DSTC11 @ INLG-SIGdial 2023
Workshop Program

Full Program – September 11, 2023 (Prague time / CEST / GMT+2)

Presentation format:

Opening


09:00 - 09:15 Opening Remarks [slides]

Track 1 session: Ambiguous Candidate Identification and Coreference Resolution for Immersive Multimodal Conversations

Session Chair: Satwik Kottur


09:15 - 09:35 Track 1 Overview
Overview of Situated and Interactive Multimodal Conversations (SIMMC) 2.1 Track at DSTC 11

Kottur, Satwik; Moon, Seungwhan


09:35 - 09:55 Best Paper
Improving Situated Conversational Agents with Step-by-Step Multi-modal Logic Reasoning
Long, Yuxing; Zhang, Huibin; Hui, Binyuan; Yang, Zhenglu; Yuan, Caixia; Wang, Xiaojie; Huang, Fei; Li, Yongbin

Track 2 talks: Intent Induction from Conversations for Task-Oriented Dialogue

Session Chair: Raphael Shu


09:55 - 10:15 Track 2 Overview
Intent Induction from Conversations for Task-Oriented Dialogue Track at DSTC 11
Gung, James; Shu, Raphael; Moeng, Emily; Rose, Wesley; Romeo, Salvatore; Gupta, Arshit; Benajiba, Yassine; Mansour, Saab; Zhang, Yi


10:15 - 10:35 Best Paper
A Two-Stage Progressive Intent Clustering for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Du, Bingzhu; Su, Nan; Zhang, Yuchi; Wang, Yongliang


10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break

Track 3 talks: Speech-Aware Dialog Systems Technology Challenge

Session Chair: Raghav Gupta 


11:00 - 11:20 Track 3 Overview
DSTC-11: Speech Aware Task-Oriented Dialog Modeling Track
Soltau, Hagen; Shafran, Izhak; Wang, Mingqiu; Rastogi, Abhinav; Han, Wei; Cao, Yuan


11:20 - 11:40 Best Paper
Adapting Text-based Dialogue State Tracker for Spoken Dialogues
Yoon, Jaeseok; Hwang, Seunghyun; Han, Ran; Bang, Jeong-Uk; Kim, Kee-Eung

Track 4 talks: Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems

Session Chair: Luis Fernando D'Haro


11:40 - 12:00 Track 4 Overview
Overview of Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems at DSTC 11 Track 4
Rodríguez-Cantelar, Mario; Zhang, Chen; Tang, Chengguang; Shi, Ke; Ghazarian, Sarik ; Sedoc, João; D'Haro, Luis Fernando; Rudnicky, Alexander I.


12:00 - 12:20 Best Paper
Simple LLM Prompting is State-of-the-Art for Robust and Multilingual Dialogue Evaluation
Mendonça, John; Pereira, Patrícia; Moniz, Helena; Carvalho , Joao Paulo; Lavie, Alon; Trancoso, Isabel M

Lunch


12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break (lunch served from 12:30 to 13:30)

Track 5 talks: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge

Session Chair: Seokhwan Kim


14:00 - 14:20 Track 5 Overview
Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge Track in DSTC11
Kim, Seokhwan; Gella, Spandana; Zhao, Chao; Jin, Di; Papangelis, Alexandros; Hedayatnia, Behnam; Liu, Yang; Hakkani-Tur, Dilek Z


14:20 - 14:40 Best Paper
Leveraging Ensemble Techniques and Metadata for Subjective Knowledge-grounded Conversational Systems
Joo, Seongho; Lee, Kang-il; Min, Kyungmin; Shin, Joongbo; Han, Janghoon; Won, Seungpil; Jung, Kyomin

Panel Discussion


14:40 - 15:30 Panel Discussion

Moderator: Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen

Panelists: Luis Fernando D'Haro, Matthew Henderson, Chiori Hori, Alon Lavie, Weiyan Shi


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

Future DSTC & Closing

Session Chair: Michel Galley


16:00 - 16:30 Proposals for DSTC12

16:30 - 16:40 Closing Remarks

Poster Sessions


16:40 - 17:40 In-person Poster Session (A0 portrait size posters) – papers from all tracks

17:40 - 18:40 Virtual Poster Session (Discord server) – papers from all tracks


All posters (in-person and virtual):

2 - Exploring Prompt-based Multi-task Learning for Multimodal Dialog State Tracking and Immersive Multimodal Conversation

Chen, Yirong; Li, Ya; Wang, Tao; Xing, Xiaofen; Xu, Xiangmin; Liu, Quan; Liu, Cong; Hu, Guoping

4 - CopyT5: Copy Mechanism and Post-Trained T5 for Speech-Aware Dialogue State Tracking System

Park, Cheonyoung; Ha, Eunji; Jeong, Yewon; Kim, Chi-young; Yu, Haeun; Sung, Joo-won


5 - Multi-Stage Coarse-to-Fine Contrastive Learning for Conversation Intent Induction

Chu, Caiyuan; Li, Ya; Liu, Yifan; Gu, Jia-Chen; Liu, Quan; Ge, Yongxin; Hu, Guoping


6 - OLISIA: a Cascade System for Spoken Dialogue State Tracking

Jacqmin, Léo; Druart, Lucas; Estève, Yannick; Favre, Benoît; Rojas, Lina M; Vielzeuf, Valentin


8 - DORIC : Domain Robust Fine-Tuning for Open Intent Clustering through Dependency Parsing

Lee, Jihyun; Seo, Seungyeon; Kim, Yunsu; Lee , Gary Geunbae 


9 - Multi-Task Learning for Ambiguous Candidate Identification with Pre-trained Model

Jang, Daesik; Choi, Hyewon


10 - Speech-Aware Multi-Domain Dialogue State Generation with ASR Error Correction Modules

Jiang, Ridong; Shi, Wei; Wang, Bin; Zhang, Chen; Zhang, Yan; Pan, Chunlei; Kim, Jung Jae; Li, Haizhou


13 - Contrastively Pretrained Vision-Language Transformers and Domain Adaptation Methods for Multimodal TOD Systems

Chang, Youngjae; Kim, Doo Young; Kim, Jinyoung; Kim, Keunha; Cha, Hyunmook; Min,  Suyoung; Ko, Youngjoong; Lee, Kye-Hwan; Park, Joonwoo


15 - Analysis of Utterance Embeddings and Clustering Methods Related to Intent Induction for Task-Oriented Dialogue

Park, Jeiyoon; Jang, Yoonna; Lee, Chanhee; Lim, Heuiseok


17 - Multi-View Zero-Shot Open Intent Induction from Dialogues: Multi Domain Batch and Proxy Gradient Transfer

Koh, Hyukhun; Pyun, Haesung; Yang, Nakyeong; Jung, Kyomin


21 - Towards Optimizing Pre-trained Language Model Ensemble Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System

Zhu, Zhiyuan; Liao, Yusheng ; Chen, Zhe; Wang, Yu; Guan, Yunfeng


23 - Enhancing Task-Oriented Dialog System with Subjective Knowledge: A Large Language Model-based Data Augmentation Framework

Jung, Haein; yeen, heuiyeen; Lee, Jeehyun; Kim, Minju; Bang, Namo; Koo, Myoung-Wan


24 - Parallel Corpora Alignment Framework for Multilingual and Robust Automatic Dialogue Evaluation

Wang, Xinglin; Shi, Jiayi; Yuan, Peiwen; Li, Kan


25 - Semantic data augmentation for meaning maintenance on Task-Oriented Conversation with Large-size Language Model

Lee, Jaehwan; Son, Kwanyoung; 유, 은경; Kim, Eugene


26 - Ensemble Method via Ranking Model for Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge

Huang, Xin; Tan, Kye Min; Duan, Richeng; Zou, Bowei


28 - Exploring Back Translation with Typo Noise for Enhanced Inquiry Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue

Lee, Jihyun; Kim, Junseok; Lee , Gary Geunbae 


29 - Leveraging Few-Shot Data Augmentation and Waterfall Prompting for Response Generation

Krause, Lea; Báez Santamaría, Selene; van der Meer, Michiel; Khurana, Urja


30 - Three Ways of Using Large Language Models to Evaluate Chat

Plátek, Ondřej; Dusek, Ondrej; Schmidtova, Patricia; Hudecek, Vojtech; Lango, Matheusz


32 - A Difference-aware Ensemble Method for Task-oriented Dialogue with Subjective Knowledge

Ke, Changxin; Sun, Churui; Ma, Longxuan; Zhang, Wei-Nan; Liu, Ting