Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang Minker editor Giuseppe Carenini editor Ryuichiro Higashinaka editor Ron Artstein editor Alesia Gainer editor 2016-09 Association for Computational Linguistics Los Angeles text conference publication ws-2016-special https://aclanthology.org/W16-3600/ Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning Tiancheng Zhao author Maxine Eskenazi author 2016-09 text Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang Minker editor Giuseppe Carenini editor Ryuichiro Higashinaka editor Ron Artstein editor Alesia Gainer editor Association for Computational Linguistics Los Angeles conference publication zhao-eskenazi-2016-towards 10.18653/v1/W16-3601 https://aclanthology.org/W16-3601/ 2016-09 1 10 Task Lineages: Dialog State Tracking for Flexible Interaction Sungjin Lee author Amanda Stent author 2016-09 text Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang Minker editor Giuseppe Carenini editor Ryuichiro Higashinaka editor Ron Artstein editor Alesia Gainer editor Association for Computational Linguistics Los Angeles conference publication lee-stent-2016-task 10.18653/v1/W16-3602 https://aclanthology.org/W16-3602/ 2016-09 11 21 Joint Online Spoken Language Understanding and Language Modeling With Recurrent Neural Networks Bing Liu author Ian Lane author 2016-09 text Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang Minker editor Giuseppe Carenini editor Ryuichiro Higashinaka editor Ron Artstein editor Alesia Gainer editor Association for Computational Linguistics Los Angeles conference publication liu-lane-2016-joint 10.18653/v1/W16-3603 https://aclanthology.org/W16-3603/ 2016-09 22 30 Creating and Characterizing a Diverse Corpus of Sarcasm in Dialogue Shereen Oraby author Vrindavan Harrison author Lena Reed author Ernesto Hernandez author Ellen Riloff author Marilyn Walker author 2016-09 text Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang Minker editor Giuseppe Carenini editor Ryuichiro Higashinaka editor Ron Artstein editor Alesia Gainer editor Association for Computational Linguistics Los Angeles conference publication oraby-etal-2016-creating 10.18653/v1/W16-3604 https://aclanthology.org/W16-3604/ 2016-09 31 41 The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line News Emma Barker author Monica Lestari Paramita author Ahmet Aker author Emina Kurtic author Mark Hepple author Robert Gaizauskas author 2016-09 text Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue Raquel Fernandez editor Wolfgang 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