Academic Papers

Academic Papers

EVI: Multilingual Spoken Dialogue Tasks and Dataset for Knowledge-Based Enrolment, Verification, and Identification | Findings of NAACL 2022 | Georgios P. Spithourakis, Ivan Vulić, Michał Lis, Iñigo Casanueva, and Paweł Budzianowski

NLU++: A Multi-Label, Slot-Rich, Generalisable Dataset for Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue | Findings of NAACL 2022 | Iñigo Casanueva, Ivan Vulić, Georgios Spithourakis, and Paweł Budzianowski

Improved and Efficient Conversational Slot Labeling through Question Answering | Gabor Fuisz, Ivan Vulić, Samuel Gibbons, Inigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski

Crossing the Conversational Chasm: A Primer on Natural Language Processing for Multilingual Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 2022 | Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Goran Glavaš, Olga Majewska, Anna Korhonen, and Ivan Vulić

ConvFiT: Conversational Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Language Models | Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 | Ivan Vulić, Pei-Hao Su, Sam Coope, Daniela Gerz, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, and Tsung-Hsien Wen

Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Intent Detection from Spoken Data | Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 | Daniela Gerz, Pei-Hao Su, Razvan Kusztos, Avishek Mondal, Michał Lis, Eshan Singhal, Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien Wen, and Ivan Vulić

RedditBias: A Real-World Resource for Bias Evaluation and Debiasing of Conversational Language Models | Proceedings of ACL 2021 | Soumya Barikeri, Anne Lauscher, Ivan Vulić, and Goran Glavaš

ConVEx: Data-Efficient and Few-Shot Slot Labeling | Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2021 | Matthew Henderson and Ivan Vulić

ConveRT: Efficient and accurate conversational representations from transformers | Findings of EMNLP 2020 | Matthew Henderson, Inigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, Pei-Hao Su, Tsung-Hsein Wen, Ivan Vulić

Span-ConveRT: Few-shot Span Extraction for Dialog with Pretrained Conversational Representations | In Proceedings of ACL, pages 107-121 | Sam Coope, Tyler Farghly, Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, and Matthew Henderson. 2020 | Data available on Github

Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders | In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, pages 38-45 | Iñigo Casanueva, Tadas Temčinas, Daniela Gerz, Matthew Henderson, and Ivan Vulić. 2020 | Data and code available on Github

PolyResponse: A Rank-based Approach to Task-Oriented Dialogue with Application in Restaurant Search and Booking | In Proceedings of EMNLP-IJCNLP: System Demonstrations, pages 181-186 | Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Daniela Gerz, Sam Coope, Georgios Spithourakis, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Nikola Mrkšić, and Pei-Hao Su. 2019

Hello, It’s GPT-2 – How Can I Help You? Towards the Use of Pretrained Language Models for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems | In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation ([email protected] 2019), pages 15-22 | Paweł Budzianowski and Ivan Vulić. 2019

JW300: A wide-coverage parallel corpus for low-resource languages | In Proceedings of ACL, pages 3204-3210 | Željko Agić and Ivan Vulić. 2019 | Data available at: http://opus.nlpl.eu/JW300.php

Training neural response selection for task-oriented dialogue systems | In Proceedings of ACL, pages 5392-5404. | Matthew Henderson, Ivan Vulić, Daniela Gerz, Iñigo Casanueva, Paweł Budzianowski, Sam Coope, Georgios Spithourakis, Tsung-Hsien Wen, Nikola Mrkšić, and Pei-Hao Su. 2019 | This model has been superseded by the more powerful pretraining method: ConveRT

A repository of conversational datasets | In Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, pages 1-10 | Matthew Henderson, Paweł Budzianowski, Iñigo Casanueva, Sam Coope, Daniela Gerz, Girish Kumar, Nikola Mrkšić, Georgios Spithourakis, Pei-Hao Su, Ivan Vulić, and Tsung-Hsien Wen. 2019 | Data available on Github

Fully statistical neural belief tracking | In Proceedings of ACL, pages 108-113 | Nikola Mrkšić and Ivan Vulić. 2018 

Reward estimation for dialogue policy optimisation | In Computer Speech and Language | Su et al. 2018 

Feudal Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management in Large Domains | NAACL  2018 | Casanueva et al. 2018 

Feudal Dialogue Management with Jointly Learned Feature Extractors | SIGDIAL 2018. | Casanueva et al. 2018 

MultiWOZ – A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Wizard-of-Oz Dataset for Task-Oriented Dialogue Modelling | EMNLP 2018 (Best Resource Paper) | Budzianowski et al. 2018 

Efficient Natural Language Response Suggestion for Smart Reply | In ArXiv e-prints, 2017 | Matthew Henderson et al. 2017 

Semantic Specialisation of Distributional Word Vector Spaces using Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Constraints | TACL | Mrkšić et al. 2017 

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking | ACL  2017 | Mrkšić et al. 2017 

A network-based end-to-end trainable task-oriented dialogue system | EACL 2017 | Wen et al. 2017 

Latent intention dialogue models | ICML 2017 | Wen et al. 2017 

Sample-efficient actor-critic reinforcement learning with supervised data for dialogue management | SIGDIAL 2017 | Su et al. 2017 

Counter-fitting word vectors to linguistic constraints | NAACL 2016  | Mrkšić et al. 2016 

On-line active reward learning for policy optimisation in spoken dialogue systems | ACL 2016 (Best Student Paper) | Su et al. 2016 

A Benchmarking Environment for Reinforcement Learning Based Task Oriented Dialogue Management. Deep Reinforcement Learning Symposium | NIPS 2017 | Casanueva and Budzianowski et al. 2017 

Conditional generation and snapshot learning in neural dialogue systems | EMNLP 2016 | Wen et al. 2016

Knowledge transfer between speakers for personalised dialogue management | SIGDIAL 2015 | (Best Paper Nomination) | Casanueva et al. 2015 

Adaptive speech recognition and dialogue management for users with speech disorders | INTERSPEECH 2015 | Casanueva et al. 2015 

Semantically conditioned lstm-based natural language generation for spoken dialogue systems | EMNLP 2015 (Best Paper Award) | Wen et al. 2015 

Stochastic language generation in dialogue using recurrent neural networks with convolutional sentence reranking | SIGDIAL 2015 (Best Paper Award) | Wen et al. 2015 

Learning from real users: Rating dialogue success with neural networks for reinforcement learning in spoken dialogue systems | INTERSPEECH | Su et al. 2015 

The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge | In SIGDIAL | Matthew Henderson et al. 2014 

Word-based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks |In SIGDIAL | Matthew Henderson et al. 2014