Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Orcid: 0000-0001-5246-2117

Affiliations:
  • Amazon Alexa AI, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA, USA
  • University of California, Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute, CA, USA
  • AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA
  • Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering, Ankara, Turkey (former, PhD 2000)


According to our database1, Dilek Hakkani-Tür authored at least 307 papers between 1996 and 2024.

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IEEE Fellow 2014, "For contributions to spoken language processing".

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2024
Overview of the Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC10.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024

Overview of the Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge: DSTC9.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024

ReSpAct: Harmonizing Reasoning, Speaking, and Acting Towards Building Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI Agents.
CoRR, 2024

From Context to Action: Analysis of the Impact of State Representation and Context on the Generalization of Multi-Turn Web Navigation Agents.
CoRR, 2024

Simulating User Agents for Embodied Conversational-AI.
CoRR, 2024

Infogent: An Agent-Based Framework for Web Information Aggregation.
CoRR, 2024

Unsupervised Human Preference Learning.
CoRR, 2024

Aligning LLMs with Individual Preferences via Interaction.
CoRR, 2024

Confidence Estimation for LLM-Based Dialogue State Tracking.
CoRR, 2024

Dialog Flow Induction for Constrainable LLM-Based Chatbots.
CoRR, 2024

Dialog Flow Induction for Constrainable LLM-Based Chatbots.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2023
Twenty-Five Years of Evolution in Speech and Language Processing.
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., July, 2023

Calibrate and Debias Layer-wise Sampling for Graph Convolutional Networks.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023

Alexa, play with robot: Introducing the First Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge on Embodied AI.
CoRR, 2023

Multimodal Contextualized Plan Prediction for Embodied Task Completion.
CoRR, 2023

Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI.
CoRR, 2023

"What do others think?": Task-Oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

Investigating the Representation of Open Domain Dialogue Context for Transformer Models.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

MERCY: Multiple Response Ranking Concurrently in Realistic Open-Domain Conversational Systems.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Conversational Text-to-SQL: An Odyssey into State-of-the-Art and Challenges Ahead.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

Role of Bias Terms in Dot-Product Attention.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

Identifying Entrainment in Task-Oriented Conversations.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2023

Multimodal Embodied Plan Prediction Augmented with Synthetic Embodied Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

DialGuide: Aligning Dialogue Model Behavior with Developer Guidelines.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023

CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Selective In-Context Data Augmentation for Intent Detection using Pointwise V-Information.
Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

PLACES: Prompting Language Models for Social Conversation Synthesis.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023

KILM: Knowledge Injection into Encoder-Decoder Language Models.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Towards Credible Human Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems Using Interactive Setup.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

2022
Towards Textual Out-of-Domain Detection Without In-Domain Labels.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2022

Weakly Supervised Data Augmentation Through Prompting for Dialogue Understanding.
CoRR, 2022

Alexa, Let's Work Together: Introducing the First Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge on Conversational Task Assistance.
CoRR, 2022

Alexa Teacher Model: Pretraining and Distilling Multi-Billion-Parameter Encoders for Natural Language Understanding Systems.
CoRR, 2022

Enhanced Knowledge Selection for Grounded Dialogues via Document Semantic Graphs.
CoRR, 2022

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop on Automatic Evaluation of Dialog: Research Directions and Challenges.
CoRR, 2022

Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems.
Comput. Linguistics, 2022

N-Best Hypotheses Reranking for Text-to-SQL Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2022

Knowledge-Grounded Conversational Data Augmentation with Generative Conversational Networks.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Improving Bot Response Contradiction Detection via Utterance Rewriting.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

A Systematic Evaluation of Response Selection for Open Domain Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Dialog Acts for Task Driven Embodied Agents.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Enhancing Knowledge Selection for Grounded Dialogues via Document Semantic Graphs.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Sketching as a Tool for Understanding and Accelerating Self-attention for Long Sequences.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Empowering parameter-efficient transfer learning by recognizing the kernel structure in self-attention.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, 2022


Inducer-tuning: Connecting Prefix-tuning and Adapter-tuning.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Analyzing the Limits of Self-Supervision in Handling Bias in Language.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

ALFRED-L: Investigating the Role of Language for Action Learning in Interactive Visual Environments.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

Think Before You Speak: Explicitly Generating Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

VISITRON: Visual Semantics-Aligned Interactively Trained Object-Navigator.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

What is wrong with you?: Leveraging User Sentiment for Automatic Dialog Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

On the Limits of Evaluating Embodied Agent Model Generalization Using Validation Sets.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, 2022

TEACh: Task-Driven Embodied Agents That Chat.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022

Attention Biasing and Context Augmentation for Zero-Shot Control of Encoder-Decoder Transformers for Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022

2021
User Response and Sentiment Prediction for Automatic Dialogue Evaluation.
CoRR, 2021

Think Before You Speak: Using Self-talk to Generate Implicit Commonsense Knowledge for Response Generation.
CoRR, 2021

Training Conversational Agents with Generative Conversational Networks.
CoRR, 2021

Rome was built in 1776: A Case Study on Factual Correctness in Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation.
CoRR, 2021

Style Control for Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation.
CoRR, 2021

Towards Zero and Few-shot Knowledge-seeking Turn Detection in Task-orientated Dialogue Systems.
CoRR, 2021

Zero-Shot Controlled Generation with Encoder-Decoder Transformers.
CoRR, 2021

Incorporating Commonsense Knowledge Graph in Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense Tasks.
CoRR, 2021

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access Track in DSTC9.
CoRR, 2021

Few Shot Dialogue State Tracking using Meta-learning.
CoRR, 2021

Warped Language Models for Noise Robust Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Go Beyond Plain Fine-Tuning: Improving Pretrained Models for Social Commonsense.
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Commonsense-Focused Dialogues for Response Generation: An Empirical Study.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

Generative Conversational Networks.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

Entity Resolution in Open-domain Conversations.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Papers, 2021

Alexa Conversations: An Extensible Data-driven Approach for Building Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Demonstrations, 2021

Understanding How People Rate Their Conversations.
Proceedings of the Conversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction, 2021

Correcting Automated and Manual Speech Transcription Errors Using Warped Language Models.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

Multi-Sentence Knowledge Selection in Open-Domain Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2021

Language Model is all You Need: Natural Language Understanding as Question Answering.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

Few Shot Dialogue State Tracking using Meta-learning.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021

"How Robust R U?": Evaluating Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems on Spoken Conversations.
Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2021

Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering, 2021

2020
Interactive Teaching for Conversational AI.
CoRR, 2020

Dialog Simulation with Realistic Variations for Training Goal-Oriented Conversational Systems.
CoRR, 2020

Example-Driven Intent Prediction with Observers.
CoRR, 2020

DialoGLUE: A Natural Language Understanding Benchmark for Task-Oriented Dialogue.
CoRR, 2020

Policy-Driven Neural Response Generation for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Systems.
CoRR, 2020

From Machine Reading Comprehension to Dialogue State Tracking: Bridging the Gap.
CoRR, 2020

ConvERSe'20: The WSDM 2020 Workshop on Conversational Systems for E-Commerce Recommendations and Search.
Proceedings of the WSDM '20: The Thirteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2020

Learning from Mistakes: Combining Ontologies via Self-Training for Dialogue Generation.
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access.
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

MultiWOZ 2.1: A Consolidated Multi-Domain Dialogue Dataset with State Corrections and State Tracking Baselines.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Are Neural Open-Domain Dialog Systems Robust to Speech Recognition Errors in the Dialog History? An Empirical Study.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

Policy-Driven Neural Response Generation for Knowledge-Grounded Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

Schema-Guided Natural Language Generation.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2020

MA-DST: Multi-Attention-Based Scalable Dialog State Tracking.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

MMM: Multi-Stage Multi-Task Learning for Multi-Choice Reading Comprehension.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

Just Ask: An Interactive Learning Framework for Vision and Language Navigation.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019
Inaugural Editorial Innovations in an Era of Ubiquitous Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2019

MultiWOZ 2.1: Multi-Domain Dialogue State Corrections and State Tracking Baselines.
CoRR, 2019

Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators.
CoRR, 2019

DeepCopy: Grounded Response Generation with Hierarchical Pointer Networks.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Dialog State Tracking: A Neural Reading Comprehension Approach.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Learning Question-Guided Video Representation for Multi-Turn Video Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL), 2019

Towards Universal Dialogue Act Tagging for Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Topical-Chat: Towards Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

HyST: A Hybrid Approach for Flexible and Accurate Dialogue State Tracking.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

Towards Coherent and Engaging Spoken Dialog Response Generation Using Automatic Conversation Evaluators.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

Natural Language Generation at Scale: A Case Study for Open Domain Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2019

Learning to Navigate the Web.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019

Robust Zero-Shot Cross-Domain Slot Filling with Example Values.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

Challenge discussion: advancing multimodal dialogue.
Proceedings of the Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces: Language Processing, Software, Commercialization, and Emerging Directions, 2019

2018
Advancing the State of the Art in Open Domain Dialog Systems through the Alexa Prize.
CoRR, 2018

Flexible and Scalable State Tracking Framework for Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
CoRR, 2018

FollowNet: Robot Navigation by Following Natural Language Directions with Deep Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR, 2018

Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play.
CoRR, 2018

Resolving Referring Expressions in Images with Labeled Elements.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

User Modeling for Task Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Multi-task Learning for Joint Language Understanding and Dialogue State Tracking.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Bootstrapping a Neural Conversational Agent with Dialogue Self-Play, Crowdsourcing and On-Line Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Dialogue Learning with Human Teaching and Feedback in End-to-End Trainable Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

Deep Learning based Situated Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

An Efficient Approach to Encoding Context for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

(Almost) Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2018

Deep Learning for Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the COLING 2018, 2018

2017
Spoken language understanding and interaction: machine learning for human-like conversational systems.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2017

Federated Control with Hierarchical Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR, 2017

End-to-End Optimization of Task-Oriented Dialogue Model with Deep Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR, 2017

Improving Frame Semantic Parsing with Hierarchical Dialogue Encoders.
CoRR, 2017

Sequential Dialogue Context Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

To Plan or not to Plan? Discourse Planning in Slot-Value Informed Sequence to Sequence Models for Language Generation.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Towards Zero-Shot Frame Semantic Parsing for Domain Scaling.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

End-to-end joint learning of natural language understanding and dialogue manager.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

Learning concepts through conversations in spoken dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2017

Scalable multi-domain dialogue state tracking.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2017

2016
Knowledge as a Teacher: Knowledge-Guided Structural Attention Networks.
CoRR, 2016

AIMU: Actionable Items for Meeting Understanding.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Multi-Domain Joint Semantic Frame Parsing Using Bi-Directional RNN-LSTM.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

End-to-End Memory Networks with Knowledge Carryover for Multi-Turn Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

A New Pre-Training Method for Training Deep Learning Models with Application to Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

Zero-shot learning of intent embeddings for expansion by convolutional deep structured semantic models.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2016

2015
Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Slot Filling in Spoken Language Understanding.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2015

Keynote: Graph-based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

Unsupervised relation detection using automatic alignment of query patterns extracted from knowledge graphs and query click logs.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Clustering novel intents in a conversational interaction system with semantic parsing.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Probabilistic features for connecting eye gaze to spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

Investigation of ensemble models for sequence learning.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2015

Detecting actionable items in meetings by convolutional deep structured semantic models.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

A universal model for flexible item selection in conversational dialogs.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

Enriching Word Embeddings Using Knowledge Graph for Semantic Tagging in Conversational Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2015

2014
Zero-Shot Learning and Clustering for Semantic Utterance Classification.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Representations, 2014

Eye gaze for understanding conversational speech.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Distributed open-domain conversational understanding framework with domain independent extractors.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Personal knowledge graph population from user utterances in conversational understanding.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Entity ranking for descriptive queries.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Deriving local relational surface forms from dependency-based entity embeddings for unsupervised spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Detecting out-of-domain utterances addressed to a virtual personal assistant.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Segmentation and disfluency removal for conversational speech translation.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Probabilistic enrichment of knowledge graph entities for relation detection in conversational understanding.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Rapidly building domain-specific entity-centric language models using semantic web knowledge sources.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

The Relation of Eye Gaze and Face Pose: Potential Impact on Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2014

Eye Gaze for Spoken Language Understanding in Multi-modal Conversational Interactions.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2014

Leveraging semantic web search and browse sessions for multi-turn spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Automatic characterization of speaking styles in educational videos.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

A variational Bayesian model for user intent detection.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Extending domain coverage of language understanding systems via intent transfer between domains using knowledge graphs and search query click logs.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces.
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2014

Understanding Spoken Language.
Proceedings of the Computing Handbook, 2014

2013
Open-Domain Multi-Document Summarization via Information Extraction: Challenges and Prospects.
Proceedings of the Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization, 2013

Joint Discriminative Decoding of Words and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2013

TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding Resources [Best of the Web].
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2013

Semantic parsing using word confusion networks with conditional random fields.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Leveraging knowledge graphs for web-scale unsupervised semantic parsing.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Multi-Modal Conversational Search and Browse.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech, 2013

A weakly-supervised approach for discovering new user intents from search query logs.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

IsNL? a discriminative approach to detect natural language like queries for conversational understanding.
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2013

Understanding computer-directed utterances in multi-user dialog systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Latent semantic modeling for slot filling in conversational understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Multi-style adaptive training for robust cross-lingual spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Using a knowledge graph and query click logs for unsupervised learning of relation detection.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Easy contextual intent prediction and slot detection.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging of Conversational Understanding using Markov Topic Regression.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Exploiting the Semantic Web for unsupervised spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Use of kernel deep convex networks and end-to-end learning for spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Statistical semantic interpretation modeling for spoken language understanding with enriched semantic features.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012

Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Learning When to Listen: Detecting System-Addressed Speech in Human-Human-Computer Dialog.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Towards deeper understanding: Deep convex networks for semantic utterance classification.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

Translating natural language utterances to search queries for SLU domain detection using query click logs.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

A Joint Model for Discovery of Aspects in Utterances.
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, July 8-14, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

2011
Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications [DSP Education].
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2011

Towards spoken clinical-question answering: evaluating and adapting automatic speech-recognition systems for spoken clinical questions.
J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2011

Towards Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding: Exploiting Query Click Logs for Slot Filling.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Learning Weighted Entity Lists from Web Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Bootstrapping Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs for New Domains.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Approximate Inference for Domain Detection in Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Sentence simplification for spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Exploiting query click logs for utterance domain detection in spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Concept-based classification for multi-document summarization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011

Employing web search query click logs for multi-domain spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

Exploiting distance based similarity in topic models for user intent detection.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

Discovery of Topically Coherent Sentences for Extractive Summarization.
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2011

2010
The CALO Meeting Assistant System.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2010

Multi-View Semi-Supervised Learning for Dialog Act Segmentation of Speech.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2010

Long story short - Global unsupervised models for keyphrase based meeting summarization.
Speech Commun., 2010

Cascaded model adaptation for dialog act segmentation and tagging.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2010

What is left to be understood in ATIS?
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Probabilistic model-based sentiment analysis of twitter messages.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Social role discovery from spoken language using dynamic Bayesian networks.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Domain adaptation and compensation for emotion detection.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Speech-based automated cognitive status assessment.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Extractive summarization using a latent variable model.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

Summarization- and learning-based approaches to information distillation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Evaluation of semantic role labeling and dependency parsing of automatic speech recognition output.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

Re-ranking Summaries Based on Cross-Document Information Extraction.
Proceedings of the Information Retrieval Technology, 2010

A Hybrid Hierarchical Model for Multi-Document Summarization.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009
Introduction to the Special Issue on Processing Morphologically Rich Languages.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2009

Generative and Discriminative Methods Using Morphological Information for Sentence Segmentation of Turkish.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2009

IXIR: A statistical information distillation system.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2009

The ICSI/UTD Summarization System at TAC 2009.
Proceedings of the Second Text Analysis Conference, 2009

Anchored Speech Recognition for Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

Classification-based strategies for combining multiple 5-w question answering systems.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Combining semantic and syntactic information sources for 5-w question answering.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Leveraging sentence weights in a concept-based optimization framework for extractive meeting summarization.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Clusterrank: a graph based method for meeting summarization.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Phrase and word level strategies for detecting appositions in speech.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Towards automatic argument diagramming of multiparity meetings.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

A global optimization framework for meeting summarization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Syntactically-informed models for comma prediction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2009

Integrating prosodic features in extractive meeting summarization.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

Any questions? Automatic question detection in meetings.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task.
Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories.
Proceedings of the Database Technologies: Concepts, 2009

2008
Speech segmentation and spoken document processing.
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2008

Spoken language understanding.
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2008

Bootstrapping spoken dialogue systems by exploiting reusable libraries.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2008

The ICSI Summarization System at TAC 2008.
Proceedings of the First Text Analysis Conference, 2008


A keyphrase based approach to interactive meeting summarization.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Efficient data selection for machine translation.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Efficient sentence segmentation using syntactic features.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2008

Role recognition for meeting participants: an approach based on lexical information and social network analysis.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimedia 2008, 2008

Cross-lingual sentence extraction for information distillation.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Packing the meeting summarization knapsack.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Unsupervised learning of edit parameters for matching name variants.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Name-aware speech recognition for interactive question answering.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

An iterative unsupervised learning method for information distillation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Punctuating speech for information extraction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2008

Multimedia Information Extraction Roadmap.
Proceedings of the Multimedia Information Extraction, 2008

2007
Cross-Genre Feature Comparisons for Spoken Sentence Segmentation.
Int. J. Semantic Comput., 2007

Automatic Labeling Inconsistencies Detection and Correction for Sentence Unit Segmentation in Conversational Speech.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction , 2007

Improving speech translation with automatic boundary prediction.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

Exploiting information extraction annotations for document retrieval in distillation tasks.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

Co-training using prosodic and lexical information for sentence segmentation.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

Cross-linguistic analysis of prosodic features for sentence segmentation.
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2007

Entropy Based Classifier Combination for Sentence Segmentation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Statistical Sentence Extraction for Information Distillation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007

Integrating several annotation layers for statistical information distillation.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007

2006
An active approach to spoken language processing.
ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2006

The AT&T spoken language understanding system.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006

Introduction to the Special Issue on Spoken Language Understanding in Conversational Systems.
Speech Commun., 2006

Beyond ASR 1-best: Using word confusion networks in spoken language understanding.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2006

Natural language watermarking: Challenges in building a practical system.
Proceedings of the Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents VIII, 2006

Model Adaptation for Dialog Act Tagging.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Impact of Automatic Comma Prediction on POS/Name Tagging of speech.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Model Adaptation for Sentence Segmentation from speech.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Let's Discoh: Collecting an Annotated Open Corpuswith Dialogue Acts and Reward signals for Natural Language Helpdesks.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Text Based Dialog Act Classification for Multiparty Meetings.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction, 2006

The ICSI+ multilingual sentence segmentation system.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

QASR: question answering using semantic roles for speech interface.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Bootstrapping Language Models for Spoken Dialog Systems From The World Wide Web.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

Webtalk: Towards Automatically Building Spoken Dialog Systems Through Miningwebsites.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006

2005
Active learning: theory and applications to automatic speech recognition.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2005

Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding.
Speech Commun., 2005

The Workshops at the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
AI Mag., 2005

Grounding Emotions in Human-Machine Conversational Systems.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 2005

Using context to improve emotion detection in spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Automated wizard-of-oz for spoken dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

Error Prediction in Spoken Dialog: From Signal-to-Noise Ratio to Semantic Confidence Scores.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005

The AT&T WATSON Speech Recognizer.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005

2004
Detecting and extracting named entities from spontaneous speech in a mixed-initiative spoken dialogue context: How May I Help You?<sup>sm, tm</sup>.
Speech Commun., 2004

Bootstrapping Spoken Dialog Systems with Data Reuse.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2004 Workshop, The 5th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, April 30, 2004

Extending boosting for call classification using word confusion networks.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

Unsupervised and active learning in automatic speech recognition for call classification.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004

Mining Spoken Dialogue Corpora for System Evaluation and Modelin.
Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , 2004

2003
A statistical information extraction system for Turkish.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2003

Active labeling for spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Exploiting unlabeled utterances for spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Active and unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Multi-channel sentence classification for spoken dialogue language modeling.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Active learning for spoken language understanding.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

A general algorithm for word graph matrix decomposition.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003

2002
Statistical Morphological Disambiguation for Agglutinative Languages.
Comput. Humanit., 2002

Improving spoken language understanding using word confusion networks.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Named entity extraction from spontaneous speech in how may i help you?
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002

Active learning for automatic speech recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002

2001
Integrating Prosodic and Lexical Cues for Automatic Topic Segmentation.
Comput. Linguistics, 2001

2000
Statistical modeling of agglutinative languages (Sondan eklemeli dillerin istatistiksel modellenmesi)
PhD thesis, 2000

Prosody-based automatic segmentation of speech into sentences and topics.
Speech Commun., 2000

1999
Modeling the prosody of hidden events for improved word recognition.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Combining words and prosody for information extraction from speech.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998
Tactical generation in a free constituent order language.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 1998

Automatic detection of sentence boundaries and disfluencies based on recognized words.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998

An English-to-Turkish Interlingual MT System.
Proceedings of the Machine Translation and the Information Soup, 1998

1996
Design and Implementation of a Tactical Generator for Turkish, a Free Constituent Order Language
CoRR, 1996

Tactical Generation in a Free Constituent Order Language.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Natural Language Generation Workshop, 1996


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