• Program Chair of IWSDS 2021
• Area Chair of Track “Dialog and Interactive Systems” at EMNLP-IJCNLP, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL-HLT, EACL, ACL-IJCNLP, since 2019
• Publication Chair of the SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue 2019, 2020
• Journal Reviewer for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Speech and Language, Dialogue and Discourse, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Natural Language Engineering, Review of Managerial Science, Sensors, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
• Conference / Workshop Reviewer for Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference, Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Interspeech Conference, SIGDial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing), International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), NIPS Workshop on Conversational AI: Today’s Practice and Tomorrow’s Potential, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, RE-WOCHAT, WOCHAT
• Mentor in the Mentoring Program of the SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
• YRRSDS Advisory Committee 2021
• Co-Organizer of the Young Researchers’ Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS) 2014, 2015

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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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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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, 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

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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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, 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
Accepted for presentation at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Singapore, 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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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2019

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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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