Blaise Thomson

According to our database, Blaise Thomson authored at least 52 papers between 2007 and 2017.

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2017

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking.

Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016

Counter-fitting Word Vectors to Linguistic Constraints.

Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, Pei-Hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016

2015

Multi-domain Dialog State Tracking using Recurrent Neural Networks.

Nikola Mrksic, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Pei-hao Su, David Vandyke, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2015

2014

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series.

Jason D. Williams, Matthew Henderson, Antoine Raux, Blaise Thomson, Alan W. Black, Deepak Ramachandran

AI Mag., 2014

Robust dialog state tracking using delexicalised recurrent neural networks and unsupervised adaptation.

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge.

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks.

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge.

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

The PARLANCE mobile application for interactive search in English and Mandarin.

Helen F. Hastie, Marie-Aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Catherine Breslin, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, 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 Villazón-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve J. Young, Yanchao Yu

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

Evaluation of Statistical POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems in Noisy Environments.

Steve J. Young, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Eli Tzirkel-Hancock

Proceedings of the Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, 2014

Incremental on-line adaptation of POMDP-based dialogue managers to extended domains.

Milica Gasic, Dongho Kim, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Dialogue context sensitive HMM-based speech synthesis.

Pirros Tsiakoulis, Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013

POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review.

Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams

Proc. IEEE, 2013

Deep Neural Network Approach for the Dialog State Tracking Challenge.

Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

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

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

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains.

Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

On-line policy optimisation of Bayesian spoken dialogue systems via human interaction.

Milica Gasic, Catherine Breslin, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Continuous asr for flexible incremental dialogue.

Catherine Breslin, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Dongho Kim, Martin Szummer, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012

A hierarchical model for ordinal matrix factorization.

Ulrich Paquet, Blaise Thomson, Ole Winther

Stat. Comput., 2012

Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems.

Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Comput. Speech Lang., 2012

N-best error simulation for training spoken dialogue systems.

Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Discriminative spoken language understanding using word confusion networks.

Matthew Henderson, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Policy optimisation of POMDP-based dialogue systems without state space compression.

Milica Gasic, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

The Effect of Cognitive Load on a Statistical Dialogue System.

Milica Gasic, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Eli Tzirkel, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, 2012

2011

Natural actor and belief critic: Reinforcement algorithm for learning parameters of dialogue systems modelled as POMDPs.

Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2011

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results.

Alan W. Black, Susanne Burger, Alistair Conkie, Helen Wright Hastie, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon, Nicolas Merigaud, Gabriel Parent, Gabriel Schubiner, Blaise Thomson, Jason D. Williams, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young, Maxine Eskénazi

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 2011

Real User Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

On-line policy optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human subjects.

Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

2010

Statistical methods for spoken dialogue management.

Blaise Roger Marie Thomson

PhD thesis, 2010

The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management.

Steve J. Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu

Comput. Speech Lang., 2010

Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems.

Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Comput. Speech Lang., 2010

From discontinuous to continuous F0 modelling in HMM-based speech synthesis.

Kai Yu, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010

Bayesian dialogue system for the Let's Go Spoken Dialogue Challenge.

Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, François Mairesse, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Parameter learning for POMDP spoken dialogue models.

Blaise Thomson, Filip Jurcícek, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation.

Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference, 2010

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

Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference, 2010

Natural belief-critic: a reinforcement algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems.

Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

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

François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009

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

Fabrice Lefèvre, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, 2009

Transformation-based learning for semantic parsing.

Filip Jurcícek, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Probablistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in HMM based speech synthesis.

Kai Yu, Tomoki Toda, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Spoken language understanding from unaligned data using discriminative classification models.

François Mairesse, Milica Gasic, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Back-off action selection in summary space-based POMDP dialogue systems.

Milica Gasic, Fabrice Lefèvre, Filip Jurcícek, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008

Modelling user behaviour in the HIS-POMDP dialogue manager.

Simon Keizer, Milica Gasic, François Mairesse, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise.

Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2008 Workshop, 2008

Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses.

Blaise Thomson, Kai Yu, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

User study of the Bayesian update of dialogue state approach to dialogue management.

Blaise Thomson, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, François Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Kai Yu, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Bayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems.

Blaise Thomson, Jost Schatzmann, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

2007

Statistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda.

Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2007

The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System.

Steve J. Young, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System.

Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

Error simulation for training statistical dialogue systems.

Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Steve J. Young

Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007