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Publications of the Dialog Systems and Machine Learning Working Group

  • S. Feng, G. Sun, N. Lubis, W. Wu, C. Zhang and M. Gasic, „Affect Recognition in Conversations Using Large Language Models”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2024 PDF
  • B. M. Ruppik, M. Heck, C. van Niekerk, R. Vukovic, H-C. Lin, S. Feng, M. Zibrowius and M. Gasic. „Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2024 PDF
  • R. Vukovic, D. Arps, C. van Niekerk, B. M. Ruppik, H.-C. Lin, M. Heck and M. Gasic, „Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2024 PDF
  • S. Feng, H-C. Lin, C. Geishauser, N. Lubis, C. van Niekerk, M. Heck, B. M. Ruppik, R. Vukovic and M. Gasic, „Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation”. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2024 PDF
  • G. Sun, S. Feng, D. Jiang, C. Zhang, M. Gasic and P. Woodland, “Speech-based Slot Filling using Large Language Models”. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 PDF
  • C. Geishauser, C. Niekerk, N. Lubis, H. Lin, M. Heck, S. Feng , B. Ruppik, R. Vukovic, M. Gasic. "Learning With an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances", Published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, April 2024, PDF
  • Q. Zhu, C. Geishauser, H. Lin, C. Niekerk, B. Peng, Z. Zhang, S. Feng, M. Heck, N. Lubis, D. Wan, X. Zhu, J. Gao, M. Gasic, M. Huang.  "ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format".  In the Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, Singapore, December 2023,  pdf
  • S. Feng, N. Lubis, B. Ruppik, C. Geishauser, M. Heck, H. Lin, C. Niekerk, R. Vukovic, M. Gasic, "From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue",  Published at SIGDIAL 2023 in September,  pdf
  • H. Lin, S. Feng, C. Geishauser, N. Lubis, C. Niekerk, M. Heck, B. Ruppik, R. Vukovic, M. Gasić, 2023. "EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues". In Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pdf

  • M. Heck, N. Lubis, B. Ruppik, R. Vukovic, S. Feng, C. Geishauser, H. Lin, C. Niekerk, M. Gasic, "ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?", In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Toronto, Canada, July 2023, pdf

  • C. Geishauser, C. van Niekerk, H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Heck, S. Feng and M. Gašić, “Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning”, COLING 2022, PDF

  • M. Heck, N. Lubis, C. van Niekerk, S. Feng, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin and M. Gašić, "Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data", pre-MIT Press publication version (author's final version), accepted for publication in TACL 2022, PDF
  • R. Vukovic, M. Heck, B. M. Ruppik, C. van Niekerk, M. Zibrowius and M. Gašić, “Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis”, SIGDIAL 2022, PDF
  • N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, C. van Niekerk, M. Heck, S. Feng and M. Gašić, "Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning”,  SIGDIAL 2022, PDF
  • H.-C. Lin, C. Geishauser, S. Feng, N. Lubis, C. van Niekerk, M. Heck and M.  Gašić, “GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers”, SIGDIAL 2022, PDF
  • S. Feng, N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, M. Heck, C. van Niekerk and Milica Gašić, “EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems”, LREC 2022 PDF
  • S. Mehri, J. Choi, L. F. D’Haro, J. Deriu, M. Eskenazi, M. Gašić, K. Georgila, D. Hakkani-Tur, Z. Li, V. Rieser, S. Shaikh, D. Traum, Y.-T. Yeh, Z. Yu, Y. Zhang and C. Zhang, “Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges”, NSF AED Workshop 2022 PDF

  • C. Geishauser, S. Hu, H.-C. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Heck, S. Feng, C. van Niekerk and M. Gašić, “What Does The User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation”, IEEE ASRU 2021 PDF

  • C. van Niekerk, A. Malinin, C. Geishauser, M. Heck, H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, S. Feng and M. Gašić, "Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and
    the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance", EMNLP 2021 PDF

  • H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, S. Hu, C. van Niekerk, C. Geishauser, M. Heck, S. Feng and M. Gašić, „Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems”, SIGDIAL 2021 PDF

  • N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, M. Heck, H-C. Lin, M. Moresi, C. van Niekerk and M. Gašić, "LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization", COLING 2020 PDF
  • M. Heck, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Moresi, C. van Niekerk and M. Gašić, "Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models", COLING 2020 PDF
  • A. Jakubowski, M. Gašić, M. Zibrowius, "Topology of Word Embeddings: Singularities Reflect Polysemy", *SEM 2020 [Best Paper Award] PDF
  • Y.-C. Wu, B.-H. Tseng and M. Gašić, "Actor-Double-Critic: Incorporating Model-Based Critic for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems", Findings of EMNLP 2020 PDF
  • C. van Niekerk, M. Heck, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, N. Lubis, M. Moresi and M. Gašić, "Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles", Findings of EMNLP 2020 PDF
  • M. Heck, C. van Niekerk, N. Lubis, C. Geishauser, H-C. Lin, M. Moresi and M. Gašić, "TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking", SIGDIAL, 2020 [Best Paper Award] PDF
  • N. Lubis, M. Heck, C. van Niekerk and M. Gašić, "Adaptable Conversational Machines", AI Magazine, 2020 Visit AI Magazine
  • B.-H. Tseng, P. Budzianowski, Y.-C. Wu and M. Gasic, "Tree-Structured Semantic Encoder with Knowledge Sharing for Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Generation", SIGDIAL, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019 PDF
  • L. Chen, Z. Chen, B. Tan, S. Long, M. Gasic and K. Yu, "AgentGraph: Towards Universal Dialogue Management with Structured Deep Reinforcement Learning", IEEE TASLP, 2019 PDF
  • P. Wesselmann, Y.-C. Wu and M. Gašić, "Curiosity-driven Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management", ICASSP, Brighton, UK, 2019 PDF
  • L.M. Rojas-Barahona, B-H. Tseng, Y. Dai, C. Mansfield, O. Ramadan, S. Ultes, M. Crawford and M. Gašić, "Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy", LOUHI, Brussels, Belgium, 2018 PDF
  • P. Budzianowski, T-H. Wen, B-H. Tseng, I. Casanueva, S. Ultes, O. Ramadan and M. Gašić, "MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling", EMNLP, Brussels, Belgium, 2018 [Best Resource Paper Award] PDF
  • O. Ramadan, P. Budzianowski and M. Gašić, "Large-scale Multi-Domain Belief Tracking with Knowledge Sharing", ACL, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 PDF
  • F. Kreyssig, I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski and M. Gašić, "Neural User Simulation for Corpus-based Policy Optimisation of Spoken Dialogue Systems", Sigdial, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 PDF
  • B.-H. Tseng, F. Kreyssig, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, Y.-C. Wu, S. Ultes and M. Gašić, "Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems", Sigdial, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 PDF
  • I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, F. Kreyssig, S. Ultes, B.-H. Tseng, Y.-C. Wu and M. Gašić, "Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors", Sigdial, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 PDF
  • S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, L.M. Rojas Barahona, B.-H. Tseng, Y.-C. Wu, S. Young and M. Gašić, "Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model", Sigdial, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 PDF
  • C. Tegho, P. Budzianowski and M. Gašić, "Benchmarking Uncertainty Estimates with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Policy Optimisation", ICASSP, Calgary, Canada, 2018 [Best Student Paper Award] PDF
  • L. Chen, C. Chang, Z. Chen, B. Tan, M. Gašić and K. Yu, "Policy Adaptation for Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Dialogue Management", ICASSP, Calgary, Canada, 2018 PDF
  • I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, P-H. Su, S. Ultes, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, B.-H. Tseng and Milica Gašić, "Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains", NAACL, New Orleans, USA, 2018 PDF
  • G. Weisz, P. Budzianowski, P.-H. Su and M. Gašić, "Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Systems with Large Action Spaces", IEEE TASLP, 2018 PDF
  • P-H. Su, M. Gašić and S. Young, "Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Optimisation", Computer Speech and Language, 2018 PDF
  • S. Ultes, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke, D. Kim, I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, N. Mrkšić, T-H. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young, "PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit", ACL, Vancouver, Canada, 2017 PDF
  • P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, P-H. Su, N. Mrkšić, T-H. Wen, I. Casanueva, L.M. Rojas-Barahona and M. Gašić, "Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning", SigDial, Saarbücken, 2017 PDF
  • P-H. Su, P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, M. Gašić and S. Young, "Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management", SigDial, Saarbücken, 2017 PDF
  • S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P-H. Su, T-H. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young, "Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning", SigDial, Saarbücken, 2017 PDF
  • K. Lee, T. Zhao, Y. Du, E. Cai, A. Lu, E. Pincus, D. Traum, S. Ultes, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, S. Young and M. Eskenazi, "DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development", SigDial, Saarbücken, 2017 PDF
  • S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P-H. Su, T-H. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young, "Domain-independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning", Interspeech, Stocholm, Sweden, 2017 PDF
  • T.-H. Wen, D. Vandyke, N. Mrkšić, M. Gašić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, S. Ultes and S. Young, "A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System", EACL, pages 438-449, Valencia, Spain, 2017 PDF
  • M. Gašić, D. Hakkani-Tur and A. Celikyilmaz, "Spoken language understanding and interaction: machine learning for human-like conversational systems", Computer Speech and Language, 2017 PDF
  • N. Mrkšić, I. Vulić, D. O. Seaghdha, I. Leviant, R. Reichart, M. Gašić, A. Korhonen and S. Young. "Semantic Specialisation of Distributional Word Vector Spaces using Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Constraints", TACL, 2017 PDF
  • M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T.-H. Wen and S. Young, "Dialogue manager domain adaptation using Gaussian process reinforcement learning", Computer Speech and Language, 2017 PDF
  • L.M. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, P.-H. Su, S. Ultes, T.-H. Wen and S. Young, "Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding", Coling, Osaka, Japan, 2016 PDF
  • T.-H. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke and S. Young, "Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems", EMNLP, Austin, USA, 2016 PDF
  • T.-H. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, D. Vandyke and S. Young, "Multi-domain Neural Network Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems", NAACL HLT, San Diego, USA, 2016 PDF
  • N. Mrksic, D. O Seaghdha, B. Thomson, M. Gašić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, D. Vandyke, T.-H. Wen and S. Young, "Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints", NAACL HLT, San Diego, USA, 2016 PDF
  • P-H. Su, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T-H. Wen, and S. Young, "On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems", ACL, Berlin, 2016 [Best Student Paper Award] PDF
  • M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L.M. Rojas-Barahona, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke and T-H. Wen, "Multi-agent learning in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems", NIPS workshop on Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction, Montreal, Canada, 2015 PDF
  • M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke, T-H. Wen and S. Young, "Policy Committee for adaptation in multi-domain spoken dialogue sytems", ASRU, Arizona, USA, 2015 [Best Paper Nomination] PDF
  • D. Vandyke, P.-H. Su, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, T.-H. Wen and S. Young, "Multi-Domain Dialogue Success Classifiers for Policy Training", IEEE ASRU, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2015 PDF
  • T.-H. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, L. Rojas-Barahona, P.-H. Su, D. Vandyke and S. Young, "Toward Multi-domain Language Generation using Recurrent Neural Networks", NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Spoken Language Understanding and Interaction, Montreal, Canada, 2015 PDF
  • T-H. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke and S. Young, "Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems", EMNLP, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015 [Best Paper Award] PDF
  • T-H. Wen, M. Gašić, D. Kim, N. Mrksic, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke and S. Young, "Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking", Sigdial, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 [Best Paper Award] PDF
  • P-H. Su, D. Vandyke, M. Gašić, N. Mrksic, T-H. Wen and S. Young, "Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Sigdial, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 PDF
  • N. Mrksic, D. O'Seaghdha, B. Thomson, M. Gašić, P-H. Su, D. Vandyke, T-H. Wen and S. Young, "Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks", ACL, Beijing, China, 2015 PDF
  • P-H. Su, D. Vandyke, M. Gašić, D. Kim, N. Mrksic, T-H. Wen and S. Young, "Learning from Real Users: Rating Dialogue Success with Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Interspeech, Dresden, 2015 PDF
  • L. Chen, P-H. Su and M. Gašić, "Hyper-parameter optimisation of Gaussian process reinforcement learning for statistical dialogue management", Proceedings of SigDial, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015 PDF
  • M. Gašić, D. Kim, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "Distributed dialogue policies for multi-domain statistical dialogue management", ICASSP, Brisbane, Australia, 2015 PDF
  • M. Gašić, D. Kim, P. Tsiakoulis, C. Breslin, M. Henderson, M. Szummer, B. Thomson and S. Young. "Incremental on-line adaptation of POMDP-based dialogue managers to extended domains",Interspeech, Singapore, 2014 PDF
  • D. Kim, M. Henderson, M. Gašić, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "The Use of Discriminative Belief Tracking in POMDP-based Dialogue Systems", IEEE SLT, Nevada, USA, 2014 PDF
  • D. Kim, C. Breslin, P. Tsiakoulis, M. Gašić, M. Henderson and S. Young, "Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Micro-Turn Management", Interspeech, Singapore, 2014 PDF
  • P. Tsiakoulis, C. Breslin, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, D. Kim and S. Young, "Dialogue Context Sensitive Speech Synthesis using Factorized Decision Trees", Interspeech, Singapore, 2014 PDF
  • P. Tsiakoulis, C. Breslin, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson and S. Young, "Dialogue Context Sensitive HMM-Based Speech Synthesis", ICASSP, Florence, Italy, 2014 PDF
  • M. Gašić and S. Young, "Gaussian Processes for POMDP-based dialogue manager opimisation", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2014 PDF
  • M. Gašić, C. Breslin, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young. "POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains", Sigdial, Metz, France, 2013 [Best Paper Award] PDF video
  • M. Gašić, C. Breslin, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "On-line policy optimisation of Bayesian spoken dialogue systems via human interaction", ICASSP, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 PDF
  • C. Breslin, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, D. Kim, M. Szummer, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "Continuous ASR for flexible incremental dialogue", ICASSP, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 PDF
  • M. Gašić and S. Young, "Gaussian processes for POMDP-based dialogue manager optimisation", CUED/F-INFENG/TR.684, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 2013 PDF
  • S. Young, M. Gašić, B. Thomson and J.D. Williams, "POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review", Special Issue of the IEEE Proceedings on Speech Information Processing - Theory and Applications, 2013 PDF
  • M. Gašić, M. Henderson, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "Policy optimisation of POMDP-based dialogue systems without state space compression", IEEE SLT, Miami, Florida, 2012 PDF
  • M. Gašić, P. Tsiakoulis, M. Henderson, B. Thomson, K. Yu, E. Tzirkel and S. Young, "The effect of cognitive load on a statistical dialogue system", Sigdial, Seoul, Soth Korea, 2012 PDF
  • M. Henderson, M. Gašić, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "Discriminative Spoken Language Understanding Using Word Confusion Networks", IEEE SLT, Miami, USA, 2012 PDF
  • B. Thomson, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, P. Tsiakoulis and S. Young, "N-Best Error Simulation for Training Spoken Dialogue Systems", IEEE SLT, Miami, USA, 2012 PDF
  • P. Tsiakoulis, M. Gašić, M. Henderson, J.Plannels-Lerma, J. Prombonas, B. Thomson, K. Yu, S. Young and E. Tzirkel, "Statistical Methods for Building Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems in an Automobile", AHFE, San Francisco, USA, 2012 PDF
  • M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, B. Thomson and S. Young, "Optimisation for POMDP-based Spoken Dialogue Systems", Chapter 5 of "Data-driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces", Springer, 2012 PDF
  • M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "On-line policy optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human subjects", ASRU,Hawaii, USA, 2011 [Honourable Mention] PDF
  • L. Daubigney, M. Gašić, S. Chandramohan, M. Geist, O. Pietquin and S. Young, "Uncertainty management for on-line optimisation of a POMDP-based large-scale spoken dialogue system", Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011 PDF
  • F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, M. Gašić, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Real user evaluation of spoken dialogue systems using Amazon Mechanical Turk", Interspeech, Florence, Italy, 2011 PDF
  • M. Gašić and S. Young, "Effective Handling of Dialogue State in the Hidden Information State POMDP-based Dialogue Manager", ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, 2011 PDF
  • M. Gašić, "Statistical Dialogue Modelling", PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011 PDF
  • B. Thomson, F. Jurcicek, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, K. Yu and S. Young, "Parameter learning for POMDP spoken dialogue models", SLT, Berkeley, USA, 2010 PDF
  • B. Thomson, K. Yu, S. Keizer, M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, F. Mairesse and S. Young, "Bayesian dialogue system for the Let's Go spoken dialogue challenge", SLT, Berkeley, USA, 2010 PDF
  • M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Gaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers", Sigdial, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 PDF
  • S. Keizer, M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation", Sigdial, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 PDF
  • F. Jurcicek, B. Thomson, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, M. Gašić, K. Yu and S. Young, "Natural Belief-Critic: a reinforcement algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems", Interspeech, Makuhari, Japan, 2010 PDF
  • F. Mairesse, M.Gašić, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, J. Prombonas, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning", ACL, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010 PDF
  • M. Gašić and S. Young, "Effective Handling of Dialogue State in the Hidden Information State POMDP-based Dialogue Manager", CUED/F-INFENG/TR.650, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 2010 PDF
  • S. Young, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson and K. Yu, "The Hidden Information State Model: a practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management", Computer Speech and Language, 24(2): 150-174, 2010 [Best Paper Award] PDF
  • M. Gašić, F. Lefevre, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Back-off Action Selection in Summary Space-Based POMDP Dialogue Systems", ASRU, Merano, Italy, 2009 PDF
  • F. Lefevre, M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-based Dialogue Systems", Sigdial, London, UK, 2009 PDF
  • F. Jurcicek, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson and S. Young, "Transformation-based Learning for Semantic Parsing", Interspeech, Brighton, UK, 2009 PDF
  • K. Yu, T. Toda, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson and S. Young, "Probabilistic Modelling of F0 in Unvoiced Regions in HMM-based Speech Synthesis", Int Conf Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009 PDF
  • F. Mairesse, M. Gašić, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Spoken Language Understanding from Unaligned Data using Discriminative Classification Models", Int Conf Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan 2009 PDF
  • S. Keizer, M. Gašić, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young, "Modelling user behaviour in the HIS-POMDP dialogue manager", SLT, Goa, India, 2008 PDF
  • B. Thomson, K. Yu, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann and S. Young, "Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses", Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008 PDF
  • B. Thomson, M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, K.Yu and S. Young, "User study of the Bayesian Update of Dialogue State approach to dialogue management", Interspeech, Brisbane, Australia, 2008 PDF
  • M. Gašić, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson and S. Young, "Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise", Sigdial, Columbus, USA, 2008 PDF
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