Michael Heck

Orcid: 0000-0001-9841-5025

Affiliations:
  • Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science, Japan
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Anthropomatics, Germany


According to our database1, Michael Heck authored at least 45 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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2024
Learning With an Open Horizon in Ever-Changing Dialogue Circumstances.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2024

Dialogue Ontology Relation Extraction via Constrained Chain-of-Thought Decoding.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

Local Topology Measures of Contextual Language Model Latent Spaces with Applications to Dialogue Term Extraction.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

Infusing Emotions into Task-oriented Dialogue Systems: Understanding, Management, and Generation.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

2023
CAMELL: Confidence-based Acquisition Model for Efficient Self-supervised Active Learning with Label Validation.
CoRR, 2023

EmoUS: Simulating User Emotions in Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2023

From Chatter to Matter: Addressing Critical Steps of Emotion Recognition Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format.
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

ChatGPT for Zero-shot Dialogue State Tracking: A Solution or an Opportunity?
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023

2022
Robust Dialogue State Tracking with Weak Supervision and Sparse Data.
Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2022

ConvLab-3: A Flexible Dialogue System Toolkit Based on a Unified Data Format.
CoRR, 2022

Dynamic Dialogue Policy Transformer for Continual Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR, 2022

Dialogue Term Extraction using Transfer Learning and Topological Data Analysis.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

Dialogue Evaluation with Offline Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

GenTUS: Simulating User Behaviour and Language in Task-oriented Dialogues with Generative Transformers.
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2022

EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion Recognition in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Dynamic Dialogue Policy for Continual Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022

2021
EmoWOZ: A Large-Scale Corpus and Labelling Scheme for Emotion in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
CoRR, 2021

Domain-independent User Simulation with Transformers for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

Uncertainty Measures in Neural Belief Tracking and the Effects on Dialogue Policy Performance.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

What does the User Want? Information Gain for Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Optimisation.
Proceedings of the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2021

2020
Adaptable Conversational Machines.
AI Mag., 2020

TripPy: A Triple Copy Strategy for Value Independent Neural Dialog State Tracking.
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

Knowing What You Know: Calibrating Dialogue Belief State Distributions via Ensembles.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

LAVA: Latent Action Spaces via Variational Auto-encoding for Dialogue Policy Optimization.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

Out-of-Task Training for Dialog State Tracking Models.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020

2018
Dirichlet Process Mixture of Mixtures Model for Unsupervised Subword Modeling.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2018

Learning Supervised Feature Transformations on Zero Resources for Improved Acoustic Unit Discovery.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2018

2017
Ensembles of Multi-Scale VGG Acoustic Models.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Feature optimized DPGMM clustering for unsupervised subword modeling: A contribution to zerospeech 2017.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, 2017

Processing negative emotions through social communication: Multimodal database construction and analysis.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2017

2016
Unsupervised Linear Discriminant Analysis for Supporting DPGMM Clustering in the Zero Resource Scenario.
Proceedings of the SLTU-2016, 2016

Iterative training of a DPGMM-HMM acoustic unit recognizer in a zero resource scenario.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2016

Supervised Learning of Acoustic Models in a Zero Resource Setting to Improve DPGMM Clustering.
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2016

2015
The NAIST English speech recognition system for IWSLT 2015.
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2015, 2015

The NAIST ASR system for the 2015 Multi-Genre Broadcast challenge: On combination of deep learning systems using a rank-score function.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, 2015

2014
The 2014 KIT IWSLT speech-to-text systems for English, German and Italian.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2014, 2014

2013
Segmentation of Telephone Speech Based on Speech and Non-speech Models.
Proceedings of the Speech and Computer - 15th International Conference, 2013

The 2013 KIT IWSLT speech-to-text systems for German and English.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2013, 2013

Incremental unsupervised training for university lecture recognition.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers, 2013

2012
The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR systems for the IWSLT evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2012

The KIT-NAIST (contrastive) English ASR system for IWSLT 2012.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2012

A hybrid phonotactic language identification system with an SVM back-end for simultaneous lecture translation.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2012

2010
Spoken news queries over the world wide web.
Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech, 2010

The KIT translation system for IWSLT 2010.
Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2010


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