CALO Project Publications

This page lists Semlab publications related to the CALO project. For a full list of our lab's publications, please see the general publications page.

2008

Designing and Evaluating Meeting Assistants, Keeping Humans in Mind.
Patrick Ehlen, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton
To appear in Proceedings of the 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI08), Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Identifying Relevant Phrases to Summarize Decisions in Spoken Meetings.
Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, John Dowding, Anish Adukuzhiyil, Patrick Ehlen and Stanley Peters.
To appear in Proceedings of Interspeech'08, Brisbane, Australia.

Leveraging Minimal User Input to Improve Targeted Extraction of Action Items.
Matthew Frampton, Raquel Fernández, Patrick Ehlen, Anish Adukuzhiyil and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 12th SEMDIAL Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (LONDIAL'08), London, UK.

A Probabilistic Model of Meetings that Combines Words and Discourse Features.
Mike Dowman, Virginia Savova, Tom Griffiths, Konrad Koerding, Josh Tenenbaum and Matthew Purver.
To appear in Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, special issue on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing, IEEE, 2008.
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Modelling and Detecting Decisions in Multi-Party Dialogue.
Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Columbus, OH, June 2008.

Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding.
Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz, Stanley Peters and Kari Lee.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Canary Islands, Spain, January 2008.

Meeting Structure Annotation: Annotations Collected with a General Purpose Toolkit.
Alexander Gruenstein, John Niekrasz and Matthew Purver.
To appear in L. Dybkjaer and W. Minker, editors, Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue (Text, Speech and Language Technology series vol. 39), Springer-Verlag, 2008.

2007

Detecting and Summarizing Action Items in Multi-Party Dialogue.
Matthew Purver, John Dowding, John Niekrasz, Patrick Ehlen, Sharareh Noorbaloochi and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.

Resolving "You" in Multi-Party Dialog.
Surabhi Gupta, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver and Dan Jurafsky.
In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.

Multimodal Meeting Capture and Understanding with the CALO Meeting Assistant..
John Niekrasz, Patrick Ehlen, and the DARPA CALO Meeting Assistant Project Team.
Demo at the 4th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2007.

Automatic Annotation of Dialogue Structure from Simple User Interaction.
Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz and Patrick Ehlen.
In the 4th Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI), Brno, Czech Republic, June 2007.

Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential "You" in Dialog.
Surabhi Gupta, Matthew Purver and Daniel Jurafsky.
In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.

The CALO Meeting Assistant.
Lynn Voss, Patrick Ehlen and the DARPA CALO Meeting Assistant Project Team.
Demo, in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April 2007.

A Meeting Browser That Learns.
Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver and John Niekrasz.
In Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants: Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA, March 2007.

2006

Browsing Meetings: Automatic Understanding, Presentation and Feedback for Multi-Party Conversations.
Patrick Ehlen, Stéphane Laidebeure, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, John Dowding and Stanley Peters.
Demo, in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (brandial'06), pages 173-174, Potsdam, Germany, September 2006.

Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse.
Matthew Purver, Konrad Körding, Tom Griffiths and Josh Tenenbaum.
In Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006, pages 17-24, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

Automatically Detecting Action Items in Audio Meeting Recordings.
William Morgan, Pi-Chuan Chang, Surabhi Gupta and Jason M. Brenier.
In Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 96-103, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

Shallow Discourse Structure for Action Item Detection.
Matthew Purver, Patrick Ehlen and John Niekrasz.
In Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL workshop 'Analyzing Conversations in Text and Speech' (ACTS), New York, NY, June 2006.

Detecting Action Items in Multi-Party Meetings: Annotation and Initial Experiments.
Matthew Purver, Patrick Ehlen and John Niekrasz.
In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2006, Bethesda, MD, May 1-4, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4299, pp. 200-211. Renals, S.; Bengio, S.; Fiscus, J. (Eds.). Springer-Verlag. (2006)
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Combining Lexical Resources in a Robust Broad-Coverage Semantic Parser.
John Dowding and Matthew Purver.
In the 7th Annual Stanford Semantics Fest, Stanford CA, USA.

NOMOS: A Semantic Web Software Framework for Annotation of Multimodal Corpora.
John Niekrasz and Alexander Gruenstein.
In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy (2006).

A Multimodal Discourse Ontology for Meeting Understanding.
John Niekrasz and Matthew Purver.
In Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop, MLMI 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 11-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3869, pp. 162-173. Renals, Steve; Bengio, Samy (Eds.). Springer-Verlag. (2006)
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2005

Meeting structure annotation: Data and tools.
Alexander Gruenstein, John Niekrasz, and Matthew Purver.
In Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Lisbon, Portugal.

Collaborative and argumentative models of meeting discussions.
Vincenzo Pallotta, John Niekrasz, and Matthew Purver.
In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ontology-based multi-party meeting understanding.
Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the CHI 05 Workshop on The Virtuality Continuum Revisited (Multi-party Interaction), Portland OR, USA.

Ontology-based discourse understanding for a persistent meeting assistant.
John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, John Dowding and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Persistent Assistants, Stanford CA, USA.
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2004

A multimodal learning interface for sketch, speak and point creation of a schedule chart.
Ed Kaiser, David Demirdjian, Alexander Gruenstein, Xiaoguang Li, John Niekrasz, Matt Wesson, and Sanjeev Kumar.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '04), State College PA, USA.

Multi-human dialogue understanding for assisting artifact-producing meetings.
John Niekrasz, Alexander Gruenstein, and Lawrence Cavedon.
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '04), Geneva, Switzerland.

Managing uncertainty in dialogue information state for real time understanding of multi-human meeting dialogues.
Alexander Gruenstein, Lawrence Cavedon, John Niekrasz, Dominic Widdows, and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial - Catalog '04), Barcelona, Spain.