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# LaCATODA 2018
Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents

### Proceedings of the Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents Workshop
co-located with the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), part of the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM 2018)

### Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018.

Edited by

### Rafal Rzepka *
Jordi Vallverdu **
Andre Wlodarczyk ***

* Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Sapporo, Japan
** Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain
*** Charles de Gaulle University (Emeritus), Faculty of Philology, Paris, France

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Regular Papers

- Improving Goal-Oriented Visual Dialog Agents via Advanced Recurrent Nets with Tempered Policy Gradient 1-7
  Rui Zhao, Volker Tresp
- Detecting Location-Indicating Phrases in User Utterances for Chat-Oriented Dialogue Systems 8-13
  Hiromi Narimatsu, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Masahiro Mizukami
- Efficient Purely Convolutional Text Encoding 14-23
  Szymon Malik, Adrian Lancucki, Jan Chorowski
- Dialogue Modeling Via Hash Functions 24-36
  Sahil Gargn, Guillermo Cecchi, Irina Rish, Shuyang Gao, Greg Ver Steeg, Sarik Ghazarian, Palash Goyal, Aram Galstyan
- Towards a Structured Evaluation of Improv-bots: Improvisational Theatre as a Non-goal-driven Dialogue System 37-43
  Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Ahltorp
- Refinement of Utterance Database and Concatenation of Utterances for Enhancing System Utterances in Chat-oriented Dialogue System 44-51
  Yuiko Tsunomori, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takeshi Yoshimura
- Event Data Collection for Recent Personal Questions 52-57
  Masahiro Mizukami, Hiroaki Sugiyama, Hiromi Narimatsu
- Conversational Control Interface to Facilitate Situational Understanding in a City Surveillance Setting 59-66
  Daniel Harborne, Dave Braines, Alun Preece, Rafal Rzepka

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