Student presentations/discussions #1

Below are the papers to be discussed this week. Questions for discussion can be submitted on Blackboard.

• Abhinav Rastogi, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Larry Heck. Scalable multi-domain dialogue state tracking. Proceedings of the Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), 2017. pdf
• Ji Young Lee and Franck Dernoncourt. Sequential short-text classification with recurrent and convolutional neural networks. Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 2016. pdf
• Francois Mairesse and Marilyn Walker. PERSONAGE: Personality generation for dialogue. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2007. pdf
• Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, Amanda Cercas Curry, and Verena Rieser. Why we need new evaluation metrics for NLG. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2017. pdf