DigiSami and Digital Natives: Interaction Technology for the North Sami Language -- A Comparative Study of Text Preprocessing Techniques for Natural Language Call Routing -- Compact and Interpretable Dialogue State Representation with Genetic Sparse Distributed Memory -- Incremental Human-machine Dialogue Simulation -- Active Learning for Example-based Dialog Systems -- Question Selection based on Expected Utility to Acquire Information through Dialogue -- Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated Planning -- SimpleDS: A Simple Deep Reinforcement Learning Dialogue System -- Breakdown Detector for Chat-oriented Dialogue -- User Involvement in Collaborative Decision-Making Dialog Systems -- Natural Language Dialog System Considering Speaker’s Emotion Calculated from Acoustic Features -- Salient Cross-lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition -- Entropy-Driven Dialog for Topic Classification: Detecting and Tackling Uncertainty -- Evaluation of Question-Answering System about Conversational Agent’s Personality -- Fisher Kernels on Phase-based Features for Speech Emotion Recognition -- Internationalisation and Localisation of Spoken Dialogue Systems .