Jason D. Williams

Orcid: 0000-0003-2460-9673

Affiliations:
  • Apple, Cupertino, CA, USA
  • Microsoft Research (former)


According to our database1, Jason D. Williams authored at least 70 papers between 2003 and 2023.

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2023
Intelligent Assistant Language Understanding On Device.
CoRR, 2023

Feedback Effect in User Interaction with Intelligent Assistants: Delayed Engagement, Adaption and Drop-out.
Proceedings of the Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2023

DELPHI: Data for Evaluating LLMs' Performance in Handling Controversial Issues.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023, 2023

2021
Noise Robust Named Entity Understanding for Voice Assistants.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Industry Papers, 2021

DEXTER: Deep Encoding of External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition in Virtual Assistants.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2021, Brno, Czechia, August 30, 2021

Generating Natural Questions from Images for Multimodal Assistants.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2021

2020
Noise-robust Named Entity Understanding for Virtual Assistants.
CoRR, 2020

Lattice-Based Improvements for Voice Triggering Using Graph Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Conversational Semantic Parsing for Dialog State Tracking.
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Improving Human-Labeled Data through Dynamic Automatic Conflict Resolution.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
Leveraging User Engagement Signals For Entity Labeling in a Virtual Assistant.
CoRR, 2019

NAIL: A General Interactive Fiction Agent.
CoRR, 2019

The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2).
CoRR, 2019

Active Learning for Domain Classification in a Commercial Spoken Personal Assistant.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

2018
Learning to Globally Edit Images with Textual Description.
CoRR, 2018

2017
Squares: Supporting Interactive Performance Analysis for Multiclass Classifiers.
IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., 2017

Demonstration of interactive teaching for end-to-end dialog control with hybrid code networks.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

Hybrid Code Networks: practical and efficient end-to-end dialog control with supervised and reinforcement learning.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review.
Dialogue Discourse, 2016

Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue State Tracking.
Dialogue Discourse, 2016

End-to-end LSTM-based dialog control optimized with supervised and reinforcement learning.
CoRR, 2016

Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control.
CoRR, 2016

The fifth dialog state tracking challenge.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2016

The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge.
Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

2015
Fast and easy language understanding for dialog systems with Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS).
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, 2015

2014
The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series.
AI Mag., 2014

Temporal supervised learning for inferring a dialog policy from example conversations.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

The third Dialog State Tracking Challenge.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2014

Web-style ranking and SLU combination for dialog state tracking.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013
POMDP-Based Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: A Review.
Proc. IEEE, 2013

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Multi-domain learning and generalization in dialog state tracking.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Continuously Predicting and Processing Barge-in During a Live Spoken Dialogue Task.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Recent advances in deep learning for speech research at Microsoft.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Trends in Speech and Language Processing [In the Spotlight].
IEEE Signal Process. Mag., 2012

Introduction to the Issue on Advances in Spoken Dialogue Systems and Mobile Interface.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2012

Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2012

A critical analysis of two statistical spoken dialog systems in public use.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Integrating Incremental Speech Recognition and POMDP-Based Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, 2012

A belief tracking challenge task for spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012

2011
An Empirical Evaluation of a Statistical Dialog System in Public Use.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 2011

Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 2011

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison of Live and Control Test Results.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 2011

Crowd-sourcing for difficult transcription of speech.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

2010
Demonstration of AT&T "Let's Go": A production-grade statistical spoken dialog system.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Incremental partition recombination for efficient tracking of multiple dialog states.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010

2009
Estimating Probability of Correctness for ASR N-Best Lists.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, 2009

Reinforcement learning for dialog management using least-squares Policy iteration and fast feature selection.
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009

Spoken dialogue systems: Challenges, and opportunities for research.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008
Evaluating user simulations with the Cramér-von Mises divergence.
Speech Commun., 2008

The best of both worlds: unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Exploiting the ASR n-best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Demonstration of a POMDP Voice Dialer.
Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System.
Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

2007
Scaling POMDPs for Spoken Dialog Management.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2007

Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2007

A method for evaluating and comparing user simulations: The Cramér-von Mises divergence.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007

Using particle filters to track dialogue state.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007

2006
Reports on the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Workshop Program.
AI Mag., 2006

2005
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with Continuous Observations for Dialogue Management.
Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2005

2004
A Comparison of Dialog Strategies for Call Routing.
Int. J. Speech Technol., 2004

Characterizing task-oriented dialog using a simulated ASR chanel.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

A framework for dialogue data collection with a simulated ASR channel.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004

2003
Using Wizard-of-Oz simulations to bootstrap Reinforcement - Learning based dialog management systems.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2003 Workshop, 2003

Two studies of open vs. directed dialog strategies in spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

Preference, perception, and task completion of open, menu-based, and directed prompts for call routing: a case study.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003


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