EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems LREC

Shutong Feng | Nurul Lubis | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-chin Lin | Michael Heck | Carel van Niekerk | Milica Gasic |

Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning COLING

Christian Geishauser | Carel van Niekerk | Hsien-chin Lin | Nurul Lubis | Michael Heck | Shutong Feng | Milica Gašić |

Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data TACL

Michael Heck | Nurul Lubis | Carel van Niekerk | Shutong Feng | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-Chin Lin | Milica Gašić |

Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis SIGDIAL

Renato Vukovic | Michael Heck | Benjamin Ruppik | Carel van Niekerk | Marcus Zibrowius | Milica Gasic |

GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers SIGDIAL

Hsien-chin Lin | Christian Geishauser | Shutong Feng | Nurul Lubis | Carel van Niekerk | Michael Heck | Milica Gasic |

Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning SIGDIAL

Nurul Lubis | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-chin Lin | Carel van Niekerk | Michael Heck | Shutong Feng | Milica Gasic |

Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems SIGDIAL

Hsien-chin Lin | Nurul Lubis | Songbo Hu | Carel van Niekerk | Christian Geishauser | Michael Heck | Shutong Feng | Milica Gasic |

Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance EMNLP

Carel van Niekerk | Andrey Malinin | Christian Geishauser | Michael Heck | Hsien-chin Lin | Nurul Lubis | Shutong Feng | Milica Gasic |

Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models COLING

Michael Heck | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-chin Lin | Nurul Lubis | Marco Moresi | Carel van Niekerk | Milica Gasic |

Topology of Word Embeddings: Singularities Reflect Polysemy *SEM COLING SemEval

Alexander Jakubowski | Milica Gasic | Marcus Zibrowius |

LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization COLING

Nurul Lubis | Christian Geishauser | Michael Heck | Hsien-chin Lin | Marco Moresi | Carel van Niekerk | Milica Gasic |

Actor-Double-Critic: Incorporating Model-Based Critic for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems EMNLP Findings

Yen-chen Wu | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Milica Gasic |

Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles EMNLP Findings

Carel van Niekerk | Michael Heck | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-chin Lin | Nurul Lubis | Marco Moresi | Milica Gasic |

TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking SIGDIAL

Michael Heck | Carel van Niekerk | Nurul Lubis | Christian Geishauser | Hsien-Chin Lin | Marco Moresi | Milica Gasic |

Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue WS

Satoshi Nakamura | Milica Gasic | Ingrid Zuckerman | Gabriel Skantze | Mikio Nakano | Alexandros Papangelis | Stefan Ultes | Koichiro Yoshino |

Tree-Structured Semantic Encoder with Knowledge Sharing for Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Generation WS

Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Paweł Budzianowski | Yen-chen Wu | Milica Gasic |

MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling EMNLP

Paweł Budzianowski | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Iñigo Casanueva | Stefan Ultes | Osman Ramadan | Milica Gašić |

Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains NAACL

Iñigo Casanueva | Paweł Budzianowski | Pei-Hao Su | Stefan Ultes | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Milica Gašić |

Large-Scale Multi-Domain Belief Tracking with Knowledge Sharing ACL

Osman Ramadan | Paweł Budzianowski | Milica Gašić |

Neural User Simulation for Corpus-based Policy Optimisation of Spoken Dialogue Systems SIGDIAL WS

Florian Kreyssig | Iñigo Casanueva | Paweł Budzianowski | Milica Gašić |

Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model SIGDIAL WS

Stefan Ultes | Paweł Budzianowski | Iñigo Casanueva | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Yen-Chen Wu | Steve Young | Milica Gašić |

Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors SIGDIAL WS

Iñigo Casanueva | Paweł Budzianowski | Stefan Ultes | Florian Kreyssig | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Yen-chen Wu | Milica Gašić |

Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems SIGDIAL WS

Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Florian Kreyssig | Paweł Budzianowski | Iñigo Casanueva | Yen-Chen Wu | Stefan Ultes | Milica Gašić |

Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy EMNLP WS

Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Bo-Hsiang Tseng | Yinpei Dai | Clare Mansfield | Osman Ramadan | Stefan Ultes | Michael Crawford | Milica Gašić |

A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System EACL

Tsung-Hsien Wen | David Vandyke | Nikola Mrkšić | Milica Gašić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | Stefan Ultes | Steve Young |

PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit ACL

Stefan Ultes | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Dongho Kim | Iñigo Casanueva | Paweł Budzianowski | Nikola Mrkšić | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Steve Young |

Semantic Specialization of Distributional Word Vector Spaces using Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Constraints TACL

Nikola Mrkšić | Ivan Vulić | Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Ira Leviant | Roi Reichart | Milica Gašić | Anna Korhonen | Steve Young |

Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning SIGDIAL WS

Stefan Ultes | Paweł Budzianowski | Iñigo Casanueva | Nikola Mrkšić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Steve Young |

Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning SIGDIAL WS

Paweł Budzianowski | Stefan Ultes | Pei-Hao Su | Nikola Mrkšić | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Iñigo Casanueva | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Milica Gašić |

Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management SIGDIAL WS

Pei-Hao Su | Paweł Budzianowski | Stefan Ultes | Milica Gašić | Steve Young |

DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development SIGDIAL WS

Kyusong Lee | Tiancheng Zhao | Yulun Du | Edward Cai | Allen Lu | Eli Pincus | David Traum | Stefan Ultes | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Milica Gasic | Steve Young | Maxine Eskenazi |

Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding COLING

Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Pei-Hao Su | Stefan Ultes | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young |

Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems EMNLP

Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | Stefan Ultes | David Vandyke | Steve Young |

Multi-domain Neural Network Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems NAACL

Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Steve Young |

Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints NAACL

Nikola Mrkšić | Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Blaise Thomson | Milica Gašić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young |

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems ACL

Pei-Hao Su | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Lina M. Rojas-Barahona | Stefan Ultes | David Vandyke | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young |

Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems EMNLP

Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Steve Young |

Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks ACL IJCNLP

Nikola Mrkšić | Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha | Blaise Thomson | Milica Gašić | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young |

Stochastic Language Generation in Dialogue using Recurrent Neural Networks with Convolutional Sentence Reranking SIGDIAL WS

Tsung-Hsien Wen | Milica Gašić | Dongho Kim | Nikola Mrkšić | Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Steve Young |

Hyper-parameter Optimisation of Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning for Statistical Dialogue Management SIGDIAL WS

Lu Chen | Pei-Hao Su | Milica Gašić |

Reward Shaping with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speeding up On-Line Policy Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems SIGDIAL WS

Pei-Hao Su | David Vandyke | Milica Gašić | Nikola Mrkšić | Tsung-Hsien Wen | Steve Young |

The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin SIGDIAL WS

Helen Hastie | Marie-Aude Aufaure | Panos Alexopoulos | Hugues Bouchard | Catherine Breslin | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Milica Gašić | James Henderson | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Peter Mika | Nesrine Ben Mustapha | Tim Potter | Verena Rieser | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Yves Vanrompay | Boris Villazon-Terrazas | Majid Yazdani | Steve Young | Yanchao Yu |

Demonstration of the PARLANCE system: a data-driven incremental, spoken dialogue system for interactive search SIGDIAL WS

Helen Hastie | Marie-Aude Aufaure | Panos Alexopoulos | Heriberto Cuayáhuitl | Nina Dethlefs | Milica Gasic | James Henderson | Oliver Lemon | Xingkun Liu | Peter Mika | Nesrine Ben Mustapha | Verena Rieser | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Yves Vanrompay |

POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains SIGDIAL WS

Milica Gašić | Catherine Breslin | Matthew Henderson | Dongho Kim | Martin Szummer | Blaise Thomson | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Steve Young |

The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System SIGDIAL WS

Milica Gašić | Pirros Tsiakoulis | Matthew Henderson | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Eli Tzirkel | Steve Young |

Phrase-Based Statistical Language Generation Using Graphical Models and Active Learning ACL

François Mairesse | Milica Gašić | Filip Jurčíček | Simon Keizer | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young |

Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation SIGDIAL WS

Simon Keizer | Milica Gašić | Filip Jurčíček | François Mairesse | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young |

Gaussian Processes for Fast Policy Optimisation of POMDP-based Dialogue Managers SIGDIAL WS

Milica Gašić | Filip Jurčíček | Simon Keizer | Francois Mairesse | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young |

k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems SIGDIAL WS

Fabrice Lefèvre | Milica Gašić | Filip Jurčíček | Simon Keizer | François Mairesse | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young |

Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise SIGDIAL WS

Milica Gašić | Simon Keizer | Francois Mairesse | Jost Schatzmann | Blaise Thomson | Kai Yu | Steve Young |