Stefan Ultes

Orcid: 0000-0003-2667-3126

According to our database1, Stefan Ultes authored at least 111 papers between 2011 and 2024.

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2024
Enhancing Reflective and Conversational User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues with Virtual Agents.
Multimodal Technol. Interact., 2024

On the Controllability of Large Language Models for Dialogue Interaction.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

Enhancing Model Transparency: A Dialogue System Approach to XAI with Domain Knowledge.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2024

BEA: Building Engaging Argumentation.
Proceedings of the Robust Argumentation Machines - First International Conference, 2024

Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2024

2023
A Graph-to-Text Approach to Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation in Human-Robot Interaction.
CoRR, 2023

Retrieval-Augmented Neural Response Generation Using Logical Reasoning and Relevance Scoring.
CoRR, 2023

Fostering User Engagement in the Critical Reflection of Arguments.
CoRR, 2023

Towards Breaking the Self-imposed Filter Bubble in Argumentative Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023

The Influence of Avatar Interfaces on Argumentative Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2023

System-Initiated Transitions from Chit-Chat to Task-Oriented Dialogues with Transition Info Extractor and Transition Sentence Generator.
Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2023

Exploring the Mobile Usability of Argumentative Dialogue Systems for Opinion Building.
Proceedings of the Design, Operation and Evaluation of Mobile Communications, 2023

Evaluating a Spoken Argumentative Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the Social Computing and Social Media, 2023

Towards Modelling Elaborateness in Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in HCI, 2023

Unified Conversational Models with System-Initiated Transitions between Chit-Chat and Task-Oriented Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Self-imposed Filter Bubble Model for Argumentative Dialogues.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2023

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association, 2023

2022
Natural language understanding for argumentative dialogue systems in the opinion building domain.
Knowl. Based Syst., 2022

When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Dialogue Discourse, 2022

GraphWOZ: Dialogue Management with Conversational Knowledge Graphs.
CoRR, 2022

ConceptNet infused DialoGPT for Underlying Commonsense Understanding and Reasoning in Dialogue Response Generation.
CoRR, 2022

Towards Modelling Self-imposed Filter Bubbles in Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

User Interest Modelling in Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Towards Building a Spoken Dialogue System for Argument Exploration.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

2021
EVA 2.0: Emotional and rational multimodal argumentation between virtual agents.
it Inf. Technol., 2021

User Satisfaction Reward Estimation Across Domains: Domain-independent Dialogue Policy Learning.
Dialogue Discourse, 2021

Estimating Subjective Argument Quality Aspects From Social Signals in Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
IEEE Access, 2021

Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2021

Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues Using BERT.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021), 2021

Empathetic Dialogue Generation with Pre-trained RoBERTa-GPT2 and External Knowledge.
Proceedings of the Conversational AI for Natural Human-Centric Interaction, 2021

Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2021), National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India, December 16, 2021

Decide or Delegate: How Script Knowledge Based Conversational Assistants Should Act in Inconclusive Situations.
Proceedings of the ICDCN '21: International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 2021

Determination of Reflective User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, 2021

2020
Towards meaningful, grounded conversations with intelligent agents.
CoRR, 2020

Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison.
Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2020

Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Comparative Study of Sentence Embeddings for Contextual Paraphrasing.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants.
Proceedings of the Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, 2020

A Script Knowledge Based Dialogue System for Indoor Navigation.
Proceedings of the Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, 2020

On the Complexity in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020

Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System Through Argument Chains.
Proceedings of the Computational Models of Argument, 2020

Predicting Persuasive Effectiveness for Multimodal Behavior Adaptation using Bipolar Weighted Argument Graphs.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020

2019
Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions.
CoRR, 2019

Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019

Opinion Building Based on the Argumentative Dialogue System BEA.
Proceedings of the Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction, 2019

2018
Nearly Zero-Shot Learning for Semantic Decoding in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
CoRR, 2018

Exploring the Impact of Elaborateness and Indirectness on User Satisfaction in a Spoken Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, 2018

Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2018

Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018

On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, 2018

EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the 2018 on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2018

MultiWOZ - A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling.
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue.
Proceedings of the Computational Models of Argument, 2018

Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, 2018

2017
Dialogue manager domain adaptation using Gaussian process reinforcement learning.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2017

A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management.
CoRR, 2017

Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories.
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

Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2017

On the Applicability of a User Satisfaction-Based Reward for Dialogue Policy Learning.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

Exploring the Applicability of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Dialogue Management.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

Domain Complexity and Policy Learning in Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

A Social Companion and Conversational Partner for the Elderly.
Proceedings of the Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, 2017

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

Domain-Independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning.
Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2017

Challenges for adaptive dialogue management in the KRISTINA project.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, 2017

Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument co-located with ICAIL 2017, 2017

A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit.
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017

2016
Continuously Learning Neural Dialogue Management.
CoRR, 2016

Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference, 2016

Towards a Multimedia Knowledge-Based Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, 2016

Towards an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Dialogue Framework.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, 2016

Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation.
Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

Salient Cross-Lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition.
Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation.
Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2016

Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the COLING 2016, 2016

Automatic Modification of Communication Style in Dialogue Management.
Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, 2016

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016

2015
User-centred adaptive spoken dialogue modelling.
PhD thesis, 2015

Interaction Quality: Assessing the quality of ongoing spoken dialog interaction by experts - And how it relates to user satisfaction.
Speech Commun., 2015

Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, 2015

Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, 2015

2014
Managing adaptive spoken dialogue for Intelligent Environments.
J. Ambient Intell. Smart Environ., 2014

Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2014 Conference, 2014

First Insight into Quality-Adaptive Dialogue.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Comparison of Gender- and Speaker-adaptive Emotion Recognition.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Dialogue Management for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue.
Proceedings of the Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, 2014

Automatic Recognition of Personality Traits: A Multimodal Approach.
Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Mapping Personality Traits Challenge and Workshop, 2014

Emotions are a personal thing: Towards speaker-adaptive emotion recognition.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2014

2013
Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction.
Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems - Experts vs. Users.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

HIS-OwlSpeak: A Model-Driven Dialogue Manager with Multiple Control Modes.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2013

JaCHMM: A Java-based conditioned Hidden Markov Model library.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

2012
Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data, 2012

A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

Application and Evaluation of a Conditioned Hidden Markov Model for Estimating Interaction Quality of Spoken Dialogue Systems.
Proceedings of the Natural Interaction with Robots, 2012

2011
A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manager.
Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems, 2011

Attention, Sobriety Checkpoint! Can Humans Determine by Means of Voice, if Someone is Drunk... and Can Automatic Classifiers Compete?
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011


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