PROGRAM FOR HCCW3

1000

Registration and Coffee

1020

Welcome to HCCW3

1030

Invited Talk: Some findings on the grammar of English Conversation.
Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster, UK)

1115

Invited Talk: Conversing with Stochastic Language Models.
Jason Hutchens (UWA, AUS)

Track I Submitted Papers:

1200

The Infant Conversational System.
Paul Bucheit (Harold Washington College, US)

1230

Grammars with Genetic Algorithms (The Sex Life of Grammars).
Marc Blasband (Compuleer, NL)

Track II Submitted Papers:

1200

Collaboration in Human-Computer Communication.
Susanne Kronenberg and Franz Kummert (Bielefeld University, DE)

1230

A Fundamental Architecture To Integrate Conversation Management Engines with Conversation Development and Evaluation Tools.
Emmett J. Coin and J Qua (ejTalk Research, US)

Track I Submitted Papers:

1800

Animated Conversational Agents in E-Commerce Enterprises.
Helen McBreen and Mervyn Jack (University of Edinburgh, UK)

1830

In the beginning was the "END": Evaluation of Natural Dialogues as a step towards improving artificial ones.
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, Yann Girard, Brigitte Grau and Anne Vilnat (CNRS-LIMSI, FR)

Track II Submitted Papers:

1800

Rule-Based Dialogue Management Systems.
Nick Webb (University of Sheffield, UK)

1830

The role of robust semantic analysis in spoken language dialogue systems.
Afzal Ballim and Vincenzo Pallotta (MEDIA Research Group - DI-LITH, CH)

0930

Invited Talk: Experiences from the Verbmobil Project.
Norbert Reithinger (DFKI, DE)

1015

Invited Talk: Non-problems and social obligations in human-computer conversation.
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, NL)

Coffee

Track I Submitted Papers:

1100

Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Jim Cowie and Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University, US)

1130

Bayesian Selection of Conversational Responses.
Gene Ball (Microsoft, US)

1200

Question Accommodation and Information States in Dialogue.
Staffan Larsson, Robin Cooper and Elisabet Engdahl (Goeteborg University, SE)

1230

Politeness as Actions of an Implicit Task.
David Novick (University of Texas at El Paso, US)

Track II Submitted Papers:

1100

What Makes Speakers Angry in Human-Computer Conversation.
Kerstin Fischer and Anton Batliner (University of Hamburg, DE)

1130

A Flexible Spoken Dialogue Manager.
Eli Hagen (Simon Fraser University, CAN)

1200

Taking Turns Talking About Text In A Reading Tutor That Listens.
Gregory Aist (LTI, CMU, US)

1230

DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-modal Dialog Systems.
Nanda Kambhatla, Malgorzata Budzikowska, Sylvie Levesque, Nicolas Nicolov, Wlodek Zadrozny, Charles Wiecha and Julie MacNaught (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US)

1800

Panel: What if any, is the role of politeness in dialogue implementations.
(Chair: Yorick Wilks) Geoffrey Leech, Masahito Kawamori, Norbert Reithinger, Guenther Goerz, Harry Bunt and David Novick

1800

Demonstration session

0930

Invited Talk: The information state approach to dialogue modelling: some results of the TRINDI project.
David Traum (University of Maryland, US)

1015

Invited Talk: The Dialogue Game: designing task-oriented spontaneous interaction systems for automated call centers.
Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Research Lab, US)

Coffee

Track I Submitted Papers:

1130

 Information States, Obligations and Intentional Structure in Dialogue Modelling.
Jörn Kreutel (SAIL LABS, E) and Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

1200

Characteristics of Acceptance Utterances in Reaction to Answers to Questions and Their Relations to Dialog Strategies.
Akira Shimazu, Hiroshi Taguchi (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, JP) and Masahito Kawamori (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

1230

Context and Content in Dialogue Systems.
Günther Görz, Bernd Ludwig and Martin Klarner (University of Erlangen-Nürenberg, DE)

Track II Submitted Papers:

1130

The Virtual Presenter: a Conversational Character for Interactive TV.
Marc Cavazza (University of Teeside, UK)

1200

AutoTutor's Conversational Behaviors.
Natalie Person (Rhodes College, US) and Arthur Graesser (University of Memphis, US)

1230

"Kairai" - Software Robots Understanding Natural Language.
Yusuke Shinyama, Takenobu Tokunaga and Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP)

1700

Panel: Is there a real gulf between theoretical models of dialogue and implementations, and, if so, is this a healthy state of affairs?
(Chair: Yorick Wilks) David Traum, Louise Guthrie, Jim Cowie, Marc Blasband, Tomek Strzalkowski and Marc Cavazza.