These are the proceedings of the third Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2017), which was held on August 21, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. The workshop was a part of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017). Eight papers were submitted to the workshop of which six was accepted to be presented during the workshop. The submissions were reviewed by three (at least two) members of the program committee. In addition, the workshop also had a fascinating invited talk titled “Experimental Semiotics and Representation by Dialogue Systems“ given by T. Mark Ellison from Australian National University. This workshop is the third edition of the LaCATODA series. The two first editions were organized as symposia of the AISB/IACAP conferences in United Kingdom: the first one in 2010 in Leicester, and the second one in Birmingham. The third edition was co-located with the famous IJCAI conference in Melbourne, 2017. We would like to thank all authors who submitted papers, and the program committee members for their efforts.
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Preface Invited Talk
Experimental Semiotics and Representation by Dialogue Systems …………….…….… 1 T. Mark Ellison Learning Deep on Cyberbullying is Always Better Than Brute Force ……….………… 3 Michal Ptaszynski, Juuso Kalevi Kristian Eronen, Fumito Masui Asystent – a Prototype of a Motivating Electronic Assistant …………………………… 11 Patrycja Swieczkowska, Jolanta Bachan, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki Towards a Response Selection System for Spoken Requests in a Physical Domain …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Andisheh Partovi, Ingrid Zukerman, Quan Tran Be More Eloquent, Professor ELIZA - Comparison of Utterance Generation Methods for Artificial Second Language Tutor ………………………………………….……… 34 Taku Nakamura, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki, and Kentaro Inui