NIST Project Publications

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

2007

CHAT To Your Destination.
Fuliang Weng, Baoshi Yan, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, Madhuri Raya, Brian Lathrop, Annie Lien, Rohit Mishra, Sebastian Varges, Feng Lin, Matthew Purver, Yao Meng, Harry Bratt, Tobias Scheideck, Zhaoxia Zhang, Badri Raghunathan and Stanley Peters.
In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2007.

A Conversational In-Car Dialog System.
Baoshi Yan, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng, Florin Ratiu, Madhuri Raya, Yao Meng, Sebastian Varges, Matthew Purver, Feng Lin, Annie Lien, Tobias Scheideck, Badri Raghunathan, Rohit Mishra, Brian Lathrop, Harry Bratt and Stanley Peters.
Demo, in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT), Rochester, NY, April 2007.

2006

CHAT: A Conversational Helper for Automotive Tasks.
Fuliang Weng, Sebastian Varges, Badri Raghunathan, Florin Ratiu, Heather Pon-Barry, Brian Lathrop, Qi Zhang, Tobias Scheideck, Harry Bratt, Kui Xu, Matthew Purver, Rohit Mishra, Madhuri Raya, Stanley Peters, Yao Meng, Lawrence Cavedon and Liz Shriberg.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech/ICSLP), pages 1061-1064, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

Robust Interpretation in Dialogue by Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features.
Matthew Purver, Florin Ratiu and Lawrence Cavedon.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech/ICSLP), pages 1-4, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

Evaluation of Content Presentation Strategies for an In-car Spoken Dialogue System.
Heather Pon-Barry, Fuliang Weng and Sebastian Varges.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech/ICSLP), pages 1930-1933, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2006.

Robust Language Analysis and Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Sebastian Varges and Matthew Purver.
To appear in the ECAI 2006 workshop on Development and Evaluation of Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems for Real Applications, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006.

Interactive Question Answering and Constraint Relaxation in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Sebastian Varges, Fuliang Weng and Heather Pon-Barry.
In Proceedings of the 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

Overgeneration and Ranking for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Sebastian Varges.
In Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), Sydney, Australia, July 2006.

2005

Combining Confidence Scores with Contextual Features for Robust Multi-Device Dialogue.
Lawrence Cavedon, Matthew Purver and Florin Ratiu.
In The 3rd ALTA Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia.

Training a maximum entropy model for surface realization.
H. Cheng, F. Weng, N. Hantaweepant, L. Cavedon, S. Peters.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH), Lisbon, Portugal.

Practical Plug-and-Play Dialogue Management.
Danilo Mirkovic and Lawrence Cavedon.
In Proceedings of the 6th Meeting of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING), Tokyo, Japan.

Developing a Conversational In-Car Dialog System.
Lawrence Cavedon, Fuliang Weng, Rohit Mishra, Harry Bratt, Badri Raghunathan, Hua Cheng, Hauke Schmidt, Danilo Mirkovic, Ben Bei, Heather Pon-Barry, Tobias Scheideck, Brian Lathrop, Joyce Chen, Stanley Peters, Liz Shriberg, Carsten Bergmann.
In the 12th International Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, San Francisco CA, USA.

A Wizard of Oz framework for collecting spoken human-computer dialogs: An experiment procedure for the design and testing of natural language in-vehicle technology systems.
Brian Lathrop, Hua Cheng, Fuliang Weng, Rohit Mishra, Joyce Chen, Harry Bratt, Lawrence Cavedon, Carsten Bergmann, Tess Hand-Bender, Heather Pon-Barry, Benjamin Bei, Madhuri Raya, Liz Shriberg.
In the 12th International Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, San Francisco CA, USA.

2004

A Wizard-of-Oz framework for collecting spoken human-computer dialogs.
Hua Cheng, Harry Bratt, Rohit Mishra, Elizabeth Shriberg, Sandra Upson, Joyce Chen, Fuliang Weng, Stanley Peters, Lawrence Cavedon, John Niekrasz.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech - ICSLP '04), Jeju Island, Korea.

A conversational dialogue system for cognitively overloaded users.
F. Weng, L. Cavedon, B. Raghunathan, D. Mirkovic, H. Cheng, H. Schmidt, H. Bratt, R. Mishra, S. Peters, L. Zhao, S. Upson, E. Shriberg, C. Bergmann.
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech - ICSLP '04), Jeju Island, Korea.

-- MatthewPurver - 30 Mar 2006