Maxine Eskénazi

Orcid: 0009-0009-6357-104X

Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute


According to our database1, Maxine Eskénazi authored at least 144 papers between 1983 and 2024.

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

2023
Understanding the Effectiveness of Very Large Language Models on Dialog Evaluation.
CoRR, 2023

2022
Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuning.
CoRR, 2022

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

LAD: Language Models as Data for Zero-Shot Dialog.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

The DialPort tools.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

DialCrowd 2.0: A Quality-Focused Dialog System Crowdsourcing Toolkit.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

InstructDial: Improving Zero and Few-shot Generalization in Dialogue through Instruction Tuning.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

2021
A Survey of NLP-Related Crowdsourcing HITs: what works and what does not.
CoRR, 2021

A Comprehensive Assessment of Dialog Evaluation Metrics.
CoRR, 2021

Towards Automatic Route Description Unification in Spoken Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2021

Schema-Guided Paradigm for Zero-Shot Dialog.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

2020
The BioVisualSpeech Corpus of Words with Sibilants for Speech Therapy Games Development.
Inf., 2020

Report from the NSF Future Directions Workshop, Toward User-Oriented Agents: Research Directions and Challenges.
CoRR, 2020

Unsupervised Evaluation of Interactive Dialog with DialoGPT.
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

Detection of Voicing and Place of Articulation of Fricatives with Deep Learning in a Virtual Speech and Language Therapy Tutor.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

"None of the Above": Measure Uncertainty in Dialog Response Retrieval.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020

2019
CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors.
CoRR, 2019

Beyond Turing: Intelligent Agents Centered on the User.
CoRR, 2019

Structured Fusion Networks for Dialog.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Investigating Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems With Human Generated Multiple References.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Rethinking Action Spaces for Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Dialog Agents with Latent Variable Models.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Multi-Granularity Representations of Dialog.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

BeamSeg: A Joint Model for Multi-Document Segmentation and Topic Identification.
Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2019

Pretraining Methods for Dialog Context Representation Learning.
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018
MUSED: A multimedia multi-document dataset for topic segmentation.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2018

Multimodal Polynomial Fusion for Detecting Driver Distraction.
CoRR, 2018

Context-Aware Dialog Re-Ranking for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2018

Zero-Shot Dialog Generation with Cross-Domain Latent Actions.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

DialCrowd: A toolkit for easy dialog system assessment.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Multimodal Polynomial Fusion for Detecting Driver Distraction.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2018

Efficient Navigation in Learning Materials: An Empirical Study on the Linking Process.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 19th International Conference, 2018

Unsupervised Discrete Sentence Representation Learning for Interpretable Neural Dialog Generation.
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017
Generative Encoder-Decoder Models for Task-Oriented Spoken Dialog Systems with Chatting Capability.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

Explainable Entity-based Recommendations with Knowledge Graphs.
Proceedings of the Poster Track of the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2017), 2017

An Assessment Framework for DialPort.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

Learning Discourse-level Diversity for Neural Dialog Models using Conditional Variational Autoencoders.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

Integrating Verbal and Nonvebval Input into a Dynamic Response Spoken Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2016
A Readability Analysis of Campaign Speeches from the 2016 US Presidential Campaign.
CoRR, 2016

Graph-Community Detection for Cross-Document Topic Segment Relationship Identification.
CoRR, 2016

DialPort: Connecting the spoken dialog research community to real user data.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2016

Towards End-to-End Learning for Dialog State Tracking and Management using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference, 2016

Multi-document Topic Segmentation Using Bayesian Estimation.
Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2016

metaTED: a Corpus of Metadiscourse for Spoken Language.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, 2016

Robust scoring of voice exercises in computer-based speech therapy systems.
Proceedings of the 24th European Signal Processing Conference, 2016

Predicting the Relative Difficulty of Single Sentences With and Without Surrounding Context.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

2015
Measuring the impact of translation on the accuracy and fluency of vocabulary acquisition of English.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2015

From rule-based to data-driven lexical entrainment models in spoken dialog systems.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2015

An Incremental Turn-Taking Model with Active System Barge-in for Spoken Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

The Real Challenge 2014: Progress and Prospects.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

Lexical Level Distribution of Metadiscourse in Spoken Language.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Linking Computational Models of Lexical, 2015

2014
Toward Automatic Classification of Metadiscourse.
Proceedings of the Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2014

Incremental dialog processing in a task-oriented dialog.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014

Tracking Human Process Using Crowd Collaboration to Enrich Data.
Proceedings of the Seconf AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 2014

Cross-Lingual Information to the Rescue in Keyword Extraction.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

An Open Corpus of Everyday Documents for Simplification Tasks.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations, 2014

2013
ASR-based exercises for listening comprehension practice in European Portuguese.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2013

Self-Assessment in the REAP Tutor: Knowledge, Interest, Motivation, & Learning.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2013

POLLI: a handheld-based aid for non-native student presentations.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2013

Recipe For Building Robust Spoken Dialog State Trackers: Dialog State Tracking Challenge System Description.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

Automated two-way entrainment to improve spoken dialog system performance.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012
Optimizing the turn-taking behavior of task-oriented spoken dialog systems.
ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2012

Incremental Sparse Bayesian Method for Online Dialog Strategy Learning.
IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., 2012

POMDP-based Let's Go system for spoken dialog challenge.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), 2012

Exploiting Machine-Transcribed Dialog Corpus to Improve Multiple Dialog States Tracking Methods.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, 2012

An Unsupervised Approach to User Simulation: Toward Self-Improving Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2012 Conference, 2012

Incorporating ASR Information in Spoken Dialog System Confidence Score.
Proceedings of the Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 2012

Automatic Generation of Cloze Question Stems.
Proceedings of the Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 2012

Future Directions in Spoken Dialog Systems: A Community of Possibilities.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012

Real Users and Real Dialog Systems: The Hard Challenge for SDS.
Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

Addressing Confusions in Spoken Language in ESL Pronunciation Tutors.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

Prosodic Entrainment in an Information-Driven Dialog System.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2012

2011
Generation of educational content through gameplay.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

Identifying confusable contexts for automatic generation of activities in second language pronunciation training.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

Listening comprehension games for portuguese: exploring the best features.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2011

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

Speaking to the Crowd: Looking at Past Achievements in Using Crowdsourcing for Speech and Predicting Future Challenges.
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011

Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2011

Predicting Change in Student Motivation by Measuring Cohesion between Tutor and Student.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2011

Effect of Word Complexity on L2 Vocabulary Learning.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2011

Towards choosing better primes for spoken dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2011

Self-assessment of Motivation: Explicit and Implicit Indicators in L2 Vocabulary Learning.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 15th International Conference, 2011

2010
Personalization of Reading Passages Improves Vocabulary Acquisition.
Int. J. Artif. Intell. Educ., 2010

Toward better crowdsourced transcription: Transcription of a year of the Let's Go Bus Information System data.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Multimedia learning materials.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2010

Clustering dictionary definitions using Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Proceedings of the 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, 2010

Lexical entrainment of real users in the let's go spoken dialog system.
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010

2009
An overview of spoken language technology for education.
Speech Commun., 2009

Guest Editorial.
Speech Commun., 2009

Semi-automatic generation of cloze question distractors effect of students' L1.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2009

REAP.PT, a tutoring system for teaching Portuguese.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2009

Porting REAP to European Portuguese.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2009

CLIMB LEVEL 4 - teaching English for aviation safety.
Proceedings of the ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2009

The Spoken Dialogue Challenge.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference, 2009

A Finite-State Turn-Taking Model for Spoken Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

Measuring Hint Level in Open Cloze Questions.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2009

An Application of Latent Semantic Analysis to Word Sense Discrimination for Words with Related and Unrelated Meanings.
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2009

2008
Optimizing Endpointing Thresholds using Dialogue Features in a Spoken Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2008 Workshop, 2008

Word Sense Disambiguation for Vocabulary Learning.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 9th International Conference, 2008

Self-assessment in Vocabulary Tutoring.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 9th International Conference, 2008

Let's go lab: a platform for evaluation of spoken dialog systems with real world users.
Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2008

Building Practical Spoken Dialog Systems.
Proceedings of the ACL 2008, 2008

2007
Dictionary definitions: the likes and the unlikes.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

Application of automatic thesaurus extraction for computer generation of vocabulary questions.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

The Nativeaccent<sup>TM</sup> pronunciation tutor: measuring success in the real world.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, 2007

Comparing Spoken Dialog Corpora Collected with Recruited Subjects versus Real Users.
Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, 2007

Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2007

A multi-layer architecture for semi-synchronous event-driven dialogue management.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007

Choosing Reading Passages for Vocabulary Learning by Topic to Increase Intrinsic Motivation.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2007

2006
Online Supervised Learning of Non-Understanding Recovery Policies.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Using Simulated Students for the Assessment of Authentic Document Retrieval.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 8th International Conference, 2006

Doing research on a deployed spoken dialogue system: one year of let's go! experience.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

Classroom success of an intelligent tutoring system for lexical practice and reading comprehension.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2006

2005
Automatic Question Generation for Vocabulary Assessment.
Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005

Let's go public! taking a spoken dialog system to the real world.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005

2004
Non-Native Users in the Let's Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

2003
LET's GO: improving spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-natives.
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003

2002
Enhancing foreign language tutors - In search of the golden speaker.
Speech Commun., 2002

2001
A study on speech over the telephone and aging.
Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001

2000
An empirical study of the effectiveness of speech-recognition-based pronunciation training.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000

1999
Data collection and processing in the carnegie mellon communicator.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

User adaptation in the fluency pronunciation trainer.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

1998
Issues in database design: recordíng and processing speech from new populations.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 1998

1997
Automatic generation of context-dependent pronunciations.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

Issues in database creation: recording new populations, faster and better labelling.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

1996
Detection of foreign speakers' pronunciation errors for second language training - preliminary results.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1996

1993
The design and recording of icy, a corpus for the study of intraspeaker variability and the characterisation of speaking styles.
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

Trends in speaking styles research.
Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1993

1992
Changing speech styles: strategies in read speech and casual and careful spontaneous speech.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1992

1991
Report on the ICSLP satellite workshop on assessment in Kobe (Japan) and visits to several Japanese laboratories working on speech communication, 19-30 November 1990.
Speech Commun., 1991

Exploration of individual strategies in continuous speech.
Speech Commun., 1991

BREF, a large vocabulary spoken corpus for French.
Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1991

1990
Design considerations and text selection for BREF, a large French read-speech corpus.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1990

1987
The use of rough spectral features for large vocabulary recognition.
Proceedings of the European Conference on Speech Technology, 1987

1986
An expert system for speech spectrogram reading.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1986

1984
The French language database: Defining, planning, and recording a large database.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1984

1983
Cadrage automatique pour la constitution de dictionnaires d'entites phonetiques.
Speech Commun., 1983

Un systeme expert pour la lecture de sonagrammes.
Speech Commun., 1983

Recognition of steady-state French sounds pronounced by several speakers: Comparison of human performance and an automatic recognition algorithm.
Speech Commun., 1983


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