Selected Publications
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2012 - 2014
Localized Error Detection for Targeted Clarification in a Virtual Assistants S. Stoyanchev and M. Johnston In Review
AT&T: The Tag&Parse Approach to Semantic Parsing of Robot Spatial Commands S. Stoyanchev, H. Jung, J Chen, S. Bangalore SemEval 2014
Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access V. Ashok, Y. Borodin, S. Stoyanchev, I.V. Ramakrishnan 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2014
Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems A. Liu, R. Sloan, M.V. Then, S. Stoyanchev, J. Hirschberg, E. Shriberg 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2014
MVA: The Multimodal Virtual Assistant M. Johnston, J. Chen, P. Ehlen, H. Jung, J. Lieske, A. Reddy, E. Selfridge, S. Stoyanchev 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2014
Towards Natural Clarification Questions in Dialogue Systems S. Stoyanchev, A. Liu, J. Hirschberg The Questions, discourse and dialogue symposium at AISB, 2014
Modelling Human Clarification Strategies S. Stoyanchev, A. Liu, J. Hirschberg Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference
Localized Detection of Speech Recognition Errors S. Stoyanchev, P. Salletmayr, J. Yang, and J. Hirschberg, Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012 IEEE.
Clarification Questions with Feedback S. Stoyanchev, A. Liu, and J. Hirschberg, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Feedback Behaviors in Dialog, 2012
Concept Type Prediction and Responsive Adaptation in a Dialogue System S. Stoyanchev and A. Stent (2012), Dialogue and Discourse, Volume 3(1): 1-31.
2010 - 2011
Comparing Modes of Information Presentation: Text versus ECA and Single versus Two ECAs. S. Stoyanchev, P. Piwek, and H. Prendinger Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 14-17, 2011, pp. 377-383.
The CODA System for Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation S. Stoyanchev and P. Piwek Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 335-337, Portland, Oregon, June 17-18, 2011.
Data-oriented Monologue-to-Dialogue Generation. P. Piwek and S. Stoyanchev Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics:shortpapers, pages 242-247, Portland, Oregon, June 19-24, 2011.
Harvesting re-usable high-level rules for expository dialogue generation. S. Stoyanchev and P. Piwek 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG) 2010, Dublin, Ireland.
2008 - 2009
Concept Form Adaptation in Human-Computer Dialog S. Stoyanchev and A. Stent SIGDIAL, 2009
Lexical and Syntactic Adaptation and Their Impact in Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems S. Stoyanchev and A. Stent Proceedings of NAACL, 2009
Predicting Concept Types in User Corrections in Dialog S. Stoyanchev and A. Stent EACL Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken Language, 2009
Exact Phrases in Information Retrieval for Question Answering S. Stoyanchev, Y. C. Song, and W. Lahti In Proceedings of Information Retrieval for Question Answering workshop, Manchester, UK, August 2008 slides
Name-Aware Speech Recognition for Interactive Question Answering S. Stoyanchev, D. Hakkani-Tur, and G. Tur In the proceedings of ICASSP-2008, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008 poster
2007 and before
Measuring Adaptation Between Dialogs S. Stoyanchev, A. Stent SIGDIAL-2007, 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 1-2, 2007. slides
RavenCalendar: A Multimodal Dialog System for Managing a Personal Calendar S. Stenchikova, B. Mucha, S. Hoffman, A. Stent NAACL HLT Demonstration Program, pages 15-16, Rochester, New York, USA, April 2007
Dialog Systems for Surveys: the Rate-a-Course System A. Stent, S. Stenchikova, and M.Marge Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACL Workshop on Spoken Language Technology. SLT 2006.
QASR: Question Answering Using Semantic Roles for Speech Interface S. Stenchikova, D. Hakkani-Tur, and G. Tur Proceedings of ICSLP-Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
QASR: Spoken Question Answering Using Semantic Role Labeling. S. Stenchikova, D. Hakkani-Tur, G. Tur ASRU-2005, 9th biannual IEEE workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Cancun, Mexico, December, 2005 (Demonstration)
Unpublished
Thesis : Impact of Responsive and Directive Adaptation on Local Dialog Processing Svetlana Stoyanchev Defended May 2009.slides
Semantics and Question Answering: an approach to “why” questions. Svetlana Stenchikova, December 2006.
Annotation Scheme for Authored Dialogues Svetlana Stoyanchev and Paul Piwek Open University Technical Report 2010
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