai Man Si, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Mark Riedl*6 citations*
29. **[A Simple yet Effective Method for Sentence Ordering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.16/)**Aili Shen, Timothy Baldwin*5 citations*
30. **[Large-Scale Quantitative Evaluation of Dialogue Agents' Response Strategies against Offensive Users ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.58/)**Haojun Li, Dilara Soylu, Christopher Manning*5 citations*
31. **[Projection of Turn Completion in Incremental Spoken Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.45/)**Erik Ekstedt, Gabriel Skantze*5 citations*
32. **[What to Fact-Check: Guiding Check-Worthy Information Detection in News Articles through Argumentative Discourse Structure ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.40/)**Tariq Alhindi, Brennan McManus, Smaranda Muresan*5 citations*
33. **[Incremental temporal summarization in multi-party meetings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.55/)**Ramesh Manuvinakurike, Saurav Sahay, Wenda Chen et al.*4 citations*
34. **[DTAFA: Decoupled Training Architecture for Efficient FAQ Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.44/)**Haytham Assem, Sourav Dutta, Edward Burgin*3 citations*
35. **[Improving Named Entity Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems by Context and Speech Pattern Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.6/)**Minh Nguyen, Zhou Yu*3 citations*
36. **[Individual Interaction Styles: Evidence from a Spoken Chat Corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.4/)**Nigel Ward*3 citations*
37. **[Mitigating Topic Bias when Detecting Decisions in Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.56/)**Vanja Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Patrick Healey et al.*3 citations*
38. **[Towards Continuous Estimation of Dissatisfaction in Spoken Dialog ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.2/)**Nigel Ward, Jonathan E. Avila, Aaron M. Alarcon*3 citations*
39. **[Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.14/)**Taha Aksu, Zhengyuan Liu, Min-Yen Kan et al.*3 citations*
40. **[Weakly Supervised Extractive Summarization with Attention ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.54/)**Yingying Zhuang, Yichao Lu, Simi Wang*3 citations*
41. **[A Cloud-based User-Centered Time-Offset Interaction Application ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.29/)**Alberto Chierici, Tyeece Kiana Fredorcia Hensley, Wahib Kamran et al.*2 citations*
42. **[A Practical 2-step Approach to Assist Enterprise Question-Answering Live Chat ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.48/)**Ling-Yen Liao, Tarec Fares*2 citations*
43. **[A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.28/)**Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto et al.*2 citations*
44. **[ARTA: Collection and Classification of Ambiguous Requests and Thoughtful Actions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.9/)**Shohei Tanaka, Koichiro Yoshino, Katsuhito Sudoh et al.*2 citations*
45. **[DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.3/)**Satwik Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu et al.*2 citations*
46. **[ERICA: An Empathetic Android Companion for Covid-19 Quarantine ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.27/)**Etsuko Ishii, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya et al.*2 citations*
47. **[From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.39/)**Niklas Rach, Carolin Schindler, Isabel Feustel et al.*2 citations*
48. **[Summarizing Behavioral Change Goals from SMS Exchanges to Support Health Coaches ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.31/)**Itika Gupta, Barbara Di Eugenio, Brian D. Ziebart et al.*2 citations*
49. **[A Task-Oriented Dialogue Architecture via Transformer Neural Language Models and Symbolic Injection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.46/)**Oscar J. Romero, Antian Wang, John Zimmerman et al.*1 citation*
50. **[An Analysis of State-of-the-Art Models for Situated Interactive MultiModal Conversations (SIMMC) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.15/)**Satwik Kottur, Paul Crook, Seungwhan Moon et al.*1 citation*
51. **[Do Encoder Representations of Generative Dialogue Models have sufficient summary of the Information about the task ? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.50/)**Prasanna Parthasarathi, Joelle Pineau, Sarath Chandar*1 citation*
52. **[A Brief Study on the Effects of Training Generative Dialogue Models with a Semantic loss ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.49/)**Prasanna Parthasarathi, Mohamed Abdelsalam, Sarath Chandar et al.
53. **[Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.42/)**Stefan Ultes, Wolfgang Maier
54. **[Contrastive Response Pairs for Automatic Evaluation of Non-task-oriented Neural Conversational Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.21/)**Koshiro Okano, Yu Suzuki, Masaya Kawamura et al.
55. **[How Will I Argue? A Dataset for Evaluating Recommender Systems for Argumentations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.38/)**Markus Brenneis, Maike Behrendt, Stefan Harmeling
56. **[How does BERT process disfluency? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.22/)**Ye Tian, Tim Nieradzik, Sepehr Jalali et al.
57. **[Scikit-talk: A toolkit for processing real-world conversational speech data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.26/)**Andreas Liesenfeld, Gabor Parti, Chu-Ren Huang
58. **[SoDA: On-device Conversational Slot Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.7/)**Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
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