BOOK: Oliver Lemon and Olivier Pietquin (eds.) "Data-driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces", Springer, 2012 [buy from Amazon][buy from Springer]
Oliver Lemon, "Conversational Interfaces", in Data-driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces, Springer, 2012
Oliver Lemon, Srini Janarthanam, and Verena Rieser, "Statistical Approaches to Adaptive Natural Language Generation", in Data-driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces, Springer, 2012
Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Developing Dialogue Managers from Limited amonts of Data", in Data-driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces, Springer, 2012
Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon. "Learning and Evaluation of Dialogue Strategies for new Applications: Empirical Methods for Optimization from Small Data Sets". In: Computational Linguistics, 37(1), 2011.
Alan W Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve Young and Maxine Eskenazi, "Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results", SIGDIAL 2011
Alyssa Alcorn, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim Smith, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Christopher Frauenberger, Sara Bernardini, ``Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with Autism'', Artificial Intelligence and Education, 2011
Verena Rieser, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, and Xingkun Liu, "Adaptive Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with human subjects", ENLG 2011
K. Porayska-Pomsta, C. Frauenberger, H. Pain, G. Rajendran, T. Smith, R. Menzies, M. E. Foster, A. Alcorn, S. Wass, S. Bernardini, K. Avramides, W. Keay-Bright, J. Chen, A. Waller, K. Guldberg, J. Good, and O. Lemon, "Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach", Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, to appear
Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning to Adapt to Unknown Users: Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems", ACL 2010
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, and Xingkun Liu, "Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ACL 2010
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira, "Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system", Computer Speech and Language, 24(2):395-429, 2010.
Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Sara Bernardini, Jingying Chen, Christopher Frauenberger, Oliver Lemon, and Kaska Porayska-Pomsta. "Supporting Children's Social Communication Skills through Interactive Narratives with Virtual Characters". In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy, October 2010.
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, 24(4): 375-408, 2009.
Kallirroi Georgila, Oliver Lemon, James Henderson, Johanna Moore, "Automatic annotation of context and speech acts for dialogue corpora", Journal of Natural Language Engineering , 2009
Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Dialogue Strategies", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 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
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.
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.
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 . [pdf]
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, " `Build your own' spoken dialogue systems: automatically generating ISU 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
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.
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.
Publications by year: (since 2011: no longer maintained - please see Google scholar!)
2010
Oliver Lemon, "Learning what to say and how to say it: joint optimization of spoken dialogue management and Natural Language Generation", Computer Speech and Language
Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning to Adapt to Unknown Users: Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems", ACL 2010
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon and Xingkun Liu, "Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ACL 2010
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira, "Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system", Computer Speech and Language, 24(2):395-429, 2010.
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, 24(4): 375-408, 2009.
Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Clarification Strategies for use in Dialogue Systems", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 16 (1), 3-23, 2009.
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
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, " `Build your own' spoken dialogue systems: automatically generating ISU dialogue systems from business user resources", (demonstration system), COLING 2008
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.
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