Dialogue and conversational systems research

Dialog and Conversational Systems Research

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- Hybrid Code Networks: Practical and Efficient End-To-End Dialog Control With Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) | July 2017
  
  Publication Project Project
- Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control
  
  Kavosh Asadi, Jason Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1134 | December 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- Flexible, Rapid Authoring of Goal-Orientated, Multi-Turn Dialogues Using the Task Completion Platform
  
  Alex Marin, Paul A. Crook, Omar Zia Khan, Vasiliy Radostev, Khushboo Aggarwal, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Interspeech 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication
- End-To-End LSTM-Based Dialog Control Optimized With Supervised And Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  MSR-TR-2016-72 | June 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- Task Completion Platform: A self-serve multi-domain goal oriented dialogue platform
  
  Paul A. Crook, Alex Marin, V. Agarwal, K. Aggarwal, T. Anastasakos, R. Bikkula, D. Boies, Asli Celikyilmaz, S. Chandramohan, Z. Feizollahi, R. Holenstein, M. Jeong, Omar Zia Khan, Young-Bum Kim, E. Krawczyk, X. Liu, D. Panic, V. Radostev, N. Ramesh, J.-P. Robichaud, A. Rochette, L. Stromberg, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  June 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
  
  Dialogue & Discourse | April 2016
  
  Publication Project
- A Comparative Study of Recurrent Neural Network Models for Lexical Domain Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason Williams, Matthew Henderson
  
  Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) | January 2016
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Comparative Study of Neural Network Models for Lexical Intent Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Fast and Easy Language Understanding For Dialog Systems With Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  
  Jason Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mikhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 2015 SIGDIAL Conference, Prague | September 2015
  
  Demonstration at SIGDIAL 2015.
  
  Publication Project
- Hypotheses Ranking and State Tracking for a Multi-Domain Dialog System using Multiple ASR Alternates
  
  Omar Zia Khan, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication
- Multi-Language Hypotheses Ranking And Domain Tracking for Open Domain
  
  Paul A. Crook, Jean-Philippe Martin, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Study of Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Interaction
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | July 2015, Vol 17: pp. 1550-1561
  
  Publication Publication
- The Knowledge Web Meets Big Scholars
  
  Kuansan Wang
  
  May 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Knowledge Graph Inference for Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Yi Ma, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya, Eric Fosler-Lussier
  
  Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 | April 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Multimodal Addressee Detection in Multiparty Dialogue Systems
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication
- Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  January 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Third Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) | December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Hypotheses Ranking for Robust Domain Classification And Tracking in Dialogue Systems
  
  Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Puyang Xu, Omar Zia Khan, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014) | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014)
  
  Publication
- Neural Network Models for Lexical Addressee Detection
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proc. Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues
  
  Ke Zhai, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of ACL 2014 | June 2014
  
  Publication
- Web-Style Ranking and SLU Combination For Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL
  
  Publication Project
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Addressee Detection for Dialog Systems Using Temporal and Spectral Dimensions of Speaking Style
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Suman Ravuri
  
  Proc. Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Discriminative State Tracking For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria | August 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Multi-Domain Learning and Generalization In Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Multimodal Conversational Search and Browse
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Madhu Chinthakunta, Gokhan Tur, Rukmini Iyer, Partha Parthasacarthy, Lisa Stifelman, Elizabeth Shriberg, Ashley Fidler
  
  August 2013
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachadran, Alan Black
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Heeyoung Lee, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proc. NAACL | June 2013
  
  Proc. NAACL
  
  Publication
- Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Speech Research at Microsoft
  
  Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Geoff Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Look versus Leap: Computing Value of Information with High-Dimensional Streaming Evidence
  
  Stephanie Rosenthal, Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz
  
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | April 2013
  
  Publication Project
- A Critical Analysis Of Two Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems In Public Use
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) | December 2012
  
  Publication
- Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments
  
  Jason Williams
  
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | December 2012, Vol 6: pp. 959-970
  
  Publication
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication Project Project
- Learning When to Listen: Detecting System-Addressed Speech in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2012
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Publication Project
- A Belief Tracking Challenge Task For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Jason Williams
  
  NAACL HLT 2012 Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication
- POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review
  
  Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE | January 2012
  
  DOI 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2225812
  
  Publication
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- In Car Media Search
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | June 2011
  
  Publication
- Computational Models for Multiparty Turn-Taking
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2010-115 | August 2010
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
  
  Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek, Y. C. Ju
  
  July 2010
  
  Publication
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- A Voice Search Approach to Replying to SMS Messages in Automobiles
  
  Y. C. Ju, Tim Paek
  
  International Speech Communication Association | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search
  
  Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev
  
  September 2009
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Multiple Query Logs to Improve Language Models for Spoken Query Recognition
  
  Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
  
  ICASSP | April 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Open-World Dialog: Challenges, Directions, and a Prototype
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2009-36 | April 2009
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Video Project
- Voice Search of Structured Media Data
  
  Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2009
  
  Publication Project Project
- Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
  
  Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial) | June 2008
  
  Publication Project
- An Introduction to Voice Search
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology) | May 2008
  
  Publication
- Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone
  
  Alex Acero, N. Bernstein, R. Chambers, Y. C. Ju, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, O. Scholz, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2008
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  
  Publication
- Structured Models for Joint Decoding of Repeated Utterances
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen
  
  In Proceedings of Interspeech | January 2008
  
  Publication Project Project
- Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007 | September 2007
  
  Publication
- Automated Directory Assistance System – from Theory to Practice
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 | August 2007
  
  Publication
- VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information
  
  J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  INTERSPEECH | January 2007
  
  INTERSPEECH
  
  Publication Project
- Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Y. C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  NAACL/HLT (Demonstration Program) | January 2007
  
  Publication
- Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses for Practical Deployment
  
  Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2006-62 | May 2006
  
  Publication
- Harnessing Models of Users’ Goals to Mediate Clarification Dialog in Spoken Language Systems
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on User Modeling | January 2001
  
  Publication
- Conversation as Action Under Uncertainty
  
  Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | June 2000
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- Grounding Criterion: Toward a Formal Theory of Grounding
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2000-40 | April 2000
  
  Publication

- Harnessing Models of Users’ Goals to Mediate Clarification Dialog in Spoken Language Systems
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on User Modeling | January 2001
  
  Publication
- Conversation as Action Under Uncertainty
  
  Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | June 2000
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- Hybrid Code Networks: Practical and Efficient End-To-End Dialog Control With Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) | July 2017
  
  Publication Project Project
- Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control
  
  Kavosh Asadi, Jason Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1134 | December 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- Task Completion Platform: A self-serve multi-domain goal oriented dialogue platform
  
  Paul A. Crook, Alex Marin, V. Agarwal, K. Aggarwal, T. Anastasakos, R. Bikkula, D. Boies, Asli Celikyilmaz, S. Chandramohan, Z. Feizollahi, R. Holenstein, M. Jeong, Omar Zia Khan, Young-Bum Kim, E. Krawczyk, X. Liu, D. Panic, V. Radostev, N. Ramesh, J.-P. Robichaud, A. Rochette, L. Stromberg, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  June 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason Williams, Matthew Henderson
  
  Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) | January 2016
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Knowledge Web Meets Big Scholars
  
  Kuansan Wang
  
  May 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  January 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Hypotheses Ranking for Robust Domain Classification And Tracking in Dialogue Systems
  
  Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Puyang Xu, Omar Zia Khan, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014) | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014)
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Speech Research at Microsoft
  
  Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Geoff Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Look versus Leap: Computing Value of Information with High-Dimensional Streaming Evidence
  
  Stephanie Rosenthal, Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz
  
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | April 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2012
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Publication Project
- A Belief Tracking Challenge Task For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Jason Williams
  
  NAACL HLT 2012 Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication
- Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
  
  Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek, Y. C. Ju
  
  July 2010
  
  Publication
- Grounding Criterion: Toward a Formal Theory of Grounding
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2000-40 | April 2000
  
  Publication
- Hybrid Code Networks: Practical and Efficient End-To-End Dialog Control With Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) | July 2017
  
  Publication Project Project
- Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control
  
  Kavosh Asadi, Jason Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1134 | December 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- Flexible, Rapid Authoring of Goal-Orientated, Multi-Turn Dialogues Using the Task Completion Platform
  
  Alex Marin, Paul A. Crook, Omar Zia Khan, Vasiliy Radostev, Khushboo Aggarwal, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Interspeech 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication
- End-To-End LSTM-Based Dialog Control Optimized With Supervised And Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  MSR-TR-2016-72 | June 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
  
  Dialogue & Discourse | April 2016
  
  Publication Project
- A Comparative Study of Recurrent Neural Network Models for Lexical Domain Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason Williams, Matthew Henderson
  
  Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) | January 2016
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Comparative Study of Neural Network Models for Lexical Intent Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Multi-Language Hypotheses Ranking And Domain Tracking for Open Domain
  
  Paul A. Crook, Jean-Philippe Martin, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Fast and Easy Language Understanding For Dialog Systems With Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  
  Jason Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mikhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 2015 SIGDIAL Conference, Prague | September 2015
  
  Demonstration at SIGDIAL 2015.
  
  Publication Project
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Knowledge Graph Inference for Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Yi Ma, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya, Eric Fosler-Lussier
  
  Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 | April 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Multimodal Addressee Detection in Multiparty Dialogue Systems
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication
- Neural Network Models for Lexical Addressee Detection
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proc. Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Addressee Detection for Dialog Systems Using Temporal and Spectral Dimensions of Speaking Style
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Suman Ravuri
  
  Proc. Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Heeyoung Lee, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proc. NAACL | June 2013
  
  Proc. NAACL
  
  Publication
- A Critical Analysis Of Two Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems In Public Use
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) | December 2012
  
  Publication
- A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication Project Project
- Learning When to Listen: Detecting System-Addressed Speech in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2012
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Publication Project
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Computational Models for Multiparty Turn-Taking
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2010-115 | August 2010
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Leveraging Multiple Query Logs to Improve Language Models for Spoken Query Recognition
  
  Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
  
  ICASSP | April 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
  
  Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial) | June 2008
  
  Publication Project
- An Introduction to Voice Search
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology) | May 2008
  
  Publication
- Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone
  
  Alex Acero, N. Bernstein, R. Chambers, Y. C. Ju, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, O. Scholz, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2008
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  
  Publication
- Structured Models for Joint Decoding of Repeated Utterances
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen
  
  In Proceedings of Interspeech | January 2008
  
  Publication Project Project
- Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007 | September 2007
  
  Publication
- Automated Directory Assistance System – from Theory to Practice
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 | August 2007
  
  Publication
- The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  INTERSPEECH | January 2007
  
  INTERSPEECH
  
  Publication Project
- Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Y. C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  NAACL/HLT (Demonstration Program) | January 2007
  
  Publication
- Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses for Practical Deployment
  
  Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2006-62 | May 2006
  
  Publication
- Hypotheses Ranking and State Tracking for a Multi-Domain Dialog System using Multiple ASR Alternates
  
  Omar Zia Khan, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication
- A Study of Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Interaction
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | July 2015, Vol 17: pp. 1550-1561
  
  Publication Publication
- The Knowledge Web Meets Big Scholars
  
  Kuansan Wang
  
  May 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  January 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Hypotheses Ranking for Robust Domain Classification And Tracking in Dialogue Systems
  
  Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Puyang Xu, Omar Zia Khan, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014) | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014)
  
  Publication
- Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues
  
  Ke Zhai, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of ACL 2014 | June 2014
  
  Publication
- Web-Style Ranking and SLU Combination For Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL
  
  Publication Project
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Discriminative State Tracking For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria | August 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Multi-Domain Learning and Generalization In Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachadran, Alan Black
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Multimodal Conversational Search and Browse
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Madhu Chinthakunta, Gokhan Tur, Rukmini Iyer, Partha Parthasacarthy, Lisa Stifelman, Elizabeth Shriberg, Ashley Fidler
  
  August 2013
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments
  
  Jason Williams
  
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | December 2012, Vol 6: pp. 959-970
  
  Publication
- A Belief Tracking Challenge Task For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Jason Williams
  
  NAACL HLT 2012 Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication
- POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review
  
  Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE | January 2012
  
  DOI 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2225812
  
  Publication
- In Car Media Search
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | June 2011
  
  Publication
- Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
  
  Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek, Y. C. Ju
  
  July 2010
  
  Publication
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search
  
  Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev
  
  September 2009
  
  Publication
- A Voice Search Approach to Replying to SMS Messages in Automobiles
  
  Y. C. Ju, Tim Paek
  
  International Speech Communication Association | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Open-World Dialog: Challenges, Directions, and a Prototype
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2009-36 | April 2009
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Video Project
- Voice Search of Structured Media Data
  
  Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2009
  
  Publication Project Project
- Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007 | September 2007
  
  Publication
- Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 | August 2007
  
  Publication
- Fast and Easy Language Understanding For Dialog Systems With Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  
  Jason Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mikhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 2015 SIGDIAL Conference, Prague | September 2015
  
  Demonstration at SIGDIAL 2015.
  
  Publication Project
- The Knowledge Web Meets Big Scholars
  
  Kuansan Wang
  
  May 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007 | September 2007
  
  Publication
- Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 | August 2007
  
  Publication
- The Third Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) | December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information
  
  J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2012
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Publication Project
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Voice Search of Structured Media Data
  
  Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2009
  
  Publication Project Project
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Voice Search of Structured Media Data
  
  Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2009
  
  Publication Project Project

- Harnessing Models of Users’ Goals to Mediate Clarification Dialog in Spoken Language Systems
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on User Modeling | January 2001
  
  Publication
- Conversation as Action Under Uncertainty
  
  Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence | June 2000
  
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
  
  Publication
- Hybrid Code Networks: Practical and Efficient End-To-End Dialog Control With Supervised and Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Kavosh Asadi, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) | July 2017
  
  Publication Project Project
- Flexible, Rapid Authoring of Goal-Orientated, Multi-Turn Dialogues Using the Task Completion Platform
  
  Alex Marin, Paul A. Crook, Omar Zia Khan, Vasiliy Radostev, Khushboo Aggarwal, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Interspeech 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication
- Task Completion Platform: A self-serve multi-domain goal oriented dialogue platform
  
  Paul A. Crook, Alex Marin, V. Agarwal, K. Aggarwal, T. Anastasakos, R. Bikkula, D. Boies, Asli Celikyilmaz, S. Chandramohan, Z. Feizollahi, R. Holenstein, M. Jeong, Omar Zia Khan, Young-Bum Kim, E. Krawczyk, X. Liu, D. Panic, V. Radostev, N. Ramesh, J.-P. Robichaud, A. Rochette, L. Stromberg, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  June 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- A Comparative Study of Recurrent Neural Network Models for Lexical Domain Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Fourth Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Rafael E. Banchs, Jason Williams, Matthew Henderson
  
  Proceedings International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS) | January 2016
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Comparative Study of Neural Network Models for Lexical Intent Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- Multi-Language Hypotheses Ranking And Domain Tracking for Open Domain
  
  Paul A. Crook, Jean-Philippe Martin, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Hypotheses Ranking and State Tracking for a Multi-Domain Dialog System using Multiple ASR Alternates
  
  Omar Zia Khan, Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015) | September 2015
  
  Publication
- Fast and Easy Language Understanding For Dialog Systems With Microsoft Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  
  Jason Williams, Eslam Kamal, Mikhtar Ashour, Hani Amr, Jessica Miller, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proceedings of 2015 SIGDIAL Conference, Prague | September 2015
  
  Demonstration at SIGDIAL 2015.
  
  Publication Project
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Knowledge Web Meets Big Scholars
  
  Kuansan Wang
  
  May 2015
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Knowledge Graph Inference for Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Yi Ma, Paul A. Crook, Ruhi Sarikaya, Eric Fosler-Lussier
  
  Proceedings of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015 | April 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Multimodal Addressee Detection in Multiparty Dialogue Systems
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Proc. IEEE ICASSP
  
  Publication
- Rapidly Scaling Dialog Systems with Interactive Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Nobal B. Niraula, Pradeep Dasigi, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Mouni Reddy, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  January 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- The Third Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT) | December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Hypotheses Ranking for Robust Domain Classification And Tracking in Dialogue Systems
  
  Jean-Philippe Robichaud, Paul A. Crook, Puyang Xu, Omar Zia Khan, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014) | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014)
  
  Publication
- Neural Network Models for Lexical Addressee Detection
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proc. Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Discovering Latent Structure in Task-Oriented Dialogues
  
  Ke Zhai, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of ACL 2014 | June 2014
  
  Publication
- Web-Style Ranking and SLU Combination For Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL | June 2014
  
  Proceedings of SIGDIAL
  
  Publication Project
- Leveraging Semantic Web Search and Browse Sessions for Multi-Turn Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Lu Wang, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  January 2014
  
  SLP Student Travel Grant Award
  
  Publication Project
- Discriminative State Tracking For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Angeliki Metallinou, Dan Bohus, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria | August 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Multi-Domain Learning and Generalization In Dialog State Tracking
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Deepak Ramachadran, Alan Black
  
  Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Metz, France | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Multimodal Conversational Search and Browse
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Madhu Chinthakunta, Gokhan Tur, Rukmini Iyer, Partha Parthasacarthy, Lisa Stifelman, Elizabeth Shriberg, Ashley Fidler
  
  August 2013
  
  Publication Project Project Project Project
- Addressee Detection for Dialog Systems Using Temporal and Spectral Dimensions of Speaking Style
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Suman Ravuri
  
  Proc. Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Using Out-of-Domain Data for Lexical Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Heeyoung Lee, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proc. NAACL | June 2013
  
  Proc. NAACL
  
  Publication
- Recent Advances in Deep Learning for Speech Research at Microsoft
  
  Li Deng, Jinyu Li, Jui-Ting Huang, Kaisheng Yao, Dong Yu, Frank Seide, Mike Seltzer, Geoff Zweig, Xiaodong He, Jason Williams, Yifan Gong, Alex Acero
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Look versus Leap: Computing Value of Information with High-Dimensional Streaming Evidence
  
  Stephanie Rosenthal, Dan Bohus, Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz
  
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | April 2013
  
  Publication Project
- A Critical Analysis Of Two Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems In Public Use
  
  Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) | December 2012
  
  Publication
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- A Discriminative Classification-Based Approach to Information State Updates for a Multi-Domain Dialog System
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Ashley Fidler, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication Project Project
- Learning When to Listen: Detecting System-Addressed Speech in Human-Human-Computer Dialog
  
  Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2012
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Publication Project
- A Belief Tracking Challenge Task For Spoken Dialog Systems
  
  Jason Williams
  
  NAACL HLT 2012 Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication
- POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review
  
  Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Blaise Thomson, Jason Williams
  
  Proceedings of the IEEE | January 2012
  
  DOI 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2225812
  
  Publication
- Using Speech to Reply to SMS Messages While Driving: An In-Car Simulator User Study
  
  Yun-Cheng Ju, Tim Paek, Y. C. Ju
  
  July 2010
  
  Publication
- Commute UX: Voice Enabled In-car Infotainment System
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Mobile HCI '09: Workshop on Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments (SiMPE) | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Improving Perceived Accuracy for In-Car Media Search
  
  Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev
  
  September 2009
  
  Publication
- A Voice Search Approach to Replying to SMS Messages in Automobiles
  
  Y. C. Ju, Tim Paek
  
  International Speech Communication Association | September 2009
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Multiple Query Logs to Improve Language Models for Spoken Query Recognition
  
  Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus
  
  ICASSP | April 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Voice Search of Structured Media Data
  
  Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju, Mike Seltzer, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2009
  
  Publication Project Project
- Learning N-Best Correction Models from Implicit User Feedback in a Multi-Modal Local Search Application
  
  Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial) | June 2008
  
  Publication Project
- Live Search for Mobile: Web Services by Voice on the Cellphone
  
  Alex Acero, N. Bernstein, R. Chambers, Y. C. Ju, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen, O. Scholz, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | April 2008
  
  Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
  
  Publication
- Structured Models for Joint Decoding of Repeated Utterances
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Dan Bohus, Xiao Li, Patrick Nguyen
  
  In Proceedings of Interspeech | January 2008
  
  Publication Project Project
- Commute UX: Telephone Dialog System for Location-based Services
  
  Ivan Tashev, Mike Seltzer, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Proceedings of SIGdial Workshop on Disclosure and Dialogue 2007 | September 2007
  
  Publication
- Automated Directory Assistance System – from Theory to Practice
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Geoffrey Zweig, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- VoicePedia: Towards Speech-based Access to Unstructured Information
  
  J. Sherwani, Dong Yu, Tim Paek, Mary Czerwinski, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  Interspeech | August 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Robust Location Understanding in Spoken Dialog Systems Using Intersections
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Alex Acero
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 | August 2007
  
  Publication
- The Voice-Rate Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Patrick Nguyen, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  INTERSPEECH | January 2007
  
  INTERSPEECH
  
  Publication Project
- Voice-Rate: A Dialog System for Consumer Ratings
  
  Geoffrey Zweig, Y. C. Ju, Patrick Nguyen, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  NAACL/HLT (Demonstration Program) | January 2007
  
  Publication
- Grounding Criterion: Toward a Formal Theory of Grounding
  
  Eric Horvitz, Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2000-40 | April 2000
  
  Publication
- Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialog Control
  
  Kavosh Asadi, Jason Williams
  
  MSR-TR-2016-1134 | December 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- End-To-End LSTM-Based Dialog Control Optimized With Supervised And Reinforcement Learning
  
  Jason Williams, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  MSR-TR-2016-72 | June 2016
  
  Publication Publication Project Project Project
- Computational Models for Multiparty Turn-Taking
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2010-115 | August 2010
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Project
- Open-World Dialog: Challenges, Directions, and a Prototype
  
  Dan Bohus, Eric Horvitz
  
  MSR-TR-2009-36 | April 2009
  
  Published by Microsoft
  
  Publication Video Project
- Reinforcement Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses for Practical Deployment
  
  Tim Paek
  
  MSR-TR-2006-62 | May 2006
  
  Publication
- The Dialog State Tracking Challenge Series: A Review
  
  Jason Williams, Antoine Raux, Matthew Henderson
  
  Dialogue & Discourse | April 2016
  
  Publication Project
- A Study of Multimodal Addressee Detection in Human-Human-Computer Interaction
  
  T. J. Tsai, Andreas Stolcke, Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia | July 2015, Vol 17: pp. 1550-1561
  
  Publication Publication
- Challenges and Opportunities for State Tracking in Statistical Spoken Dialog Systems: Results From Two Public Deployments
  
  Jason Williams
  
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing | December 2012, Vol 6: pp. 959-970
  
  Publication
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- In Car Media Search
  
  Mike Seltzer, Y. C. Ju, Ivan Tashev, Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | June 2011
  
  Publication
- An Introduction to Voice Search
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Dong Yu, Yun-Cheng Ju, Alex Acero, Y. C. Ju
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (Special Issue on Spoken Language Technology) | May 2008
  
  Publication

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