S. Young, M. Gasic, B. Thomson and J. Williams (2013).
"POMDP-based Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems: a Review." Proc IEEE To Appear.
Proc IEEE, to appear,
PDF
B. Thomson (2009).
"Statistical methods for spoken dialogue management."
Ph.D. Thesis. University of Cambridge. PDF
B. Thomson and S.Young (2010).
"Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems."
Computer Speech and Language.
Final . (Draft)
S. Young, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson and K. Yu (2010).
"The Hidden Information State Model: a practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management."
Computer Speech and Language. PDF
F. Jurcicek, B. Thomson, S. Young (2011) "Reinforcement learning for parameter
estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
(Accepted)". Computer Speech and Language
Ulrich Paquet, Blaise Thomson, and Ole Winther (2011). A Hierarchical Model for Ordinal Matrix Factorization
Statistics and Computing (preprint;final)
Peer-reviewed Conference Publications
2012
B.Thomson, M. Gasic, M. Henderson, P. Tsiakoulis and
S. Young. "N-Best error simulation for training spoken dialogue systems", IEEE SLT, Miami, Florida, to appear
M. Henderson, M. Gasic, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and
S. Young. "Discriminative Spoken Language Understanding Using Word Confusion Networks", IEEE SLT, Miami, Florida, to appear
M. Gasic, M. Henderson, B. Thomson, P. Tsiakoulis and
S. Young. "Policy optimisation of POMDP-based dialogue systems without state space compression", IEEE SLT, Miami, Florida, to appear
M. Gasic, P. Tsiakoulis, M. Henderson, B. Thomson, K. Yu, E. Tzirkel and
S. Young. "The effect of cognitive load on a statistical dialogue system", Sigdial, Seoul,
PDF
2011
A. W. Black, S. Burger, A. Conkie, H. Hastie, S. Keizer, O. Lemon,
N. Merigaud, G. Parent, G. Schubiner, B. Thomson, J. D. Williams, K. Yu,
S. Young and M. Eskenazi. (2011) Spoken Dialog Challenge 2010: Comparison
of Live and Control Test Results . SIGDial 2011. (PDF)
F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, M. Gasic, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, and
S. Young. (2011)
Real user evaluation of spoken dialogue
systems using Amazon Mechanical
Turk INTERSPEECH 2011.(PDF)
M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek, B. Thomson, K. Yu, S. Young. (2011) On-line policy
optimisation of spoken dialogue systems via live interaction with human
subjects. IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.
Ulrich Paquet, Blaise Thomson, and Ole Winther (2011)
Large-scale Ordinal Collaborative Filtering
(pdf)
1st Workshop on Mining the Future Internet, Future Internet
Symposium, Berlin, September 2010.
S. Keizer, M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and
S. Young. (2010)
Parameter estimation for agenda-based
user simulation.
SIGDial 2010.
M. Gasic, F.Lefevre, F. Jurccek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, S. Young (2009).
"Back-off Action Selection in Summary Space-Based POMDP dialogue systems." ASRU 2009, Italy.
F. Lefevre, M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu and S. Young (2009).
"k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-based Dialogue Systems. "
SigDial 2009, London, UK. PDF
F. Jurcicek, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson and S. Young (2009).
"Transformation-based Learning for Semantic Parsing. "
Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK. PDF
K. Yu, T. Toda, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson,
S. Young. (2009) "Probabilistic modelling of F0 in unvoiced regions in
HMM based speech synthesis" .
ICASSP 2009, Taiwan.
F. Mairesse, M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, B. Thomson, K. Yu,
S. Young. (2009) "Spoken language understanding from unaligned data
using discriminative classification models" .
ICASSP 2009, Taiwan.
2008
S. Keizer, M. Gasic, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, and S. Young. "Modelling user behaviour in the HIS-POMDP dialogue manager." In Proceedings of SLT, Goa, India, December 2008.
B. Thomson, K. Yu, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann and
S. Young. "Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple
hypotheses", Interspeech 2008,
Brisbane, Australia. PDF, 243 KB
B. Thomson, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, K.Yu and
S. Young. "User study of the Bayesian Update of Dialogue
State approach to dialogue management", Interspeech 2008,
Brisbane, Australia. PDF, 338 KB
M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson, S. Young. "Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise." Sigdial, Columbus, Ohio, 2008. PDF, 193 KB
B. Thomson, J. Schatzmann and S. Young. "Bayesian Update of Dialogue
State for Robust Dialogue Systems", International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, March 30-April 4,
2008. PDF, 201 KB (2008 IEEE Student
Spoken Language Processing Grant)
2007
J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson and S. Young. "Error Simulation for Training Statistical Dialogue Systems", IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, December 9-13, 2007. PDF, 129 KB
J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson and S. Young. "Statistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda", 8th SIGDial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2-3, 2007. PDF, 146 KB
J. Schatzmann, B. Thomson, K. Weilhammer, H. Ye, and S. Young. "Agenda-based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System." HLT/NAACL, Rochester, NY, April 23-25, 2007. PDF, 73 KB
B. Thomson, J. Schatzmann, K. Weilhammer, H. Ye, and S. Young. "Training a real-world POMDP Dialogue System", HLT/NAACL Workshop "Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies", Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007. PDF, 215 KB
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