Publications

2024/to appear

1. Georgios Pantazopoulos, Alessandro Suglia,  Oliver Lemon,  Arash Eshghi ."Lost in Space: Probing Fine-grained Spatial Understanding in Vision and Language Resamplers". NAACL 2024 [to appear]

2. Helena Bonaldi, Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, Marco Guerini. "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate: a Survey and How-To Guide 🔧 . Findings of NAACL 2024 [to appear]

3. Aashimar Parvathi, Ioannis Konstas, Gavin Abercrombie. "Empowering Responses: Innovating Counterspeech Strategies through LLMs and Human Collaboration". WOAH [to appear]

4. Gavin Abercrombie, Nikolas Vitsakis, Aiqi Jiang, and Ioannis Konstas. "Revisiting Annotation of Online Gender-Based Violence". NLPerspectives 2024 [to appear]

5. Sachin Sasidharan Nair, Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie. "Exploring Reproducibility of Human-Labelled Data for Code-Mixed Sentiment Analysis". HumEval 2024 [to appear]

6. Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser. "DExpert Evaluation? Reproducing Human Judgements of the Fluency of Generated Text". HumEval 2024 [to appear]

7. Angus Addlesee, Oliver Lemon, Arash Eshghi. "Clarifying Completions: Evaluating How LLMs Respond to Incomplete Questions". LREC-COLING 2024 [to appear]

8. Angus Addlesee, Arash Eshghi. "You Have Interrupted Me Again!: Making Voice Assistants More Dementia-Friendly With Incremental Clarification". Frontiers in Dementia 2024 [link]

9. Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernández García, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon. "Multi-party Multimodal Conversations Between Patients, Their Companions, and a Social Robot in a Hospital Memory Clinic". EACL 2024 (Best demo paper award)  [link]

10. Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas, Oliver Lemon, "Visually Grounded Language Learning: a review of language games, datasets, tasks, and models"  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), volume 79, (2024) [link]

11. Angus Addlesee, Neeraj Cherakara, Nivan Nelson, Daniel Hernández García, Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieińska, Marta Romeo, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon. "A Multi-party Conversational Social Robot Using LLMs". HRI 2024 [link]

12. Daniel Hernández García, Marta Romeo, Christian Dondrup, Nancie Gunson, Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieinska, Oliver Lemon, Alessandro Suglia, and Matthew Peter Aylett. 2024. "Human - Large Language Model Interaction: The dawn of a new era or the end of it all?" In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1320–1322. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3638152 

13. Angus Addlesee. "Grounding LLMs to In-prompt Instructions: Reducing Hallucinations Caused by Static Pre-training Knowledge". Safety4ConvAI 2024 [to appear]

2023

1. Marco Grazioso, Alessandro Suglia, "An Analysis of Visually Grounded Instructions in Embodied AI Tasks", Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2023) [link]

2. Sabrina McCallum, Max Taylor-Davies, Stefano V. Albrecht, Alessandro Suglia, "Is Feedback All You Need? Leveraging Natural Language Feedback in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning", Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning Workshop (NeurIPS 2023) [link]

3. Georgios Pantazopoulos, Malvina Nikandrou, Amit Parekh, Bhathiya Hemanthage, Arash Eshghi, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, Alessandro Suglia, "Multitask Multimodal Prompted Training for Interactive Embodied Task Completion”, EMNLP 2023 [link]

4. Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Tanvi Dinkar, Verena Rieser, Zeerak Talat, "Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems", EMNLP 2023 [link]

5. Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon "Multi-party Goal Tracking with LLMs: Comparing Pre-training, Fine-tuning, and Prompt Engineering". SIGdial 2023 [link]

6. Neeraj Cherakara, Finny Varghese, Sheena Shabana, Nivan Nelson, Abhiram Karukayil, Rohith Kulothungan, Mohammed Afil Farhan, Birthe Nesset, Meriam Moujahid, Tanvi Dinkar, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "FurChat: An Embodied Conversational Agent using LLMs, Combining Open and Closed-Domain Dialogue with Facial Expressions", SIGDIAL 2023.

7. Knoche H., Abdul-Rahman A., Clark L., Curcin V., Huo Z., Iwaya L.H., Lemon O., Mikulík R., Neate T., Roper A., Skovfoged M.M., Verdezoto N., Wilson S., Ziadeh H. "Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Intelligent Data-Driven Health Interfaces to Support Ongoing Care", CHI 2023.

8. Gavin Abercrombie, Aiqi Jiang, Poppy Gerrard-abbott, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser, "Resources for Automated Identification of Online Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review", WOAH 2023 [link ]

9. Gavin Abercrombie, Dirk Hovy, and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran. Temporal and Second Language Influence on Intra-Annotator Agreement and Stability in Hate Speech Labelling, LAW 2023 [link ]

10. Elisa Leonardelli, Gavin Abercrombie, Dina Almanea, Valerio Basile, Tommaso Fornaciari, Barbara Plank, Verena Rieser, Alexandra Uma, and Massimo Poesio, "SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements", SEMEVAL 2023 [link ]

11. Angus Addlesee, Daniel Denley, Andy Edmondson, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández Garcia, Alexandre Kha, Oliver Lemon, James Ndubuisi, Neil O’Reilly, Lia Perochaud, Raphaël Valeri, and Miebaka Worika "Detecting Agreement in Multi-party Dialogue: Evaluating Speaker Diarisation Versus a Procedural Baseline to Enhance User Engagement". GROUND 2023 [link]

12. Laura Schauer, Jason Sweeney, Charlie Lyttle, Zein Said, Aron Szeles, Cale Clark, Katie McAskill, Xander Wickham, Tom Byars, Daniel Hernández Garcia, Nancie Gunson, Angus Addlesee, and Oliver Lemon "Detecting Agreement in Multi-party Conversational AI". GROUND 2023 [link]

13. Angus Addlesee and Marco Damonte. "Understanding Disrupted Sentences Using Underspecified Abstract Meaning Representation". Interspeech 2023. [link]

14. Angus Addlesee and Marco Damonte. "Understanding and Answering Incomplete Questions".  Proceeding of the 5th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) 2023. [link]

15. Angus Addlesee, Ioannis Papaioannou, and Oliver Lemon. "Building for Speech: Designing the Next Generation of Social Robots for Audio Interaction". Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Working with Trouble and Failures in Conversation Between Humans and Robots (WTF) 2023. [link]

16. Bhathiya Hemanthage, Christian Dondrup, Phil Bartie and Oliver Lemon, "SimpleMTOD: A Simple Language Model for Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue with Symbolic Scene Representation", IWCS, 2023 [pdf]

17. Nikolas Vitsakis, Amit Parekh, Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser. "iLab at SemEval-2023 Task 11 Le-Wi-Di: Modelling Disagreement or Modelling Perspectives?." to appear in the Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023. 

18. Tanvi Dinkar, Chloé Clavel, and Ioana Vasilescu. "Fillers in Spoken Language Understanding: Computational and Psycholinguistic Perspectives." TAL, Volume 63-3 (2023). [pdf]

19. Angus Addlesee, Weronika Sieińska, Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Christian Dondrup and Oliver Lemon "Data Collection for Multi-party Task-based Dialogue in Social Robotics", Proc IWSDS 2023 [link]

20. Angus Addlesee ,"Voice Assistant Accessibility", Proc IWSDS 2023 [link]

2022

1. Suglia, Alessandro, José Lopes, Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo, Shubham Agarwal, Malvina Nikandrou, Lu Yu, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser. "Going for GOAL: A Resource for Grounded Football Commentaries." arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04534 (2022). [link]

2. Angus Addlesee. "Securely Capturing People's Interactions with Voice Assistants at Home: A Bespoke Tool for Ethical Data Collection". Proceeding of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) at EMNLP 2022 [link]

3. Oliver Lemon,  Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Junyi Jessy Li, Arash Ashrafzadeh, Daniel Hernández Garcia,  Malihe Alikhani, David Vandyke, Ondřej Dušek, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) 2022 [link]

4. Gavin Abercrombie and Verena Rieser. Risk-graded Safety for Handling Medical Queries in Conversational AI.  2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2022

5. M. Hanna, F. Pedeni, A. Suglia, A. Testoni, and R. Bernardi. "ACT-Thor: A Controlled Benchmark for Embodied Action Understanding in Simulated Environments" The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022) [link]

6. M. Hanna, F. Pedeni, A. Suglia, A. Testoni, R. Bernardi. "ACT-Thor: A Controlled Benchmark for Embodied Action Understanding in Simulated Environments" (Dis)embodiment Workshop (at COLING 2022) [link]

7. Utku Norman*, Tanvi Dinkar*, Barbara Bruno, and Chloé Clavel.  "Studying Alignment in a Collaborative Learning Activity via Automatic Methods: The Link Between What We Say and Do.",  Dialogue and Discourse 13(2), 2022 [link]

8. Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Weronika Sieińska, Angus Addlesee, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon, Jose L Part and Yanchao Yu. "A Visually-Aware Conversational Robot Receptionist". 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) [link]

9. Chiyah-Garcia, Francisco J., Alessandro Suglia, José David Lopes, Arash Eshghi, and Helen Hastie. "Exploring Multi-Modal Representations for Ambiguity Detection & Coreference Resolution in the SIMMC 2.0 Challenge". In AAAI 2022 DSTC10 Workshop. http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12645

10. Oliver Lemon,  "Conversational AI for Multi-Agent Communication in Natural Language",  AI Communications : 35 (4), 295-308, 2022 [link]

11. A. Stevie Bergman, Gavin Abercrombie, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau and Verena Rieser. Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022)

12.  Alessandro Suglia, Bhathiya Hemanthage, Malvina Nikandrou, George Pantazopoulos, Amit Parekh, Arash Eshghi, Claudio Greco, Ioannis Konstas, Oliver Lemon and Verena Rieser.  "Demonstrating EMMA: Embodied MultiModal Agent for Language-guided Action Execution in 3D Simulated Environments". 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) [link]

13. Lu Yu and Verena Rieser. Adversarial Robustness of Visual Dialog. ArXiv preprint

14. Nancie Gunson, Daniel Hernández García, Weronika Sieinska, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon, 'Developing a Social Conversational Robot for the Hospital waiting room', RO-MAN 2022 

15. Emily Dinan and Gavin Abercrombie and A. Stevie Bergman and Shannon Spruit and Dirk Hovy and Y-Lan Boureau and Verena Rieser. SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety for Open-domain Conversational Systems. Proceedings of the 60th Conference of the Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics  ACL 2022. (long paper)

16. Pantazopoulos, George, Alessandro Suglia, and Arash Eshghi. "Combine to Describe: Evaluating Compositional Generalization in Image Captioning."  ACL 2022 (student workshop) [ACL Anthology]

17. Oliver Lemon, "Conversational grounding in emergent communication -- data and divergence", Emergent Communication workshop at ICLR 2022 [openreview]

18.  Luca M. Leisten and Verena Rieser. “I Like You, as a Friend”: Voice Assistants’ Response Strategies to Sexual Harassment and Their Relation to Gender. Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction (SpoHuMa) 2022  preprint PsyArXiv,  published PDF

19. Marco Casadio, Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Verena Rieser, Matthew Daggitt, Daniel Kienitz, Luca Arnaboldi and Wen Kokke. Why Robust Natural Language Understanding is a Challenge. 5th Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems. 2022.

20. Shikib Mehri, Jinho Choi, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Jan Deriu, Maxine Eskenazi, Milica Gasic, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Zekang Li, Verena Rieser, Samira Shaikh, David Traum, Yi-Ting Yeh, Zhou Yu, Yizhe Zhang, Chen Zhang. Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges. 2022 [Arxiv]

21. Meriam Moujahid, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon (2022). Multi-party interaction with a Robot Receptionist.  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’22)

22. Meriam Moujahid, Bruce W Wilson, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon (2022). Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction.  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’22)

23. Bhathiya Hemanthage and Oliver Lemon, "Global-Local Information-aware Multimodal grounding with GPT for Co-reference Resolution" DSTC 10 workshop at AAAI 2022

24. Nikandrou M, Yu L, Suglia A, Konstas I, Rieser V. Task Formulation Matters When Learning Continually: A Case Study in Visual Question Answering. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.00044. 2022 Sep 30. [link]

2021

1. Alessandro  Suglia,  Qiaozi  Gao,  Jesse  Thomason,  Govind  Thattai,  and  Gaurav  Sukhatme.   "Embodied  BERT:  A  transformer model for embodied, language-guided visual task completion" in Novel Ideas in Learning-to-Learn through Interaction: NILLI workshop at EMNLP  arXiv:2108.04927, 2021

2. Katie Baker, Amit Parekh, Adrien Fabre, Angus Addlesee, Ruben Kruiper, and Oliver Lemon, "The Spoon is in the Sink: Assisting Visually Impaired People in the Kitchen", ReInAct 2021. [link]

3. Angus Addlesee and Arash Eshghi, "Incremental Graph-Based Semantics and Reasoning for Conversational AI", ReInAct 2021. [link]

4. Georgios Pantazopoulos, Jeremy Bruyere, Malvina Nikandrou, Thibaud Boissier, Supun Hemanthage, Sachish Binha, Vidyul Shah, Christian Dondrup, and Oliver Lemon. "ViCA: Combining visual, social, and task-oriented conversational AI in a healthcare setting", ICMI 2021 (best paper nomination) [link]

5. Elisa Ramil Brick, Vanesa Caballero Alonso, Conor O'Brien, Sheron Tong, Emilie Tavernier, Amit Parekh, Angus Addlesee, and Oliver Lemon, "Am I Allergic to This? Assisting Sight Impaired People in the Kitchen",  ICMI 2021. [link]

6. Nancie Gunson et al, "Combining Visual and Social Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction" ICMI 2021 (demonstration system,)

7. Nancie Gunson, Weronika Sieinska, Yanchao Yu, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Jose L. Part, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon "Coronabot: A Conversational AI System for Tackling Misinformation",  ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2021) 

8. Leisten, Luca M., and Verena Rieser. “I Like You, as a Friend”: Voice Assistants’ Response Strategies to Sexual Harassment and Their Relation to Gender.” Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction (SpoHuMa'21) [PsyArXiv]. 

9. Amanda Cercas-Curry, Gavin Abercrombie and Verena Rieser. ConvAbuse: Data, Analysis, and Benchmarks for Nuanced Detection in Conversational AI. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2021. (long paper)  [arXiv]

10. David Howcroft and Verena Rieser. What happens if you treat ordinal ratings as interval data? Human evaluations in NLP are even more under-powered than you think. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021. (short paper)

11. Xinnuo Xu, Ondrej Dusek, Verena Rieser and Ioannis Konstas. MIRANEWS: Dataset and Benchmarks for Multi-Resource-Assisted News Summarization. In Findings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2021.

12. Emily Dinan, Gavin Abercrombie, A. Stevie Bergman, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser. "Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling." 2021 [Arxiv] [tools]

13. Karin Sevengnani, David Howcroft, Ioannis Konstas and Verena Rieser. "One-turn Topic Transitions for Open-Domain Dialogue". ACL 2021 (long paper).  [Arxiv]

14. Xinnuo Xu, Ondrej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Ioannis Konstas. "AGGGEN: Ordering and Aggregating while Generating". ACL 2021 (short paper). [Arxiv]

15. Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Cercas Curry, Mugdha Pandya and Verena Rieser. Alexa, Google, Siri: What are Your Pronouns? Gender and Anthropomorphism in the Design and Perception of Conversational Assistants. ACL-IJCNLP 2021 3rd Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP 2021) [Arxiv]

16. Alessandro Suglia, Yonatan Bisk, Ioannis Konstas, Antonio Vergari, Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo and Oliver Lemon, "An Empirical Study on the Generalization Power of Neural Representations Learned via Visual Guessing Games", EACL 2021  [arXiv]

17. Clinciu, M., Eshghi, A and Hastie, H. (2021). A Study of Automatic Metrics for the Evaluation of Natural Language Explanations. In Proceedings of the European Association of Computational Linguistics (EACL'21). arXiv preprint

18. Jose Part, Daniel Hernandez-Garcia, Yanchao Yu, Nancie Gunson, Christian Dondrup, Oliver Lemon "Towards Visual Dialogue for Human-Robot Interaction", Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), video demonstration [VIDEO]

19. Lopes, J., and Hastie, H. (2021). The Language of Persuasion, Negotiation and Trust. In Proceedings of SemDial.

20.  Gavriilidis, K., Carreno, Y., Munafo, A., Pang, W., Petrick, RP, and Hastie, H. (2021). Plan Verbalisation for Robots Acting in Dynamic Environments. In KEPS '21: Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS'21) [pdf].

21. Miltiadis Marios Katsakioris, Ioannis Konstas, Pierre Yves Mignotte and Helen Hastie (2021). Learning to Read Maps: Understanding Natural Language Instructions from Unseen Maps. In Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP). ACM, Bangkok, Thailand [pdf].

22. Chiyah Garcia, F., Smith, S., Lopes, J., Ramamoorthy, S., and Hastie, H. (2021). Self-Explainable Robots in Remote Environments. In HRI '21: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'21). [link] (video demonstration)

23. Nesset, B., Robb, D.A., Lopes, J. and Hastie, H. (2021). Transparency in HRI: Trust and Decision Making in the Face of Robot Errors. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’21). [link] 

2020

1. Alessandro Suglia, Antonio Vergari, Ioannis Konstas, Yonatan Bisk, Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo and Oliver Lemon, "Imagining Grounded Conceptual Representations from Perceptual Information in Situated Guessing Games", COLING 2020  [arXiv]

2. Angus Addlesee, Yanchao Yu and Arash Eshghi, "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Incremental Speech Recognition and Speaker Diarization for Conversational AI", COLING 2020. [pdf]

3. Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo, Pawel Swietojanski and Verena Rieser. "SLURP: A Spoken Language Understanding Resource Package.  The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2020)

4. Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Yanchao Yu, Weronika Sieinska, Jose Part, Nancie Gunson, Oliver Lemon and Christian Dondrup. "Explainable Representations of the Social State: A Model for Social Human-Robot Interactions"  AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for HRI, 2020 

5. Nancie Gunson,  Weronika Sieinska, Christian Dondrup, and Oliver Lemon,, "It's Good to Chat? Evaluation and Design Guidelines for Combining Open-Domain Social Conversation with Task-Based Dialogue in Intelligent Buildings" in Proc. 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)  2020

6. Weronika Sieinska, Nancie Gunson, Christopher Walsh, Christian Dondrup, and Oliver Lemon, "Conversational Agents for Intelligent Buildings", SIGDIAL 2020  [demo video]

7. Shubham Agarwal, Trung Bui, Joon-Young Lee, Ioannis Konstas and Verena Rieser. "History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it?" (Long paper) The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics  (ACL 2020), Seattle, 2020. [arXiv]

8. Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Jingyi Li, Verena Rieser and Ioannis Konstas. "Fact-based Content Weighting for Abstractive Summarisation Evaluation". (Short paper) The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Seattle 2020. [pdf]

9. Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas, Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank and Oliver Lemon, "CompGuessWhat?!: A Multi-task Evaluation Framework for Grounded Language Learning", (Long paper) The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Seattle, 2020 [arXiv]

10. Ruben Kruiper, Julian F.V. Vincent, Jessica Chen-Burger, Marc P.Y. Desmulliez and Ioannis Konstas.  "In Layman’s Terms: Semi-Open Relation Extraction from Scientific Texts",  (Long paper) The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Seattle, 2020. [arXiv]

11. Ruben Kruiper, Julian F.V. Vincent, Jessica Chen-Burger, Marc P.Y. Desmulliez and Ioannis Konstas.  "A Scientific Information Extraction Dataset for Nature Inspired Engineering",  (Long Paper) The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, 2020.

12. Angus Addlesee and Pierre Albert, "Ethically Collecting Multi-Modal Spontaneous Conversations with People that have Cognitive Impairments",  LREC's Workshop on Ethical Issues 2020. [pdf]

13. Ondřej Dušek, Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser. Evaluating the state-of-the-art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG challenge. Computer Speech & Language, Volume 59, Pages 123-156, 2020. [arxiv preprint]

14. Andrea Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Emanuele Bastianelli, Roberto Basili and Daniele Nardi. "Grounded Language Interpretation of Robotic Commands through Structured Learning". Artificial Intelligence, Volume 278,  2020 [link]

15. Igor Shalyminov, Alessandro Sordoni, Adam Atkinson, Hannes Schulz, "Hybrid Generative-Retrieval Transformers for Dialogue Domain Adaptation", DSTC8@AAAI 2020, [arXiv]

16. Igor Shalyminov, Alessandro Sordoni, Adam Atkinson, Hannes Schulz, "Fast Domain Adaptation for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Using a Hybrid Generative-Retrieval Transformer",  ICASSP 2020 [youtube]

17. Miltiadis Marios Katsakioris, Ioannis Konstas, and Helen Hastie (2020). ROSMI: A Multimodal Corpus for Map-based Instruction-Giving. In Proceedings of ACM ICMI conference (ICMI’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA. [link]

18. Lopes, J., Chiyah Garcia, F., and Hastie, H. (2020). The Lab vs The Crowd: An Investigation into Data Quality for Neural Dialogue Models. In Workshop on Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems at NeurIPS 2020. arXiv preprint

19.  Chiyah Garcia, F., Lopes, J., Liu, X., and Hastie, H. (2020). CRWIZ: A Framework for Crowdsourcing Real-Time Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [link]

20.  Mocialov, B., Turner, G. and Hastie, H., (2020). Towards Large-Scale Data Mining for Data-Driven Analysis of Sign Languages. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Sign Language Resources in the Service of the Language Community, Technological Challenges and Application Perspectives, LREC, France. 2020. [link]

21.  Chiyah Garcia, F., Lopes, J., and Hastie, H. (2020). Natural Language Interaction to Facilitate Mental Models of Remote Robots. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Mental Models of Robots, HRI'20, ACM [arXiv]

22. David A. Robb, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Carlo Tiseo, Simona Aracri, Alistair C. McConnell, Vincent Page, Christian Dondrup, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Hai-Nguyen Nguyen, Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón Ramírez, Tushar Semwal, Hazel M. Taylor, Lindsay J. Wilson, David Lane, Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan (2020). Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, UK. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. [link] [video]

23. José Lopes, David R. Robb, Xingkun Liu, and Helen Hastie (2020). Demonstration of A Social Robot for Control of Remote Autonomous Systems. In HRI ’20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, New York, NY, USA. [link] [video]

2019

1. Mary Ellen Foster et al "MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces ", Proc. AAAI fall symposium on AI for HRI,  2019 [arXiv]

2. Ondřej Dušek, Karin Sevegnagni, Ioannis Konstas and Verena Rieser. "Automatic Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation: Ranting (Jointly Rating and Ranking)". 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2019), Tokyo, 2019.

3. Ondřej Dušek, David Howcroft and Verena Rieser. "Semantic Noise Matters for Neural Natural Language Generation". 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2019), Tokyo, 2019.

4. David M. Howcroft, Karin Sevegnani, Ondrej Dusek and Verena Rieser.  "Noise and Neural Natural Language Generation: Rubbish in, Rubbish out?"  EurNLP 2019, London (31.8% acceptance rate)

5. Alessandro Suglia, Ioannis Konstas, Emanuele Bastianelli, Andrea Vanzo and Oliver Lemon, "CompGuessWhat?!: Learning Compositional Representations for Interactive Grounded Language Learning",  EurNLP 2019, London

6. Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon, "Data-Efficient Goal-Oriented Conversation with Dialogue Knowledge Transfer Networks", EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019  [arXiv]

7. Angus Addlesee, Arash Eshghi and Ioannis Konstas, "Current Challenges in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Why They Are Critical for Those Living with Dementia", DiGo 2019.

8. Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou and Oliver Lemon, "Petri Net Machines for Human-Agent Interaction",   AAAI Fall Symposium on “Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction” (AI-HRI)  2019 

9. Verena Rieser. "Let's Chat! Can Virtual Agents learn how to have a Conversation?" Invited keynote at ACM IVA '19 ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Paris, France — July 02 - 05, 2019 [pdf]

10. Ondřej Dušek, Jekaterina Novikova, Verena Rieser. "Evaluating the State-of-the-Art of End-to-End Natural Language Generation: The E2E NLG Challenge". Computer Speech & Language [arxiv preprint]

11. Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser. "A Crowd-based Evaluation of Abuse Response Strategies in Conversational Agents",  SIGDIAL 2019.

12. Simon Keizer, Ondřej Dušek, Xingkun Liu and Verena Rieser.  "User Evaluation of a Multi-dimensional Statistical Dialogue System", SIGDIAL 2019.

13. Jose Part and Oliver Lemon, "Towards a Robot Architecture for Situated Lifelong Object Learning",  Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, 2019 [pdf]

14. Andrea Vanzo, Emanuele Bastianelli, and Oliver Lemon, "Hierarchical Multi-Task Natural Language Understanding for Cross-domain Conversational AI: HERMIT NLU",  SIGDIAL 2019  [arXiv]

15.   Igor Shalyminov, Sungjin Lee, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Few-Shot Dialogue Generation Without Annotated Data: A Transfer Learning Approach",  SIGDIAL 2019  [arXiv]

16. Sungjin Lee and Igor Shalyminov, "CONTEXTUAL OUT-OF-DOMAIN UTTERANCE HANDLING WITH COUNTERFEIT DATA AUGMENTATION",  ICASSP 2019  [pdf]

17. Katsakioris, M. M., Laskov, A., Konstas, I. and Hastie, H. 2019. "Corpus of Multimodal Interaction for Collaborative Planning."  Proceedings of the SpLU-RoboNLP 2019 Workshop in conjunction with  NAACL-HLT, Minneapolis, USA.

18. Kaska Porayska-Pomsta,  Alyssa Alcorn,  Katerina Avramides,  Sara Bernardini,  Mary-Ellen Foster,  Christopher Frauenberger,  Judith Good,  Karen Guldberg,  Wendy Keay-Bright,  Lila Kossyvaki,  Oliver Lemon,  Marilena Mademtzi,  Rachel Menzies,  Helen Pain,  Gnanathusharan Rajendran,  Annalu Waller,  Sam Wass,  Tim J. Smith., "Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children's Social Communication Skills"  CHI 2019 

19. Hastie, H., Robb, D. A., Lopes, J., Ahmad, M., Le Bras, P., Liu, X., Petrick, R. P. A., Lohan, K. & Chantler, M. J. 2018. "Challenges in Collaborative HRI for Remote Robot Teams". Proceedings of the CHI2019 Workshop on The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People (SIRCHI 2019).  Glasgow, UK.

20. Robb, D. A., Lopes, J. E., Padilla, S., Laskov, A., Liu, X., Willners, J. S., Valeyrie, N., Lohan, K. S., Lane, D., Patron, P., Petillot, Y., Chantler, M. J. & Hastie, H. "Exploring Interaction with Remote Autonomous Systems using Conversational Agents". In Proc.  ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS'19, 2019 San Diego, CA.

21. Xingkun Liu, Arash Eshghi, Pawel Swietojanski, and Verena Rieser. "Benchmarking Natural Language Understanding Services for building Conversational Agents." Tenth International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS) 2019.

22. Eric Pairet, Paola Ardon, Xingkun Liu, José Lopes, Helen Hastie and Katrin Lohan (2019). "A Digital Twin for Human-Robot Interaction". In Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Conference.  [link] [video]

23.  José Lopes, David A. Robb, Muneeb Ahmad, Xingkun Liu, Katrin Lohan, Helen Hastie (2019). "Towards a Conversational Agent for Remote Robot-Human Teaming". In Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction (HRI)  [link]

24. James Allen, Elisabeth André, Philip R Cohen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ronald Kaplan, Oliver Lemon, David Traum, "Challenge Discussion: Advancing Multimodal Dialogue",  in Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 3: Language Processing, Software, Commercialization, and Emerging Directions [link]

2018

1.   Jamie Fraser, Ioannis Papaioannou, Oliver Lemon, "Spoken Conversational AI in Video Games: Emotional Dialogue Management Increases User Engagement", Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 2018 [link]

2. Shubham Agarwal, Ondrej Dusek, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser (2018). "Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation". In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Natural Language Generation (INLG), Tilburg, The Netherlands. [link]

3. Shubham Agarwal, Ondrej Dusek, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser (2018). "A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent" In Search-Oriented Conversational AI: EMNLP-SCAI, Brussels. [link]

4. Amanda Cercas Curry, Ioannis Papaioannou, Alessandro Suglia, Shubham Agarwal, Igor Shalyminov, Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Arash Eshghi, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon,  "Alana v2: Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using  Ontologies and Entity Linking",  Alexa Prize Proceedings, Amazon RE-INVENT, Las Vegas, 2018 [pdf]

5. Igor Shalyminov and Sugjin Lee, "Improving Robustness of Neural Dialog Systems in a Data-Efficient Way with Turn Dropout", NeurIPS workshop on Conversational AI, 2018 [arXiv] [poster]

6. Xinnuo Xu, Ondrej Dusek, Yannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser. "Better conversations by modeling, filtering, and optimizing for coherence and diversity". In: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Brussels [arXiv]

7. Igor Shalyminov, Ondrej Dusek, and Oliver Lemon "Neural Response Ranking for Social Conversation: A Data-Efficient Approach", Search-Oriented Conversational AI: EMNLP-SCAI, 2018 [arXiv]

8. Igor Shalyminov, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Multi-Task Learning for Domain-General Spoken Disfluency Detection in Dialogue Systems", Semdial 2018 [arXiv]

9. Patrick G. T. Healey,  Gregory J. Mills, Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, "Running Repairs: Coordinating Meaning in Dialogue", Topics in Cognitive Science, 1–22, 2018 [pdf]

10. Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Atanas Ivaylov Laskov, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron, and Helen Hastie (2018). "Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Building Clear Mental Models". In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Natural Language Generation (INLG), Tilburg, The Netherlands.

11. Jose David Lopes, Katrin Lohan and Helen Hastie. (2018) 'Symptoms of Cognitive Load in Interactions with a Dialogue System’. In Proceedings of the ICMI Workshop on Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data, Boulder, CO, USA [pdf].

12. David A. Robb, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, Atanas Laskov, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron, and Helen Hastie. 2018. "Keep Me in the Loop: Increasing Operator Situation Awareness through a Conversational Multimodal Interface". In 2018 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2018), October 16–20, 2018, Boulder, CO, USA [link]

13. Helen Hastie, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Atanas Laskov, and Pedro Patron. 2018. "MIRIAM: A Multimodal Interface for Explaining the Reasoning Behind Actions of Remote Autonomous Systems". In 2018 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI  2018), October 16–20, 2018, Boulder, CO, USA [link].

14. Ioannis Papaioannou, Christian Dondrup,  and Oliver Lemon, "Human-Robot Interaction Requires More Than Slot Filling -  Multi-Threaded Dialogue for Collaborative Tasks and Social Conversation" AI-MHRI workshop 2018 [pdf]

15. Andrea Vanzo, Jose Luis Part, Yanchao Yu, Daniele Nardi, Oliver Lemon, "Incrementally Learning Semantic Attributes through Dialogue Interaction", AAMAS 2018 [video]

16. Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek and Verena Rieser.  "RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation". In: 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), New Orleans, 2018. [arxiv]

17. Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser. "How Ethical are Conversational Systems? Insights from the #MeTooAlexa Corpus on Sexual Harassment". Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Santa Fe, New-Mexico, USA.

18. Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser. "#MeToo Alexa: How Conversational Systems Respond to Sexual Harassment". Second NAACL Workshop on Ethics in NLP. New Orleans, 2018.

19. Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser. "Sexual Harassment and Conversational AI". Second NAACL Workshop on Widening Natural Language Processing WiNLP, New Orleans, 2018.

20. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon, "An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning Visually Grounded Word Meanings" (demonstration system), Proc. Dialogue and Perception, 2018 

21. Kaska Porayska-Pomsta,  Alyssa Alcorn,  Katerina Avramides,  Sara Bernardini,  Mary-Ellen Foster,  Christopher Frauenberger,  Judith Good,  Karen Guldberg,  Wendy Keay-Bright,  Lila Kossyvaki,  Oliver Lemon,  Marilena Mademtzi,  Rachel Menzies,  Helen Pain,  Gnanathusharan Rajendran,  Annalu Waller,  Sam Wass,  Tim J. Smith.  "Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to support Autistic Children’s Social Skills",   ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(6), 2018 [pdf]

22. Phil Bartie, William Mackaness, Oliver Lemon, Tiphaine Dalmas, Srini Janarthanam, Robin Hill, Anna Dickinson, Xingkun Liu, "A Dialogue Based Mobile Virtual Assistant for Tourists: The SpaceBook Project", Journal of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, vol. 67: 110-123, 2018  [link] 

2017

1. Ioannis Papaioannou, Amanda Cercas Curry, Jose L. Part, Igor Shalyminov, Xinnuo Xu, Yanchao Yu, Ondrej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon. "An Ensemble Model with Ranking for Social Dialogue". In: NIPS workshop on Conversational AI: Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential, Long Beach, USA, 2017. (selected for oral presentation) [arxiv]

2. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Learning how to learn: an adaptive dialogue agent for incrementally learning visually grounded word meanings", Robo-NLP workshop at ACL 2017 ** BEST PAPER AWARD ** [pdf]

3. Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, and Verena Rieser. "The E2E Dataset: New Challenges For End-to-End Generation". 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), Saarbrücken, 2017. [arxiv pre-print] **NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD**

4. Ioannis Papaioannou, Amanda Cercas Curry, Jose L. Part, Igor Shalyminov, Xinnuo Xu, Yanchao Yu, Ondrej Dušek, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon. "Alana: Social Dialogue using an Ensemble Model and a Ranker trained on User Feedback". In: AWS re:INVENT, Las Vegas, 2017. [link]

5. Jose Part and Oliver Lemon, "Teaching robots through situated interactive dialogue and visual demonstrations", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2017 . [pdf]

6. Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Jekaterina Novikova, and Oliver Lemon, "Introducing a ROS Based Planning and Execution Framework for Human-Robot Interaction", Proc ICMI 2017

7. Arash Eshghi, Igor Shalyminov, and Oliver Lemon, "Bootstrapping incremental dialogue systems from minimal data: linguistic knowledge or machine learning?", Proceedings of EMNLP, 2017 [pdf] [arxiv]

8. Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, Amanda Cercas-Curry and Verena Rieser. "Why We Need New Evaluation Metrics for NLG". EMNLP, Copenhagen 2017. [arxiv pre-print]

9. Helen Hastie, Katrin Lohan, Amol Deshmokh and Ruth Aylett (2017). The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Tsukuba, Japan.

10. H.Hastie, Xingkun Liu and Pedro Patron (2017). Trust Triggers for Multimodal Command and Control Interfaces. In Proceedings of ICMI, Glasgow, UK

11. Hastie, H., Garcia, F. J. C., Robb, D.A., & Patron, P. (2017). MIRIAM: A Multimodal Chat-based Interface for Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of ICMI, Glasgow, UK

12. Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, and Verena Rieser. "Data-to-Text Generation Improves Decision-Making Under Uncertainty". IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Special Issue on Natural Language Generation with Computational Intelligence, 2017 Impact Factor: 3.65 

13. Eshghi, A. & Lemon, O. (2017). "Grammars as Mechanisms for Interaction: The Emergence of Language Games". Theoretical Linguistics, 43(1-2), pp. 129-133.  doi:10.1515/tl-2017-0010

14. Amanda Cercas Curry, Helen Hastie and Verena Rieser. A Review of Evaluation Techniques for Social Dialogue Systems. ICMI Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents. Glasgow 2017.

15. Ondrej Dusek and Verena Rieser. "Referenceless Quality Estimation for Natural Language Generation". 1st Workshop on Learning to Generate Natural Language (LGNL 2017), Sydney 2017. [arxiv pre-print]

16. Jekaterina Novikova, Ondrej Dusek, and Verena Rieser. "Data-driven Natural Language Generation: Paving the Road to Success". WiNLP workshop, Vancouver 2017. [arxiv pre-print]

17. Simon Keizer and Verena Rieser. "Learning Transferable Conversational Skills in a Multi-dimensional Framework". SemDial (Short Papers), Saarbrücken 2017.

18. Igor Shalyminov, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Challenging Neural Dialogue Models with Natural Data: Memory Networks Fail on Incremental Phenomena" Proc SemDial 2017  [pdf]  [arxiv]

19. Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu, Pedro Patron and Yvan Petillot.  "Talking Autonomous Vehicles: Automatic AUV Mission Analysis in Natural Language". In Proceedings of OCEANS'17 MTS/IEEE, Aberdeen, UK, 2017 

20. Arash Eshghi, Igor Shalyminov,  and Oliver Lemon, "Interactional Dynamics and the Emergence of Language Games",  FADLI 2017

21. Arash Eshghi, Igor Shalyminov,  and Oliver Lemon "Bootstrapping dialogue systems: using a semantic model of dialogue to generalise from minimal data", Logic and Machine Learning in Natural Language (LaML), 2017 

22. Simon Keizer, Markus Guhe, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Ioannis Efstathiou, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Mihai Dobre, Alex Lascarides, and Oliver Lemon, "Evaluating Persuasion Strategies and Deep Reinforcement Learning methods for Negotiation Dialogue agents", EACL 2017 [pdf]

23. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, Gregory Mills and Oliver Lemon, "The BURCHAK corpus: a Challenge Data Set for Interactive Learning of Visually Grounded Word Meanings", Sixth EACL workshop on Vision and Language, Valencia, 2017.

24. Dirk Wollherr, Verena Rieser, and Matthew Walter (Eds.) Special Issue on Spatial Reasoning & Interaction for Real-World Robotics. Advanced Robotics, volume 32, issue 5, 2017.

25. Christian Landsiedel, Verena Rieser, Matthew Walter, and Dirk Wollherr. A Review of Spatial Reasoning and Interaction for Real-World Robotics. Advanced Robotics, volume 32, issue 5, 2017

26. Ioannis Papaioannou and Oliver Lemon, ``Combining chat and task-based multimodal dialogue for more engaging HRI: a scalable method using Reinforcement Learning", HRI Pioneers, 2017 [pdf]

27. Helen Hastie, H Cuayáhuitl, N Dethlefs, S Keizer, X Liu,  Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Evaluation of Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems and Social Robotics,  Dialogues with Social Robots, 2017

28. Ruth Kempson, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Arash Eshghi, and Julian Hough. "Ellipsis in Dynamic Syntax". In Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis. Oxford University Press, 2017 

29.  Jekaterina Novikova, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou and Oliver Lemon, "Sympathy Begins with a Smile, Intelligence Begins with a Word: Use of Multimodal Features in Spoken Human-Robot Interaction", Robo-NLP workshop at ACL 2017 [pdf]

30.  Ioannis Papaioannou, Christian Dondrup,  Jekaterina Novikova, and Oliver Lemon, " Hybrid Chat and Task Dialogue for More Engaging HRI Using Reinforcement Learning", IEEE RO-MAN, 2017.

31. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "VOILA: An Optimised Dialogue Agent for Interactively Learning Visually-Grounded Word Meanings (demonstration system)", SIGDIAL 2017 

32. Jose Part and Oliver Lemon "Incremental Online Learning of Objects for Robots Operating in Real Environments", Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics ICDL-EPIROB,  2017

33. Oliver Lemon, "Challenges for data-driven dialogue systems", keynote speech at SIGDIAL / SemDial 2017 

2016 

1. Dimitris Kalatzis, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Bootstrapping incremental dialogue systems: using linguistic knowledge to learn from minimal data",  NIPS workshop on Learning Methods for Dialogue 2016 [arXiv]

2. Dimitra Gkatzia, Oliver Lemon, and Verena Rieser. "Natural Language Generation enhances human decision-making with uncertain information".  Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, 2016. [arXiv]

3. Jose Part and Oliver Lemon, "Incremental On-Line Learning of Object Classes using a Combination of Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Networks and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks",  Workshop on Bio-inspired Social Robot Learning in Home Scenarios,  International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016. [pdf]

4. H. Hastie, P. Dente, D. Kuster and A. Kappas (2016). "Sound Emblems for Affective Multimodal Output of a Robotic Tutor: A Perception Study". In Proceedings of ICMI. Tokyo, Japan [to appear, 2016] [link]

5. H. Hastie, X. Liu and P. Patron (2016), "A Demonstration of Multimodal Debrief Generation for AUVs, Post-mission and In-mission". In Proceedings of ICMI. Tokyo, Japan, 2016 [link]

6. H. Hastie (2016). "Emulating Empathy for Educational Robots". Machine Intelligence - Human-Like Computing (MI20-HLC), 2016 [pdf]

7. Oliver Lemon, Arash Eshghi, and Yanchao Yu, "Learning how to learn: grounding word meanings through conversation with humans", Machine Intelligence - Human-Like Computing (MI20-HLC), 2016 [pdf]

8. Mary Ellen Foster, Rachid Alami, Olli Gestranius, Oliver Lemon, Marketta Niemela, Jean-Marc Odobez,  and Amit Kumar Pandey, "The MuMMER project: Engaging human-robot interaction in real-world public spaces", Proc. Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016), in Social Robotics,  Lecture Notes in AI, Springer, 2016

9. Verena Rieser, "Women listen and men look? How to best communicate risk to support decision-making", Understanding Uncertainty, 2016. [link]

10. H.Hastie, M.Y. Lim, S. Janarthanam, A. Deshmukh, R.Aylett, M.E. Foster, and L Hall. "I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor". In Proceedings of AAMAS, 2016

11. Jekaterina Novikova, Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser. "Crowd-sourcing NLG Data: Pictures Elicit Better Data", The 9th International Natural Language Generation conference INLG, 2016. [arXiv]

12. Simon Keizer and Verena Rieser. "The MaDrIgAL project: Multi-Dimensional Interaction Management and Adaptive Learning",  International Workshop on Domain Adaptation for Dialog Agents (DADA) 2016.

13. Jekaterina Novikova and Verena Rieser. "The aNALoGuE Challenge: Non Aligned Language GEneration",  The 9th International Natural Language Generation conference INLG, 2016.

14. Phil Bartie, William Mackaness, Dimitra Gkatzia, Verena Rieser. "The REAL Corpus: A Crowd-Sourced Corpus of Human Generated and Evaluated Spatial References to Real-World Urban Scenes". 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2016. 

15. Eshrag Rafaee and Verena Rieser. "A Hybrid Approach for Determining Sentiment Intensity of Arabic Twitter Phrases". Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2016. (winner of SemEval'16 challenge task 7)

16. Dimitra Gkatzia, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. "How to Talk to Strangers: Minimising Regret when Generating Medical Reports for Unknown Users". IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Vancouver, Canada, 2016.

17. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Learning better trading dialogue policies by inferring opponent preferences", 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS),  2016

18. Helen Hastie, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Simon Keizer, Xingkun Liu. "Why bother? Is evaluation of NLG in an end-to-end Spoken Dialogue System worth it?" In Proceedings of IWSDS, 2016.

19. Heriberto Cuayahuitl, "SimpleDS: A Simple Deep Reinforcement Learning Dialogue System", International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), 2016 [arXiv]

20. Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Yanchao Yu, Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, "Information Density and Overlap in Spoken Dialogue", Computer Speech and Language, 2016 [link]

21. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Interactively learning visually grounded word meanings from a human tutor", Proc ACL workshop on Vision and Language, 2016 [pdf]

22. Yanchao Yu, Oliver Lemon and Arash Eshghi "Comparing dialogue strategies for learning grounded language from human tutors",  Proc SEMDIAL 2016 [pdf]

23. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "An Incremental Dialogue System for Learning  Visually Grounded Language" SEMDIAL 2016 [pdf]  (demonstration system)

24. Christian Dondrup and Marc Hanheide "Qualitative Constraints for Human-aware Robot Navigation using Velocity Costmaps", Proc RO-MAN, 2016 

25. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Transfer of Reinforcement Learning Policies: from Bilateral to Multilateral Negotiations", Proc ECAI 2016 [link]

26. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Incremental Generation of Visually Grounded Language in Situated Dialogue" (demonstration system), INLG 2016 [pdf]

27. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, and Oliver Lemon, "Training an adaptive dialogue policy for interactive learning of visually grounded word meanings", Proc. SIGDIAL 2016 [pdf]

28. Cuayáhuitl, H., Keizer, S., Lemon, O, "Learning to trade in strategic board games",  Communications in Computer and Information Science 614 pp. 83 - 95, 2016

29. Amanda Cercas Curry and Verena Rieser, "A Subjective Evaluation of Chatbot Engines. WOCHAT Shared Task Report", Second Workshop on Chatbots and Conversational Agent Technologies (WOCHAT), 2016.

2015

1. Mary Ellen Foster, Amol Deshmukh, Srini Janarthanam, Mei Yii Lim, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, ``How does affective robot feedback influence learner experience in a real-world treasure hunt?'' In Proceedings of First International Workshop on Educational Robots (WONDER), 2015 [pdf].

2. Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, "Strategic Dialogue Management via Deep Reinforcement Learning",  NIPS workshop on Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2015. [arXiv]

3. Aidan Jones, Dennis Küster, Christina Anne Basedow, Patrıcia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Serholt, Helen Hastie, Wolmet Barendregt, Arvid Kappas, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano. "Empathic robotic tutors for personalized learning: a multidisciplinary approach". Proceedings of ICSR, 2015 [proceedings online].

4. Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, "Learning Trading Negotiations Using Manually and Automatically Labelled Data", Proc. ICTAI 2015

5. Arash Eshghi, "DS-TTR: An incremental, semantic, contextual parser for dialogue", SemDial 2015 (demonstration system)  [proceedings online]

6. Dimitra Gkatzia, Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser, and Oliver Lemon, "A game-based setup for data collection and task-based evaluation of uncertain information presentation", ENLG 2015 (demonstration system)  [link]

7. Amanda Cercas Curry, Dimitra Gkatzia, and Verena Rieser. "Generating and Evaluating Landmark-based Navigation Instructions in Virtual Environments", 15th European Natural Language Generation 2015 workshop (ENLG 2015). Brighton, UK, 2015.

8. Dimitra Gkatzia, Verena Rieser, William Mackaness, and Phil Bartie, "From the Virtual to the Real World: Referring to Objects in Spatial Real-World Images", In: Proc. of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Learning (EMNLP 2015). Lisbon, Portugal, 2015.

9. Yanchao Yu, Arash Eshghi, Oliver Lemon "Comparing attribute classifiers for interactive language grounding", EMNLP workshop on Vision and Language, 2015 

10. Zhuoran Wang, Paul A. Crook, Wenshuo Tang, Oliver Lemon, "On the Linear Belief Compression of POMDPs:  A re-examination of current methods", arXiv.org,  preprint arXiv:1508.00986, 2015 [pdf]

11. Yanchao Yu, Oliver Lemon, and Arash Eshghi, "Interactive Learning through Dialogue for Multimodal Language Grounding", SemDial, 2015  [proceedings online]

12. Simon Keizer, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Trade Negotiation Policies in Strategic Conversation", SemDial, 2015  [proceedings online]

13. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Learning non-cooperative dialogue policies to beat opponent models: 'The good, the bad and the ugly' ", SemDial, 2015 

14. Heriberto Cuayahuitl et al (eds.) Special Issue on Speech and Language for Interactive Robotics. Computer Speech and Language, 34(1), 2015 [link]

15. Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, "Learning to Trade in Strategic Board Games", CGW workshop, IJCAI 2015

16. David McGookin, Dimitra Gkatzia and Helen Hastie. "Supporting Exploratory Navigation for Runners Through Geographic Area Classification with Crowd-Sourced Data". In proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI). Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015  [pdf].

17. Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser. "Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets". In: 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2015) Student Research Workshop 2015. bib

18. Arash Eshghi and Patrick G. T. Healey, "Collective Contexts in Conversation: Grounding by Proxy", Cognitive Science: A multi-disciplinary journal, 2015 [link]

19. Oliver Lemon and Arash Eshghi, "Deep Reinforcement Learning for constructing meaning by `babbling' ", International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), 2015 

20. Arash Eshghi, Christine Howes, Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Julian Hough, and Matthew Purver, "Feedback in Conversation as Incremental Semantic Update", International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), 2015 

21. Amol Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Tiago Ribeiro, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Mary Ellen Foster, Lee Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Eugenio Di Tullio and Pedro Sequeira, "An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application" (Demonstration). In Proceedings of AAMAS, 2015.

22. Zhuoran Wang and Helen Hastie, "A Prototype for AUV Post-mission Debrief Generation from Metadata" (Demonstration). In Proceedings of AAMAS,  2015

23. Zengtao Jiao, Zhuoran Wang, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang "On the Granularity of Dialog Strategies: Insights from Large-scale Analyses of Two Commercial Travel Information Spoken Dialog Systems", AAAI Spring Symposium on Turn-taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction, 2015 [video]

24. Tiago Ribeiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Helen Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano and Ana Paiva. "The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot", Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts Pages 285-285. [pdf] [video]

25. Dimitra Gkatzia and Helen Hastie (2015). "An Ensemble method for Content Selection for Data-to-text Systems". In the 1st International workshop on Data-to-text Generation (D2T). Edinburgh, UK (non-refereed). [pdf]

26. Verena Rieser and Dimitra Gkatzia, "Generation for Things Unknown: Accounting for First-Time Users and Hidden Scenes". 1st International Workshop on Data-to-Text Generation (D2T). Edinburgh, UK,  (non-refereed). 2015.

27. Nina Dethlefs  and Heriberto Cuayahuitl, "Hierarchical reinforcement learning for situated natural language generation", Natural Language Engineering, 21:3, 2015

2014

• 1. Zhuoran Wang, Hongliang Chen, Guanchun Wang, Hao Tian, Hua Wu & Haifeng Wang "Policy Learning for Domain Selection in an Extensible Multi-domain Spoken Dialogue System".  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2014 [pdf]

  2. Verena Rieser and Philippe Muller (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Edinburgh, 2014 [pdf]

  3. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Adaptive Generation in Dialogue Systems using Dynamic User Modeling", Computational Linguistics, 40:4, p. 883-920, 2014. [pdf]

  4. Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Zhuoran Wang, and Oliver Lemon, ``Machine Learning of Social Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction'', ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 4 (3), 2014  [link]

  5. Katrin S. Lohan, Sascha S. Griffiths, Alessandra Sciutti, Tim C. Partmann and Katharina J. Rohlfing, "Co-development of Manner and Path Concepts in Language, Action, and Eye-Gaze Behavior", Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014 [link]

  6. Paul Crook, Simon Keizer, Zhuoran Wang, Wenshuo Tang, and Oliver Lemon, "Real User Evaluation of a POMDP Spoken Dialogue System using Automatic Belief Compression", Computer Speech and Language, 28(4): 873-887, 2014 - Science Direct -   

  7. Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon and Simon Keizer, "Natural Language Generation as Incremental Planning Under Uncertainty: Adaptive Information Presentation for Statistical Dialogue Systems", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), Volume 22, Issue 5, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2014.2315271

  8. Dethlefs, N. ``Context-Sensitive Natural Language Generation: From Knowledge-Driven to Data-Driven Techniques''. Language and Linguistics Compass, 8: 99–115, 2014 doi: 10.1111/lnc3.12067 [pdf]

  9. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, "Task-Based Evaluation of Context-Sensitive Referring Expressions in Human-Robot Dialogue",  Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 1018-1034, 2014.  [link]

  10. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Learning non-cooperative dialogue behaviours",  SIGDIAL 2014 [pdf]

  11. Arash Eshghi and Oliver Lemon "How domain-general can we be? Learning incremental Dialogue Systems without Dialogue Acts",  SEMDIAL 2014

  12. Verena Rieser, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Andy Taylor, Yanchao Yu and Oliver Lemon, "SpeechCity: A Conversational City Guide based on Open Data", SEMDIAL 2014

  13. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Learning to manage risks in non-cooperative dialogues",  SEMDIAL 2014

  14. Wenshuo Tang, Zhuoran Wang, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Sample Efficient Learning of Strategic Dialogue Policies", SEMDIAL 2014

  15. Verena Rieser and Amanda Cercas Curry. "Towards Generating Route Instructions Under Uncertainty: A Corpus Study". SEMDIAL 2014

  16. Aimilios Vourliotakis, Ioannis Efstathiou and Verena Rieser. "Detecting Deception in Non-Cooperative Dialogue: A Smarter Adversary Cannot be Fooled That Easily". SEMDIAL 2014

  17. Callum Main, Zhuoran Wang and Verena Rieser. "Towards Deep Learning for Dialogue State: Tracking Using Restricted Bolzman Machines and Pretraining". SEMDIAL 2014

  18. Dimitra Gkatzia, Verena Rieser, Alexander McSporran, Alistair McGowan, Alasdair Mort and Michaela Dewar. "Generating Verbal Descriptions from Medical Sensor Data: A Corpus Study on User Preferences". Health Informatics Scotland (HIS'14). Glasgow, 2014.

  19. Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre K. Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Oliver Lemon, "Handling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction",  23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2014

  20. Simon Keizer, Pantelis Kastoris, Mary Ellen Foster, Amol Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon, "Evaluating a social multi-user interaction model using a Nao robot", 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2014

  21. Peter McKenna, Oliver Lemon, Martin Corley, Daniel Boa, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, "One step at a time: Multimodal interfaces and children's executive functioning",  4th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB) 2014 [link]

  22. Mary Ellen Foster, "Validating Attention Classifiers for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction", In Proceedings of the HRI 2014 Workshop on Attention Models in Robotics, 2014. 

  23. Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser, "An Arabic Twitter Corpus for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis". 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14). Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014.

  24. Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser. "Can We Read Emotions from a Smiley Face? Emoticon-based Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Twitter Feeds." LREC'14. 5th International Workshop on EMOTION, SOCIAL SIGNALS, SENTIMENT & LINKED OPEN DATA. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014.

  25. Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser. "Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Twitter Feeds with Limited Resources." LREC'14 Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools (OSACT). Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014.

  26. Eshrag Refaee and Verena Rieser. "Evaluating Distant Supervision for Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis on Arabic Twitter Feeds." In: Arabic NLP workshop (ANLP, with EMNLP-2014) Qatar, 2014.

  27. Mary Ellen Foster, Simon Keizer, and Oliver Lemon,``Action Selection Under Uncertainty for a Socially Aware Robot Bartender'', Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2014 [pdf]

  28. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Multi-threaded Interaction Management for Dynamic Spatial Applications'', EACL 2014 (Dialogue in Motion Workshop) [pdf]

  29. Mackaness, W.A. Bartie, P. Dalmas, T., Janarthanam, S., Lemon, O., Liu X., Webber B., "Talk the Walk and Walk the talk: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System for Route Following and City Learning'', Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, 2014.

  30. Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu (2014). "Training a Statistical Surface Realiser from Automatic Slot Labelling". In Proceedings of SLT.[pdf]

  31. Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Sofia Petisca, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva, "How do you imagine robots? Children's expectations about robots", In Proceedings of Child-Robot Interaction Workshop, Interaction Design and Children Conference 2014, Denmark. [pdf]

  32. Mary Ellen Foster, Mei Yii Lim, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett, "Affective Feedback for an Embodied Agent in a Real-world Treasure Hunt", In Proceedings of Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction '14, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2014, Turkey. [link]

  33. Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Helen Hastie, "A Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach for Semantic Slot Labelling". In Proceedings of ICMLA, 2014. [pdf]

  34. Mei Yii Lim, Mary Ellen Foster, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett,  "Let's go for a treasure hunt". In Proceedings of the Affective Agents Workshop, 14th International conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA),  Boston, USA, 2014 [pdf].

  35.  Mei Yii Lim, Mary Ellen Foster, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol Deshmukh, Helen Hastie and Ruth Aylett, "Studying the Effects of Affective Feedback in Embodied Tutors". Abstract paper in the Workshop on Semantics of Dialogue (SemDial), Edinburgh, UK, 2014 (non-refereed) [pdf].

  36. Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie and Oliver Lemon, " Multi-adaptive Natural Language Generation using Principal Component Regression". In Proceedings of International Natural Language Generation (INLG). 19-21 June, Philadelphia, USA, 2014. [pdf]

  37. Helen Hastie and Anja Belz,  "A Comparative Evaluation Framework for NLG in Interactive Systems". In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014. [pdf]

  38. Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen Hastie, Amol Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett,  "Towards a Serious Game Playing Empathic Robotic Tutorial Dialogue System". Proceedings of HRI 2014.[link]

  39. Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Cluster-Based Prediction of User Ratings for Stylistic Surface Realisation". In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014. [pdf]

  40. Dimitra Gkatzia, Helen Hastie, and Oliver Lemon,  "Finding middle ground? Multi-objective Natural Language Generation From Time-series Data". In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL). Gothenburg, Sweden. [pdf]

  41. Helen Hastie, Marie-aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, 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 and Yanchao Yu, "The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin". In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2014, 18-20 June, Philadelphia, USA, 2014. [pdf]

  42. Helen Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hughes Bouchard, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villa-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve Young and Yanchao Yu,  "Two Alternative Frameworks for Deploying Spoken Dialogue Systems to Mobile Platforms for Evaluation “in the Wild” ". Abstract paper in the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial). Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014 (non-refereed) [pdf].

  43. Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt, Iolanda Leite, Helen Hastie, Aidan Jones, Ana Paiva, Asimina Vasalou, Ginevra Castellano,  "Teachers’ Views on the Use of Empathic Robotic Tutors in the Classroom". In Proceedings of Ro-man'14 [pdf].

  44. Patricia Oliveira, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Ana Margarida Candeias, Amol Deshmukh, Tiago Ribeiro, Helen Hastie, Ana Paiva, Ruth Aylett,  "Towards Dialogue Dimensions for a Robotic Tutor in Collaborative Learning Scenarios". In Proceedings of Ro-man'14 [pdf].

  45. Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Helen Hastie, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Getting to Know Users: Accounting for the Variability in User Ratings". Abstract paper in the Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial). Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014 (non-refereed) [pdf].

  46. Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon, "Learning non-cooperative behaviour for dialogue agents" European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2014

  47. Oliver Lemon, Srini Janarthanam, and Verena Rieser, "Reinforcement Learning Approaches to NLG in Interactive Systems", in Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems, eds. S. Bangalore and A. Stent, Cambridge University Press, 2014 [link]

2009

1. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies", Journal of  Natural Language Engineering, 16 (1), 3-23, 2009.

2. Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Recent research advances in Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Knowledge Engineering Review, 24(4): 375-408, 2009.

3. Xingkun Liu and  Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "A Wizard-of-Oz interface to study Information Presentation strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", in Proc. First Europe-Asia Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology Workshop, 2009.

4. Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas, "User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems",  in proceedings European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2009 [Pdf]

5. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems",  in proceedings European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),  2009 [Pdf]

6. Kallirroi Georgila, Oliver Lemon,  James Henderson, Johanna Moore, "Automatic annotation of context and speech acts for dialogue corpora",  Journal of  Natural Language Engineering, 15(3): 315-353, 2009.

7. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Lexical Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Expressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems", European workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), 2009

8. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Wizard-of-Oz environment to study Referring Expression Generation in a Situated Spoken Dialogue Task", European workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), 2009

9. Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu and  Oliver Lemon, "Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the iPhone", Proc of SIGDIAL (demo paper), 2009. [Pdf]

10. Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Two-Tier User Simulation Model for Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies", Proc of SIGDIAL, 2009  [Pdf]

11. Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. Steinhauser and Gwendolyn E. Campbell. "Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue." Proc of SIGDIAL, 2009.

12. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Data-driven method for Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Automated Dialogue Systems: Maximising Expected Utility", Cognitive Science Conference, (Production of Referring Expressions workshop), 2009.

13. Jingying Chen and Oliver Lemon, "Robust Facial Detection and Tracking for Head Pose Estimation in a Novel Multimodal Interface for Social Skills Learning",  BMVA meeting on Facial Analysis and Animation, 2009.

14. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, and Alois Knoll. "Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System". In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, August 2009. acl:P09-1099 [ Bib | Pdf ]

15. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. "Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System". In Proceedings of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, California, July 2009. http://ijcai.org/papers09/Papers/IJCAI09-302.pdf [ Bib | Pdf ]

16. Paul A. Crook and Oliver Lemon, "Accurate Probability Estimation of Hypothesised User Acts for POMDP Approaches to Dialogue Management", in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Research Colloquium of the Special-interest group for Computational Linguistics in the UK and Ireland (CLUKI 2009), Dublin, April 2009. Abstract, pdf. 

17. Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Hill, Manabu Arai, and Mary Ellen Foster. "Accessibility and Attention in Situated Dialogue: Roles and Regulations". In Proceedings of the CogSci 2009 Workshop on Production of Referring Expressions (PRE-Cogsci 2009), Amsterdam, July 2009. [ Bib | Pdf ]

18. Diane Litman, Johanna Moore, Myroslava Dzikovska and Elaine Farrow. "Using Natural Language Processing to Analyze Tutorial Dialogue Corpora Across Domains and Modalities". In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2009).

19. Elaine Farrow and Myroslava Dzikovska. "Context-dependent regression testing for natural language processing", Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing, Boulder Colorado (USA). June 2009.

20. Gwendolyn E. Campbell, Natalie B. Steinhauser, Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Johanna D. Moore, Charles B. Callaway & Elaine Farrow. "The DeMAND coding scheme: A "common language" for representing and analyzing student discourse". In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-2009), poster session.

21. Cedric Boidin, Verena Rieser, Lonneke van der Plas, Oliver Lemon, Jonathan Chevelu, "Predicting How it Sounds: Re-Ranking Dialogue Prompts Based on TTS Quality for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems", Interspeech 2009

2008

1. James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, and Kallirroi Georgila, "Hybrid Reinforcement / Supervised Learning of Dialogue Policies from Fixed Datasets", Computational Linguistics 34(4), 2008 [pdf]

2. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Does this list contain what you were searching for? Learning adaptive dialogue strategies for Interactive Question Answering", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 15(1), 2008

3. Oliver Lemon, "Adaptive Natural Language Generation in Dialogue using Reinforcement Learning" , SEMdial 2008

4. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation", ACL 2008

5. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon "User simulations for online adaptation and knowledge-alignment in Troubleshooting dialogue systems", SEMdial 2008

6. Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon,"Using Dialogue Acts to learn better repair strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ICASSP 2008

7. Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel, Oliver Lemon, "Accurate Statistical Spoken Language Understanding from limited development resources", ICASSP 2008

8. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Simulation-based Learning of Optimal Multimodal Presentation Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz data", AISB MOG symposium 2008

9. Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, and Helen Hastie, "Advanced Dialogue Tools for Automatically Generating Information State Update Dialogue Systems from Business User Resources", (demonstration system), COLING 2008

10. James Henderson and Oliver Lemon, "Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management", ACL 2008

11. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation", Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2008.

12. Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon,"Using Dialogue Acts to learn better repair strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ICASSP 2008.

13. Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel, Oliver Lemon, "Accurate Statistical Spoken Language Understanding from limited development resources", ICASSP 2008.

14. Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Hill, and Mary Ellen Foster. "What Tunes Accessibility of Referring Expressions in Task-Related Dialogue?" In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2008), Washington, DC, July 2008. [ Bib | Pdf ]

15. Mary Ellen Foster. "Automated metrics that agree with human judgements on generated output for an embodied conversational agent". In Proceedings of the 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008), Salt Fork, Ohio, June 2008. acl:W08-1113 [ Bib | Pdf ]

16. Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, and Alois Knoll. "Using a Naive Bayes Classifier based on K-Nearest Neighbors with Distance Weighting for Static Hand-Gesture Recognition in a Human-Robot Dialog System". In Proceedings of the 13th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2008), Kish Island, Iran, March 2008. [ Bib ]

17. Paul A. Crook, Tim C. Lukins, James A. Heward and J. Douglas Armstrong,"Identifying semi-Invariant Features on Mouse Contours" Published in Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2008), Leeds, September 2008. Abstract, pdf.

18. James A. Heward, Paul A. Crook, Tim C. Lukins, and J.Douglas Armstrong, "iBehave - application of supervised machine learning to behaviour analysis" Published in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2008), Maastricht, August 2008.

19. Tim C. Lukins, Mike Dewar, Paul A. Crook, James A. Heward, and J.Douglas Armstrong, "Automatically determining active investigation in rodents using contour analysis" Published in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research (Measuring Behavior 2008), Maastricht, August 2008.

20. Mary Ellen Foster, Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin L. Hill, Markus Guhe, Jon Oberlander, and Alois Knoll. "The Roles of Haptic-Ostensive Referring Expressions in Cooperative, Task-based Human-Robot Dialogue". In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2008), Amsterdam, March 2008. doi:10.1145/1349822.1349861. [ Bib | Pdf ]

21. Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Müller, Markus Rickert, Alois Knoll, Wolfram Erlhagen, Estela Bicho, Nzoji Hipólito, and Luís Louro. "Combining Goal Inference and Natural-Language Dialogue for Human-Robot Joint Action." In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods and Applications (CIMA 2008) at ECAI 2008, Patras, Greece, July 2008. [ Bib | Pdf ]

22. Ellen Gurman Bard, Robin Hill, and Mary Ellen Foster. "Who Tunes Accessibility of Referring Expressions in Task-Related Dialogue?",   in Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Londial 2008), London, June 2008. [ Bib | Pdf ]

23. Mary Ellen Foster and Colin Matheson. "Following assembly plans in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue". In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Londial 2008), London, June 2008. [ Bib | Pdf ]

24. Myroslava Dzikovska, Gwendolyn Campbell, Charles Callaway, Natalie Steinhauser, Elaine Farrow, Johanna Moore, Leslie Butler and Colin Matheson. "Diagnosing natural language answers to support adaptive tutoring" In Proceedings of the 21st FLAIRS Conference, Miami, Florida, May 2008.

Earlier papers

1. Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, and Stanley Peters, ``Collaborative Activities and Multi-tasking in Dialogue Systems: Towards natural dialogue with robots", Traitement Automatique des Langues: TAL 43(2): 131-154,  2002 [pdf]

2. Oliver Lemon and Alexander Gruenstein, "Multithreaded context for robust conversational interfaces: context-sensitive speech recognition and interpretation of corrective fragments," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI), 11(3): 241-267, 2004 (1398 downloads from ACM, 4/11/14) [link]

3. Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Randolph Gullett, Alexis Battle, Laura Hiatt, and Stanley Peters. "Generation of collaborative spoken dialogue contributions in dynamic task environments". In Reva Freedman and Charles Callaway, editors, AAAI Spring Symposium on Natural Language Generation, 2003 [pdf]

4. Oliver Lemon, Alexander Gruenstein, Alexis Battle, and Stanley Peters, ``Multi-tasking and Collaborative Activities  in Dialogue Systems", SIGDIAL  2002 [pdf]