Publications

  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2022

    T. Botschen and S. Ultes
    Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung von Sprachausgaben in einem Fahrzeug
    DE PATENT DE102021003074B3, August 2022
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Dialogue & Discourse, Vol. 13(1), pp. 1--40, April 2022
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    W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
    Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
    Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 242, pp. 108318, 2022
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 13, Num. 1, pp. 1-40, 2022
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    2021

    Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), NLP Association of India (NLPAI), National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India, pp. 139--151, December 2021
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    W. Maier, S. Ultes and T. Blankenhorn
    Vorrichtung zur Bestimmung der Wahrscheinlichkeit einer erfolgreichen drahtlosen Informationsübertragung, Verfahren zum Betrieb einer solchen Vorrichtung und Fahrzeug mit einer solchen Vorrichtung
    DE PATENT 102021004421A1, December 2021
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    Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues using BERT
    Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pp. 839--845, September 2021
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    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    User Satisfaction Reward Estimation Across Domains: Domain-independent Dialog Policy Learning
    Dialogue & Discourse, Vol. 12(2), pp. 81--114, September 2021
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    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore and Online, pp. 403--410, July 2021
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    S. Ultes, W. Maier and C. Schwarze
    Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur einheitlichen Steuerung von Sprachdialogen auf einem mobilen Endgerät und in der Cloud
    DE PATENT 102021002368A1, July 2021

    J. Miehle, S. Wieluch, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Decide or Delegate: How Script Knowledge Based Conversational Assistants Should Act in Inconclusive Situations
    Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2021), Association for Computing Machinery, Nara, Japan, pp. 69--73, January 2021
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    L. Morency, S. Sakti, B. Schuller and S. Ultes
    Multimodal Machine Learning for Social Interaction with Ageing Individuals
    Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies : Communications of NII Shonan Meetings, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 61--70, 2021
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    J. Miehle, I. Feustel, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    A Script Knowledge Based Dialogue System for Indoor Navigation
    Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 379--385, 2021
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    J. Miehle, N. Wagner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants
    Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 103--115, 2021
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    N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, S. Ultes, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
    Estimating Subjective Argument Quality Aspects from Social Signals in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 11610-11621, 2021
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    N. Rach, K. Weber, Y. Yang, S. Ultes, E. André and W. Minker
    EVA 2.0: Emotional and Rational Multimodal Argumentation between Virtual Agents
    it - Information Technology, Vol. 63, Num. 1, pp. 17--30, 2021
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    N. Rach, C. Schindler, I. Feustel, J. Daxenberger, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, Singapore, 2021
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    W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
    Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02691, 2021
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    A. Aicher, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Opinion Building based on the Argumentative Dialogue System BEA
    Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer Singapore, Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), pp. 307--318, 2021
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    2020

    O. Pietquin, S. Muresan, V. Chen, C. Kennington, D. Vandyke, N. Dethlefs, K. Inoue, E. Ekstedt and S. Ultes (Eds.)
    Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
    Association for Computational Linguistics, 1st virtual meeting, July 2020
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    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison
    Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, 1st virtual meeting, pp. 311--322, July 2020
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    A. Papangelis and S. Ultes
    Towards meaningful, grounded conversations with intelligent agents
    Robodial 2.0 Special Session of SIGDIAL 2020, July 2020
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    L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Comparative Study of Sentence Embeddings for Contextual Paraphrasing
    Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France, pp. 6843-6853, May 2020
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    J. Miehle, I. Feustel, J. Hornauer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Marseille, France, pp. 533--541, May 2020
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    S. Peters, R. Pätzold, T. Botschen, A. Schmitt, F. Nebel, S. Ultes, W. Maier and I. Kreuz
    Verfahren zur Ausgabe von Empfehlungen zum energieeffizienten Bedienen eines Fahrzeugs durch ein vom Fahrzeug umfasstes Assistenzsystem
    DE PATENT DE102020110866A1, April 2020

    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    On the Complexity in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, pp. 1--4, 2020
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    N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, J. Daxenberger, S. Ultes, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
    Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2020
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System through Argument Chains
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 2020
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    K. Weber, K. Janowski, N. Rach, K. Weitz, W. Minker, S. Ultes and E. André
    Predicting Persuasive Effectiveness for Multimodal Behavior Adaptation using Bipolar Weighted Argument Graphs
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
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    2019

    S. Ultes
    Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
    Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 11--20, September 2019
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    S. Nakamura, M. Gašić, I. Zuckerman, G. Skantze, M. Nakano, A. Papangelis, S. Ultes and K. Yoshino (Eds.)
    Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
    Association for Computational Linguistics, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2019
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    J. Miehle, L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions
    arXiv:1907.00684, July 2019
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    K. Lee, T. Zhao, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, E. Pincus, D. Traum and M. Eskenazi
    An assessment framework for DialPort
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents : 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79--85, 2019
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    J. Miehle, I. Bagci, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    A Social Companion and Conversational Partner for the Elderly
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 103--109, 2019
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    L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Exploring the Applicability of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Dialogue Management
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents : 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 189--198, 2019
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    S. Ultes, J. Miehle and W. Minker
    On the Applicability of a User Satisfaction-Based Reward for Dialogue Policy Learning
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 211--217, 2019
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    2018

    N. Rach, K. Weber, L. Pragst, E. André, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System
    Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, October 2018
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue
    Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Warsaw, September 2018
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, L. Rojas-Barahona, B. Tseng, Y. Wu, S. Young and M. Gašić
    Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, F. Kreyssig, B. Tseng, Y. Wu and M. Gašić
    Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    B. Tseng, F. Kreyssig, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, Y. Wu, S. Ultes and M. Gašić
    Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    L. Pragst and S. Ultes
    Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 11-19, July 2018
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Exploring the Impact of Elaborateness and Indirectness on User Satisfaction in a Spoken Dialogue System
    Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), ACM, Singapore, pp. 165--172, July 2018
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Handling Unknown User Arguments in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), Belfast, UK, July 2018
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    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, P. Su, S. Ultes, B. Tseng and M. Gašić
    Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), Association for Computational Linguistics, New Orleans, Lousiana, pp. 714--719, June 2018
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    J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    L. Pragst, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    N. Rach, S. Langhammer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May 2018
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    L. Barahona, B. Tseng, Y. Dai, C. Mansfield, O. Ramadan, S. Ultes, M. Crawford and M. Gašić
    Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, pp. 44--54, 2018
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    P. Budzianowski, T. Wen, B. Tseng, I. Casanueva, S. Ultes, O. Ramadan and M. Gašić
    MultiWOZ-A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 5016--5026, 2018
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    2017

    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, P. Su, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, S. Young and M. Gašić
    A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of Deep Reinforcement Learning Symposium, 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2017
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    M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T. Wen and S. Young
    Dialogue Manager Domain Adaptation Using Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning
    Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 45, pp. 552--569, September 2017
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    K. Lee, T. Zhao, Y. Du, E. Cai, A. Lu, E. Pincus, D. Traum, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, S. Young and M. Eskenazi
    DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 170--173, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Domain-independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning
    Proceedings of Interspeech, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1721--1725, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, P. Su, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
    Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 65--70, August 2017
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    P. Su, P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 147--157, August 2017
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    P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, P. Su, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, I. Casanueva, L. Rojas-Barahona and M. Gašić
    Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 86--92, August 2017
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    J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    An Intelligent Digital Assistant for Clinical Operating Rooms
    Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--165, August 2017
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--169, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, D. Vandyke, D. Kim, I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit
    Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations, Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 73--78, July 2017
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    A. Papangelis, S. Ultes and Y. Stylianou
    Domain Complexity and Policy Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Farmington, USA, June 2017
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System
    Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'17), London, UK, June 2017
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    T. Wen, D. Vandyke, N. Mrkšić, M. Gašić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes and S. Young
    A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System
    Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, pp. 438--449, April 2017
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    L. Pragst, K. Yoshino, W. Minker, S. Nakamura and S. Ultes
    Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1, pp. 915-925, 2017
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    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 367--379, 2017
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    L. Pragst, J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Challenges for adaptive dialogue management in the KRISTINA project
    ISIAA 2017: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Glasgow, UK, pp. 11-14, 2017
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    L. Pragst, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 381--393, 2017
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    M. Sidorov, K. Brester, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Salient Cross-lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 159--169, 2017
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    2016

    L. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, P. Su, S. Ultes, T. Wen and S. Young
    Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding
    Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee, Osaka, Japan, pp. 258--267, December 2016
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    T. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke and S. Young
    Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Austin, Texas, pp. 2153--2162, November 2016
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    L. Pragst, J. Miehle, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Automatic Modification of Communication Style in Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, Association for Computational Linguistics, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 36--40, September 2016
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    J. Miehle, K. Yoshino, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
    Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction
    Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 74--79, September 2016
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    P. Su, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T. Wen and S. Young
    On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, Germany, pp. 2431--2441, August 2016
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    S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.)
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems
    Springer International Publishing, In: S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.) 2nd Edition, 2016
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    L. Wanner, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Domínguez, G. Llorach, S. Mille, F. Sukno, E. Kamateri, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Vrochidis, E. André, F. Lingenfels, G. Mehlmann, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, L. Lamel, B. Vieru, W. Minker, L. Pragst and S. Ultes
    Towards a Multimedia Knowledge-Based Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities
    Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 21--26, 2016
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    G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris and L. Wanner
    Towards an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Dialogue Framework
    Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 15--20, 2016
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    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    User-Centred Spoken Dialogue Management
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 265--294, 2016
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    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    User-Centred Spoken Dialogue Management
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 265--294, 2016
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    S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
    Dialogue Management for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue
    Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, Cham, pp. 51--61, 2016
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    2015

    A. Schmitt and S. Ultes
    Interaction Quality: Assessing the Quality of Ongoing Spoken Dialog Interaction by Experts---And How It Relates to User Satisfaction
    Speech Communication, Vol. 74, pp. 12--36, November 2015
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    S. Ultes, M. Kraus, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling
    Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 374--383, September 2015
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    L. Pragst, S. Ultes, M. Kraus and W. Minker
    Adaptive Dialogue Management in the KRISTINA Project for Multicultural Health Care Applications
    Proceedings of the 19thWorkshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 202--203, August 2015
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    S. Ultes, M. Platero Sánchez, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus
    Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, Springer International Publishing, pp. 41-52, 2015
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    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Finding Appropriate Interaction Strategies for Proactive Dialogue Systems---An Open Quest
    Proc. of the 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication 2014, LiU Electronic Press, Tartu, Estonia, pp. 73--80, 2015
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    2014

    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Automatic Recognition of Personality Traits: A Multimodal Approach
    Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Mapping Personality Traits Challenge and Workshop (MAPTRAITS), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 11-15, November 2014
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Managing adaptive spoken dialogue for Intelligent Environments
    Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 6, Num. 5, pp. 523--539, August 2014
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs
    Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 208--217, June 2014
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    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Comparison of Gender- and Speaker-adaptive Emotion Recognition
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3476-3480, May 2014
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    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Emotions Are A Personal Thing: Towards Speaker-Adaptive Emotion Recognition
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, pp. 4836-4840, May 2014
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    S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
    First Insight into Quality-Adaptive Dialogue
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 246--251, May 2014
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    S. Ultes, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
    Application and Evaluation of a Conditioned Hidden Markov Model for Estimating Interaction Quality of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones: Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice, Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 303--312, 2014
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    2013

    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction
    Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Metz, France, pp. 122--126, August 2013
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    HIS-OwlSpeak: A Model-driven Dialogue Manager With Multiple Control Modes
    Intelligent Environments (IE), 2013 9th International Conference on, pp. 108--115, July 2013
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    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Experts vs. Users
    Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 569--578, June 2013
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    S. Ultes, R. ElChabb, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    JaCHMM: A Java-Based Conditioned Hidden Markov Model Library
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, pp. 3213--3217, May 2013
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Interaction Quality: A Review
    Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 153--156, 2013
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    2012

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management
    NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012), Association for Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Canada, pp. 49--52, June 2012
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    A. Schmitt, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 3369--3373, May 2012
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    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
    Statistical Modeling of Interaction Quality in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comparison of (Conditioned) Hidden-Markov-Model-based Classifiers vs. Support Vector Machines
    Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, 2012
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    2011

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Attention, Sobriety Checkpoint! Can Humans Determine by Means of Voice, if Someone is Drunk... and can Automatic Classifiers Compete?
    Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, pp. 3221--3224, August 2011
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    S. Ultes, T. Heinroth, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manager
    Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, Springer New York, New York, NY, Granada, Spain, pp. 241--246, 2011
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  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2016

    S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.)
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments: Ambient Adaptive Systems
    Springer International Publishing, In: S. Ultes, F. Nothdurft, T. Heinroth and W. Minker (Eds.) 2nd Edition, 2016
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  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2021

    L. Morency, S. Sakti, B. Schuller and S. Ultes
    Multimodal Machine Learning for Social Interaction with Ageing Individuals
    Multimodal Agents for Ageing and Multicultural Societies : Communications of NII Shonan Meetings, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 61--70, 2021
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    2019

    K. Lee, T. Zhao, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, E. Pincus, D. Traum and M. Eskenazi
    An assessment framework for DialPort
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents : 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79--85, 2019
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    J. Miehle, I. Bagci, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    A Social Companion and Conversational Partner for the Elderly
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 103--109, 2019
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    L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Exploring the Applicability of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Dialogue Management
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents : 8th International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 189--198, 2019
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    S. Ultes, J. Miehle and W. Minker
    On the Applicability of a User Satisfaction-Based Reward for Dialogue Policy Learning
    Advanced Social Interaction with Agents, Springer International Publishing, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 510, pp. 211--217, 2019
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    2017

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Analysis of Temporal Features for Interaction Quality Estimation
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 367--379, 2017
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    L. Pragst, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Recurrent Neural Network Interaction Quality Estimation
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 381--393, 2017
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    M. Sidorov, K. Brester, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Salient Cross-lingual Acoustic and Prosodic Features for English and German Emotion Recognition
    Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 159--169, 2017
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    2016

    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    User-Centred Spoken Dialogue Management
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 265--294, 2016
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    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    User-Centred Spoken Dialogue Management
    Next Generation Intelligent Environments, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 265--294, 2016
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    S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
    Dialogue Management for User-Centered Adaptive Dialogue
    Situated Dialog in Speech-Based Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, Cham, pp. 51--61, 2016
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    2015

    S. Ultes, M. Platero Sánchez, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Analysis of an Extended Interaction Quality Corpus
    Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants, Springer International Publishing, pp. 41-52, 2015
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    2014

    S. Ultes, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
    Application and Evaluation of a Conditioned Hidden Markov Model for Estimating Interaction Quality of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones: Putting Spoken Dialog Systems into Practice, Springer New York, New York, NY, pp. 303--312, 2014
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  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2022

    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Dialogue & Discourse, Vol. 13(1), pp. 1--40, April 2022
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    W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
    Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
    Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 242, pp. 108318, 2022
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    When to Say What and How: Adapting the Elaborateness and Indirectness of Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Dialogue and Discourse, Vol. 13, Num. 1, pp. 1-40, 2022
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    2021

    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    User Satisfaction Reward Estimation Across Domains: Domain-independent Dialog Policy Learning
    Dialogue & Discourse, Vol. 12(2), pp. 81--114, September 2021
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    N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, S. Ultes, W. Minker and K. Yasumoto
    Estimating Subjective Argument Quality Aspects from Social Signals in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 11610-11621, 2021
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    N. Rach, K. Weber, Y. Yang, S. Ultes, E. André and W. Minker
    EVA 2.0: Emotional and Rational Multimodal Argumentation between Virtual Agents
    it - Information Technology, Vol. 63, Num. 1, pp. 17--30, 2021
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    W. Abro, A. Aicher, N. Rach, S. Ultes, W. Minker and G. Qi
    Natural Language Understanding for Argumentative Dialogue Systems in the Opinion Building Domain
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.02691, 2021
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    2019

    J. Miehle, L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Enabling Dialogue Management with Dynamically Created Dialogue Actions
    arXiv:1907.00684, July 2019
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    2017

    M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T. Wen and S. Young
    Dialogue Manager Domain Adaptation Using Gaussian Process Reinforcement Learning
    Computer Speech and Language, Vol. 45, pp. 552--569, September 2017
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    2015

    A. Schmitt and S. Ultes
    Interaction Quality: Assessing the Quality of Ongoing Spoken Dialog Interaction by Experts---And How It Relates to User Satisfaction
    Speech Communication, Vol. 74, pp. 12--36, November 2015
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    2014

    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Managing adaptive spoken dialogue for Intelligent Environments
    Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 6, Num. 5, pp. 523--539, August 2014
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    2013

    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Interaction Quality: A Review
    Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Num. 4, pp. 153--156, 2013
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    2012

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt, R. ElChabb and W. Minker
    Statistical Modeling of Interaction Quality in Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Comparison of (Conditioned) Hidden-Markov-Model-based Classifiers vs. Support Vector Machines
    Bulletin of Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, 2012
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  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2021

    Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Context Matters in Semantically Controlled Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), NLP Association of India (NLPAI), National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India, pp. 139--151, December 2021
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    Y. Liu, W. Maier, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Naturalness Evaluation of Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialogues using BERT
    Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, pp. 839--845, September 2021
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    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    Blending Task Success and User Satisfaction: Analysis of Learned Dialogue Behaviour with Multiple Rewards
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore and Online, pp. 403--410, July 2021
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    J. Miehle, S. Wieluch, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Decide or Delegate: How Script Knowledge Based Conversational Assistants Should Act in Inconclusive Situations
    Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2021), Association for Computing Machinery, Nara, Japan, pp. 69--73, January 2021
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    J. Miehle, I. Feustel, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    A Script Knowledge Based Dialogue System for Indoor Navigation
    Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 379--385, 2021
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    J. Miehle, N. Wagner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Culture-Aware Dialogue Management for Conversational Assistants
    Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, Springer Singapore, Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 704, pp. 103--115, 2021
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    N. Rach, C. Schindler, I. Feustel, J. Daxenberger, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    From Argument Search to Argumentative Dialogue: A Topic-independent Approach to Argument Acquisition for Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, ACL, Singapore, 2021
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    A. Aicher, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Opinion Building based on the Argumentative Dialogue System BEA
    Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction: 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Springer Singapore, Siracusa (Sicily, Italy), pp. 307--318, 2021
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    2020

    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    Similarity Scoring for Dialogue Behaviour Comparison
    Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, 1st virtual meeting, pp. 311--322, July 2020
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    A. Papangelis and S. Ultes
    Towards meaningful, grounded conversations with intelligent agents
    Robodial 2.0 Special Session of SIGDIAL 2020, July 2020
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    L. Pragst, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Comparative Study of Sentence Embeddings for Contextual Paraphrasing
    Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France, pp. 6843-6853, May 2020
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    J. Miehle, I. Feustel, J. Hornauer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Marseille, France, pp. 533--541, May 2020
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    S. Ultes and W. Maier
    On the Complexity in Task-oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, pp. 1--4, 2020
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    N. Rach, Y. Matsuda, J. Daxenberger, S. Ultes, K. Yasumoto and W. Minker
    Evaluation of Argument Search Approaches in the Context of Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, 2020
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Increasing the Naturalness of an Argumentative Dialogue System through Argument Chains
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 2020
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    K. Weber, K. Janowski, N. Rach, K. Weitz, W. Minker, S. Ultes and E. André
    Predicting Persuasive Effectiveness for Multimodal Behavior Adaptation using Bipolar Weighted Argument Graphs
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Auckland, New Zealand, 2020
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    2019

    S. Ultes
    Improving Interaction Quality Estimation with BiLSTMs and the Impact on Dialogue Policy Learning
    Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Association for Computational Linguistics, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 11--20, September 2019
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    2018

    N. Rach, K. Weber, L. Pragst, E. André, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    EVA: A Multimodal Argumentative Dialogue System
    Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Boulder, Colorado, October 2018
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Markov Games for Persuasive Dialogue
    Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, Warsaw, September 2018
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, L. Rojas-Barahona, B. Tseng, Y. Wu, S. Young and M. Gašić
    Addressing Objects and Their Relations: The Conversational Entity Dialogue Model
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, F. Kreyssig, B. Tseng, Y. Wu and M. Gašić
    Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    B. Tseng, F. Kreyssig, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, Y. Wu, S. Ultes and M. Gašić
    Variational Cross-domain Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Melbourne, Australia, July 2018
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    L. Pragst and S. Ultes
    Changing the Level of Directness in Dialogue using Dialogue Vector Models and Recurrent Neural Networks
    Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 11-19, July 2018
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Exploring the Impact of Elaborateness and Indirectness on User Satisfaction in a Spoken Dialogue System
    Adjunct Publication of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), ACM, Singapore, pp. 165--172, July 2018
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Handling Unknown User Arguments in Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 32nd British Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI), Belfast, UK, July 2018
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    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, P. Su, S. Ultes, B. Tseng and M. Gašić
    Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), Association for Computational Linguistics, New Orleans, Lousiana, pp. 714--719, June 2018
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    J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    L. Pragst, N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    On the Vector Representation of Utterances in Dialogue Context
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    N. Rach, S. Langhammer, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May 2018
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    J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness
    Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018
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    L. Barahona, B. Tseng, Y. Dai, C. Mansfield, O. Ramadan, S. Ultes, M. Crawford and M. Gašić
    Deep learning for language understanding of mental health concepts derived from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis, pp. 44--54, 2018
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    P. Budzianowski, T. Wen, B. Tseng, I. Casanueva, S. Ultes, O. Ramadan and M. Gašić
    MultiWOZ-A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling
    Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pp. 5016--5026, 2018
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    2017

    I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, P. Su, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, S. Young and M. Gašić
    A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of Deep Reinforcement Learning Symposium, 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December 2017
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    K. Lee, T. Zhao, Y. Du, E. Cai, A. Lu, E. Pincus, D. Traum, S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, S. Young and M. Eskenazi
    DialPort, Gone Live: An Update After A Year of Development
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 170--173, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Domain-independent User Satisfaction Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Learning
    Proceedings of Interspeech, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1721--1725, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, P. Budzianowski, I. Casanueva, N. Mrkšić, P. Su, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Reward-Balancing for Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems using Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning
    Proceedings of the 18th Meeting of the Special Interest Group in Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDial), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 65--70, August 2017
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    P. Su, P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, M. Gašić and S. Young
    Sample-efficient Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Supervised Data for Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 147--157, August 2017
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    P. Budzianowski, S. Ultes, P. Su, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, I. Casanueva, L. Rojas-Barahona and M. Gašić
    Sub-domain Modelling for Dialogue Management with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 86--92, August 2017
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    J. Miehle, N. Gerstenlauer, D. Ostler, H. Feußner, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    An Intelligent Digital Assistant for Clinical Operating Rooms
    Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--165, August 2017
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Interaction Quality Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memories
    Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 164--169, August 2017
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    S. Ultes, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, D. Vandyke, D. Kim, I. Casanueva, P. Budzianowski, N. Mrkšić, T. Wen, M. Gašić and S. Young
    PyDial: A Multi-domain Statistical Dialogue System Toolkit
    Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations, Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 73--78, July 2017
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    A. Papangelis, S. Ultes and Y. Stylianou
    Domain Complexity and Policy Learning in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop On Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Farmington, USA, June 2017
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    N. Rach, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System
    Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'17), London, UK, June 2017
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    T. Wen, D. Vandyke, N. Mrkšić, M. Gašić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes and S. Young
    A Network-based End-to-End Trainable Task-oriented Dialogue System
    Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, Association for Computational Linguistics, Valencia, Spain, pp. 438--449, April 2017
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    L. Pragst, K. Yoshino, W. Minker, S. Nakamura and S. Ultes
    Acquisition and Assessment of Semantic Content for the Generation of Elaborateness and Indirectness in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vol. 1, pp. 915-925, 2017
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    L. Pragst, J. Miehle, W. Minker and S. Ultes
    Challenges for adaptive dialogue management in the KRISTINA project
    ISIAA 2017: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Glasgow, UK, pp. 11-14, 2017
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    2016

    L. Rojas-Barahona, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, P. Su, S. Ultes, T. Wen and S. Young
    Exploiting Sentence and Context Representations in Deep Neural Models for Spoken Language Understanding
    Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee, Osaka, Japan, pp. 258--267, December 2016
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    T. Wen, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, P. Su, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke and S. Young
    Conditional Generation and Snapshot Learning in Neural Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for Computational Linguistics, Austin, Texas, pp. 2153--2162, November 2016
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    L. Pragst, J. Miehle, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Automatic Modification of Communication Style in Dialogue Management
    Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation, Association for Computational Linguistics, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 36--40, September 2016
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    J. Miehle, K. Yoshino, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Nakamura and W. Minker
    Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction
    Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 74--79, September 2016
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    P. Su, M. Gašić, N. Mrkšić, L. Rojas-Barahona, S. Ultes, D. Vandyke, T. Wen and S. Young
    On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
    Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Berlin, Germany, pp. 2431--2441, August 2016
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    L. Wanner, J. Blat, S. Dasiopoulou, M. Domínguez, G. Llorach, S. Mille, F. Sukno, E. Kamateri, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Vrochidis, E. André, F. Lingenfels, G. Mehlmann, A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, L. Lamel, B. Vieru, W. Minker, L. Pragst and S. Ultes
    Towards a Multimedia Knowledge-Based Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities
    Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 21--26, 2016
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    G. Meditskos, S. Dasiopoulou, L. Pragst, S. Ultes, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris and L. Wanner
    Towards an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Dialogue Framework
    Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction, pp. 15--20, 2016
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    2015

    S. Ultes, M. Kraus, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Quality-adaptive Spoken Dialogue Initiative Selection And Implications On Reward Modelling
    Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), ACL, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 374--383, September 2015
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    L. Pragst, S. Ultes, M. Kraus and W. Minker
    Adaptive Dialogue Management in the KRISTINA Project for Multicultural Health Care Applications
    Proceedings of the 19thWorkshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 202--203, August 2015
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    F. Nothdurft, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Finding Appropriate Interaction Strategies for Proactive Dialogue Systems---An Open Quest
    Proc. of the 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication 2014, LiU Electronic Press, Tartu, Estonia, pp. 73--80, 2015
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    2014

    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Automatic Recognition of Personality Traits: A Multimodal Approach
    Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Mapping Personality Traits Challenge and Workshop (MAPTRAITS), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 11-15, November 2014
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs
    Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 208--217, June 2014
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    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Comparison of Gender- and Speaker-adaptive Emotion Recognition
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 3476-3480, May 2014
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    M. Sidorov, S. Ultes and A. Schmitt
    Emotions Are A Personal Thing: Towards Speaker-Adaptive Emotion Recognition
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Florence, Italy, pp. 4836-4840, May 2014
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    S. Ultes, H. Dikme and W. Minker
    First Insight into Quality-Adaptive Dialogue
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 246--251, May 2014
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    2013

    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    Improving Interaction Quality Recognition Using Error Correction
    Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics, Metz, France, pp. 122--126, August 2013
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    S. Ultes and W. Minker
    HIS-OwlSpeak: A Model-driven Dialogue Manager With Multiple Control Modes
    Intelligent Environments (IE), 2013 9th International Conference on, pp. 108--115, July 2013
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    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    On Quality Ratings for Spoken Dialogue Systems -- Experts vs. Users
    Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Association for Computational Linguistics, Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 569--578, June 2013
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    S. Ultes, R. ElChabb, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    JaCHMM: A Java-Based Conditioned Hidden Markov Model Library
    IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, pp. 3213--3217, May 2013
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    2012

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Towards Quality-Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Management
    NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future directions and needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data (SDCTD 2012), Association for Computational Linguistics, Montreal, Canada, pp. 49--52, June 2012
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    A. Schmitt, S. Ultes and W. Minker
    A Parameterized and Annotated Spoken Dialog Corpus of the CMU Let's Go Bus Information System
    International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 3369--3373, May 2012
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    2011

    S. Ultes, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    Attention, Sobriety Checkpoint! Can Humans Determine by Means of Voice, if Someone is Drunk... and can Automatic Classifiers Compete?
    Proc. of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Florence, Italy, pp. 3221--3224, August 2011
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    S. Ultes, T. Heinroth, A. Schmitt and W. Minker
    A Theoretical Framework for a User-Centered Spoken Dialog Manager
    Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop, Springer New York, New York, NY, Granada, Spain, pp. 241--246, 2011
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  • Embedded Aigaion Query 2022

    T. Botschen and S. Ultes
    Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung von Sprachausgaben in einem Fahrzeug
    DE PATENT DE102021003074B3, August 2022
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    2021

    W. Maier, S. Ultes and T. Blankenhorn
    Vorrichtung zur Bestimmung der Wahrscheinlichkeit einer erfolgreichen drahtlosen Informationsübertragung, Verfahren zum Betrieb einer solchen Vorrichtung und Fahrzeug mit einer solchen Vorrichtung
    DE PATENT 102021004421A1, December 2021
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    S. Ultes, W. Maier and C. Schwarze
    Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur einheitlichen Steuerung von Sprachdialogen auf einem mobilen Endgerät und in der Cloud
    DE PATENT 102021002368A1, July 2021

    2020

    S. Peters, R. Pätzold, T. Botschen, A. Schmitt, F. Nebel, S. Ultes, W. Maier and I. Kreuz
    Verfahren zur Ausgabe von Empfehlungen zum energieeffizienten Bedienen eines Fahrzeugs durch ein vom Fahrzeug umfasstes Assistenzsystem
    DE PATENT DE102020110866A1, April 2020

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    L. Pragst, G. Mehlmann, S. Dasiopoulou, E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, S. Ultes, L. Stellingwerff, W. Minker and L. Wanner
    D2.2 - Integration of the OwlSpeak Platform into the KRISTINA Architecture
    Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), February 2016
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    A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, G. Pazienza, A. Salden, H. Abbink, A. Evans, L. Wanner, G. Llorach, R. Carlini, M. Domínguez, F. Lingenfelser, T. Baur, D. Schiller, G. Mehlmann, E. Kamateri, S. Vrochidis, G. Meditskos, Y. Josse, B. Vieru, S. Ultes, L. Pragst and M. Kraus
    D7.2 - Setup of an operational system platform
    Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), February 2016
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    2015

    A. Stam, L. Stellingwerff, G. Pazienza, H. Abbink, A. Evans, L. Wanner, G. Llorach, R. Carlini, F. Lingenfelser, T. Baur, D. Schiller, E. Kamateri, S. Vrochidis, Y. Josse, B. Vieru, S. Ultes, L. Pragst and M. Kraus
    D7.1 - Roadmap for the development of the KRISTINA agent
    Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), November 2015
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    S. Ultes, L. Pragst and W. Minker
    D2.1 - Requirements for Dialogue Management in adaptive Human-Machine-Communication
    Public Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), August 2015
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    S. Ultes, L. Wanner and S. Vrochidis
    D1.1 - Quality Assurance Plan
    Confidential Deliverable, The KRISTINA Project (H2020-645012), May 2015
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