Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop

Looking at the Interaction Management with New Eyes - Conversational Synchrony and Cooperation using Eye Gaze.- Interacting with Purpose (and Feeling!): What Neuropsychology and the Performing Arts Can Tell Us About ’Real’ Spoken Language Behaviour.- Accessing Web Resources in Different Languages Using a Multilingual Speech Dialog System.- New Technique for Handling ASR Errors at the Semantic Level in Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Combining Slot-based Vector Space Model for Voice Book Search.- Preprocessing of Dysarthric Speech in Noise Based on CV–Dependent Wiener Filtering.- Conditional Random Fields for Modeling Korean Pronunciation Variation.- An Analysis of the Speech Under Stress Using the Two-Mass Vocal Fold Model.- Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for an Out-of-Domain Language Modeling.-  Analysis on Effects of Text-to-Speech and Avatar Agent in Evoking Users’ Spontaneous Listener’s Reactions.- Development of a Data-driven Framework for Multimodal Interactive Systems.- Multiparty Conversation Facilitation Strategy Using Combination of Question Answering and Spontaneous Utterances.- Conversational Speech Synthesis System with Communication Situation Dependent HMMs.- An Event-Based Conversational System for the Nao Robot.- Towards Learning Human-Robot Dialogue Policies Combining Speech and Visual Beliefs.- JAM: Java-based Associative Memory.- Conversation Peculiarities of People with Different Verbal Intelligence.- Merging Intention and Emotion to Develop Adaptive Dialogue Systems.- All Users Are (Not) Equal - The Influence of User Characteristics on Perceived Quality, Modality Choice and Performance.- Parallel Computing and Practical Constraints when applying the Standard POMDP Belief Update Formalism to Spoken Dialogue Management.- Ranking Dialog Acts using Discourse Coherence Indicator for Language Tutoring Dialog Systems.- On-line detection of task incompletion for spoken dialog systems using utterance andbehavior tag N-gram vectors.- Integration of Statistical Dialog Management Techniques to Implement Commercial Dialog Systems.- A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manger.- Using probabilistic logic for dialogue strategy selection.- Starting to Cook a Coaching Dialogue System in the Olympus framework.- Performance of an Ad-hoc User Simulation in a Formative Evaluation of a Spoken Dialog System.- Adapting Dialogue to User Emotion - A Wizard-of-Oz study for adaptation strategies.- SpeechEval: A Domain-Independent User Simulation Platform for Spoken Dialog System Evaluation.- Evaluating User-System Interactional Chains for Naturalness-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue System that uses Utterance Timing to Interpret User Utterances.- How context determines perceived quality and modality choice.- Secondary task paradigm applied to the evaluation of multimodal interfaces.- Design and Implementation of a Toolkit for Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Designed for AmI Environments.- A Dialogue System for Conversational NPCs.- Embedded Conversational Engine for Natural Language Interaction in Spanish.- Adding Speech to a Robotics Simulator.