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Machine Learning and Multimodal Interfaces:
  • Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas, "User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009 
  •  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

  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Recent research advances in Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Knowledge Engineering Review, (accepted for publication, to appear)
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Dialogue Strategies", Journal of  Natural Language Engineering (accepted for publication, to appear)
  •  Kallirroi Georgila, Oliver Lemon,  James Henderson, Johanna Moore, "Automatic annotation of context and speech acts for dialogue corpora",  Journal of  Natural Language Engineering (accepted for publication, to appear)
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Lexical Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Expressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ENLG 2009
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon "A Wizard-of-Oz environment to study Referring Expression Generation in a Situated Spoken Dialogue Task", ENLG 2009
  •  Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies for Spoken Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement Learning"  Proc. SEMdial  2009 
  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon,"Using Dialogue Acts to learn better repair strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ICASSP 2008
  • Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel, Oliver Lemon, "Accurate Statistical Spoken Language Understanding from limited development resources", ICASSP 2008
  • Kalliroi Georgila, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, "User Simulation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Learning and Evaluation", Interspeech 2006
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Cluster-based User Simulations for Learning Dialogue Strategies", Interspeech 2006
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies" ACL 2006.
  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features" ACL 2006.
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Using Logistic Regression to initialise Reinforcement-Learning-based dialogue systems", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
  • Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira, "Reinforcement Learning of dialogue strategies with Hierarchical Abstract Machines", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Cluster-based User Simulations for Learning Dialogue Strategies", Interspeech 2005

Context-sensitive speech recognition in multimodal dialogue systems:

  • Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas, "User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009.
  • Oliver Lemon, "Context-sensitive speech recognition in ISU dialogue systems: results for the grammar switching approach", SEMDIAL 2004.


Multimodal Generation and Natural Language Generation (NLG):

  • Oliver Lemon, "Adaptive Natural Language Generation in Dialogue using Reinforcement Learning." SEMdial 2008
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009.
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Lexical Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Expressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ENLG 2009 
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Wizard-of-Oz environment to study Referring Expression Generation in a Situated Spoken Dialogue Task", ENLG 2009 
  • 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
  • Beth-Ann Hockey, Oliver Lemon, et al., "Targeted Help for Spoken Dialogue Systems: intelligent feedback improves naive users' performance," in proceedings of EACL 2003


Development environments for multimodal dialogue systems:

  • 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
  • Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Daniel Shapiro, and Carl Tollander "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Policies in a development environment for dialogue systems: REALL-DUDE", 10th SemDial Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, (demonstration systems), BRANDIAL 2006

Annotation standards/frameworks for multimodal dialogue corpora:

  • The TALK project DTD see TALK project Deliverable D4.1, 2005
  • Kallirroi Georgila and Oliver Lemon and James Henderson, "Automatic annotation of COMMUNICATOR dialogue data for learning dialogue strategies and user simulations", 9th SEMDIAL, DIALOR, 2005

Multimodal Dialogue management:


Other Journal Publications (logic and multimodal reasoning, robotics):

  • Oliver Lemon, Maarten de Rijke, and Atsushi Shimojima. "Efficacy of Diagrammatic Reasoning." (Editorial) Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, 8(3):265-271, 1999.
  • Oliver Lemon and Ian Pratt, "Complete Logics for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning," Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 9:5-21, 1998.
  • Oliver Lemon and Ulrich Nehmzow, "The scientific status of mobile robotics: multiple-resolution mapping as a case study," Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 24(1-2): 5-15, 1998.
  • Oliver Lemon and Ian Pratt, "Logics for Geographic Information," Journal of Geographical Systems, 1(1): 75-90, 1999.

Other publications (dialogue, spatial logic, multimodal reasoning):

  • Oliver Lemon and Ian Pratt, "Logical and Diagrammatic Reasoning", in Proc. the 19th annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 430-435. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1997.
.... and see my publications page for other earlier publications

Publications by year:

2009

  • Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas, "User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009
  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Recent research advances in Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems", Knowledge Engineering Review, (accepted for publication, to appear)
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies for use in Dialogue Systems", Journal of  Natural Language Engineering (accepted for publication, to appear)
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Lexical Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Expressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ENLG 2009
  • Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Wizard-of-Oz environment to study Referring Expression Generation in a Situated Spoken Dialogue Task", ENLG 2009

2008

  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon,"Using Dialogue Acts to learn better repair strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ICASSP 2008
  • Ivan Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel, Oliver Lemon, "Accurate Statistical Spoken Language Understanding from limited development resources", ICASSP 2008
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Simulation-based Learning of Optimal Multimodal Presentation Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz data", AISB MOG symposium 2008
  • 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


2007

  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning dialogue strategies for interactive database search" Interspeech 2007.
  • Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, and Hiroshi Shimodaira "Hierarchical Dialogue Optimization Using Semi-Markov Decision Processes" Interspeech 2007.

2006

  • Kalliroi Georgila, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, "User Simulation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Learning and Evaluation", Interspeech 2006
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Cluster-based User Simulations for Learning Dialogue Strategies", Interspeech 2006
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Using Machine Learning to Explore Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies" ACL 2006.
  • Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Learning More Effective Dialogue Strategies Using Limited Dialogue Move Features" ACL 2006.
  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Using Logistic Regression to initialise Reinforcement-Learning-based dialogue systems", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
  • Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira, "Reinforcement Learning of dialogue strategies with Hierarchical Abstract Machines", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
  • G. Andreani, G. Di Fabbrizio, M. Gilbert, D. Gillick, D. Hakkani-Tur, Oliver Lemon, "Let's DiSCoH: collecting an annotated open corpus with dialogue acts and reward signals for natural language helpdesks", IEEE/ACL Spoken Language Technology, 2006.
  • Dave Toney, Johanna Moore, Oliver Lemon, "Developing Conversational Interfaces with XCS", International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS) 2006
  • Dave Toney, Johanna Moore, Oliver Lemon, "Evolving optimal inspectable strategies for spoken dialogue systems", HLT-NAACL 2006

2005

  • Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Cluster-based User Simulations for Learning Dialogue Strategies", Interspeech 2005

2004:

.... and see my publications page for other earlier publications