8 JANUARY, 2021

Our workshop (W23) will be co-located with Robot-Dialogue workshop (W19) and held on Friday the 8th of January. Both workshop will share the same virtual environment (Zoom will be used as the platform for communication). We have attempted to accommodate speakers from around the world, with two main sessions during the morning and evening (Japanese time). Regular paper talks will be approximately 15 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions. Special and invited talks will be approximately 35 minutes, with 10 minutes for questions.
Titles of LaCATODA papers are given in bold and links to pdfs are next to the titles.

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Opening and keynote (Chaired by Kristiina Jokinen and Divesh Lala)

12.00am UTC / 1.00am CET / 9.00am

Opening remarks

12.15am UTC / 1.15am CET / 9.15am JST

Nigel Ward and Matthew Marge - Spoken Language Interaction with Robots: Discussion Session

Paper talks 1 (Chaired by Divesh Lala)

1.00am UTC / 2.00am CET / 10.00am JST

Daina Teranishi and Masahiro Araki - Improving user engagement with dialogue systems through meaningful response generation

1.20am UTC / 2.20am CET / 10.20am JST

Kristiina Jokinen - Cascaded Dialogue Modelling for Situated Human-Robot Interactions

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Paper talks 2 (Chaired by Kristiina Jokinen)

2.00am UTC / 3.00am CET / 11.00am JST

Divesh Lala, Koji Inoue, Kenta Yamamoto and Tatsuya Kawahara - Findings from human-android dialogue research with ERICA

2.20am UTC / 3.20am CET / 11.20am JST

Seiya Kawano, Koichiro Yoshino, David Traum and Satoshi Nakamura - Dialogue Structure Parsing on Multi-Floor Dialogue Based on Multi-Task Learning

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Paper talks 3 (Chaired by Rafal Rzepka)

3.00am UTC / 4.00am CET / 12.00pm JST

Hiromi Narimatsu, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami and Tsunehiro Arimoto - Rationale for Using Chat-Oriented Dialogue System’s Experience to Convey Empathy [PDF] (Best Social impact Paper Award)

3.20am UTC / 4.20am CET / 12.20pm JST

Juuso Eronen, Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Gniewosz Leliwa, Michal Wroczynski, Mateusz Piech and Alexander Smywinski-Pohl - Initial Study into Application of Feature Density and Linguistically-backed Embeddings to Improve Machine Learning-based Cyberbullying Detection [PDF]

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4.00am UTC / 5.00am CET / 1.00pm JST

Final discussions

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Paper talks 4 (Chaired by Pierre Lison)

8.00am UTC / 9.00am CET / 5.00pm JST

Opening remarks

8.20am UTC / 9.20am CET / 5.20pm JST

Bernd Kiefer and Christian Willms - Implementing Diverse Robotic Interactive Systems Using VOnDA

8.40am UTC / 9.40am CET / 5.40pm JST

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Kristiina Jokinen - Dialogue Processing and System Involvement in Multimodal Task Dialogues

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Paper talks 5 (Chaired by Martin Heckmann)

9.20am UTC / 10.20am CET / 6.20pm JST

Stefan Schiffer, Julia Arndt, Laura Platte, Jayadev Madyal and Marlon Spangenberg - DiaBuLI - Building Dialogues for Human-Robot Interactions by Learning from Object Information

9.40am UTC / 10.40am CET / 6.40pm JST

Karol Nowakowski, Michal Ptaszynski and Fumito Masui - Spicing up the Game for Underresourced Language Learning: Preliminary Experiments with Ainu Language-speaking Pepper Robot [PDF]

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LaCATODA invited talk (Chaired by Michal Ptaszynski)

10.20am UTC / 11.20am CET / 7.20pm JST

Patrycja Tempska, Gniewosz Leliwa - Overcoming Evil with Good: Reducing Verbal Violence with Automatic Counter-speech Interventions (LaCATODA invited talk)

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11.20am UTC / 12.20pm CET / 8.20pm JST

Final discussions, wrap up