📰 SIGDIAL 2021 — accepted papers

SIGDIAL 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), held in Singapore and Online, July 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 58 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. Coreference-Aware Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen48 citations · our summary
2. Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A SurveyVevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Bernardo Magnini41 citations
3. Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence ScoringLinzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini40 citations
4. Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical StudyPei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia et al.36 citations
5. Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systemsRyuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara et al.23 citations
6. Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbotAbigail See, Christopher Manning23 citations
7. Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue SystemsHsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu et al.20 citations
8. Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain ChatbotsYejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii et al.19 citations
9. CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and ReasoningDeepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen et al.19 citations
10. Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZKun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin et al.16 citations

All accepted papers (58)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. Coreference-Aware Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen48 citations · our summary
2. Recent Neural Methods on Dialogue State Tracking for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: A SurveyVevake Balaraman, Seyedmostafa Sheikhalishahi, Bernardo Magnini41 citations
3. Improving Unsupervised Dialogue Topic Segmentation with Utterance-Pair Coherence ScoringLinzi Xing, Giuseppe Carenini40 citations
4. Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical StudyPei Zhou, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Behnam Hedayatnia et al.36 citations
5. Integrated taxonomy of errors in chat-oriented dialogue systemsRyuichiro Higashinaka, Masahiro Araki, Hiroshi Tsukahara et al.23 citations
6. Understanding and predicting user dissatisfaction in a neural generative chatbotAbigail See, Christopher Manning23 citations
7. Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue SystemsHsien-chin Lin, Nurul Lubis, Songbo Hu et al.20 citations
8. Assessing Political Prudence of Open-domain ChatbotsYejin Bang, Nayeon Lee, Etsuko Ishii et al.19 citations
9. CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and ReasoningDeepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen et al.19 citations
10. Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZKun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin et al.16 citations
11. Getting to Production with Few-shot Natural Language Generation ModelsPeyman Heidari, Arash Einolghozati, Shashank Jain et al.13 citations
12. Evaluation of In-Person Counseling Strategies To Develop Physical Activity Chatbot for WomenKai-Hui Liang, Patrick Lange, Yoo Jung Oh et al.12 citations
13. Topic Shift Detection for Mixed Initiative ResponseRachna Konigari, Saurabh Ramola, Vijay Vardhan Alluri et al.12 citations
14. Dialogue State Tracking with Multi-Level Fusion of Predicted Dialogue States and ConversationsJingyao Zhou, Haipang Wu, Zehao Lin et al.11 citations
15. Generative Conversational NetworksAlexandros 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 MethodsKhyati Mahajan, Samira Shaikh11 citations
17. Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani10 citations · our summary
18. Effective Social Chatbot Strategies for Increasing User InitiativeAmelia Hardy, Ashwin Paranjape, Christopher Manning9 citations
19. GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot FillingShikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi8 citations
20. Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot DialogShikib Mehri, Maxine Eskenazi8 citations
21. Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic VariationSimeon Schüz, Ting Han, Sina Zarrieß7 citations
22. How Should Agents Ask Questions For Situated Learning? An Annotated Dialogue CorpusFelix Gervits, Antonio Roque, Gordon Briggs et al.7 citations
23. Multi-Referenced Training for Dialogue Response GenerationTianyu Zhao, Tatsuya Kawahara7 citations
24. Fundamental Exploration of Evaluation Metrics for Persona Characteristics of Text UtterancesChiaki Miyazaki, Saya Kanno, Makoto Yoda et al.6 citations
25. Hi-DST: A Hierarchical Approach for Scalable and Extensible Dialogue State TrackingSuvodip Dey, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar6 citations

See all 58 papers in SIGDIAL 2021 — accepted papers →

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Coreference-Aware Dialogue SummarizationZhengyuan Liu, Ke Shi, Nancy Chen2021 · 81 citations
2. Where Are We in Discourse Relation Recognition?Katherine Atwell, Junyi Jessy Li, Malihe Alikhani2021 · 30 citations
3. Rare-Class Dialogue Act Tagging for Alzheimer's Disease DiagnosisShamila Nasreen, Julian Hough, Matthew Purver2021 · 13 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🗨️Dialogue systems (2)🧵Discourse analysis (1)💬Speech act theory (1)🔗Coreference resolution (1)📝Summarization (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (3)🖥️Computer Science (3)🩺Medicine (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom1 work here🎓University of PittsburghPittsburgh · United States1 work here🔬Institute for Infocomm ResearchSingapore · Singapore1 work here🔬Jožef Stefan InstituteLjubljana · Slovenia1 work here🎓The University of Texas at AustinAustin · United States1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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