Spoken Language Understanding

Established: May 1, 2013

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- Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  July 2016
  
  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
- Zero-Shot Learning of Intent Embeddings for Expansion by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  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
- 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
- Convolutional Neural Network Based Semantic Tagging with Entity Embeddings
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for SLU & Interaction | December 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Learning Bidirectional Intent Embeddings by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  NIPS workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Clustering Novel Intents in a Conversational Interaction System with Semantic Parsing
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Y. C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur
  
  Interspeech 2015 Conference | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Probabilistic Features for Connecting Eye Gaze to Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anna Prokofieva, Malcolm Slaney, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Joint Semantic Utterance Classification and Slot Filling with Recursive Neural Networks
  
  Daniel (Zhaohan) Guo, Gokhan Tur, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Deriving Local Relational Surface Forms from Dependency-Based Entity Embeddings for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Distributed Open-Domain Conversational Understanding Framework With Domain Independent Extractors
  
  Qi Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiang Li, Tim Paek, Asela Gunawardana, Chris Quirk
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Personal Knowledge Graph Population from User Utterances in Conversational Understanding
  
  Xiang Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Qi Li
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  October 2014
  
  Publication Publication
- Rapidly Building Domain-Specific Entity-Centric Language Models Using Semantic Web Knowledge Sources
  
  Murat Akbacak, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Detecting Out-Of-Domain Utterances Addressed to a Virtual Personal Assistant
  
  Gokhan Tur, Anoop Deoras, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Probabilistic Enrichment of Knowledge Graph Entities for Relation Detection in Conversational Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Geoff Zweig
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Learning Semantic Entity Representations with Knowledge Graph and Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Named Entity Disambiguation
  
  Hongzhao Huang, Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-108 | August 2014
  
  Publication
- Extending Domain Coverage of Language Understanding Systems via Intent Transfer Between Domains Using Knowledge Graphs and Search Query Click Logs
  
  Ali El-Kahky, Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2014
  
  Publication
- Task Specific Continuous Word Representations for Mono and Multi-lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Tasos Anastasakos, Young-Bum Kim, Anoop Deoras
  
  May 2014
  
  Publication
- Understanding Spoken Language
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Published by CRC Press | 2014
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning and Clustering for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  April 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Conversational Knowledge Graphs
  
  Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-70 | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Situated Conversational Interaction (Invited Talk)
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Patrick Pantel
  
  IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing | December 2013
  
  Publication
- Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  ISCA Interspeech | September 2013
  
  ISCA Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | August 2013
  
  Publication
- A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Discovering New User Intents from Search Query Logs
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- IsNL? A Discriminative Approach to Detect Natural Language Like Queries for Conversational Understanding
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Web-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication 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
- Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Latent Semantic Modeling for Slot Filling in Conversational Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Multi-Style Adaptive Training for Robust Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Resources
  
  Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | May 2013
  
  Publication
- Understanding Computer-Directed Utterances in Multi-User Dialog Systems
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Using a Knowledge Graph and Query Click Logs for Unsupervised Learning of Relation Detection
  
  Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Joint Discriminative Decoding of Word and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Statistical Semantic Interpretation Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding with Enriched Semantic Features
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies | December 2012
  
  Publication
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Use of Kernel Deep Convex Networks and End-To-End Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Li Deng, Gokhan Tur, Xiaodong He, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  December 2012
  
  Publication
- Pay Attention, Please: Attention at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop
  
  Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE SLTC Newsletter | November 2012
  
  Publication 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
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing
  
  Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication
- 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
- Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  North Ameircan Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL-2012: Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Deeper Understanding Deep Convex Networks for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication
- Translating Natural Language Utterances to Search Queries for SLU Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Employing Web Search Query Click Logs for Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Harris, Rukmini Iyer, Sarangarajan Parthasarthy
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Exploiting Distance Based Similarity in Topic Models for User Intent Detection
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication
- Bootstrapping Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs for New Domains
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2011
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Learning Weighted Entity Lists from Web Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding with Approximate Inference
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Language Understanding with Shared Slots
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding: Exploiting Query Click Logs for Slot Filling
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Leveraging Web Query Logs to Learn User Intent Via Bayesian Latent Variable Model
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost | July 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2011
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Plenary Award
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Exploiting Query Click Logs for Utterance Domain Detection in Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP
  
  Publication Project
- Lexicon Modeling for Query Understanding
  
  Jingjing Liu, Xiao Li, Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang
  
  ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Sentence Simplification for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Suresh Parthasarathy
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech
  
  Gokhan Tur
  
  Published by John Wiley and Sons | January 2011
  
  Publication
- What’s Left to Be Understood in ATIS?
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  December 2010
  
  Publication
- The CALO Meeting Assistant System
  
  Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Mike Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | August 2010, Vol 18(6): pp. 1601-1611
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries
  
  Xiao Li
  
  ACL | July 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szymanski
  
  The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2009
  
  Publication
- On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li
  
  EMNLP | August 2009
  
  EMNLP
  
  Publication Project
- Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries
  
  Mehdi Manshadi, Xiao Li
  
  ACL | August 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  SIGIR | July 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
- Inductive and Example-Based Learning for Text Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
  
  Interspeech | September 2008
  
  Publication Project
- An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, S. Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Sibel Yaman
  
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2008, Vol 16: pp. 1207-1214
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- A Discriminative Training Framework Using N-Best Speech Recognition Transcriptions and Scores for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2007
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Maximum Entropy Model Parameterization with Tf-Idf Weighted Vector Space Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | January 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
  
  COLING/ACL06 | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding.
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Rapid Development of Spoken Language Understanding Grammars
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Speech Communication | January 2006, Vol 48(3-4): pp. 390-416
  
  Publication Project Project
- Speech Utterance Classification Model Training without Manual Transcriptions
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Semiautomatic Improvements of System-Initiative Spoken Dialog Applications Using Interactive Clustering
  
  Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Proc (Special Issue on Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog) | September 2005
  
  Publication Project
- SGStudio: Rapid Semantic Grammar Development for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- Spoken Language Understanding “” An Introduction to the Statistical Framework
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Li Deng, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | January 2005, Vol 22(5): pp. 16-31
  
  Publication Project Project
- Statistical Spoken Language Understanding: from Generative Model to Conditional Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero
  
  NIPS Workshop: Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Semantically Structured Language Model
  
  Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang, Kuansan Wang
  
  Special Workshop in Maui | January 2004
  
  Publication Project
- Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju
  
  International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2004
  
  Publication Project Project
- Combination of CFG and N-gram Modeling in Semantic Grammar Learning
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Eurospeech 2003 | January 2003
  
  Eurospeech 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Concept Acquisition in Example-Based Grammar Authoring
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2003
  
  Publication Project
- Combination of Statistical and Rule-Based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan Frey, Leon Wong
  
  International Conference on Spoken Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Spoken Language Grammar Learning in ATIS Domain
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project
- Grammar Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2001
  
  Publication Project Project
- Robust Spoken Language Understanding in MiPad
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 2001
  
  Publication Project
- A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 1999
  
  Publication Project

- Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  July 2016
  
  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
- Convolutional Neural Network Based Semantic Tagging with Entity Embeddings
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for SLU & Interaction | December 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Learning Bidirectional Intent Embeddings by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  NIPS workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Clustering Novel Intents in a Conversational Interaction System with Semantic Parsing
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Y. C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur
  
  Interspeech 2015 Conference | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Personal Knowledge Graph Population from User Utterances in Conversational Understanding
  
  Xiang Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Qi Li
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Deriving Local Relational Surface Forms from Dependency-Based Entity Embeddings for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Distributed Open-Domain Conversational Understanding Framework With Domain Independent Extractors
  
  Qi Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiang Li, Tim Paek, Asela Gunawardana, Chris Quirk
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Conversational Knowledge Graphs
  
  Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-70 | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  ISCA Interspeech | September 2013
  
  ISCA Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Use of Kernel Deep Convex Networks and End-To-End Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Li Deng, Gokhan Tur, Xiaodong He, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  December 2012
  
  Publication
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing
  
  Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- The CALO Meeting Assistant System
  
  Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Mike Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | August 2010, Vol 18(6): pp. 1601-1611
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szymanski
  
  The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2009
  
  Publication
- An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, S. Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Sibel Yaman
  
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2008, Vol 16: pp. 1207-1214
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Grammar Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2001
  
  Publication Project Project
- Robust Spoken Language Understanding in MiPad
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 2001
  
  Publication Project
- A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 1999
  
  Publication Project
- Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  July 2016
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning of Intent Embeddings for Expansion by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  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
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Clustering Novel Intents in a Conversational Interaction System with Semantic Parsing
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Y. C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur
  
  Interspeech 2015 Conference | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Probabilistic Features for Connecting Eye Gaze to Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anna Prokofieva, Malcolm Slaney, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Joint Semantic Utterance Classification and Slot Filling with Recursive Neural Networks
  
  Daniel (Zhaohan) Guo, Gokhan Tur, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  October 2014
  
  Publication Publication
- Rapidly Building Domain-Specific Entity-Centric Language Models Using Semantic Web Knowledge Sources
  
  Murat Akbacak, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Detecting Out-Of-Domain Utterances Addressed to a Virtual Personal Assistant
  
  Gokhan Tur, Anoop Deoras, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Extending Domain Coverage of Language Understanding Systems via Intent Transfer Between Domains Using Knowledge Graphs and Search Query Click Logs
  
  Ali El-Kahky, Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2014
  
  Publication
- Task Specific Continuous Word Representations for Mono and Multi-lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Tasos Anastasakos, Young-Bum Kim, Anoop Deoras
  
  May 2014
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning and Clustering for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  April 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Conversational Knowledge Graphs
  
  Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-70 | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  ISCA Interspeech | September 2013
  
  ISCA Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | August 2013
  
  Publication
- IsNL? A Discriminative Approach to Detect Natural Language Like Queries for Conversational Understanding
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Web-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Discovering New User Intents from Search Query Logs
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  
  Publication Publication Project
- TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Resources
  
  Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | May 2013
  
  Publication
- Multi-Style Adaptive Training for Robust Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Latent Semantic Modeling for Slot Filling in Conversational Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Joint Discriminative Decoding of Word and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Statistical Semantic Interpretation Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding with Enriched Semantic Features
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies | December 2012
  
  Publication
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2012
  
  Publication 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
- 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
- Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication
- Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  North Ameircan Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL-2012: Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Employing Web Search Query Click Logs for Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Harris, Rukmini Iyer, Sarangarajan Parthasarthy
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Exploiting Distance Based Similarity in Topic Models for User Intent Detection
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication
- Learning Weighted Entity Lists from Web Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Bootstrapping Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs for New Domains
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2011
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Language Understanding with Shared Slots
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding with Approximate Inference
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Web Query Logs to Learn User Intent Via Bayesian Latent Variable Model
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost | July 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2011
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Plenary Award
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Exploiting Query Click Logs for Utterance Domain Detection in Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP
  
  Publication Project
- Sentence Simplification for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Suresh Parthasarathy
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Lexicon Modeling for Query Understanding
  
  Jingjing Liu, Xiao Li, Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang
  
  ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech
  
  Gokhan Tur
  
  Published by John Wiley and Sons | January 2011
  
  Publication
- The CALO Meeting Assistant System
  
  Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Mike Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | August 2010, Vol 18(6): pp. 1601-1611
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szymanski
  
  The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2009
  
  Publication
- On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li
  
  EMNLP | August 2009
  
  EMNLP
  
  Publication Project
- Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries
  
  Mehdi Manshadi, Xiao Li
  
  ACL | August 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  SIGIR | July 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Inductive and Example-Based Learning for Text Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
  
  Interspeech | September 2008
  
  Publication Project
- An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, S. Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Sibel Yaman
  
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2008, Vol 16: pp. 1207-1214
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- A Discriminative Training Framework Using N-Best Speech Recognition Transcriptions and Scores for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2007
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Maximum Entropy Model Parameterization with Tf-Idf Weighted Vector Space Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | January 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding.
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Rapid Development of Spoken Language Understanding Grammars
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Speech Communication | January 2006, Vol 48(3-4): pp. 390-416
  
  Publication Project Project
- Speech Utterance Classification Model Training without Manual Transcriptions
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
  
  COLING/ACL06 | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- Semiautomatic Improvements of System-Initiative Spoken Dialog Applications Using Interactive Clustering
  
  Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Proc (Special Issue on Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog) | September 2005
  
  Publication Project
- SGStudio: Rapid Semantic Grammar Development for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- Spoken Language Understanding “” An Introduction to the Statistical Framework
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Li Deng, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | January 2005, Vol 22(5): pp. 16-31
  
  Publication Project Project
- Statistical Spoken Language Understanding: from Generative Model to Conditional Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero
  
  NIPS Workshop: Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju
  
  International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2004
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Semantically Structured Language Model
  
  Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang, Kuansan Wang
  
  Special Workshop in Maui | January 2004
  
  Publication Project
- Concept Acquisition in Example-Based Grammar Authoring
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Combination of CFG and N-gram Modeling in Semantic Grammar Learning
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Eurospeech 2003 | January 2003
  
  Eurospeech 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2003
  
  Publication Project
- Combination of Statistical and Rule-Based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan Frey, Leon Wong
  
  International Conference on Spoken Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Spoken Language Grammar Learning in ATIS Domain
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project
- Clustering Novel Intents in a Conversational Interaction System with Semantic Parsing
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Y. C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur
  
  Interspeech 2015 Conference | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Personal Knowledge Graph Population from User Utterances in Conversational Understanding
  
  Xiang Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Qi Li
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Deriving Local Relational Surface Forms from Dependency-Based Entity Embeddings for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Distributed Open-Domain Conversational Understanding Framework With Domain Independent Extractors
  
  Qi Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiang Li, Tim Paek, Asela Gunawardana, Chris Quirk
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Learning Semantic Entity Representations with Knowledge Graph and Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Named Entity Disambiguation
  
  Hongzhao Huang, Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-108 | August 2014
  
  Publication
- Extending Domain Coverage of Language Understanding Systems via Intent Transfer Between Domains Using Knowledge Graphs and Search Query Click Logs
  
  Ali El-Kahky, Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2014
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning and Clustering for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  April 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Conversational Knowledge Graphs
  
  Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-70 | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Situated Conversational Interaction (Invited Talk)
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Patrick Pantel
  
  IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing | December 2013
  
  Publication
- 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
- IsNL? A Discriminative Approach to Detect Natural Language Like Queries for Conversational Understanding
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Web-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Discovering New User Intents from Search Query Logs
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Pay Attention, Please: Attention at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop
  
  Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE SLTC Newsletter | November 2012
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing
  
  Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2012
  
  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
- An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, S. Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Sibel Yaman
  
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2008, Vol 16: pp. 1207-1214
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2011
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Plenary Award
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2003
  
  Publication Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2011
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Plenary Award
  
  Publication Publication Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Learning Semantic Entity Representations with Knowledge Graph and Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Named Entity Disambiguation
  
  Hongzhao Huang, Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-108 | August 2014
  
  Publication
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing
  
  Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Deeper Understanding Deep Convex Networks for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication
- Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szymanski
  
  The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2009
  
  Publication
- Probabilistic Enrichment of Knowledge Graph Entities for Relation Detection in Conversational Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Geoff Zweig
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Understanding Spoken Language
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Published by CRC Press | 2014
  
  Publication
- Understanding Computer-Directed Utterances in Multi-User Dialog Systems
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Using a Knowledge Graph and Query Click Logs for Unsupervised Learning of Relation Detection
  
  Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Translating Natural Language Utterances to Search Queries for SLU Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding: Exploiting Query Click Logs for Slot Filling
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- What’s Left to Be Understood in ATIS?
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  December 2010
  
  Publication
- Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries
  
  Xiao Li
  
  ACL | July 2010
  
  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
- 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
- Semiautomatic Improvements of System-Initiative Spoken Dialog Applications Using Interactive Clustering
  
  Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Proc (Special Issue on Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog) | September 2005
  
  Publication Project
- Robust Spoken Language Understanding in MiPad
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 2001
  
  Publication Project

- Grammar Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2001
  
  Publication Project Project
- Robust Spoken Language Understanding in MiPad
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 2001
  
  Publication Project
- A Robust Parser for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang
  
  Eurospeech | January 1999
  
  Publication Project
- Scalable Semi-Supervised Query Classification Using Matrix Sketching
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  July 2016
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning of Intent Embeddings for Expansion by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  IEEE ICASSP | March 2016
  
  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
- Convolutional Neural Network Based Semantic Tagging with Entity Embeddings
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for SLU & Interaction | December 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- Learning Bidirectional Intent Embeddings by Convolutional Deep Structured Semantic Models for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  NIPS workshop | December 2015
  
  Publication
- 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
- Recurrent Neural Network and LSTM Models for Lexical Utterance Classification
  
  Suman Ravuri, Andreas Stolcke
  
  Proc. Interspeech | September 2015
  
  Publication Project Project
- New Transfer Learning Techniques For Disparate Label Sets
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo Jeong
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Pre-training of Hidden-Unit CRFs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Compact Lexicon Selection with Spectral Methods
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | August 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Weakly Supervised Slot Tagging with Partially Labeled Sequences from Web Search Click Logs
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | June 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Clustering Novel Intents in a Conversational Interaction System with Semantic Parsing
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Y. C. Ju, Geoffrey Zweig, Gokhan Tur
  
  Interspeech 2015 Conference | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Probabilistic Features for Connecting Eye Gaze to Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anna Prokofieva, Malcolm Slaney, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of ICASSP | April 2015
  
  Publication Project
- Joint Semantic Utterance Classification and Slot Filling with Recursive Neural Networks
  
  Daniel (Zhaohan) Guo, Gokhan Tur, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Geoffrey Zweig
  
  2014 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2014) | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Personal Knowledge Graph Population from User Utterances in Conversational Understanding
  
  Xiang Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Qi Li
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Deriving Local Relational Surface Forms from Dependency-Based Entity Embeddings for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Yun-Nung Chen, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  December 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Distributed Open-Domain Conversational Understanding Framework With Domain Independent Extractors
  
  Qi Li, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiang Li, Tim Paek, Asela Gunawardana, Chris Quirk
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Resolving Referring Expressions in Conversational Dialogs for Natural User Interfaces
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhaleh Feizollahi, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  October 2014
  
  Publication Publication
- Rapidly Building Domain-Specific Entity-Centric Language Models Using Semantic Web Knowledge Sources
  
  Murat Akbacak, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Detecting Out-Of-Domain Utterances Addressed to a Virtual Personal Assistant
  
  Gokhan Tur, Anoop Deoras, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Probabilistic Enrichment of Knowledge Graph Entities for Relation Detection in Conversational Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Geoff Zweig
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 2014
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Extending Domain Coverage of Language Understanding Systems via Intent Transfer Between Domains Using Knowledge Graphs and Search Query Click Logs
  
  Ali El-Kahky, Xiaohu Liu, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) | May 2014
  
  Publication
- Task Specific Continuous Word Representations for Mono and Multi-lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Tasos Anastasakos, Young-Bum Kim, Anoop Deoras
  
  May 2014
  
  Publication
- Zero-Shot Learning and Clustering for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  April 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Situated Conversational Interaction (Invited Talk)
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Patrick Pantel
  
  IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing | December 2013
  
  Publication
- Deep Belief Network based Semantic Taggers for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  ISCA Interspeech | September 2013
  
  ISCA Interspeech
  
  Publication
- Semi-Supervised Semantic Tagging for Conversational Understanding Using Markov Topic Regression
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya
  
  Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics | August 2013
  
  Publication
- 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
- IsNL? A Discriminative Approach to Detect Natural Language Like Queries for Conversational Understanding
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Web-Scale Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2013
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Publication Project
- A Weakly-Supervised Approach for Discovering New User Intents from Search Query Logs
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz, Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | August 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
  
  Young-Bum Kim, Benjamin Snyder
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | June 2013
  
  North American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Multi-Style Adaptive Training for Robust Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Xiaodong He, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Understanding Computer-Directed Utterances in Multi-User Dialog Systems
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Using a Knowledge Graph and Query Click Logs for Unsupervised Learning of Relation Detection
  
  Larry Heck, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication Project
- Latent Semantic Modeling for Slot Filling in Conversational Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  May 2013
  
  Publication
- Statistical Semantic Interpretation Modeling for Spoken Language Understanding with Enriched Semantic Features
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies | December 2012
  
  Publication
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- The Conversational Web
  
  Larry Heck
  
  Keynote Presentation, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology | December 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Use of Kernel Deep Convex Networks and End-To-End Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Li Deng, Gokhan Tur, Xiaodong He, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  December 2012
  
  Publication
- 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
- Exploiting the Semantic Web for Unsupervised Natural Language Semantic Parsing
  
  Gokhan Tur, Minwoo Jeong, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | September 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
- Joint Decoding for Speech Recognition and Semantic Tagging
  
  Anoop Deoras, Ruhi Sarikaya, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) | September 2012
  
  Publication
- Mining Search Query Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  North Ameircan Association for Computational Linguistics NAACL-2012: Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data | June 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Deeper Understanding Deep Convex Networks for Semantic Utterance Classification
  
  Gokhan Tur, Li Deng, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Xiaodong He
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication
- Translating Natural Language Utterances to Search Queries for SLU Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  March 2012
  
  Publication Project
- Employing Web Search Query Click Logs for Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Asli Celikyilmaz, Ashley Fidler, Dustin Harris, Rukmini Iyer, Sarangarajan Parthasarthy
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Exploiting Distance Based Similarity in Topic Models for User Intent Detection
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | December 2011
  
  Publication
- Learning Weighted Entity Lists from Web Click Logs for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Dustin Hillard, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Towards Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding: Exploiting Query Click Logs for Slot Filling
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Asli Celikyilmaz
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Bootstrapping Domain Detection Using Query Click Logs for New Domains
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Elizabeth Shriberg
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech | August 2011
  
  Proceedings of Interspeech
  
  Publication Project
- Multi-Task Learning for Spoken Language Understanding with Shared Slots
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding with Approximate Inference
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  August 2011
  
  Publication
- Leveraging Web Query Logs to Learn User Intent Via Bayesian Latent Variable Model
  
  Asli Celikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur
  
  ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost | July 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
  
  Young-Bum Kim
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) | July 2011
  
  Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  
  Plenary Award
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Exploiting Query Click Logs for Utterance Domain Detection in Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Proceedings of the ICASSP
  
  Publication Project
- Sentence Simplification for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck, Suresh Parthasarathy
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- Lexicon Modeling for Query Understanding
  
  Jingjing Liu, Xiao Li, Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang
  
  ICASSP | May 2011
  
  Publication Project
- What’s Left to Be Understood in ATIS?
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry Heck
  
  December 2010
  
  Publication
- Understanding the Semantic Structure of Noun Phrase Queries
  
  Xiao Li
  
  ACL | July 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Semi-Supervised Learning of Semantic Classes for Query Understanding – from the Web and for the Web
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Raphael Hoffmann, Xiao Li, Jakub Szymanski
  
  The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management | November 2009
  
  Publication
- On the Use of Virtual Evidence in Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li
  
  EMNLP | August 2009
  
  EMNLP
  
  Publication Project
- Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries
  
  Mehdi Manshadi, Xiao Li
  
  ACL | August 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Extracting Structured Information from User Queries with Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
  
  Xiao Li, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  SIGIR | July 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
- Inductive and Example-Based Learning for Text Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Xiao Li, Alex Acero
  
  Interspeech | September 2008
  
  Publication Project
- A Discriminative Training Framework Using N-Best Speech Recognition Transcriptions and Scores for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Sibel Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Proc. of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | April 2007
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Maximum Entropy Model Parameterization with Tf-Idf Weighted Vector Space Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop | January 2007
  
  Publication Project
- Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding.
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- N-Gram Based Filler Model for Robust Grammar Authoring
  
  Dong Yu, Y. C. Ju, Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Speech Utterance Classification Model Training without Manual Transcriptions
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing | January 2006
  
  Publication Project
- Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
  
  COLING/ACL06 | January 2006
  
  Publication Project Project
- SGStudio: Rapid Semantic Grammar Development for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- Statistical Spoken Language Understanding: from Generative Model to Conditional Model
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, John Lee, Milind Mahajan, Alex Acero
  
  NIPS Workshop: Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing | January 2005
  
  Publication Project Project
- Creating Speech Recognition Grammars from Regular Expressions for Alphanumeric Concepts
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Y. C. Ju
  
  International Conference on Spoken Language Processing | January 2004
  
  Publication Project Project
- A Semantically Structured Language Model
  
  Alex Acero, Ye-Yi Wang, Kuansan Wang
  
  Special Workshop in Maui | January 2004
  
  Publication Project
- Concept Acquisition in Example-Based Grammar Authoring
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Combination of CFG and N-gram Modeling in Semantic Grammar Learning
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Eurospeech 2003 | January 2003
  
  Eurospeech 2003
  
  Publication Project Project
- Is Word Error Rate a Good Indicator for Spoken Language Understanding Accuracy
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba
  
  IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding | January 2003
  
  Publication Project
- Combination of Statistical and Rule-Based Approaches for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Ciprian Chelba, Brendan Frey, Leon Wong
  
  International Conference on Spoken Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project Project
- Evaluation of Spoken Language Grammar Learning in ATIS Domain
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing | January 2002
  
  Publication Project
- Learning Semantic Entity Representations with Knowledge Graph and Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Named Entity Disambiguation
  
  Hongzhao Huang, Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-108 | August 2014
  
  Publication
- Conversational Knowledge Graphs
  
  Larry Heck
  
  MSR-TR-2014-70 | March 2014
  
  Publication
- Understanding Spoken Language
  
  Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  Published by CRC Press | 2014
  
  Publication
- TechWare: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Resources
  
  Gokhan Tur, Ye-Yi Wang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | May 2013
  
  Publication
- Joint Discriminative Decoding of Word and Semantic Tags for Spoken Language Understanding
  
  Anoop Deoras, Gokhan Tur, Ruhi Sarikaya, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Pay Attention, Please: Attention at the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop
  
  Malcolm Slaney
  
  IEEE SLTC Newsletter | November 2012
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Research Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Applications
  
  Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur, Larry Heck
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | August 2011
  
  Publication Project
- The CALO Meeting Assistant System
  
  Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Mike Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang
  
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | August 2010, Vol 18(6): pp. 1601-1611
  
  Publication Publication Project
- An Integrative and Discriminative Technique for Spoken Utterance Classification
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, S. Yaman, Li Deng, Dong Yu, Alex Acero, Sibel Yaman
  
  IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing | January 2008, Vol 16: pp. 1207-1214
  
  Publication Project Project Project
- Rapid Development of Spoken Language Understanding Grammars
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero
  
  Speech Communication | January 2006, Vol 48(3-4): pp. 390-416
  
  Publication Project Project
- Semiautomatic Improvements of System-Initiative Spoken Dialog Applications Using Interactive Clustering
  
  Dong Yu, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Trans. Speech & Audio Proc (Special Issue on Data Mining of Speech, Audio and Dialog) | September 2005
  
  Publication Project
- Spoken Language Understanding “” An Introduction to the Statistical Framework
  
  Ye-Yi Wang, Li Deng, Alex Acero
  
  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | January 2005, Vol 22(5): pp. 16-31
  
  Publication Project Project
- Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech
  
  Gokhan Tur
  
  Published by John Wiley and Sons | January 2011
  
  Publication