Publications

  Journal papers

1. James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, and Kallirroi Georgila, "Hybrid Reinforcement / Supervised Learning of Dialogue Policies from Fixed Datasets", Computational Linguistics 34(4): 487-512, 2008
2. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Does this list contain what you were searching for? Learning adaptive dialogue strategies for Interactive Question Answering", Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 15(1), 2008
3. Matthew Frampton and Oliver Lemon, "Recent research advances in Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems" , Knowledge Engineering Review,  24(4): 375-408, 2009.
4. Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Francois Mairesse, Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson and Kai Yu. "The Hidden Information State Model: a practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management",  Computer Speech and Language, 2009.
5. Blaise Thomson and Steve Young. "Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems". Computer Speech and Language, 2009.
6. Kallirroi Georgila, Oliver Lemon,  James Henderson, Johanna Moore, "Automatic annotation of context and speech acts for dialogue corpora",  Journal of  Natural Language Engineering, 15(3): 315-353, 2009.
   
7. Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, and Gabriel Fricout. "From supervised to reinforcement learning:a kernel-based bayesian filtering framework". International Journal On Advances in Software, 2(1), 2009. accepted for publication.
8. Heriberto Cuayáhuitl,  Steve Renals, Oliver Lemon, Hiroshi Shimodaira, "Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system", Computer Speech and Language, (to appear)
9. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Human Multimodal Dialogue Strategies.", Journal of  Natural Language Engineering,  16(1): 3-23, 2009.
10. Oliver Lemon, "Learning what to say and how to say it: joint  optimization of spoken dialogue management and Natural Language Generation", Computer Speech and Language, (to appear)
    

  Conference Papers

2009

1. Xingkun Liu and  Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "A Wizard-of-Oz interface to study Information Presentation strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems", in Proc. First Europe-Asia Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology Workshop, 2009 
2. Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, and Gabriel Fricout. "Tracking in reinforcement learning". In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2009), December 2009. Springer. to appear.
3. A. Gesmundo, J. Henderson, P. Merlo, and I. Titov. "A latent variable model of synchronous syntactic-semantic parsing for multiple languages." In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2009): Shared Task, Boulder, Colorado, 2009.http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W09/W09-1205.pdf
   
4. I. Titov, J. Henderson, P. Merlo, and G. Musillo. "Online Graph Planarisation for Synchronous Parsing of Semantic and Syntactic Dependencies." In Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, USA, 2009.http://ijcai.org/papers09/Papers/IJCAI09-261.pdf
   
5. Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, and Gabriel Fricout. "Kalman temporal differences: the deterministic case".  In IEEE International Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning (ADPRL 2009), pages 185–192, Nashville, TN, USA, April 2009.
6. Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, and Gabriel Fricout.   "Diff´erences temporelles de kalman".   In actes des Journ´ees Francophones de Planification, D´ecision et Apprentissage pour la conduite de syst`emes (JFPDA 2009), Paris, June 2009.
7. Matthieu Geist, Olivier Pietquin, and Gabriel Fricout.  "Diff´erences temporelles de kalman : le cas stochastique". In actes des Journ´ees Francophones de Planification, D´ecision et Apprentissage pour la conduite de syst`emes (JFPDA 2009), Paris, 2009.
8. F. Lefevre, M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, and S. Young. "k-Nearest Neighbor Monte-Carlo Control Algorithm for POMDP-based Dialogue Systems", SIGDial 2009.
9. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Two-tier User Simulation Model for Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies", SIGDial 2009.
10. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "A Data-driven method for Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Automated Dialogue Systems: Maximising Expected Utility", Cognitive Science Conference, (Production of Referring Expressions workshop), 2009.
    
11. Helen Hastie, Xingkun Liu, and Oliver Lemon, "Automatic Generation of Information State Update Dialogue Systems that Dynamically Create Voice XML, as Demonstrated on the Google Android Phone",  SIGDial 2009.
12. Romain Laroche, Ghislain Putois, Philippe Bretier and Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,  "Hybridisation of Expertise and Reinforcement Learning in Dialogue Systems",  Interspeech 2009.
13. Didier Cadic, Cédric Boidin, Christophe d'Alessandro, "Vocalic sandwich, a unit designed for unit selection TTS", Interspeech 2009
14. Cedric Boidin, Olivier Boeffard, Thierry Moudenc, Géraldine Damnati, "Towards Intonation Control in Unit Selection Speech Synthesis", Interspeech 2009
15. F. Jurcicek, M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, K. Yu, and S. Young, Transformation-based Learning for Semantic Parsing, Interspeech 2009
16. Cedric Boidin, Verena Rieser, Lonneke van der Plas, Oliver Lemon, Jonathan Chevelu, "Predicting how it sounds: Re-ranking dialogue prompts based on TTS quality for adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems", Interspeech 2009, Special Session: Machine Learning for Adaptivity in Spoken Dialogue Systems
17. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon, "Learning Adaptive Referring Expression Generation Policies for Spoken Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement Learning", SEMdial 2009 (Diaholmia)
    
18. Paola Merlo and Lonneke van der Plas, "Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?", ACL 2009
    
19. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon "Learning Lexical Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Expressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems", ENLG 2009 
20. Srini Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon "A Wizard-of-Oz environment to study Referring Expression Generation in a Situated Spoken Dialogue Task", ENLG 2009
21. K. Yu, T. Toda,  M. Gasic, S. Keizer, F. Mairesse, B. Thomson, and S. Young, "Probabilistic Modelling of F0 in Unvoiced Regions in HMM Based Speech Synthesis", Proceedings of ICASSP, 2009 
22. F. Mairesse, M. Gasic, F. Jurcicek,  S. Keizer, B. Thomson, K. Yu, and S. Young, "Spoken Language Understanding from Unaligned Data using Discriminative Classification Models", Proceedings of ICASSP 2009 
23. Oliver Lemon and Ioannis Konstas "User Simulations for Context-sensitive Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009. 
24. Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon, "Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Spoken Dialogue Systems", EACL 2009. 
25. L. van der Plas, J. Henderson, P. Merlo, "Training a Parser on Artificially Fragmented Data for Spoken Language understanding."  CLIN 2009.